History Music / JimiHendrix

* 1967 - ''Music/AreYouExperienced''* [[note]] This edition of ''Are You Experienced'' was released only in the US. It changed the track listing, omitted ''Red House'', ''Can You See Me'', and ''Remember'', and added ''Purple Haze'', ''Hey Joe'', and ''The Wind Cries Mary'' [[/note]]

* ContractualObligationProject: The Band of Gypsies project came about because Jimi needed to record an album to fulfil a contract he'd signed with producer Ed Chalpin before his rise to fame.

* TyopOnTheCover: Jimi successfully sued his British distributor when an early pressing of ''Music/ElectricLadyland'' was released as "Electric Landlady."

* NoNameGiven: Hendrix' last trio, which featured Billy Cox from the Band of Gypsies on bass and Mitch Mitchell from the Experience on drums, never had an official name. They were sometimes billed as the Jimi Hendrix Experience, but a number of fans prefer to call them the Cry of Love band to distinguish them from the better-known Mitchell/Redding experience line-up.

* GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion: ''Voodoo Soup'', compiled after his death by producer Allan Douglas, features newly recorded instrumentation by drummer Bruce Gary, who Hendrix never met or performed with, and whose most famous band, The Knack, was formed years after Hendrix had died. ''Voodoo Soup'' was intended as an "official" version of Hendrix' never-completed ''First Rays of the New Rising Sun'' album. Later, the Hendrix family presented a different reconstruction of that album, using the most complete recordings of the songs intended for the album, to avoid making decisions that Hendrix may not have approved of, in sharp contrast to Douglas, who believed that he was completing the album as Hendrix had intended with ''Voodoo Soup''.

* NobodyLovesTheBassist: Noel Redding felt he was being treated this way in the Experience, [[IAmTheBand which was all about Hendrix]], and wanted more attention and input than he was getting. This was what led to his departure.

* TyopOnTheCover: He successfully sued his British distributor when an early pressing of ''Music/ElectricLadyland'' was released as "Electric Landlady."

[[caption-width-right:350: The classic line-up of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, from left to right: Noel Redding, Mitch Mitchell, and Jimi Hendrix.]]

* {{Mondegreen}}: "Excuse me while I kiss this guy!" (It's "the sky".)

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Jimi's response when asked about what he wanted for the cover art of ''Axis: Bold As Love'' was "something Indian," by which he meant American Indian (Jimi was of partial Native American ancestry, and was proud of this). In Britain,however, "Indian" is pretty much exclusively used to refer to something or someone from "India proper"...and the result was that the artist drew Jimi, Noel and Mitch amongst an assortment of Hindu-inspired imagery. Jimi wasn't pleased.

* AffectionateNickname: Jimi and the other members of the Experience had these for one another. Jimi called Noel Redding "Bob Dylan's Grandmother" due to his mass of dark curls and his NerdGlasses. Noel retaliated by dubbing Jimi "Henpecked," a play on his last name. The two referred to Mitch Mitchell as "Queen Bee" and "Creator/JulieAndrews" for his PrimaDonna tendencies.

Hendrix was highly influenced by blues, jazz, R&B, and soul music; his amazing rhythm playing stemmed from his desire to make his guitar sound like an entire R&B backing band with horn section. In turn, he [[TropeCodifier codified]] techniques and trends many other bands and artists had used, such as amplified feedback (done before by others, but Hendrix almost literally turned it UpToEleven), creative use of electronic effects and extended improvisations. Although he arrived in London at a time when there was an [[Music/EricClapton entire]] [[Music/JeffBeck generation]] [[Music/LedZeppelin of]] [[Music/PinkFloyd impressive]] [[Music/KingCrimson guitarists]] reaching the peak of their powers, his peers were pretty quick to acknowledge him as TheAce: [[Music/TheWho Pete Townshend]] recalled feeling sorry for Music/EricClapton in that Clapton wanted to be able to play like Hendrix, but couldn't, whereas Townshend was glad that he himself 'never had any sense that I could even come close'. (The great guitarist Larry Coryell once attempted to [[ChallengingTheChief beat Hendrix in a cutting contest]]; according to eyewitnesses, Hendrix blew him off the stage ''with a single note''.) His guitar style was also an influence on many later PsychedelicRock, FunkRock, HardRock, HeavyMetal, and AlternativeRock (particularly {{Grunge}}) acts.

* IncendiaryExponent: Smashing guitars not shocking enough? Try setting them on fire first!