Jimi Hendrix

A Rockview Audiobiography

By: Otto Schulz, Pete Bruns

Narrated by: Otto Schulz

Length: 17 mins

Publisher's summary

This exclusive and unique audiobiography features Jimi Hendrix together with Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding at their last concert by the Jimi Hendrix Experience in Cologne, Germany. A month later Jimi would appear at Woodstock with his Gypsy Sun and Rainbows Band. The Experience was a major attraction by this time and in the same constellation as other artists at the Festival, including Johnny Winter, Joe Cocker, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Frank Zappa, and Tim Buckley.

Jimi is considered to be the greatest electric guitarist in the history of rock music and one of the most important and influential musicians of his era. In the early '60s Jimi, who was an Elvis fan, played and recorded with artists such as The Isley Brothers, The Walker Brothers, and Little Richard. Jimmy said, "I want to do with my guitar what Little Richard does with his voice." With initial success in Europe he achieved fame in the United States following his 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. Later Jimi headlined the iconic 1969 Woodstock Festival, and in 1970 the Isle of Wight Festival.

This rare recording is most likely one of 27-year-old Jimi's last interviews, given several months before his tragic and untimely death in September 1970 in London. Jimi talks about his music, humour, how he reaches the fans, the drugs, how he enjoys classical music, and his greatest wish of spending more time with his parents and family.

This is not a music release by the artist or record company and sound quality may vary. We hear the real Hendrix, totally at ease and enjoying his success. Fans, critics, and music historians cannot afford to miss this classic and revealing audiobiog of this rock legend.

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I got to hear Jimi voice I enjoyed it.

It was really was cool hearing him talk...way to short. I wish that this was incorporated into a book. Still it's worthing listening too.

When Jimi Hendrix was a happy man!

I liked the way he was interviewed’ he seems to be happy’ he was a nicer and more humble. Not that he needed to be humble‘that was the beginning days of the Great Jimi Hendrix Experience. JB saw him at Winterland San Francisco Ca think it was 68 or69 don’t remember much about the show’ i was pretty experienced that night myself!

The Rock Legend Deserves Better

This is basically seventeen minutes of rambling about nothing substantial. Yes, Jimi Hendrix' voice is on the audio, but it the conversation is mundane and inconsequential. What a shame . . . because I would have LOVED to have learned a little about the legendary musician.