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(HENDRIX, Jimi). TOLINSKI, Brad & HALFIN, Ross.
Classic Hendrix.
Guildford, Surrey: Genesis Publications Ltd., 2004. Deluxe edition, quarter-bound in purple leather with silk-screened aluminium boards, edged in prismatic silver, printed in silver and six fluorescent colour inks. 33.5x25.5cm. 292pp. Lavishly illustrated throughout with 250 photographs in b/w and colour. Limited to 350 numbered copies signed by Tolinski, Halfin, and Joe Perry (this one #8), each copy accompanied by a numbered b/w photograph of Hendrix by Baron Wolman. A stunning visual document, including many previously unpublished images, beginning with Jimi's early appearances in London clubs; playing on French and British TV shows; at his Brook Street flat; Monterey Pop; the Miami Pop Festival; on tour with The Monkees; recording at Olympic Studios in London and Electric Lady Studios in New York; at Winterland; with Gypsy Sun and Rainbows at Woodstock; with the Band of Gypsys at the Fillmore East and numerous other live performances, interviews and photo shoots. The photographs, compiled by Ross Halfin, draw on the archives of 34 notable rock photographers, including: Baron Wolman; Barrie Wentzell; Chris Morphet; Dominique Tarlé; Elliott Landy; Gered Mankowitz; Jean-Pierre Leloir; Gunter Zint; Henry Diltz; Jerry Schatzberg; Jim Marshall; and Ross Halfin. Foreword by Noel Redding; texts by Mitch Mitchell, Eric Clapton, Ronnie Wood and Joe Perry (Aerosmith), plus archival quotes from Jimi Hendrix, Chris Stamp, Chas Chandler, Nico, David Crosby, Eddie Kramer, Buddy Guy, Fred McDarrah, Arthur Brown, Buddy Miles, Billy Cox, Jeff Beck, among others. The most comprehensive visual memoir of Hendrix yet published, and unlikely ever to be surpassed. As new, in full leather box silk-screened with six fluorescent guitar strings, still contained in the publisher's original mailing carton.
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