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For many, Jimi Hendrix is the ultimate influence, the man who taught musicians how to use a guitar. But he too had influences ...
"It was a pivotal moment for my sound," Jimmy Page has said of when he met electronics wizard Roger Mayer at Surbiton, a ...
Gilmour says that as a young guitarist he worked out blues solos by Clapton, Hendrix and Howlin' Wolf that later informed his ...
It was a ritual that would symbolise Hendrix’s esoteric allure, but the first night he did it, the incendiary act was quickly thought up backstage ...
A series of singles that all gained top 10 rank, followed. 'Hey Joe', 'Purple Haze' and 'The Wind Cries Mary ' made Jimi a star in England, setting the stage for his Monterey appearance. James Marshal ...
A look at how Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen couldn't be more different, despite changing the face of guitar playing, and ...
Electric Ladyland, the third and final Jimi Hendrix Experience project, arrived on Oct. 16, 1968, not as an old-timey roots record in the style of the day but as something bold and restless.
What do you do when everyone loves that trippy rotating speaker sound but no has the space (or budget) for one? Boss has the ...
The Jimi Hendrix Experience first entered the studio on Oct. 23 to record their version of "Hey Joe," a bluesy murder ballad written and copyrighted by Billy Roberts in 1962.
Billy Joel tells PEOPLE in this week's issue that he did not enjoy his time at the Woodstock music festival in 1969, as it ...
MARTIN: Jimi Hendrix, of course, died in September of 1970. As we said earlier, he would have been 65 years old today. Had he enjoyed a longer life, what do you think would have happened with his ...
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