How does one even start when it comes to addressing Jimi Hendrix? Especially because he really only had four extremely short years of superstardom and was still one of the greatest guitar players in Rock & Roll history. Today, he is still considered a rock legend even though some of his guitar "tricks" are a little outdated or we've seen before; but, at the time, he could have even be considered a rock God. Hendrix really became an international superstar in 1967 as if he had dropped out of the sky, even though he had been playing since the beginning of the decade. He was made famous with his band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, in England, with top ten tracks that included: "Purple Haze" and "The Wind Cries Mary." But only in June of 1967 did Hendrix become really popular in the U.S., with his album, "Are You Experienced," at the Monterey Pop Festival (allmusic). But in 1969, as the last performer of the Woodstock Festival, Hendrix became even more popular most notably with his rendition of the Star Spangled Banner as an epic guitar solo. He then ended his set with "Purple Haze" and "Hey Joe."
(I not sure what it is, but something about this version of the song makes me feel very patriotic)
It really is unfortunate that so many young and extremely talented musicians die at such a young age because at the time, there was no limit as to what (in this case) Hendrix and his band could do.
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