I purchased this laid when it get-go came out as well as it is the ane box laid that I tin brain to over as well as over. Hendrix IS the best stone guitarist, inwards my humble opinion. This laid contains all iii of his studio albums that were released prior to his untimely death. But, the big bonus is the fact that they are the British releases of his albums. That agency :Are You Experienced" has such gems equally "Redhouse" "Stone Free" as well as others that were left off the American releases of the album. Each disc too contains a squeamish booklet as well as the 4th dis, which is a best of, does a ameliorate addition of what Jimi was all nigh than does the album "Smash Hits". I know that it says the laid is non available, but if you lot e'er run across it, catch it. It volition truely present you lot why Jimi is notwithstanding considered a big influence alongside truthful guitarist.
CD 1 "Are You Experienced":
Are You Experienced is the debut studio album past times English-American stone band the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Released inwards 1967, the LP was an immediate critical as well as commercial success, as well as it is widely regarded equally ane of the greatest debuts inwards the history of stone music. The album features Jimi Hendrix's innovative approach to songwriting as well as electrical guitar playing which shortly established a novel management inwards psychedelic as well as difficult stone music.
By mid-1966, Hendrix was struggling to earn a living playing the R&B circuit equally a backing guitarist. After beingness referred to Chas Chandler, who was leaving the Animals as well as interested inwards managing as well as producing artists, Hendrix was signed to a management as well as production contract with Chandler as well as ex-Animals director Michael Jeffery. Chandler brought Hendrix to London as well as began recruiting members for a band designed to showcase the guitarist's talents, the Jimi Hendrix Experience. In slow October, after having been rejected past times Decca Records, the Experience signed with Track, a novel label formed past times the Who's managers Kit Lambert as well as Chris Stamp.
Are You Experienced as well as its preceding singles were recorded over a five-month menstruum from slow Oct 1966 through early on Apr 1967. The album was completed inwards 16 recording sessions at iii London locations, including De Lane Lea Studios, CBS, as well as Olympic. Released inwards the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland on May 12, 1967, Are You Experienced spent 33 weeks on the charts, peaking at number two. The album was issued inwards the US on August 23 past times Reprise Records, where it reached number v on the Billboard 200, remaining on the chart for 106 weeks, 27 of those inwards the Top 40. The album too spent lxx weeks on the US Billboard R&B chart, where it peaked at #10. The US version contained simply about of Hendrix's best known songs, including the Experience's get-go iii singles, which, though omitted from the British edition of the LP, were top x hits inwards the UK: "Purple Haze", "Hey Joe", as well as "The Wind Cries Mary".
In 2005, Rolling Stone ranked Are You Experienced fifteenth on its listing of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. They placed iv songs from the album on their listing of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time: "Purple Haze" (17), "Foxy Lady" (153), "Hey Joe" (201), as well as "The Wind Cries Mary" (379). That same year, the tape was ane of l recordings chosen past times the Library of Congress inwards recognition of its cultural significance to live added to the National Recording Registry. Writer as well as archivist Reuben Jackson of the Smithsonian Institution wrote: "it's notwithstanding a landmark recording because it is of the rock, R&B, blues ... musical tradition. It altered the syntax of the music ... inwards a way I compare to James Joyce's Ulysses."
Track listing:
01 Foxy Lady
02 Manic Depression
03 Red House
04 Can You See Me
05 Love Or Confusion
06 I Don't Live Today
07 May This Be Love
08 Fire
09 3rd Stone From The Sun
10 Remember
eleven Are You Experienced
Personnel:
Jimi Hendrix – guitars, Pb vocals
Noel Redding – bass; backing vocals on "Foxy Lady," "Fire," as well as "Purple Haze"
Mitch Mitchell – drums; backing vocals on "I Don't Live Today" as well as "Stone Free"
CD 2 "Axis: Bold equally Love":
Axis: Bold equally Love is the bit studio album past times English-American stone band the Jimi Hendrix Experience. It was recorded to fulfill the Experience's contract, which stated that they had to make 2 records inwards 1967.
