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Jimi Hendrix performing live onstage at The Speakeasy in Margaret Street London W1, playing guitar with teeth
"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

By Tom Poak Published

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

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Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) being interviewed before his concert at the Fillmore Auditorium, on February 1, 1968, in San Francisco, California.
"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

By Guitar Player Staff Published

Electric Ladyland was released 25 October 1968. Guitar Player interviewed Jimi Hendrix shortly before the album's release...

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Carlos Santana performs live onstage at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in New Orleans, Louisiana on April 24, 1999
“I had only one concern: Would Jimi Hendrix like it if he were here?" Carlos Santana on the making of the Supernatural album

By Andy Ellis Published

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

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John Lee Hooker performs onstage
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"

By Jas Obrecht Published

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.

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Fender Duo-Sonic electric guitar
The History of the Fender Duo-Sonic

By Dave Hunter Published

A favorite of Jimi Hendrix, this petite powerhouse gives a taste of authentic pre-CBS Fender without the five-figure price tag

Guitars
Erja Lyytinen
"Open C Tuning With a Slide Gives It a Whole New Approach": Watch Blues Rocker Erja Lyytinen’s Up-Tempo Live Rendition of Jimi Hendrix’s “Crosstown Traffic”

By Rod Brakes Published

Video The Finnish guitarist’s latest track appears ahead of new double live album, ‘Diamonds on the Road – Live 2023’

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Multiple exposure studio portrait of Mick Green (1944-2010), Britiish rock and roll guitarist with Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, playing the guitar, 1978.
Jimi Hendrix Did It Rarely While Jimmy Page Did It All the Time: Here's What You Need to Know About Layering Guitars

By Craig Anderton Published

There’s more than one way to layer guitars when recording, and these five professional tips will help you choose the right approach

Lessons
Gibson Flying V electric guitar and Gibson GA79-RV amplifier
The History of the Gibson Flying V

By Chris Gill Published

A failure when introduced in 1958, the Flying V eventually became one of Gibson's most iconic electric guitars

Guitars
English guitarist Pete Townshend, wearing his trademark white boiler suit, performs live on stage playing a Gibson SG Special guitar, with rock group The Who during the European leg of the band's Tommy Tour at a venue in England in October 1970.
“I’ll Never Be Able to Play the Kind of Leads I Want”: Pete Townshend Discusses Guitar Solos, Gibson SGs and More in This Fascinating Interview From the ‘GP’ Vault

By Michael Brooks Published

“I was happiest listening to Jimi Hendrix – that, to me, was like heaven,” said the Who’s six-string destroyer

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Christone "Kingfish" Ingram performs in concert during Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival on June 16, 2023 in Manchester, Tennessee.
"Blues Music Is My First Love": Christone “Kingfish” Ingram Reveals Five Life-Changing Riffs

By Jim Beaugez Published

Video The Fender signature artist and Grammy-winning bluesman talks vital influences from Albert King and B.B. King to Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Hazel

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