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gengelcox's review against another edition
informative
slow-paced
2.0
It took me longer to finish this book than some of the others in the 33 1/3 series and I suspect why is that I was never a big fan of Hendrix or this album, which I had heard much of before listening to it for this book. While I don’t dispute that Hendrix was a talent, his music is about the opposite of what I look for when listening: loose, unstructured, raw. A perfect blend of electrified blues sent through a filter of late 60s tune-in or drop-out.
Like other books in this series, Perry does a nice job of exposing some of the history behind both the artist and the album, illustrating how these things that seem to be disjointed are actually the deliberate products of someone trying to achieve their vision, damn the torpedoes about the messiness along the way.
thebobsphere's review
4.0
An informative book - I learnt a lot of new things about Hendrix so I guess that makes the book a good one.
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