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Martin Barre talks about sharing stages with Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck after Jethro Tull took a "big risk" hiring him in 1968
Barre explains how performing concerts with Hendrix, Beck and Jimmy Page made him a better guitar player
"It's probably the greatest electric guitar solo of all time.” Steve Stevens talks Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix and the 10 albums that changed his life
The guitarist behind Billy Idol's groundbreaking albums reveals the albums that shaped him as a musician
“Sometimes you are going to be so frustrated you'll hate the guitar." Jimi Hendrix shares his struggles in a 1968 Guitar Player interview
Hendrix also discussed problems with his Stratocaster and band mates and offered advice for young musicians
Watch Steve Lukather cover Jimi Hendrix’s Little Wing, with Jeff Beck's White Strat
The Toto guitarist revealed that Beck's camp has offered a number of other guitar heroes – including Billy Gibbons and John Mayer – a chance to use the Strat onstage as part of an ongoing tribute to the late guitar hero
Epiphone launches Inspired by Gibson Jimi Hendrix Flying V
The Flying V is a recreation of the instrument Hendrix played extensively in the 1960s, having painted its psychedelic patterns onto the guitar by hand
Junior Marvin on seeing one of Jimi Hendrix's early UK gigs
Having just witnessed him blow away a star-studded audience, the Wailers guitarist was stunned to find that Hendrix was too shy to even look at him afterwards
A rare live recording of Jimi Hendrix and Little Richard covering The Beatles is up for auction
Recorded at Little Richard’s show at the Back Bay Theater in Boston, in 1965, it showcases Hendrix’s developing sound in a unique context
Ritchie Blackmore on Steve Howe, Jimi Hendrix, classical influences and more
Chatting with GP in 1973, at the stratospheric height of Deep Purple's popularity, Blackmore offered insight into his hugely influential style – from his tremolo approach, to his deafening onstage volume
How Robin Trower crafted his blistering tonal triumph, Day of the Eagle
With some help from legendary Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick, Trower laid down an inspired tune that – 50 years later – remains, for his money, his “best rock and roll song”
“The music I might hear, I can’t get on the guitar. It’s a thing of laying around daydreaming... If you pick up your guitar and just try to play, it spoils the whole thing”: Jimi Hendrix on translating his ideas to the guitar, and the joys of club gigs
In 1970, at the peak of his stardom, Hendrix sat down with GP for a chat about songwriting, informal jams, and some of his favorite guitar players
