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The Marshall 60th Anniversary Jimi Hendrix Collection features a Marshall 1959 Super Lead half-stack, and a special edition Dunlop Fuzz Face.

“We built the amps, Hendrix made them scream”: Marshall celebrates 60 years of Jimi Hendrix with “cosmic” anniversary collection including hand-wired amp, Fuzz Face and more

By Jonathan Horsley published

Finished with a "cosmic" black-and-purple design, the JMH head is joined by a matching cab and Dunlop Fuzz Face, and an Acton III Bluetooth speaker

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On the left, Sadler Vaden (in white T-shirt) jams with Jason Isbell. On the right, Mike McCready plays his Strat onstage with Pearl Jam.

Sadler Vaden on when he and Jason Isbell jammed Little Wing with Pearl Jam's Mike McCready

By Jonathan Horsley published

Vaden and Isbell were playing the Paramount in Jimi Hendrix's hometown Seattle when they invited another local legend onstage to join them. A top-tier performance ensues

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“The solo is his interpretation of war. Such a brilliant piece of artistry”: Slash hails a Hendrix classic

By Paul Elliott published

“It’s just pure, soul-wrenching emotion”

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John McLaughlin plays his PRS live onstage. He wears a black tennis wristband; the guitar has a highly figured flame maple top and he wears a blue shirt. On the right, Jimi Hendrix plays his Gibson Flying V with the psychedelic paint job.

John McLaughlin on how his first encounter with Jimi Hendrix ended in “disaster”

By Jonathan Horsley published

McLaughlin has fond recollections of meeting Hendrix, even if his legendary 1969 Record Plant jam did not go to plan

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Jimi and Billy in 1968

“I was playing the Fender Strat that Jimi Hendrix gave me”: Billy Gibbons on the making of ZZ Top's greatest blues song

By Paul Elliott published

"For some reason the guitar wasn’t working through the amp," Gibbons recalled

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“I’ll never forget meeting Jimi at that club”: Buddy Guy comes out of retirement to honour Hendrix

By Will Simpson published

Blues legend joins a throng of guitar heroes for ‘Experience Hendrix’ tour

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Freddie Mercury and Brian May onstage in the early 1970s; May is wearing a white patterned cape and plays his Red Special electric guitar while Mercury strikes a pose with his mic stand.

Brian May recalls the time he played live through Hendrix’s Marshall – and it didn’t go well

By Jonathan Horsley published

Hendrix might have had the Marshall stack under his spell but the Queen says he struggled to play a chord

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Joe Satriani [left] plays his Chrome Boy Ibanez signature S-style on stage, and wears a black T-shirt and wraparound shades; JImi Hendrix [right] wears a bright patterned shirt and plays his Olympic White Fender Stratocaster onstage at Royal Albert Hall.

Joe Satriani explains the difference between today’s online virtuosos and Jimi Hendrix

By Jonathan Horsley published

Satch says Hendrix was never played anything that sounded like an exercise – he “just sounded like music”

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Pete Townshend of The Who smashes a Fender Telecaster guitar into the speaker cab of his amplifier during a concert at the Oberrheinhalle, Offenburg, Germany, 17th April 1967. Singer Roger Daltrey is behind him on the left. Marshall amplifier heads are visible behind the speaker cabs and the guitar is fitted with a Fender Stratocaster neck

"I'm going to pretend I'm Hendrix!'": Pete Townshend looks back in this classic 1990 guitar interview

By Guitarist magazine published

Best of 2024: "The thing that really stunned Eric and me was the way he took what we did and made it better"

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“Jimi was brave, beautiful and powerful!”: On Hendrix’s birthday, a tribute from Eric Gales

By Amit Sharma published

Gales says: “Until the end of time, we’re going to be wondering how Jimi came up with this stuff"

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