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The evolution of fuzz pedals: how the wildest drive of all conquered the radio – and our pedalboards

Unlike wah, flangers and chorus, fuzz has never gone out of fashion – it’s hip to be square

Guitar World

Meet Towa Bird, the TikTok star who channels Jimi Hendrix and thinks guitar solos are “arrogant” – but tears up the fretboard anyway

One of the guitar world’s most hotly tipped players on her love of unusual electric shapes, the secret to making her leads sound like a conversation, and reappropriating the guitar solo for women everywhere

Guitar World

Judas Priest and Elegant Weapons guitarist Richie Faulkner on Painkiller and the 10 albums that changed his life

“That is an album that changed my life in more ways than one because it almost killed me!”

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5 T-Bone Walker licks every blues guitarist needs to know

A trailblazer of blues guitar, a born entertainer, T-Bone Walker has influenced generations of players. Here, we look at how he added a jazzy flair to his solos for maximum effect

Guitar World

Steve Lacy on how Jack White and Scott Pilgrim inspired his fuzz-equipped Strat, creating Fender’s first “pink sunburst” and why he loves affordable multi-FX pedals

The superstar guitarist/producer has worked with the likes of Kendrick Lamar and Thundercat, and topped the charts with “nerdy chords” – now he has a radical new signature Stratocaster, but as he reveals, the ideas that didn’t make the cut were even more off-the-wall

Guitar World

Fight Tracks: The walkout songs of UFC 289 with Jimi Hendrix, Sum 41 and Rihanna

Check out all the fighter walkout songs from Saturday's UFC 289 event.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Trading Jimmy Butler will go down as one of Bulls’ worst mistakes

While the old regime did its best to control the narrative of why sending Butler to Minnesota for a package that ended up being Zach LaVine, Lauri Markkanen and Kris Dunn was necessary, it’s now easy to see what really happened.

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Jimi Hendrix rocks the cosmos as an interstellar time traveler in 'Purple Haze'

Jimi Hendrix turns into a galactic time traveler hunting for an ancient cosmic relic in upcoming graphic novel "Jimi Hendrix: Purple Haze."

Space

Bill Gates is 'mixing up' his summer book recommendations and has also made a playlist for fans

Bill Gates remembers his friend and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen when revealing his book recommendations and summer playlist for 2023.

Fortune

Learn 7 of the greatest blues guitar licks of all time

Featuring classics by Hendrix, BB King, Cream, Led Zeppelin, Freddie King, Buddy Guy and John Lee Hooker

MusicRadar

George Lynch shows us what’s on his pedalboard

Make that pedalboards, as Mr Scary reveals his fly-in ’board and his more well-stocked, Jeff Beck-inspired offering – and reveals what pedal he can’t live without

Guitar World

Sheldon Reynolds death: Earth, Wind & Fire and The Commodores guitarist dies aged 63

Musician also performed with the band Sun

The Independent UK

Guitar hero! Jimi Hendrix saves the universe in a new sci-fi graphic novel, authorized by his sister

Purple Haze is a sci-fi reimagining of the rock star's life

GamesRadar

That time Little Richard reprimanded Jimi Hendrix for his guitar showmanship: “Don’t you ever play your f**king guitar behind your head again!”

Graham Nash recalls seeing the rock ‘n’ roll icon dress down the guitarist post-show

Guitar World

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Graham Nash recalls a furious Little Richard lambasting Jimi Hendrix after the young guitarist upstaged the rock ’n’ roll godfather

It would take something for any backing player to steal Little Richard's thunder but then this was Jimi Hendrix...

Guitar World

The Band of Gypsys bassist Billy Cox remembers Woodstock

Billy Cox: “If you listen to The Star Spangled Banner you hear me playing the first five or six notes. Then I immediately stepped back”

Guitar World

Vito Bratta names 11 guitarists who shaped his sound

The virtuoso behind White Lion’s platinum rock sound pays dues to the players who showed him what to do on guitar (and what not to do), and recalls an emotional encounter with Eddie Van Halen

Louder

Joe Satriani: the 10 greatest instrumental tracks ever written

Guitar wiz Joe Satriani picks 10 instrumentals that have guided him on his long career through rock

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Slash once partnered with Jimi Hendrix’s bandmates for a stirring tribute cover of Hey Joe in honor of the guitar great

Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox supported Slash and Steve Winwood as the supergroup paid tribute to the guitar master in scintillating style at the UK Music Hall of Fame ceremony

Louder

Jimi Hendrix is to battle a tyrannical intergalactic force in an official graphic novel

The graphic novel Jimi Hendrix: Purple Haze will follow the legendary guitarist on a psychedelic, extremely perilous quest to the very centre of the universe

Louder

Billy Cobham: “It was testing the waters of rock and jazz!"

Jazz fusion drummer extraordinaire Billy Cobham recalls his time with Miles Davis, Mahavishnu Orchestra and beyond...

Guitar World

Gene Simmons: “Eddie Van Halen talked about being a fan of Eric Clapton. I’m sorry, I don’t see that. What he did was closer to classical music”

The Kiss frontman has been fretting over the guitar hero’s legacy, sharing concerns that “millennials need to know about the most important musician since Jimi Hendrix”

Metal Hammer

The Eddie Van Halen I knew, by Gene Simmons

"Our millennials need to know about the most important musician since Jimi Hendrix" - Gene Simmons on the late Eddie Van Halen

Louder

Watch Jimi Hendrix hang out with The Rolling Stones backstage in New York on his last ever birthday

When The Rolling Stones played Madison Square Garden in 1969, Jimi Hendrix joined them backstage to chill out and play his guitar on what would be his final birthday

Guitar World

George Benson on the time he met Jimi Hendrix, how Peter Frampton changed the course of his career and what Paul McCartney made of his Beatles tribute

One of the all-time jazz guitar greats on upsetting guitar companies, receiving praise from Frank Sinatra, and what it was really like working with Miles Davis

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