{"product_id":"experienced-on-the-road-with-jimi-hendrix-and-beyond-ai-the-firsthand-memoir-of-jimi-hendrix-aos-road-manager-and-confidant-9781408738504","title":"Experienced: On the Road with Jimi Hendrix and Beyond – The Firsthand Memoir of Jimi Hendrix’s Road Manager and Confidant","description":"\u003cp\u003eJimi Hendrix's road manager and confidant, Eric Barrett, breaks fifty-five years of silence.\u003c\/p\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE DAILY TELEGRAPH\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Jimi's genius . . . documented by one of the few men who was there.' \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJOE PERRY, AEROSMITH\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e*****\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eJimi Hendrix's road manager and confidant, Eric Barrett, breaks fifty-five years of silence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHendrix confided in few people. Barrett was one of them. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is the Jimi Hendrix story from the man who lived it - a revealing portrait of brilliance, pressure and tragic decline.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9781408738504\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 03 Nov 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Little, Brown Book Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 23.2(H)x15.2(L)x2.8(W)380\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 380\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cb\u003eEric Barrett\u003c\/b\u003e was Jimi Hendrix's road manager and confidant from 1968-1970 and spent nearly five decades on tour with music's biggest names, from the early Beatles to Madonna. 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