Talk:Jimi Hendrix

Atlanta International Pop Festival

This article skips right over his legendary appearance at Byron GA just before Woodstock.  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. —Ojorojo (talk) 14:18, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Modify infobox

I suggest changing the infobox template from {{Infobox musical artist}} to {{Infobox person}} (with the former template embedded, similar to Mick Jagger's temp.) 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".[1] The "signature" that was added turned out to be a logo and was removed as per this discussion. Infobox person has a lot of parameters that seem to attract unsourced miscellanea. I don't think it's worth it. —Ojorojo (talk) 16:03, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

What about his (brief) military service and his death cause? That can be only added in {{Infobox person}} 83.53.68.41 (talk) 07:19, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

I suggest adding a "military service" heading and sub-info to the infobox. This allows a cursory indication to readers that may look at this article to confirm whether or not he served in the military. --31.187.2.192 (talk) 15:17, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

Last Performance Amendment

The current description of his last performance with Eric Burdon is described as "subdued" and his instrumentation being quiet, though I'd like that to be reconsidered. Listening to Jimi play on the bootleg recording of the set, he isn't subdued, just the guitar and amplifier setup is at a lower volume than usual (possibly due to the nature of the venue, it isn't huge). He does a lot of his usual tricks in terms of musicality. I can't speak for his acrobatics on stage, though he was growing tired of them and wasn't paid for this gig most likely. Feel free to disagree but I think the performances were just like some of the other bootleg jams that get thrown around. It's also basic etiquette to not do any theatrics unless invited to! Wasolop (talk) 18:26, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

Tony Brown's Jimi Hendrix: The Final Days (1997), the source used for "uncharacteristically subdued", "quietly played", etc., is not available in a book preview. So, it is not clear if Brown is quoting someone who was actually at the club or if this is his personal impression. After looking through several sources, Brown seems to be the only one who attempts to describe Hendrix's performance. I listened to a couple of the bootlegs and, although this falls under original research, the Hendrix-sounding guitarist doesn't sound unusually restrained and, in places, is quite energetic and upfront. Maybe Brown is mainly referring to a lack of theatrics, which in Hendrix's later performances was not that unusual.

Perhaps someone else has access to Brown's book, otherwise it's difficult to say how the current sentence should be reworded or if it should be removed altogether. BTW, it is interesting that the lyrics to "Mother Earth", the second-to-last song Hendrix ever played, include "Don't care how great you are, don't care what you're worth; When it all ends up you got to, go back to mother earth".

—Ojorojo (talk) 17:29, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

Brown appears to be the only Hendrix biographer who attempts to describe his performance. Propose to make the current description more neutral by removing the Brown-sourced sentence. It can be re-added or re-written when clarification on what Brown actually wrote is available or other info comes to light. —Ojorojo (talk) 16:49, 11 August 2023 (UTC)