Jimi Hendrix was surprisingly connected to Fleetwood Mac, even the lineup that formed after Hendrix's death in 1970.

The EHX pioneer is one of the guitar world's most colorful characters. He tells us what happened when Hendrix bought one of the first Big Muffs, how the Rolling Stones got him started in the pedal biz ...

How Japanese ingenuity transformed Western music from within. Tina Weymouth and David Byrne of Talking Heads, performing in ...

Nicola Coughlan spoke out against J.K. Rowling and HBO’s new “Harry Potter” series after the author celebrated the U.K.

And, sure, those movies deserved their R ratings, but years later I recognized that Cheech & Chong were not demonic madmen, ...

Recreating those signature “peculiar sounds,” as Zappa calls them, required lugging around a massive rig — roughly the size ...

Guitar World's resident Jimi Hendrix authority, Andy Aledort, demonstrates how the legendary, groundbreaking guitarist still influences the modern rock, blues and R&B styles some most admired players.

It's hard to say, it’s hard to verbalize, but it's a pretty fun time to be a guitar a young guitar player right now.” An arc of mystery and music stretches across America like a vein of gold, an ...

In every story from Jimi Hendrix ... so thrilling that Hendrix immediately wanted to not just watch but be involved in it. “One day, he walked (into a club) and heard us. He threw off his jacket and ...

One could spend years, maybe even decades, learning about how vital Jimi Hendrix was to the evolution of rock guitar. There’s a library worth of books about the man’s life, his art and the ...

On March 31, 1967, guitar legend Jimi Hendrix kicked off a trend that he would continue for the rest of his career. Specifically, Hendrix set his guitar on fire for the very first time ...