new member if not for hendrix there would. not be a S.R.V. and others

mike amaral

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Great to be here .jimi hendrix was idolize by S.R.V.if for not for hendrix so many other guitarists then and now would not be where there are today thanks to JAMES MARSHALL. HENDRIX. So if not for jimi S.R. who I Love would not be who he
was today.
 

John Watt

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Hey! I saw Jimi Hendrix in 1969 and within a year I bought the first Stratocaster,
sold in the Niagara Peninsula,
and ordered a Marshall amp from England, with effects,
dropping out of high school to start playing in bands.
If you say James Marshall, it's not Hendrix, it's Hendricks.
The bassist of the Animals, who became Jimi's manager, suggested the name change.

By 1975, so many guitarists in magazine interviews were saying Jimi started them on guitar,
magazines stopped talking about it.

"There once was a girl, whose heart was a frown,
cause she was crippled for life, and couldn't make a sound.
Until one day, she took her wheelchair to the shore,
and to her legs she smiled, you won't hurt me no more.
But suddenly a sight she had never seen before,
made her jump up and say, look,
a golden winged ship is coming my way, and it didn't even have to stop,
it just kept on going.
And so castles made of sand slip into the sea, eventually."

Jimi Hendrix, "Castles Made of Sand", off "Axis: Bold as Love", third verse.
I'd like to find another electric guitarist who wrote and sang songs like this.

Jimi was a lead guitarist-vocalist, songwriter, inventor, originator of Electric Ladyland Studios,
and every day I still wonder why he never had a lefty guitar made for him.
It's not easy trying to play a tremolo Strat upside down.
I'm a lefty. I know.

See my avatar? That's my inventive guitar, as endorsed by President Robert Godin of Godin Guitars,
George Gruhn of Nashville, www.gruhn.com, and Ring Music in Toronto, my favorite vintage and custom Strat store.

Pick pick pick, I'm picking on you. Fretting fingers want to know.
 
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