Topic: Chas Chandler
Jimi Hendrix would have turned 68 on November 27, 2010, and had he lived he would still be playing and still be the best. His father, Al, from Vancouver, was in the U.S. Army when Jimi entered the world. Jimi had ...
There is something about the electric guitar which, in the hands of a master musician, renders it quite magical.Someone with the right technique can elicit so many types of sounds out of that amplified block of wood as to make it ...
Newly restored tapes from 1969 shed light on the turbulent final months of Jimi Hendrix's life, the recordings he created, and the music that might have been. As 1969 dawned, Jimi Hendrix had just come through three of the most incredible ...
In his brief four-year reign as a superstar, Jimi Hendrix expanded the vocabulary of the electric rock guitar more than anyone before or since. Hendrix was a master at extracting all manner of unforeseen sonics from his instrument, often with innovative amplification ...
Beyond the world of rock folklore, no one remembers the band Grunt Futtock. Grunt Futtock were, in fact, a clever, jokey con dreamed up in the early Seventies, when Andrew Loog Oldham, who had discovered the Rolling Stones, and hard man Don ...