Trapper Tom Leturgey

In September 1957, 14-year-old Jimi Hendrix couldn't afford the $1.50 admission fee to see Elvis Presley at Sick's Stadium in Seattle, so he managed to watch the show from a hill near the venue. The experience had such a profound impact on him that he wrote down all the songs he heard that night, and two months later, at age 15, he drew this color sketch of Elvis with his guitar. The following year, in the summer of 1958, his father bought him his first acoustic guitar for just five dollars. Hendrix practiced obsessively, and shortly thereafter joined his first formal band, The Velvetones, the first step on a path that would ultimately completely redefine the way electric guitar is played in rock music.