Modern Listener Guide: Jimi Hendrix (eBook)
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200 Seiten
Bookbaby (Verlag)
978-1-5439-4248-4 (ISBN)
As the iconic status of legendary musician Jimi Hendrix looms larger with each passing year, there is a continual generation of new listeners just discovering his work. They may know he is important by how often he is name-checked by today's top musicians and by the near-constant presence of his image across all forms of media, but they soon discover there is a complicated and confusing body of material spread across many titles and record labels. Now acclaimed author and musician Frank Moriarty brings to life the world of Jimi Hendrix in Modern Listener Guide: Jimi Hendrix. With informed commentary and spirited critical perspective, Moriarty expertly leads the way through the studio sessions, live concert recordings, and myriad album and box set releases that comprise the imposing legacy of one of the world's great guitarists and musical personalities. By balancing a colorful, up-to-date and historically accurate portrait of Jimi's life and career interspersed with insightful commentary on dozens of significant releases that stand as cornerstones of his creativity, Modern Listener Guide: Jimi Hendrix will be invaluable to readers just discovering Hendrix, and will also appeal to those already familiar with Jimi's compelling music and unforgettable life.
The question arises in online music forums, is asked in the pages of guitar magazines, is debated among countless music fans: "e;People say Jimi Hendrix was a genius, but where do I start with his music?"e;After all, as the iconic status of Hendrix looms larger with each passing year, there is a continual generation of new listeners just discovering his work. They may know he is important by how often he is name-checked by today's top musicians and by the near-constant presence of his image across all forms of media, but they soon discover there is a complicated and confusing body of material spread across many titles and record labels. Now acclaimed author and musician Frank Moriarty brings to life the world of Jimi Hendrix in Modern Listener Guide: Jimi Hendrix. With informed commentary and spirited critical perspective, Moriarty expertly leads the way through the studio sessions, live concert recordings, and myriad album and box set releases that comprise the imposing legacy of one of the world's great guitarists and musical personalities. In the wake of Jimi Hendrix's brief, mercurial career, books about this legendary musician tend to offer simple platitudes, casually proclaiming various works to be Hendrix's masterpieces. But they offer little or no context communicating why these recordings are masterpieces and through what means Hendrix realized his musical vision. Accordingly, Modern Listener Guide: Jimi Hendrix takes on its subject in a way that has not been successfully accomplished, with insight and analysis given life by a vibrant approach. The music appears largely in chronological format, surrounded by events within the life and career of Jimi. This provides a colorful, up-to-date and historically accurate framework. What was it like to be on tour in 1968? How is it that the biggest rock star in the world lived a life of chaotic day-to-day logistics? How did Hendrix's creative instincts clash with "e;the way pop music is done?"e; The answers to these questions and many more complement the critical reviews of Jimi's music, giving readers a revealing and complete picture of this musical legend. By balancing accurate portraits of Jimi's career interspersed with insightful commentary on the dozens of significant releases that stand as cornerstones of his creativity, Modern Listener Guide: Jimi Hendrix will be invaluable to readers just discovering Hendrix, and will also appeal to those already familiar with Jimi's compelling music and unforgettable life.
The question arises in online music forums, is asked in the pages of guitar magazines, is debated among countless music fans: "e;People say Jimi Hendrix was a genius, but where do I start with his music?"e;After all, as the iconic status of Hendrix looms larger with each passing year, there is a continual generation of new listeners just discovering his work. They may know he is important by how often he is name-checked by today's top musicians and by the near-constant presence of his image across all forms of media, but they soon discover there is a complicated and confusing body of material spread across many titles and record labels. Now acclaimed author and musician Frank Moriarty brings to life the world of Jimi Hendrix in Modern Listener Guide: Jimi Hendrix. With informed commentary and spirited critical perspective, Moriarty expertly leads the way through the studio sessions, live concert recordings, and myriad album and box set releases that comprise the imposing legacy of one of the world's great guitarists and musical personalities. In the wake of Jimi Hendrix's brief, mercurial career, books about this legendary musician tend to offer simple platitudes, casually proclaiming various works to be Hendrix's masterpieces. But they offer little or no context communicating why these recordings are masterpieces and through what means Hendrix realized his musical vision. Accordingly, Modern Listener Guide: Jimi Hendrix takes on its subject in a way that has not been successfully accomplished, with insight and analysis given life by a vibrant approach. The music appears largely in chronological format, surrounded by events within the life and career of Jimi. This provides a colorful, up-to-date and historically accurate framework. What was it like to be on tour in 1968? How is it that the biggest rock star in the world lived a life of chaotic day-to-day logistics? How did Hendrix's creative instincts clash with "e;the way pop music is done?"e; The answers to these questions and many more complement the critical reviews of Jimi's music, giving readers a revealing and complete picture of this musical legend. By balancing accurate portraits of Jimi's career interspersed with insightful commentary on the dozens of significant releases that stand as cornerstones of his creativity, Modern Listener Guide: Jimi Hendrix will be invaluable to readers just discovering Hendrix, and will also appeal to those already familiar with Jimi's compelling music and unforgettable life.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
After five years spent writing this book, a looming fear grows: that I’ll forget to thank someone who helped make this possible. Should that happen, please know that the omission was not my intent.
