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Buddy Guy performs at Massey Hall on April 19, 2024 in Toronto, Ontario
Buddy Guy returns to the stage after officially retiring from touring last year to honor Jimi Hendrix

By Janelle Borg Published

Guy joins the star-studded 2025 Experience Hendrix Tour lineup, which includes the likes of Zakk Wylde, Samantha Fish and Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram

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Andy Timmons live in concert at Iridium on July 25, 2018 in New York City
How Andy Timmons gave a bargain guitar a new lease of life – taking inspiration from Hendrix and Beck

By Janelle Borg Published

The virtuoso has owned “a long chain of guitars” throughout his decades-spanning career but calls one Strat he bought off eBay a particularly memorable find

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Jimi Hendrix and Billy Gibbons
Billy Gibbons once covered Jimi Hendrix hits while supporting Hendrix on tour

By Phil Weller Published

Few players would have had the nerves to cover Hendrix while supporting him on tour, but Gibbons is made of sterner stuff – and the bold move sparked a lasting friendship

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Jimi Hendrix wears a red bandana and a patterned shirt as he plays his Fender Strat live in 1970.
The remarkable untold story of Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Lady Studios – from the man who helped him build it

By Henry Yates Published

Founded by Hendrix just months before his death, Electric Lady Studios was a mind-expanding creative mothership where his guitar playing reached new heights...

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Freddie Mercury (left) and Brian May perform onstage with Queen
“It sounded awful. I could hardly play”: Brian May on the one time he experimented with a Marshall stack

By Jackson Maxwell Published

The Vox AC30 amp/Red Special guitar combo is one of the most iconic in rock, but the Queen guitar hero didn't solidify that setup straight away

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Jimi Hendrix performs onstage in 1967
Watch a rare 1965 video of Jimi Hendrix backing an obscure soul duo on TV

By Damian Fanelli Published

This vintage clip from the TV show Night Train is a rare video of the guitar legend's days as a sideman

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Ritchie Blackmore performs onstage with Deep Purple at the Palais Des Sports in Paris on March 17, 1973
Ritchie Blackmore recalls the first time he saw two-hand tapping – at a wild show in 1968

By Jackson Maxwell Published

Years before Eddie Van Halen put it in the early pages of the guitar textbook, Harvey Mandel was highlighting his performances with flourishes of two-hand tapping – grabbing the attention of onlookers in the process…

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American singer, songwriter and guitarist Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970), playing a Fender Stratocaster guitar, while performing live onstage, 1968,
Originally recorded as a B-side, bassist Billy Cox played a pivotal role in this riff-driven blues by guitar legend Jimi Hendrix

By Stevie Glasgow Published

Hendrix named the track after the Olympic White Fender Stratocaster he wielded during his iconic Woodstock set

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Robert Smith of The Cure performs at OVO Arena Wembley on December 12, 2022 in London, England.
Robert Smith on his disastrous first show as a singer and guitarist when he butchered a Jimi Hendrix classic

By Phil Weller Published

Smith only carried on fronting the band because he’d fallen out with everyone who filled the role

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Photo of Jeff Skunk BAXTER and STEELY DAN; Jeff Skunk Baxter AND Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) performs live on stage playing a white Fender Stratocaster guitar with The Jimi Hendrix Experience at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 24th February 1969
“I was docked three weeks’ pay”: Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter recalls the questionable guitar deal he made when he first met Jimi Hendrix

By Matt Owen Published

A young Baxter was working in a local guitar store when Hendrix came searching for a new guitar

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