R.I.P. Jimi Hendrix
November 27, 1942 - September 18, 1970
It has been said there are but two eras in rock guitar. Everything before Jimi Hendrix and everything after.
Michael Ochs archives/CorbisJimi (left) as a member of Curtis Knight and the Squires.
Hendrix spent years on the road after the Army (101st airborne, 26 jumps) before being discovered in England and he played with literally everybody that was anybody in the American music scene.
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