Library Rock's Backpages

Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix

234 articles

Free articles

Jimi Hendrix: The Music

Essay by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 26 September 1970

THE IMPORTANCE of Jimi Hendrix as a musician was sometimes forgotten behind the man's sexuality and the flamboyance of his act and appearance. ...

Jimi Hendrix: Blues (MCA)

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Guitar World, 1998

Let’s get the paradoxes out of the way right up front: the blues was a musical space to which Jimi Hendrix would always return in ...

Audio interviews

Jimi Hendrix (1970)

Interview by Keith Altham, Rock's Backpages audio, 11 September 1970

In the last interview Hendrix did, a week before his death, he talks poignantly about his plans for the future, and looks back at his past.

File format: mp3 File size: 28.6mb Interview length: 31 minutes 17 seconds Sound quality: ****

David Stubbs and Mark Pringle: Hendrix's Ladyland at 50 (2018)

Interview by Mark Pringle, David Stubbs, Rock's Backpages audio, 28 September 2018

The greatest rock album ever made? David Stubbs and Mark Pringle believe so and tell you why, track-by-track. Plus a conversation about Jimi's post-Ladyland career and a spot of idle speculation about what he might have done had he lived.

File format: mp3; file size: 88.3mb, interview length: 1h 31' 58" sound quality: *****

List of articles in the library

By date | By writer | Most recently added

Jimi Hendrix: Mr. Phenomenon!

Profile and Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 10 December 1966

NOW hear this — and kindly hear it good! Are you one of the fans who think there's nothing much new happening on the pop ...

Jimi Hendrix Experience: Blaises, London

Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 31 December 1966

JIMI HENDRIX, a fantastic American guitarist, blew the minds of the star-packed crowd who went to see him at Blaises Club, London on Wednesday. ...

Jimi Hendrix: Sex, Gimmicks, And Jimi

Report and Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 14 January 1967

TWO ELECTRIC guitars continued happily emitting sounds as Jimi Hendrix left the stage at Bromley Court Hotel last week. Considering the number of indignities the ...

New To The Charts: Wild Jimi Hendrix

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 14 January 1967

THE MAN for whom the words "Wild One" were invented has hit us! Jimi Hendrix, 22, from Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., courtesy of ex-Animal Chas Chandler ...

Hendrix — on the Crest of a Fave Rave

Profile by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 21 January 1967

ALTHOUGH things are happening all around Jimi Hendrix — he doesn't choose to see them. It's all down to being cool. No pre-hatch counting of ...

Jimi Hendrix Experience: Bag O'Nails, London

Live Review by Bill Harry, Record Mirror, 21 January 1967

Club scene ...

Jimi Hendrix at the Pop Think-In

Interview by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 28 January 1967

FREAK OUT: Well, whatever the word means to you, add a few musical notes to that. Each to his own. I think for a new ...

Jimi Hendrix, The Who: Saville Theatre, London

Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 4 February 1967

Jimi Hendrix-Who battle at Saville ...

The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Who: Saville Theatre, London

Live Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 4 February 1967

GLOOMY SAVILLE ...

Beatle Blind Date: Paul McCartney reviews the new pop singles

Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 25 February 1967

LEE DORSEY: 'Rain Rain Go Away' (Stateside) Lee Dorsey. It's in the same old vein and it'll be a hit. Sometimes I wonder if he ...

Jimi doesn't think he's a big name yet

Interview by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 25 February 1967

HIS APPEARANCE is striking. Heads turn as he passes. Tall, black military jacket with ornate braid, wild and shocking black hair, Dylan-like. A face hewn ...

Hendrix The Gen Article

Interview by Kevin Swift, Beat Instrumental, March 1967

HE WAS born in Seattle 20 years ago, he plays superb blues guitar, and what's more, he plays it from the heart, not from other ...

This Is Where It's At

Column by Mike Grant, Rave, March 1967

RAVE man Mike Grant is here again with more gossip on your favourite stars! ...

Jimi Hendrix, Four Tops, Jeff Beck et al: Singles Reviews

Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 25 March 1967

Catchy debut solo from Jeff Beck, and a typical but powerful Four Tops. Better showcase for Jimi Hendrix on his newie, and best yet from ...

Walkers — Humperdinck — Stevens — Hendrix... on a 25 — Day Rave!

Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 1 April 1967

Blast-off for THE big four is this Friday — Here's Disc's curtain-raiser by the stars themselves ...

Engelbert Humperdinck, The Walker Brothers, Jimi Hendrix, Cat Stevens: Finsbury Park Astoria, London

Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 8 April 1967

A show which proves pop still has something up its sleeve ...

Walker Brothers/Cat Stevens/Engelbert Humperdinck/The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Finsbury Park Astoria

Live Review by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 8 April 1967

WE WERE WELL and truly blitzed with "mini-happenings" on the Walker Brothers’ tour opening night, at Finsbury Park Astoria last Friday, when Jimi Hendrix literally ...

Jimi Hendrix: Hendrix IS Out Of This World

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 15 April 1967

EVEN HIS EX-ANIMAL MANAGER NEEDS A SPLIT PERSONALITY! ...

Who Says Jimi Hendrix Can't Sing? (He Does!)

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 15 April 1967

JIMI HENDRIX can't sing! "Oo sez so?" outraged Hendrix fans will demand, at this startling statement. But before MM readers who dig the sounds of ...

For Jimi Hendrix, colour means his shade of music...

Interview by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 22 April 1967

SCOPE — a series in which stars discuss their pet subjects ...

Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Them, Beach Boys, Kinks et al: Singles Reviews

Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 6 May 1967

A multitude of newies this week including Presley, Dylan, & Beach Boys ...

This Week's Singles: The Kinks, Jimi Hendrix, Beach Boys et al

Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 6 May 1967

SUBTLE KINKS HEADING FOR CHART SUCCESS ...

Jimi Hendrix Experience, Garnet Mimms: Saville Theatre, London

Live Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 13 May 1967

Hendrix turns on the heat ...

Jimi Hendrix Experience: Saville Theatre, London

Live Review by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 13 May 1967

THE JIMI Hendrix Experience is the kind of group you never tire of watching or listening to. ...

Jimi Hendrix, Garnet Mimms, 1-2-3: Saville Theatre, London

Live Review by Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, 13 May 1967

I ALWAYS get the impression that the American Soul Singers visiting this country are graduates of the 'National Soul Factory of America'. Garnet Mimms at ...

Question Time with Jimi Hendrix

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 13 May 1967

THE REAL JIMI HENDRIX is now beginning to emerge from behind that skilfully placed publicity screen of early days when success was too fragile to ...

Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are You Experienced? (Track Records)

Review by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 20 May 1967

Yes — this is the real Jimi Hendrix ...

Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced (Track)

Review by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 20 May 1967

Track-by-Track on Jimi Hendrix debut album ...

Hendrix: An Experience To Remember

Profile and Interview by Chris Welch, Music Maker, June 1967

POP NEVER loses its powers to produce surprises. Just as the community imagined themselves shock proof and immune to any new madness the Brethren of ...

The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are You Experienced (Track)

Review by uncredited writer, International Times, 2 June 1967

Yes JH ...

Keith Altham Planes West to Cover America's Monterey Pop Festival and Cables This Day-By-Day Report

Report by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 24 June 1967

WE DROVE to London Airport in Animal manager Mike Jeffery's Rolls-Royce while he dictated a few last minute instructions to assistant Tony Garland — "Ring ...

Monterey Pop Festival: The Hip Homunculus

Report by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 29 June 1967

"The West is the best: Get here and we'll do the rest!" — The Doors ...

Jimi Hendrix Experience, Procol Harum, Denny Laine: Saville Theatre, London

Live Review by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 30 June 1967

HENDRIX: impact of a 50-megaton H-BOMB! ...

Mamas & The Papas, The Who, Jimi Hendrix et al: Monterey Pop Festival, Monterey CA

Live Review by Tracy Thomas, New Musical Express, 1 July 1967

Who, Jimi win high praise ...

The Four Seasons: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica; Sam & Dave, the Jimi Hendrix Experience: Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 1967

Two Pop Groups in Los Angeles Debuts ...

Monterey Pop Festival: Inside Looking Out

Interview by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 15 July 1967

BEAT: Just wanted to get your comments on what's happening here in Monterey this weekend. ...

The Monkees, Jimi Hendrix Experience: Forest Hills Stadium, Queens NY

Live Review by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 27 July 1967

DAVY JONES pretended to dip his microphone in a goblet of water. And Micky Dolenz admitted he had bought a Moog synthesizer ("I'm fooling around ...

Jimi Hendrix: Wild, Man!

Interview by Dawn James, Rave, August 1967

Wild — that's Jimi Hendrix, but Dawn James finds he's not as wild as he sometimes makes out! ...

Beach Boy Bruce Johnston reviews new singles in Blind Date

Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 19 August 1967

VANILLA FUDGE: 'You Keep Me Hanging On' (Atlantic). Oh! I love it. Oh it's great. I didn't recognise the beginning at first. Yeah, Vanilla Fudge. ...

New Singles from the Stones, Monkees, Jimi Hendrix et al

Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 19 August 1967

STONES — CONSIDERABLY TOO MUCH ...

The Jimi Hendrix Experience: "Frantic — Yet Somehow Casual"

Report and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 28 August 1967

NO EXAGGERATION: The Jimi Hendrix Experience is the most exciting act I have yet seen in pop music. ...

Hendrix Admits Lamp Is A Bit Smoky

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 9 September 1967

TIME TO TUCK the tiny tots up and put them safely abed with a nice Monkees' record! Why? Because "the electric bogeyman" is back in ...

Jimi Hendrix: Mitch is Real

Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 9 September 1967

OUR (guaranteed GENUINE) Mitch — the one who plays drums as part of the Jimi Hendrix Experience — went over to USA with the Experience ...

Mitch Mitchell: 'We're Only Friendly Little Gnomes After All'

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 9 September 1967

MITCH MITCHELL TALKS ABOUT HIS IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA ...

Hendrix Experience Devastate Continent; Can They Do It Here?

Profile by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 23 September 1967

ONLY ONE short year after it began, the Jimi Hendrix Experience has left Europe in an emotional shambles after one stunning concert upon another. The ...

Jimi Hendrix Experience, Arthur Brown, The Herd, Eire Apparent: Saville Theatre, London

Live Review by Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, 14 October 1967

Hendrix and Brown triumph at the Saville Theatre... ...

Jimi Hendrix: Saville Theatre, London

Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 14 October 1967

THE OTHER (WRESTLING) SIDE OF JIMI HENDRIX ...

Jimi Hendrix, The Move, Amen Corner, The Nice, Eire Apparent, Pink Floyd: Royal Albert Hall, London

Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 25 November 1967

HUBBLE, BUBBLE, toil and trouble, and wowee Jimi Hendrix! The Hendrix-Move tour thundered off on its trip round Britain with a deafening start at London's ...

The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Axis: Bold As Love (Track)

Review by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 25 November 1967

UFO COULD BE JIMI! ...

Jimi Hendrix: Axis: Bold as Love (Track)

Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 2 December 1967

A vivid listening experience — that's Axis: Bold as Love — the latest album from Jimi Hendrix ...

With Jimi, The Music Is 3-D! The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Axis: Bold As Love (Track)

Review and Interview by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 9 December 1967

NICK JONES ON THE NEW HENDRIX LP ...

Jimi Hendrix: A Shoddy Hendrix Record?

Report by Michael Lydon, Rolling Stone, 20 January 1968

THE NEW Capitol LP, Got that Feeling: Jimi Hendrix Plays, Curtis Knight Sings, is not what it appears: Hendrix's latest release. The cover, with no ...

London: Beatles Clip Banned

Column by Nick Jones, Rolling Stone, 20 January 1968

  THERE ARE a few gloomy faces in England these days since our pound has devalued (what?) but it's mainly the profiteers who can't bear the ...

Jimi Hendrix: "Nice To Win — But We've Not Begun!"

Interview by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 17 February 1968

FOR A GUY to whom his music is more important than anything, you'd think being voted the World's Top Musician by Disc readers would make ...

Jimi Hendrix Experience, Eric Burdon & the Animals: Anaheim Convention Centre, Anaheim CA

Live Review by Ann Moses, New Musical Express, 24 February 1968

Peter Tork gives party guests healthfood ...

Jimi Hendrix: The Black Elvis?

Interview by Michael Lydon, The New York Times, 25 February 1968

"WILL HE BURN it tonight?" asked a neat blonde of her boyfriend, squashed in beside her on the packed floor of the Fillmore auditorium. "He ...

Rock & Roll Crusader: Detroit

Report by uncredited writer, The Warren-Forest Sun, 1 March 1968

DETROIT IS turning into ROCK CITY before our eyes, and we love it! All over the country groups are being "discovered, " and cities like ...

The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Axis: Bold as Love

Review by Al Aronowitz, LIFE, 15 March 1968

Brash Buccaneer with a Wah-Wah ...

