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Electric Ladyland (33⅓ #8)
by
John Perry
Electric Ladyland is one of the greatest guitar albums ever made. During the recording process, Jimi Hendrix at last had time and creative freedom to pursue the sounds he was looking for. In this remarkable and entertaining book, John Perry gets to the heart of Hendrix's unique talent - guiding the reader through each song on the album, writing vividly about Hendrix's live...more
Paperback, 132 pages
Published
by Continuum
(first published April 2004)
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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 those Yardbirds and Beach Boys and Kinks and so forth, and he would have done some really special stuff. You just know it. The second worst rock death surely has to be Hendrix. Second, bec...more
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 those Yardbirds and Beach Boys and Kinks and so forth, and he would have done some really special stuff. You just know it. The second worst rock death surely has to be Hendrix. Second, bec...more
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As I have said elsewhere, Continuum Publishing has a wonderful thing going with its 33 1/3 series of minibooks, each one a small treatise of sorts regarding one of the legendary rock/pop albums of the past 45 years. I had previously enjoyed Sean Nelson's book on Joni Mitchell's "Court and Spark" (number 40 in the series, which series is now nudging toward the 100 mark), and decided to give number 8, John Perry's book on Jimi Hendrix' third album, "Electric Ladyland," a try. I...more
Yet another 33 1/3 book down! I'm in the process of catching up on any titles in the first 20 I didn't have/haven't read.
This is one of the straight non-fiction descriptions of an album, the making of the album, and the environment just before and after the making of the album (see also: Exile on Main Street). Its structure strongly resembles a lab report; to wit, the Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. Instrumentation
2. Chronology
3. Live
4. The Cover...more
This is one of the straight non-fiction descriptions of an album, the making of the album, and the environment just before and after the making of the album (see also: Exile on Main Street). Its structure strongly resembles a lab report; to wit, the Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. Instrumentation
2. Chronology
3. Live
4. The Cover...more
Though an enjoyable and generally well written book, benefiting enormously from the author's knowledge of guitar playing and musical theory, it does however suffer from a few annoying problems.
The book's structure is a little muddled and confusing, leaping from subject to subject without building a coherent narrative, and there are some annoying, simple errors, too. For example Vox guitar amplifiers are described as "American" (they're very British, and famously used by lo...more
The book's structure is a little muddled and confusing, leaping from subject to subject without building a coherent narrative, and there are some annoying, simple errors, too. For example Vox guitar amplifiers are described as "American" (they're very British, and famously used by lo...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 streams and wheat and silos on the cover. This little book is worth reading if you, like me, were a white suburban youth who thought you'd one day grow up to be a black guitarist who very much ...more
I enjoyed this one, as usual. It gives a great back story into the world of pre-70s rock n roll, not to mention the production of the great album. I could have done without a lot of the discussion on feedback sorts, etc, but every book has its faults.
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