Today i felt like doing nothing, which leaves plenty of place for enjoying history written in musical lyrics and guitar tabs by someone who started out as a man who really enjoyed experimenting with sounds.
'42-'70, the time when the earth was walked by one of, if not, the best guitarist of all times, as Rolling Stone claims. He was a true guitar god, completely changing the view upon playing the instrument for the artists that followed. Being left-handed, he played a regular guitar upside-down. Unicity was a keyword for all his shows, always a theatrical presence, playing the instrument with his teeth or behind his back, Hendrix sure knew how to set the guitar on fire (literally, sometimes, like he did at the Monterey Pop Festival).
I don't really know much about Hendrix as a person, and I honestly do not care, his music, a true masterpiece of blues and psychedelic rock, has won him my respect forever. I'm going to dedicate this week to listening to everything ever released, before and after his death.
Meanwhile, my favourite song remains The Wind Cries Mary, which, weirdly, is said to have been written after an argument between Hendrix and his then girlfriend over her cooking. The food must've been awful since she left afterwards and he had to write a song to bring her back :) here's the song, in case you don't know it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvXstzHzkXk. Beautiful.
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