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Jimi Hendrix and the making of are you experiences

Sean Egan’s Are You Experienced is a memoir of the making of Jimi Hendrix’s first album. The book does go a little into the beginning and end of his life. But it focuses mainly on the making of his first album. He has interviews from many well know people in the music industry. Being that it was written 35 years after the release of this “awe inspiring” album: He could not verify a lot of the dates and places of recording.

Hendrix was born on November 27, 1942, to an unloving mother Lucille and father Al who was in the army over seas. His birth name was Johnny Allen Hendrix. Jimi’s mother left him and his father (shortly after Jimi’s birth) to be with her boyfriend. Which resulted in Jimi staying with friends and relatives, until his father returned home and regained custody of his son. His father renamed Jimi, James Marshall Hendrix though from this point on he would be called Jimmy. Jimi became interested in music as a child. He first played the harmonica. Then the violin until he finally “started digging guitars.” None of these instruments were his due to the fact that his father didn’t have much money and he didn’t care for Jimi playing music. Jimi’s infatuation with the guitar did not last long. Being l


eft-handed was hard for a guitar player. It wasn’t until seeing Chuck Berry and realizing he needed to reverse the strings he regained his passion. His father by coincidence had won him a guitar during a poker game. Jimi would practice whenever time would permit and learn chords from friends. Jimi played in a band called the Velvetones in junior high. Eventually Al’s feelings changed and he bought Jimi his first electric guitar, a Supro Ozark 1560S.

By October 1966 the Experience was formed. The band was a trio with Jimi playing lead guitar, Mitch Mitchell on drums, and Noel Redding on bass. They never really rehearsed any of their songs. Jimi would just show them the sheet music and show Redding how he wanted it played. They would go over it a couple of times and then start recording. People thought the way Jimi set up his amps was crazy. He would take four Marshall stacks (two stacks of eight twelve inch speakers a total of sixteen speakers) turn them all the way up turn his guitar way down and put the mike about thirty feet away. This made for an incredible sound that no one had ever tried before. Jimi was changing the way people would play guitar forever. The Experience was recording songs at a prolific pace. Their first single (in the United Kingdom, America has yet to even hear of the Experience) was released on December 16, 1966. The song was Hey Joe: Not an original but Jimi had turned it into someth

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