Just finished that Hendrix book. Intriguing how people who die unexpectedly sometimes do have death on their mind immediately before. Is it coincidence? There's no indication his death was anything other than misadventure, but do people perhaps get more, wrong word but still, careless in such moments? His career was at a crossroads, similar but also differently to say, Ian Curtis. What would he have become? His music was possibly heading out of fashion. Glam and producer-led teeny pop was around the corner. Bowie was the new superstar. How would he have adapted? Some of his later writings namechecked Wagner and Strauss. The possibilities are tantalising. The waste of talent is what remains, though. #books#bookstodon@bookstodon
@Schnuckster@bookstodon A little later we saw Marc Bolan fall pretty much completely out of fashion I guess. But most of those blues influenced guitarists did at least ok.
@keefeglise@bookstodon There's a sentence where he says he wants to get his head down and study music theory and composition. He clearly had big visions. Whether he could've achieved them though...