Leading the new wave of music in the 1960s was the untouchable Jimi Hendrix, who brought original sounds and performed things unheard of in his time; electric guitars and distortion pedals were his tools of the trade and people went crazy for them. He was born in Seattle, Washington on November 27, 1942, his mother was 17 when she gave birth to Jimmy. When Jimmy was young he would play around the house and pretend to play the guitar on various guitar-shaped objects around the house. His first guitar was purchased by his father, Al Hendrix, a five-dollar Supro Ozark 1560S. After a few more children, the father abandoned the family and the mother died a few years later. For the first few years of his musical career he had to do odd jobs to get ahead as he was a high school dropout, however he played with two bands at the time, The Rocking Kings and the Tomcats. In 1961 Jimmy had joined the army as a paratrooper, and somehow during that time he had given way to a small band, The King Casuals. He had been discharged in 1962 due to injury. After leaving the army he worked as...