http://pheeds.com/bib/search.cgi?keywords=jimi+hendrix&format=html&pre=5&suf=125&id=&template=advanced&results=30 Wiki Search for: jimi hendrix http://pheeds.com/info/guide/j/ji/jimi_hendrix.html Jimi Hendrix James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (November 27, 1942 - September 18, 1970) was a Blues/rock guitarist, Top 40 act and an undisputed guitar innovator whose recordings during the psychedelic era helped to redefine the sound of the electric guitar which also proved an inspiration for heavy metal music. Born in Seattle, Washington, he followed a medical discharge from the 101st Airborne Division (from a broken ankle after a parachute jump). Hendrix, who had been playing guitar (left handed) since childhood, initially made his living supporting touring soul and blues musicians, including Curtis Knight, B. B. King and Little Richard during 1965. His first notice came from appearances with The Isley Brothers, notably on the two-parter "Testify" in 1964. On October 15, 1965, Hendrix signed a http://pheeds.com/info/guide/j/je/jeff_beck.html first electric guitarists to experiment with electronic fuzz distortion and noise, pushing the Yardbirds' lead guitar part to previously unreached horizons and helping to redefine what electric guitar could do just before the rise of Jimi Hendrix. This arguably was best demonstrated on the only full-length Yardbirds album with all original songs, 1966's Roger the Engineer. Jeff Beck left the Yardbirds in late 1966, partly because of failing health, after a brief dual-lead guitar role with Jimmy Page, who had recently joined. In 1967, he formed a new band named the Jeff Beck Group, which featured him on lead guitar as well as Rod Stewart on vocals, Ron Wood on bass, Mick Waller on drums, and Nicky Hopkins on piano. The group produced two albums, Truth in 1968 and Cosa Nostra http://pheeds.com/info/guide/j/je/jerry_douglas.html (born 19??) has been described as the Jimi Hendrix and the Charlie Parker of acoustic music. The New York Times has called him "dobro's matchless contemporary master." He has won five Grammy Awards, several Grammy Acknowledgments, and countless specialized awards. Though he got his start in bluegrass, he has made an impact in fields ranging from rock'n'roll to jazz, from blues to Celtic, from mainstream country to contemporary classical. Douglas' legacy is multi-faceted with him having been a member of such bands as Alison Krauss & Union Station, The Whites, J.D. Crowe & the New South, the Country Gentlemen and Strength in Numbers. Having played on more than 1000 albums, he has defined the sounds of many diverse recordings including discs released by Garth Brooks, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Reba McEntire http://pheeds.com/info/guide/j/je/jesus_music.html Mustard Seed Faith, The Road Home, Selah, Servant, and Erick Nelson. The American Christian church largely rejected these artists at the time, unable to see the difference between their music and the music of mainstream '60s artists like Jimi Hendrix or Janis Joplin. Many within the church felt that the message was being lost because of the worldly music. "Jesus Music" artists responded by quoting 16th century reformer Martin Luther, "why should the devil have all the best tunes?" By the early 1970s, "Jesus Music" was receiving enough attention inside the mainstream media that an entire industry began to emerge. By the mid 1970s, the phrase "Contemporary Christian music" had been coined, developing directly out of Jesus Music, and Christian music magazines, radio stations and record labels had begun to pop http://pheeds.com/info/guide/j/je/jeremy_steig.html early 70s. His album Energy, later re-released with additional material, under different titles, featured keyboard player Jan Hammer and bassist Eddie Gomez, and was recorded at Electric Lady Studios under the hand of sometime Jimi Hendrix engineer Eddie Kramer. Steig addressed the tonal color restrictions of the instrument by the use of "modern" acoustic techniques (voice multiphonics and overtones similar to Rahsaan Roland Kirk, key percussion) electronic effects, and by using the entire battery of flute-family instruments, from piccolo to bass flute (including the obscure Sousa-era alto piccolo), often over-dubbed and multi-tracked together. Steig was involved in a motorcycle accident which left him paralyzed on one side. He plays the flute with the help of a special mouthpiece. http://pheeds.com/info/guide/j/ji/jim_morrison.html singing voice and a style of poetry leaning heavily on mysticism. Morrison took for himself the nickname "Mr. Mojo Risin'", an anagram of "Jim Morrison", and which he eventually used as a refrain in his final single, LA Woman. He was also called The Lizard King from a line in his famed epic poem Celebration of the Lizard, part of which appeared on the album Waiting for the Sun and which was adapted into a musical in the 1990s. Even before The Doors formed, Morrison began consuming