Editing Jimi Hendrix (section)

== Legacy ==
{{quote box|quote= He changed everything. What ''don't'' we owe Jimi Hendrix? For his monumental rebooting of guitar culture "standards of tone", technique, gear, signal processing, rhythm playing, soloing, stage presence, chord voicings, charisma, fashion, and composition?&nbsp;... He is guitar hero number one.|source= — ''Guitar Player'' magazine, May 2012{{sfn|GP staff|2012|p=50}}|width=26%|align=right|style=padding:8px;}}

The [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] biography for the Experience states: "Jimi Hendrix was arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music. Hendrix expanded the range and vocabulary of the electric guitar into areas no musician had ever ventured before. His boundless drive, technical ability and creative application of such effects as wah-wah and distortion forever transformed the sound of rock and roll."<ref name="R&RHOFB"/> Musicologist Andy Aledort described Hendrix as "one of the most creative" and "influential musicians that has ever lived".<ref>{{harvnb|Aledort|1991|p=4}}: "one of the most creative"; {{harvnb|Aledort|1996|p=4}}: "one of the most influential musicians that has ever lived".</ref> Music journalist [[Chuck Philips]] wrote: "In a field almost exclusively populated by white musicians, Hendrix has served as a role model for a cadre of young black rockers. His achievement was to reclaim title to a musical form pioneered by black innovators like Little Richard and Chuck Berry in the 1950s."<ref name="Hendrix place in black culture">{{cite news|last=Philips|first=Chuck|title=Experiencing Jimi Hendrix : For today's budding crop of black rock musicians, he's more than a guitar hero—he's a role model|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-11-26-ca-475-story.html|access-date=September 15, 2013|newspaper=LA Times|date=November 26, 1989|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111033849/http://articles.latimes.com/1989-11-26/entertainment/ca-475_1_jimi-hendrix-experience|archive-date=November 11, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>

Hendrix favored [[overdrive (music)|overdriven]] amplifiers with high volume and [[Gain (electronics)|gain]].{{sfn|Shadwick|2003|p=92}} He was instrumental in developing the previously undesirable technique of guitar [[Guitar feedback|amplifier feedback]] and helped to popularize use of the wah-wah pedal in mainstream rock.<ref>{{harvnb|Heatley|2009|pp=104–105}}: Hendrix helped to popularize use of the wah-wah pedal; {{harvnb|Moskowitz|2010|p=127}}: Hendrix helped to popularize use of the wah-wah pedal; {{harvnb|Shadwick|2003|p=92}}: Hendrix was instrumental in developing the previously undesirable technique of guitar feedback; {{harvnb|Unterberger|2009|p=212}}: Hendrix helped to popularize guitar feedback.</ref> He rejected the standard [[barre chord]] fretting technique used by most guitarists in favor of fretting the low 6th string root notes with his thumb.{{sfn|Aledort|1995|p=59}} He applied this technique during the beginning bars of "[[Little Wing]]", which allowed him to sustain the root note of chords while also playing melody. This method has been described as piano style, with the thumb playing what a pianist's left hand would play and the other fingers playing melody as a right hand.{{sfn|Whitehill|1989b|p=46}} Having spent several years fronting a trio, he developed an ability to play rhythm chords and lead lines together, giving the audio impression that more than one guitarist was performing.{{sfn|Unterberger|2009|p=212}}{{refn|group=nb|His heavy use of the [[Vibrato systems for guitar|tremolo bar]] often detuned his guitar strings, necessitating frequent tunings.{{sfn|Shapiro|Glebbeek|1995|pp=166, 689}} During the last three years of his life, he abandoned the standard [[concert pitch]] and instead tuned his guitar down one [[minor second]], or a half [[Steps and skips|step]] to [[E♭ tuning|E♭]]. This not only made string bending easier, but it also dropped the guitar's pitch, making it easier to accompany himself vocally.<ref>{{harvnb|Shapiro|Glebbeek|1995|p=689}}; {{harvnb|Unterberger|2009|p=211}}.</ref>}} He was the first artist to incorporate [[stereophonic sound|stereophonic]] phasing effects in rock music recordings.{{sfn|Stix|1992|p=10}} Holly George-Warren of ''Rolling Stone'' wrote: "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."{{sfn|George-Warren|2005|p=428}}{{refn|group=nb|Hendrix also played keyboard instruments on several recordings, including piano on "[[Are You Experienced? (song)|Are You Experienced?]]", "[[Spanish Castle Magic]]", and "[[Crosstown Traffic (song)|Crosstown Traffic]]", and harpsichord on "Bold as Love" and "Burning of the Midnight Lamp".{{sfn|Shapiro|Glebbeek|1995|pp=526: "Are You Experienced?", 527: "Burning of the Midnight Lamp", 528: "Spanish Castle Magic" and "Bold as Love", 530: "Crosstown Traffic"}}}}

