Jimi Hendrix is the first artist who's music I fell in love with. It all started out as me having a conversation about music with one of my friends in 8th grade. He mentioned to me about Jimi Hendrix and when I said I didn't know who he is. He made a Jimi Hendrix tape for me. I was so blown away at the way he played guitar and how alive he made it sound.

That was a few years ago I the first listened to Hendrix now that I'm going to college I'm still listening to him and will be for a long time to come. He even inspired me to play the guitar and to name my first site after him Electric Ladyland.

Here's one of my favorite poems, which I wrote the last two verses in all the letters I made to my friends when I graduated high school, written by Jimi Hendrix the night before he died.


The Story of Life

THE STORY OF JESUS
SO EASY TO EXPLAIN
AFTER THEY CRUCIFIED HIM
A WOMAN SHE CLAIMED HIS NAME
THE STORY OF JESUS 
THE WHOLE BIBLE KNOWS
WENT ALL ACROSS THE DESERT
AND IN THE MIDDLE, HE FOUND A ROSE

THERE SHOULD BE NO QUESTIONS
THERE SHOULD BE NO LIES
HE WAS MARRIED EVER HAPPILY AFTER 
ALL THE TEARS WE CRY
NO USE IN ARGUING 
ALL THE USE TO THE MAN THAT MOANS
WHEN EACH MAN FALLS IN BATTLE
HIS SOUL IT HAS TO ROAM
ANGELS OF HEAVEN 
FLYING SAUCERS TO SOME
MADE EASTER SUNDAY
THE NAME OF THE RISING SUN

THE STORY IS WRITTEN
BY SO MANY PEOPLE WHO DARED
TO LAY DOWN THE TRUTH
TO SO VERY MANY WHO CARED
TO CARRY THE CROSS 
OF JESUS AND BEYOND
WE WILL GUIDE THE LIGHT
THIS TIME WITH A WOMAN IN OUR ARMS
WE AS MEN
CAN'T EXPLAIN THE REASON WHY
THE WOMAN'S ALWAYS MENTIONED 
AT THE MOMENT THAT WE DIE
ALL WE KNOW 
IS GOD IS BY OUR SIDE
AND HE SAYS THE WORD 
SO EASY YET SO HARD

I WISH NOT TO BE ALONE
SO I MUST RESPECT MY OTHER HEART
OH, THE STORY
OF JESUS IS THE STORY
OF YOU AND ME
NO USE IN FEELING LONELY
I AM YOU SEARCHING TO BE FREE

THE STORY
OF LIFE IS QUICKER 
THAN THE WINK OF AN EYE
THE STORY OF LOVE
IS HELLO AND GOODBYE
UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN


Taken from Dan's Jimi Hendrix Page.


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