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Court rules Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell estates can sue for Jimi Hendrix Experience album royalties

The decision by London’s High Court means that estates of Hendrix’s rhythm section can now sue Sony Music Entertainment for album royalties that were signed away in the 1970s

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Estates of Jimi Hendrix bandmates can sue over royalties dispute

London’s high court rules that companies representing bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell can seek a copyright change, after signing away rights in 1970s

The Guardian - UK

“This is a rare instrument and a cool example of something Jimi would have played back in 1969/1970”: Joe Bonamassa teaches us his favorite Hendrix-inspired licks on a very special Stratocaster

Class is officially in session at Nerdville as JoBo reaches for his “bronchitis Strat” for a primer in Hendrix blues-rock that will make you a better player

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NAMM 2024: “The same design as the one Jimi Hendrix wore when he stole the show at a 1967 music festival”: Vintage reissue straps are now a thing: check-out this Dunlop x Authentic Hendrix reproduction of Jimi’s Monterey Pop strap

Get the strap that held the guitar that Hendrix set on fire...

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"They're as good as anything anyone's ever written": My 10 favourite Thin Lizzy songs, by Brian Downey

Drummer Brian Downey, who co-founded Thin Lizzy with Phil Lynott, picks his 10 favourite Lizzy tracks

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"Led Zeppelin played to a crowd of 150,000, but no-one on the bill was looking for a big break or even a record deal": How 60s' music festivals turned a generation of blues aficionados into the first rock stars

Some of the events still exist today, but back in the 60s they played hosts to bands for whom future possibilities were entirely unknown

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NAMM 2024: “1967 is back!” Vox turns back the clocks with recreations of the first-ever production wah pedals

The Real McCoy and V846 Vintage don’t bother with fancy reimaginings – they’re ‘as they were’ builds based on its now-timeless ‘60s invention beloved by Jimi Hendrix

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Stop spending all your practice time on soloing: rhythm playing is even more important – and embellishing chords will seriously up your game

We show you how to take regular chords and level them up with sliding shapes, doublestops and legato

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"Mike Bloomfield came up to me at the Avalon Ballroom and says, ‘You can’t do that’. I said, ‘C’mon, Mike, you can do it, too. All you gotta do is turn this knob up to 10'": The story of Blue Cheer - the band who invented heavy metal

LSD, rehab, whiskey, fights, and in their spare time Blue Cheer invented heavy metal. This is their twisted tale

Metal Hammer

"Every single note he played could kill me with its beauty": Celebrating the life of a man regularly described by his peers as the greatest guitarist of them all, Jeff Beck

A look back on the life, times and truly extraordinary music of the The Guv’nor

Louder

“We got caught up in the hype. Maybe another label would have given us a clobber round the head”: how Angel delivered a 70s pomp rock classic with Helluva Band

Angel were tipped to become the next Kiss. That didn’t happen, but they still delivered a lost treasure with 1976’s Helluva Band album

Louder

Learn 10 essential guitar rock riffs for beginner players

Get started with the classics from the Beatles to the Stones, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Hendrix and more

MusicRadar

Jimi Hendrix smashed the barriers between lead and rhythm guitar with his revolutionary chord work. Learn how the most influential guitarist of them all worked his voodoo style with this essential chord lesson

Learn about the often overlooked rhythmic foundations of the guitar icon’s world-changing playing

Guitar World

How to spend a day in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco’s historic home of counterculture

The Summer of Love bestowed this district with its bona fide cool factor in the 1960s, but Richard Franks discovers that its charm remains in hipster stores, diverse places to eat and trendy bars

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"The crowd was berserk, and Bruce just beaming. It was like he knew. He'd taken a massive step": Bruce Springsteen and the long road from Sunday matinees to stardom

Like many young teenagers in the 60s, Bruce Springsteen was obsessed with rock'n'roll. A decade and a lot of hard graft later, he was being hailed as its future

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“A lot of kids think drop-tuning is this new thing that just came out and it’s like, ‘No way, Jimi Hendrix was doing that stuff a long time ago!’” Eric Gales on the lasting influence and innovations of the ultimate electric guitar icon

Gales says he wears his Hendrix influence with pride. Here, one of today’s greatest blues-rock guitarists shares his insight on the visionary and fearless experimentalist

Guitar World

The world’s most influential guitar gear designers: meet the pioneers behind the innovations that changed the electric guitar forever

It’s not just star guitarists who have changed the way we play – these are the innovators whose inventions forever altered the course of the guitar itself

Guitar World

“Eric Clapton played with a stately authority. It’s missing in guitar today. It seems every great player has to play very fast. It can be distasteful, honestly”: Scott Holiday says Slowhand’s slow hand is still the gold standard for expressive playing

Clapton remains an ever-present force in the Rival Sons star’s own sound – here’s why Holiday views his hero as one of the most influential guitarists of all time

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How Jimi Hendrix’s groundbreaking techniques are still influencing the modern rock, blues and R&B styles of today’s players

This tab and video lesson details how Hendrix inspired the likes of Melanie Faye, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Marcus Machado, Ayla Tesler-Mabé, Joanne Shaw Taylor and Ayron Jones

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"I don't want to be a clown any more. I don't want to be a rock'n'roll star": The radical rebirth of Jimi Hendrix and his Band Of Gypsys

In January 1970, Jimi Hendrix pulled the plug on stardom to chase a funkier, freer direction with his Band Of Gypsys. This is their story

Louder

"We did seven encores. We ran out of material and were forced to play Jimi Hendrix tunes. Imagine that, opening for Cream and finishing with Hendrix tunes?": The story of the legendary James Gang

With a classic funk-rock sound, the rise of rock'n'roll cowboys the James Gang looked unstoppable, inspired by a real kick-ass guitarist who would both make and break the band

Guitar World

“When I started falling in love with guitar-driven music, I found that all roads led back to him”: Why Jimi Hendrix is still inspiring the latest generation of guitarists – five decades after his death

Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Melanie Faye, Mateus Asato and an all-star cast explain why today’s generation of guitar players remain indebted to Jimi Hendrix, and what we can all learn from him, no matter what style we play

Guitar World

“Big jets moving, bombers, people in battle, distress, crying – the Vietnam War added a lot of darkness to his playing”: Kirk Hammett on how Jimi Hendrix’s guitar style helped birth metal and psychedelia

The Metallica man and Hendrix fan argues that the guitar icon's influence on metal is under-appreciated

Guitar World

“Who knows?! There are tapes that I would love to get my hands on…”: Eddie Kramer isn’t ruling out using Beatles-like AI techniques to restore more lost Jimi Hendrix tapes

The South African producer and engineer collaborated intimately with Hendrix in the ‘60s and has since worked on numerous posthumous projects. Now he says he’s open to embracing AI to add to the guitarist’s legacy

Guitar World

“Jimi turned round and said, 'Hey man, mind if I play the guitar for a while?' We played for about half an hour. That was probably the last time I saw him”: Andy Summers recalls his “outrageous” jams with Jimi Hendrix

In a new interview with Rick Beato, The Police guitarist also discussed his abandoned duet with Robert Fripp, and what he learned from a guitar lesson with “the world’s greatest guitar player” Lenny Breau

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