While creating his unique musical voice and guitar style, Hendrix synthesized diverse genres, including blues, R&B, soul, [[British rock]], [[American folk music]], 1950s rock and roll, and jazz.<ref>{{harvnb|Moskowitz|2010|p=xiii}}: Hendrix synthesized R&B and American folk music; {{harvnb|Unterberger|2009|p=227}}: Hendrix synthesized blues, soul, British rock, 1950s rock and roll, and jazz.</ref> Musicologist David Moskowitz emphasized the importance of blues music in Hendrix's playing style, and according to authors Steven Roby and Brad Schreiber, "[He] explored the outer reaches of [[psychedelic rock]]".<ref>{{harvnb|Moskowitz|2010|pp=113–116}}: {{harvnb|Roby|Schreiber|2010|p=177}}.</ref> His influence is evident in a variety of popular music formats, and he has contributed significantly to the development of [[hard rock]], [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]], funk, [[post-punk]], [[grunge]],<ref name="grunge">{{Cite web |url=https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/01/jimi-hendrixs-forgotten-influence-seattle-grunge/ |title=Jimi Hendrix's Lost Influence on the '90s Grunge Explosion |last=Nierenberg |first=Jacob |date=January 9, 2019 |website=Consequence of Sound |access-date=February 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190213123621/https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/01/jimi-hendrixs-forgotten-influence-seattle-grunge/ |archive-date=February 13, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[hip hop music]].<ref>{{harvnb|Unterberger|2009|pp=v–vi}}: Hendrix influenced hard rock, heavy metal, and post-punk; {{harvnb|Whitaker|2011|p=378}}: Hendrix influenced funk and hip hop.</ref> His lasting influence on modern guitar players is difficult to overstate; his techniques and delivery have been abundantly imitated by others.{{sfn|Moskowitz|2010|p=xiii}} Despite his hectic touring schedule and notorious perfectionism, he was a prolific recording artist who left behind numerous unreleased recordings.{{sfn|Moskowitz|2010|p=85}} More than 40 years after his death, Hendrix remains as popular as ever, with annual album sales exceeding that of any year during his lifetime.{{sfn|Unterberger|2009|p=vi}}

