Fender Celebrates 70 Years of Strat with Multi-guitarist “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)”
In commemoration of 70 years of Strat-is-faction, Fender put together a multi-artist, instrumental version of “Voodoo Child (Slight Return).”
It’s all about that axe, after all.
Featuring Tom Morello, Nile Rodgers, Ari O’Neal, Mateus Asato, Rei, Tash Sultana, Jimmie Vaughan, Rebecca Lovell, Tyler Bryant and Simon Neil playing Stratocaster guitars over Craig Young’s bass and Aaron Sterling’s drums, this busy, 60-string celebration works better in theory than practice.
The newest “Voodoo Child” is bombastic in the extreme and just as heavy-handed. But with the accompanying video featuring the guitarists spliced on and off an outdoor bandstand stacked with amps, it makes for a fine Fender advert and reminds listeners of the subtle qualities that made Hendrix so special.
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