Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church, which documents the legendary guitarist’s July 4th, 1970 performance at the Atlanta International Pop Festival, will be screened in select movie theaters around the world starting January 31st. The film premiered on Showtime in 2015, and was accompanied by a live album, Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival, which contained Hendrix’s 16-song set. John McDermott directed Electric Church, which features color 16mm footage shot by Steve Rash, who later directed The Buddy Holly Storyand Can’t […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB6B58z6MUo To mark today's release of the Jimi Hendrix posthumous album Both Sides of the Sky, Experience Hendrix has unveiled a new video for the guitar god's previously unreleased version of "Lover Man." The John Vondracek-directed video features archival footage of Hendrix performing the song with his Band of Gypsys alongsode a montage of the guitarist's home movies, photographs from the studio and psychedelic imagery. Hendrix and Band of Gypsys bassist Billy Cox […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t0Qp9K_y6M Jimi Hendrix's previously unreleased cover of Muddy Waters' "Mannish Boy" was released via BBC Radio 6. The late guitarist recorded the famous blues cut at the Record Plant in New York on April 22, 1969. He was accompanied by bassist Billy Cox and drummer Buddy Miles, who soon adopted the name the Band of Gypsys. Around the 1:20 mark in "Mannish Boy," Hendrix lightens the mood by mimicking his own guitar line […]

The apartment where rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix lived and died in London is set to become a tourist attraction from next year. He lived at 23 Brook Street in London's posh Mayfair section, adjacent to the home where composer George Frideric Handel had lived two centuries earlier. The Handel House Trust that owns both properties has spent two years and £2.4 million ($3.7 million) restoring Hendrix's apartment. It has been […]