"Communication is coming on strong. I don't give a damn if your hair is short or long"
LINKS
The official site first of course:
jimi-hendrix.com
The official Hendrix site has had a face lift and looks pretty neat.
Check out the "MEDIA" section to listen to unreleased concert
recordings (hours of the stuff !).
These are audience recordings and have mostly poor sound quality.
Chicago - 12/1/1968
Dallas 2/16/1968
Houston Music Hall - 2/18/1968
Frankfurt - 1/17/1969
Maple Leaf Gardens - 5/5/1969
Madison Square Garden 5/18/1969
Denver 6/29/1969
Los Angeles Forum - 4/25/1970
Santa Clara Rock Festival - 5/25/1969
Live in Tulsa - 6/7/1970
Baltimore - 6/13/1970
Honolulu International Center Arena - 8/1/1970
+ 3 unreleased Baggy's rehearsals
Withdrawn: Koln (Cologne) - Jan
13 1969, which had the best sound (perhaps for a future Dagger release
?).
Check out also the interesting Letters and FAQs on the "MAGAZINE" page.
ARCHIVE SITES
www.earlyhendrix.com
The essential and well
researched info site about Jimi's early collaborations.
Plug
Your Ears
Lots of info here
Just Ask The Axis
Again a good info source, with a exhaustive guide to live recording
quality.
In
From The Storm
Hans-Peter Johnsen's
amazing site with such attention to detail.
Who Is Jimi Hendrix ?
Packed with data
Jimi Hendrix Collection
Douglas Bell's exhaustive listings
Jimi Hendrix
An amazing amount of work went into this site.
A good source for identifying track listings.
Jimi
Hendrix
Karl J. Geisler's site, full of info
The Voodoo Chile
A nice looking site worth exploring
Jimi
Hendrix Live
A Hedonic Engineering Archive Division transcription (sic)
Jimi, day by day.
Tomacho's Jimi Hendrix
Collection
An unbeleivably detailed record of all releases, official or otherwise.
Page
Full Of Jimi - Discography
Another Japanese site
that is packed with facts.
Rate Your Music
A great source of info
concerning the staggering number of editions over the years.
Valleys
Of Neptune
This excellent source of bootleg info disappeared for a while but good
old brumepourpre
has found it again !
PHOTO SITES
Forum Jimi Hendrix
This is a general
Hendrix forum (in French) and the photo collection is simply the best
there is on the internet.
Go to the Can You See Me section for all subjects and to the Concert Summary for a chronological classification
of all Jimi's performances.
Jimi Hendrix Lifelines 1943
- 1966
A neat photo album of young Jimmy (i.e. before London 66)
The
Hendrix Collection
A superb photo album of Jimi's life
Brume Pourpre
That's "Purple Haze" in French.
An interesting time-line photo site with a good technical section also.
Check out his amazing posters page ("Affiches")
The Kramer Archives
Eddie Kramer's candid photos of the greats he worked with
Noan Hatay photos
A mini gallery of her
work
Jimi
Hendrix Website #6743
A great photographers link page here. From the same host earlyhendrix.
Gypsy Sun & Rainbows
A nice collection of
photos here.
My favourite photos of Hendrix
ARTICLES & VARIOUS INTEREST
Steve
Roby
The site of reputed
Hendrix archivist and biographer Steve Roby.
Lots to discover here with updates on his book "Black Gold", articles,
radio shows and memories of his old fanzine "Straight Ahead".
In the updates section, Roby proves that Jimi was NOT discharged from
the army for homosexual behavior as reported
in the book by Charles Cross, "Room Full Of Mirrors".
Who
Killed Jimi Hendrix ?
Everyone must read this
Pan-African Newswire blogspot !
This also
HENDRIX
& DYLAN
The same site talks of
Jimi's fascination for Dylan.
The
Blues Connections of Jimi hendrix
An intersting article about Jimi's blues techniques and influences.
Jimi's
record collection
Page 2 of the link above.
