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Thirty-Two Banned Album Covers

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) July 7, 2011 2:55 pm
A while back, we ran a story about 20 amazing album covers with boobies on them. It was good PG-13 fun and all, but we wanted to get a little heavier, a little darker. So we decided to seek out the badasses.Here's 32 albums that have been either banned or censored after their initial release. World Trade Center Destruction 1) Dilated Peoples — "...
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Jimi Hendrix Albums Coming To Rock Band

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) March 25, 2010 11:11 am
This isn't quite a full Jimi Hendrix Rock Band game just yet, but you'll at least soon be able to play along to songs by rock's coolest cat on Rock Band (better than you can on guitar) at any rate. Experience Hendrix, the company that owns the rights to Hendrix's music and image, has signed a deal with Harmonix and MTV Games that will see entire...
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Jimi Hendrix Rock Band Game Coming

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) February 17, 2010 12:36 pm
Did you grow up wanting to be Jimi Hendrix, spending hours in vain trying to learn his songs on your guitar? Perhaps this will be easier for you. By the end of the year, you'll be able to play Hendrix's songs on a fake guitar, bass and drums, and you can sing them, too, because Hendrix's music is coming to a special Jimi Hendrix edition of Rock...
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Today In Music History: Jimi Hendrix Records "All Along The Watchtower" Cover On Jan. 21, 1968

Submitted by Kate Harper on Thu, 01/21/2010 - 11:35am
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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) January 21, 2010 11:35 am
The Jimi Hendrix Experience recorded their cover of Bob Dylan's "All Along The Watchtower" on this day in 1968. Michael Goldstein, a publicist who worked for Dylan's manager, Albert Grossman, had given Hendrix a tape of Dylan's song, and Hendrix wanted to record a version of the song. Dylan's original appeared on 1967's John Wesley...
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New Jimi Hendrix Album Coming

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) January 11, 2010 4:52 pm
Jimi Hendrix has been dead for nearly 40 years, but he's still got some new music in the pipeline. Hendrix hasn't been composing songs from some otherworldly plane (at least not to our knowledge), but March 9 will see the release of Valleys Of Neptune, an album that will feature over an hour of Hendrix music that's never been commercially...
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Hendrix Guitar Riff Voted Best Ever

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) November 27, 2009 12:16 pm
Jimi Hendrix's riff on The Jimi Hendrix Experience's "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" has been voted the best guitar riff ever in an online poll. Musicradar.com asked its readers to pick their favourite riffs, which it then turned into a list of the 50 best guitar riffs of all time. The tune, which appears on 1968's Electric Ladyland, was the clear...
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Mitch Mitchell Was Cool

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) November 13, 2008 10:39 am
John "Mitch" Mitchell, best known as the drummer for The Jimi Hendrix Experience, passed away on Wednesday in a Portland, Ore. hotel room of natural causes. The 61-year-old was the last surviving member of the group. Rather than dwell on the passing of this man, we here at ChartAttack want to celebrate the highlights of his life....
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The Daily Spin: The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?

Submitted by Kate Harper on Fri, 08/15/2008 - 11:07am
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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) August 15, 2008 11:07 am
I own an iPod, but for the most part I don't use it and stubbornly cling to my nearly 10-year-old Discman. I listen to a different album every day on the old clunker, and here's today's: While I don't think it's as much of a complete brain-fuck as Axis: Bold As Love (the first time I heard "EXP" I thought something was wrong with my...
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10 Reasons Why Noel Redding Was Cool

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By CHARTattack Staff May 13, 2003 4:30 pm
Noel Redding, the British musician most famous for playing bass in The Jimi Hendrix Experience, was found dead at his home in Ireland on Sunday (May 11). It is not known how the 57-year-old died. Redding is survived by his companion (or, as he liked to refer to her, his "lady") Deborah McNaughton. McNaughton expressed her sorrow over...
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