We're Bridging the Gap Between Pop and Jazz, Says Mitch Mitchell

Interview by Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, 27 April 1968

IT'S 4 P.M. on a cold summer afternoon at London Airport. ...

Platter Chatter: albums from Steppenwolf, Jimi Hendrix et al

Review by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, July 1968

STEPPENWOLF is a magnificent first album by a magnificent quintet of the same name. It's the conventional guitar, drums, organ line-up, but the best we've ...

"I Felt We Were In Danger Of Becoming The U.S. Dave Dee" — Jimi Hendrix

Interview by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 20 July 1968

THE ELECTRIFIED hair has been shortened somewhat, but it was unmistakably still Jimi Hendrix. He loped into his manager's Gerrard Street office, grinned slyly, shook ...

Jimi Hendrix: Jimi Brings Manager's New Club Roof Down!

Report by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 27 July 1968

JIMI HENDRIX literally brought the roof down on the opening night at his manager's club, Sergeant Peppers in Majorca by the simple expedient of ramming ...

Jimi Hendrix: Experience

Interview by uncredited writer, The Great Speckled Bird, 30 August 1968

THERE IS A concert — a rock concert with several serious new music groups, and advertising that promoted only the top 40 dribble that some ...

An Electrocuting Jimi Hendrix Experience: Jimi Hendrix/Soft Machine: Auditorium Theatre, Chicago

Live Review by Camille Davis Russo, Skyline, 14 September 1968

I have given over my column this week to my daughter Camille Russo. She 
is almost 17, and has a good ear, has studied the ...

Jimi Hendrix, Vanilla Fudge, Soft Machine, Heir Apparent: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 16 September 1968

THE JIMI HENDRIX Experience was too much for the ushers who have managed to confine spectators to their seats during the summer series of rock ...

In the name of pop music NME's RICHARD GREEN suffers a... NOEL REDDING EXPERIENCE

Report and Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 5 October 1968

IT IS VERY unlikely that the Editor will send me to Biafra to cover the war for the NME or that I shall be asked ...

Albums from Jimi Hendrix, the Bee Gees et al

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 27 October 1968

Sun Hasn't Set on British Sound ...

Jimi Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland (Track)

Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 2 November 1968

Hendrix: rock at its sublimest level ...

Popocracy — The New Revolution

Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 3 November 1968

The casual, oddly dressed stars of American pop music are making so much money they don't know how rich they are ...

Jimi Hendrix: Electric Ladyland (Polydor)

Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 5 November 1968

THERE ARE 19 naked ladies on the cover 
of Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland (Polydor 613 008/9). Pictured 
inside, Jimi has a flicker of the lip-licking ...

Jimi Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland (Track)

Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 9 November 1968

...

Jimi Hendrix: Electric Ladyland (Track 613008/613009)

Review by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 9 November 1968

NEW DOUBLE SET HENDRIX LP! ...

Steve Winwood says — Groups must play much much softer

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 4 January 1969

"FREAKING OUT with volume is over. Everybody seemed to think volume was the revolution of the music. That's okay theatrically, but not musically." ...

If You Were Worried, The Jimi Hendrix Experience is Alive and Well and Will Not be Breaking Up

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 11 January 1969

CHRIS WELCH meets the new-look Jimi! ...

It's Getting Boring Says Noel The Red

Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 18 January 1969

A SLIGHTLY haggard Noel Redding staggered into the tavern and eased himself into a chair. Of course, it immediately crossed my mind that the poor ...

Jimi Hendrix #1

Interview by Jacoba Atlas, Hullabaloo, February 1969

THE JIMI Hendrix Experience just spent six weeks in Los Angeles, ensconced in a rambling home in Benedict Canyon that was once occupied by the ...

Jimi Hendrix #2

Interview by Jacoba Atlas, Circus, March 1969

PART TWO of my rap with Jimi Hendrix was concluded just before the elections in November. It is interesting to compare Hendrix's concepts of America ...

The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Royal Albert Hall, London

Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 1 March 1969

The legend comes to life: Chris Welch catches Hendrix in action ...

Mitch: Different Line-Ups Are Like Different Women

Report and Interview by Val Mabbs, Record Mirror, 8 March 1969

THE AFTERNOON before the second Albert Hall concert for Jimi Hendrix and the Experience. The scene is set with amps piled high and roadies bustling ...

Jimi Hendrix: "Western Movie For Jimi" Says The Man Himself

Interview by Val Mabbs, Record Mirror, 15 March 1969

AFTER SPENDING some time trying to track Jimi Hendrix down, I finally found myself sitting in his rooftop pad drinking tea with Jimi and girlfriend ...

Jimi Hendrix, Cat Mother, Chicago: Inglewood Forum Inglewood CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 29 April 1969

THE JIMI Hendrix Experience was an unpleasant one at the Forum in Inglewood Saturday night. ...

Newport '69 Pop Festival: Rock Festival Fiasco

Report by Ann Moses, New Musical Express, 5 July 1969

NOW THAT the Newport '69 Pop Festival (called that to borrow a little of the fame from the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals, but actually ...

"I'm Into Different Things," Says Jimi Hendrix

Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Los Angeles Times, 7 September 1969

JIMI HENDRIX is about to shed some of his Experience. His next three albums will not feature either bass guitarist Noel Redding or drummer Mitch ...

Jimi Hendrix Uncaged

Interview by Alan Smith, Hit Parader, November 1969

UP THE creaking stairs, past the accommodation agency up the stairs again, then to a hardboard door in the gloom. Knock on the hardboard and ...

Jimi Hendrix: I Don't Want to be a Clown Any More

Interview by Sheila Weller, Rolling Stone, 15 November 1969

LIBERTY, NEW YORK – Records, film, press and gossip are collectively ambitious in creating the image of a rock superstar. With Jimi Hendrix – as ...

Redding On Jimi: "I Said Stuff It"

Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Rolling Stone, 15 November 1969

LONDON — It was an experience, yes, but it was no picnic to have been Jimi Hendrix' bass player for three years. In the end, ...

John and Yoko Envisage Super Jam

Report by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 2 January 1970

IT'S A WELL known fact that John and Yoko Lennon were in Toronto and Ottawa recently to talk about their Peace Festival to be held ...

Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys: Fillmore East, New York NY

Live Review by Ritchie Yorke, New Musical Express, 31 January 1970

Hendrix joins the friends bandwagon ...

Hendrix's All-New Band of Gypsys: Fillmore East, New York NY

Live Review by Loraine Alterman, Rolling Stone, 7 February 1970

It's a new year, and a new thing for Jimi — as we saw at the Fillmore East ...

