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Sound bytes: Jimmy Hendrix, Valleys of Neptune

...possible track recorded by HendrixWHAT TO EXPECT: Also-rans and retreads from the Hendrix vaultBACKGROUND: When Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, he had released three studio albums. In the four decades since his passing, the number of studio albums...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/things-do/going-out/music/2010-03-17/sound-bytes-ji
Applause | Music | Things to Do
Hendrix provides insight into parents

...unusual sources. Still, I wouldn't have expected Jimi Hendrix to be one of my history teachers. When I was younger...anything more than, well, my parents. Similarly, Jimi Hendrix, until recently, was simply the name on a number of...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2004/09/07/xtr_427847.shtml
Xtreme
Super Bowl commercials offer pitches for beer, blades and more

...funny beer pitches, a young Jimi Hendrix - and lots of references to male...imagined the day an 11-year-old Jimi Hendrix contemplates an electric guitar...envisions a 1953 day when a young Jimi Hendrix munches a slice of pizza and buys...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2004/02/03/bus_403183.shtml
Business
Nashville's forgotten R&B heritage part of new CD set, exhibit

...played in the same Nashville nightclubs where guitarist Jimi Hendrix and saxophonist Hank Crawford cut their musical teeth...clip from one of them, "Night Train," shows a young Jimi Hendrix bobbing and swaying with his guitar behind a duo called...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2004/03/08/mus_408100.shtml
Music
A look at the 20th Century: 1970

...the fatal drug overdoses of rock 'n' roll legends Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. It was 1970, a year that would be...half-staff on campus. Sept. 18: Rock music star Jimi Hendrix dies from a drug and alcohol overdose. Janice Joplin...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/1999/09/11/met_269884.shtml
Metro
VH1 polls artists to select best rock 'n' roll musicians

...the Rolling Stones top the list. Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and Bob Dylan fill...guitar player that doesn't worship Jimi Hendrix or drummer that doesn't worship...Beatles 2. The Rolling Stones 3. Jimi Hendrix 4. Led Zeppelin 5. Bob Dylan...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/1998/03/15/ent_224153.shtml
Things to Do
Orthodox Jew rocker riffs guitar into the mainstream

...Village Voice once did. It's an honor to be compared to Jimi Hendrix, he recently told adoring fans at the nightclub Tramps...the radio. He doesn't read music. "I grew up on Jimi Hendrix. I grew up on Oriental music. I grew up on Arabic...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/1998/07/25/ent_234300.shtml
Things to Do
You won't find rocks at these Rock museums

...Project, the Seattle-based museum that's a shrine to Jimi Hendrix and other Seattle musicians. But you can see bits of...among other things, the final performance of the Jimi Hendrix Experience. - An autographed Bruce Springsteen guitar...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2001/12/30/ent_329949.shtml
Things to Do
Literary festival planned at library March 1 and 2

...said.Washington will have copies of his newest book, Nobody Cages Me, for sale.In it, he examines the music of Jimi Hendrix and the disconnect between the black guitarist and the black community.The Augusta Literary Festival will open at...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/things-do/applause/2013-02-19/literary-festival-pla
Ravi Shankar, sitar virtuoso who brought Indian music to West, mentored Beatles, dies at 92

...Monterey festival.While he enjoyed Otis Redding and the Mamas and the Papas at the festival, he was horrified when Jimi Hendrix lit his guitar on fire."That was too much for me. In our culture, we have such respect for musical instruments...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2012-12-12/ravi-shankar-sitar-virtuoso-who-bro