Jimi Hendrix passed away on this day in 1970 ...

[napkinz]

Just three years earlier, he did this at Monterey:

[livetohike]

1. I still remember where I was when I heard the news and I was devastated

I was a Freshman in college and in the cafeteria with some friends. We were talking about buying tickets to see Hendrix, because he was going to come to Pgh. on tour (although I can't remember what the date of the concert was going to be). Another friend came over to our table and said he heard the news that Hendrix was dead. None of us could/would believe it!

Music was never the same after that, at least for me. RIP Jimi, we're still playing the music, just as you asked us to.

[napkinz]

5. I was only a couple of years old and didn't discover his music until

... the late 70s and early 80s.

I feel cheated; I missed out on that whole period in music.

(I had to grow up in the Disco ERROR!) Ugh!

[LittleBlue]

2. A giant of 20th century music

His influence is as profound as any musician of the 1900s.

[dipsydoodle]

3. I was at Daltrey's sisters wedding the next day

and needless to say Roger was preoccupied with Friday's event as they were good pals.

[riverwalker]

4. His memorial in Renton Washington

His family created an amazing domed memorial.

[livetohike]

7. Wow! I visited the gravesite in 1982 and it was just Jimi's tombstone

This is amazing! Thanks for posting it . Oh, and I didn't leave a bra.....just a single red rose.

[icymist]

12. The last I saw his grave was in 1994, a simple footstone.

I burned sweetgrass over it. There was a bunch of liquor bottle offerings and incense sticks all around. The grass was all worn out. I guess that's why the moved him and built this memorial over his grave.

[Octafish]

6. Hendrix brought this down from the Nu'uanu Pali...

[Elwood P Dowd]

8. About the same time I received my draft notice.

Didn't have much fun that fall.

[c588415]

9. Band of Gypsys / Crash Landing are my favorites

[frylock]

10. and so castles made of sand melts into the sea, eventually

[napkinz]

11. Eric Clapton on Jimi Hendrix death

[icymist]

13. his has to be the best guitar solo I have ever heard!