Jimi Hendrix

In just 4 year's time, he created the modern version of American rock music and reinvented the guitar. And broke the brains of whoever saw him do it. It's JIMI HENDRIX week!

Jimi breaks through on the southern Chitlin' circuit with his first ever TV appearance backing up Buddy & Stacey on Nashville's Night Train in 1965. The Jimi Hendrix Experience immediately explodes in the UK and Europe with performances on Germany's Beat! Beat! Beat! and Sweden's Popside. Jimi gets banned from the BBC when he refuses to sing Hey Joe with Lulu. And Jimi makes his American network TV debut with appearances on The Dick Cavett Show right before and after his era-defining appearance at Woodstock.

Want to watch along with us? Check out the links below for the performances discussed this week!

Shotgun backing up Buddy & Stacey, July 1965 on Night Train

Stone Free/Hey Joe/Purple Haze, 5/18/1967 on Beat! Beat! Beat!

The Wind Cries Mary/Purple Haze, 5/24/1967 on Popside Stockholm

Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)/Hey Joe/Sunshine of Your Love, 1/5/1969 on BBC's Happening for Lulu

Hear My Train a Comin' (1:19:43 mark), 7/7/1969 on The Dick Cavett Show

Izabella/Machine Gun (1:31:23 mark), 9/9/1969 on The Dick Cavett Show