I purchased this laid when it origin came out too it is the 1 box laid that I tin forcefulness out heed to over too over. Hendrix IS the best stone guitarist, inwards my humble opinion. This laid contains all 3 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" too others that were left off the American releases of the album. Each disc equally good contains a squeamish booklet too the 4th dis, which is a best of, does a amend plus of what Jimi was all most than does the album "Smash Hits". I know that it says the laid is non available, simply if y'all always come across it, catch it. It volition truely exhibit y'all why Jimi is withal considered a big influence with 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 too commercial success, too it is widely regarded equally 1 of the greatest debuts inwards the history of stone music. The album features Jimi Hendrix's innovative approach to songwriting too electrical guitar playing which shortly established a novel administration inwards psychedelic too difficult stone music.
By mid-1966, Hendrix was struggling to earn a living playing the R&B circuit equally a backing guitarist. After existence referred to Chas Chandler, who was leaving the Animals too interested inwards managing too producing artists, Hendrix was signed to a administration too production contract with Chandler too ex-Animals managing director Michael Jeffery. Chandler brought Hendrix to London too began recruiting members for a band designed to showcase the guitarist's talents, the Jimi Hendrix Experience. In belatedly 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 too Chris Stamp.
Are You Experienced too its preceding singles were recorded over a five-month stream from belatedly Oct 1966 through early on Apr 1967. The album was completed inwards xvi recording sessions at 3 London locations, including De Lane Lea Studios, CBS, too Olympic. Released inwards the United Kingdom of Great Britain too 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 5 on the Billboard 200, remaining on the nautical chart for 106 weeks, 27 of those inwards the Top 40. The album equally good spent lxx weeks on the US Billboard R&B chart, where it peaked at #10. The US version contained unopen to of Hendrix's best known songs, including the Experience's origin 3 singles, which, though omitted from the British edition of the LP, were spill out x hits inwards the UK: "Purple Haze", "Hey Joe", too "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 4 songs from the album on their listing of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time: "Purple Haze" (17), "Foxy Lady" (153), "Hey Joe" (201), too "The Wind Cries Mary" (379). That same year, the tape was 1 of fifty recordings chosen past times the Library of Congress inwards recognition of its cultural significance to hold out added to the National Recording Registry. Writer too archivist Reuben Jackson of the Smithsonian Institution wrote: "it's withal 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," too "Purple Haze"
Mitch Mitchell – drums; backing vocals on "I Don't Live Today" too "Stone Free"
CD 2 "Axis: Bold equally Love":
Axis: Bold equally Love is the instant 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 create 2 records inwards 1967.
Axis: Bold equally Love was origin released inwards the U.K. 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 liberate it inwards the U.S.A. until 1968, because of fears that it mightiness interfere with the sales of the origin album. Axis: Bold equally Love charted at number 5 inwards the United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland too number 3 inwards the US. The album equally good peaked at number 6 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
xiii Bold As Love
Personnel:
Jimi Hendrix – vocals, electrical guitar, piano, recorder, glockenspiel on "Little Wing", vocalization of "Mr. Paul Caruso" on "EXP"
Mitch Mitchell – drums, backing vocals, "interviewer" on "EXP"
Noel Redding – backing vocals, bass guitars (four too 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 3rd too in conclusion studio album past times English-American stone band the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Released past times Reprise Records inwards North America too Track Records inwards the United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland inwards Oct 1968, the double album was the exclusively tape from the band produced past times Jimi Hendrix. By mid-November, it had charted at number 1 inwards the United States, where it spent 2 weeks at the spill out spot. Electric Ladyland was the Experience's most commercially successful liberate too their exclusively number 1 album. It peaked at number 6 inwards the UK, where it spent 12 weeks on the chart.
Electric Ladyland included a comprehend of the Bob Dylan song, "All Along the Watchtower", which became the Experience's highest-selling unmarried too their exclusively spill out xl hitting inwards the US, peaking at number 20; the unmarried reached number 5 inwards the UK. Although the album confounded critics inwards 1968, it has since been viewed equally Hendrix's best travel too 1 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 too 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
xiii 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 too tissue newspaper kazoo, electrical harpsichord, bass on "Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)", "Long Hot Summer Night", "Gypsy Eyes", "1983", "House Burning Down", too "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", too "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)", acoustic guitar too Pb vocals on "Little Miss Strange"
Mitch Mitchell – backing vocals, drums (except on "Rainy Day Dream Away" too "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" too "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 too guitarist Jimi Hendrix. It features xx of his greatest hits, most of them recorded with The Jimi Hendrix Experience, too alive renditions of "The Star Spangled Banner" too "Wild Thing". It was released inwards the U.K. inwards Nov 1992, too after on Apr 27, 1993 inwards the U.S. The album reached No. 25 inwards the United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland Albums Chart too No. 72 inwards the Billboard 200. An HDCD remastered exceptional edition United Kingdom of Great Britain too 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 too 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" -- too gives an accurate impression of why Hendrix was too thus revolutionary too influential. All 3 of Hendrix's completed studio albums are mandatory listening, simply 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)
xiii "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 too 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, simply the notes most the vocal specifically nation Jimi played bass - "All Along The Watchtower is a classic representative of Hendrix's bass-playing, on Noel Redding's righthanded bass. "I think Noel got pissed off too was inwards the pub - simply the rails didn't suffer," remembers Mitch Mitchell."
Personnel:
Listed above.
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