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JIMI HENDRIX UNDER CONSTRUCTION Purpose: PROVOKE, INSTIGATE, INSPIRE. when there are no I can'ts, bigger things can be acheived.

born johnnny allen hendrix on november 27th 1942, Seattle's King county hospital. Takes interest to music, self taught, couldnt read or write music. Because of rough home life, often spends time with full blood cherokkee grandmother. mother dies at fifteen. At sixteen he was thrown out of school for holding the hand of a white girl.

"I used to have Jimmy clean up the bedroom all the time while I was gone, and when I would come home I would find a lot of broom straws around the foot of the bed. I'd say to him, `Well didn't you sweep up the floor?' and he'd say, `Oh yeah,' he did. But I'd find out later that he used to be sitting at the end of the bed there and strumming the broom like he was playing a guitar." Al Hendrix.

first guitar was a one string ukelale 1958 al bought a second hand acoustic off of friend for five dollars when jimmi was twelve. shortly after, jimi joined his first band the velvetones. 3 months after he went solo. Next summer Jimi received hir first electric guitar from his father: a supro ozark 1560s.

http://www.jimi-hendrix.com/biography.html

joined army in 1961, when 17, met billy cox and started the king casuals. .suffered injury and was discharged. earned the screaming eagle badge. spent next four years drifting to band to band, always in the background of legends,( Little Richard, Ike and Tina Turner, Wilson Pickett, the Isley Brothers and King Curtis) all illsuited for his unbridaled, undiluted and radical musical creativity. After a few recordings he started yet another band, 1965's Jimmy James and the blue flames. While traveling around new yorks greenwich village, ex basisst of the animals offered to become his manager and persuaded him to come to the uk. Jimi was a black sheep among the musical royalty there ( the who beatles cream). In 1966 the jimi hendrix experience was formed with mitch mitchell (you gotta love a guy whose first names the same as his last) on drums and noel redding sporting base. Hey Joe, Purple Haze and The Wind Cries Mary all became top ten hits in britain. Soon after their debut album, Are You Experienced, still standing as one of the most popular rock albums ever. #15 on rolling stone top 500 albums, 4 million album sales. Finally returning to the states to play The Monterey Pop Festival in june 67. Captivating the american audience with never before seen spurts of genius to the electric guitar. The next album hit the world by storm- Axis: Bold is Love. In 1968, he built electriclady studios in NY. It took twice the time and money invested in the project, because of flooding, sumppumps had to be installed and sound proofed. John Storyk architech. Built with multi colored lights, drugs were prohibited during sessions. Artists from ACDC to the Dave Mathews Band.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Lady_Studios The next album was not widely well recieved, Electric lady land. Stress of the limelight caused the experience to break up in 1969. That same year Jimi played woodstock with his short lived Band of Gypsies, becoming one of his most celebrated performance. In 1970 Jimi brought back Mitch Mitchell on drums and old army buddy Billy Cox and again formed the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Together they started The First Rays of the Rising Sun, which due to a hectic touring scedule and the hightening issues of drug use the album was never finished until finally a collection of unpublished tracks came under that name in 1997. His death on september 18th 1970 stopped his fast pace musical revelution. His last hours were spent with a friend, Monica, where they talked and played music all night, until 7 am when jimi took too many sleeping pills. Monica woke to a Jimi Hendrix whose nose and mouth were coated in vomit. He was anounced dead in the hospital sometime after 11:20 am.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6597656/15_are_you_experienced http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Hendrix#Early_life http://www.hotshotdigital.com/WellAlwaysRemember/JimiHendrixBio.html

Set backs that were overcome

Couldn't read or write music Mother died when he was 15 Parents divorced when he was 9 left handed black grew up in a poor and unstable household- sisters both given up for adoption and brother had extreme gambling and alcohol problems didnt graduate high school Story Board