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Wanna Sound Like Jimi? Here’s the Ultimate Jimi Hendrix Guitar & Gear Guide

Jimi Hendrix, despite being the most innovative guitarist of his day, had a fairly limited collection of equipment during his music career. There are a number of reasons for this, but his tragic death at the early age of 27 certainly was one of the major ones. Our friends at Zing Instruments have created a “Jimi Hendrix Guitar and Gear Guide,” where they look at the equipment Jimi used throughout […]

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Right-Handed Lefties and Left-Handed Righties…My obsession with Hendrix and upside down Stratocasters

As many of you know, Jimi Hendrix was left-handed, but played a right-handed Fender Stratocaster – turned upside down! I’ve always been fascinated with not only the sound of Hendrix on that right-handed upside-down Strat, but with the way it looked as well. There’s something about the whammy bar on top and the tuners on the bottom. I was really intrigued, so number of years ago I bought a righty […]

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Premiere – 1968 Jimi Hendrix Track, “Somewhere”

It’s no secret we are huge fans of Jimi Hendrix over here at Stephen Arnold Music.  That guy could shred and create new sounds on a guitar unlike anyone else. He truly earned and deserves Rolling Stone’s “Greatest Guitarist of All Times” title. Here’s the premiere of Jimi’s unreleased 1968 track “Somewhere” featuring Buddy Miles and Stephen Stills. You can read more about this track and Jimi’s upcoming album “People, […]

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After Hours Jimi Hendrix Jam Party!

Come join us at our after hours Jimi Hendrix Jam this Thursday evening (June 28th) at 9pm in our Panorama Suite #1101, South Tower at Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas and receive a complimentary copy of Stephen’s new book “A Story of Six Strings”.   “If you like guitars, you’re going to love this book. The combination of cool guitars, brilliant photography, and funny stories results in one of the best […]

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It’s time for Station Summit and another Guitar Giveaway!

Wow. We just got done with the PromaxBDA conference in L.A. last week (had a blast), and now we are headed off to Vegas next week for Promax’s Station Summit conference. The 2012 PromaxBDA Station Summit is a four-day critical gathering where networks, station groups, syndicators and local broadcasters discuss, dialogue and debate the issues, trends and emerging business opportunities driving success in local television. We’re looking forward to the […]

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