“Jimi once said he’d been imitated so well that people had even copied his mistakes”: Watch Nile Rodgers, Tom Morello, Rebecca Lovell and more celebrate 70 years of the Strat in an all-star cover of Voodoo Child

Nile Rodgers.

Fender’s 70th Anniversary celebrations for the Stratocaster continue with the release of an all-star cover of Jimi Hendrix’s Voodoo Child (Slight Return) featuring a cast of today’s most-famous Strat players.

And appropriately, the video, titled Voodoo Child: Forever Ahead of Its Time, spans generations. One minute you’ve got Nile Rodgers jamming on his Hitmaker Strat, a Texas blues guitar legend in the shape of Jimmie Vaughan, and Tom Morello turning up with his Soul Power Strat and the biggest pedalboard of them all to drop some pitch-shifting into the arrangement.