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“They asked Billy Gibbons, John Mayer and me. I wish this would make me sound like Jeff Beck, but it won’t”: Steve Lukather confirms Jeff Beck guitar tribute project as he wields his iconic White Strat to cover Jimi Hendrix’s Little Wing

Lukather is one of the first players to use the late guitar great's old instruments as part of an ongoing “musicians’ project to honor Jeff’s legacy” – and many more are expected to follow

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“He is the most innovative guitarist of all time, and his influence is woven into the very fabric of music history”: Epiphone joins forces with the Gibson Custom Shop for the exquisite, psychedelic Jimi Hendrix ‘Love Drops’ Flying V

This Inspired by Gibson Custom series Epiphone is equipped with Custombuckers and is a thing of beauty, based on Hendrix’s hand-painted Flying V of the late ‘60s

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“A player who took the instrument to places no-one else had ever gone before”: Epiphone’s Jimi Hendrix ‘Love Drops’ Flying V recreates the guitar great’s most psychedelic model

Hendrix used his hand-painted Love Drops V extensively in the late 1960s, and was rumored to have played it during the recording of Electric Ladyland

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“In the 80s, you ordered a gram of cocaine like you ordered a beer. Doing cocaine was normal in those days”: The high times and crazy life of the Scorpions

Rudolf Schenker, Klaus Meine and Matthias Jabs look back on the career of Germany’s biggest rock band

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“I didn’t get it before because I was too scared to touch them”: St Vincent reveals how a gift from Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready changed her mind about the Stratocaster

Who couldn’t love a Strat? Well, according to St Vincent, there’s the weight of pop-cultural history and that can be hard to bear

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“Few guitars in rock ’n’ roll have inspired more adulation and imitation”: Billboard has shared its list of the 100 Greatest Guitars of All Time – and there are some surprises in the top 10

Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, and Willie Nelson all make the top bracket, which leaves out a few notable instruments

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His onstage antics inspired Jimi Hendrix to play with his teeth, while his groundbreaking solos influenced B.B. King, Chuck Berry and Albert King: T-Bone Walker changed the course of blues guitar playing – and the role of electric guitar in popular music

The Texan troubadour knew how to give the crowd their money's worth, and players such as Jimi Hendrix were watching. This lesson in his playing style has plenty of biting string bends and blues flavor

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"He remains the world's most influential guitarist": Six essential posthumous albums by Jimi Hendrix

We've sifted through the hundreds of legally dubious and musically bankrupt albums released under Jimi Hendrix's name since his death in 1970, and come up with six of the best

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Jimi Hendrix's 'Angel' Re-Enters UK Charts Posthumously After Decades.

Jimi Hendrix's 'Angel' re-enters U.K. charts, showcasing enduring popularity of his music posthumously.

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"He would have embraced rap and hip-hop because he absorbed music like a sponge. It would have become part of what he created": What Jimi Hendrix means to me, by Eddie Kramer

Producer and engineer Eddie Kramer looks back on his association with the great Jimi Hendrix

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"London was implicated in the collusion of a fat music industry bloated on cocaine and bereft of direction": How London lost its lustre

There was a time when all rock and pop roads led to London; you couldn't move without tripping over an icon or a star. Those days are long gone

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‘His spirit is everywhere’: the fascinating story of Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Lady studio

New documentary takes a look back to the late 60s when the star commissioned a recording studio that has since taken on a life of its own

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“Eric Gales’ rendition of Hendrix’s Little Wing sounds like the gates of heaven opening up”: Melanie Faye names 13 guitarists who shaped her sound

The neo-soul prodigy’s huge social media following and signature guitar follow a passion ignited by Michael Jackson, Guitar Hero III, and the players she discovered from there

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What is the Steely Dan “Mu chord”? Breaking down the left-field chord voicings that will open up your harmonic world

This deep dive into the Steely Dan chordal approach is a masterclass in Donald Fagen and Walter Becker’s supreme harmonic awareness

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What do the finest blues guitarists of the past 60 years have in common? From B.B. King to Eric Gales, these are the technique secrets behind 30 of the most iconic players

Starting from ’50s electric blues pioneers, we're bending the blues scale into different shapes, with 30 licks taking us up to the present day as the art form continues to evolve and thrive

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Woodstock was a pivotal moment in history – how much hippy spirit is left in upstate New York?

An iconic music moment took place in the leafy solitude of upstate New York 55 years ago – Matt Charlton discovers if there’s a lasting legacy of peace and love in the area

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“There are so many layers of Jimi that we didn’t see portrayed before”: Jimi Hendrix as a cosmic traveler and rock-star? We go inside the making of Purple Haze – the graphic novel reimagining guitar’s greatest player

In a new graphic novel, the guitarist is reinvented as a space traveler and political figure who happens to be the biggest rock star in the galaxy

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Watch Cozy Powell and Co. rattle through Dance With The Devil, their iconic glam rock tribute to Jimi Hendrix

Rare 1974 footage of Bedlam featuring Cozy Powell playing the classic Dance With The Devil has appeared online

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From Stevie Ray Vaughan, to Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen –the cover song is a musical rite of passage for every great player, but it's not without its challenges... here are 6 tips for nailing a cover version

With a cover song, you've already got a head start – the song is already written – but that creates its own challenges. Here is how you can put your own spin on another artist's track

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“Used by Peter Green in the studio to record his In The Skies and Little Dreamer albums”: The late British blues icon’s 1965 Fender Duo-Sonic is heading to the auction block – and it sounds immaculate

The Duo-Sonic was loved by John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix alike, and this demo reminds us of its charms. The auction will also see Johnny Marr's the The rig go under the hammer

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“Charley was the coolest rock litterati bookworm to ever be lucky enough to know.” Music writer Charles R. Cross, author of definitive Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and Heart biographies, dead at 67

The death of US music writer Charles R. Cross was confirmed by his family on August 9

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“I was really into Django Reinhardt, Pat Metheny, and Wes Montgomery, but I also loved Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. I asked him if I could have a guitar that does it all”: Trey Anastasio discusses the birth of his iconic Languedoc Koa 1 guitar

The Phish virtuoso has championed Paul Languedoc’s “genius”, which turned his scattershot six-string dreams into a reality

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“Witnessing how these three contributed to his stellar vision and bringing them together is a testament to Hendrix's enduring legacy”: Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock bandmates reunite for the first time in nearly 40 years to perform Band of Gypsys-era classics

Bassist Billy Cox and percussionists Gerardo Velez and Juma Sultan paid homage to the legendary guitarist's repertoire

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“It's not the same, but one thing eventually led to the other…” Vernon Reid on the Jimi Hendrix riff that inspired Living Colour's Cult of Personality

The Living Colour guitarist has also paid homage to Hendrix's influence on fusion music

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“I was never fired from Kiss – I was left behind for a wildly successful commercial venture. You don’t have to be an accountant to understand Paul and Gene”: Bruce Kulick shares war stories from Kiss’ no-makeup era – and the reunion that killed it

Kulick offers a front-row perspective of what went down with Kiss in the ’80s: the tension between the past and future, his six-string independence from Ace Frehley, and the coming grunge asteroid

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