Jimi Hendrix Accomplishments

Starting with a rough life and getting noticed by the world, Hendrix changed the way of music for Rock and Blues. Although his main career only spanned four years, he is regarded as one of the most influential guitarists. As he experimented more and more with drugs his music would tend to change because his music was often based around he felt when he was high or having trips, those drugs that affected his work were Lsd, Cocaine, Cannabis, Hashish, amphetamines. He would particularly only take drugs while on tour, he liked to express his visions through his music on tour. Jimi Hendrix was a very talented guitarist with the power to move the whole crowd with emotion, but at the rise of his fame and after poor decisions, he eventually led

Soon after acquiring his acoustic guitar and much practice he would run around with a close friend Sammy Drain and his brother who played on a Keyboard. After a while of running around with Drain and his brother, he formed a band named the Velvetones, they soon figured it was too hard to hear him and his father, after a while of begging, bought him a white Supro Ozark, he was later kicked out for showing off too much. Hendrix was caught driving in stolen cars twice, when he was going to be punished he either had a choice of going to prison or joining the army, his lawyer said he will join the army. After boot camp he was placed in the 101st Airborne Division, he didn’t like it there because of the amount of discrimination, he later asked his father to send his guitar nicknamed Betty Jean. He would then play his guitar and avoid all work, his peers would tend to hide his guitar from him. Hendrix was overheard one day by a man named Billy Cox who would then play alongside him and a few others that would call themselves The Casuals. Hendrix was discharged from the military because of his inability to work or be taught. "He has no interest whatsoever in the Army ... It is my opinion that Private Hendrix will never come up to the standards required of a soldier. I feel that the military service will benefit if he is discharged as soon as possible." (“Jimi Hendrix”) This was a letter written by Hendrix's platoon sergeant James C. Spears. After Hendrix being discharged he reunited with Cox and started a band called King Kasuals in Clarksville , Tennessee. While in Tennessee Hendrix saw people playing with their teeth on guitar, this apparently a important thing to learn if you were to play, Hendrix stated that “the idea of that came to me… in tennessee, Down there you have to play with your teeth or