For all the Hendrix Fans: Win a performance slot on the 2014 Experience Hendrix Tour!

Win a performance slot on the 2014 Experience Hendrix Tour!

IK Multimedia, Authentic Hendrix, Sony Music, Legacy, and Talenthouse announce the Jimi Hendrix Guitar Competition

We are proud to announce the Jimi Hendrix Guitar Competition, a celebration of the music and heritage of the greatest guitarist of all time. Together with Sony Music, Legacy Recordings, Talenthouse, and Experience Hendrix, we have launched an online competition that offers entrants a chance to win a performing slot on the annual Experience Hendrix tribute tour, set to roll in March 2014!
CLICK HERE TO ENTER THE CONTEST
Contestants are invited to submit a video that shows them performing a Jimi Hendrix track.  One winner will be selected by a team of judges, consisting of Janie Hendrix, Jimi’s sister and Experience Hendrix CEO; and legendary engineer/producer Eddie Kramer who worked with Jimi Hendrix at the very start of his recording career in London, and, later at Woodstock and subsequently worked on the authorized series of posthumous Hendrix album releases.  Judges also include Brad Tolinski, Guitar World Magazine Editor-in-Chief and author of Light & Shade: Conversations with Jimmy Page;and Dave Stewart, the musician and producer known for his role in the Eurhythmics and work with Mick Jagger, Orianthi, Bryan Ferry, Ringo Starr, Stevie Nicks and No Doubt, among others.
The winner, as selected by the panel of judges, will be invited to perform a song as part of the Experience Hendrix 2014 Tour.  Travel and accommodations will be provided for the winner and a guest. The Experience Hendrix Tour is an annual event featuring the greatest guitarists of our generation including Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Eric Johnson, and many others. The 2014 tour line up will be announced shortly.
The ‘Judges Choice’ (overall winner) will have the incredible opportunity to perform a song on the Experience Hendrix 2014 Tour, sharing the stage with several of today’s top guitarists in celebration of Jimi Hendrix.* In addition, the winner will receive an assortment of exclusive product and merchandise, including:

• IK Multimedia custom prize package including: iLoud portable speaker, iRig Pro, iRig BlueBoard, iKlip for iPad, AmpliTube Jimi Hendrix
• $2,500
• Fender Classic Series '70s Stratocaster®
• Dunlop Pedals: JH F1 Jimi Hendrix Fuzz Face, JH OC1 Jimi Hendrix Octavio, JH 1D Jimi Hendrix Signature Wah
• Guitar Center Gift Card
• One year subscription to Guitar World Magazine
• An assortment of Jimi Hendrix merchandise and music including Hal Leonard Jimi Hendrix Instruction Books
• Levy’s Leathers collectible album cover guitar strap, featuring many of Jimi's album covers

*Travel and two nights’ accommodation to Experience Hendrix Tour date provided for the winner plus guest
The ‘Five Popular Winners’ (runners up) will each receive:

• IK Multimedia custom prize package including: iRig Pro, iRig BlueBoard, iKlip for iPad, AmpliTube Jimi Hendrix
• Fender Squier Vintage Modified Stratocaster®
• Dunlop Pedals JH 1D Jimi Hendrix Signature Wah
• Guitar Center Gift Card
• One year subscription to Guitar World Magazine
• An assortment of Jimi Hendrix merchandise and music including Hal Leonard Jimi Hendrix Instruction Books
• Levy’s Leathers collectible album cover guitar strap, featuring many of Jimi's album covers

What would Jimi say about a Hendrix guitar competition? I think it would make him sad
 

 but would he win if he entered anonymously?
That's what makes me sad

LOL!

I'm thinking I may use empty iPhone cases after the first night so it doesn't get to expensive.
 

 
is the contest based on covering Hendrix note for note ? or is it based on playing Hendrix with a slant for ones own creative expression while playing a Jimi tune  ? 
 
tanks in advance 
 
Kenny

guitar competition:
 
 
I don't really live on compliments. As a matter of fact, they have a way of distracting me. I know a whole lot of musicians, artists out there who hears the compliments and thinks "wow, I must have been really great" and so they get fat and satisfied and they get lost and forget about their actual talent and start living in another world.
-jimi Hendrix
 
 
 

 
Scuse me while I say that it seems apropos to use the term "infliction".
 

IK Obi
 
Best performance is best performance int he judges eyes. So it could be note for note or original infliction on a Hendrix classic. Just play your best.

 
Good times. :-)

I like listening to Jimi a lot more than standing in his shadow.
 
If Kenny throws a video up I'm gonna vote for him.
 
best,
mike
 

IK Obi
Well not everyone can play like Hendrix.

Really???