“Nothing but hitting it straight up using the vibrato and then the drums come through, and that there feels like, not depression, but that loneliness and that frustration and the yearning for something. “The wah-wah pedal is great because it doesn’t have any notes,” he said in his first major Rolling Stone interview, in early 1968. Shy and self effacing in conversation, Hendrix had devoted his life to articulating his dreams and troubles in sound and to the creation of a new guitar language of explosive, orchestral possibility and raw, soulful eloquence. This was a young man, only 24, who had actually slept with his axe in his army bunk during a brief stint in the military and, later, on tour buses while he made the chitlin-circuit rounds as a junior R&B sideman. Igniting his Strat was his way of saying thank you, a theatrical but heartfelt act inspired by the drama of the event and rooted in his love for the instrument and its great communicative powers. and the MGs, Johnny Cash, Sam and Dave, the Yardbirds and, ironically, his former employers the Isley Brothers.īut for Hendrix, making his American concert debut with his trio, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, after nine months’ exile in England, his spectacular homecoming reception at Monterey was reward enough. On January 15th, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alongside Bobby “Blue” Bland, Booker T. Twenty-five years later - and more than two decades after his death - Jimi Hendrix is finally receiving formal recognition of his achievements as a performer, guitarist and musical visionary. With that, Hendrix let out a feedback Tarzan yell with his guitar and led his British sidekicks, bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell, into a truly incendiary reinvention of the Troggs’ “Wild Thing,” literally burning his signature into the pages of rock & roll history. There’s nothing more I can do than this.” Don’t think I’m silly doin’ this, because I don’t think I’m losin’ my mind. But today, I think it’s the right thing. . So what I wanna do, I’m gonna sacrifice something here I really love. “I could sit up here all night and say, thank you, thank you, thank you. I just wanna grab you, man,” Hendrix told the adoring crowd. It was also a profound gesture of affection and gratitude. When Jimi Hendrix sent his Fender Stratocaster up in flames at the end of his historic performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, it was the ultimate in mind-blowing rock & roll spectacle, a brilliant grandstand play by a consummate psychedelic showman well schooled in the show-stopping high jinks of great rhythm & blues entertainers like T-Bone Walker and Little Richard.
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