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Reviews:

Fantastic, yet strangely empty
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.
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.


have you ever been experienced?
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!
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.