Rolling Stone assembled a panel of top guitarists and other experts to rank their favorites and explain what separates the legends from everyone else. Featuring:
Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys),
Brian Bell (Weezer),
Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple),
Carl Broemel (My Morning Jacket),
Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains),
Billy Corgan,
Dave Davies (The Kinks),
Tom DeLonge (Blink-182),
Don Felder (The Eagles),
Kirk Hammett (Metallica),
Lenny Kravitz,
Robby Krieger (The Doors),
Mike McCready (Pearl Jam),
Tom Morello,
Dave Mustaine (Megadeth),
Jimi Hendrix exploded our idea of what rock music could be: He manipulated the guitar, the whammy bar, the studio and the stage. On songs like “Machine Gun” or “Voodoo Chile,” his instrument is like a divining rod of the turbulent Sixties – you can hear the riots in the streets and napalm bombs dropping in his “Star-Spangled Banner.”
There are arguments about who was the first guitar player to use feedback. It doesn’t really matter, because Hendrix used it better than anyone; he took what was to become Seventies funk and put it through a Marshall stack, in a way that nobody’s done since.
It’s impossible to think of what Jimi would be doing now; he seemed like a pretty mercurial character. Would he be an elder statesman of rock? Would he be Sir Jimi Hendrix? Or would he be doing some residency off the Vegas Strip? The good news is his legacy is assured as the greatest guitar player of all time
Read more: rollingstone.com
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It’s almost been 20 years since the NES was released, so to celebrate I found some remakes in their 8 bit glory!!!
Following a series of arcade game successes in the early 1980s, Nintendo made plans to produce a cartridge-based console. Masayuki Uemura designed the system, which was released in Japan on July 15, 1983 for ¥14,800.
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Julien’s Auctions, the world’s premiere entertainment and celebrity auction house announces a two-day summer event representing the single most historic collection of music memorabilia ever to be offered to the public on Saturday, June 25, 2011 and Sunday, June 26, 2011
The most significant highlight of the sale is the Michael Jackson Red Thriller Jacket (estimate $200,000-$400,000). The iconic jacket was worn by the great Michael Jackson during the filming of the epic video Thriller which went on to become the top grossing single and the highest selling album of all time makes its debut on the auction block.
The black and red style of the jacket became so identifiable with Jackson’s groundbreaking extended short film video for the single that he continued to use jackets of the same design when performing the song “Thriller” for the duration of his career.
The jacket is a black and red calf leather jacket with “Marc Laurent Paris” label featuring silver buckle, red silk lining, trapunto stitched collar, snap front closure and signature winged shoulders. It is inscribed on the inside lining “To Bush and Dennis, All My Love, Michael Jackson.” The sleeve is also signed “Love Michael Jackson.” Among the most recognizable and famous garment of the 20th century, Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” jacket sparked a 1980’s fashion craze like none other. (Estimate $200,000-$400,000).
In addition Jimi Hendrix once wrote “Here Comes the Sun” which was never professionally recorded. The unprecedented offering of two pages of handwritten lyrics and guitar instructions are accompanied by a recording of the song performed in Jimi’s New York apartment. (Estimate $25,000-30,000)
Other highlights include a John Entwistle signed bass guitar (estimate $1,000-1,500),
A broken guitar neck and smashed guitar stand which did not survive Kurt Cobain’s antics at a Nirvana concert (estimate $2,000-3,000),
Eric Clapton signed Blackie Fender guitar (estimate $1,000-1,500),
Janis Joplin signed contract rider (estimate $200-300),
MTV Moonman award for U2’s “With or Without You,” (estimate $2,000-3,000),
Madonna annotated sheet music (estimate $1,000-2,000),
Prince handwritten lyrics for “Electric Intercourse,” (estimate $400-600),
Steven Tyler signed harmonica (estimate $300-500),
Fleetwood Mac Platinum Record Awards (estimate $500-700),
Elvis Presley original TCB necklace (estimate $20,000-40,000)
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The 0800 Jukebox crew.
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Woo your beloved with these classic love songs.
