Articles tagged "jimi hendrix"

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Luckily, Jimi Hendrix never used a Quilter amp

by Jan Norman [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[15.Jun.09] :. COSTA MESA, Calif. — Wouldn’t it be great if Jimi Hendrix used one of my guitar amps, thought Pat Quilter. It was the mid-‘60s when a musician friend complained that guitar...

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Ultimate Hendrix by John McDermott

by Guy Crucianelli

[1.May.09] :. As engineer Eddie Kramer laments, too many Hendrix recording sessions ended up as parties, with hangers-on, groupies, and various other revelers packed into the studio to witness the Hendrix magic.

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Separate But Very Equal: The (Other) Important Albums of 1968 Feature

Day Two: From Jimi Hendrix to the Rolling Stones

by PopMatters Staff

[26.Nov.08] :. The last quintet of choices show how the blues reclaimed its basis for a dozen hard rock hymns, argued for the importance of following one's singer/songwriter muse, and proved that not every significant sound coming out of the UK was Beatle-based.

Separate But Very Equal: The (Other) Important Albums of 1968

 

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Mitch Mitchell: The Perfect Engine

by Sean Murphy

[17.Nov.08] :. Not for nothing was the band called The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Certainly, Hendrix did—and does—go by his own name; he effectively created his own brand the second lighter fluid...

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Memories of Mitch Mitchell, drummer for the Jimi Hendrix Experience

by Patrick MacDonald [The Seattle Times (MCT)]

[14.Nov.08] :. Hearing the news Wednesday about the death of Mitch Mitchell, I immediately remembered how ashen and frail he looked last Thursday at the Experience Hendrix Tour concert in Seattle. But then I was...

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Film DVD Review

All My Loving

by Stuart Henderson

[18.Sep.07] :. Tony Palmer's 1968 made-for-BBC "masterpiece" looks decidedly more suspect today.

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Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock [DVD]

by Adam Williams

[9.Nov.05] :. Experience Hendrix has done a tremendous service to aficionados the world over by adding another treasure to the archive.

 

Jimi Hendrix: Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight [CD + DVD]

by Adam Williams

[10.Jan.05] :. As he had so masterfully done at Monterey and Woodstock, Jimi Hendrix engulfed Isle of Wight festival goers in a brilliant sea of cosmic sights and sounds. No one could have imagined that the 1970 concert would be the Voodoo Chile's last hurrah.

 

Jimi Hendrix: Electric Ladyland

by Adam Williams

[10.May.04] :. Nearly four decades ago, a blazing comet crashed into London’s burgeoning music scene and exploded in a cloud of purple haze. Arriving from an entirely different artistic universe, that comet,...

 

Jimi Hendrix: Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Jimi Hendrix

by Brian James

[9.Jan.04] :. Recently, Rolling Stone ran a feature on the one-hundred greatest guitarists of all time, and though it was worth flipping through to see who made the list and what positions they occupied, it...

 

Jimi Hendrix: Jimi Plays Berkeley [DVD]

by Scott Hreha

[9.Dec.03] :. Seeing as how little exists in the way of Jimi Hendrix archival material on film, it’s easy to get excited over the release or improved reissue of even the most questionable artifacts. Jimi...

 

Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix Collection

by Nicholas Taylor

Another Jimi Hendrix greatest hits compilation? Wasn’t 1993’s The Ultimate Experience enough? Or even 1998’s Experience Hendrix? Well, yes and no. Part of the reason...