Jimi Hendrix Experience: Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley CA

Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 1 June 1970

Musical Trips With Hendrix ...

Jimi Hendrix: Band Of Gypsys (Track)

Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 20 June 1970

ANY ALBUM from Jimi is such a rare event, one can only be pleased to see his name back on the new releases' rack. Here ...

Jimi Hendrix: Band Of Gypsys (Track stereo Super. 2406.002; 42s. 6d.)

Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 27 June 1970

JIMI HENDRIX is one of the very few true originals in music. He is a power unto himself and perhaps the only person to whom ...

Woodstock (Import Cotillion SD3-500)

Review by Rob Partridge, Record Mirror, 4 July 1970

BONUS TRACKS ON WOODSTOCK GIANT ...

Various artists: Woodstock (Atlantic: 2663 001)

Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 17 July 1970

Update, 2020. Woodstock. The name has many meanings. There's Woodstock the town where Bob Dylan and the Band lived once. But the main resonance is ...

Hendrix Today

Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 5 September 1970

Rock's most influential guitarist on music, drugs, politics, and his plans for a new big band ...

The Isle of Wight Festival: Five Days That Rocked Britain

Report by Mark Plummer, Michael Watts, Chris Welch, Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 5 September 1970

MM's Richard Williams, Chris Welch, Michael Watts and Mark Plummer present a five-page report on an amazing weekend of music and other scenes... ...

Jimi Hendrix: The Final Interview

Interview by Keith Altham, interview transcript, 11 September 1970

On the evening of Friday, September 11th, 1970, Jimi gave what was to be his final interview at his Cumberland hotel suite. The interview was ...

Man, Myth Or Magic? Jimi Hendrix is Back, and Happy, and Talking…

Interview by Norman Jopling, Music Now, 12 September 1970

JIMI HENDRIX is staying at a West End hotel prior to his appearance at the Isle Of Wight Festival and his forthcoming European tour. ...

Jimi Hendrix: Electric Rebel – An Appreciation

Obituary by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 19 September 1970

"THANKS FOR being so patient. Next time we will really try and get it together." Spoken two hours before a cold Sunday dawn, three weeks ...

Thoughts on Hendrix

Comment by Vernon Gibbs, Columbia Daily Spectator, 24 September 1970

SOMEWHERE LURKING deeply in the back of lost realities a dark electric nightmare swirls. In some dimension there is a place where Ultimates reach incredible ...

Jimi Hendrix

Comment by Mark Williams, Strange Days, 25 September 1970

THE DAY after Judy Garland was found dead, a West End cinema began screening some of her old films. It was as predictable as it ...

Goodbye, Jimi

Obituary by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 26 September 1970

A tribute by Richard Green, who once worked with him ...

Jimi Hendrix: The Story

Obituary by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 26 September 1970

"JIMMY HENDRICKS," was the name scribbled on a notepad, when Chas Chandler rang the MM towards the end of 1966. "You must come and see ...

Jimi Hendrix 1942‐1970

Obituary by Michael Lydon, The New York Times, 27 September 1970

"I could sit up here all night and say thank you, thank you. thank you, you know... I just want to grab you, man, and ...

The last Hendrix interview

Report and Interview by Keith Altham, Record Mirror, 3 October 1970

RECORD MIRROR EXCLUSIVE BY KEITH ALTHAM ...

Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix Experience: Historic Performances Recorded Live at Monterey (Reprise MS2029)

Review by Vernon Gibbs, Columbia Daily Spectator, 5 October 1970

CHILLING. EVERY note sends raw, nervous bundles of uncertainty racing through your head. Reprise, which originally planned this album to capitalize on the festival furore ...

Death joins the electric band

Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 10 October 1970

JIMI HENDRIX died last week. Janis Joplin died this week. The needle is picking off the electric generation one by one with the precision of ...

Jimi Hendrix: A Funeral In His Home Town

Report by John Morthland, Rolling Stone, 29 October 1970

Seattle, Washington – It had been very hot and sunny the last few days in Seattle, most unusual for this time of year. But on ...

Introducing Mr. Buddy Miles

Interview by uncredited writer, Sounds, 31 October 1970

DRUMMER BUDDY MILES has been influential in some of the best sounds coming from America — through his work wrth his own Express, Electric Flag ...

The Maggot in the Rose

Comment by Geoffrey Cannon, unpublished, 1971

Author's note, 2018: Nobody talked about flower power or summers of love or fun, fun, fun after the Manson and the Altamont murders, followed by ...

Jimi Hendrix: Live Experience 67-68 (Bootleg)

Review by Felix Dennis, Oz, January 1971

JAMES MARSHALL Hendrix was a mindfucker. ...

Jimi and Janis: Victims of the Plague

Essay by Frank Bach, The Ann Arbor Sun, February 1971

EARLY IN the morning of Monday, October 5, 1970, Janis Joplin was found dead in an apartment in San Francisco, her arms filled with tracks, ...

Jimi Hendrix: The Cry of Love (Reprise 2034)

Review by Metal Mike Saunders, The Rag, 22 February 1971

I'M REALLY glad a final Jimi Hendrix album has finally come out, as it adds to the domain from which to consider the exceptionally puzzling ...

Jimi Hendrix: The Cry Of Love

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Oz, March 1971

"Well I'm sitting here in this womb/lookin' all around, I'm looking out my belly button window/and I see a whole world frowns, And I wonder ...

Jimi Hendrix: The Cry of Love (Reprise MS2034)

Review by Vernon Gibbs, Columbia Daily Spectator, 3 March 1971

Jimi's Cry ...

Jimi Hendrix: The Cry Of Love (Track stereo 2408 101 £2.40)

Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 27 March 1971

Not the best Hendrix ...

Jimi Hendrix: The Cry Of Love

Review by Lenny Kaye, Rolling Stone, 1 April 1971

MAYBE IT’S JUST my imagination, but the Jimi Hendrix section of my local record bin seems to have been growing at an astonishing pace lately. ...

James Taylor: On The Road With Sweet Baby James

Interview by Keith Altham, Record Mirror, 15 May 1971

AMONG THE very few road managers who have put their heads, hearts, hands and feet into their work is Super-Scot Eric Barrett who hit the ...

Jimi Hendrix: Rainbow Bridge (Reprise. K44159, £2.15)

Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 27 November 1971

THIS IS the second album of hitherto unreleased Hendrix material put out by different companies in as many weeks, three if you count the duplications ...

Mitch Mitchell in the Talk-In

Interview by Dick Meadows, Sounds, 11 December 1971

I FIRST SAW the Jimi Hendrix Experience in a cramped Norfolk cellar club. Then the coloured guy with the frizzed-out hair was a nobody in ...

