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"A load of big names kicked us off tours. We frightened them": Cactus should have been huge but it never happened - so we asked them to tell us why

Born out of hard rock pioneers Vanilla Fudge and contemporaries of Led Zeppelin, Cactus are the unsung innovators of 70s US rock

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“A perfect example of interpretive genius from a visionary guitarist”: The 20 greatest guitar cover versions

We asked, you voted, and the results are in, with a top 20 covers list featuring Guns N' Roses, Aretha Franklin, SRV and Joe Bonamassa. But who was voted number one?

Guitar World

“Leo Fender got it wrong and Hendrix corrected it”: Richard Fortus explains the simple tweaks used by Jimi Hendrix and Joe Perry that improved the Stratocaster beyond its original design

Fortus has made the two relatively straightforward adjustments to his own signature Strat-style guitar, as he believes they both vastly improve a Stratocaster's tone

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Steven Van Zandt: ‘Every Springsteen needs a guy reminding them they were once nobody’

As a HBO new documentary airs on Sky, the guitarist from the E Street Band talks to Craig McLean about being Springsteen’s right-hand man, acting in ‘The Sopranos’, fighting for Nelson Mandela, and how the corporate takeover has changed music forever

The Independent UK

“While his life was cut short, so many other talented artists continue to express themselves within those magical walls”: 38 unreleased Jimi Hendrix tracks to feature on new film and CD/vinyl box set celebrating Electric Lady Studios

The epic Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision is stuffed with unheard treasures, 5.1 surround sound mixes, and is essential listening and viewing for Hendrix fans. It drops on 13 September

MusicRadar

“He was driven internally to build a home base where he could record everything he felt”: 38 unreleased Jimi Hendrix tracks recorded shortly before his death are set to be released for the first time

The recordings were captured at Hendrix’s Electric Lady studios with Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox, and will be accompanied by a documentary on the studio’s creation

Guitar World

“I think Leo Fender sort of got it wrong, and Jimi Hendrix corrected it”: Richard Fortus explains how Hendrix and Joe Perry improved the Stratocaster’s tone by flipping it upside down

Back to front or upside down, whichever way you look at it, Fortus says Hendrix's reverse approach is the secret to “piano-like low-end” and Aerosmith's Perry was paying close attention

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“He made the guitar cry. It has the same spirit and the same soul that a human voice has”: Breakout TikTok guitarist Towa Bird channels her hero Jimi Hendrix with The Star-Spangled Banner performance ahead of 2024 MLS All-Star Game

Following the release of her debut album American Hero, Bird treated soccer fans to an overdriven rendition of the US national anthem

Guitar World

A Jimi Hendrix box set featuring 38 unreleased tracks recorded in the months before his death is on the way

Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision is scheduled for release in September - watch the new video for Angel [Take 7] now

Louder

Mick Fleetwood is releasing a blues album with "the Jimi Hendrix of the ukulele"

Listen to Mick Fleetwood and Jake Shimabukuro's version of the delta blues classic Rollin' N Tumblin'

Louder

Jerry Miller, influential Moby Grape guitarist who Eric Clapton called the “best guitar player in the world”, has died aged 81

Jerry Miller was friends with Jimi Hendrix, inspired Led Zeppelin and was a trailblazing player in San Francisco's thriving '60s music scene

Guitar World

"Murder and mayhem never had their way, though the potential was there": A story of Moby Grape, chaos and courtrooms, acid trips and white witches

Moby Grape had it all, and were poised to be the next truly great band. Then came the rip-offs, the drugs, the madness, and the loss of everything

Louder

“Hendrix came in at two o’clock in the morning. I can still remember the audience – Rod Stewart, The Beatles, the Small Faces – all of them were silent when Jimi was done”: Junior Marvin on joining Bob Marley – and the night Hendrix shook his hand

