Today in music history

Today in music history on October 13th, 1966 The Jimi Hendrix Experience was created in London. With singer-songwriter and guitarist Jimi Hendrix, bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell, the band was active until June 1969, in which time the group released three successful studio albums.

Widely recognized as hugely influential on the development of hard rock and heavy meta...l in the late-1960s and beyond, The Experience were best known for the skill, style and charisma of frontman Hendrix, who is considered by many as one of the greatest guitarists of all time. All three of the band's studio albums, Are You Experienced (1967), Axis: Bold as Love (1967) and Electric Ladyland (1968), were featured in the Rolling Stone list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - each within the top 100. In 1992, The Jimi Hendrix Experience were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Purple Haze is perhaps the most popular Experience song---and even after almost 50 years--is still far from cliche. (source-varied).



Today in music history...

Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze” was released in 1967 and a few years later in 1970, he opened Electric Lady Studio in NYC. It was made specifically for Hendrix, with round windows and a machine capable of generating ambient lighting in a myriad of colors. It was meant to have a laid back feel to encourage Hendrix’s creativity, but at the same time provide a professional recording atmosphere.

Jimi spent only two and a half months recording in Electric Lady, most of which took place while the final phases of construction were still going on. After a recording/dubbing session on August 26 and an opening party later that day, he then boarded an Air India flight for London with Billy Cox, joining Mitch Mitchell to perform at the Isle of Wight Festival. Little did he know, this was the music festival that would really put him on the map.