Jimi Hendrix Jimi Hendrix perhaps no other rock-and-roll trailblazer was as original or as influential in such a short span of time as Jimi Hendrix. Widely acknowledged as one of the most daring and inventive virtuosos in rock history, Hendrix pioneered the electric guitar (he played a right- handed Fender Stratocaster-- his "Electric Lady"--upside-down and left- handed) as an electronic sound source capable of feedback, distortion, and a host of other effects that could …showed first 75 words of 966 total…

…showed last 75 words of 966 total…death, but this time the project was overseen by Hendrix co-producer Eddie Kramer and historian John McDermott--and it had the Hendrix family stamp of approval. The seventeen-track album, First Rays of the New Rising Sun, is arguably the best assemblage of Hendrix leftovers so far. Despite these transgressions against his nearly faultless musical legacy and attempts to create what could have been, Hendrix's innovations and soul live on in the playing of every rock-and-roll guitarist.