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JIMI HENDRIX performs live at a street concert in Harlem.
See Jimi Hendrix in newly unearthed Woodstock video footage shot from the stage

By Elizabeth Swann Published

A 22-year-old drama student named Albert Goodman snuck onstage to film the guitar legend from just 15 feet away

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Warren Haynes, photographed before a live performance with blues rock group Gov't Mule at Under The Bridge in London, on July 4, 2013.
Warren Haynes on the guitarists who changed his life

By Phil Weller Published

From discovering Hendrix through his older brother to studying Clapton and Johnny Winter, Haynes traces the players who shaped his approach to the guitar

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LEFT: Jimi Hendrix at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 24th February 1969. RIGHT: Todd Rundgren playing his psychedelic guitar, a Gibson SG originally painted for Eric Clapton by the Dutch design collective The Fool.
Todd Rundgren on the Jimi Hendrix album that changed everything

By Phil Weller Published

The guitarist reveals the moment Hendrix moved beyond his influences and discovered a voice entirely his own

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Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) performs live on stage playing a black Fender Stratocaster guitar at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival at Afton Down on the Isle of Wight on the night of 30th-31st August 1970.
Jimi Hendrix’s roadie claims in his new book that he played guitar for him at his biggest show. A recording from the event says otherwise

By Christopher Scapelliti Last updated

Eric Barrett recalls more than two years on the road with the guitar icon. But one anecdote doesn’t add up

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LEFT: Jimi Hendrix performs with he Jimi Hendrix Experience at the Royal Albert Hall, 24th February 1969. RIGHT: Eric Clapton performs with Derek & the Dominos on The Johnny Cash Show, November 1970
Eric Clapton on Chas Chandler’s misstep with Jimi Hendrix — and why he “fell in love with him” anyway

By Phil Weller Published

Clapton thought the Experience was the wrong band for Hendrix, but felt “an incredible sense of relief” to have discovered someone else as devoted to the blues as he was

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LEFT: Jimi Hendrix at Monterey Pop, June 17, 1967, Monterey, California, ZUMA Press, Inc. RIGHT: Alice Cooper, Sep-75, Copenhagen, Denmark
Famous shock rocker says one unexpected visitor changed his band’s fortunes overnight

By Phil Weller Published

The singer reveals how a chance encounter with a music legend led to an introduction that shaped his career for the next 55 years

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Leslie West performing with West, Bruce and Laing, 1973
Leslie West knew Mountain was onto something after playing “Mississippi Queen” for Jimi Hendrix

By Joe Bosso Published

Remembering the guitar legend on the anniversary of his passing with this insightful interview about how he made Mountain's 1970 breakthrough hit

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LEFT: Jimi Hendrix at Electric Lady Studios, in New York CIty, August 14, 1970. RIGHT: Billy Gibbons onstage, July 29, 2017
Billy Gibbons played “Purple Haze” onstage while opening for Jimi Hendrix

By Phil Weller Published

The Moving Sidewalks took a gamble by covering Hendrix songs in front of the guitar icon himself. His reaction launched a friendship that lasted until his death

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Peter Tork (left) and Jimi Hendrix photographed on the 1967 tour with Hendrix opened for the Monkees
Micky Dolenz on the worst tour match-up in rock history: the time Jimi Hendrix opened for the Monkees

By Gary Graff Published

The singer says he’s “the one to blame for that little bit of insane rock and roll trivia” 

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LEFT: Jimi Hendrix performs with The Jimi Hendrix Experience at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 24th February 1969. RIGHT:Joe Walsh performing onstage in 1980
Joe Walsh's backstage jam with Jimi Hendrix

By Phil Weller Published

A young Joe Walsh shared a stage and a dressing room with Hendrix in the early ‘70s, and it proved to be an education

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