As with his contemporary [[Sly Stone]], Hendrix embraced the experimentalism of white musicians in [[progressive rock]] in the late 1960s and inspired a wave of [[progressive soul]] musicians that emerged by the next decade.<ref>{{cite book|chapter=From Progressive Jazz Luxe to Sweet Sophistisoul|page=260|last=Howland|first=John|year=2021|title=Hearing Luxe Pop: Glorification, Glamour, and the Middlebrow in American Popular Music|publisher=[[University of California Press]]|isbn=978-0520300118}}</ref> He has directly influenced numerous funk and [[funk rock]] artists, including [[Prince (musician)|Prince]], [[George Clinton (funk musician)|George Clinton]], [[John Frusciante]] of [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]], [[Eddie Hazel]] of [[Funkadelic]], and [[Ernie Isley]] of the Isley Brothers.<ref>{{harvnb|Green|2008|p=19}}: Hendrix influenced John Frusciante; {{harvnb|Handyside|2005|p=34}}: Hendrix influenced Eddie Hazel; {{harvnb|Owen|Reynolds|1991|p=29}}: Hendrix influenced Prince, George Clinton, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers; {{harvnb|Unterberger|2009|p=21}}: Hendrix influenced Ernie Isley.</ref> Hendrix influenced post-punk guitarists such as [[John McGeoch]] of [[Siouxsie and the Banshees]] and [[Robert Smith (musician)|Robert Smith]] of [[The Cure]].<ref>{{cite journal|first=Rick|last=Batey|title=Compilation John McGeoch [interview] |journal=[[Guitarist (magazine)|Guitarist]]|date=April 1991|quote=He grew up trying to play along to the best of what was around, like Clapton, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix. }}<br />{{cite web|url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/G6Lt36HcdAI|title=Robert Smith interview |work=Fast Forward on [[VIVA (German TV channel)|Viva]] – a German TV channel|publisher=YouTube|date=November 2001|access-date=December 26, 2021|quote=Jimi Hendrix is my first hero and he represented a colourful alternative world that I aspired to when I was still at school.}}</ref> Grunge guitarists such as [[Jerry Cantrell]] of [[Alice in Chains]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://guitarinternational.com/2010/08/21/jerry-cantrell-grinding-it-out/ |title=Jerry Cantrell Interview: Grinding it Out |last=Newquist |first=HP |date=February 1996 |website=Guitar Magazine |access-date=February 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190213012827/http://guitarinternational.com/2010/08/21/jerry-cantrell-grinding-it-out/ |archive-date=February 13, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Kurt Cobain]] of [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.livenirvana.com/interviews/9301acm/index.php#Transcript1&gsc.tab=0 |title=Interview January 20, 1993 |last=Carlos Miguel|first=Antonio|date=January 20, 1993 |website=LiveNirvana |access-date=March 13, 2024}}</ref> and [[Mike McCready]] and [[Stone Gossard]] of [[Pearl Jam]] have cited Hendrix as an influence.<ref name="grunge"/> Hendrix's influence also extends to many hip hop artists, including [[De La Soul]], [[A Tribe Called Quest]], [[Digital Underground]], [[Beastie Boys]], and [[Run–D.M.C.]]{{sfn|Owen|Reynolds|1991|p=30}} [[Miles Davis]] was deeply impressed by Hendrix, and he compared Hendrix's improvisational abilities with those of saxophonist [[John Coltrane]].{{sfn|Davis|Troupe|1989|pp=282–283}}{{refn|group=nb|Davis would later request that guitarists in his bands emulate Hendrix.{{sfn|Davis|Troupe|1989|pp=319–320, 374}}}} [[Desert blues]] artists from the [[Sahara|Sahara desert]] region including [[Mdou Moctar]] and [[Tinariwen]] have also acknowledged Hendrix's influence.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/mar/21/we-are-modern-slaves-mdou-moctar-the-hendrix-of-the-sahara |last=Willsher|first=Kim|date=March 21, 2019 |title='We are modern slaves': Mdou Moctar, the Hendrix of the Sahara |website=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=January 30, 2023 |quote=Today, Moctar, who says his traditional music has been influenced by Jimi Hendrix, Van Halen and Prince, has a new album, Ilana, meaning The Creator.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/03/sahara-blues |last=Frere-Jones |first=Sasha |date=February 23, 2014 |title=Sahara Blues: Tinariwen's desert sound |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |access-date=January 30, 2023 |quote=In 2004, [group bassist] Ag Leche heard Jimi Hendrix for the first time. When he told me this, he broke into a huge smile and began to rock back and forth, as if praying.}}</ref>

Rock and roll fans still debate whether Hendrix actually said that [[Chicago (band)|Chicago]] co-founder [[Terry Kath]] was a better guitar player than he was,<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Greene |first1=Andy |title=Flashback: Chicago Play a Smoldering '25 or 6 to 4' in 1970 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/flashback-chicago-play-a-smoldering-25-or-6-to-4-in-1970-238618/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=April 12, 2016 |access-date=April 17, 2022}}</ref> but Kath named Hendrix as a major influence: "But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I had in my head. I couldn't believe it, when I first heard him. Man, no one can ever do what he did with a guitar. No one can ever take his place."<ref>{{cite web |title=Terry Kath Quotes |url=https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/terry_kath_311493 |website=BrainyQuote.com |publisher=BrainyMedia Inc, 2022 |access-date=April 17, 2022}}</ref>