a variety of drugs, drank alcohol consistently, and indulged in various bacchanalia, sometimes showing up for recording sessions while inebriated (he can be heard hiccuping on the song "Five To One.") Jim Morrison's performances have influenced many, including Patti Smith. Live shows often possessed http://pheeds.com/info/guide/j/ji/jimmy_page.html was an industrial personnel manager and his mother a doctor's secretary. Jimmy Page is often thought of as a quintessential rock guitar hero, being in the same class of talent as peers such as Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and the late Jimi Hendrix. Page and Beck, who grew up near each other in England and both spent time as guitarists for the Yardbirds, were among the first guitarists to help popularize the use of electronic feedback and distortion with the Roger Mayer fuzzbox. Jimmy Page began learning guitar when he was 12. His early influences were rockabilly guitarists Scotty Moore and James Burton, who both played on recordings made by Elvis Presley, and Johnny Day who played guitar for The Everly Brothers. The Presley song "Baby Let's Play House" was an http://pheeds.com/info/guide/j/ji/jimmy_james_and_the_blue_flames.html and the Blue Flames was a musical group formed in 1966 featuring Jimi Hendrix and Randy California, among others of disputed membership. The band performed at the "Cafe' Wha?" and was together for three months before disbanding. http://pheeds.com/info/guide/j/jo/jose_feliciano.html He immediately became a sensation all across North America and he sold millions of albums there with those two songs. In 1968, at the height of protests against the Vietnam War, Feliciano was given the opportunity to sing the Star-Spangled Banner during the World Series. His highly personalized, slow, Latin-jazz performance proved highly controversial. Some called his rendition unpatriotic and a disgrace; some called for his exportation. Others understood the emotions and sincerity of his performance, and he emerged as a counterculture hero. The rendition was released as a single showed up in the Billboard top 40. Feliciano's Star-Spangled Banner took place 10 months before the now famous Jimi Hendrix rendition at Woodstock. Feliciano holds the distinction of being one of the few singers to have enjoyed success both in Spanish http://pheeds.com/info/guide/j/jo/jobriath.html and Jobriath then pursued a solo career under the management of Mike Jeffries, who had worked with Jimi Hendrix. However his solo demos met with such hostility that, ironically, they helped to get him signed. Rock empresario Clive Davis, then head of Columbia Records, described Jobriath's sound as "mad and unstructured and destructive to melody," a comment that so intrigued Jerry Brandt — who managed Carly Simon — that Brandt got Jobriath a deal with Elektra Records. His subsequent career is said to be considered an object lesson in the dangers of excessive hype to this day. Elektra, thinking it had the next David Bowie on its hands, over-promoted the artist. They spent $80,000 promoting Jobriath's solo album, but the omnipresent advertising and Brandt's braggadocio (with remarks to the press like, http://pheeds.com/info/guide/i/in/inductees_of_the_rock_and_roll_hall_of_fame.html The Four Seasons The Four Tops The Kinks The Platters Simon & Garfunkel The Who 1991 LaVern Baker The Byrds John Lee Hooker The Impressions Wilson Pickett Jimmy Reed Ike and Tina Turner 1992 Bobby Blue Bland Booker T. & the M.G.'s Johnny Cash The Isley Brothers The Jimi Hendrix Experience Sam & Dave The Yardbirds 1993 The Animals The Band Duane Eddy The Grateful Dead Elton John John Lennon Bob Marley Rod Stewart 1994 Ruth Brown Cream Creedence Clearwater Revival The Doors Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers Etta James Van Morrison Sly & the Family Stone 1995 The Allman Brothers Band Al Green Janis Joplin Led Zeppelin Martha & the Vandellas Neil Young Frank Zappa 1996 David Bowie Gladys Knight & the Pips Jefferson Airplane Little Willie John Pink Floyd http://pheeds.com/info/guide/i/is/isle_of_wight_festival_1970.html clear vantage point for hundreds of thousands of people to overlook the whole arena. From the side of the downs, the benign and practical purpose of the double wall was not obvious, and the arena under construction looked to many of the early arrivers more like a prison or concentration camp than a rock venue, and ill feelings festered rapidly. The mood of the fans 1969 and Woodstock had been the last hurrah of the 'Love Generation'. The peace and love movement that began in San Francisco in 1967 was on its last tired legs at Woodstock, and 12 months later the mood of many of the attendees had become much more cynical and militant. Activists, particularly from France, were incensed that the festival was not intended to be 'free' and http://pheeds.com/info/guide/h/ha/hard_rock.html rock. Budgie, AC/DC, The Stooges, MC5, Living Colour, Prong, Skid Row, Jimi Hendrix