Mahavishnu Huntington Majors

A rock original and enfant terrible, guitarist extraordinaire Mahavishnu Huntington Majors has defined a genre of hard-driving, power electric guitar playing all his own. His unique style; gritty yet melodic, edgy yet magical, light on top yet heavy at the bottom, with its remarkable mixtures of blues, rock, classical, jazz and Indian influences, has singlehandedly defined an entire genre of electric guitar virtuosity.

To paraphrase an infamous line, when the going gets weird, the weird get down and boogie. Chronicling the exploits of rock's pyrotechnic carpet-rider has not been an easy matter, for all but the dogs of doom themselves can follow in his traces. Yet reports have come in, stories have been filed, tardiddling humbuckers and journalistic toshes have toiled and sweated in recording studio sound booths and backstage spelunks to phone home with Doctor Frankenstein medical reports and unhinged scuttlebut from the Lotus Lands of kooky, loopy, raving, round-the-bend galaxies that are the abode of rock's owner-occupied and curiously refreshing astral projection.

So here, for the first time, but probably not the last, are collected the manifold folderol and scrimshaw that are the stone tablets inscribed with the words of hallowed unorthodoxy, intermingled with plenty of flocculent and squashy icons and tropes of Mahavishnu Huntington Majors taken at various stages of his extrauterine pupation, nubile passeos and grizzly harlequinade upon the unfocused strutways and swaggerwalks of music, as well as a broad and roomy selection of the uncensored lyrics to such hit singles as (Be My) Elektrick Spy, Into the Mouths of Babes and Under the Sign of Hendrix. Needless to say, Mahavishnu Huntington Majors is a book that should be in every true rock aficionado's cherished collection of greatest hits.