The Jimi Hendrix Concerts

The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Radio One Cassette

Quite a few people could claim to have invented rock music. But there was only one inventor of rock sensibility, and that was Jimi Hendrix.

This was the man who turned the Fender Stratocaster guitar into a sex symbol, and its life was never the same again. It’s now the most famous and popular guitar on the planet by a humungous margin. But in fact, before Hendrix achieved fame, the Stratocaster was far from a world-beater. Its fortunes had been significantly waning, and its makers, Fender, had been focusing on other models.

Led Zeppelin ‘1’ – Audio Cassette

I made a post about the Jimi Hendrix Experience the other day, taking a glance at their defining role in the birth of rock music. But Hendrix didn’t single-handedly invent heavy rock. He was a supreme innovator, but when it came to setting the musical paramaters of what we now refer to as hard rock, there was a much more direct instigating force. That force, was Led Zeppelin.