First and foremost, I must thank Gordon Johnson. A lover of all things Jimi and an expert on Hendrix on vinyl – visit his website at www.jmhvinyl.co.uk – Gord read every word of this book almost as each was written. While kindly passing along the occasional compliment, Gord’s perceptions and his eye for detail were absolutely invaluable. This is a better book than it might have been through his efforts, and they are appreciated.
My gratitude to John McLaughlin and Derek Trucks for sharing their thoughts about the music of Jimi Hendrix. As a guitarist myself, it’s an honor to have the participation of two musicians who have crafted such unique instrumental voices through their guitars.
Mike Mattison, long one of Derek’s chief musical collaborators, made valuable contributions to Derek’s words. And Blake Budney endured countless emails from an anxious author as he facilitated and coordinated the creation of this book’s foreword.
Alan Paul generously provided a fellow writer with an assist. You are really missing out if you are a fan of the Allman Brothers Band and have not read his fascinating account of the band’s long history, One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band.
The work of a number of photographers appears in this book.
Tom Sheehy photographed the Jimi Hendrix Experience at the Spectrum in 1969, the night I first saw Jimi Hendrix. Beyond photography, in the years that followed Tom made a significant impact on the city of Philadelphia by spreading the word professionally about the bands and venues that shaped the city’s scene for decades.
Michael McGettigan has been a long-time presence in the city of Philadelphia’s media and cultural realms. His impact on the music scene includes a stint in the groundbreaking band The Stick Men, and he invited this author in to what became a ten-year gig as rock music columnist for the sadly missed Philadelphia City Paper. An accomplished photographer, Michael made his way to within a few feet of Jimi Hendrix to capture his performance at Philadelphia’s outdoor Temple Stadium on May 16, 1970. Among his shots is the book’s powerful front cover image.
Ken Davidoff is one of the lucky few who saw Jimi Hendrix play twice in a single day. His images of the Jimi Hendrix Experience performing their afternoon and evening sets at the Miami Pop Festival are truly dynamic. For information about his prints and his book The Miami Pop Festival: A Photographic Experience, please visit: www.oldrockphoto.com.
Frauke Bergemann, based in Berlin, has an impressive career in photography, which includes a weekend photographing the German rock festival that hosted the final concert performance by Jimi Hendrix. Her book, Jimi Hendrix and the Love and Peace Festival Fehmarn 1970, offers a fascinating look not only at Jimi’s historically significant performance, but the entire festival. Please visit Frauke’s website at: www.frauke-bergemann.de.
Another photographer from Germany, the late Jens Hagen, captured Jimi in Europe during a fascinating period. A subset of his Hendrix photographs appears in a volume of images collecting his work from that chaotic and creative era, Mach mal bitte Platz, wir müssen hier stürmen, loosely translated into English as Please take a seat, we have to storm here.
Robert Landau combined his photographic skills with the luck of growing up near the legendary Sunset Boulevard. Landau had the foresight to document the continually-revolving array of rock music billboards installed on the famous Sunset Strip in the 1960s and 1970s, years later presenting the images he captured in Rock N Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip (Angel City Press). Please visit www.robertlandau.com for more on this book and Robert’s other photography.
