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Jimmy Page knows a thing or two about the guitar, and here he discusses the very greatest to ever pick up the instrument.
"It was a pivotal moment for my sound," Jimmy Page has said of when he met electronics wizard Roger Mayer at Surbiton, a ...
While performing as Jimmy James in the mid-'60s, Jimi Hendrix managed to acquire a guitar belonging to Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones.
Hendrix’s brother Leon recalled how it happened in Philip Norman’s 2020 book Wild Thing: The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix. “Someone recommended Jimmy and he got the job,” Leon ...
The Experience Hendrix Tribute Tour — an all-star homage to the Seattle-born guitar hero, which last visited here in 2008 — is back on the road, making 19 stops in the Southwest, Midwest and ...
Jimi Hendrix, proto-reggae artist? The most famous dead guitar innovator in rock history, Hendrix died at the age of 27 in September 1970. That was shortly after the Jamaican ska and rock-steady ...
Anthony Aquarius plugs in his battery-powered amplifiers, straps his electric guitar on upside down and belts out Jimmy Hendrix songs to startled passersby. He performs on the Hollywood Walk of ...
LANCASTER – Start with Jimi Hendrix. ... Ripping out slabs of blues-drenched guitar solos that Buddy Guy or Jimmy Page would be proud of, Harshaw puts his own take on the music he loves.
Benorce Blackmon of San Bernardino has been making a living from his guitar since the 1960s. He owes that, he says, to Jimi Hendrix. Not from listening to his records. From a fateful encounter ...