In the decades since Jim Hendrix first rose to prominence with Are You Experienced?, the debut album from his band, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, he's been called many things. Rolling Stone has consistently put him at the top of their "Greatest Guitarists of All Time" list, while Guitar World referred to him as "the supernova of creativity that the electric guitar had been waiting for." However, long before Hendrix as a person was a brilliant yet faded memory, one music journalist summed him up even more succinctly.
Despite being considered one of the greatest guitar players the world had ever seen, he didn't get his first guitar until he was a teenager. But his father, James "Al" Hendrix, told Guitar Player's Jas Obrecht that his son always had an affinity for music.
At 15, Jimi's mom died. Soon after, he told his dad he wanted to play the guitar, and his dad bought him an acoustic one for $5. A year later, Al bought him an electric guitar. "He just worked at it and worked at it, practicing night and day," he said.
"He’d wake up in the morning with a guitar on his chest," Leon explained. "So, the first thing he’d do in his bedroom, before he’d brush his teeth or take a p--s, he’d be playing licks. So, it was inevitable that he would become a master and a maestro one day.”
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