The British photographer Hag creates arresting work perhaps best described by his own website: “His photographs are all produced in the darkroom juxtaposing and combining elements from original negatives without the use of digital manipulation.” Yet Hag’s incredibly creative work is not the reason I mention him; his friend, the late Miki Slingsby, photographed Jimi Hendrix a number of times, and Hag to this day is caretaker of these images. I thank Hag for believing my project is of the proper spirit and quality, moving him to entrust me with the use of several of Miki’s photographs. For more on the work of both men, please visit www.hagsphotography.com.
I also must thank Brooke Finlayson, a talented photographer who never had the opportunity to shoot Jimi Hendrix, but who did help revive a couple of images that I thought were potentially unsalvageable. She dedicated her skills to this effort at a particularly hectic time in her life, and it’s appreciated.
One more photographer must be mentioned, and he is the late Charles Everest. The images Charles captured at the 1970 Isle of Wight festival do perhaps the most thorough job of depicting this massive event. Everest’s arresting image of Jimi Hendrix standing behind his amplification, calmly looking over the 600,000 people before him, has become known as “Jimi Pensive.” To find out more about the photography of Charles Everest, and to purchase high quality prints of the artists he shot – ranging from The Who to Miles Davis, as well as Jimi Hendrix - visit: cameronlife.photoshelter.com/index.
Dale Sprague is the president of the award-winning Canyon Creative, a team based in Las Vegas that stresses innovation in realms ranging from design and advertising specialties to branding and website creation. Dale took the somewhat rambling specifications and raw materials presented by the author and crafted the compelling cover of this book, one that fully reflects the charisma of Jimi Hendrix. For more on Dale and Canyon Creative: https://canyoncreative.com.
Two well-regarded experts on the life of Jimi Hendrix are Ben Valkhoff and Niko Bauer. In particular, Ben’s series Eyewitness and Foxy Papers: Original Press Cuttings and Niko’s ongoing analysis of the early years of Jimi’s life as a musician are important resources. Ben’s website is www.jimihendrix-lifelines.net. Niko’s collection of information can be found at www.earlyhendrix.com.
Though I had no direct contact with him, the work of the Experience Hendrix historian John McDermott must be mentioned. His liner notes are often revealing, but particularly valuable is his Ultimate Hendrix book, in which he shares much information extracted from the Hendrix estate archives.
The ongoing legacy of Jimi Hendrix is given vital energy thanks to two publications that focus on his life and music. Jimpress and UniVibes: The International Jimi Hendrix Magazine continue to enlighten and intrigue, and my piles of back issues of each publication proved invaluable in the writing of this book. Both magazines have also published essential books, most recently Jimpress’ stunning, multi-volume reference endeavor From the Benjamin Franklin Studios and UniVibes’ highly detailed Until We Meet Again: The Last Weeks of Jimi Hendrix. The Jimpress website is www.jimpress.co.uk and the UniVibes website is www.univibes.com.
I also must express my appreciation to the world of Jimi Hendrix collectors, too numerous to mention but critical partners who help keep the music alive. Their passion not only makes unheard material available to eager ears, but their organization and documentation helps sort out the sometimes-tangled legacy of Jimi Hendrix. It’s amazing how much of this crucial work is done by fans, people who aren’t professionals and who have no financial interest in the world of Jimi Hendrix – beyond freely spending their own money to feed Hendrix habits, of course. So, to all my pals who’ve helped with or chatted about this book in forums or Facebook groups dedicated to Jimi Hendrix: thank you all!
Several years ago, saxophonist and band leader Lonnie Youngblood met up with me in Harlem a number of times to discuss his musical relationships with Jimi during Hendrix’s early days in New York, and their friendship that continued even after stardom found Hendrix. Thanks to Lonnie for his time – and for buying Jimi that amplifier!
Noel Redding, bassist in the original Jimi Hendrix Experience, provided factual information and corrections to me prior to his untimely passing. Although the world’s focus was understandably on Jimi, Experience Hendrix deserve credit for issuing Noel Redding:...
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.10.2018 |
|---|---|
| Vorwort | John McLaughlin, Derek Trucks |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5439-4248-2 / 1543942482 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5439-4248-4 / 9781543942484 |
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