{"product_id":"experienced-9781408738498","title":"Experienced : On the Road with Jimi Hendrix and Beyond – The Firsthand Memoir of Jimi Hendrix’s Road Manager and Confidant","description":"\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE DAILY TELEGRAPH\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Jimi's genius . . . documented by one of the few men who was there.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJOE PERRY, AEROSMITH\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A backstage pass to Jimi's talented, tormented life.... Eric Barrett riffs like one of the master's iconic solos.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBOB SPITZ, AUTHOR OF THE BEATLES: THE BIOGRAPHY AND THE ROLLING STONES: THE BIOGRAPHY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eALAN LIGHT, FORMER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF SPIN AND VIBE MAGAZINES; AUTHOR OF DON'T STOP: WHY WE (STILL) LOVE FLEETWOOD MAC'S RUMOURS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e*****\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJimi Hendrix's road manager and confidant, Eric Barrett, breaks fifty-five years of silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHendrix confided in few people. Barrett was one of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExperienced 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\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the Jimi Hendrix story from the man who lived it - a revealing portrait of brilliance, pressure and tragic decline.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Eric Barrett\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eMemoirs\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 6 Aug 2026 by Little, Brown Book Group.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Eric Barrett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57320628420986,"sku":"9781408738498","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9781408738498.jpg?v=1790659665","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/products\/experienced-9781408738498","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}