50 Years Ago Today The World Lost Jimi Hendrix 18 September 1970

 50 Years Ago Today The World Lost Jimi Hendrix 18 September 1970

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Jimi Hendrix - The Day I Was There by Richard Houghton

Jimi Hendrix - The Day I Was There by Richard Houghton, has just been published by This Day In Music Books. Running to over 450 pages and with hundreds of images, including several previously unseen pictures of Jimi, it contains over 500 unpublished first hand fan accounts of the great man in performance.

The book tells his story from his pre-fame days on the chitlin' circuit to his very last official performance at a festival in Germany, and captures the Jimi Hendrix story in a way it's never been told before. The publishers have put together this video which gives you a taste of what the book contains:

https://youtu.be/R8wCphfzIk0

The book is available now in paperback on Amazon in the UK and US and via other well known UK book websites.

New Jimi Hendrix™ Voodoo Child™ Accessories From Fender

Make Jimi’s legendary style your own with these new cables and strings

Jimi Hendrix set the music world on fire with his rule-breaking playing style and one-of-a-kind tone. Now you can channel his legendary playing with the all-new Jimi Hendrix™ Voodoo Child™ cables and strings. SHOP CABLES & STRINGS Designed to reproduce the look and sound of the original, these instrument cables are the ideal conduit for your sound. Thick conductors, a durable jacket and robust vintage-style connectors ensure this cable performs as great as it looks. SHOP CABLES Make a fundamental part of Jimi’s full, warm tone yours by winding up a set of strings with his signature heavy-high, light-low gauge setup. Available in vintage nickel or nickel-plated steel with either ball or bullet ends. SHOP STRINGS Fender Musical Instruments Corporation EMEA Leo House, Birches Industrial Estate East Grinstead, West Sussex, RH18 1QZ

Jimi Hendrix Monterey 1967 Guitar from Fender

“This is for everybody”

Jimi Hendrix took the world by storm with his incredible Monterey Pop Festival performance, which he concluded with the sacrificial burning of his now-iconic hand-painted Stratocaster. Destroyed during the fiery culmination of his set, this one-of-a-kind guitar survived only in photos and film. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of this milestone in music history, we created the limited-edition Jimi Hendrix Monterey Stratocaster

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HENDRIX-INSPIRED ARTWORK

The guitar's body art is an homage to Hendrix's hand-painted original, giving fans, players and collectors the chance to own a modern classic

MONTEREY POP FESTIVAL 1967

It’s amazing that a guitar that

was played only once would go on to be one of the most recognized in history, but that’s exactly the case with a one-of-a-kind Stratocaster that Jimi Hendrix sacrificed at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.
Hendrix hand-painted a flowery design on this legendary Strat—in nail polish, no less—the night before he was to close out the inaugural event and brought it out for his final song, “Wild Thing”.

After Hendrix sang the last words and displayed his full arsenal of guitar wizardry—playing behind his back, with his teeth—he had one trick left. Hendrix 

turned to his amps and scraped the guitar

against the speaker cabinets for maximum feedback.

The Fiery Finale

“This is for everyone,” he said just before spraying something on the guitar. Jimi bent down to kiss the instrument and then tossed a lit match to elicit flames from the prone Strat. Like a disciple worshiping at an altar, Hendrix knelt before the blazing guitar as the audience stared agape watching him smash it to pieces.

While only a shard of that now-famous piece of history exists today, Fender has painstakingly recreated Jimi’s Monterey Strat to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the fiery milestone, right down to the nail-polish artwork that burned its way into the memories of fans around the world.

Furter details and shop at...

www.fender.com

The Jimi Hendrix Experience Live at the Oaklands Colaseum

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience performed at the Oakland Coliseum on April 27, 1969.  

This lively performance, featured a guest appearance by the Jefferson Airplane's 

Jack Casady.  The show was recorded by an ardent fan and is available on the 

2CD Dagger Records release: Live At The Oakland Coliseum; available EXCLUSIVELY 

from the Jimi Hendrix store.  Check it out https://goo.gl/Res6bV