Hendrix

"Tribute To Hendrix", the disc for Swedish blues/rock heavy guitar legend Clas Yngstrom, is an awesome "musical tribute" to the father of heavy guitar, Jimi Hendrix. Recorded live in Stockholm, Sweden in March - 2003, "Tribute To Hendrix" features 10 trax of mind-bending, intense, breath taking, tremendously organic, retro-70's bluesy heavy guitar power trio riffage from one of the best "hendrixy" guitarists in the world. Recorded exclusively for Grooveyard Records, a new label dedicated to outstanding Total Guitar from around the globe. On "Tribute To Hendrix", Clas Yngstrom digs deep into the "outskirts of infinity" and grooves heavily through an awesome set of classic killer Hendrix jams with his outstanding trio, complete with a super-sonic way-kool "Band Of Gypsies" vibe.

This budget LP, which Accord put out in 1981, reminds us just how frustrating inadequate liner notes can be. The liner notes briefly discuss the rise of the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Hendrix's tremendous influence on rock, but they don't tell you anything at all about the material on the LP…

This is the album that Hendrix "owed" Capitol for releasing him over to Reprise Records and significantly, it isn't a studio effort, as his Reprise albums have been.

Jimi: All Is by My Side is a 2013 British-Irish drama film about Jimi Hendrix, written and directed by John Ridley. It was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. It was screened at the South by Southwest film festival and was released in the UK on August 8, 2014. The film screened at the New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) on 26 July 2014…

History

After Hendrix disbanded the Jimi Hendrix Experience in mid-1969, he formed Gypsy Sun and Rainbows to fulfill the contract for the Experience to play Woodstock. Bassist Billy Cox (who had played with Hendrix while they were in the army) had been rehearsing and playing with Hendrix since April, but the band was short-lived. With Cox and his drummer friend Buddy Miles, Hendrix next formed the Band of Gypsys, this time to fulfill his obligation to produce an LP of new material for Ed Chalpin, to be released on the Capitol label. Hendrix, in interviews as early as March 1969, had already mentioned a "jam" album to be titled Band of Gypsys. Hendrix also mentioned in his introduction at Woodstock that "Band of Gypsys" was an alternative name for the group performing there.