Axis: Bold equally Love was get-go released inwards the Great Britain past times Track Records inwards Dec 1967, equally the follow-up to the band's successful debut Are You Experienced, which had been released inwards May. Reprise Records chose non to unloose it inwards the USA until 1968, because of fears that it powerfulness interfere with the sales of the get-go album. Axis: Bold equally Love charted at number v inwards the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland as well as number iii inwards the US. The album too peaked at number vi on the Billboard R&B chart.
Track listing:
01 EXP
02 Up From The Skies
03 Castilian Castle Magic
04 Wait Until Tomorrow
05 Ain't No Telling
06 Little Wing
07 If Six Was Nine
08 You've Got Me Floating
09 Castles Made Of Sand
10 She's So Fine
eleven One Rainy Wish
12 Little Miss Lover
thirteen Bold As Love
Personnel:
Jimi Hendrix – vocals, electrical guitar, piano, recorder, glockenspiel on "Little Wing", vox of "Mr. Paul Caruso" on "EXP"
Mitch Mitchell – drums, backing vocals, "interviewer" on "EXP"
Noel Redding – backing vocals, bass guitars (four as well as eight-string), human foot stomping on "If 6 Was 9", Pb vocals on "She's So Fine"
Additional
Gary Leeds – human foot stomping on "If 6 Was 9"
Graham Nash – human foot stomping on "If 6 Was 9", backing vocals on "You Got Me Floatin'"
Trevor Burton – backing vocals on "You Got Me Floatin'"
Roy Wood – backing vocals on "You Got Me Floatin'"
CD 3 "Electric Ladyland":
Electric Ladyland is the tertiary as well as terminal studio album past times English-American stone band the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Released past times Reprise Records inwards North America as well as Track Records inwards the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland inwards Oct 1968, the double album was the alone tape from the band produced past times Jimi Hendrix. By mid-November, it had charted at number ane inwards the United States, where it spent 2 weeks at the top spot. Electric Ladyland was the Experience's most commercially successful unloose as well as their alone number ane album. It peaked at number vi inwards the UK, where it spent 12 weeks on the chart.
Electric Ladyland included a encompass of the Bob Dylan song, "All Along the Watchtower", which became the Experience's highest-selling unmarried as well as their alone top xl hitting inwards the US, peaking at number 20; the unmarried reached number v inwards the UK. Although the album confounded critics inwards 1968, it has since been viewed equally Hendrix's best run as well as ane of the greatest stone records of all time. Electric Ladyland has been featured on many greatest-album lists, including Q magazine's 2003 listing of the 100 greatest albums as well as Rolling Stone's listing of the 500 greatest albums of all time, on which it was ranked 55th.
Track listing:
01 And The Gods Made Love
02 Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)
03 Cross Town Traffic
04 Voodoo Chile
05 Little Miss Strange
06 Long Hot Summer Night
07 Come On
08 Gypsy Eyes
09 The Burning Of The Midnight Lamp
10 Rainy Day, Dream Away
eleven 1983... (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)
12 Moon, Turn The Tides... Gently, Gently Away
thirteen Still Raining, Still Dreaming
fourteen House Burning Down
15 All Along The Watchtower
16 Voodoo Republic of Chile (Slight Return)
Personnel:
Credits taken from the 1993 MCA compact disc booklet.