and Deep Purple are easy to find examples of early hard rock. Van Halen (up to 1984) typifies the energy of this genre. The genre achieved maximum popularity between 1969 and 1985. A "classical" hard rock band is usually a four person lineup: Singer/Frontperson Guitar Player Bass Player Drummer Trios exist, with one person doubling on vocals, but they do not have the overall stage presence of a band with a frontperson, so they tend to be less popular. Many bands have two guitar players, and, optionally, a synthesizer player. Hard Rock is usually, but not always written with major key song construction, as opposed to heavy metal, which is often minor key oriented. There is a heavy http://pheeds.com/info/guide/h/he/heavy_metal_music.html increasingly loud guitar sounds; similarly vocalists modified their technique and increased their reliance on amplification, often becoming more stylized and dramatic in the process. Simultaneous advances in amplification and recording technology made it possible to successfully capture the power of this heavier approach on record. The earliest music commonly identified as heavy metal came out of Great Britain in the late 1960s as bands such as Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath applied an overtly non-traditional approach to blues standards and new music often based around blues scales and arrangements. These bands were highly influenced by American psychedelic rock musicians including Jimi Hendrix, who had pioneered amplified and processed blues-rock guitar, and Vanilla Fudge, who had slowed down and psychedelicized pop tunes, as well as earlier British hard rockers such as The http://pheeds.com/info/guide/h/hi/history_of_seattle.html as those they were intended to relieve.) Jim Ellis and other Seattle natives, anxious to preserve the city in which they grew up, came together to institute the Metropolitan Problems Committee, or METRO, intended to manage and plan the metropolitan area. The original, comprehensive METRO regional plan was defeated in a vote by the suburbanites; METRO came back, scaled down to a sewage treatment and transport organization; METRO was eventually merged into the King County government. During this period, Seattle attempted to counter the decline of its downtown and the area immediately to the north by hosting the Century 21 Exposition, the 1962 World's Fair. The fair, given a futuristic science theme, was designed to leave behind a civic center, now known as Seattle Center, including arts buildings, the Pacific Science http://pheeds.com/info/guide/h/hi/history_of_seattle_since_1940.html post-Great-Depression unemployment for any major US city, nearly 12%. As with most periods of downturn, there was not a huge amount of private investment and construction. However, despite the crushing unemployment and the infamous billboards saying "Would the last person who leaves Seattle please turn out the lights," the outflux of people was "never more than 15% of those laid off," [Roger Sale, Seattle: Past To Present, p.233] and was promptly made up for by new arrivals taking advantage of the now-underpriced housing stock. Quite likely. Seattle evaded the fate of Detroit through being a port city with a large number of highly educated skilled workers. Seattle industry did slightly better than the national average during the rest of the 1970s, but nonetheless the boom decades of the 1950s and 1960s http://pheeds.com/info/guide/g/ga/garry_shider.html Plainfield, New Jersey, during the hey day of music, legends, like Jimi Hendrix, The Temptations, and others. Garry was already performing with gospel, legend of the day. At the age of ten, and under the guidance of his father, Jesse, Garry and his brothers played and sang behind many of the gospel artist of the time. Legends like, Shirley Caesar, The Five Blind Boys the Mighty Clouds of Joy, and others. By the time he was sixteen, it became obvious that Plainfield was a deadend watching his friends become victims of the streets, he and his good friend Cordell "Boogie" Mosson, escaped Vietnam and the decay of their hometown, by going to Canada. In Canada, they became an integral part of a funk/rock band called "United Soul", or "U.S." Garry already http://pheeds.com/info/guide/g/gr/greg_howe.html Hear This 1993 - Introspection 1994 - Uncertain Terms 1995 - Parallax 1996 - Five 1999 - Ascend 2000 - Hyperacuity Influences by Album AC/DC - Back In Black Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic Alice Cooper - School's Out Black Sabbath - Technical Ecstasy Blue Oyster Cult - Agents Of Fortune Deep Purple - Fireball Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast Jeff Beck - Wired Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold As Love Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengence Kansas - Point Of Know Return Kiss - Destroyer King Crimson - Three Of A Perfect Pair Larry Cartlon - Self-Titled Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman Queen - A