INTRODUCTION: So I’m not a fan of the biography genre. I’ve read very few of them. Probably about 10 in my 39 years on this planet. Most people don’t intrigue me enough to want to know about their background. Normally it’s trite experience anyways, regardless of skin color. It’s normally birth, shit happens, some people you meet are good, some are bad, other adversaries apply, maybe a lover or two and then the person is famous or dead, one of the two. I went wanting to know more of the psychology of Jimi Hendrix, since I’m learning his music, it only makes sense to get deeper into a man, whose music I’ve heard my whole life, but never thought to learn more about. So this is my first real biography review. Not really sure how to do one, but we will try.
WRITING STYLE: Fair. From my understanding the author isn’t a non fiction writer, he was a creative writer and did this as a favor to Jimi. However, I’m reading the kindle version and the slightly wonky style could be from a bad transfer. It’s not unreadable though. There is a small bias on the authors part, as they were friends. So keep that in mind as well.
lIFESTYLE: So this biography is different than no others, as it’s basic structure as above. To be fair, Jimmy was so unique that the basic structure works here. That’s not what I’m here for though. There’s going to moments you sympathize with him and the occasional WTF moments. If you like that, this is for you.
HISTORY:This book was written in 1978, and it shows. However, the author takes great detail in explaining to you the events of the era, so people like myself get an idea of the world around him. Not necessarily a unique trope for such, but necessary for future generations who will need this context to understand Jimmy or anyone really.
MUSIC: Now this is what I’m here for! Oh god did Jimmy and his family have amazing taste in music. Songs and people I’ve never heard of. Bad bad Wiskey, live, being my favorite of all the songs I’ve listened too.
Amazing!
CONCLUSION: if you’re coming here for something salacious, you’re going to be disappointed. Sure it has its moments of “very 60s” bullshit, however it’s a very conservative portrayal of such. If you’re interested in a man and how he developed his style, you won’t be disappointed. It also offers up and otherwise interesting perspective on Jimi’s death that should not be discounted as being accurate. That’s an article for a different time, though.
5 out of 5 for Jimi fans and 4 out of 5 for a person who may just want a biography of an otherwise, interesting person.
These two “holidays” should be abolished from history books because they narcissistic as fuck and falls under the category of Valentine’s Day, aka all commercials day, a day when candy and card places get together to make you buy unnecessary crap, because you were too self absorbed the rest of the year to appreciate your lover.
There’s nothing wrong with loving your parents or even appreciating them, however, just because you forgot to pull out isn’t a good enough excuse to party. Nor should your kids be forced to worship you. If you’re a good parent, you kids will, at minimum, mostly appreciate you during the year.
Can kids be moderately ungrateful? Sure! I know there were times I might not had been the most grateful, but that doesn’t make the kid bad. Any level of appreciation for what you do for them is better than none, but it still doesn’t deserve a day to itself.
If the day was for the government to appreciate the family unit, you would not have woman fighting for paternity leave and you would make it a bank holiday and make allowance for it, whilst giving people the day off. We do it for Veterans Day and for Memorial Day and isn’t family equally as important?
Speaking of which, ever notice it’s called paternity? It comes from the Latin, pater, or father. It’s all about us men, which is interesting, because some people consider kids a legacy, and well, wouldn’t a woman potentially desire that too? I doubt they wanted to be over glorified incubators for nine months out of the sheer pleasure. Although, I’m sure they enjoyed the nine months of judgement free eating that comes with it. Much like weddings are all about the woman, because it’s called holy matrimony. Which, as you guessed, comes from the Latin “mater” or mother. Because historically, within our nation, it was socially acceptable to parade your future gendered slave in front of each other’s families before you chained them to the house to basically be an over glorified surrogate mother for the boomer man-child.
Instead of caring about just the mother or father’s, I think we should consider combining them into family day. It’s like Thanksgiving, but without the historical bugaboo of slaughtering an entire race of people, like the fuckin Nazi’s, to celebrate it.
I know some of you will say “What about people who are family displaced?” To those unfortunate few, appreciate your friendships more, because that’s your family.
A riff that goes heavy. Iron Maiden were probably the ones that popularized the metal gallop in guitar, however, Heart used it, in this 70s hit, combining that with high strings, you got something iconic. Apparently it’s based around a Nazareth song. There is slightly a bit of truth that they sound the same, but legally they’re vastly different. This one definitely gets the nod for giving you a dank riff to satisfy that metal craving.
