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Handcrafted-jewelry makers Clocks and Colours has partnered with guitar and bass manufacturers Fender on a new collection of ...
Market Square in Wrocław, Poland hosted a Guinness World record-breaking gathering of 8,122 guitarists simultaneously playing Jimi Hendrix's hit 'Hey Joe' on May 4. The annual Thanks Jimi Festival was ...
Jimi Hendrix always seemed like a spirit from another dimension, but that didn't mean that he had to act otherworldly all the ...
Peter who? Before the monumental success of Frampton Comes Alive in early 1976—at the time the largest-selling double album in history, with over 12 million copies on the world's turntables—the ...
And yet, on Monday 29 May 1967, history was made when the likes of Eric Clapton, Jimi ... his guitar to sound like he wanted it to." Local historian Doug Kendall was in the crowd that day. "I think it ...
Most guitar players can trace their obsession with the instrument back to the source. For many, it was Hendrix; maybe his rendition of the “The Star Spangled Banner,” or a video of his famous ...
In 1965 Lonnie Youngblood (aka The Prince Of Harlem) met Jimi Hendrix when the pair were serving it up for Curtis Knight's various R&B ensembles. The two men hit it off sufficiently well to try ...
And while Jimi Hendrix had been his own unique entity when he ... But it’s not like John Lennon and George Harrison didn’t have their fair share of guitar hero moments before Hendrix arrived on the ...
Funkadelic and Jimi Hendrix. The band revolved around a dynamic duo: harmonica wiz/funky singer Dave P. Moore and guitar slayer John Mark Turner. In 2024, Blues Old Stand rebooted for a run of shows.
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.
For anyone born after September 1970, seeing legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix perform ... him and King trading blistering guitar riffs. Ozzy Osbourne/Black Label Society guitarist Zakk Wylde brought ...