Welcome to the Summer 2002 edition of Experience Hendrix: The Official Online Jimi Hendrix Magazine.

This issue is dedicated to the insurmountable influence that Jimi Hendrix had on modern music. We explore this impact from a variety of standpoints, including "explosive beginnings," with our flashback to Hendrix's US home coming in June 1967 at the Monterey International Pop Festival. We explore "rock, race, and stereotypes" with our hard hitting look at how the position of Hendrix and Martin Luther King Jr. as young African-American were inextricably linked and the constantly evolving musical stylings and creative process that Hendrix undertook both in the studio and on stage in a series of candid interviews with Dick Cavett (looking back at Jimi's network television debut in the summer of 1969), Billy Cox (whose own friendship and influence on Hendrix carried through the entire decade), and finally, with a candid interview with Hendrix himself done by Keith Altham, a mere 7 days before Hendrix passed. This insightful interview delves deep behind Hendrix's shy demeanor and provides for one of the most revealing interviews ever completed with Jimi.

Until next time ...

Stay Experienced,
Steven C. Pesant, Editor In Chief
Email: magazine@jimihendrix.com

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