4.) Neil Young, Hey Hey, My My
Moody, atmospheric and dark, this song is a key change away, or a distortion pedal away, from being one hell of a metal song.
3.) One more time, Brittney Spears
Ok hear me out before you scoff. New Found Glory already showed this song could fit into the rock category, but could you imagine the chugging with distortion on the opening beat? It would have made nu-metal dudes creaming their pants.
2.) Taylor Swift-Look what you made me do
Leap Frog Studios already proven this song could go hard as fuck! That how I even found out this song existed. The dark lyrics with straight up gansta vibes, would be having people starting mosh pits in the streets. definitely should have been in the genre from the start.
1.) Coolio Gangsta’s Paradise
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, this song was never rap and always in line with the metal genre. Gritty realism, deaths, loss and more and you got a song that sounds like it could have been part of the Melodic Swedish death metal music. plenty of YouTube guitarist have proven this correctly.
I’m not a professional musician. Fuck, I don’t even aspire to be. I love playing guitar, even if it’s badly. I’ve been blessed in this life to be pretty good at 99% of the things I touch, so maybe it’s helpful to me to be more intrigued by things I can improve upon vs things that you could say “come naturally.”
I learn fairly fast too. Guitar though, isn’t something I just became even moderately good at overnight. I had to keep at it.
However, I’ve deeply learned by shit when it comes to this and think that knowledgeable is relevant. Insert Giamo(sp?) a dude who wasn’t even on my radar until the autistic brigade made him a even bigger star by bitching about how successful he was. They complained his videos were mimed, as if anything short of a live recording has never been super authentic. one watch of Money Talks by AC/DC when Angus Young was spinning around the stage would help put it to perspective for you.
So someone faking a guitar video means shit to me, because you need that type of content to be a more seasoned musician. If you’re a guitar player and you didn’t know his videos were mimed, you probably not as good as a player as you think you are. I didn’t get a chance to observe him prior to this, so I didn’t get to make a decision one way or the other on that.
What I do know is that 99% of the music industry, since the 90s, is fake as fuck, so why do we care about the rando YouTube vid? This dude fits into the music industry and “Generation Fit in or Die” is mad out of professional jealousy. Otherwise he be praised for being a fraud. Which he was, until he cut into the autism brigades profit margin, whilst exposing YouTubers for being equally as fraudulent.
I normally sit out of this Bullshit, because YouTube isn’t the real world. It’s mostly misfits who think they’re cool and they’re not, hoping beyond hope their “popularity” will fill a hole inside them, because they filled with nothing but short comings. However, since I’ve seen this bullshit one too many times before, especially in my teenage years, which caught these assholes a beat down and deservingly so.
So here is the most damaging charge. He ripped off other people’s music. Ok, that is pretty bad, however, there is an insufficient amount of evidence to this claim. One video used to slander this man, was someone pointing to a Japanese Keyboard player that ripped off a 80s pop tune and added one note. That’s not how this works, that not how any of this works.
Here’s a list of mis used terms in music and what they actually mean.
Sampling: To lift the tune to another’s work and use it to reconstitute a new song. Famous examples of this are Ice Ice Baby vs Under pressure.
Lick: a small amount of music, that uses a scale of notes, that are open to be used by multiple musicians because they are public domain. Famous examples of this are nearly every song from 1940-2025.
So some people are saying he stealing licks, which seems impossible from what I’ve taken time to understand on music in general. It’s like chord progressions that Ed Shareen was famously sued for, but acquitted because they’re common as all hell.
I like Kirk Hammett, but a lot of this solos haves ripped off a dozen other musicians, even by his own admittance. Enter Sandman uses Hendrix Foxy lady in a small part. Master of Puppets uses a lot of classical licks. Non of these are rip offs. Except for maybe The Unforgiven being a large majority of classical gas. How about Slayer, raining in blood which uses In The Hall of the Mountain King as an opening riff? Hendrix also used licks. However, by YouTube logic, a part of all proceeds of his music are owned by Vox, simply because the way his way pedal filtered it.
The other part comes in that he is tabbing other people’s music and selling the tabs. Watch out ultimate guitar, you’ve been doing that for years. A lot of YouTube teachers will be out of work without that as well. Cause there’s no money in teaching open chords. Tabs is not selling the music as your own, it an interpretation, normally a very wrong one, at that. If he’s talented enough to make Tabs, he is clearly got musical instincts. So you have to give him that.
