A Tribute to The Black Panthers 2010
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: "..both fun and ferocious..."
A master's work in masterful hands
'Experience Hendrix'
Where: Murat Theatre in Old National Centre.
Bottom line: A village of guitarists upholds an icon.
For Saturday night's master class on the topic of Jimi Hendrix, faculty members both fun and ferocious presented a comprehensive lesson at the Murat Theatre in Old National Centre.
Ernie Isley was the first guitar slinger onstage at the all-star "Experience Hendrix" bill, telling stories about Hendrix living with Isley's famed musical family in the early 1960s.
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C. Michael Stewart
* Louisville Concert Photography Examiner
Experience Hendrix 2010, "West Coast Seattle Boy Tour"
The Experience Hendrix 2010 , “West Coast Seattle Boy Tour” visited The Taft Theater in Cincinnati on Wednesday evening.The show began with a video presentation on the life of Jimi Hendrix, followed by a greeting by Janie Hendrix.
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Jimi Hendrix Tribute: Red House
by Gil Kaufman in Music
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I don't normally go see cover acts, mostly because of the constant belly aching from my friends in "real" bands about how those "Freebird" playing yahoos are always taking money out of their pockets. And after getting burned one too many times by lame tribute acts (OK, just that once, but you know who you are and you should be ashamed!), I was wary of the "Experience Hendrix" tribute tour because I love Jimi Hendrix and refuse to let some hack ruin him for me.
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By Greg Haymes Special To The Times Union
Published: 12:00 a.m., Monday, November 8, 2010
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ALBANY -- Jimi Hendrix died 40 years ago. And guitar players are still trying to figure out how he made his guitar sing like it did.
On Saturday night at the Palace Theatre, there was a nonstop parade of all-star guitarslingers tearing through the Hendrix songbook. Not just good guitarists. These were some of the cream of the crop out there today -- Steve Vai, Eric Johnson, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Jonny Lang, Ernie Isley and more -- attempting to conjure up Hendrixian magic out of their six strings.
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Published:November 3, 2010, 12:00 AM
www.buffalonews.com
It’s hard to imagine, from to-day’s vantage point, what popular music might sound like had there never been a Jimi Hendrix. The entire paradigm of blues-based rock soloing as we now understand it would not exist. Hendrix was not some mere blues-rock fusion artist hell-bent on showing off his chops, of course. He was a supremely gifted composer and songwriter, a man able to imbue the psychedelic music of the ’60s with a seriously deep African-American strain, and journeyman R&B guitarist, all rolled into one.
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The Experience Hendrix tour at the National Arts Centre
All-star revue brilliantly recalls raw, fiery glory
By Lynn Saxberg, The Ottawa Citizen
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The music of Jimi Hendrix was celebrated in all its raw, fiery glory with an all-star revue at the National Arts Centre on Monday. A sold-out audience of close to 2,000 Hendrix afficionados filled Southam Hall to see a parade of artists, from Living Color to Jonny Lang, demonstrate their prowess with a whammy bar.
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