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Results for Jimi HendrixThere isn't a guitar student alive since 1970 that hasn't stood in front of a full-length mirror and taken a surreptitious swipe at Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock finale. That rendition of The Star Spangled Banner may not have been his best performance, but it cemented Hendrix in a time and place which both fit and was foreign to him. Hendrix was a performer catapulted to sudden fame after years of hard work. He worked alone and with his bands, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and The Band of Gypsies, and played blues, rock and psychedelic with equal inspiration. He enjoyed four incredible, hard-lived years of wild adulation and died in London just short of 28 under circumstances simmered with enough fact, nuance and speculation to lock his demise in the public consciousness with those of Marilyn Monroe, JFK and Princess Di. Of his talent, however, his awesome electric talent, there is no question: he was the best....more
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by Lenny Kaye•March 19, 2008•
Probably no other instrument in the world is as closely associated with country music as the pedal steel guitar. Yet its roots are found not in some rural hamlet in the Southern reaches of America, but in an exotic, hybrid Polynesian culture located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
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by Denise Sullivan•March 12, 2008•
When I set out to take on the matter of cover songs, I thought I'd be seeking uncomplicated answers to simple questions like: Is there such a thing as a definitive version of a song? Who decides these things? And why do we care?
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by Tom Cox•March 5, 2008•
Rock kills. The list of victims is too long and depressing to print here. We still raise an eyebrow when another tortured Narcissus bites the dust, but the impact has been dwindling ever since the cataclysmic nine months in the early ‘70s
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by Mike Conklin•February 27, 2008•
February is a weird month for the music industry. It starts off slow, with release schedules kept to a bare minimum, allowing everyone the chance to recover from the barrage of year-end lists that continued popping up straight through January. (Is it just me, or is the Village Voice's annual
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by Max Mobley•February 13, 2008•
Being in a band again means lots of things, not least of which is: more gear, new gear, and lots of gear test-driving. Ahh, nothing like spending money on technology that will depreciate faster than my sex appeal when drinking. The centerpiece of all the gear I’ll be hoping to acquire
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4/15/2008
I can understand where clapton can be considered overrated. But not when he was with Cream. He was at his very best...
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4/5/2008
My family is considering selling an heirloom we've had since late 1971. It's a vintage original Jimi Hendrix poster,...
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3/27/2008
I saw Hendrix 3 times in concert, and 1 time in a late night jam after a concert. In concert he used a right handed...
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2/26/2008
They sure looked promising...Jimi Hendrix, Van Morrison, Aretha! But 60 minutes later they're off the site. Don't tell...
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2/20/2008
I would just tell them that if it were not for Hendrix, the "shredders" today wouldn't be "shredding". I had seen Steve...
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