Jimi Hendrix : Electric Gypsy
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 "Great for deep and casual fans alike" | 2008-08-09 |
| - Reviewed By User: A39GW5CBWTIWAZ | |
| A monumental work, with photographic and print details to give the mind a ride to the New Rising Sun and back. The Chronology is particularly helpful and fun, especially for the novice fan who is going to have some trouble piecing together, say, 1964 to 1966. Interesting details on Hendrix's off and on employment with Little Richard. Seems he played fill-in during a period when Richard was secretly out on Rock tours while he was recording Gospel! This detail could have made a chapter unto itself; also his full-time g-box assignment for LR for about six months, and including the historic recording session for Richard's Soul Classic, "I Don't Know What You've Got (But It's Got Me)", an R & B hit...which should have won a Grammy. The writers offer some mixed info. on this amazing experience: Richard, Billy Preston, Don Covay, and Maurice James (!) in the studio, cutting a ballad for a Legend who is associated primarily with loud, uptempo boogie-based music. One of these days Hendrix writers will get it right for the Architect and his fans. But they sure did a number for one of his greatest poteges, JH. The book is readable from any point - very tough to read in a linear fashion, as it takes on a multi-dimensional aspect...just like the electrified art of Hendrix. | |
| "Great Bio of Hendrix" | 2007-08-15 |
| - Reviewed By thebestboy | |
| I've read several books about the life of Jimi Hendrix and this is by far the best. Well written and researched, it is engaging and engrossing. Even the reference materials are facsinating. A great book about a very interesting life. | |
 "Fantastic, yet strangely empty" | 2005-11-29 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1P0VI3VJELUUL | |
| The research is wonderful, the prose style is just fine, the detail is remarkable - I finished the book knowing more than I ever felt I needed to know about Jimi (and being grateful for the knowledge) yet no closer to any understanding as to what made the man tick. Any serious Hendrix fan must own this book, but it is, in an odd way - emotionally incomplete. | |
| "Excellent-best source book available on Hendrix." | 2005-10-18 |
| - Reviewed By User: ATLU9MDPDRSZV | |
| This is probably the best book that has been written about Hendrix. I think it is co-written by the editor of the excellent Jimi Hendrix fanizine "Univibes", it's an excellent source book, with list and lists of guitars, equpiment, gigs, photographs anything you would wish to know really about Hendrix's career. The large biography section is brillant and cannot be faulted-although I personaly don't ascribe to the writers theories about Monica Dannneman. I personaly don't think Hendrix wanted to marry Monica- or anyone in particular for that matter-or that she knew Jimi as well as she let on. Cathy Etchingham, Hendrix's London girlfriend for a number of years, dismisses her as stalker in her book. Coupled with the strange and often contradictory statements she made about his death in her hotel room-it raises a lot of questions about her place in Hendrix's life which are hard to guess at. | |
| "Awesome book!" | 2005-08-27 |
| - Reviewed By kanakaris1 | |
| This is an excellent book , if you like Jimi's music :buy it! Remember that Caesar Glebbeek is the editor of 'Univibes' an excellent Jimi Hendrix-magazine . | |
| "have you ever been experienced?" | 2004-07-18 |
| - Reviewed By Anonymous | |
| electric gypsy was incredible, though i do wish that it had spent a little more time on his influences & how he was so influencial. the author(s) were extremely unpretentious & did not write this book in a biased manner. i didn't realize at first how much of an influence his [deceased since he was fifteen] mother was on his writing & composing. i didn't just skim through this at all, & some of what i read kind of smacked me in the face. i mean, the sacrificing of the guitars was not the only thing that attracted me to this man. in fact, he didn't even do it that often, which made it that more sacred. sure it "turns me on", but i'd have preferred him doing these types of theatrics at his own will, & not by the pleads of the audience. the theatrics weren't the only things that shadowed over his true credibility & genius; the cliche lifestyle of the rock musician helped to "fool" those who didn't know him enough. i'm going to take a break now from researching about him, by the means of biographies & whatnot. i enjoyed this book so much because it was honest & showed that he was just as human as you & me. he was also more sensitive & self-concious than you might presume. if i was lucky enough to have been alive during that era, & had been able to attend an experience or gypsy show, i sure as hell wouldn't be hollering for him to play this-or-that song. i'd want him/them to play what they felt was right for that moment, for that atmosphere, for that audience. i'd especially want to close my eyes & devour all of those improvised notes & riffs that f-cking poured out of his heart. we've still got the music, of course, & we always will... but we'll also never stop wishing he would've stuck around a little longer. a lot of times the phrase "just think of what he/she could've done" is overused, but it's totally appropriate when applied to jimi. like said in the movie "the jerk", haha, i wouldn't care if he was the colour of a baboon's a$$ -- the colour of his music was merely undefinable. highly recommended. | |
| "Jimi Fans Rejoice!" | 2002-08-04 |
| - Reviewed By themutantmoose | |
| An exhaustive biography, lacking in lurrid details, but filled instead with the story of Jimi's life, and how his life affected his music. It seems to me that this author decided that, since most people are interested in Jimi Hendrix for his music, then took that to be the perspective from which this book is written. The narrative is good, and the pictures are very nice. However, the most amazing part of this book is the appendices, which take up a full third of the book. They cover all the equipment that Jimi used, and a tremendous list of releases both official and otherwise. The amount of information included in this book is amazing, although some of it is now a bit dated. Hightly recommended for Jimi fans and guitar equipment wonks of all kinds. | |
| "A good rock bio...this is rare!" | 2002-07-28 |
| - Reviewed By living_on_a_chinese_rock | |
| Probably the only book you'll ever need on one of the century's most important rock artists. That does count for something. This mind-boggling exhaustive treatment runs through 500 pages of text, and then dives into a 200-page appendix that details Hendrix's vast recorded output. The writing style is plain and unpretentious and gives you the straight facts on his career. The only downside is that the appendix is poorly organized and unindexed, making it difficult to find anything. Also, there could have been more analysis and discussion on Hendrix's contributions as a composer. | |
| "Flawed, but indispensible nonetheless" | 2000-04-05 |
| - Reviewed By Anonymous | |
| I've read the preceding reviews of this book and feel compelled to defend it as a Hendrix fan for the better part of 35 years. This book was intended to be a biography, period, and on that score, it's about as encyclopedic as any account of Hendrix' life in print today -- certainly better than any of the purported "biographies" that preceded it. Additionally, it's relied upon by music historians and collectors as an authoritative source for information on session dates and personnel, and it accomplishes that quite well. New material has surfaced since the last publication, but the Hendrix family historians and writers take up the slack with extensive liner notes. For those interested in analysis and appreciation of Hendrix' music, I heartily recommend Charles Shaar-Murray's _Crosstown Traffic_, which is pretty exhaustive in itself; as sprawling as _Electric Gypsy_ but without so many pages. But if you're after a book that extols the virtues of Jimi's special demented 9th chord, or whatever, maybe you should write it. I'd buy it. But as for the time being, Jimi Hendrix:Electric Gypsy is the finest biography available. To expect more than a bio is to invite disappointment. | |
| "A must have handbook for the Jim Hendrix fanatic. GET IT!" | |
| - Reviewed By Anonymous | |
| Considering that this book was co-written by the man who runs the Hendrix Information Centre, Ceasar Glebbeek, it is a guarantee that this book will be as informative as possible. This bible of Jimi Hendrix has a complete discography which I and many fans alike refer to on a daily basis. Daily accounts of his life, gutar guide equipment guide, you name it this book has it. To put it bluntly this has everything you need from a wonderfully objective viewpoint that tells the story how it should be told. | |
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