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Electric Church was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 19 December 2011 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Jimi Hendrix. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

Text and/or other creative content from this version of Jimi Hendrix was copied or moved into Canadian drug charges and trial of Jimi Hendrix with this edit. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

Hendrix is actually from Renton, not Seattle

Renton, as a smaller municipality in King County, is often historically conflated with Seattle. Renton's Chamber of Commerce will gladly confirm that Hendrix was born and spent much of his youth there. Hendrix is also listed as a Notable Person on Renton, Washington. Stebenthom (talk) 05:41, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The official Jimi Hendrix website and other reliable sources say that he was born at the King County Hospital in Seattle, which is now known as the Harborview Medical Center. Hendrix is buried in Renton and his childhood home was moved from Seattle to Renton. But I see no evidence that he was born in Renton. Cullen328 (talk) 07:23, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good Article Nomination

This is a really great article that good authors have clearly devoted a lot of time to. It should be nominated for Good Article Review. Reeeeet (talk)It just needs something about when he started going by "Jimi." NjtoTX (talk) 23:03, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

101st Airborn Division

According to Wikipedia, Dan Inosanto, a Filipino martial artist and close friend of Bruce Lee, was also in the 101st Airborn Division as a paratrooper from 1959 to 1961. There is a slim possibility that he and Jimi Hendrix crossed paths in 1961. Dan is 88 years old in 2024. It would be fascinating to know if they did, and to document it. 24.246.125.95 (talk) 15:58, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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 {{backwardscopy|title=The Essential Jimi Hendrix|author= Rotimi Ogunjob|date=2006|comments=Following concerns quite rightly raised about duplicated content between this article and the book, I did a history search on the text, looking for the run "recording regimen" and find it entered [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Jimi_Hendrix&diff=40509769&oldid=40495046 in this edit in 2006]. The red flag there: it didn't enter as one piece of cloth, but was edited from what already existed. If you look at the content as it appears in that book, which also purports to have been created in 2006, you can see that the changes in that incremental edit are all in that source. I took the text string as it appeared before that change--"went from a disciplined recording ethic"--and followed it backwards from there. It was added [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Jimi_Hendrix&diff=38916088&oldid=38911394 earlier that month] by an IP. Already in the article at the time of that addition, we find "relatively narrow neck", which text is present in that book on page 32, along with the surrounding material. A search for that in the article finds it entering in [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Jimi_Hendrix&diff=4704136&oldid=4704130 July 2004], several years before ''The Essential Jimi Hendrix'' was published. Already in the article at ''that'' time is the phrase "slipped into his bag by a fan without his knowledge" which is on page 21 of the book. This is all strongly suggestive of natural evolution here. --[[User:Moonriddengirl|Moonriddengirl]] <sup>[[User talk:Moonriddengirl|(talk)]]</sup> 23:23, 29 July 2012 (UTC)}}
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+== Hendrix is actually from Renton, not Seattle  ==
-== Equipment ==
-In an [https://www.secondactstories.org/jeff-skunk-baxters-coda-a-doobie-brother-focuses-on-counter-terrorism/ interview released on June 30, 2022], [[Jeff Baxter|Jeff "Skunk" Baxter]] revealed that he gave Jimi Hendrix his first customized, reverse-strung white Fender Stratocaster. This answered a decades-old mystery about the origin of Hendrix's first Stratocaster. Baxter also built the guitar himself. [[User:Sgmerritt|Sgmerritt]] ([[User talk:Sgmerritt|talk]]) 16:43, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
-:{{Re|Sgmerritt}} According to biographer Steven Roby, Baxter gave a similar account in 1981. [Roby 2002 pp. 53, 260] However, Hendrix equipment biographer [[:Michael Heatley]] relates a somewhat different story:
-:{{Blockquote|The first Strat Jimi Hendrix played{{nbsp}}... had been purchased that May [1966] from [[:Manny's Music]] in New York, with funds provided by his then girlfriend, Carol Shiroky. The price of a new Strat at that time was $289.  Jeff Baxter, later of Steely Dan, was an assistant at the shop and claims Jimi traded his Duo-Sonic for it, but Carol Shiroky suggests he wanted to move away from Curtis Knight (whose guitar the Duo-Sonic was) and forge his own career. So logic would dictate he returned the cheaper guitar to his friend. [Heatley 2009, p. 62]}}
-:Biographer [[:Harry Shapiro (author)|Harry Shapiro]] quotes Shiroky as saying that Hendrix told her the only reason he still played with Knight was that he owned the Duo-Sonic and that:
-:{{Blockquote|two days later I went out and bought him [Hendrix] a white Fender Stratocaster{{nbsp}}... He filed down the frets, because he'd reversed the order of the strings, and he sat there for hours and hours filing the frets. So the strings would fit in reverse. [Shapiro 1991, p. 101]}}
-:Baxter also claims to have sat in on bass with Hendrix's Greenwich village group [[:Jimmy James and the Blue Flames]] that turned into "about two months". [Roby 2002 p. 53] But in an interview, bandmate [[:Randy California]] said: "I know Jeff was claiming that he was in the band, but I don't really remember him being in the band." [Roby 1994]