Isaac Hayes' Black Moses and other albums

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Oz, 1972

TO CLAIM to have found a representative selection of black music on four records is patently absurd, but as a random cross-section of what’s approximately ...

Jimi Hendrix: Experience – Original Soundtrack/Isle Of Wight/Rainbow Bridge – Original Soundtrack

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Cream, January 1972

A CONSIDERABLE amount of Hendrix material has surfaced over the last six months. In addition to these three albums, there’s a side each on Woodstock ...

Jimi Hendrix: Hendrix In The West

Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, May 1972

I DON'T KNOW if there, is even anything to add to Jimi's legend. You can build it up or tear it down but it remains ...

Buddy Miles: Big black hunk of funk

Interview by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 3 June 1972

BUDDY MILES ON SANTANA, HENDRIX ...

Chas Chandler: Slade Driver

Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 7 October 1972

Chris Charlesworth talks to CHAS CHANDLER, ex-docker, ex-Animal, ex-manager of Jimi Hendrix and now manager of Britain's hottest band, Slade ...

Jimi Hendrix (Dir. Joe Boyd, John Head and Gary Weis; Warner Bros.)

Film/DVD/TV Review by Cliff White, Black Music, December 1973

IN THE heady atmosphere of swinging London it was often overlooked that Hendrix was Black. Musically he was pigeonholed in a multi-colour no man's land, ...

Jimi Hendrix: Wild Man Of The Guitar

Retrospective by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 22 December 1973

AS A ROCK HERO Jimi was one of the best, one of the greatest. Lying on his back playing flaming guitar with his teeth. Fanitastic! ...

Jimi Hendrix: How Rock Society Blew Another Mind

Essay by Michael Gray, Let It Rock, February 1974

WHEN JIMI HENDRIX flew into England for the first time, with Chas Chandler, they went straight from the airport to Zoot Money's house for an ...

Knight Life: Curtis Knight

Report by Michael Gray, Let It Rock, June 1974

JIMI HENDRIX FANS will be familiar with Curtis Knight’s name: he’s the man who found Hendrix down and out in New York in 1965, gave ...

Gil Evans: Jazzing Up Jimi

Interview by Ian Dove, Rolling Stone, 18 July 1974

Evans gave Hendrix's music an orchestral workout. ...

'Black Gold': New Hendrix in Old Tapes

Interview by Ian Dove, Rolling Stone, 26 September 1974

NEW YORK — The archaeological probing of the Hendrix tapes continues. Up in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, at the Shaggy Dog Studios, Alan Douglas — producer, record ...

The Ghost Tapes

Report by Bill Wasserzieher, Los Angeles Free Press, 22 November 1974

OLD DEMO TAPES have a habit of rising to the surface — usually as soon as a performer has become big enough to be considered ...

R.I.P. Giants – The Dead Certs

Overview by Ed Jones, Melody Maker, 25 January 1975

How dying can be a good career move. ...

On The Horizon: Love Springs Eternal For Arthur Lee

Profile and Interview by Dan Nooger, Circus, March 1975

ARTHUR LEE sits by the picture window of his mid-Manhattan hotel room, staring at the hotel across the bustling street below. "I just couldn't see," ...

Jimi Hendrix Makes A Crash Landing From The Phantom Zone

Report and Interview by Michael Gross, Circus, May 1975

LATE AT NIGHT, the cluster of rock neophytes bunched around the portals of Steve Paul's famous club, The Scene, would scatter like mice as Jimi ...

Jimi Hendrix

Essay by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 20 September 1975

On the fifth anniversary of his death (Sept. 18, 1970) a personal view of the Titan Axeman ...

Jimi Hendrix: Crash Landing

Review by Miles, New Musical Express, 18 October 1975

THE SLEEVE of this album, unhelpfully enough, doesn't give the history of these tracks, which are taken from the 500 plus hours of 16-track tape ...

Jimi Hendrix: Midnight Lightning and For Real

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 15 November 1975

AND THE GHOST walks once more. ...

Noel Redding: More Than Just Jimi Hendrix's Bass Player

Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, October 1976

IT IS INEVITABLE when dealing with such a visible force as Jimi Hendrix that persons who were close to him – and even played music ...

Jimi Hendrix

Book Excerpt by David Dalton, Lenny Kaye, Rock 100, 1977

THIS IS NEWARK, THE NIGHT AFTER MARTIN Luther King's assassination. Jimi Hendrix is playing the Symphony Theatre to a crowd of white, modishly dressed hippies. ...

Jim Marshall: The Man, The Amps; Together They Revolutionized Rock and Roll

Profile and Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, February 1977

EASILY THE MOST revolutionary electric guitarist of the past decade was the late Jimi Hendrix. In many ways Jimi was the first electric guitarist in ...

The Final Tribute to Jimi Hendrix

Memoir by Al Aronowitz, Circus, 29 September 1977

I HAD TO talk Miles into going to Jimi's funeral with me. ...

Jimi Hendrix: The Voodoo Lives On

Essay by Dave Marsh, Musician, October 1980

HENDRIX SAW himself as a symbolic figure who contained in his bloodstream elements of all races. The goal of his performances was both racial and ...

Eddie Kramer: The Wizard Of Woof-Woof

Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar World, September 1985

If Jimi wanted to hear guitar played underwater, Eddie Kramer would turn on the faucet — and get it all down on tape. As told to Gene ...

Eddie Kramer: The Wizard Of Woof-Woof

Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar World, September 1985

If Jimi wanted to hear guitar played underwater, Eddie Kramer would turn on the faucet — and get it all down on tape. As told to ...

James Marshall Hendrix: Undisputed Master of the Electric Guitar

Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar World, September 1985

Every guitarist today — from Coryell to Steve Stevens — has been marked by the stamp of Purple Haze genius. Sixteen axmen explain Hendrix' influence in their ...

Jimi Hendrix: Alan Douglas Builds A Castle Made of Sand

Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar World, September 1985

The record producer had Jimi's ear just before the end. Now he's re-packaging it for the masses. As Told To Gene Santoro ...

Jimi Hendrix: Curtis Knight's Encounter With The Divine Light

Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar World, September 1985

As told to Gene Santoro ...

Jimi's Army Buddy Bass Player

Retrospective and Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar World, September 1985

Billy Cox was the only sideman Jimi could trust. He says the world is still catching up to what Jimi played fifteen years ago. As ...

