Experience Music Project

The Experience Music Project rocks. I finally got a chance to visit the museum when I was in the Seattle last week.

The Gehry-designed EMP building houses a tribute to Jimi Hendrix and Seattle's music greats. The new "Jimi Hendrix: An Evolution of Sound" exhibition is outstanding. On display are some of Hendrix's most famous axes, including the Woodstock white strat and the one he offered to the gods of fire at Monterey. Along with Jimi Hendrix's life story, there's a look at the history of the guitar itself with unusual incarnations of the instrument I had never seen in person before. Very interesting.



Upstairs there are interactive workstations where you can play and learn music. Pick up a guitar, sit down behind a drum kit or fire up a synth. They're all ready to be played. There's an isolated room where three people can jam together. You can buy a CD or DVD of your performance. Rock on.

I like the stations that break down Hendrix's master tracks. You can put on headphones and remix several songs and isolate each track. Hearing the guitar parts on their own was really cool.



The EMP is like an interactive Hendrix and Seattle-focused Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.