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The 100 greatest guitarists of all time
A comprehensive rundown of the best guitarists of all time, featuring the trailblazers, the early innovators, the best jazz, rock, indie, blues, metal and acoustic players – and the top guitarists around today...
Jeff Beck – the ultimate interview: one of the electric guitar's most prolific innovators reflects on his sprawling career
In this classic 2009 Guitar World interview, the guitar legend waxed lyrical on his formative years with The Yardbirds, how his radical technique inspired a new era of instrumental guitar, and his musical relationships with Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton
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Watch Steve Vai perform Jimi Hendrix's Midnight in honor of the late guitar icon's 80th birthday – with a professional Hendrix tribute artist
The surprise duo put their fingers – and teeth – to work in a blistering lead guitar performance at Seattle's Moore Theater
The gear Jimi Hendrix used for his bluesiest moments
Because sometimes the Marshall stack was too much for the Red House over yonder...
Watch Zakk Wylde play a Jimi Hendrix tribute show just two days after his first concert with Pantera
Armed with a Wylde Audio Warhammer guitar – the same he used for Pantera's December 2 show in Mexico – Wylde channeled the guitar icon with renditions of Manic Depression, Little Wing and Purple Haze
Hear Zayn Malik's take on Jimi Hendrix's Angel
The former One Direction singer offered up his posthumous collaboration in time for the guitar hero's 80th birthday
5 times Jimi Hendrix proved he was a master of the blues
On the week the G.O.A.T. would have turned 80, we dig into the crates for a handful of tracks of unalloyed genius
The secrets of Jimi Hendrix's guitar setup: Roger Mayer reveals what made the guitar hero's Strat tone sing
Jimi's right-hand man dishes on what made Hendrix's custom string gauges so important, and why guitar pickups "really don't make much difference" to the sound