Hendrix also influenced [[Black Sabbath]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/black-sabbath-s-geezer-butler-talks-lyrical-inspiration-rock-band-iron-man-movies/|website=[[IGN]]|title=Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler talks lyrical inspiration|quote= Everybody in [SABBATH] liked CREAM and HENDRIX and ZEPPELIN, and I suppose it was a natural progression for us to get even heavier than they were.|date=June 29, 2010|access-date=October 27, 2020|via=Blabbermounth.net}}</ref> [[Industrial music|industrial]] artist [[Marilyn Manson]],<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/marilyn-manson-the-music-that-made-me-20150508|title=Marilyn Manson: The Music That Made Me|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=May 8, 2015|access-date=March 21, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507005347/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/marilyn-manson-the-music-that-made-me-20150508|archive-date=May 7, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> blues musician [[Stevie Ray Vaughan]], 
[[Randy Hansen]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0lxsy-jBt0 | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211027/Z0lxsy-jBt0| archive-date=October 27, 2021|title=Randy Hansen's Hendrix Revolution: The Rolling Stone Interview |date=May 19, 2016 |website=Rolling Stone Australia |access-date=February 22, 2019 }}{{cbignore}}</ref> 
[[Uli Jon Roth]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/uli-jon-roths-5-essential-guitar-albums |title=Uli Jon Roth's 5 Essential Guitar Albums |last=Prato |first=Greg |date=December 6, 2016 |website=Classic Rock |access-date=February 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200222150505/https://www.loudersound.com/features/uli-jon-roths-5-essential-guitar-albums |archive-date=February 22, 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Kiss (band)|Kiss]]'s [[Ace Frehley]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.guitarworld.com/features/ace-frehley-discusses-jimi-hendrix-experiences-are-you-experienced-record-changed-my-life |title=Ace Frehley Discusses the Jimi Hendrix Experience's 'Are You Experienced?' – The Record That Changed My Life |last=Frehley |first=Ace |date=July 24, 2014 |website=Classic Rock |access-date=February 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200222161925/https://www.guitarworld.com/features/ace-frehley-discusses-jimi-hendrix-experiences-are-you-experienced-record-changed-my-life |archive-date=February 22, 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Metallica]]{{'s}} [[Kirk Hammett]], [[Aerosmith]]'s [[Brad Whitford]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/jimi-hendrix-week-aerosmiths-brad-whitford-on-experience-hendrix-178144 |title=Jimi Hendrix Week: Aerosmith's Brad Whitford on Experience Hendrix |last=Bosso |first=Joe |date=October 21, 2008 |website=Music Radar |access-date=February 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190213005828/https://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/jimi-hendrix-week-aerosmiths-brad-whitford-on-experience-hendrix-178144 |archive-date=February 13, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Judas Priest]]'s [[Richie Faulkner]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyTjNKciktw |title=Richie Faulkner of Judas Priest: Why I Play Guitar |date=September 19, 2018 |website=YouTube |access-date=April 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200110185329/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyTjNKciktw |archive-date=January 10, 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[instrumental rock]] guitarist [[Joe Satriani]], [[King's X]] singer/bassist [[Doug Pinnick]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ratpakrecordsamerica.com/dugpinnick |title=Dug Pinnick's Tribute to Jimi: Often Imitated But Never Duplicated |website=Rat Pak Records |access-date=February 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200222150910/https://ratpakrecordsamerica.com/dugpinnick |archive-date=February 22, 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Adrian Belew]],<ref name="vintageguitar.com">{{cite web|last=Moseley|first=Willie G.|url=https://www.vintageguitar.com/2997/adrian-belew/|title=Adrian Belew: Musical Modernist|publisher=[[Vintage Guitar]]|date=June 2005|access-date=January 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170109184117/https://www.vintageguitar.com/2997/adrian-belew/|archive-date=January 9, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> and heavy metal guitarist [[Yngwie Malmsteen]], who said: "[Hendrix] created modern electric playing, without question&nbsp;... He was the first. He started it all. The rest is history."<ref>{{harvnb|GP staff|2012|p=54}}: Hendrix influenced Yngwie Malmsteen and Joe Satriani, "[Hendrix] created modern electric playing"; {{harvnb|Gula|2008|p=101}}: Hendrix influenced Kirk Hammett; {{harvnb|Roby|Schreiber|2010|p=72}}: Hendrix influenced Stevie Ray Vaughan.</ref> "For many", Hendrix was "the preeminent black rocker", according to [[Jon Caramanica]].<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Caramnica|first=Jon|author-link=Jon Caramanica|date=February 2002|page=87|title=Electric Warriors|magazine=[[Vibe (magazine)|Vibe]]}}</ref> Members of the [[Soulquarians]], an experimental [[black music]] collective active during the late 1990s and early 2000s, were influenced by the creative freedom in Hendrix's music and extensively used Electric Lady Studios to work on their own music.<ref>{{cite web|last=Gonzales|first=Michael A.|date=March 19, 2015|url=https://www.soulhead.com/2015/03/19/love-peace-soulquarians-michael-gonzales-gonzomike-qtiptheabstract-questlove-common/|title=Love, Peace and Soulquarians|website=soulhead|access-date=August 22, 2020|archive-date=January 22, 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210122044602/https://www.soulhead.com/2015/03/19/love-peace-soulquarians-michael-gonzales-gonzomike-qtiptheabstract-questlove-common/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== Recognition and awards ===
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, ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' named him the Artist of the Year and ''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'' has ranked the band's three studio albums, ''[[Are You Experienced]]'' (1967), ''[[Axis: Bold as Love]]'' (1967), and ''Electric Ladyland'' (1968), in its various lists of the "[[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|500 Greatest Albums of All Time]]", and it ranked Hendrix as the greatest guitarist and the sixth-greatest artist of all time.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=October 13, 2023 |title=The 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-guitarists-1234814010/ |access-date=October 14, 2023 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}</ref>

