Test your knowledge of Jimi Hendrix's biggest hits, deep cuts and iconic moments.
'Purple Haze', 'Foxy Lady' and 'Voodoo Child (Slight Return)' give themselves away the moment the guitar tone hits.
The flipped Stratocaster, the Dylan song he rebuilt, the Woodstock anthem, and a career that ended at 27.
Start with the unmistakable tone, then place the covers, the Woodstock legend and the four-year run.
Hendrix is the rare guitarist you can name from tone alone: the fuzz of 'Purple Haze', the swagger of 'Foxy Lady' and the wah-wah of 'Voodoo Child (Slight Return)' land before a word is sung. These are the quick points that open a round.
Some of his signatures started elsewhere. 'All Along the Watchtower' is a Bob Dylan song Hendrix rebuilt so completely that Dylan adopted his arrangement, and 'Hey Joe' was a much-covered tune before him. Spotting the original author is where the quiz bites.
The stage is half the story. At Woodstock in 1969 he bent 'The Star-Spangled Banner' into feedback and dive-bombs, and at Monterey in 1967 he set his guitar alight. A live clip can sound nothing like the studio cut you know.
His fame lasted barely four years, from the 1966 Experience to his death in 1970 at 27, though he had spent years before that as a sideman backing other acts. With so little solo catalogue, the challenge is telling an early single from a late 'Electric Ladyland' track by ear.
You hear a clip of a Jimi Hendrix track and name it, then answer trivia on his short career, the songs he covered and his festival performances.
'Purple Haze', 'Hey Joe', 'All Along the Watchtower', 'Voodoo Child (Slight Return)' and 'Foxy Lady', plus deeper cuts like 'Little Wing' and 'The Wind Cries Mary'.
No. It is a Bob Dylan song, but Hendrix's 1968 version was so definitive that Dylan went on to play it Hendrix's way. That origin is a classic quiz trap.
The tone gives away the hits fast, but naming who wrote a cover and telling a Woodstock live take from the studio original are where scores separate. Those are the rounds to guess the song with friends in multiplayer.
James Marshall Hendrix, an American guitarist and singer who led the Jimi Hendrix Experience and is often called the greatest electric guitarist in rock.
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