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by Sean Egan (Author) "I DON'T THINK THAT JIMI WOULD ever have made it in America had he not come here first and formed the Experience ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: A Cappella Books,U.S. (13 Mar 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1556524714
  • ISBN-13: 978-1556524714
  • Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 13.8 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good historical account marred by lack of insight, 23 Feb 2003
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This book is in the main a good historical account of the people, circumstances and musical environment that spawned a truly ground-breaking rock album. Its basic format is to describe the making of Are You Experienced in the context of the times that produced it. Egan writes well enough and the account is an informative read - though this musician would have liked to have seen more detail on the musical (rather than technological) genesis in the studio. The Experience may not have rehearsed much, but I doubt they did it all on telepathy alone.

But as borne out by a more vitriolic review on this page, the book is fatally flawed by a final chapter where Egan retrospectively reviews the album track by track some 36 years after its release. Not only is this section redundant, as Egan has already addressed contemporaneous critical reaction earlier in the book, but he then goes on to demonstrate his ignorance of blues music, dismissing the entire idiom as boring. Well Sean, bad blues is boring (as are all bad efforts in any type of music), but good blues is a towering musical form to which popular music owes a massive debt. And in the case of this album in particular, there would have been no Hendrix without the blues. If Egan doesn't understand this key principal, it makes you wonder what else he misconstrued in his account. This is a bad error that significantly undermines the author's efforts elsewhere in the book.

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1.0 out of 5 stars ...drab and uninformed., 11 Feb 2003
By Shane Pacey (NSW Australia) - See all my reviews
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There may be a great book to be written on this subject,but this is definitely not it.
If you're targeting a specific album in an artists canon,then one would assume that you carried at least a modicum of musical insight,and unfortunately this writers britpop-centric view of the work is hopelessly below the task.
Aside from relying far too much on the grumpy musings of well known sore loser Noel Redding and dumped consort Kathy Etchingham,Egan outrageously consigns the key music of the 20th century (The Blues)to the dumper,therefore discounting not only scores of blues greats (Muddy Waters,Son House,Albert King)but also effectively thousands of great artists who named the blues as a primary voice in their work (Miles,Mingus and of course Hendrix himself)
"The blues is boring" states Verve fan Egan before holding up the simplistic format of the music as a reason (whither reggae,the funk of James Brown and Joseph Spence?)
The one star is for previously unread anecdotes from various technical people (although these are so poorly edited that it's often like reading another language)
Egan is also tiresomely wrong about Hendrixs later recordings,which at their best were this writer believes at least as good as "AYE"
Ian Macdonald,where are you?
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