Latest about Jimi Hendrix
“The music I might hear, I can’t get on the guitar. It’s a thing of laying around daydreaming... If you pick up your guitar and just try to play, it spoils the whole thing”: Jimi Hendrix on translating his ideas to the guitar, and the joys of club gigs
In 1970, at the peak of his stardom, Hendrix sat down with GP for a chat about songwriting, informal jams, and some of his favorite guitar players
“My version of 'Fire' attracted some attention. I tried to imagine how Muddy Waters would have played it… Hell, I’m not going to compete with Jimi Hendrix!” Pete Anderson charts his career in five songs
From Dwight Yoakam to Michelle Shocked — Pete Anderson picks the tunes that put him on the map.
"He brought the elements of expression that a voice has: sliding, bending and the best vibrato anyone had heard in 1966. Guitar was NOT built to do that!" What Jimi Hendrix means to me – by some of the world's greatest guitar players
Jimi Hendrix was born on November 27, 1942. Here, Eric Gales, Paul Gilbert, Jennifer Batten, Joe Bonamassa, Kirk Fletcher, Steve Lukather, Joe Satriani and more talk about his enduring legacy
Watch Eddie Van Halen, Steve Lukather & Billy Sheehan cover Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and The Beatles at a 1996 ALS Benefit Concert for Jason Becker
27 years ago an all-star event, in aid of Jason Becker, brought to the stage some of the finest guitar players in the industry, including EVH and Luke…
"Wait a minute – that's the guy that plays guitar with his teeth!" Watch the new official mini-documentary that captures the seven crazy nights the Jimi Hendrix Experience spent opening for the Monkees
Experience Hendrix has made a short documentary with archive interviews with Mitch Mitchell, Noel Redding and Micky Dolenz about the Jimi Hendrix Experience's explosive few gigs with the Monkees
"Advice? Sometimes you are going to be so frustrated you want to give up – you’ll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you’ll be rewarded.” Jimi Hendrix talks technique, songwriting, making records and more in this 1968 Guitar Player interview
Electric Ladyland was released 25 October 1968. Guitar Player interviewed Jimi Hendrix shortly before the album's release...
“I had only one concern: Would Jimi Hendrix like it if he were here?" Carlos Santana on the making of the Supernatural album
On the release of his astonishingly successful 'Supernatural' album, Carlos Santana discussed taking inspiration from Miles Davis, Peter Green's legato lines, and revealed what (and who) finally got him to use a Tube Screamer
John Lee Hooker: "Out of the Younger Generation of the Blues Singers, Who Was My Pride and Joy? Stevie Ray Vaughan... He Could Do Anybody – Albert King, Jimi Hendrix, George Benson – Anybody's Thing. I'd Sit Down and Watch Him Do That"
The bluesman who Miles Davis once described as the "funkiest man alive" discusses his love of B.B. King's signature Gibson, his most beloved Fender amps, and the guitarist who came closest to his style with GP in this 1992 interview.
