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Our tiny minds have just been blown by a man playing Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) on a whammy clavinet

Australian keyboardist Lachy "The Hendrix of the keyboard" Doley does things we've never seen done before

Louder · Sep 17, 2024

"The sun will rise and fall, and BB King will play the blues": The incredible life of BB King

BB King was the greatest bluesman the world has ever seen. We look back at his life, with a little help from his friends

Louder · Sep 15, 2024

“Astonishingly, his continued non-acknowledgment as a near direct tonal descendant of Jimi Hendrix continues to this day”: Vernon Reid names the ’70s guitar hero who is still overlooked – despite playing with Hendrix

The Living Color guitarist is used to shining the spotlight on unsung players – and now he's identified another under-rated guitar hero who deserves more praise

Guitar World · Sep 13, 2024

“Bruce Lee”: 39 People Who Were Much Younger When They Died Than People Actually Imagine

39 celebrities who passed away way earlier than most people realize, as per this online discussion. The post “Bruce Lee”: 39 People Who Were Much Younger When They Died Than People Actually Imagine first appeared on Bored Panda.

Bored Panda · Sep 5, 2024

“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

Guitar World · Sep 5, 2024

“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

MusicRadar · Sep 3, 2024

“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

Guitar World · Sep 3, 2024

“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

Metal Hammer · Aug 31, 2024

“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

MusicRadar · Aug 30, 2024

“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

Guitar World · Aug 30, 2024