The music of 1960s guitar legend, Jimi Hendrix, may have benefited from his ambidexterity, or “mixed-right-handedness”, as US psychologist Stephen Christman refers to it.
Although he played his right-handed guitar upside down, and used his left hand to throw, comb his hair and hold cigarettes, Hendrix wrote, ate and held the telephone with his right [...]

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 [...]

Former UK doctor John Bannister seems to think claims made in a recently published book written by former Hendrix road manager, James “Tappy” Wright, that the iconic rock guitarist was murdered rather than dying of a drug overdose, are “plausible”.
He said that Wright’s description, in his memoir Rock Roadster, of Hendrix’s demise “sounded plausible because [...]

Apparently ten years worth of unreleased Jimi Hendrix material is sitting in recording studio archives, but some of it is about to see the light of day, according to Hendrix’s sister, Janie, of Experience Hendrix, the company that owns the late musician’s recordings.
Experience Hendrix have “10 more years of Hendrix music” in their archives, according [...]