About the Author:
Sean Egan is a freelance journalist specializing in music. In addition to composing a number of liner notes, he has written Star Sail, about The Verve, and Animal Tracks, about The Animals. He lives in London, England.
From Library Journal:
Anyone who has ever watched VH-1's Behind the Music probably knows the basics of the Jimi Hendrix story. Accounts of this story usually involve a self-righteous, middle-aged British rock star (e.g., Pete Townshend or Paul McCartney) gushing about sitting in a pub when the mysterious American got on stage and blew him away. Here, liner-notes scribe and music biographer Egan narrows the focus to Are You Experienced, Hendrix's debut album with The Experience, and events leading up to the debut. Chronicling the band's rehearsal-free recording sessions and innovative studio experimentation, the book is less about interpersonal drama and more about how classic tracks like "Foxy Lady," "Purple Haze," and "Hey Joe" were committed to tape. Among those interviewed are studio gurus like George Chkiantz and Andrew Loog Oldham, as well as Hendrix's amp and fuzzbox alchemist buddies, Jim Marshall and Roger Mayer. Readers thus get a feel for the studio trivialities and how revolutionary Jimi's fuzzy guitar sound actually was. Unfortunately, Egan did not interview Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell, who offers an account in Jimi Hendrix: Inside the Experience, which he coauthored with John A. Platt. Instead, he relies on Experience bassist Noel Redding and especially on Hendrix's ex-girlfriends, Kathy Etchingham and Linda Keith. An original contribution to the enormous body of Hendrix literature, this is recommended for all libraries.
Eric Hahn, Fargo, ND
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