Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012
Hendrix on Hendrix: Interviews and Encounters with Jimi Hendrix (Chicago Review Press), Edited by Steven Roby
One of the odd things
in the early interviews collected in Hendrix
on Hendrix are the many comparisons with Bob Dylan. Not only did several
writers wonder whether Dylan influenced the guitarist’s trippier lyrics; some
thought he looked like the Bard from
Hibbing. Running through this historically interesting anthology of reporting
from ground zero of the great cultural shift of the 1960s is the good humored,
self-deprecating modesty of the musician who pushed the electric guitar to new
worlds.



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