Sony Music Entertainment is the distributor of the film. Michael Kantor, Camille Yorrick, Devin Amar and Sheira Rees-Davies are executive producers. John Beug and Sheira Rees-Davies are the producers. The film is directed by Devin Amar, Matt Mitchener and Charles Todd. #AmericanMastersPBSĪ production of RCA Records and Scheme Engine in association with American Masters Pictures. Subscribe nowĪMERICAN MASTERS is on Facebook, Instagram, tumblr, and you can follow on Twitter. Listen to new interviews with contemporary artists, along with previously unreleased interviews from the series' award-winning documentary films. Subscribe To The American Masters Podcast: 24, 2021 before moving into KPBS Passport.Įxtend your viewing window with KPBS Passport, video streaming for members supporting KPBS at $60 or more yearly, using your computer, smartphone, tablet, Roku, AppleTV, Amazon Fire or Chromecast.
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Given the opportunity, Hendrix blew the crowd away, lit his guitar on fire and launched his American career.This film is available to watch on all station-branded PBS platforms, including PBS.org and the PBS Video App, which is available on iOS, Android, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Chromecast through Aug. When McCartney was asked if the Beatles would play the Monterey International Pop Music Festival, he declined, but suggested Hendrix instead. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, only days after the album came out – but this film has great footage of McCartney, in Pepper garb, rocking out at the show. You may have heard about Hendrix kicking off a 1967 show with the title track to Sgt. The Beatle saw Hendrix at an early London gig and became huge supporters. The Jimi Hendrix Experience got their career-altering Monterey Pop appearance on the recommendation of Paul McCartney. He was saying, ‘I’ve got a terrible voice, I’ve got a terrible voice.’ I’d say, ‘You may have a terrible voice, but you’ve got great rhythm in your voice.'” He always wanted to have his voice buried and I always wanted to bring it forward. “We had a constant row in the studio,” Chandler remembers, about “where his voice should be in the mix. While his vocals obviously aren’t as virtuosic as his guitar playing, they’re more than capable – but Hendrix was intensely self-conscious about them. Hendrix didn’t think much of his singing voice. In the early days, that place was Ringo Starr‘s apartment. When he got to town, under the wing of manager and producer Chas Chandler (formerly of the Animals), he needed a place to stay. Moving to London in 1966 was even better for Hendrix than he could have hoped for. (It also served the purpose of deflecting conversation – offstage, he was rather shy.) Various friends and girlfriends testify to how he always carried a six-string: for example, in the morning, he’d strap it on before walking into the kitchen for breakfast. Hendrix had his guitar with him at all times.Īlthough Hendrix was blessed with abundant musical talent, he honed it by playing the guitar pretty much every waking moment, which meant that he always had an instrument with him wherever he went. And although he may have chafed at the musical limitations of backing up Wilson Pickett and the Isley Brothers at the beginning of his career, he could look arresting in a matching leopard-print jacket. The documentary has a great vintage photo of him in the military (his unit was the 101st Airborne, and he lasted as a paratrooper until he got an honorable discharge). Where Does Jimi Hendrix Rank on Our 100 Greatest Guitarists List?Īlthough he later became famous for peacock fashion – hats with feathers, aquamarine chemises – Hendrix looked sharp in a uniform. That would be a two-hour 'American Masters' on Jimi Hendrix, the incendiary guitarist who shot through the musical sky for three or four years before he died in 1970 at the way-too-young age of 27. Even viewers moderately familiar with Hendrix’s legend could enrich their understanding of his life. While the high priests of Hendrixology will be familiar with most of it, the film has some previously unseen treasures, such as his performance at the 1968 Miami Pop Festival, and smart commentary from the likes of Rolling Stone‘s David Fricke. In other words: a thorough, serious-minded consideration of his career that soft-pedals some aspects of his personal life, such as his drug use. Guitar god Jimi Hendrix got the PBS treatment last night in the American Masters broadcast of the two-hour documentary Jimi Hendrix– Hear My Train a Comin’.
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