1942-1970
Rock Guitarist

A Great Rock Guitarist.

Jim Hendrix was born James Marshal Hendrix in Seattle. He taught himself to play by listening to blues recordings; left-handed, he used a restrung right-handed guitar. He became known in the late 1960s fo doing even stranger things with the instrument, such as playing it behind his back, playing it with his teeth, and setting it or fire. At times his stage pyromania overshadowed his musical pyrotechnics, but he is now recognized as perhaps the most influential rock guitarist in history.

Play Fast, Die Young.

Hendrix began his career as a studio musician in the early 1960s and formed his own band in 1965. The following year he created a new band, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and started to form a new sound, called acid rock, that employed intentional feedback and other deliberate distortions. His stage antics rather than his...