The Grail Guitar: The Search for Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze Telecaster

by Chris Adams and Chris Adams

Book Overview

In 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442246790
• ISBN13: 9781442246799
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Unreadable

Like many memoirs written by rock stars who lack literary training, it’s a poor read. He is having a gigantic conversation with himself. Absolutely no organization. There may be a TON of entertaining information somewhere inside, but getting to it is quite a chore.