How can we measure greatness? What does it look like? Is it visible from the moment someone is born? In the case of James Marshall Hendrix, better known as Jimi, the answer would likely be no. Born 80 ...

The playing style of guitar legend Jimi Hendrix has been analyzed a great deal and as such, there is a huge list of things you can do to replicate his distinctive guitar playing. However, you should ...

When Jimi Hendrix (1942-70) began playing London, he pulled out all the tricks he’d learned. That included playing the guitar on his back on the ground; playing in between his legs; and playing with ...

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On what would have been his 80th birthday, Jimi Hendrix is still regarded as one of the greatest guitarists of all time. In four short years he transcended boundaries and revolutionized popular music.

The electric guitar has become such a fixture in popular culture we now take it for granted. Despite groundbreaking modern guitar slingers like Saint Vincent, H.E.R. and Tosin Abasi, traditional rock ...

For those who think they are virtuosic enough, we have picked the easiest Jimi Hendrix songs to play on guitar to start with. Jimi Hendrix was born in 1942 in Seattle. His first touch and introduction ...

Ronnie Wood didn’t have to wait long to become a notable musician. Before joining The Rolling Stones, he was a teenage star in The Birds, who had some success in England, played a stolen bass in the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images In the 1970s Uli Jon Roth was a Strat-slinger with the Scorpions who loved ...

You might know Dave Mason from such bands as Traffic, or maybe for one of the many, many sessions he has recorded with the likes of Graham Nash, Wings, and some guy called Jimi Hendrix (it was Mason ...