Traditional songs for Valentines Day
- Celine Dion – The Power Of Love
- Tony Bennett – The Way You Look Tonight
- Nat King Cole & Natalie Cole – When I Fall In Love
- Elton John – Can you feel the love tonight
- The Bangles — Eternal Flame
- Etta James – At Last
- Elvis Presley – I Cant Help Falling In Love With You
- Westlife – I Do
- N-Sync – This I Promise You
- 98º – I Do (Cherish You)
Or turn the volume up to 11 and hold the boom box high over above your head with one of theses “Not so traditional” songs for Valentines Day
- Nine Inch Nails – Closer
- Jimi Hendrix – Foxy Lady
- Placebo – Pure Morning
- Bloodhound Gang – The Bad Touch
- Rodney Carrington – Show Them To Me
- Marilyn Manson – The Love Song
- Sublime – 5446/Ball and Chain
- Guns N’Roses – One in a million
- Metallica – Nothing Else Matters
- Arctic Monkeys – I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor
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The 0800 Jukebox crew.
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No 2 in the lead up to Valentines Day.
Traditional
Not so traditional
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The 0800 Jukebox crew.
www.0800jukebox.co.nz
Thanks every one for checking out the blog 
Last post of 2010 will be Jimi Hendrix – The Little Drummer Boy / Silent Night / Military March Taps / Auld Lang Syne (From: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Album)
Hope Twenty Eleven is good to you.
Keep rockin’ in twenty eleven
The 0800 Jukebox crew.
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Legacy Recordings and Experience Hendrix LLC are proud to announce the highly-anticipated release of West Coast Seattle Boy – The Jimi Hendrix Anthology, featuring more than four hours of rare and previously unreleased Jimi Hendrix music on a 5 Disc (4 CD/1 DVD) deluxe box set, available Tuesday, November 16.
The long-awaited career-spanning box set tracks Hendrix’s remarkable journey from little known R&B sideman to international stardom through an unprecedented assemblage of previously unavailable recordings. West Coast Seattle Boy – The Jimi Hendrix Anthology is not a collection of existing Jimi Hendrix albums but instead 45 unreleased Jimi Hendrix live and studio recordings including demos and alternate versions of songs from Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold As Love, and Electric Ladyland. West Coast Seattle Boy includes Hendrix’s never before heard version of Bob Dylan’s ‘Tears Of Rage,” solo acoustic recordings of Electric Ladyland favorites like “Long Hot Summer Night” and “1983 (A Merman I Shall Turn To Be)” as well as never before heard live performances from Berkeley and the legendary Band Of Gypsys Fillmore East concert on New Year”s Eve 1969 combined together with such new Hendrix songs as “Hear My Freedom,” “Hound Dog Blues,” “Lonely Avenue” and more.
An essential and historic addition to the Jimi Hendrix catalog, West Coast Seattle Boy – The Jimi Hendrix Anthology brings together, for the first time, many of Hendrix’s earliest commercial recordings, providing a rare glimpse of the rising rock guitar hero through a series of stellar sideman performances on a set of highly collectible pre-Experience R&B singles. Included on Disc One of West Coast Seattle Boy are:
1. Isley Brothers – Testify (1964)
2. Don Covay & the Goodtimers – Mercy, Mercy (1964 – #1 Cashbox R&B – #35 Billboard Hot 100)
3. Don Covay & the Goodtimers – Can’t Stay Away (1964)
4. Rosa Lee Brooks – My Diary (1965 – written by Arthur Lee)
5. Rosa Lee Brooks – Utee (1965)
6. Little Richard – I Don’t Know What You Got But It’s Got Me (1965)
7. Little Richard – Dancing All Around The World (1965)
8. Frank Howard & The Commanders – I’m So Glad (1966 – written by Billy Cox)
9. Isley Brothers – Move Over And Let Me Dance (1965)
10. Isley Brothers – Have You Ever Been Disappointed (1965)
11. Ray Sharpe – Help Me (Get The Feeling) (Part I) (1966)
12. The Icemen – (My Girl) She’s A Fox (1966)
13. Jimmy Norman – That Little Old Groovemaker (1966)
14. Billy Lamont – Sweet Thang (1968)
15. King Curtis – Instant Groove (1969)
Disc Two of West Coast Seattle Boy – The Jimi Hendrix Anthology focuses on 1967-68 and Hendrix’s breakout sessions with the Jimi Hendrix Experience:
1. Fire (1967) – Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
2. Are You Experienced (1967) – Previously Unreleased Recording
3. May This Be Love (1967) – Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
4. Can You See Me (1967) – Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
5. Love Or Confusion (1967) – Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
6. Little One (1967) – Previously Unreleased Recording (featuring Dave Mason on sitar)
7. Mr. Bad Luck (1967) – Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