Jimi Hendrix: Radio One (Rykodisc)

Review by David Sinclair, Q, April 1989

AHEAD OF NEXT year's 20th anniversary of his death there are already tell-tale signs of renewed interest in the legacy of Jimi Hendrix, still unquestionably ...

Jimi Hendrix: Immense

Review by David Sinclair, Q, May 1989

Are You ExperiencedAxis: Bold As LoveSmash HitsElectric LadylandBand Of GypsiesThe Cry Of LoveIsle Of WightHendrix In The WestWar HeroesLoose EndsCrash LandingMidnight LightningThe Singles AlbumKiss The ...

Jimi Hendrix: The Jimi Hendrix Concerts

Review by Mark Cooper, Q, December 1989

THE RECENT spate of activity that has surrounded Jimi Hendrix – The South Bank Show, Charles Shaar Murray's musical biography Crosstown Traffic and now the ...

Jimi Hendrix: Far Out

Book Review by Richard Williams, Q, December 1989

Charles Shaar Murray: Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix And Post-War Pop (Faber) ...

Black Rock

Essay by David Toop, The Face, July 1990

White Rock we know about, but why should the idea of Black Rock be so difficult to comprehend? When Prince says his current tour is rock'n'roll based, he ...

Do I hear £180,000?

Report by Adrian Deevoy, Q, July 1990

Indeed you do... for the guitar Hendrix played at Woodstock. But it's considerably less for a life-size oil painting of Ozzy Osbourne. Adrian Deevoy examines ...

Charles Shaar Murray: Crosstown Traffic – Jimi Hendrix and The Post-War Rock 'N' Roll Revolution (St. Martin's Press)

Book Review by Tim Riley, The Boston Phoenix, October 1990

THE BRITISH have always tried to claim Hendrix as their own. This argument falls apart right away not only because he was an American, but ...

Jimi Hendrix: Bitter Experience

Book Review by Mat Snow, Q, October 1990

It was 20 years ago today...that Jimi Hendrix's brief but brilliant career came to an end. To mark the occasion, his former colleagues have published ...

Black Rock & Roll

Essay by RJ Smith, L.A. Weekly, 4 October 1990

RJ Smith on Living Colour and pop's buried history ...

Jimi Hendrix: Cornerstones

Review by Mat Snow, Q, November 1990

THERE ARE FEW people who will deny that the first time they lowered the needle on side one, track one of album one, Are You ...

'The Star Spangled Banner'

Comment by Dave Marsh, Vox, November 1990

WHEN SINEAD O'Connor refused to allow 'The Star Spangled Banner' to be performed at her late August concert at the Garden State Arts Center in ...

Ebony, Ivory and the Blues

Comment by Barney Hoskyns, The Times, 20 May 1991

Barney Hoskyns on the continuing power struggle between black and white influences in popular music ...

Jimi Hendrix: Stages (Polydor/CD box set only)

Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 8 February 1992

SINCE HIS untimely death in 1970 guitar god Jimi Hendrix has been lauded as 'The Greatest Guitarist Of All Time'. His name has been inducted ...

Jimi Hendrix Remembered

Retrospective and Interview by David Sinclair, Q, June 1992

IF EVER A story has grown in the telling it is that of Jimi Hendrix. From a no-name sideman on the American chitlin circuit to ...

Jimi Hendrix: Calling Long Distance and The Ultimate Experience

Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, December 1992

THERE ARE RECKONED to have been only six Hendrix albums authorised by the artist himself, but he has been so ruthlessly repackaged, reassembled, re-issued and ...

The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are You Experienced?/ Axis: Bold As Love/ Electric Ladyland

Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, 1993

THESE DIGITAL remasters are diamonds in the tottering junkpile of Hendrix re-releases and cutting-room floor detritus. Augmented by both sides of the first three singles ...

Jimi Hendrix Burns His Guitar For The First Time

Essay by Keith Altham, Q, July 1994

Date: March 31, 1967 Location: Astoria Theatre, LondonTHE BRIGHT LITTLE pyromaniac who told Jimi Hendrix to set fire to his guitar? Yup, that’s me. Thirty-three ...

Jimi Hendrix: Woodstock (MCA)

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 1994

MORE THAN Hendrix the space bluesman or rock song performer, Woodstock spotlights Jimi the jammer, and his seemingly infinite inventiveness in the loosely structured format ...

Who the hell does MAX CLIFFORD think he is?

Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, September 1994

Hamster snack outrage! Lycra thigh-shots farrago! Politician-toe-to-actress-tonsil coincidence! All the proud work of one proud PR man, ever spoon-feeding the media, manipulating the smaller-format newspapers, ...

Arthur Lee & Love: Club Lingerie, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 25 November 1994

Hendrix Birthday Love-In Skips a Beat at Club Lingerie ...

Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Soup

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, June 1995

BY 1969, JIMI HENDRIX HAD COMPLETELY LOST the plot. He'd dumped all the English guys — apart from Mitch Mitchell — who'd been the best ...

Chas Chandler 1938-1996

Obituary by Chris Welch, The Independent, 17 July 1996

WHEN JIMI Hendrix set fire to his guitar, Chas Chandler was ready with the lighter fuel. When Slade were desperate for a new image, Chandler ...

Jimi Hendrix And Cream

Report and Interview by Johnny Black, MOJO, October 1996

Eric Clapton, arms hanging limp at his side, stared in disbelief at the outlandishly garbed guitarslinger who had just joined the Cream for an impromptu ...

Jim Hendrix: Reissues

Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, June 1997

Higher than the sun ...

Jimi Hendrix: First Rays Of The New Rising Sun/Are You Experienced?/Electric Ladyland

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, June 1997

HAVE WE BEEN HERE BEFORE? WE CERTAINLY HAVE. In 1993, the dilapidated Hendrix CD catalogue was overhauled by Alan Douglas, then artistic director of the ...

Alan Douglas: Thee Man Who Sold The Underworld

Retrospective and Interview by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, July 1997

Now into his fifth decade at the doors of perception, label boss ALAN DOUGLAS hasworked with many of the century's underground greats, from Lenny Bruce, ...

Jimi Hendrix: South Saturn Delta

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, December 1997

IN WHICH the new management of Planet Hendrix takes its first steps into the marginal, semi-canonical hinterlands of the Great Man's recorded legacy and returns ...

Monterey International Pop Festival

Review by Max Bell, Uncut, March 1998

Four-CD box set of the 1967 Summer Of Love festival ...

Gary Carner (Ed.): Miles Davis Companion; Chris Potash (Ed.): Jimi Hendrix Companion (Omnibus)

Book Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, March 1998

THESE TWO volumes comprise anthologies of journalism, contemporary and retrospective, about two great black musicians of the 20th century whose brilliance was not usually matched ...