So unless there is some real damaging evidence that I’m missing, I have to assume that this isn’t about the music, because you don’t really care for music, do you? No, you care that Giamo was getting pussy, one of which was probably a celebrity that the autistics felt entitled to, and it nerd raged you into killing his career. Hopefully he lawyers up and sues each YouTuber for all .25 cents of their earnings, like Diddy to Sting for the next 20 years of your Pathetic lives.
So if you read Bestinyourgirl.com for any amount of time, you know that 25 years ago this year I was involved in an altercation in High School, because I found a Jewish girl attractive and people in my age range, being the general pieces of shit they are, took issue with it. So I can be sympathetic here. Dave ain’t exactly a fuckin’ saint, and predominantly made a name for himself on Juvenilia and immature, crass behavior. However, Dave Almost had me, when I retweeted a video where he seemed to want to build a bridge. Building a bridge isn’t creating collateral damage in the lives of people that aren’t even associated with the people that caused the ruckus.
Who the fuck fires innocent people?
Dave overreacted and according to NBC News, fired people who did their jobs. like they’re supposed to know to check every patron for antisemitic signs. In attempting to be a hero, Dave is now the villain. This isn’t going to sit well with most people. Had they been associated with, it would be one thing, However, there is no evidence for such. If you’re trying to mend fences and start a dialogue with people, it helps to shoot at the person attacking and not shot the innocent civilians. Dave is making it difficult to maintain sympathy here for me and opens himself to a massive wrongful termination lawsuit in the process. Least we forget that uh, well he supports Donald Trump. You’re kinda opening yourself to this.
Yet at this moment, the internet cares more about Bill Maher actually mending fences and gets accused of having dinner with Hitler by a “friend”. This type of imbecile shit exacerbates negative perceptions and doesn’t help. Part of the reason is because of the innocents you put in harms way. It’s natural to want to defend the innocent and waitress that, again, aren’t associated with from what I’m seeing isn’t going to win people to your side, nor is burying your friend Larry David style.
I’m not even completely convinced this isn’t a pathetic attempt at SEO from a guy, who, now adays, is known for bitching about pizza. I say this isn’t a good look for Dave, but when you’re a loud, obnoxious slob, that looks like a Oscar Madison reject, there’s no such thing as a good look for you.
Dave needs to make this right and either prove to us an association with the antisemitic patrons or hire the waitress’ back at double their salary, because if you can afford to send the idiots with a sign to Poland to see the concentration camps, you can hire back innocent waitresses.
POST SCRIPT:
Dave, ever the piece of shit he’s always been..Dave changing the story around
So as it turns out, Dave is a piece of shit as per the usual and looking for SEO. He’s changed the narrative over and over again, not providing evidence to support his claim, and is constantly acting immature by referring to everyone as idiots. What type of PR guy lets this slip through? It’s obvious that Dave attracts the same immature like minds that he is. Jews have my sympathy when negative things like this happen, Dave doesn’t. 🖕
So back in 2004 I got this from the local Walmart. We were spending the summer “camping” from place to place. What really happened was the landlords were atrocious alcoholics, and were about to go through a horrible divorce that my family and I got accidentally caught up in. So I spent my 18th year listening to a lot of music that summer. This is what is left of those and what I bought up until 2014.
Insane Clown Posse Hell’s Pit.
I found ICP, accidentally in the 90s. Never a big fan of rap, but I enjoyed the styling they did. I’ve had most of their albums over the years. This one was awesome. 4 stars
Coolio Gangsta’s Paradise
Bought this just for the title track. Gangsta’s Paradise is a metal song done in rap styling. The rest of the album is so-so. I don’t like rap much and the LA vibe was even worse than the east coast. Never been a fan of laidback sounds for the most part. Misfits and Black Flag are an exception to this rule. 3 out of 5 stars
Ozzy’s greatest hits
I had we sold our soul for rock and roll in the 90s, and I even saw the reformation of Sabbth in the 90s when my family and I went to OzzFest 99 for my 13th birthday. Naturally, the prince of darkness was right up my alley. I loved the 2001 album he did with Dreamer. This is all the best in one place. 5 out of 5
Dream 2001
Ok, So pop isn’t my thing. However, back in 2001 Sprite had points. You saved so many you got something. Well, after upteen nose bleeds from Sprite up’ing my blood pressure, this was the only album they had that seemed ok. It wasn’t worth it, but it’s not a horrible album. I haven’t had a sprite since then for a reason. 3.5 out of 5
Rob Zombies Hillbilly Deluxe
Second time I bought this album. Loved it in the 90s, dug it even more in 2004. Saw him at Ozzfest 99 and he upstaged sabbath. Not an easy accomplishment. 4 out of 5 stars.
