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Robin Trower: Prince of the Power Wah

Report and Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, July 1976

"ROBIN TROWER? He's very moody," I was warned before embarking on the road with the 31-year-old English axe ace. "And whatever you do, don't ask ...

John McLaughlin (1996)

Interview by Colin Harper, Rock's Backpages Audio, 17 January 1996

The fleet-fingered jazz-rocker looks back to the '60s, through his time with the Mahavishnu Orchestra and Shakti, and fondly remembers his time with Miles Davis, and playing with the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck and more.

File format: mp3; file size: 52.3mb, interview length: 57' 09" sound quality: ***

Love, Arthur Lee: Arthur Lee in LA (1993)

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, 24 June 1993

The sometime Love leader talks about growing up in Memphis and South-Central L.A. and recalls his dreams of being a musician. He also describes a gay near-miss with Jimi Hendrix, rants about hip-hop, and spouts a lot of New Age gibberish.

File format: mp3 File size: 91mb Interview length: 1h 34 minutes 45 seconds Sound quality: **

Suzi Quatro: Suzi Quatro

Review by Alan Betrock, Phonograph Record, March 1974

IT'S HAPPENED BEFORE — little known American rockers going over to England to be "discovered", and returning to their homeland as superstars. The most obvious ...

Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding: Noel Redding 1945-2003

Obituary by Phast Phreddie Patterson, Rock's Backpages, May 2003

NOEL REDDING (57) was found dead at his home in Clonakity, Ireland on May 11. No cause of death has been reported. He ...

Eric Clapton (1989)

Interview by Adam Sweeting, Rock's Backpages Audio, 4 October 1989

Ol' Slowhand on the perils and pressures of success; on drinking and addiction; on blues; on his romance and emotional immaturity; on those endless Albert Hall shows; on his love of the Band, Little Feat, the Stones and Jimi Hendrix; on punk rock and cricket; and on voting for Thatcher and why he still thinks racist demagogue Enoch Powell had a point...

File format: mp3; file size: 80.5mb, interview length: 1h 23' 53" sound quality: ***

Jimi Hendrix: Hendrix Experience Devastate Continent; Can They Do It Here?

Profile by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 23 September 1967

ONLY ONE short year after it began, the Jimi Hendrix Experience has left Europe in an emotional shambles after one stunning concert upon another. The ...

Jimi Hendrix: 'Black Gold': New Hendrix in Old Tapes

Interview by Ian Dove, Rolling Stone, 26 September 1974

NEW YORK — The archaeological probing of the Hendrix tapes continues. Up in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, at the Shaggy Dog Studios, Alan Douglas — producer, record ...

Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding, Fat Mattress: Redding On Jimi: "I Said Stuff It"

Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Rolling Stone, 15 November 1969

LONDON — It was an experience, yes, but it was no picnic to have been Jimi Hendrix' bass player for three years. In the end, ...

McGuinness Flint: Lo & Behold

Review by Jon Tiven, Rolling Stone, 19 July 1973

JIMI HENDRIX, Jeff Beck, the Byrds, Blue Ash...it seems that everyone in the world has taken a Bob Dylan song to great heights at one ...

Ann Peebles: Brand New Classics

Review by Mike Atherton, Echoes, May 2006

THE RETURN OF two legendary names from the past: Track Records, the label which gave us Jimi Hendrix and the Who, not to mention fine ...

Magic Sam: Bluesman Magic Sam: His Legend Lives On

Retrospective by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 6 January 1985

WHAT IF HE HADN'T died so young? Among rock fans, that kind of speculation usually centers on icons like Jimi Hendrix and Buddy Holly. Among ...

Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding: Noel Redding Boxes His Own Experience

Interview by Charles Bermant, Rolling Stone Online, 20 July 2000

ASK NOEL REDDING what will be on the "new box set," and he won't offer any insight about the upcoming release that features dozens of ...

Arthur Lee: Vindicator

Retrospective by Mike Barnes, MOJO, February 2003

"I THINK Jimi Hendrix was the best guitar player all round and one of the best musicians, creators and innovators I ever heard in my ...

Funkadelic, Mandrill, Osibisa, Rare Earth: Black 'Woodstock': A Violent Fiasco

Report by Vernon Gibbs, New Musical Express, 1 September 1973

IT COULD have been the biggest event of the summer. For many of us trapped in the iron heart of the city, it promised to ...

Jimi Hendrix: Mitch: Different Line-Ups Are Like Different Women

Report and Interview by Val Mabbs, Record Mirror, 8 March 1969

THE AFTERNOON before the second Albert Hall concert for Jimi Hendrix and the Experience. The scene is set with amps piled high and roadies bustling ...

Lenny Bruce, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Jimi Hendrix, Last Poets, The, Bill Laswell, John McLaughlin, Eric Dolphy, Lightnin' Rod: Alan Douglas: Thee Man Who Sold The Underworld

Retrospective and Interview by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, July 1997

Now into his fifth decade at the doors of perception, label boss ALAN DOUGLAS hasworked with many of the century's underground greats, from Lenny Bruce, ...

Vanilla Fudge: Fudge Slow Down To Hang On To Success

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 14 October 1967

JIMI HENDRIX slowed down 'Hey Joe', previously always recorded as an all-out tear-up, and came up with a giant hit. Then Vanilla Fudge slowed down ...

Living Colour: Astoria, London

Live Review by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 17 September 1988

"IF YOU'RE black, it's OK to be two things, a crooner in a fairisle sweater or a bad ass B-Boy... look at the history of rock music, ...

Prince: Planet Earth

Review by Miles Marshall Lewis, The Village Voice, 17 July 2007

IF HE HADN'T choked to death in London's Samarkand Hotel 37 years ago, how many mediocre records would Jimi Hendrix have dropped by now? Stevie ...


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