Jimi Hendrix: Through Gypsy Eyes by Kathy Etchingham and Andrew Crofts (Orion)

Book Review by Carol Clerk, Uncut, October 1998

JIMI HENDRIX flew into London for the first time in 1966, with a guitar and a bag containing a change of clothes, a jar of ...

Jimi Hendrix Albums: A Guide

Guide by Charles Shaar Murray, Guitar World, 1999

ARE YOU EXPERIENCED? (MCA) HENDRIX AS superstar-in-waiting, UK-style. Rough, raw, crunchy, funky and designed for maximum impact, this ...

Street Fighting: Jimi Hendrix

Essay by Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, November 1999

Your starter for ten: what do Jimi Hendrix and George Orwell have in common? ...

The Experience Music Project Opens in Seattle (Part 1)

Report by Charles Bermant, Rolling Stone Online, 24 June 2000

IT WASN'T YOUR typical ribbon cutting. Gazillionaire Paul Allen smashed a Stratocaster made of unflavored green rock candy, designed especially for the occasion by glass ...

Jimi Hendrix: Black Secret Technology

Retrospective by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, July 2000

Hendrix wasn't just the original firestarter, all flash and dazzle. He was a scientist of sound. ...

Jimi Hendrix: New Rising Son

Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 2000

Where Jimi Hendrix came from and where he would have gone next, had he survived, Hendrix expert Charles Shaar Murray talks to David Stubbs ...

Jimi Hendrix: Public Image Unlimited

Essay by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 2000

Hendrix the black radical. Hendrix the glam dandy. Hendrix the icon. Hendrix the man. ...

Noel Redding Boxes His Own Experience

Interview by Charles Bermant, Rolling Stone Online, 20 July 2000

ASK NOEL REDDING what will be on the "new box set," and he won't offer any insight about the upcoming release that features dozens of ...

Jimi Hendrix: Experience Music Project Opens in Seattle (Part 2)

Report by Charles Bermant, Rolling Stone Online, 26 July 2000

SHORTLY BEFORE BO Diddley began his set at the Experience Music Project celebration, Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist Noel Redding approached him with greetings from a ...

Jimi Hendrix: The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, October 2000

LOUD, FLASHY, purple, wild, a danger to the nation's daughters. Face it, if personalities like JM Hendrix didn't exist, life would be rather boring. (And ...

Eight Little-Known Facts About Jimi Hendrix

Comment by Gary Pig Gold, In Music We Trust, November 2000

THE LINES, MUSICAL and otherwise, between Fact and (Science) Fiction tend to blur quite a lot whenever one dares speak of (a) Our Heroes, and/or ...

Jimi Hendrix: The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Review by Michael Simmons, L.A. Weekly, 29 November 2000

Heroes are important. They make you want to stay alive when you aren't sure whether you've been left behind, or are about to be run ...

The Jim Marshall Interview

Interview by Joe Matera, Mixdown, 2001

In a rare and candid interview, the man behind the legendary amplifier talks to Joe Matera about the Marshall legacy. ...

Jimi Hendrix: Why Are You Experienced is Rock's Greatest Debut Album

Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, May 2002

'WE'LL WATCH THE SUN RISE FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA...' ...

Jimi Hendrix: Family Feud Continues

Report by Charles Bermant, Rolling Stone Online, 25 October 2002

THE RIGHTS TO Jimi Hendrix's music were returned to his family seven years ago, prompting fans to believe that the plundering of his recorded legacy ...

Paul Williams On Jimi Hendrix

Interview by Mike Mettler, UniVibes, April 2003

WHO'S YOUR Daddy? Think Rolling Stone magazine invented rock criticism? Think again. ...

He Don't Live Today (Sorry): My Noel Redding Experience

Memoir by Gary Pig Gold, Rock's Backpages, May 2003

LET ME TELL YOU: The very first "real" concert I was ever allowed to attend as a wee Canadian tyke just so happened to be ...

Noel Redding 1945-2003

Obituary by Phast Phreddie Patterson, Rock's Backpages, May 2003

NOEL REDDING (57) was found dead at his home in Clonakity, Ireland on May 11. No cause of death has been reported. He ...

The Angels Did Sing: Noel Redding 1945-2003

Memoir by Keith Altham, Rock's Backpages, May 2003

MY FIRST TRIP to the U.S. for the New Musical Express was with The Jimi Hendrix Experience for the Monterey Festival. So the sad death ...

Midnight Lightning: Jimi Hendrix and the Black Experience by Greg Tate (Lawrence Hill)

Book Review by Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, July 2003

Erudite, eclectic and pungently demotic polemic on Hendrix's centrality in the 20th century African-American cultural pantheon. ...

Mike Ross-Trevor: "Are We Rolling?"

Interview by Paul Gorman, The Word, May 2004

In forty years of recording everyone from Dylan and Hendrix to Abba and Lena Zavaroni, a studio engineer sees a lot of strange things. ...

Various Artists: Power of Soul – A Tribute To Jimi Hendrix

Review by Jeff Calvin, Blues Revue, August 2004

YES, WE HAVE been Experienced. We've been to Electric Ladyland. We've seen the Purple Haze, been Fired and Foxey Ladied into submission. Jimi is everywhere ...

Seven Fender Stratocaster Models That Pay Tribute to Jimi Hendrix

Special Feature by Tom Watson, Modern Guitars, 13 November 2004

OVER THE 34 years since his untimely death in 1970 at the age of 27, the music of Jimi Hendrix has inspired legions of budding ...

The Top 10 Psychedelic Moments in Rock

Comment by Lenny Kaye, Harp, May 2005

Mind expansion. The walls are breathing. Herewith, a personal list of a trip into the whirlpool of creation. ...

Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock

Film/DVD/TV Review by Robert Sandall, Daily Telegraph, 22 September 2005

FOR ONCE, "legendary" really is the word. The performance by Jimi Hendrix and his band that closed Woodstock in 1969 has been cited as one ...

Joe Boyd: White Bicycles – Making Music in the 1960s (Serpent's Tail)

Book Review by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 14 May 2006

THIS PROTEIN-PACKED memoir entwines a number of stories that reach well beyond the subtitle's modest brief. At one level it's a boy's own adventure. Joe ...

Jimi Hendrix

Retrospective by Mat Snow, MOJO, November 2006

ON THE Friday night of September 23, 1966, former Animals bassist-turned-would-be-starmaker Chas Chandler, Animals road manager Terry McVay, and Jimmy (as he was then) Hendrix ...

