Brad Schreiber's Reviews
Reviews of Brad’s Work
Oct.15.2010
Published by New York Times
"Hendrix’s career as a superstar has been well chronicled; the more interesting details of how he became one are told here."
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Oct.15.2010
Published by "Paper Cuts" in New York Times
"It’s a fascinating book for the story it tells, but I would pay the cover price just for its amazing photographs."
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Oct.04.2010
Published by S.F. Chronicle
"Roby and Schreiber provide an insightful account of an artist who perceived his craft differently from any guitarist before or since."
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Nov.01.2020
Published by Mojo (UK)
"By remaining focused on Hendrix-as-musician, BECOMING JIMI...is one of the most intelligent and revealing biographies of an unsurpassable giant."
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Oct.01.2010
Published by Guitarist magazine (UK)
“There’s much here for aficionados to dissect. Especially interesting is the focus on how Hendrix absorbed the stylistic tricks of the R&B circuit he sought to subvert, while...
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Aug.20.2010
Published by About.com Blues
"Based on over 100 interviews with people who were there at the beginning of Jimi's career, many of whom have never previously spoken on the record, authors Steven Roby and Brad...
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Sep.19.2010
Published by Chicago Sun-Times
"Assiduously reported...particularly entertaining...Roby and Schreiber seem to have tracked down almost everybody who crossed paths with Hendrix..."
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Sep.16.2010
Published by Time Out (UK)
"Miles of print have been already dedicated to Hendrix over the years, so the authors have focused on 1962-66. They've done exhaustive research and the results--including in-depth...
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Sep.09.2010
Published by L.A. Weekly
The King Kasuals were a covers band playing the Chitlin Circuit in 1962. One day the singer pointed out to the guitarist that the latter had busted the speaker in his amplifier. "...
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Sep.01.2010
Published by CLASSIC ROCK magazine (UK)
This unique and fascinating book ends pretty much where most rock fans' awareness of Jimi Hendrix begins: on his arrival in the UK in the autumn of 1966 with little more than a...
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Aug.09.2010
Published by Rolling Stone
"Most important, the book shows how Greenwich Village was crucial to Hendrix’s 1966, breakthrough."
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Jan.03.2007
Published by L.A. Weekly
Such mishaps form the crux of Brad Schreiber’s anthology of stage bloopers, Stop the Show! A History of Insane Incidents and Absurd Accidents in the Theater. Among its many...
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If you shake the Universe hard enough, change will fall out of its pockets.”
—--Brad
About Brad
BRAD SCHREIBER has worked as a writer in all media. Schreiber was nominated for the Kingman Films Screenwriting Award for his script The Couch and has won awards and fellowships from the Edward Albee Foundation, the National Press Foundation, the National...
Connections
Causes Brad Schreiber Supports
Wellstone Action! (Sen. Paul Wellstone, MN)
PEN USA