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The Experience Hendrix Tour will return this year after a five-year break. The all-star tribute shows to guitar great Jimi Hendrix will play two dozen shows across the U.S. starting in September. This year’s lineup includes Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Taj Mahal, Zakk Wylde, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Eric Johnson, Dweezil Zappa, Mato Nanji, Calvin Cooke, Chuck Campbell and singer Henri Brown. The concerts – which launched with a show in 2001 before expanding to a nationwide tour in 2004 – feature covers and interpretations of classic Hendrix songs. Shepherd, a veteran of Experience Hendrix Tours, ...
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The Experience Hendrix Tour will return this year after a five-year break. The all-star tribute shows to guitar great Jimi Hendrix will play two dozen shows across the U.S. starting in September. This year’s lineup includes Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Taj Mahal, Zakk Wylde, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Eric Johnson, Dweezil Zappa, Mato Nanji, Calvin Cooke, Chuck Campbell and singer Henri Brown. The concerts – which launched with a show in 2001 before expanding to a nationwide tour in 2004 – feature covers and interpretations of classic Hendrix songs. READ MORE: How Jimi Hendrix Experience’s ‘Are You...
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The curator of a billion-year time capsule that landed on the Moon last week said it contained an unheard Jimi Hendrix song, along with music by Elvis, the Who and many others. A total of 222 items were included in the Lunar Records collection, which is part of an archive built into the commercial Odysseus lander that touched down on Feb. 22. The $118 billion vehicle toppled onto its side on arrival but continues to return information to Earth. Space Blue executive Dallas Santana, who came up with the time capsule idea, told Billboard that the 50,000 songs also include music by Marvin Gaye, Sa...
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Singer Melanie Safka has died aged 76. The US folk musician, best known for her song ‘Brand New Key’ and rendition of The Rolling Stones’ classic ‘Ruby Tuesday’, passed away "peacefully" on Tuesday (23.01.24), her family announced. Her children – Leilah, Jeordie and Beau Jarred – shared the news in a Facebook post on Wednesday (24.01.24), and even though the cause of death is unknown, Melanie’s representatives mentioned she was suffering “illness” in their separate statement. The family announcement in full said: “A message from Leilah, Jeordie and Beau Jarred. “Dear Ones, “This is the hardest...
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A guitar owned by Jimi Hendrix is set to be auctioned for $1.25 million. The 'Voodoo Child' hitmaker – who died in 1970 aged 27 – played the 1961 Epiphone Wilshire in his early days with his group The King Kasuals, having traded in his Danelectro for the instrument when he was discharged from the army in 1962, paying just $65 for the instrument. The guitar was last for sale on the open market in 2008 and now auction house Moments in Time are selling it on behalf of a private collector, TMZ reports. The instrument comes with a photocopied letter of authenticity and a binder of reprinted photogr...
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Jeff Beck has died at the age of 78. The influential rock guitarist "peacefully passed away" on Tuesday (10.01.23) after contracting bacterial meningitis. A statement on his official Twitter page reads: "On behalf of his family, it is with deep and profound sadness that we share the news of Jeff Beck's passing. "After suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis, he peacefully passed away yesterday. His family ask for privacy while they process this tremendous loss." Beck shot to fame as part of the Yardbirds in the 60s. The legendary guitarist replaced Eric Clapton in the group, before he teamed...
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Gene Simmons says entertainers shouldn’t “give a f***” if they are on Rolling Stone magazine’s ‘200 Greatest Singers Of All Time’ list. The KISS singer, 73, branded the new league table – updated from the publication’s 2008 version –“skewed” after he and Celine Dion were among the performers left out of the rankings. He told TMZ: “It’s skewed – but you have to consider who’s popular and who’s not, but if you really think about it, how good somebody sings may be part and parcel of what they do. “For instance, you have Jimi Hendrix – would he make it on ‘American Idol’? “What about Bob Dylan? Wo...
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Cynthia Albritton - famous for making plaster casts of musicians' penises - has died at the age of 74. The artist, known as Cynthia Plaster Caster, immortalised the members of rockers like Jimi Hendrix, Buzzcocks' Pete Shelley and the Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra. Cynthia's representatives confirmed her death on Thursday (21.04.22), revealing she passed away in Chicago following a long illness. Albritton was born in 1947 and turned her attention to rock frontmen at art school during the 1960s – when she was asked to create a plaster cast of "something solid that could retain its shape"....
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