Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland

This is a very decent account of Hendrix's last completed album. I think the worst rock death was Buddy Holly, when the 60s were just dawning and he was 22. He would have danced all over the pre-Beatle years and then been thrilled and re-energised by the exciting uprush of mid-sixties superpop, all......more

Got this at the Strand while walking around super-hungover in the rain. Glad to have it in my pocket the next morning at the American Writing Programs book fair in NYC -- for some reason, it gave me hope, like a talisman against academic press books titled "Indian Summer" with pictures of bubbly str......more

If you ask anyone who has the faintest clue about Sixties rock gods the usual and final discussion comes down to who was the best; the two iconic Brits, Eric Clapton or Jeff Beck, or the legendary Jimi Hendrix? I'm no expert in what constitutes amazing guitar playing from a technical standpoint, how......more

It took me longer to finish this book than some of the others in the 33 1/3 series and I suspect why is that I was never a big fan of Hendrix or this album, which I had heard much of before listening to it for this book. While I don’t dispute that Hendrix was a talent, his music is about the opposit......more