For the global community of lawyers, it is the gift that keeps on giving. Jimi’s family have launched a legal battle over recordings from two concerts at London’s Royal Albert Hall in 1969. According to TMZ the Hendrix Estate has filed a lawsuit against an unnamed company, laying claim to the original material. The court papers supposedly claim that the late guitar legend signed an agreement with the people who recorded the music at the two shows way back in…

September 17th 2010 marked 40 years since the passing of rock’s most influential and iconic electric guitarist – Jimi Hendrix. In many ways he wrote the book on the electric guitar, leaving behind an encyclopedia of sounds, riffs and styles that guitarists have been mimicking ever since. ‘The Classic Artists Series’ would not have a complete series on Rock legends and their mark on the world of music without making this film, the final word, on guitar virtuoso Jimi Hendrix….

Now this is something that won’t come along again. It’s the favorite guitar of Jimi Hendrix. Voted by everyone from Rolling Stone to Time as the best guitar player ever, Hendrix favorite guitar was this vintage Epiphone FT79 and was “used for almost everything he composed” whilst he was in the United States. Given to a friend just before he died, it was subsequently on numerous recordings and film soundtracks including those by Dusty Springfield, Walker Brothers, Blue Mink, Paul…

Jimi Hendrix’s former London home is to open up to the public to commemorate the 40th anniversary of his death. Part of an exhibition called Hendrix in Britain, the Mayfair flat, which had been previously occupied by the composer George Handel until 1759, can be viewed between September 15-26. “We are excited to be celebrating the life of Jimi Hendrix,” the director of Handel House Museum, Sarah Bardwell said in a statement. “After moving to Brook Street in 1968, Hendrix…

spinnermusic.co.uk Blues guitarist Johnny Jones — a Nashville legend and an early mentor of Jimi Hendrix — died last Wednesday, Oct. 14, at the age of 73. The notorious guitar slinger was found dead in his Nashville apartment by exterminators. An autopsy is pending. Called “a vital piece of Nashville’s R&B; history” by the Nashville Scene, Jones was featured in the Country Music Hall of Fame’s 2004 “Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues, 1945-1970″ exhibit in 2004,…

nme.comJimi Hendrix’s roadie says guitarist’s manager murdered him Jimi Hendrix’s former roadie James ‘Tappy’ Wright has claimed that the late guitar legend was murdered by his manager Michael Jeffrey. In his new book ‘Rock Roadie’, Wright claims that Jeffrey told him he plied Hendrix with pills and alcohol in order to kill him and claim on the guitarist’s life insurance. Hendrix died in September 1970. His body was found in a room at London’s Samarkand Hotel booked by Monika Dannemann,…

Only one guitar has the infamous claim of being the first guitar burnt onstage by legend Jimi Hendrix.  The 1965 Fender Stratocaster was doused with lighter fuel and set alight during a performance at London’s Finsbury Astoria in March 1967 – and Hendrix himself was rushed to hospital with minor burns to his hands.  It was seemingly lost until last year – all this time stashed away in a garage by Herdrix’s press officer. The fabled guitar will now be…