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“I’m sure if we found another tape where Jimi’s voice is buried, I know I could use something similar”: Eddie Kramer talks AI and digital audio restoration, and hints at more Jimi Hendrix recordings to come
By Jonathan Horsley published
In the '60s, Kramer helped make Hendrix's tone dreams come true. Now he is making his fans' dreams come true restoring lost tapes, and he doesn't rule out AI sound separation saving a future mix

"There were guitar players weeping, they had to mop the floor up. He was piling it on, solo after solo" – how Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton changed guitar forever
By Julian Piper, Jamie Dickson, David Mead published
"When Jimi played with Cream... he walked offstage with this smirk; he knew exactly what he was doing" – we look back at the seismic impact of Clapton and Hendrix on the British guitar scene

Listen to the previously unheard recording of the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s riotous 1967 performance of the Beatles’ Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
By Jonathan Horsley published
The track is the latest gold to be shared from the forthcoming live album capturing Hendrix’s storming set at the Hollywood Bowl, California, and it features some incendiary playing

The Star-Spangled Banner: the story of a British song, American patriotism and a white Stratocaster that shocked America
By Milton Mermikides published
How Vai, SRV, Malmsteen and Slash followed in the wake of Hendrix's bold interpretation

“Right now I’d like to do a song, it’s a little thing by Howlin’ Wolf…”: Listen to Jimi Hendrix’s newly unearthed performance of Killing Floor at the Hollywood Bowl, 1967
By Jonathan Horsley published
New Hendrix live album alert! Jimi Hendrix Experience: Hollywood Bowl August 18, 1967 is an unreleased, never bootlegged capture of the band’s LA set, and it’s out 10 November

Watch Martin Miller and Tom Quayle join forces to turn Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean into an instrumental fusion guitar epic
By Jonathan Horsley published
The masterly performance finds the two Ibanez signature artists taking the pop classic into jazz-rock territory and going over the edge with the virtuosity without losing sight of the melody

Graham Nash recalls a furious Little Richard lambasting Jimi Hendrix after the young guitarist upstaged the rock ’n’ roll godfather
By Jonathan Horsley published
It would take something for any backing player to steal Little Richard's thunder but then this was Jimi Hendrix...
![Janie Hendrix and Jimi Hendrix: Janie hosts an Experience Hendrix event [L]; Jimi plays Woburn Pop Festival, 1968](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/3SVFcc9VeAtxqiiPcotZLH.jpg)
Janie Hendrix says the first time the family heard Are You Experienced it was being blasted by their hippy neighbours – and her dad didn’t recognise Jimi’s voice
By Jonathan Horsley published
And she hints at the possibility of more Jimi releases to come, including Dolby Atmos mixes of Hendrix songs
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