TRUE CRIME: True Crime Stories, Hollywood Deaths and Bullycide Box Set (A Book about Celebrities, Youth Suicide & True Murders) by Scott Alexander

Author:Scott, Alexander [Scott, Alexander]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-04-14T22:00:00+00:00

Jimi Hendrix: Fox Catcher

Bar-rooms and concert hall greenrooms have played host to thousands, probably millions of debates on just who exactly is the single finest guitar player to ever wield an axe, but if there’s a single authority on such matters, it’s probably Rolling Stone magazine, and they have made their definitive choice: The greatest guitarist of all time was Jimi Hendrix.

Born as Johnny Allen Hendrix on November 27, 1942, in the fertile musical grounds of Seattle, Washington, he taught himself to play guitar by memorizing the licks of the blues greats like Muddy Waters as well as rock icons like Eddie Cochran. Interestingly, and famously, Hendrix was a lefty who, without access to a left-handed guitar, took a right-handed Stratocaster and learned to play it upside down.

He had a rocky, uncertain childhood, his teenage mother left the family soon after his brothers were born, and Hendrix sometimes was relegated to living with friends and relatives. He would barely ever connect with his mother throughout his short life.

After dropping out of high school, Hendrix joined the United States Army in 1961. He wasn’t exactly drafted, but he didn’t exactly volunteer. He got into a little trouble with the law over a little spot of grand theft auto, and the presiding judge gave Hendrix a choice, he could do a two-year stint in prison, or he could enlist. He was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division and, after paratrooper training at Fort Ord in California, he was stationed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

As you might expect from a rock and roll legend, Hendrix and the Army didn’t really see eye to eye. He habitually slept while on duty, likely in part because he was usually out of his barracks and missed the mandatory midnight bed checks. An ankle injury sustained during a jump was all the excuse his commanding officer needed to honorably discharge Hendrix only one year into a three-year contract.

Hendrix would spend the next several years playing coffee houses and working as a fairly successful studio musician until Chas Chandler, he of the British band The Animals, took Hendrix to London in the fall of 1966 and changed rock and roll forever when he built a band called The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

The new band, and their first record Are You Experienced, were an instant smash in the UK, eventually making their way back to America with a little help from Paul McCartney, he of the little known band The Beatles.

The next three years were the stuff of legend. Epic performances, guitars set on fire, guitars played with his teeth, and that incredible rendition of The Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock, perhaps the single most iconic moment of the single most iconic concert ever played. Hendrix seemed uniquely able to channel the 1960s into every single riff and power chord that effortlessly sprang from his instrument into the minds and souls of a generation. To put it lightly, Jimi Hendrix could play.

He could play like no one ever had, or ever would, until, of course, one day he could play no more.

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