Born in Seattle, Washington, Hendrix began playing guitar at the age of 15. In 1961, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and trained as a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division; he was granted an honorable discharge the following year. Soon afterward, he moved to Clarksville, Tennessee, and began playing gigs on the Chitlin' Circuit, earning a place in the Isley Brothers' backing band and later with Little Richard, with whom he continued to work through mid-1965. He then played with Curtis Knight and the Squires before moving to England in late 1966 after being discovered by Linda Keith, who in turn interested bassist Chas Chandler of the Animals in becoming his first manager. Within months, Hendrix had earned three UK top ten hits with the Jimi Hendrix Experience: "Hey Joe", "Purple Haze", and "The Wind Cries Mary". He achieved fame in the U.S. after his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, and in 1968 his third and final studio album, Electric Ladyland, reached number one in the U.S.; it was Hendrix's most commercially successful release and his first and only number one album. The world's highest-paid performer, he headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970, before his accidental death from barbiturate-related asphyxia on September 18, 1970, at the age of 27.
Hendrix was inspired musically by American rock and roll and electric blues. He favored overdriven amplifiers with high volume and gain, and was instrumental in utilizing the previously undesirable sounds caused by guitar amplifier feedback. He helped to popularize the use of a wah-wah pedal in mainstream rock, and was the first artist to use stereophonic phasing effects in music recordings. Holly George-Warren of Rolling Stone commented: "Hendrix pioneered the use of the instrument as an electronic sound source. Players before him had experimented with feedback and distortion, but Hendrix turned those effects and others into a controlled, fluid vocabulary every bit as personal as the blues with which he began."
Hendrix was the recipient of several music awards during his lifetime and posthumously. In 1967, readers of Melody Maker voted him the Pop Musician of the Year, and in 1968, Rolling Stone declared him the Performer of the Year. Disc and Music Echo honored him with the World Top Musician of 1969 and in 1970, Guitar Player named him the Rock Guitarist of the Year. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Rolling Stone ranked the band's three studio albums, Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love, and Electric Ladyland, among the 100 greatest albums of all time, and they ranked Hendrix as the greatest guitarist and the sixth greatest artist of all time.
Outside Woman Blues
Jimi Hendrix Lyrics
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If you lose your money, great god, don't lose your mind
If you lose your woman, please don't fool with mine
I'm gonna buy me a bulldog, watch my lady while I sleep
I'm gonna buy me a bulldog, watch my lady while I sleep
Women these days, they're so doggone crooked
Till they might make off 'fore day creep
Well, you can't watch your wife, outside women too
You can't watch your wife, outside women too
When you're out with your women, wife will be at home
Cookin' your food, doin' your dirt, buddy, what you tryin' to do?
Oh, you can't watch your wife, outside women too
Oh, you can't watch your wife, outside women too
When you're out with your women, wife will be at home
Cookin' your food, doin' your dirt, buddy, what you tryin' to?
The lyrics to Jimi Hendrix's "Outside Woman Blues" are a warning to men not to mess around with another man's woman. The first verse seems to acknowledge the fleeting nature of money and warns against losing one's mind over it. The second verse introduces the idea of a bulldog being purchased to keep an eye on the singer's woman while he sleeps. This hints at the untrustworthiness of women in general, and how they might try to steal away with another man before daybreak. The third verse speaks specifically to the difficulty of watching over one's wife and implies that outside women are just as much of a threat.
The repetition of the lines "you can't watch your wife, outside women too" emphasizes the theme of the song: the inability of men to fully control their relationships with women. The last line "buddy, what you tryin' to do?" seems to express the singer's frustration with men who try to control women but ultimately fail. In essence, the song is saying that while people may try to guard against infidelity or betrayal within their relationships, there is ultimately a limit to what any one person can do.
Line by Line Meaning
If you lose your money, great god, don't lose your mind
If you face financial difficulties, do not let it affect you emotionally
If you lose your woman, please don't fool with mine
If you experience a break-up, do not try to pursue my partner
I'm gonna buy me a bulldog, watch my lady while I sleep
I will acquire a dog to protect my significant other while I am asleep
Women these days, they're so doggone crooked, Till they might make off 'fore day creep
Women are often untrustworthy and may leave in the middle of the night
Well, you can't watch your wife, outside women too
It is impossible to keep an eye on one's spouse at all times when there are other women around
When you're out with your women, wife will be at home, Cookin' your food, doin' your dirt, buddy, what you tryin' to do?
If you are spending time with other women, your spouse will be home cooking and taking care of your responsibilities, why would you do that?
Oh, you can't watch your wife, outside women too
It is impossible to keep an eye on one's spouse at all times when there are other women around
When you're out with your women, wife will be at home, Cookin' your food, doin' your dirt, buddy, what you tryin' to?
If you are spending time with other women, your spouse will be home cooking and taking care of your responsibilities, why would you do that?
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: Arthur Reynolds, DP
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MARTIN ESPINO
I’ve never seen any photos. These are some of the best photos of Jimi ever.
miguel avendaño
Don´t distortion, the best improvisation from jimmi hendrix
Maxsno
Photo aggragate several are James Marshall, pretty sure, trace them down if you have time.i don't.
miguel avendaño
Oh yeah , i forgot dont buy chienese things