外國人最想和你聊的名人話題：吉米·亨德里克斯

　About Hendrix　關于亨德里克斯

     James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter. He is widely considered to be the greatest electric guitarist in musical history, and one of the most influential musicians of his era across a range of genres.
     After initial success in Europe with his group, he achieved fame in the United States following his 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. Later, Hendrix headlined the iconic 1969 Woodstock Festival and the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival. He often favored raw overdriven amplifiers with high gain and treble and helped develop the previously undesirable technique of guitar amplifier feedback. Hendrix, as well as his friend Eric Clapton, popularized use of the wah-wah pedal in mainstream rock which he often used to deliver an exaggerated pitch in his solos, particularly with high bends, complex guitar playing, and use of legato. As a record producer, Hendrix also broke new ground in using the recording studio as an extension of his musical ideas. He was one of the first to experiment with stereophonic phasing effects for rock recording.
     Hendrix was influenced by blues artists such as B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Howlin'Wolf, Albert King and Elmore James, rhythm and blues and soul guitarists Curtis Mayfield and Steve Cropper, and the jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery. Hendrix (who was then known as "Maurice James)" began dressing and wearing a moustache like Little Richard when he performed and recorded in his band from March 1, 1964 through to the spring of 1965. In 1966, Hendrix stated, "I want to do with my guitar what Little Richard does with his voice."
     Hendrix won many of the most prestigious rock music awards in his lifetime, and has been posthumously awarded many more, including being inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. An English Heritage blue plaque was erected in his name on his former residence at Brook Street, London, in September 1997. A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (at 6627 Hollywood Blvd.) was dedicated in 1994. In 2006, his debut US album, Are You Experienced, was inducted into the United States National Recording Registry, and Rolling Stone named Hendrix the top guitarist on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all-time in 2003. He was the first person inducted into the Native American Music Hall of Fame.
     亨德里克斯的吉他技巧完全是自學，因為是左撇子，他把一把右手吉他的琴弦顛倒安裝用來左手演奏。作為一名吉他手，他受到了眾多和節(jié)奏布魯斯的吉他前輩的影響，并在這些基礎上做出了偉大的革新。影響他的音樂家包括布魯斯吉他大師比比金（B.B.King），Albert King，Buddy Guy，T-Bone Walker，Muddy Waters，以及對R＆B和靈魂樂做出過卓越貢獻的Curtis Mayfield。爵士樂也對亨德里克斯產生了很深的影響，他經常說他個人最喜歡的音樂家是Rahsaan Roland Kirk。
     另外，亨德里克斯創(chuàng)造性地發(fā)展了傳統(tǒng)搖滾吉他的演奏技巧，盡管在他之前的一些藝術家，比如The Kinks，Dave Davies和誰（The Who）樂隊的Pete Townshend已經把回授（feedback），破音（distorsion）等效果運用于那些急速獨奏上，亨德里克斯是第一位把這些效果作為其作品的整體表現(xiàn)手法的吉他手。作為一個錄音室制作人，亨德里克斯是第一位將錄音室效果處理作為表現(xiàn)其音樂理念的搖滾樂手。明顯的，他是那些最初嘗試在錄音過程中添加立體聲效果的
     音樂家之一。同時，亨德里克斯也是一個老練的作曲人，他的作品在其生前和死后被無數(shù)的音樂人重新詮釋過。最終他作為吉他之神的地位遠遠超出了同時期的小理查（Little Richard）、查克·貝利（Chuck Berry）甚至是他的第一個偶像貓王以及偉大的披頭士樂隊。