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There 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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Jimi Hendrix Experience CONCERT 10/10/1968
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Jimi Hendrix Experience CONCERT 10/11/1968
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Jimi Hendrix Experience CONCERT 10/11/1968
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  • The Best Books on Music of the Last Six Months

    by C! TeamJune 25, 2008Comments (3)

    There's something about summer reading lists. They almost always contain must-reads, but they are also supposed to contain page-turners... books that, while not being the most challenging literary content you've feasted your eyes on, are highly entertaining without being too heavy on the thinking. It's summer for crissakes, and that means taking a standard break from life. (read more)

  • Blonde Ambition: Stewart Copeland

    by Braden TowneJune 18, 2008Comments (0)

    In this live audio interview, Copeland gives the unabridged version of events surrounding their careers together and apart, the creative process, and even rumors of unrest (read more)

  • Rediscovering Rock and Roll, A Journey: Chapter Seven

    by Paul WilliamsJune 18, 2008Comments (2)

    In the future, perhaps, everything will be digital, and we’ll be able to order videos of individual songs, which will be instantly transferred over phone lines to our combination personal computer/music disc/video disc player (and billed to our credit accounts at the same time). There will be a broadcast service, so we can be exposed to new product in the first place, but they’ll figure out some way that you can’t copy (read more)

  • Well, C'mon! I Wanna Be Your Dog

    by Denise SullivanJune 4, 2008Comments (4)

    Recorded for the band's 1969 self-titled debut, "I Wanna Be Your Dog" is right up there with "Sweet Jane" and "I'm Waiting For the Man", songs once considered required learning (read more)

  • Emmylou Harris

    by Steve MatteoMay 28, 2008Comments (0)

    "the country base is still there, but there’s a richness and fullness of sound to the music" (read more)

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