Once upon a time, there was someone timeless and his name was Johnny Allen Hendrix, but his friends just called him Jimi.

Al, his daddy, was a mixed-race Afro/Cherokee.

Lucille, his mom, gave birth to him at just 17 years old.

It is said that at an early age, using a cigar box with a rubber band stretched over it, he built his first musical instrument—this was a common practice among the poorest novice blues guitarists.

Legend has it that it was Frank Zappa who schooled him on the sonic possibilities produced by a new guitar effect destined to become ultra-famous: the "Wah Wah," of which Jimi became a psychedelic virtuoso.

He had two number ones at his back: John Graham Mitchell on drums & Noel David Redding on bass, with whom he formed the inimitable "The Jimi Hendrix Experience."

No lefty ever knew how to lick and make a guitar come the way he did.

In 3 months, he would have been a true 83-year-old "VDM," but illo left before that, suffocated by his own vomit, fifty-five summers ago and that’s that...

Band Of Gypsys- Fillmore East January 1st 1970 (First Show)