[[File:Jimi Hendrix statue outside Dimbola Lodge.JPG|left|thumb|upright|alt=A color photograph of a bronze statue of a man holding an electric guitar.|Hendrix statue outside Dimbola Lodge, [[Isle of Wight]]]]

Hendrix received several prestigious rock music awards during his lifetime and posthumously. In 1967, readers of ''Melody Maker'' voted him the Pop Musician of the Year.{{sfn|Moskowitz|2010|p=130}} In 1968, ''Rolling Stone'' declared him the Performer of the Year.{{sfn|Moskowitz|2010|p=130}} Also in 1968, the City of Seattle gave him the keys to the city.{{sfn|McDermott|2009|p=90}} ''Disc & Music Echo'' newspaper honored him with the World Top Musician of 1969 and in 1970 ''Guitar Player'' magazine named him the Rock Guitarist of the Year.<ref>{{harvnb|Moskowitz|2010|p=130}}: the Rock Guitarist of the Year {{harvnb|Shapiro|Glebbeek|1995|p=722}}: World Top Musician of 1969.</ref>

''Rolling Stone'' ranked his three non-posthumous studio albums, ''Are You Experienced'' (1967), ''Axis: Bold as Love'' (1967), and ''Electric Ladyland'' (1968) among the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.{{sfn|Levy|2005|p=222}} They ranked Hendrix number one on their [[List of guitarists considered the greatest|list]] of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time, and number six on their list of the 100 greatest artists of all time.<ref>{{harvnb|Mayer|2011|p=18}}: 100 greatest artists; {{harvnb|Morello|2011|p=50}}: 100 greatest guitarists.</ref> ''Guitar World'''s readers voted six of Hendrix's solos among the top 100 Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time: "Purple Haze" (70), "The Star-Spangled Banner" (52; from ''[[Live at Woodstock (Jimi Hendrix album)|Live at Woodstock]]''), "Machine Gun" (32; from ''Band of Gypsys''), "Little Wing" (18), "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" (11), and "[[All Along the Watchtower#The Jimi Hendrix Experience version|All Along the Watchtower]]" (5).<ref>{{cite web|title = 100 Greatest Guitar Solos (10–1)|work = Guitar World|url = http://www.guitarworld.com/features/gw-archive/guitar-world-lists/100-greatest-guitar-solos?page=4|access-date = July 15, 2012|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130209055514/http://www.guitarworld.com/features/gw-archive/guitar-world-lists/100-greatest-guitar-solos?page=4|archive-date = February 9, 2013|url-status = live}}</ref> ''Rolling Stone'' placed seven of his recordings in their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time: "Purple Haze" (17), "All Along the Watchtower" (47) "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" (102), "Foxy Lady" (153), "Hey Joe" (201), "Little Wing" (366), and "The Wind Cries Mary" (379).{{sfn|Wenner|2010|p=120}} They also included three of Hendrix's songs in their list of the ''100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time'': "Purple Haze" (2), "Voodoo Child" (12), and "Machine Gun" (49).<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/20947527/page/40|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080530224835/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/20947527/page/40|archive-date=May 30, 2008|title=100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time|magazine=Rolling Stone|url-status=dead|access-date=December 30, 2012}}</ref>

[[File:Denis Bourez - Madame Tussauds, London (8747018021).jpg|thumb|upright|A wax figure of Hendrix at [[Madame Tussauds]], London]]

