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Hendrix’s 70th birthday

Funny how time flies. Jimi would have been seventy years on November 27th, 2012.

Kathy Etchingham opens new website

Kathy Etchingham has got a new website, as well as publishing «Through Gypsy Eyes» in eBook form.

Mixed handedness explains virtuosity

American psychologist Stephen Christman has written and article where he argues that Jimi’s mixed handedness may explain his virtuosity

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The first time I heard a Jimi Hendrix record I thought there was something wrong with the record player

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Gibsons Top 50 Guitarists

Gibson has revealed it’s list of the worlds top 50 guitarists of all time. Guess who’s number 1?

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Electric Lady Studios 40th anniversary

Jimi Hendrix celebrated the opening of his Electric Lady Recording Studios at 52 West 8th Street in NY’s Greenwich Village on August 26, 1970.

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Roger Mayer Octavia

Purple Haze, Fire, One Rainy Wish, Who Knows. What has Roger Mayer got to do with these songs?
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Jimi Hendrix record collection

Jeff Gold of recordmecca.com buys Hendrix’s record collection from Hendrix’s girlfriend Kathy Etchingham

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Hendrix at 70

GuitarPlayer got a lot of responses from players, gear makers, producers etc. when they asked for rememberences and comments on Hendrix’s 70 birthday. Read the article in GuitarPlayer

Jimi’s Yoko Ono

Kathy Etchingham is arguably the person who knows most about Hendrix. They were together for three years. In one interview, he claimed: «Kathy is my past girlfriend, my present girlfriend and probably my future girlfriend; my mother, my sister and all that bit. My Yoko Ono.» He wrote Foxy Lady, Gypsy Eyes and The Wind Cries Mary for her. She booked the recording studios, watched as he auditioned his band. Read the article in The Evening Standard

The True Lost Hendrix Album

Axis: Bold as Love, Jimi Hendrix’s second studio album, may be the most underloved record ever made by a rock god. Read article in Rolling Stone Magazine

Now you can visit Jimi Hendrix’s home of his own

If, in 1968 or 1969, Jimi Hendrix had casually mentioned to some foxy lady, some cute little heartbreaker, that “I wanna take you home,” then the home he meant was probably the tiny four-room London flat at 23 Brook Street, in Mayfair, which he shared with his girlfriend Kathy Etchingham.

My best shot: Jimi Hendrix by Gered Mankowitz

Gered Mankowitz: ‘The few photographs taken of him performing dominated the media … I just tried to give him an opportunity to give something to the camera’ Watch video

You never told me he was that good

In an article in The Guardian, Ed Vulliamy speaks to the people who knew Jimi Hendrix.

The brain that gave us Purple Haze

Miller-McCune.com mentions the ambidextry theory of Stephen Christman.