It was the Isle of Wight Festival 1970, one of the biggest gigs in Hendrix lore, when a trouser emergency struck ...

Jimi Hendrix fans are getting a new view of his life courtesy of Eric Barrett. The former Hendrix roadie recounts his adventures with the electric-guitar hero in his book, Experie ...

In a rare interview conducted in 1968, Hendrix offered his thoughts on the rivalry that had been forced on himself and ...

Eric Barrett was Hendrix's guitar tech during his heyday – and witnessed the legend's guitar-smashing antics firsthand ...

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. And while you're trying again, think about Jimi Hendrix, who made it halfway through his first guitar gig before being fired on Feb. 20, 1959. The show ...

Bob Dylan released his first album in more than a year with 1967's understated classic John Wesley Harding. Among the great songs found on that LP was a tune called "All Along the Watchtower." Before ...

Jimi Hendrix was known around the world for his unbeatable guitar skills. And while he became a rock icon for playing the guitar (and infamously destroying some of them) at a later age, guitars were ...

Rock legend Jimi Hendrix rose to fame in the late 1960s with his band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience. He had been working hard as a guitarist in the years leading up to his breakout, and was a talented ...

So you want to play like rock god Jimi Hendrix? Fender combines guitar history and present-day playability in a Hendrix Stratocaster that's both a contemporary instrument and a child of the '60s. In ...

Ever since he first emerged, Jimi Hendrix was cited as a one-of-a-kind guitarist and offered a style that hadn’t been ...

Just hearing the name Jimi Hendrix conjures an electric energy; after all, this was the guy who performed a now-iconic rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Woodstock and set his guitar on fire ...

On what would have been the 65th birthday of music icon Jimi Hendrix, Charles R. Cross, author of Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix, cross-examines the lesser-known personality of ...