Jimi Hendrix – Pb vocals, guitar, piano, percussion, comb as well as tissue newspaper kazoo, electrical harpsichord, bass on "Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)", "Long Hot Summer Night", "Gypsy Eyes", "1983", "House Burning Down", as well as "All Along the Watchtower"
Noel Redding – backing vocals, bass on "Crosstown Traffic", "Little Miss Strange", "Come On (Let the Good Times Roll)", "Burning of the Midnight Lamp", as well as "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)", acoustic guitar as well as Pb vocals on "Little Miss Strange"
Mitch Mitchell – backing vocals, drums (except on "Rainy Day Dream Away" as well as "Still Raining, Still Dreaming"), percussion, Pb vocals on "Little Miss Strange"
Jack Casady – bass on "Voodoo Chile"
Brian Jones – percussion on "All Along the Watchtower"
Al Kooper – pianoforte on "Long Hot Summer Night"
Dave Mason – twelve-string guitar on "All Along the Watchtower", backing vocals on "Crosstown Traffic"
The Sweet Inspirations – backing vocals on "Burning of the Midnight Lamp"
Steve Winwood – Hammond organ on "Voodoo Chile"
Chris Wood – flute on "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)"
on "Rainy Day, Dream Away" as well as "Still Raining, Still Dreaming":
Larry Faucette – congas
Mike Finnigan – organ
Buddy Miles – drums
Freddie Smith – tenor saxophone
CD 4 "The Ultimate Experience":
The Ultimate Experience is a 1992 compilation album of songs past times songwriter as well as guitarist Jimi Hendrix. It features xx of his greatest hits, most of them recorded with The Jimi Hendrix Experience, as well as alive renditions of "The Star Spangled Banner" as well as "Wild Thing". It was released inwards the U.K. inwards Nov 1992, as well as afterwards on Apr 27, 1993 inwards the U.S. The album reached No. 25 inwards the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland Albums Chart as well as No. 72 inwards the Billboard 200. An HDCD remastered exceptional edition United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland moving painting disc version express to 2500 copies was released inwards 1995. The rails listing was compiled from a poll citing his most pop recordings for the European market. All songs were recorded betwixt Oct 23, 1966 as well as July 23, 1970.
As a single-disc compilation, The Ultimate Experience is difficult to beat. Drawing from all of the original Jimi Hendrix Experience albums, the 20-track collection hits all of the major highpoints -- "Purple Haze," "All Along the Watchtower," "Little Wing," "Red House," "The Wind Cries Mary," "Highway Chile," "Angel" -- as well as gives an accurate impression of why Hendrix was then revolutionary as well as influential. All iii of Hendrix's completed studio albums are mandatory listening, but The Ultimate Experience is a terrific introduction to the guitarist.
Track listing
All songs were written past times Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
01 "All Along the Watchtower" (Bob Dylan) – 4:07 (Electric Ladyland, 1968)
02 "Purple Haze" – 2:44 (Are You Experienced, 1967)
03 "Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts) – 3:26 (Are You Experienced)
04 "The Wind Cries Mary" – 3:18 (Are You Experienced)
05 "Angel" – 4:17 (The Cry of Love, 1971)
06 "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" – 5:13 (Electric Ladyland)
07 "Foxy Lady" – 3:15 (Are You Experienced)
08 "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" – 3:35 (Electric Ladyland)
09 "Highway Chile" – 3:30 (Smash Hits [UK])
10 "Crosstown Traffic" – 2:14 (Electric Ladyland)
eleven "Castles Made of Sand" – 2:45 (Axis: Bold equally Love, 1967)
12 "Long Hot Summer Night" – 3:27 (Electric Ladyland)
thirteen "Red House" – 3:54 (Kiss the Sky)
fourteen "Manic Depression" – 3:37 (Are You Experienced)
15 "Gypsy Eyes" – 3:42 (Electric Ladyland)
16 "Little Wing" – 2:24 (Axis: Bold equally Love)
17 "Fire" – 2:38 (Are You Experienced)
xviii "Wait Until Tomorrow" – 3:00 (Axis: Bold equally Love)
xix "Star Spangled Banner (live)" (John Stafford Smith, arr. Hendrix) – 4:05 (Woodstock, 1970)
xx "Wild Thing (live)" (Chip Taylor) – 6:54 (Monterey Pop, 1970)
Track 19: Recorded alive at the Woodstock Music as well as Arts Fair, 8.18.69
Track 20: Recorded alive at the Monterey Pop Festival, 6.18.67
Noel Redding is credited inwards the liner notes with bass on rails 1, but the notes nigh the vocal specifically reason Jimi played bass - "All Along The Watchtower is a classic instance of Hendrix's bass-playing, on Noel Redding's righthanded bass. "I think Noel got pissed off as well as was inwards the pub - but the rails didn't suffer," remembers Mitch Mitchell."
Personnel:
Listed above.
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