Jimi Hendrix named 'greatest guitar player in history'
Legendary musician Jimi Hendrix has been named the greatest guitar player in history by Rolling Stone magazine in a list compiled by a panel of music experts and top guitar players.
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“Jimi Hendrix exploded our idea of what rock music could be: He manipulated the guitar, the whammy bar, the studio and the stage,” said Grammy-winning guitarist Tom Morello in the magazine, citing Hendrix’s “Purple Haze” and “The Star-Spangled Banner,” as key tracks.
Hendrix is joined by the likes of Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page and Pete Townshend among the top 10, in a list laden with rock ‘n’ roll icons spanning decades.
The panel of experts recruited to vote for their favourite guitar players included musicians such as Lenny Kravitz, Eddie Van Halen (who was voted No. 8), Brian May and Dan Auerbach from The Black Keys, along with a selection of Rolling Stone’s senior writers and editors.
The experts also weighed in on their favourites, with Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready calling Eddie Van Halen “a master of riffs” and Joe Perry praising Jimmy Page’s “vision of how to transcend the stereotypes of what the guitar can do.”
The full list will be featured in a special issue with four special covers of Van Halen, Clapton, Hendrix and Page, and will be on news-stands and online at www.rollingstone.com on Friday.
Hendrix ex-girlfriend condemns film
Foremer girlfriend of rock guitarist dismisses film biography as fiction
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Hendrix girlfriend condemns film biography Photo: Getty Images
Jimi Hendrix’s ex-girlfriend has attacked a new movie about his life as “completely unethical” and says a scene in which he beats her was “just completely made up”.
Kathy Etchingham, an Australian who met the guitarist while they were living in London, was his girlfriend from 1966 to 1969. Her character in the film All Is By My Side is played by Hayley Atwell, a London-born actress. The lead character is played by André Benjamin – or André 3000 – from the hip-hop group OutKast.
Ms Etchingham, a retired estate agent living in Melbourne, said she had not been consulted about the film and that the depiction of her relationship with Mr Hendrix and his rise to fame was “wildly inaccurate”. She has threatened legal action to block the film’s release in Australia.
”If it’s that bad, I’ve got no choice,” she told The Sydney Morning Herald. ”If I don’t, it’ll just get repeated and repeated and it’ll become the truth.”
Ms Etchingham has not seen the film – she will see it at a film festival in Sydney this week – but has read reviews and spoken to a friend who attended the world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The film was written and directed by John Ridley, who wrote the screenplay for 12 Years a Slave.
Ms Etchingham was 20 and working as a DJ in London when she met Hendrix, who was then 23. He died four years later in London and had drug problems, though the exact cause of death remains disputed.
“He was a gentle person – funny, entertaining, articulate, and knew exactly which direction he was going in,” Ms Etchingham said.
Ms Etchingham was 20 and working as a DJ in London when she met Hendrix, who was then 23. He died four years later in London and had drug problems, though the exact cause of death remains disputed.
“He was a gentle person – funny, entertaining, articulate, and knew exactly which direction he was going in,” Ms Etchingham said.
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