Jimi Hendrix to live again in Guitar Hero World Tour

More news about the upcoming release of Guitar Hero 4 is filtering through the rockvine. Deceased real life guitar hero, Jimi Hendrix, is set to be a playable character, with Activision promising that Purple Haze (Live) recorded in 1969 at the San Diego Sports Arena and The Wind Cries Mary will be on the set list. That’s just the start, as more tracks are to follow as downloadable content in due course.It leads us to wonder what he would make of Guitar Hero were he still around. Would he have endorsed it himself, even? Groups of people playing on plastic instruments in front of a TV? It’s all a bit like something from an LSD-fuelled dream.Whether you actually ‘hear’ Jimi, or just listen to him, it sounds like good news to us.

Dan Grabham Editor-in-Chief

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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Computing, mobile, audio, smart home