Jimi Hendrix Style - · PDF fileJimi Hendrix Style • Spoken/sung style comes from Bob...

Jimi Hendrix Style• Spoken/sung style comes from Bob

Dylan and country blues artists• Accompaniment style was taken from

blues and R&B guitarists• “Wait Until Tomorrow”

Style• Stage show is blues influenced• “Jimi's Apartment”

Style• Psychedelic jams• “Voodoo Chile”

Jimi Hendrix Experience

Noel and Mitch• Noel and Mitch were a key part of the

sound• “Fire”

Band of Gypsies• Billy Cox (bass) Buddy Miles (drums)• Out-of-court settlement with producer

Ed Chalpin• Two day residency at the Fillmore East

Sound• Feedback• “EXP”• wah wah• “Changes”

Sound/Gypsies• uni-vib• “Machine Gun”• marshall amplifiers• fuzz face

Sound• Fender Stratocasters• Extended techniques

Hendrix• “Dick Cavett”

Janis Joplin• Raised in Port Arthur, Texas• She began listening to folk and blues

records• Joplin often felt alienated in school

Janis Joplin• Dropped out of Lamar College• Performed in country and western

clubs in Texas• In 1963, Janis met Chet Helms

Janis• Helms owned the Avalon Ballroom and

managed Big Brother and the Holding Company

• Janis was invited to join the band• “Bye, Bye Baby” Big Brother and the Holding Company

After the Monterey Pop Festival

• Cheap Thrills (Columbia)• “Piece of My Heart”

Janis Joplin and Her Kozmic Blues Band

• “Maybe”• I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again

Mama!

1970• Pearl • “Mercedes Benz”• Dick Cavett Show