Night At Opera Quiet Riot - Metal Health Rush (band) - Hemispheres http://pheeds.com/info/guide/g/gr/grammy_awards_of_2000.html Wayne Shorter for "In Walked Wayne" Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Individual or Group Chick Corea, Dave Holland, Gary Burton, Pat Metheny & Roy Haynes for Like Minds Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance Bob Florence for Serendipity 18 Best Latin Jazz Performance Poncho Sanchez for Latin Soul Latin Best Latin Pop Performance Rubén Blades for Tiempos Best Traditional Tropical Latin Performance Tito Puente for Mambo Birdland Best Mexican-American Performance Plácido Domingo for 100 Años de Mariachi Best Latin Rock/Alternative Performance Chris Perez Band for Resurrection Best Tejano Performance Los Palominos for Por Eso Te Amo Best Salsa Performance Los Van Van for Llego...Van Van - Van Van Is Here Best Merengue Performance Elvis Crespo for Pintame Musical Show Best Musical Show Album John McDaniel, Stephen Ferrera (producers) & the New Broadway cast http://pheeds.com/info/guide/g/gu/guitarist.html Charlie Christian Eric Clapton David Gilmour Jerry Garcia Eddie van Halen George Harrison Jimi Hendrix ( The Jimi Hendrix Experience ) Buddy Holly Steve Howe Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders) Phil Keaggy Mark Knopfler ( Dire Straits Notting HillBillies ) Goktan Kural Alex Lifeson Yngwie J. Malmsteen Midoru Dave Navarro Jimmy Page Les Paul Joe Perry Chris Rea Keith Richards Michael Roe Mick Ronson Richie Sambora Carlos Santana Joe Satriani James Honeyman Scott (The Pretenders) Brian Setzer Slash ( Slash's Snakepit + Guns and Roses ) Pete Townshend ( The Who ) Eddie Van Halen ( Van Halen ) Steve Vai Frank Zappa Heavy Metal Kirk Hammett ( Metallica ) James Hetfield ( Metallica ) Dave Mustaine ( Megadeth ) Kerry King ( Slayer ) Jim Martin ( Faith No More ) http://pheeds.com/info/guide/u/un/university_of_york.html are, in order of construction: Derwent, after the River Derwent Langwith, after a nearby field Alcuin, after Alcuin Vanbrugh, after John Vanbrugh Goodricke, after John Goodricke Wentworth, after Thomas Wentworth James, after the founding vice-chancellor of the university Halifax, made a college in the academic year 2001/02 The university's music department is home to one of the earliest electronic music studios to have been built in the United Kingdom. It was also one of the first departments to include the teaching of ethnomusicology in its undergraduate courses, and has its own gamelan orchestra. The University of York has, in its past, played host to a number of concerts by celebrated rock musicians, including Jimi Hendrix, Soft Machine, Pink Floyd, and Paul McCartney. Pop music performances by big-name acts have been rarer http://pheeds.com/info/guide/f/fe/fender.html rock music. Fender is particularly important because of its role in bringing musical instruments to the masses. The company industrialized the manufacture of the electric guitar, using efficient production methods and relatively inexpensive materials. As a result, many young guitarists started their careers playing Fender guitars, and many legendary artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Keith Richards, have retained them as their instruments of choice. http://pheeds.com/info/guide/y/yo/youssou_n_dour.html dance rhythms, roomy and melodic guitar and saxophone solos, chattering talking-drum soliloquies and, on occasion, Sufi-inspired Muslim religious chant. This created a new music which was at turns nostalgic, restrained and stately, or celebratory, explosively syncopated and indescribably funky. Younger Senegalese musicians steeped in Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, James Brown, and the whole range of American jazz, soul music and rock, which Senegal's cosmopolitan capital, Dakar, had enthusiastically absorbed, were rediscovering their heritage and seeking out traditional performers, particularly singers and talking-drummers, to join their bands. (The griots - musicians, praise-singers and storyteller-historians - comprise a distinct hereditary caste in Wolof society and throughout West Africa.) As it emerged from this period of fruitful musical turbulence, mbalax would eventually find in Youssou N'Dour the performer who has arguably had more to http://pheeds.com/info/guide/e/ed/eddie_hazel.html Nelson worked together to change her mind. In the fall of 1967, The Parliaments went on tour with both Nelson and Hazel. In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Hazel met and befriended Tiki Fulwood, who quickly replaced The Parliaments' drummer. Nelson, Hazel and Fulwood became the backbone of Funkadelic, which was originally the backup band for The Parliaments, only to later become an independent touring group when legal difficulties forced the group to (temporarily) abandon the name "Parliaments". The doo wop of The Parliaments quickly began morphing into the soul-inflected hard rock of Funkadelic, influenced