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The Grail Guitar The Search For Jimi Hendrixs Purple Haze Telecaster

By Chris Adams

Book information

Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Year
2012
ISBN
9781442246799, 9781442246805
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
11 MB (11265291 bytes)
Pages
\0
Topic
Art Music
Time added
2024-11-26 14:12:24

Description

The Grail Guitar: The Search for Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze Telecaster, Chris Adams takes readers on a fascinating mystery tour to determine whether a Fender Telecaster bought secondhand in a London music store in 1973 was the one used by Jimi Hendrix to record "Purple Haze" in January 1967. The only clues are its left-handed tuners and the salesman's chance remark that the guitar was brought into the shop by a Hendrix roadie. But these are enough to set the author off on this intriguing journey into Hendrix history.With firsthand details from model and socialite Linda Keith, who discovered Hendrix in New York, Adams recounts how the rising star left for London with a white Stratocaster belonging to Keith Richards. The man who made Hendrix's pedals explains how this Strat failed to make the "Purple Haze" recording session and how it was replaced by a borrowed Telecaster. As Adams tracks down the surviving musicians, they shed light on the fate of that Telecaster and...

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