A star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] was dedicated to Hendrix on November 14, 1991, at 6627 Hollywood Boulevard.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.walkoffame.com/jimi-hendrix|title=Jimi Hendrix|publisher=Hollywood Walk of Fame|access-date=January 10, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121202074120/http://www.walkoffame.com/jimi-hendrix|archive-date=December 2, 2012|url-status=live}}; {{Cite news|last=Meyer|first=Josh|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-22-me-81-story.html|title=Jimi Hendrix gets Star on Walk of Fame|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=November 22, 1991|access-date=January 10, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130206155721/http://articles.latimes.com/1991-11-22/local/me-81_1_jimi-hendrix|archive-date=February 6, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> 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.<ref name="R&RHOFB" />{{sfn|Hendrix|McDermott|2007|p=60}} In 1998, Hendrix was inducted into the [[Native American Music Awards|Native American Music Hall of Fame]] during its first year.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.nativeamericanmusicawards.com/nama-1#1998|title=First Awards Ceremony: Hall of Fame{{snd}}Jimi Hendrix and Buddy Red Bow|website=Native American Music Award|access-date=May 6, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200513023900/https://nativeamericanmusicawards.com/nama-1#1998|archive-date=May 13, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>{{refn|group=nb|"The Nammys rest their definition of Indian music upon broadly drawn ethnic lines, circumventing issues of tribal enrollment and reservation-urban divisions. This is most evident in the selection of individuals to the NAMA Hall of Fame [and have] inducted mainstream stars like{{nbsp}}... Jimi Hendrix".<ref>{{harvnb|Wheelock|2012|p=236}}</ref>}} In 1999, readers of ''Rolling Stone'' and ''Guitar World'' ranked Hendrix among the most important musicians of the 20th century.{{sfn|Roby|2002|p=1}} In 2005, his debut album, ''Are You Experienced'', was one of 50 recordings added that year to the US [[National Recording Registry]] in the [[Library of Congress]], "[to] be preserved for all time&nbsp;... [as] part of the nation's audio legacy".<ref name="loc.gov">{{cite web|last=Fineberg|first=Gail|url=https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0605/nrr.html|title=National Recording Registry Grows|publisher=[[Library of Congress]]|date=May 2006|access-date=January 10, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304045223/http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0605/nrr.html|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> In Seattle, November 27, 1992, which would have been Hendrix's 50th birthday, was made Jimi Hendrix Day, largely due to the efforts of his boyhood friend, guitarist [[Sammy Drain]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Hendrix: The Lllustrated Story|first=Gillian G.|last=Gaar|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=TNA1DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA194 194]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|website=City Arts|date=May 14, 2014|url= http://www.cityartsmagazine.com/jimi-all-my-side-opens-siff-2014/|title='Jimi: All Is By My Side' Opens SIFF 2014|first=Gillian G.|last=Garr|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180115185026/http://www.cityartsmagazine.com/jimi-all-my-side-opens-siff-2014/|archive-date=January 15, 2018}}</ref>

The [[blue plaque]] identifying Hendrix's former residence at 23 [[Brook Street]], London, was the first issued by [[English Heritage]] to commemorate a pop star. Next door is the former residence of [[George Frideric Handel]], 25 Brook Street,<ref>{{harvnb|Unterberger|2009|p=225}}: Handel's former residence at 25 Brook Street; For the first blue plaque ever granted to a pop star see: {{harvnb|Wilkerson|Townshend|2006|p=76}}; For its entry in the English Heritage Blue Plaque database see: {{cite web|title=Jimi Hendrix Brook Street Blue Plaque|url=http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/hendrix-jimi-1942-1970|work=English Heritage Blue Plaque database|publisher=English Heritage Blue Plaque Scheme|access-date=March 28, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409081741/http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/hendrix-jimi-1942-1970|archive-date=April 9, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> which opened to the public as the Handel House Museum in 2001. From 2016 the museum made use of the upper floors of 23 for displays about Hendrix and was rebranded as [[Handel & Hendrix in London]].

