| Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy | 
 enlarge | Authors: Harry Shapiro, Caesar Glebbeek
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 385294
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 784
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.6
ISBN: 0312130627
Dewey Decimal Number: 787.87166092
EAN: 9780312130626
ASIN: 0312130627
Publication Date: August 15, 1995
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 Great for deep and casual fans alike August 9, 2008
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.
 Very Good Bio but ...! December 18, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a very good biography of Jimi Hendrix. Well, it is the best of the many I have read. I have one problem with this book. There too many reference (even thou the index does not totally reflect it) to Hendrix being part Cherokee. As if to say he is not all African; he is 1/16th Cherokee!? Who cares! This seems to be used to give comfort to readers who maybe uncomfortable with his ethnic background! Many if not most AA born of the slave trade maybe of mixed race in some way but what does that have to do with the greatness one achieves?
Great Bio of Hendrix August 15, 2007
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.
 The research is there, but there is no insight. April 30, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Beware of a 'definitive' biography written by two fellows who never knew Hendrix. The 'facts' are there, but it's the approach taken to them that is lacking. Eddie Kramer condemns this book (see his seminars now posted on You Tube), and it's clear that the laundry list of tour dates, gig anecdotes and groupie/management tales don't provide any insight into Hendrix.
Ignore this book and purchase McDermott's biography 'Hendrix: Setting the Record Straight' (which, whilst heavy on Hendrix's legal woes, is grounded in the recollections of Chandler and Kramer). If you're after more, the best analysis of Hendrix as artist, musician and rock culture symbol is Charles Shaar Murray's 'Crosstown Traffic', which finally approaches Hendrix's art with the respect and insight it deserves.
Fantastic, yet strangely empty November 29, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
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