as much by Jimi Hendrix as Frankie Lymon. The switch to Funkadelic was complete with the addition of Tawl Ross and Bernie Worrell (rhythm guitar and keyboards, respectively). Funkadelic (1970), Free Your Mind... and Your Ass Will Follow (1970) http://pheeds.com/info/guide/e/eg/eggs_over_easy_1.html 1970s. They began recording in 1970 (see 1970 in music) with producer Chas Chandler (of the Jimi Hendrix Experience), but various label problems ended the sessions and they began playing around England, especially at Tally Ho in Kentish Town. With their legendary live shows, Eggs over Easy quickly became popular throughout the UK and inspired a whole group of performers like Brinsley Schwarz, who went on to help define pub rock. The band's only LP commercially released is Good 'N' Cheap, which contained a small fraction of their material, which is still largely unavailable. http://pheeds.com/info/guide/e/el/electric_guitar_1.html guitars have a tremolo arm or whammy bar, which is a lever attached to the bridge that can slacken or elongate the strings temporarily, changing the pitch or creating a vibrato. (Tremolo properly refers to a quick variation of volume, not pitch; however, the misnaming is too established to change.) Eddie Van Halen often uses this feature to embellish his playing, as heard in Van Halen's "Eruption". Early tremolo arms tended to cause the guitar to go out of tune with extended use; an important innovator in this field was Floyd Rose, who introduced one of the first tremolos which allowed the guitar to stay in tune, even after heavy use. A "MIDI guitar" is an electric guitar fitted with sensors for sound and note articulation. It is used to transform http://pheeds.com/info/guide/e/el/ellen_mcilwaine.html teens she moved to guitar, beginning a stage career in Atlanta, Georgia in the mid-1960s. After a stint in New York City where she played with a young Jimi Hendrix and traded influences with him, she returned to Atlanta to form the band Fear Itself, a psychedelic-power band. After recording one album, McIlwaine went solo, recording two albums for Polydor, Honky Tonk Angel (1972; see 1972 in music) and We the People (1973; see 1973 in music), the latter featuring a hit single, "I Don't Want to Play". McIlwain's career was irregular, plagued by conflict with her record producers who wanted to change her sound. Her most critically acclaimed album is The Real Ellen McIlwaine, recorded in Montréal in 1975 (see 1975 in music). A 1982 (see 1982 in music) project, http://pheeds.com/info/guide/e/el/electric_ladyland.html is a rock and roll album recorded in 1968 by Jimi Hendrix and his band, the Jimi Hendrix Experience. This album is seen as the peak of Hendrix's mastery of the electric guitar, and it is frequently cited as one of the greatest rock and roll albums of all time. It was the last of Hendrix's albums to be professionally produced under his own supervision; after Electric Ladyland, Hendrix spent the remaining three years of his life attempting to organize a new band and recording a large number of musical tracks. Released as a double-album, Electric Ladyland is a cross-section of Hendrix's wide range of musical talent. It includes samples of every type of his music, ranging from psychedelia ("Burning of the Midnight Lamp") to soul-turning, bluesy guitar jams (the live http://pheeds.com/info/guide/e/em/emmylou_harris.html The Louvin Brothers' "If I Could Only Win Your Love". A Christmas single was released shortly after entitled "Light of the Stable," which featured backing vocals from singers Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Neil Young. In the mid 1970s, Harris began to work on albums for other major artists including Young, Rondstadt and Bob Dylan. About ten years later, Harris would team up once again with Parton and Ronstadt for the album Trio. In 1980, she recorded "That Lovin' You Feelin' Again" with rock legend Roy Orbison for which they would win the Grammy Award for best vocal duo. In 1995, Harris released Wrecking Ball, produced by Daniel Lanois, best known for his work with U2, Peter Gabriel, and Bob Dylan. An experimental album for Harris to say the least, the http://pheeds.com/info/guide/e/er/eric_clapton.html on their first album (which features Eric reading a copy of the Beano on the cover) made his name as a blues player, and inspired a short-lived craze of graffiti deifying him ("Clapton is God", it read). Limited by Mayall's traditional blues format, and destroyed by Jimi Hendrix's newly formed Experience playing a double-timed version of "Killing Floor" at the Central Polytechnic in London, he left in 1966 to form Cream, one of the earliest examples of the supergroup, and also one of the earliest 'power trios', with Jack Bruce (also of Bluesbreakers) and Ginger Baker (of the Graham Bond Organisation). During his time with Cream he began to develop as a singer as well as play, though Bruce took most of the vocals. Cream's repertoire varied from pop soul ("I