Jimi Hendrix was on a different level. Nobody has quite matched his guitar-playing magic, and nobody has embodied his cool 60s spirit quite the same way. Plenty of musicians, including Hendrix’s own ...

In November 2025, Ronnie Wood shared a video to his official YouTube channel recalling his time playing bass with Jeff Beck ...

Carlos Santana believed Jimi Hendrix might have been intimidated by the musical developments Miles Davis would make in this 1971 album.

Rather than run from his challenger, Clapton forged a friendship with him. He also permed his hair and plugged his electric ...

Hendrix left a lasting impression on the slide guitar maestro, but soon learned his calling was far from power trios ...

The history of rock guitar — and rock music in general — can be split into two periods: before Jimi Hendrix's debut album and after. It's difficult to overstate the impact of the Jimi Hendrix ...

Philip Norman’s 2020 book Wild Thing: The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix described how Hendrix came to join the army in the first place. He had a run-in with the law after stealing some ...

In the eighth episode of UCR's Bold as Love Recalled and Celebrated video series, Todd Rundgren shares the story of how Jimi Hendrix left him feeling initially mystified. He'd come up listening to the ...

Many of The Monkees‘ songs were co-written by the same songwriter. The songwriter watched Jimi Hendrix perform “Foxy Lady” and “Purple Haze” at the Monterey International Pop Festival in 1967.

Jimi Hendrix was many things—a talented musician, an experimental artist, a style icon, an activist, a philosopher. But those who knew him well saw another side of him. Hendrix, who died in 1970 at ...

When Jimi Hendrix visited Maui in 1970 to play a concert in Olinda and take part in the “Rainbow Bridge” movie, he walked by the ocean one day with his friend and bandmate Billy Cox. “As we walked ...

There are a number of theories connected with the hidden secret in the picture, including that rock star Jimi Hendrix had something to do with it, or it's due to a 1951 film ...