#280 Jimi Hendrix

#280吉米·亨德里克斯

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2022-12-06

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What I learned from reading Starting At Zero: His Own Story by Jimi Hendrix.

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  • To all intents and purposes, this book has been written by Jimi Hendrix.

  • But since it has been compiled after his death, it seems only fair to offer an explanation as to how the final text was arrived at.

  • It evolved out of a film biography of him that I was working on.

  • Not wishing to put words into Jimmy's mouth, we began experimenting with dialogue culled from records of things he had actually said.

  • An enormous dossier was compiled from all the sources that could be definitively authenticated.

  • There was a superabundance of material, since during his four years in the spotlight, he was constantly giving interviews.

  • He was also a compulsive writer, using hotel stationery, scraps of paper, cigarette cartons, napkins, anything that came to hand.

  • Funny.

  • Jay Z did the exact same thing when he was young as well.

  • That's episode 238.

  • If you haven't listened to the podcast I made on JCS autobiography, on reading through all the available material, it is clear that Jimmy left behind his own remarkable and comprehensive account of himself.

  • We felt it imperative that Jimmy should be allowed to offer his own personal version of his life in music.

  • The fact that Jimmy's speech patterns are so rhythmic and his turns of phrase so visually rich served to enhance this approach in a remarkable and haunting way.

  • The book took on a life of its own.

  • He always claimed that for him, life and music were inseparable.

  • As the book progresses, it becomes less an account of external events and more an exploration of an internal journey.

  • That is an excerpt from the book that I'm going to talk to you about today, which is Jimi Hendrix starting at zero, his own story.

  • Real quick, before I jump back into the book, I want to tell you what got me excited and interested in reading a book about a biography about Jimi Hendrix.

  • Over the years, I'd heard about his obsessive practice habits.

  • This has become a main theme that you and I talk about over and over again, because you see it in every single life story of history's greatest entrepreneurs or anybody that reached the top of their profession.