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Electric Ladyland: Custom Electric Motorcycle Inspired By Rock And Roll

German custom bike builder Jürgen Becker pays homage to the era of rock and roll with his custom electric motorcycle called Electric Ladyland.

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"We got mobbed for autographs – thousands of screaming schoolgirls and we had to escape in a limo": the wild ride of Pacific Gas & Electric

Fêted by critics, mobbed by crowds, admired by Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton… then God intervened to dim the lights of Pacific Gas & Electric

Louder

Watch Erja Lyytinen bust out the kazoo and pay tribute to Jimi Hendrix with a blazing slide cover of Crosstown Traffic

Hendrix in open C? Why not!? The performance is taken from the Finnish blues phenom’s forthcoming live album, Diamonds On The Road – Live 2023, which hits stores 6 October

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Woodstock Festival: 50 mind-blowing facts about the original celebration of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll

The Woodstock Festival became part of rock'n'roll folklore as half a million hippies descended on a farm in upstate New York in 1969

Louder

Eddie Van Halen, Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page are some of guitar’s greatest trailblazers – learn their styles and level up your playing with this rock guitar deep-dive

The styles of Slash, Eric Clapton, Ritchie Blackmore and a suite of other rock gods are placed under the microscope for this comprehensive lesson – tabs and audio included

Guitar World

“Pop music didn’t offer enough open space for improvisation… there was no way we were going to play a tune the same way twice”: How Soft Machine pioneered the Canterbury scene

By the time debut album The Soft Machine was released in 1968, they’d already split up - but its impact changed everything

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"Syd Barrett was absolutely unbelievable": Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page on Pink Floyd's "very, very cool" early years and Syd Barrett's "futuristic vision"

Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page was hugely impressed by Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd

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“I would definitely advise trying classical guitar – it’s really easy to translate classical chord shapes to pop music”: How NY duo The Lemon Twigs are leading the ’70s glam rock guitar revival

Power-pop enthusiast Brian D’Addario on his love of 12-strings, surprising guitar heroes, and how fingerstyle on a nylon-string can be the foundation for all songwriting on guitar

Guitar World

Sunn’s first official drop revives amps used by Adam Jones, Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrix

The Beta Lead and 100S are back, and they're joined by a host of bass heads, speaker cabs and monitors

Guitar World

13 Great Hayley Atwell Movies And TV Shows And How To Watch Them

Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One star Hayley Atwell has many other great movies and TV shows under her belt.

Cinemablend

“The world needs it back”: Sunn Amplifiers – the brand used by Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townshend and countless doom metal heroes – has been revived with the help of Fender

All-new models and “historic reproductions of the classic Sunn designs” are expected to arrive later this year

Guitar World

“Mick came in with his Les Paul, plugged in to my amp and fiddled with the controls. All of a sudden there it was, the full Ziggy Stardust tone”: The post-Bowie career of Mick Ronson, rock ’n’ roll’s most quietly spoken guitar hero

Sure, he made a massive imprint on David Bowie’s classic early ’70s albums. But Mick Ronson also worked with Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp, Elton John, Roger McGuinn, Morrissey, Ian Hunter and many others

Guitar World

Stevie Ray Vaughan defined the sound of contemporary blues guitar – here are 20 techniques you can learn from the Stratocaster master

Get inside the Texas blues icon’s style with this in-depth lesson on his incendiary playing

Guitar World

“You would make Jimi proud if he heard that solo”: Greg Sover and Jimi Hendrix bassist Billy Cox cover Hendrix’s deep cut, Remember

The Philadelphian guitarist and singer steps up to fill some of the biggest shoes in guitar history – with David Bowie’s amp along for the ride

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"I'm finally getting up there with Eric Johnson… and the amp goes to s**t!" Orianthi on her A-list collaborations and the guitarists who shaped her sound

The Aussie virtuoso reflects on playing with Steve Vai and Santana, meeting B.B. King, and why Gary Moore was a pioneer of blues-metal soloing

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50 guitar chord shapes guitarists need to know

Increase your fretboard vocabulary now!

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“The others realised they couldn’t stop me because it was too close to the show… I got away with it, although it was a close-run thing”: How Peter Gabriel developed his Genesis frontman act

It may have caused conflict, but his insistence on sticking with his artistic vision paid off in countless ways

Louder

“Some guy who obviously didn’t recognise me said, ‘You just ruined a classic song.’ But another chap replied, ‘He’s allowed. He wrote the song!’”: Keith Emerson’s disastrous karaoke incident

The keyboard legend's jam-packed career saw interactions with a varied cast from the ‘strange’ Dario Argento to Motörhead’s Lemmy

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Guitar World

Vito Bratta recorded White Lion’s All You Need is Rock 'n' Roll with Jimi Hendrix’s black Stratocaster – and Leslie West’s Marshall amp

West's 100-watt Mountain Marshall is still owned by Bratta, who got his hands on the fabled Strat through Al Kooper – who was gifted the guitar by Hendrix himself

Guitar World

“Beyond special”: Watch John Mayer and Dead & Company nail Knockin’ on Heaven's Door, All Along the Watchtower and Not Fade Away with Dave Matthews

Dead & Co turned into a classic rock covers band for a portion of the night, with a setlist that also featured The Band's The Weight

Los Angeles Times

Jill Scott's remixed national anthem goes viral after performance at Essence Festival

Fans often ask R&B singer and actor Jill Scott why she doesn't sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at sporting events.

Guitar World

Jeff Beck said Stevie Ray Vaughan “was the closest thing to Hendrix when it came to playing the blues”: watch the two guitar heroes duke it out on Goin' Down

Filmed for MTV, this electrifying 1989 performance showcases the Strat titans' uniquely forceful playing

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Learn the ultimate Jimi Hendrix rhythm guitar chord lesson

Master Jimi's 'thumb over the neck' and finger barre chord techniques – plus his approach to funk rock and much more

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Hendrix's Epiphone Wilshire guitar is up for sale at $1.25 million

It's one of Jimi's early guitars

The Independent UK

Jimi Hendrix’s 1961 Epiphone Wilshire guitar goes on sale for over a million dollars

The instrument is reportedly being sold on behlaf of a private collector

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