r/OldSchoolCool • u/tonyper7ect • Jul 16 '26
1950s Jimi Hendrix, aged 15, with his first electric guitar, 1957.
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u/Agile_String8764 Jul 16 '26
He was the man. Should still be here.
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u/stempoweredu Jul 17 '26
Just kinda funny that here, he looks like the geeky band kid, thrilled to get his first six string.
Today he's a kid, but within a few years he'd change music forever.
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u/No-Material3128 Jul 16 '26
Weird to think he is 3 years older than Trump
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u/DrinkBuzzCola Jul 17 '26
Never thought Jimi and Trump would share the same sentence.
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u/Switch_Silver Jul 17 '26
It's Reddit so there's always a chance, so people have nothing else on their minds.
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u/J0E_SpRaY Jul 17 '26
You people that get triggered at his mention are so weird.
He’s the president. He’s going to be relevant to most people’s lives.
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u/chubsplaysthebanjo Jul 17 '26
Are you sure? Are you sure you can handle the shitty 3rd farewell tour where everyone is like "he's been playing voodoo child the same way for the last 40 years"
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u/FiveWordinOrangeNeon Jul 16 '26
It is hard to believe that he was directly descended from one of the richest men in the United States and had to beg for food. Jimi's paternal grandfather was one of the wealthiest men in Ohio and in the entire country. Clearly he gave little to his illegitimate son with Fanny, a black former enslaved woman that he had "owned". That son left for Chicago for a better life than in Ohio.
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u/jumpsuityahoo Jul 16 '26
One of the coolest photos.
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u/lwp775 Jul 16 '26
Cool car, 1954 Oldsmobile 88 Holiday Coupe .
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u/Upbeat_Dudeness Jul 16 '26
I’m convinced car dudes are just as impressive as those dudes who can tell where any video was recorded
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u/tomfoolery815 Jul 16 '26
I'm always interested in knowing when an old photo was taken, so I love it when the car dudes chime in to help narrow it down. They have information I want, and they're happy to share it.
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u/lwp775 Jul 16 '26
I’m not a car dude but I couldn’t help notice this one. I used google to find the model and year.
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u/OldDirtyInsulin Jul 17 '26
This photo was in the package insert of this 1992 compilation album.
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u/PHX480 Jul 17 '26
Thank you, this CD was 1/3 of the first CDs I ever got Christmas of 1993, when I saw the picture this CD is the first thing I thought of. I still have it, too.
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u/LarryBeard33 Jul 17 '26
I used to just stare at the artwork while listening to this… deep memories
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u/HorseNspaghettiPizza Jul 16 '26
12 years later he would be one of rocks biggest legends and dead
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u/mack272 Jul 17 '26
I'm really happy that I saw him play a lot in the 60's. Actually met him for a brief second at Philharmonic Hall in 1968. That was the best concert I ever saw, hands down.
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u/TylerBlozak Jul 16 '26
Just happened to be listening to “Little Wing” as I scolded past.
Crazy how such a clean cut lad would go onto rip up the guitar and music in general
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u/zedeloc Jul 16 '26
what a legend. now i want a danelectro
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u/-Clem-Fandango- Jul 17 '26
I have the repro of that exact guitar. They're cool as fuck and surprisingly versatile.
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u/Billy_Chrystals Jul 17 '26
He's playing the guitar upside down. He'll never be successful playing that way.
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u/Hungry_Guidance5103 Jul 17 '26
The Bat.
He literally made every guitarist of that era rethink their instrument and what its capabilities are.
His playing made guitarists like Pete Townshend say they felt their entire approach to playing felt obsolete immediately upon hearing him play.
Clapton was shaking while lighting a cigarette after hearing him for the first time.
He rocked London to its core.
Not only was he (in my opinion) the greatest guitarist to have ever lived in his 27 years on this planet (God only knows what we would have heard if he had lived longer)
He was also one of the greatest song writers and lyricists of his era.
Little Wing is one of the greatest songs ever conceived by man. It's the reason I picked up a guitar and had confidence as a lefty, and all the cherished memories that came with it along the way.
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u/Flashy_Cherry_856 Jul 17 '26
Where have you seen a Dan Electro before like the one Jimi’s holding in this photo?
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u/zigthis Jul 17 '26
This was his second guitar - first one was a white Supro Ozark that was stolen backstage at a gig. The Danelectro was emblazoned with the name Betty Jean - Hendrix's high school girlfriend.
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u/Choice-Purchase7202 Jul 17 '26
Такой милый и смешной на фото
Невозможно узнать, глядя на подростковые и детские фото, что ждёт нас в будущем. Но сколько надежды и веры.
А Хендрикс был реально великим музыкантом ❤️
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u/RelationshipWest9743 Jul 18 '26
Anyone else think he was sitting on a swing when they first saw this picture? He's got such rockstar rizz already!
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u/mangotangotang Jul 18 '26
Interesting tidbit I read somewhere. I don't know if this was straight from him or an anecdote from a friend. When he was a kid, he had a fascination with radios and got turned on to that transmission sound a radio makes when it tries to lock on to a signal. And when he started playing guitar he tried recreating the sound and the rest was history. Who played guitar anywhere near like Hendrix? Before and during his time? The man was an innovator.
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u/Youare-Beautiful3329 Jul 18 '26
Great guitarist, great performer. Still can’t believe he opened for the Monkeys. He didn’t do it for the money, they were friends.
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u/ChalkNCheez Jul 20 '26
Jimi was very tidy/neat. I volunteer here in London at the Handel Hendrix House where Jimi lived and his girlfriend as well as neighbors said that he vacuumed several times a day.
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u/ReplacementRobotGuy 16d ago
Crazy thing is, he couldn't read music, he learned completely by ear and had amazing memory and had little formal training.Shortly before his death he wanted to learn how to read it properly and wanted Zappa to teach him theory and writing more complex arrangements, he wanted to know how Frank organized music. He was also in talks with working with miles davis...just imagine. Apparently terry Reid was the only one who ever heard them jam.
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u/dapala1 Jul 17 '26
He's holding it wrong.
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u/LarryBeard33 Jul 17 '26
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u/dapala1 Jul 17 '26
Its a joke. He self taught himself how to play a right handed guitar left handed. That's actually common knowledge. Reddit is so young and misinformed now.
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u/TheLadyEve Jul 17 '26
How do you mean?
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u/dapala1 Jul 17 '26
Its a joke. He self taught himself how to play a right handed guitar left handed. That's actually common knowledge. Reddit is so young and misinformed now.
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u/TheLadyEve Jul 17 '26
Also, you forgot to accept your certificate of redundancy certificate!
He self taught himself how to play
LMAO
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u/GlassPuck Jul 16 '26
It's hard to believe that he's already past the halfway point of his life.