MY SON JIMI – AL HENDRIX WITH JAS OBRECHT
BOOK REVIEW BY JOE VIGLIONE
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Written Jun 28 1999, 12:00 am
James A. Hendrix tells his story to Jas Obrecht, former editor of Guitar Player magazine and primary author of Blues Guitar: The Men Who Made The Music. And many of us forget that underneath the psychedelia, the fuzz guitar, the stage presence and theatrics,
James Marshall Hendrix was, indeed, a blues guitarist. Check out the great stories…P 144 “Jimi didn’t give his first album to me directly, I got one from some hippies who lived next door…I was surprised that I knew it was Jimi because I’d never heard him sing before. I had also never heard him play
as the Experience. But I told the wife, “Hey, that sounds like Jimi!”
..The people came over and brought their record. They had just bought
it that day, and they were so excited over living next door to Jimi’s dad. They said, “Oh, yeah! You can have the record.”
Great shots of The Experience at the airport during the visit to Vancouver, Jimi’s last visit home…reading this it is hard to believe the rock warrior was only 27 years old…a baby – really, and made such an impact on what we hear and how people make music today.
This book is essential reading. It sells for 29.95
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