Another page on the
subject on the French Forum Jimi
Hendrix
Michael Fairchild
Essential reading here :
Unknown Hendrix - A great article about the live
recordings
Hendrix '70 - Clearing the haze - A close at Jimi's last year of activity
Wallyrus's
Jimi Hendrix Homepage
Some very interesting articles here, especially the one about "BLACK
GOLD"
Jimi Hendrix Black Experience
soulpatrol.com's tribute - worth reading
The sound of Hendrix CDs
Various discussions and
articles about the sound reproduction of the various CD releases over
the years.
Al Hendrix
An interesting article about Jimi's father and early life.
"Voodoo Chile"
An analysis of the song.
Rockmine - Jimi Hendrix
Some very interesting
articles to discover here
Earth Blues
Many interesting articles are collected together here.
Douglas J. Noble Guitar
Archive
Again, some intersting articles from the renowned Noble (Univibes and
Guitar magazine).
1rainywish.com
An interesting site complete with a Jimi Hendrix Dictionary !
Mitch Mitchell.de
In English.
Rolling Stone
Some interesting articles and interviews with Jimi here.
A Day
In The Life Of Jimi Hendrix
What Jimi did on various days of various years.
Leszek Cichonski - Thanks
Jimi Festival
The top Polish
guitarist's superb site - your mouse plays guitar !
Each year he organises a Hendrix festival in Poland.
If you want to do the same thing in your home town, contact him to find
out how.
Rock
'n' Roll Hall Of Fame
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Voodoo Files
Guitar tabulations
The Jimi Hendrix Foundation
A charity organisation in Jimi's name
Jimi Hendrix Was A Rolling
Stone !
An interesting page at rocksoff.org
Alan Douglas
For information about the one-time gardian of the Hendrix vault
Monterey
Pop Festival
A great site about the
famous festival of 1967
ATLANTA POP FESTIVAL
This interesting page features links to YouTube extracts of Jimi's
performance
FEHMARN ISLAND FESTIVAL
Super site all about the festival and many photos of Jimi onstage.
Wolfgang's Vault
A couple of Winterland shows can be heard on this magnificent site.
Hundreds of concert recordings to listen to for free.
Hendrix Northeast
A great little site
which researches Jimi's visits to the North East of England.
Illustrations of Jimi
French forum collection
EMPSFM
That stands for
Experience Music Project-The Science Fiction Museum.
Lots to discover here, just type Hendrix in the search box.
BBC NEWS
Same applies here, for the latest news on Hendrix business
Wikipedia
A very good page on
Jimi's life and work.
Uncyclopedia
The (un)true story of Jimi Hendrix
from this impressive and hilarious site which is worth exploring.
Hey Joe Versions
A listing of the many versions of the song.
HARDWARE
Hendrix's
Equipment List
Info on various artists
at this site
Jimi's Voodoo Rig
by Michael Fairchild
The
Gear Of Jimi Hendrix
An excellent page at musicplayer.com
The
Gear
A good gear info page at the Unofficial Danish Website.
Jimi's Gear (again)
On tour with Jimi - Eric
Barrett
An insiders view of working with The Experience and their equipement.
Jimi's Guitars
Go through these pages
on Aylers French forum to see Jimi with many makes of guitars in his
hands.
Jimi Hendrix's Black Beauty
All about that cherished black Strat by Len Jones on the Univibes site.
Who saw Hendrix live &
his rig ?
Check out this very interesting forum discussion
The making of "All Along The Watchtower"
Roger Mayer
Jimi's legendary guitar effects supplier
> My photos of Electric Lady Studios
Brume Pourpre
Apart from the photos of Jimi,
there are a couple of good technical pages (in French).
1969
Fender Catalogue
A few pages from this 1969 catalogue which features a photo of Jimi on
the back cover.
FAN SITES
David's tribute to Jimi
An absolute must ! Loads to discover here, photos, posters,
and read about the time when David played Jimi's rendition of "Dear
Mr. Fantasy" to Stevie Winwood and Jim Capaldi !
Nine
To The Universe
Another well researched Hendrix site
He has an amazing collection !
The
Jimi Hendrix Story
A good read with lots of detail (in French !)
Bootlegzone
Lots of Bootleg info
here.