The Jimi Hendrix Experience Live At Monterey DVD, CD

Report and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, October 2007

The Jimi Hendrix Experience Live At Monterey for the first time ever on October 16th was released by Experience Hendrix/Geffen/Ume on DVD. The legendary U.S. ...

Jimi Hendrix: Remade in Britain

Retrospective and Interview by Dave Thompson, MOJO, Summer 2007

DATELINE: LONDON, January 29, 1967. It was, if such archaic terminology could still be employed, the ultimate Battle of the Bands, trans-Atlantic style. ...

School of Rock: Monterey to Altamont

Guide by Barney Hoskyns, iTunes, 2008

BETWEEN 1966 and 1970, there was a seismic change in British and American pop. Within a few short years "pop" became "rock", and teenagers who'd ...

Mitch Mitchell Remembered

Obituary by David Stubbs, Guardian Unlimited, 13 November 2008

THE DEATH of drummer Mitch Mitchell, aged 61, marks an unwanted milestone in rock mortality. ...

Mitch Mitchell, 1947-2008

Obituary by Keith Altham, Uncut, January 2009

Jimi's mercurial drummer, remembered by his friend and publicist Keith Altham. ...

The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland 40th Anniversary Collectors Edition

Film/DVD/TV Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, March 2009

CHAS CHANDLER, whose avuncular Geordie tones weave in and out of this absorbing "Making Of" doc, recalled the sessions for Electric Ladyland as "a long-drawn-out ...

Backstage in the '60s

Memoir by Chris Welch, Rock's Backpages, 25 July 2009

LIFE BACKSTAGE AT pop shows in the Swinging '60s was always a hoot. Looking back, it's fun to recall how casual and relaxed it all was ...

Woodstock: Back To The Garden

Retrospective and Interview by Kris Needs, Record Collector, October 2009

40 years on, Woodstock's epochal celebration of music, peace and unleashed hedonism is being marked with an unprecedented deluge of audio and visual releases. KRIS ...

Jimi Hendrix: He Shall Grow Not Old As Some Who Are Left Grow Old

Sleeve notes by Derek Taylor, Sony Music, 2010

These are the sleevenotes to the 2010 reissue of Electric Ladyland ...

Eddie Kramer on Jimi Hendrix's Valleys of Neptune

Interview by Ben Fong-Torres, eMusic.com, February 2010

EDDIE KRAMER'S credit on Valleys of Neptune is co-producer, along with Janie Hendrix (Jimi's sister) and John McDermott of Experience Hendrix, the company owned by ...

Jimi Hendrix: Valley of Neptune Album Released In March; Experience Hendrix Tour 2010 Embarks in Spring

Report and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, February 2010

JANIE HENDRIX, the CEO of Experience Hendrix LLC, and Sony Music Entertainment's Legacy Recordings will launch their monumental 2010 Jimi Hendrix Catalog Project on Tuesday, ...

Jimi Hendrix: Valleys of Neptune

Review by Jeff Slate, Examiner.com, 24 February 2010

BACK ABOUT 15 years ago, when Pete Townshend was living in New York City putting together the Broadway production of Tommy, I was lucky enough ...

"I Was So Cocksure With Jimi": How Rock Photography Pioneer Gered Mankowitz Captured Hendrix And The Cream Of The 1960s

Profile and Interview by Nick Coleman, Independent on Sunday, 29 August 2010

Gered Mankowitz wasn't yet 21 when his pictures captured London's groovers at their hippest. As the portraitist prepares to put his Hendrix archive on show, ...

Jimi Hendrix: Brother From Another Planet

Retrospective by Kris Needs, Record Collector, October 2010

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1970: It's all over the evening news that Jimi Hendrix has died at the age of 27. "JIMI HENDRIX DEATH RIDDLE" bellow ...

Silver Apples: Early Electronica

Retrospective and Interview by Tom Doyle, Sound on Sound, October 2010

Silver Apples jammed with Jimi Hendrix, counted John Lennon as a fan, and produced extraordinary electronic music — with nothing but a drum kit and a pile of ...

Jimi Hendrix: Winterland

Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, September 2011

OVER FOUR DECADES since the six shows - recorded over three nights in October 1968 and documented in this four CD set – that helped ...

Jimi Hendrix: Surrounded By Vultures

Retrospective by Johnny Black, Classic Rock, October 2011

SEPTEMBER 10, 1969, had been a bad night for Jimi Hendrix and it was about get considerably worse. ...

In The Mood: The Favourite Albums Of Rush's Geddy Lee

Guide by Mick Middles, The Quietus, 29 June 2012

Mick Middles speaks to Rush bassist and singer Geddy Lee about his favourite albums of all times... and finds surprises amidst the classic of the ...

Linda Keith: "How I helped to make Jimi Hendrix a rock'n'roll star"

Retrospective and Interview by Edward Helmore, The Observer, 14 September 2013

Linda Keith lent a young blues player a guitar belonging to her boyfriend, Keith Richards – and the rest is history. In a rare interview, ...

Alan Douglas, 1931-2014

Obituary by Richard Williams, The Guardian, 18 June 2014

Record producer best known for his controversial posthumous releases of Jimi Hendrix recordings ...

Jimi Hendrix and the Birth of Heavy Blues

Retrospective by Johnny Black, Blues, July 2015

LIKE ALL THE great overnight sensations, Jimi Hendrix took years to get off the ground. His was a long road to fame, from the little ...

Hendrix: The Gigs That Changed History

Retrospective by David Dalton, Classic Rock, 30 October 2015

AUGUST 18, 1969. Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock, the supreme moment in the history of rock – if not of the cosmos. But, wait a moment, ...

So who killed Jimi Hendrix?

Book Excerpt by Philip Norman, 'Wild Thing' (Weidenfeld & Nicholson), 5 August 2020

50 years after musician's death, Philip Norman tracks down the key players to tell the definitive story of one of rock's most tantalising mysteries - ...

Philip Norman: Wild Thing – The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix

Book Review by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 11 September 2020

Wild Thing: the Latest — and best? — look at the Life of Jimi Hendrix ...

'I Don't Know What You've Got': Little Richard With Young Jimi Hendrix

Retrospective by Paul Sexton, uDiscoverMusic, 20 November 2020

'I Don't Know What You've Got (But It's Got Me)' became Richard's last Top 20 R&B hit and featured a future superstar guitarist. ...

see also Curtis Knight

see also Buddy Miles

see also Noel Redding

see also Fat Mattress

RSS

back to LIBRARY

COPYRIGHT NOTICE