{"product_id":"experienced-9781408738498","title":"Experienced","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The most intimate and insightful book about Hendrix I've ever read.... It might also be the best ever book written by a roadie.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE DAILY TELEGRAPH\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Jimi's genius . . . documented by one of the few men who was there.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJOE PERRY, AEROSMITH\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A backstage pass to Jimi's talented, tormented life.... Eric Barrett riffs like one of the master's iconic solos.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBOB SPITZ, AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eTHE BEATLES: THE BIOGRAPHY\u003c\/i\u003e AND \u003ci\u003eTHE ROLLING STONES: THE BIOGRAPHY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Barrett witnessed the highs and lows of Jimi Hendrix at his peak, and offers firsthand insight into a complicated, troubled genius-as well as epic tales about his own encounters with other rock megastars.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eALAN LIGHT, FORMER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF \u003ci\u003eSPIN\u003c\/i\u003e AND \u003ci\u003eVIBE\u003c\/i\u003e MAGAZINES; AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eDON'T STOP: WHY WE (STILL) LOVE FLEETWOOD MAC'S RUMOURS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*****\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJimi Hendrix's road manager and confidant, Eric Barrett, breaks fifty-five years of silence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEric Barrett was there when Hendrix set Woodstock ablaze, when paranoia crackled through Toronto Airport, when his music electrified a sea of 600,000 at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, and in the quiet hours backstage when he revealed the insecurities behind his genius. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHendrix confided in few people. Barrett was one of them. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eExperienced\u003c\/i\u003e is Barrett's long-awaited, unflinching memoir: the definitive inside account of Hendrix as friend, bandleader, and phenomenon. It strips away the mythology to reveal the man in all his brilliance and contradiction - volatile, generous, insecure, incandescently creative, and always in pursuit of the next sound.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis final years were tested and defined on British soil. Taking readers into performances that veered between transcendence and chaos, Barrett captures a Hendrix rarely seen, nervous before British crowds and afraid that the country that had once embraced him might be moving on.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile his journey with Hendrix forms the backbone of Barrett's narrative, his later decades on tour with artists including David Bowie, George Michael and Lenny Kravitz add another dimension: a sweeping sense of how Hendrix's short life set the template for rock 'n' roll excess - and survival - through the decades. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe result is not just another rock memoir, but a once-in-a-lifetime backstage history of music's most transformative years, told through the prism of Barrett's life inside Hendrix's turbulent orbit. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the Jimi Hendrix story from the man who lived it - a revealing portrait of brilliance, pressure and tragic decline.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eric Barrett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56452790714710,"sku":"9781408738498","price":130.0,"currency_code":"PLN","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/3206\/6390\/files\/9781408738498.jpg?v=1793656170","url":"https:\/\/www.englishbook.pl\/products\/experienced-9781408738498","provider":"Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}