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Blues, booze and debauchery: the agonising life and death of Paul Butterfield

Paul Butterfield inspired Dylan to plug in, was a virtuoso singer and mouth harp player, and took black blues to white America. But beneath the surface, trouble was brewing

Louder

Steve Vai leads 7,968 guitarists in a world record-breaking performance of Jimi Hendrix classic Hey Joe

Fellow shred icon Michael Angelo Batio was also among the massive lineup of guitar players in Wrocław, Poland

Guitar World

Watch Steve Vai and Michael Angelo Batio join forces for a world-record breaking jam of Hey Joe featuring 7,967 guitarists

“I sounded like someone kicked a bee hive!” said Vai, as Wrocław Market Square, Poland, hosted a little bit of guitar history to celebrate Hendrix and break another record

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Paul Gilbert names 12 guitarists who shaped his sound

The Mr. Big guitar hero reveals how his strap length influenced his technique, why hearing Yngwie Malmsteen down the phone inspired him to give fast picking one more try, and what he considers to be "one of the biggest scourges" of modern guitar playing

Guitar World

Stephen Stills: ‘Part of me misses David Crosby dreadfully. Part of me thinks he got out of here just in time’

The 78-year-old folk rock icon talks to Kevin E G Perry about Woodstock and the Sixties, the death of David Crosby and his new live album from 1971

The Independent UK

Vinnie Moore: “The SG is a recent discovery of mine – I can’t believe I’ve never owned one. I didn’t realize how cool they were”

The shred maestro talks getting vocals on new solo album Double Exposure, his newfound love of Epiphone SGs and the future of UFO

Guitar World

"It's a tragedy": Watch a shocked Led Zeppelin react to news of the death of Jimi Hendrix in rare 1970 interview footage

Immediately after the death of guitar legend Jimi Hendrix, a mourning Led Zeppelin got hounded by journalists asking about links between illicit substances and rock music

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10 great heavy metal songs that came before Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath may have been the official ground zero for metal, but these heavy-as-lead bangers all predate that classic first album

Metal Hammer

Custom Flying Vs, strange open tunings and massive bends: how Albert King created his own strain of the blues – and inspired Hendrix, Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan

A left-hander, King flipped a right-handed guitar upside down, put it in an unorthodox tuning, and forged a style steeped in steely drama and epic bends

Guitar World

Eric Gales, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, Joe Bonamassa and Marcus King preview 2023's star-studded Crossroads Festival with incendiary Red House cover

The four blues guitar giants came together for an unforgettable jam at the Bluesfest in Byron Bay, Australia earlier this month

Guitar World

Jimi Hendrix's ultra-rare 1964 Fender Jazzmaster purchased by Jim Irsay

The owner of the NFL's Indianapolis Colts also added a 1992 Gibson Hummingbird played by Bob Dylan at Bill Clinton's presidential inauguration concert in 1993 to his extraordinary collection

Guitar World

‘Your days are numbered’: What songwriting could sound like in an AI future

Ask ChatGPT to write you a Beyoncé song and it will churn out something cringey – but completely convincing. Lydia Spencer-Elliott speaks to experts about the future of AI in music and the threats and opportunities it poses for songwriters

The Independent UK

Watch Mountain’s Felix Papplardi and Leslie West tear Pennsylvania a new one on Mississippi Queen as they redefine ‘heavy’ for the 70s

“All stoner and doom bands are foam in the wake of Mountain!” An unmissable performance that generated some amazing YouTube comments

Guitar World

Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv by Andrey Kurkov review – bittersweet relic of a sunnier age

Longlisted for the 2023 International Booker prize, the newly translated novel by Ukraine’s leading author is, in today’s context, poignantly playful and ebullient

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NAMM 2023: Beyerdynamic reimagines its iconic M Series of microphones

It includes remakes of classic ribbons, dynamics and condensers that have been used on stage and in the studio for the last 60 years

The Guardian - UK

Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv by Andrey Kurkov review – ode to a lost city

First published in 2012 and now translated into English, a whimsical love letter to Ukraine’s cultural capital from the author of Death and the Penguin

Wales Online

Vanished Wales: The demolished Sophia Gardens venue where Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd once played

Some of the biggest names in music played the Sophia Gardens Pavilion. Now, it's a car park

AFP

Legendary UK guitar amp maker agrees Swedish takeover

London (AFP) - Britain's Marshall Amplification, legendary maker of guitar amps used by rock icons including Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain, agreed Thursday to a takeover from Swedish speaker giant Zound Industries.

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Louder

Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd went on tour: knife-throwing, guitar smashing and acid breakdowns followed

Syd Barrett was catatonic. Jimi Hendrix was encouraging Keith Emerson to throw knives at him. Lemmy was one of the roadies. Welcome to the cosmic variety show

Guitar World

Every guitarist should hear this isolated guitar track of Jimi Hendrix performing Voodoo Child live at Woodstock

A guitar recording from the most famous gig of Hendrix’s career can now be experienced unobscured

Bangkok Post

Shaking off the laundromat blues

In last week's item concerning boutiques I wondered whether their influence could extend as far as the world of laundromats. My thanks to reader Jenifer Divine in Hamburg for informing me that in the German city's St Pauli district there is a laundromat dedicated to Jimi Hendrix which just about…

The Guardian - UK

Henry Rollins: ‘I wouldn’t go back on stage with a band for anything’

The writer, actor and legendary punk musician answers your questions on working with William Shatner and Al Pacino, the joy of lifting weights and Leeds’ best onion bhajis

Louder

Elvis Presley's grand-daughter Riley Keough credits Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix for inspiring her portrayal of fictional rock star Daisy Jones

When Riley Keough wanted inspiration for her character Daisy Jones, she looked to some true icons of '70s music

MusicRadar

"With this record, I hope that people can feel my soul and my spirit because, in those solos, that’s what I’m really giving you" – Malina Moye on her new album and the 10 that changed her life

An inspiring musician talks inspirations

The Guardian - UK

John Bramble obituary

Other Lives: Oxford University lecturer who took an unconventional approach to the teaching of Latin literature

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