Jimi Hendrix collection

A right-handed Stratocaster flipped over for a left-hander, a scarf tied around the forehead, and Marshall amps pushed into saturation: Jimi Hendrix's signature is recognizable from the very first bars! Born in Seattle in 1942, the guitarist arrived in London in 1966, where Chas Chandler put together a trio for him with Noel Redding on bass and Mitch Mitchell on drums. The Jimi Hendrix Experience recorded three albums in two years, from Are You Experienced in 1967 to Electric Ladyland in 1968, and established a musician who treated feedback as a raw material and the blues as a laboratory. Hey Joe, Purple Haze and Voodoo Child (Slight Return) remain the landmarks. His career ended in 1970, at twenty-seven, but the burning guitar at Monterey in 1967 and the electric reading of the Star-Spangled Banner at Woodstock in 1969 froze images that rock has never recovered from, and that items bearing his likeness bring back to every new generation.