The Wind Cries Mary- Jimi Hendrix (1967)

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Additional information about this, Jimi Hendrix vinyl art.

Jimi Hendrix – The Artist

James Marshall Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; 1942 – 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most influential musicians of all time. Hendrix was inspired musically by American rock and roll and electric blues. He favoured overdriven amplifiers with high volume and gain, and was instrumental in popularising the previously undesirable sounds caused by guitar amplifier feedback. He was also one of the first guitarists to make extensive use of tone-altering effects units, such as fuzz tone, Octavia, wah-wah, and Uni-Vibe in mainstream rock. He was the first artist to use stereophonic phasing effects in music recordings. Holly George-Warren of Rolling Stone commented: “Hendrix pioneered the use of the instrument as an electronic sound source. Players before him had experimented with feedback and distortion, but Hendrix turned those effects and others into a controlled, fluid vocabulary every bit as personal as the blues with which he began.

The Wind Cries Mary – The Song

The Wind Cries Mary is a song recorded by English-American rock trio the Jimi Hendrix Experience. It is a rock ballad written by Jimi Hendrix. According to his then girlfriend, Kathy Etchingham’s, account, he wrote the lyrics after an argument with her, using “Mary” (Etchingham’s middle name) In a later interview, Hendrix commented that the lyrics represent “more than one person”.

Jimi Hendrix – The Shape

Modelled into probably the most familiar  picture of Jimi Hendrix.

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