Una historia de Hendrix

Associated Press (1970)

ROOM FULL OF MIRRORS
A Biography of Jimi Hendrix.
By Charles R. Cross.

NYTimes 28 ag 05


Jimi Hendrix's Experience

Forum: Book News and Reviews
It would be difficult to overstate Hendrix's influence on rock in the 1960's and 70's. The arrival of his volcanic, bottomlessly sensual guitar playing was one of the seismic events of rock in that era. The music that followed his debut in England in 1966 includes Led Zeppelin, the heaviest sounds of Cream and the Who, and the whole of heavy metal; by comparison, everything before him sounds like Herman's Hermits.

Hendrix's place in the age of Jack White is less certain. Nobody plays like him anymore; his last real disciple was probably J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr., whose extended, tantrumlike solos suggested a Hendrix turned nervously inward. And while books on the master continue to pour forth, they feel increasingly specialized. (''Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy,'' by Harry Shapiro and Caesar Glebbeek, has 234 pages of appendixes, including 22 on his guitars.)