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Guitar Center Creates The Ultimate JIMI HENDRIX Experience
Guitar Center announced today that it has teamed up with Experience Hendrix, L.L.C. (the official Jimi Hendrix Family Company) to launch the retailer's biggest promotion to date. Known for providing monthly promotions to millions of consumers, Guitar Center will hold an exclusive enter-to-win contes...March 29, 2005
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GUNS N' ROSES, LED ZEPPELIN Classics Among Greatest Guitar Tracks Of All Time
According to Thunder Bay's Source, GUNS N' ROSES, LED ZEPPELIN and NIRVANA were all included in the Top Ten of the British magazine Q's "100 Greatest Guitar Tracks Ever." The list was voted on by the magazine's editors and managed to cover every era and decade of rock and roll's 50-year-history. Q m...March 19, 2005
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Documentary Explores JIMI HENDRIX's Influence On Nashville
Tim Ghianni of Tennessean.com is reporting that fimmakers Dan Heller and Valerie Reynolds are currently working on a documentary exploring guitar legend Jimi Hendrix's time spent spent as part of the storied north Nashville R&B scene. They also want to find out the impact the innovative guitaris...March 19, 2005
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JIMI HENDRIX Estate Sues Over Sale Of Unauthorized Recordings
Launch Radio Networks is reporting that Experience Hendrix LLC, the company that oversees the Jimi Hendrix estate, has filed a copyright infringement suit against Trans World Entertainment, the parent company of the FYE retail chain. The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in the Western District...March 14, 2005
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Jazz Stars Salute JIMI HENDRIX To Raise Funds For Tsunami Relief
iBerkshires.com is reporting that four of the world's greatest jazz saxophonists will blow their horns in a tribute to Jimi Hendrix to raise funds for longterm housing in Sri Lanka for victims of this winter's tsunami. The legendary World Saxophone Quartet, featuring David Murray, Hamiet Bluiett, Ol...March 12, 2005
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Original KISS Drummer PETER CRISS Working On 'Autobiographical' Solo Album
Billboard.com is reporting that original KISS drummer Peter Criss is currently hard at work at his own recording studio, laying down tracks for an as-yet-untitled solo album. "I started writing this stuff a couple of years back, actually," Criss told Billboard.com. "I was procrastinating, that's the...March 3, 2005
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JUDAS PRIEST Frontman Opens Up In Revealing Interview
JUDAS PRIEST frontman Rob Halford recently conducted an interview with Canada's Exclaim! magazine. A few excerpts from the interview follow: Exclaim!: What are your current fixations? Rob Halford: "I am something of a bookworm. I do enjoy killing time in the bunk on the tour bus reading all kinds of...March 1, 2005
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JIMI HENDRIX's Family Wins Bootleg Case
World Entertainment News Network is reporting that the family of guitar legend JIMI HENDRIX has triumphed in a legal wrangle over the sale of a bootleg album. The live disc — titled "Jimi Hendrix Stockholm Concert '69" — was illegally recorded in Sweden a year before the tragic rocker died of a drug...February 25, 2005
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GLENN HUGHES Guitarist JJ MARSH: Solo Album Samples Posted Online
GLENN HUGHES fan site GHPG.net has uploaded an MP3 file containing samples from all the tracks on the debut album from Hughes' longtime co-writer and guitarist, JJ Marsh. The CD, entitled "Music From Planet Marsh", will be available first for purchase during Glenn's current European Soul Mover Tour...February 22, 2005
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JIMI HENDRIX Guitar Sold For $188,000 At London Auction
Scotsman.com is reporting that a guitar played by rock legend Jimi Hendrix sold today for more than £100,000 (approximately $188,000) at auction. The star lot was part of a collection of memorabilia associated with the musician that included photos, programmes and musical equipment. The huge number...February 16, 2005
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Biggest JIMI HENDRIX Memorabilia Auction To Be Held Today
Ireland Online is reporting that guitars, psychedelic shirts and a high school year book belonging to rock legend Jimi Hendrix will go under the hammer today. Unseen photographs of the musician and extensive writings by the man himself will also be up for sale. The huge number of items make up the w...February 16, 2005
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TWISTED SISTER's DEE SNIDER Unimpresed By Britain's Top 10 Rock Songs Of All Time
Wayne Parry of The Associated Press has issued the following report: He's not gonna take it. Dee Snider, TWISTED SISTER frontman and five-nights-a-week deejay on Philadelphia radio station WMMR-FM, was less than impressed when he heard what listeners of a British radio station decided were the Top 1...February 11, 2005
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Seattle Struggles Over How to Remember JIMI HENDRIX
Elaine Porterfield of Reuters reports: Family and friends of Jimi Hendrix are struggling with Seattle's government over the fate of a moldy, run-down house they see as a future museum and the city sees as an unsightly obstacle to development. At stake is the fate of a modest home owned by Al Hendrix...February 10, 2005
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Inheritance
Is a classic album still a classic if no one hears it? Is there a certain minimum amount of public awareness that must be generated before something can be even a cult favorite? "Inheritance" has been out for a few months now in the USA, generating next to no interest or publicity. It was apparently...February 5, 2005
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Church Spokesperson Says LAMB OF GOD's Lyrics Are 'Antithetical To Our Beliefs'
Marc Little, chief operating officer for the Faithful Central Bible Church's business dealings, spoke to the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday (Feb. 2) about the church's decision to cancel an April 9 concert appearance at the church-owned Great Western Forum in Inglewood, California by LAMB OF GOD bec...February 3, 2005
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