Hendrix was left-handed, but instead of using a left-handed guitar, he played a right-handed guitar upside-down.
Jimi died in 1970 after he choked on his own vomit. He had taken nine pills of the barbiturate vesperax.
He was entirely self-taught on guitar. He could not read music, instead he communicated his musical visions through colors: "Some feelings make you think of different colors, jealousy is purple; I'm purple with rage or purple with anger, and green with envy..."
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