Jimi Hendrix and His Science Fiction Bookshelf

[Swede]

cool


According to Schreiber, Philip Jose Farmer's Night of Light had a big influence on Hendrix. "Night of Light was a science fiction book that in 1966 inspired Jimi to eventually write 'Purple Haze.' Farmer's story had to do with sunspots having a disorienting effect on a distant planet's population. Jimi wrote pages and pages of lyrics for 'Purple Haze,' originally an epic tale of the history of warfare for the control of the planet Neptune," he explained.

He added: "Producer Kim Fowley told us that when he met Jimi early in 1967 in the UK, Jimi had a trunk of books, all science fiction."

http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/celebrities/jimi_hendrix_and_his_science_fiction_bookshelf_172867.asp

[mix]

1. very cool

Hendrix will always fascinate me.

[kentauros]

2. I wonder if he read any A.E. van Vogt?

Too many people today don't even know who that is...

[Swede]

3. Man I burned through a few of his books,back in the day.

I can't remember how much of his work I've read. Here's his bibliography.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/v/a-e-van-vogt/

[kentauros]

4. I can't say I've read all of his books

but I think I've read a strong majority of them ;)

Glad to see another reader of Van Vogt and the Golden Age of SF. I still read some of them every now and then. I should dig out "The Wizard of Lin" sometime. I'd love to see some of his stories turned into movies someday...

[Swede]

5. I've read the Null-A,Isher and Mage series for sure.

Slan also,the rest,well it was a long time ago.

[kentauros]

6. It's been a long while for me, too.

Although somehow I found a pdf-copy of "The Weapon Shops of Isher" and read that earlier this year. It could make a good movie, but would require some of the social norms to be updated a bit, even if it takes place thousands of years in the future ;)

[Swede]

7. I wonder why they rehash crappy stuff over and over,

when they could get so much by going to a used book store?

[kentauros]

8. I've wondered that, too.

Then again, Hollywood seems to be cheaper than even that, since they'd have to pay higher copyright fees (or whatever it's called) for existing work versus the Syffie Channel SF knock-off writers.

I'd still love to see a big budget movie version of "Ringworld" :D

[mitchum]

9. The weird slowed down voices on 3rd Stone From the Sun are Hendrix...

and Chas Chandler talking about Star Trek.
Hendrix got all of the sex that the rest of the Trekkies never had.