Hendrix on Hendrix: The Surprising Backstage Stories of Broadway's Most Remarkable Songs

Wonderful interviews with Jimi!

I've got a lot of time for Roby, his book about Hendrix pre-London  Becoming Jimi Hendrix: From Southern Crossroads to Psychedelic London, the Untold Story of a Musical Genius: 288  is essential reading.Here he's produced a collection of primary sources across 1966-70 and let's face it, primary sources are best for the historical record. However this collection is both informative and at the same time unsatisfactory.So we get snippets confirming what we learned elsewhere such as the relationship with his father was non-existent (wanting to buy his father a house as an act of victory rather than love) and a few other such items, it's most definitely not an auto-biography. The interviews such as we have show someone relatively on top of the game of dealing with the media and promoting his musical career (with the addition of the few personal asides as mentioned above).Without any real justification I was left wondering if the editor had intervened too much. Were these all the interviews? What about the editing of them? What about the ones left out? What was the basis for selection?I think the problem, is that the interviews themselves were never intended to be biographical so the biographical information as is there, is merely a by-product.Not rubbish, sort of essential, provides something towards understanding the man, but not amazing.As a footnote, it certainly contains no evidence for the latest random utterings from Experience Hendrix that he wanted to sound like Earth, Wind and Fire or that the stream of insights such as "My dad was a decent singer and he could be brutally honest. He would say, `You can't sing, so it's good you can play guitar.'" have any relevance let alone credibility.Update: After writing this review I found a book from 1995 that I'd forgotten I owned  Jimi Hendrix: In His Own Words  in which Tony Brown had marshalled quotes from Hendrix into chapters, e.g., childhood, army days, early bands,..., the future, having just re-read it, it offers a biographical coherence lacking here. Becoming Jimi Hendrix: From Southern Crossroads to Psychedelic London, the Untold Story of a Musical Genius: 288Jimi Hendrix: In His Own Words

As close as you will get to jimi’s thinking at the time

Far better than the 'Starting At Zero' book, though some more pictures related to the text would be more useful

If your looking to find out about Jimi Hendrix then this book will give you a little bit of that. It’s all of his interviews so it’s cool, gives you a little of Jimi.If you want to have the best book, that has everything there is to know about Jimi Hendrix life, thoughts, music everything, then that would be “Electric Gypsy” By Harry Shapiro and Caesar Glebbeek.I’ve read both and both are excellent, but I really only needed to read “Electric Gypsy”. It’s not in print anymore so you have to get it used from a thrift store and other places but they are available, if you look.

Quel plaisir que de lire ce recueil d'entrevues Hendrix on Hendrix... l'auteur fait des intros, une mise en contexte et zooop on glisse dans l'entrevue. On y croit, on y est! Bravo, bel ouvrage!