Jimi Hendrix used his dreams as inspiration for his songwriting
Hendrix was inspired by many things, including his dreams, to create his music. In a 1967 interview with New Musical Express, he said, "I dreamed a lot and I wrote a lot of my dreams down as songs.
Some lucky people are gifted pillow-propped masterpieces, and some of them even manage to remember them, while my dreaming routine consists mostly of running away from nothing in particular on legs that don't work, forgetting to do homework for a school I left many moons ago, and the occasional terrifying sleep paralysis. Even though Jimi Hendrix already had an abundance of skill, the sleep fairies were giving him works of art as he slept.
With its tritone brilliance dazzling a generation of guitarists, the 1967 song "Purple Haze" is one of the most influential in rock history. Even Hendrix's manager, Chas Chandler, noticed the layered riff's potential right away and yelled, "Write the rest of that," declaring, "That's the next single!" According to Jimi Hendrix, the song was inspired by a dream in which he was walking beneath the sea and was surrounded by a purple haze. Even while the dream seemed more terrifying, it was actually spared by his trust in Jesus, who inspired him to write the chorus Purple haze, Jesus saves before changing it.
The song's conception began on Boxing Day of 1966, while Hendrix was battling a sleepy visitation in his head. Shortly later, on January 8th, 1967, it made its debut in Sheffield, where the audience was immediately astounded by the piece's intense visceral force. It is undoubtedly Hendrix's most iconic song, therefore it is maybe appropriate that it originated in an electric dreamland. It features a wild imagination, incredible musicianship, memorable words, and colorful images all in the foreground.
