With Axis: Bold as Love, the Jimi Hendrix Experience further explored the outer limits of psychedelic music. Where their debut album, Are You Experienced, explored the territory via rock and blues, ...

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. And while you're trying again, think about Jimi Hendrix, who made it halfway through his first guitar gig before being fired on Feb. 20, 1959. The show ...

Was Jimi Hendrix the greatest guitar player who ever lived? When Rolling Stone asked guitarists and critics what they thought, everyone basically agreed he was. In the rarest type of consensus, most ...

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 ...

Jimi Hendrix’s final performance took place on September 16, 1970, just 48 hours before he passed away. The show took place at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London, where Hendrix performed with Eric ...

In his electrifying biography of Jimi Hendrix, PHILIP NORMAN has charted the rock star’s extraordinary rise to fame – and examined the mysterious circumstances of his death at just 27. Here, in our ...

When Jimi Hendrix visited Maui in 1970 to play a concert in Olinda and take part in the “Rainbow Bridge” movie, he walked by the ocean one day with his friend and bandmate Billy Cox. “As we walked ...

Jimi Hendrix was known around the world for his unbeatable guitar skills. And while he became a rock icon for playing the guitar (and infamously destroying some of them) at a later age, guitars were ...

How historically accurate the new biopic Jimi: All Is By Side is, is a bit of a mystery. The real people who are depicted in less-than flattering light cry foul, while the filmmakers insist they did ...

Jimi Hendrix was one of the first artists to build his own recording studio. Electric Lady Studios, his state-of-the-art recording facility at 52 West 8th Street in Greenwich Village in New York City, ...

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On the evening of August 26th, 1970, Jimi Hendrix walked through the street-level door at 52 West 8th Street in New York’s Greenwich Village into paradise. Electric Lady Studios was the guitarist’s ...