''[[The Electric Lady Studio Guitar]]'', a sculpture depicting Hendrix playing a Stratocaster, stands near the corner of Broadway and Pine Streets in Seattle. In May 2006, the city renamed a park near its Central District [[Jimi Hendrix Park]], in his honor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.seattle.gov/parks/park_detail.asp?ID=3121|title=Jimi Hendrix Park|publisher=City of Seattle|access-date=September 22, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100605081649/https://www.seattle.gov/parks/park_detail.asp?ID=3121|archive-date=June 5, 2010|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2012, an official historic marker was erected on the site of the July 1970 [[Atlanta International Pop Festival (1970)|Second Atlanta International Pop Festival]] near Byron, Georgia. The marker text reads, in part: "Over thirty musical acts performed, including rock icon Jimi Hendrix playing to the largest American audience of his career."<ref>Kulkosky, Victor. (September 19, 2012). "Byron Pop Festival Gets Historic Marker". ''The Leader Tribune'', Peach County, GA.</ref>

Hendrix's music has received a number of Hall of Fame Grammy awards, starting with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1992, followed by two Grammys in 1999 for his albums ''Are You Experienced'' and ''Electric Ladyland''; ''Axis: Bold as Love'' received a Grammy in 2006.<ref name="Hall of Fame">{{cite web|title=Hall of Fame |url=http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards/hall-of-fame#t |work=Database |publisher=National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences |access-date=July 13, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110122042616/http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards/hall-of-fame |archive-date=January 22, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Lifetime Achievement Award (Grammy)|url=http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards/lifetime-awards|work=Grammy.com's database and listing of award-winners|publisher=National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences|access-date=July 13, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170703201633/https://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards/lifetime-awards|archive-date=July 3, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2000, he received a Hall of Fame Grammy award for his original composition, "Purple Haze", and in 2001, for his recording of Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower". Hendrix's rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" was honored with a Grammy in 2009.<ref name="Hall of Fame" />

The [[United States Postal Service]] issued a commemorative postage stamp honoring Hendrix in 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://usstampgallery.com/view.php?id=a4fa3848a31e32e44414477d76f77453c8e00a23|title=Jimi Hendrix|url-status=live|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160417102936/http://usstampgallery.com/view.php?id=a4fa3848a31e32e44414477d76f77453c8e00a23|archive-date=April 17, 2016|website=US Stamp Gallery}}</ref> On August 21, 2016, Hendrix was inducted into the [[Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame]] in [[Dearborn, Michigan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2016/06/18/rhythm-and-blues-hall-of-fame-in-dearborn-announces-2016-inductees/|title=R&B Hall of Fame In Dearborn Announces 2016 Inductees|website=detroit.cbslocal.com|date=June 18, 2016|access-date=July 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160824032332/http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2016/06/18/rhythm-and-blues-hall-of-fame-in-dearborn-announces-2016-inductees/|archive-date=August 24, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> The James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix United States Post Office in [[East Renton Highlands, Washington|Renton Highlands]] near Seattle, about a mile from Hendrix's grave and memorial, was renamed for Hendrix in 2019.<ref>{{cite web|title=Renton Highlands Post Office Has Been Renamed to Honor Jimi Hendrix|date=January 3, 2019|last=Daly|first=Taryn|website=[[KISW]].radio.com|url=https://kisw.radio.com/blogs/taryn-daly/renton-highlands-post-office-has-been-renamed-honor-jimi-hendrix|access-date=July 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190413221013/https://kisw.radio.com/blogs/taryn-daly/renton-highlands-post-office-has-been-renamed-honor-jimi-hendrix|archive-date=April 13, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>

On June 23, 2019, the Band of Gypsys were inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame, at the [[Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History|Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History]] in Detroit, Michigan. [[Billy Cox]], the last surviving member of the group, was on hand to accept, along with representatives of the Buddy Miles and Hendrix estates.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2019/06/22/r-b-hall-fame-honor-aretha-stevie-wonder/1536662001/|last=McCollum|first=Brian|title=R&B Hall of Fame to Honor Aretha, Stevie Wonder, Eddie Kendricks, More on Sunday|date=June 22, 2019|website=[[Detroit Free Press]]|access-date=July 2, 2019|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190702175351/https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2019/06/22/r-b-hall-fame-honor-aretha-stevie-wonder/1536662001/|archive-date=July 2, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>

A plaster [[Lifecasting|lifecast]] of Hendrix's penis, created in 1968 by [[Cynthia Plaster Caster]], was put on permanent display in the [[Icelandic Phallological Museum]] in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Koe |first=Crystal |date=May 24, 2022 |title=Plaster cast of Jimi Hendrix's penis to be unveiled at Iceland's Phallological museum |url=https://guitar.com/news/music-news/plaster-cast-of-jimi-hendrix-penis-iceland-phallological-museum/ |access-date=2024-11-10 |website=[[Guitar.com]] |language=en-GB}}</ref>