Marvin had been offered a 10 year contract from Stevie Wonder on the day he joined Bob Marley and the Wailers. But he never looked back. Here he looks back on making musical history with reggae's global icon

Guitar World

“You could argue that Cream was the first fusion band. Eric Clapton was our Ornette Coleman – we just didn’t tell him!” How Jack Bruce tapped into his jazz roots with fusion supergroup Spectrum Road

Jack Bruce launched Spectrum Road in 2012, featuring drummer Cindy Blackman-Santana, and Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid

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The guitar riff changed the course of popular music in the 1950s and remains a powerful force today – we chart its development over the decades, and what you can learn from its evolution

From Chuck Berry to Dave Grohl via Johnny Marr, Jimmy Page and more, this rhythm guitar masterclass offers a decade-by-decade study in the evolution of the riff

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“We were the belt-and-braces Pink Floyd – basic yobbos”: how Hawkwind boldly went where no band had gone before on psychedelic masterpiece In Search Of Space

America had hippies and Woodstock – the UK had greasy, gritty space-heads Hawkwind and their cosmic epic In Search Of Space

Louder

“There’s going to be a feeling of loss but a huge sense of relief… I’ve had my time with them. I’m finding new friends now and they can move on”: When David Gilmour auctioned 123 of his guitars for charity

Just before he raised a record-breaking $21.5m, the veteran axe hero showed and played some of the historic instrument’s he’d decided to part with

Guitar World

“We set up Eric and Duane in the studio, so they were face-to-face about two feet apart. They could literally touch each other’s guitars if they wanted to”: The Albert Brothers on recording Hendrix, Clapton, the Allman Brothers – and that Layla session

Ron and Howard’s innovative recording techniques became synonymous with the ’70s – but the humble siblings say they were just lucky to get to work with the best

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“You can hear the influence of those riffs on Guns N’ Roses, but I’m sure it’s not a conscious thing. It’s in our subconscious, ingrained in our DNA”: Richard Fortus on how Aerosmith changed his life, and what he and Slash learned from Joe Perry

The GNR guitarist and Aerosmith super-fan explains what makes Joe Perry one of rock guitar's GOATs and the influence he and Brad Whitford had on him, sonically and sartorially

MusicRadar

“He doesn’t make it sound like he's trying”: Eric Gales and Slash play Hendrix on the S.E.R.P.E.N.T tour

Eric Gales and Slash play Hendrix at S.E.R.P.E.N.T festival

Guitar World

“You all might know this tune, I think”: Eric Gales calls upon Slash and unleashes his inner Hendrix for Purple Haze jam

Slash's S.E.R.P.E.N.T blues travelling festival is well underway, and he's already served up perhaps the tastiest team-up of the tour with the help of blues virtuoso Gales

The Guardian - UK

Stewart Copeland: ‘The Police’s recording sessions were very dark. We beat the crap out of each other’

As the Police’s biggest hit album Synchronicity is reissued, their drummer answers your questions on punk, his CIA dad and Sting’s ‘magnificent’ pecs

Guitar World

“Some of the greatest sounds were created on junk!” Joe Bonamassa reveals the secret to getting great tones from affordable gear

Bonamassa is one of the world's highest-profile vintage guitar collectors but here the blues maestro assures us that affordable options from today's market past the taste test

Guitar World

“He had this ’65 Firebird III hanging on the wall. It was one of the best guitars I’d ever played. Some weeks later, I dreamed about it. I was like, ‘That’s the Holy Grail!’” DeWolff’s Pablo van de Poel on the quest to land his literal dream guitar

The Dutch psych-rock maestro checks in to show us his guitars and in the process makes us A) want a Firebird and B) wonder if it's time to have three fuzz pedals on our pedalboards

Louder

"The amount of sugar in the lyrics could kill a whole army": Winger attempt to tweak the hard rock formula on their debut album with mixed results

A more serious proposition than many of the Sunset Strip generation, Winger's debut combined melodic hooks with no small amount of technical skill

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