-:With these somewhat conflicting accounts, there is really nothing to change in the article that cites Shapiro: "Hendrix played a variety of guitars, but was most associated with the Fender Stratocaster.[328] He acquired his first in 1966, when a girlfriend loaned him enough money to purchase a used Stratocaster built around 1964.[329]"
-:—[[User:Ojorojo|Ojorojo]] ([[User talk:Ojorojo|talk]]) 14:25, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
-== Ambidextrous? ==
-It's frequently claimed that he was left-handed (hence playing a right-handed guitar strung upside down) although it is also claimed that he was ambidextrous as per [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/feb/25/jimi-hendrix-ambidexterity-virtuosity this article]. Should Hendrix's handedness be addressed in the article? [[User:JezGrove|JezGrove]] ([[User talk:JezGrove|talk]]) 19:40, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
-:Hendrix biographers have little to say about his ability to use both hands. He often sat in with other musicians and he sometimes played a right-handed bass or guitar with his right hand when he didn't have his own instrument. He also could play a normally-strung right-handed bass and guitar upside down with his left hand (like [[Albert King]] and [[Doyle Bramhall II]]). However, for his own performances and recordings, he always played left handed with the strings set up for a lefty (lowest string on top, highest on bottom).
-:It's an interesting idea that his mixed-handedness somehow resulted in "signaling better interaction between the left and right hemispheres of the guitarist's brain, [that] suffused every part of his music". But, as with many attempts to psychoanalyze creativity, it seems highly speculative and probably should be treated as a [[:WP:FRINGE|fringe theory]]. I don't think there's really enough to it to add to the article and am not even sure where it would go.
-:—[[User:Ojorojo|Ojorojo]] ([[User talk:Ojorojo|talk]]) 16:42, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
+Renton, as a smaller municipality in King County, is often historically conflated with Seattle. Renton's Chamber of Commerce will gladly confirm that Hendrix was born and spent much of his youth there. Hendrix is also listed as a Notable Person on [[Renton, Washington]]. [[User:Stebenthom|Stebenthom]] ([[User talk:Stebenthom|talk]]) 05:41, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
-== Atlanta International Pop Festival ==
+:The official Jimi Hendrix website and other reliable sources say that he was born at the King County Hospital in Seattle, which is now known as the [[Harborview Medical Center]]. Hendrix is buried in Renton and his childhood home was moved from Seattle to Renton. But I see no evidence that he was born in Renton. [[User:Cullen328|Cullen328]] ([[User talk:Cullen328|talk]]) 07:23, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
+==Good Article Nomination==
-This article skips right over his legendary appearance at Byron GA just before Woodstock.
+This is a really great article that good authors have clearly devoted a lot of time to. It should be nominated for [[WP:GAN|Good Article Review]]. [[User:Reeeeet|Reeeeet]] ([[User talk:Reeeeet|talk]])It just needs something about when he started going by "Jimi." [[User:NjtoTX|NjtoTX]] ([[User talk:NjtoTX|talk]]) 23:03, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
- [[Special:Contributions/63.155.11.3|63.155.11.3]] ([[User talk:63.155.11.3|talk]]) 05:53, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
-:Hendrix did not perform at the first [[Atlanta International Pop Festival#1969 festival]], which was held July 4–5, 1969 (before the [[Woodstock]] festival in August). He did perform at the second [[Atlanta International Pop Festival#1970 festival]] on July 4, 1970 (eleven months after Woodstock). This is noted in the "Cry of Love Tour" section of the article: "Several shows were recorded [on the tour], and they produced some of Hendrix's most memorable live performances. At one of them, the second Atlanta International Pop Festival, on July 4, he played to the largest American audience of his career.[255] According to authors Scott Schinder and Andy Schwartz, as many as 500,000 people attended the concert.[255]" (see article for the citations used). Several of his performances at Atlanta were released on albums and videos. ''[[Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival]]'' album and the accompanying video released in 2015 are the most recent and complete. Check it out. —[[User:Ojorojo|Ojorojo]] ([[User talk:Ojorojo|talk]]) 14:18, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
-== Modify infobox ==
+== 101st Airborn Division ==
+According to Wikipedia, Dan Inosanto, a Filipino martial artist and close friend of Bruce Lee, was also in the 101st Airborn Division as a paratrooper from 1959 to 1961.  There is a slim possibility that he and Jimi Hendrix crossed paths in 1961.  Dan is 88 years old in 2024.  It would be fascinating to know if they did, and to document it. [[Special:Contributions/24.246.125.95|24.246.125.95]] ([[User talk:24.246.125.95|talk]]) 15:58, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
-I suggest changing the infobox template from <nowiki>{{Infobox musical artist}}</nowiki> to <nowiki>{{Infobox person}}</nowiki> (with the former template embedded, similar to [[Mick Jagger]]'s temp.) [[Special:Contributions/83.52.79.56|83.52.79.56]] ([[User talk:83.52.79.56|talk]]) 08:08, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
-:This was proposed in 2019, but, unlike Jagger, Hendrix "didn't do much, if anything, outside of music".[https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AJimi_Hendrix&diff=902465765&oldid=902465291] The "signature" that was added turned out to be a logo and was removed as per [[Talk:Jimi Hendrix/Archive 10#Semi-protected edit request on 7 May 2022|this discussion]].  Infobox person has a lot of parameters that seem to attract unsourced miscellanea. I don't think it's worth it. —[[User:Ojorojo|Ojorojo]] ([[User talk:Ojorojo|talk]]) 16:03, 4 July 2023 (UTC)