Iron Maiden Number of the beast.
First heard of Iron Maiden thanks to the Tony Hawk games. Bought this in 2004 and loved it. Sadly I haven’t listened to this album since, just Run to the hills and Number of the beast. Interesting side note, We were at the Wendy’s in Saco, Maine and I had this album playing. I turned around while my family was ordering the food and when I turned back around, a bunch of ambulances were across the street. In between the time I started listening to the album and turned about some guy on a bicycle was hit by a semi truck. Horrible tragedy and still sticks with me to this day. 4 out of 5 stars on the album though.
Van Halen Best of both worlds
Can’t pick between Hager and Roth? Well, now you don’t have to. Besides, no one bought this album for either, well, if you’re a guitarist anyways. You bought it for Eddie’s guitar playing. Great album. Fun fact, this album almost had a tour for it. Roth and Hager could not get along, so even though I had the money to go, it never manifested. Leaving me with a 80s style sad musical story instead of the “I was there one.”4 out of 5
Lynard Skynard Thirty
I never listened to much Skynard back in the 90s. I knew of them because my parents liked a few of their songs. So expanding my musical horizons, I bought this. Lots of really good tunes and a few are more fun to play on guitar than it might seem. 4 out of 5
Best of The Rolling Stones
Another I didn’t listen to much in the 90s. Great stuff. 4 out of 5
The Ramones Greatest hits
My sister bought this and she ended up giving it to me because she got another copy. It’s the Ramones, do you really need a reason? Nothing but bar chords and down strumming on every song, but it paved the way for the genre. Gababa hey! 4 out of 5
Life after Death, BIG
Big up to Brooklyn! Gave this a listen back in the 90s, bought it again in 2004. Not a horrible album and a dark concept is so metal. Haven’t listened to it since though. 3.5 out of 5
Dre 2001
Listened to this a couple times in 2001. Not horrible, but i also haven’t listened to this or many tracks out it since. My favorite being Murder Ink, for sampling the Halloween theme. John Carpenter is great even in Rap. 3 out of 5
Rammstien
It’s a Rammstien. Du hast is an epic song! Couldn’t understand any of it back then, and now that I know German, thanks to Duolingo, it’s even better. 4 out of 5
Marylin Manson Smells like children
First Manson album I ever bought. Not the last. Sweet Dreams was dope. Kinder grinder remix went hard as fuck. If you weren’t moshing, you weren’t paying attention. 5 out of 5
Marylin Manson Antichrist superstar
Another album I bought twice. Worth it in every single way. Varies from Smells like Children, but interesting nonetheless. 1996 is my favorite from the cd. 4 out of 5
Marylin Manson Mechanical Animals
The cover was worth buying this to see the look on the Best Buy employees face. First got it for my 12th birthday in 1998, along with a copy of Parasite Eve that I would play on my brother’s PlayStation. Good album, but not his best. 3.5 out of 5
Eminem The Eminem Show
One of the very few rappers I actually have enjoyed over the years. Eminem’s various stylings in the key of rap has always made for him to be relevant and interesting to us non rap folk. 4 out of 5
The Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium
Never been a fan of the RHCP. It’s was too laid back for my taste. I did like Flea from Back to the Future. Caught a single off the radio in 2007 and bought this. My first and only RHCP album. It’s a magnum opus. Nearly every song is a hit. Still a 5 out of 5.
Lord The Arocklypse
They won Eurovision and boy was it amazing. Naturally I had to run to eBay and buy some of there albums from Europe. This is the 2008 American Release that I bought day one. 5 out of 5
Van Halen 5150
Police code for a crazy person. Had this on vinyl as well, which I picked up at a yard sale. Got it on cd too. Very good, albeit pretty retro synth. Still fun. 3.5 out of 5
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Not pictured because I lost them over the years, Metallica The Black Album, Guns and Roses Greatest Hits, Tom Perry’s Greatest hits. Bought all those around 2004 and I bumped The Black Album the most and now I can play a majority of the album on guitar too.
Overall an interesting time frame.
Edit: minor update to the text, corrections and added said link.
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