Product Description

Guitar legend Jimi Hendrix packed so much into so few years, leaping forward musically with each innovation. Hendrix expert, John McDermott, chronicles each of Jimi's revolutionary recording sessions, enlisting the help of Hendrix's friend and bandmate Billy Cox and sound engineer and photographer, Eddie Kramer. This beautifully designed, illustrated volume will also include vivid new descriptions of every single live Hendrix concert from 1963 to 1970.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #227787 in Books
• Published on: 2009-03-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Review
…a day-by-day reference that is chronology-as-celebration, as musical archaeology, as elegy. The focus is on Jimi the craftsman and visionary and his painstaking pursuit of excellence. Here are the nuts-and-bolts of genius: constant practice, composition, rehearsal, gigging, recording, overdubs, practice, practice practice...magnificent. --Mojo, March 2009 issue

About the Author
John McDermott is the author of three books on Jimi Hendrix, including Hendrix: Setting the Record Straight, now in its 15th printing. Together with Janie Hendrix and Eddie Hendrix, McDermott has coproduced every Jimi Hendrix CD and DVD release. Bassist Billy Cox met Jimi Hendrix in the army in 1961. Leaving the military around the same time, they formed the R and B group, the King Kasuals, which toured all over the south. They were reunited in 1969 after the break-up of the Jimi Hendrix Experience; Cox played with hendrix at Woodstock and at the live appearances and recordings up until Jimi's death in 1970, including the classic Band of Gypsys. Legendary producer and engineer Eddie Kramer engineered every Jimi Hendrix album from Are You Experienced to Cry of Love. Hendrix hired Kramer to build his private studio, Electric Lady Studios. In recent years, Kramer has coauthored Hendrix: Setting the Record Straight with John McDermott and filmed the BBC documentary The Making of Electric Ladyland.

Customer Reviews

I'm taking a punt here, but...
...can you hear the sound of a barrel being scraped?

Jimi Hendrix's last concert was in Fehmarn, Germany, just after the Isle of Wight, 39 years ago.

Every last recorded second of film, however bad seems to have been released. Every sound recording that can be commercially released, has been. Even some that shouldn't have been. Electric Ladyland has been remastered three or is it four times. Films about the life of Jimi Hendrix or his recordings have been re-released (sometimes for better - Life Story, Woodstock with the newly discovered B&W footage, sometimes for worse - The making of Electric Ladyland, sometimes just a new package)

About three good biographies, numerous books about the author purported to be biographies, we've had books about the recordings, discographies, lists of tour dates, you name it

Does it ever stop?

Apparently not. Now we've got a few photographs (as if, somewhere, in all of the above, we haven't got them already), plus the forty year old memories of people that many or may not have been there at the time (1964-1969: I'm looking at you, Billy Cox, Eddie Kramer did you ever go to a concert? John McDermott: nope)

On this occasion, this fool will not be parted from his money, and wonders whether, if "Experience Hendrix" had any regard for the memory of the man, they might not just stop.