Every guitarist should hear this isolated guitar track of Jimi Hendrix performing Voodoo Child live at Woodstock By Matt Parker published 28 March 23 A guitar recording from the most famous gig of Hendrix’s career can now be experienced unobscured
Best Fender amps: The Big F’s finest tube combo, digital modeling and headphones amp solutions By Jonathan Horsley last updated 23 March 23 Fender’s amp line-up has something for everyone. Our buyer’s guide will help you decide which is right for you
Add fire to your pentatonic phrasing with this lesson in Jimi Hendrix's soloing approaches By John Wheatcroft published 22 March 23 We might never reach Hendrix levels of god-like genius on the guitar, but how he phrased his leads is a lesson to us all. Here, we look at four examples that will expand your blues vocabulary
Watch John Mayer reunite with his Fender Jimi Hendrix Monterey Stratocaster for first blues trio performance in 6 years By Matt Owen published 13 March 23 It was also the first time Mayer's PRS Silver Sky received an outing during a trio gig – and the era-spanning tones on display were second-to-none
Jimi Hendrix’s isolated guitar tracks from Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) studio outtakes have been posted on YouTube and they sound incredible By Jonathan Horsley published 22 February 23 Enjoy a half-hour of electric guitar magic as Hendrix thinks out loud via the medium of Fender Stratocaster
Dunlop honors Jimi Hendrix's iconic effects with Authentic Hendrix '68 Shrine mini pedals By Matt Owen published 2 February 23 Four pedals inspired by the Uni-Vibe, Octavio, Fuzz Face and Band of Gypsys Fuzz are included, featuring artwork remixed from John Van Hamserveld's Shrine Auditorium concert poster
“Captain” Kirk Douglas on the link between technique and songwriting, and what made Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen different By Mark McStea published 27 January 23 The Tonight Show stalwart's latest solo album is a little psychedelic, a little trippy, and always about the songs. Here, Douglas tells us how he gravitates towards “mind expansion”
The 100 greatest guitarists of all time By Jonathan Horsley last updated 16 January 23 A comprehensive rundown of the best guitarists of all time, featuring the trailblazers, the early innovators, the best jazz, rock, indie, blues, metal and acoustic players – and the top guitarists around today...
Jeff Beck – the ultimate interview: one of the electric guitar's most prolific innovators reflects on his sprawling career By Alan di Perna published 12 January 23 In this classic 2009 Guitar World interview, the guitar legend waxed lyrical on his formative years with The Yardbirds, how his radical technique inspired a new era of instrumental guitar, and his musical relationships with Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton
Watch Steve Vai perform Jimi Hendrix's Midnight in honor of the late guitar icon's 80th birthday – with a professional Hendrix tribute artist By Sam Roche published 15 December 22 The surprise duo put their fingers – and teeth – to work in a blistering lead guitar performance at Seattle's Moore Theater
The gear Jimi Hendrix used for his bluesiest moments By Tim Tucker published 8 December 22 Because sometimes the Marshall stack was too much for the Red House over yonder...
Watch Zakk Wylde play a Jimi Hendrix tribute show just two days after his first concert with Pantera By Sam Roche published 6 December 22 Armed with a Wylde Audio Warhammer guitar – the same he used for Pantera's December 2 show in Mexico – Wylde channeled the guitar icon with renditions of Manic Depression, Little Wing and Purple Haze
From cosmic collaborations to blistering, chug-powered breakdowns: here are this week's essential guitar tracks By Matt Owen, Michael Astley-Brown, Jackson Maxwell, Sam Roche published 1 December 22 Kick off December with a bang with invigorating new songs from Metallica, Donovan & David Gilmour, Band-Maid, Leap, Jack Gardiner, Bury Tomorrow, Subsonic Eye, Miniature Tigers, and more
Hear Zayn Malik's take on Jimi Hendrix's Angel By Matt Parker published 28 November 22 The former One Direction singer offered up his posthumous collaboration in time for the guitar hero's 80th birthday
5 times Jimi Hendrix proved he was a master of the blues By Tim Tucker published 27 November 22 On the week the G.O.A.T. would have turned 80, we dig into the crates for a handful of tracks of unalloyed genius
The secrets of Jimi Hendrix's guitar setup: Roger Mayer reveals what made the guitar hero's Strat tone sing By Peter Hodgson published 26 November 22 Jimi's right-hand man dishes on what made Hendrix's custom string gauges so important, and why guitar pickups "really don't make much difference" to the sound
What happened to Jimi Hendrix’s Stratocasters? Tracking down the guitars that made music history By Tony Bacon last updated 25 November 22 Sold on to collectors or lovingly sacrificed to the music gods, Hendrix’s Strats are the stuff of Arthurian legend
The 10 best covers of Jimi Hendrix songs By Josh Hart published 24 November 22 A good Hendrix cover is a rarity, so we've taken it upon ourselves to compile the 10 greatest takes on Hendrix classics
Watch Jeff Beck’s flawless jam of Jimi Hendrix’s Little Wing with Johnny Depp on rhythm guitar By Matt Owen published 24 November 22 Beck once again proves he's just getting better and better, delivering an emotive, improv-heavy performance of the 1967 classic
"It was a wild scene up there": The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Billy Cox and Mitch Mitchell recount the explosive, and chaotic, Woodstock set that changed the world By Andy Aledort published 23 November 22 In this classic GW interview, Hendrix's late-period rhythm section reveal the highs and lows of one of rock's most immortal performances, and what it was really like to collaborate with the ultimate guitar hero