FORUMS:
Forum Jimi Hendrix
A superb Hendrix forum.
The "Earth Blues" section is for English speakers, if not, the rest is
in French.
Check out this superb page which reproduces album analysis by "The Prof."
As already mentioned check out the photo section (Can You See Me).
Not forgetting their parallel site The American Music Forum
Bien sûr, si vous parlez français, ce site est un
must !
Crosstown Torrents
A very good forum here and a great
source for photos and articles.
Forum Musicolinuxien
Another French forum.
TORRENTS:
BLOGS:
Another way to find bootleg material if like
me you can't handle torrents !
Just use the "Blogs" search engine on Google for example.
Jimibanter
Jimi's stage banter !
LABELS
Official:
Unofficial:
Purple
Haze Records
Read here about how they we rubbed out by Experience Hendrix
and on the official
site
Radioactive
Records
There is nothing left of their site but this link explains what
happenned
MAGAZINES
Experience Hendrix
The official magazine. Now only
on-line.
Univibes
Caesar Glebbeek's site for info about his authorative magazine
"Univibes"
Jimpress
The other leading Hendrix magazine (based in my old hometown: Warrington
!)
Magazine Covers
Check out these forum pages with great magazine covers
SLEEVE ART
ATM artwork
at Big O
RECORD PRICINGS
I have no idea of the
value of records. Here are just a few links that I found on Google:
eil.com - HENDRIX
An amazing selection of
records, books and collectables.
Jimi Hendrix rare record price guide
Record Collector
Many sites with this
type of name exist. Just type "record collector" on Google.
Record Collector Magazine
They publish a rare record price guide that can be ordered on-line.
On-line
Videos
Incredible. When I was
young, one had to what months or years to
catch a glimpse of Jimi on TV or at the local cinema. Now he's a click
away on sites such as YouTube and Dailymotion.
Some very rare footage can be found.
LINK SITES:
EYE
WITNESS APPEAL
Did you, or someone you know, see Jimi Hendrix perform ? The Hendrix
community is always searching for rare photos, recordings, film, or
simply memories of the man's performances. Contact me if you have
anything to share with the world.
Check out my tribute page in memory of dearly departed musicians.
VARIOUS ARTISTS SITES
Here is a selection of good
reference sites for various artistes of the golden era.
I will continue to add more as I come across them.
The Beatles - http://www.aboutthebeatles.com/The Beatles - http://www.geocities.com/~Beatleboy1/
The Rolling Stones - http://www.nzentgraf.de/ http://www.beatzenith.com/the_rolling_stones/intro2.htm
The Who - http://www.thewho.net/
Led Zeppelin - http://pyzeppelin.free.fr/
Eric Clapton - http://www.eric-clapton.co.uk/
Bob Dylan - http://www.warr.org/dylan.html • http://www.bobsboots.com/
Fleetwood Mac - http://www.fmlegacy.com/main.html
Frank Sinatra - http://sinatraguide.com/
MUSIC REFERENCE SITES
Rolling Stone Artists Directory
Wikipedia is also an excellent source of information about albums and artists
Both
Sides Now
A great page with articles about vaious historic record labels.
JAZZ/BLUES PHOTOS
Miles
Davis © William Ellis
Check out the cool photos of my
old friend William Ellis. View and buy here:
http://www.ellisvisuals.com
William Ellis is at the
vanguard of music photographers and is widely recognised as having
created
an important document of the contemporary jazz scene in Africa, Europe
and The Americas.
Complete info at http://www.william-ellis.com
ON-LINE MUSIC:
WOLFGANG'S VAULT
A must ! Bill Grahams archives !
BLUES ON AIR
A superb on-line blues radio station. No chat, no ads, just
blues.
AMAZING TRIVIA
Jim Hendricks
Unbeleivable. He teamed up with Casse Elliot and ... TIM ROSE to form
The Big 3,
a mid sixties folk trio ! Rose went on to inspire Jimi to perform "Hey
Joe" !
Talk about cosmic.
Tim Rose, Cass Elliot and Jim Hendricks !