8. Cat Talking To Me (1967) – Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
9. Castles Made Of Sand (1967) – Previously Unreleased Recording
10. Tears Of Rage (1968) – Previously Unreleased Recording
11. Hear My Train A Comin’ (1968) – Previously Unreleased Recording
12. 1983 (A Merman I Shall Turn To Be) (1968) – Previously Unreleased Recording
13. Long Hot Summer Night (1968) – Previously Unreleased Recording
14. My Friend (1968) – Previously Unreleased Recording
15. Angel (1968) – Previously Unreleased Recording
16. Calling All The Devil’s Children (1968) – Previously Unreleased Recording
17. New Rising Sun (1968) – Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
Disc Three of West Coast Seattle Boy – The Jimi Hendrix Anthology revisits 1968-1969, both a peak and pivotal period for Hendrix in which the artist was exploring bold new directions on stage and in the studio:
1. Hear My Freedom (1968) – Previously Unreleased Recording
2. Room Full Of Mirrors (1969) – Previously Unreleased Recording
3. Shame, Shame, Shame (1969) – Previously Unreleased Recording
4. Messenger (1968) – Previously Unreleased Recording
5. Hound Dog Blues (1969) – Previously Unreleased Recording
6. Untitled Basic Track (1968) – Previously Unreleased Recording
7. Star Spangled Banner (1969) – Previously Unreleased Original Mix
8. Purple Haze (1969) – Previously Unreleased Original Mix
9. Young/Hendrix (1969) – Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
10. Mastermind (1969) – Previously Unreleased Recording
11. Message To Love (1969) – Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
12. Fire (1969) – Previously Unreleased Recording
13. Foxey Lady (1969) – Previously Unreleased Recording
Opening with Hendrix’s incendiary New Year’s Eve performance of “Stone Free” at New York’s Fillmore East on December 31, 1969 and closing with a previously unheard recording from Hendrix alone in his Greenwich Village apartment in 1970, Disc Four of West Coast Seattle Boy – The Jimi Hendrix Anthology provides a fascinating portrait of an artist at his fiery best, working on the future:
1. Stone Free (1969) – Previously Unreleased Recording
2. Burning Desire (1970) – Previously Unreleased Recording
3. Lonely Avenue (1969) – Previously Unreleased Recording
4. Everlasting First (1970) – Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording (featuring Arthur Lee)
5. Freedom (1970) – Previously Unreleased Recording
6. Peter Gunn/Catastrophe (1970) – Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
7. In From The Storm (1970) – Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
8. All God’s Children (1970) – Previously Unreleased Recording
9. Red House (1970) – Previously Unreleased Recording
10. Play That Riff [Thank You] (1970) – Previously Unreleased Recording
11. Bolero (1970) – Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
12. Hey Baby (New Rising Sun) – Previously Unreleased Alternate Recording
13. Suddenly November Morning (1970) – Previously Unreleased Recording
West Coast Seattle Boy – The Jimi Hendrix Anthology is the centerpiece of Legacy Recordings/Experience Hendrix LLC’s second wave of Hendrix catalog releases. Also arriving on November 2 from the artist Rolling Stone magazine called “the greatest guitarist of all time” are deluxe editions of Jimi Hendrix Experience: BBC Sessions and Jimi Hendrix: Blues, his legendary Live At Woodstock performance, and Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year, the highly collectible Jimi Hendrix Christmas EP.
A single disc “Best Of” edition of West Coast Seattle Boy – The Jimi Hendrix Anthology will be available, with or without the Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Child DVD documentary. West Coast Seattle Boy – The Jimi Hendrix Anthology will also be available in a deluxe edition featuring 8 12″ vinyl LPs.
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‘Valleys of Neptune’ is a newly curated album of 12 fully realised studio recordings by Jimi Hendrix. This collector’s item contains songs never commercially available on a Hendrix album, from the artist Rolling Stone magazine called “the greatest guitarist of all time”…
1. Stone Free
2. Valleys of Neptune
3. Bleeding Heart
4. Hear My Train A Comin’
5. Mr. Bad Luck
6. Sunshine Of Your Love
7. Lover Man
8. Ships Passing Through The Night
9. Fire
10. Red House
11. Lullaby For The Summer
12. Crying Blue Rain
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Jimi Hendrix is to get his own version of the Rock Band computer game. The late guitar legend’s stepsister Janie Hendrix revealed the news to the LA Times – saying that the game would be released before the end of 2010. No further details have been released.
http://www.billboard.com/
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