Rock along the watchtower, a Jimi Hendrix riff voted the best

Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 30 November, 2009 to the music subset

Readers of guitar and drum magazine Musicradar.com have voted Jimi Hendrix’s riff in “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)” the best guitar riff of all time.
A by-product of the sprawling, bluesier Voodoo Chile from the same album, from its wah-wah intro to the rhythm parts and the astonishing solo, Voodoo Child (Slight Return) is still regarded [...]

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Guitar amps, useful for holding and hitting… atoms

Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 7 November, 2008 to the comment subset

Just when I was starting to worry that a way to collect, hold still, and then bash, atoms would never be found, a UK physicist has discovered that an amplifier can in fact do the job:
Andrew Murray, a physicist at the University of Manchester, UK, and erstwhile rock guitarist, has discovered that his old amplifiers [...]

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