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Contents
Articles
Overview
Jimi Hendrix
The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Members

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Noel Redding

29

Mitch Mitchell

33

Billy Cox

37

Larry Lee

39

Juma Sultan

41

Gerardo Velez

43

Buddy Miles

45

Discography

51

Jimi Hendrix discography

51

Jimi Hendrix posthumous discography

56

Studio albums

66

Are You Experienced

66

Axis: Bold as Love|

71

Electric Ladyland

76

The Cry of Love

84

Rainbow Bridge

87

War Heroes

90

Loose Ends

93

Crash Landing

96

Midnight Lightning

99

Nine to the Universe

102

Valleys of Neptune

104

Live albums

110

Band of Gypsys

110

Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival

115

Experience

117

Isle of Wight

119

Hendrix in the West

121

More Experience

123

The Jimi Hendrix Concerts

125

Jimi Plays Monterey

128

Johnny B. Goode

130

Band of Gypsys 2

132

Live at Winterland

134

Bleeding Heart

136

Woodstock

138

Live at the Fillmore East

140

Live at Woodstock

142

Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight

145

Live at Berkeley

148

Live at Monterey

151

Compilation albums

153

Smash Hits

153

Electric Jimi Hendrix

156

Soundtrack Recordings from the Film Jimi Hendrix

158

Jimmy Plays Berkeley

160

Re-Experienced

162

The Essential Jimi Hendrix

164

The Essential Jimi Hendrix Volume 2

166

Stone Free

168

The Singles Album

170

Kiss the Sky

172

Live & Unreleased: The Radio Show

174

Cornerstones: 19671970

176

Lifelines: The Jimi Hendrix Story

178

Stages

181

The Ultimate Experience

183

Blues

185

Voodoo Soup

188

First Rays of the New Rising Sun

191

South Saturn Delta

197

Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix

199

BBC Sessions

202

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

205

Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix Collection

209

The Singles Collection

211

Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Jimi Hendrix

213

Extended play
Are You Homeless?

Bootlegs

215
215
217

Live at the Oakland Coliseum

217

Live at Clark University

219

Morning Symphony Ideas

221

Live in Ottawa

223

The Baggy's Rehearsal Sessions

225

Paris 1967/San Francisco 1968

227

Hear My Music

229

Live at the Isle of Fehmarn

231

Running Desire

233

Live in Paris & Ottawa 1968

235

Live at Woburn

237

Tributes

239

Electric Chubbyland: Popa Chubby Plays Jimi Hendrix

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The Hendrix Set

241

The Jimi Hendrix Memorial Concerts

243

Power of Soul: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix

245

Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix

246

Singles

248

"Hey Joe"

248

"Purple Hare"

259

"The Wind Cries Mary"

263

"Burning of the Midnight Lamp"

264

"Foxy Lady"

265

"Up from the Skies"

268

"All Along the Watchtower"

271

"Crosstown Traffic"

279

"Stone Free"

280

"Fire"

282

"Stepping Stone"

284

"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"

286

"Freedom"

289

"Angel"

290

"Gypsy Eyes"

291

"Dolly Dagger"

293

"Johnny B. Goode"

294

"Valleys of Neptune"

299

"Bleeding Heart"

302

Songs

304

"1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)"

304

"Are You Experienced?"

306

"Bold as Love"

308

"Castles Made of Sand"

310

"Come On"

312

"Ezy Ryder"

314

"Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland"

317

"Highway Chile"

319

"I Don't Live Today"

321

"If 6 Was 9"

326

"Little Wing"

329

"Lover Man"

331

"Machine Gun"

332

"Manic Depression"

334

"My Friend"

336

"One Rainy Wish"

337

"Outside Woman Blues"

339

"Performances and adaptations of the Star-Spangled Banner"

341

"Red House"

346

"Spanish Castle Magic"

348

"The Satrs That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice"

350

"Sunshine of Your Love"

352

"Third Stone from the Sun"

356

"Voodoo Chile"

358

"Wait Until Tomorrow"

360

"Wild Thing"

362

"You Got Me Floating"

366

Tours

367

The Cry of Love Tour

367

The Jimi Hendrix Experience French Tour 1966

372

Associated places

374

34 Montagu Square, Marylebone

374

Electric Lady Studios

375

Associated people

377

Monika Dannemann

377

Karl Ferris

379

Douglas Kent Hall

384

Leon Hendrix

397

Michael Jeffrey

398

Curtis Knight

400

Related articles

402

Black Gold

402

Friends from the Beginning Little Richard and Jimi Hendrix|

404

Jimi Hendrix: An Illustrated Experience

406

Chas Chandler

409

Dagger Records

410

Hendrix chord

412

Jimi Hendrix

415

The Jimi Hendrix Album

417

The Isley Brothers

419

Radio One

425

Rainbow Bridge

427

Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix

429

Woke Up This Morning and Found Myself Dead

430

References
Article Sources and Contributors

432

Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors

441

Article Licenses
License

444

Overview
Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix performing for Dutch television in 1967


Background information
Birth name

Johnny Allen Hendrix

Born

November 27, 1942


Seattle, Washington, U.S.

Died

September 18, 1970 (aged27)


Kensington, Greater London, England

Genres

Hard rock, blues-rock, acid rock, psychedelic rock

Occupations

Musician, songwriter, record producer

Instruments

guitar, vocals, bass, drums, keyboard, percussion

Years active

19631970

Labels

RSVP, Track, Barclay, Polydor, Reprise, Capitol, MCA

Associated acts Buddy Miles, The Isley Brothers, Little Richard, Curtis Knight, Randy California
Website

www.jimihendrix.com

[1]

Notableinstruments
Fender Stratocaster
Gibson Flying V

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942[2] September 18, 1970) was
an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He is often considered to be the greatest electric guitarist in the history
of rock music by other musicians and commentators in the industry,[3] [4] [5] and one of the most important and
influential musicians of his era across a range of genres.[6] [7] [8] After initial success in Europe, he achieved fame in
the United States following his 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. Later, Hendrix headlined the iconic
1969 Woodstock Festival and the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival. Hendrix often favored raw overdriven amplifiers with
high gain and treble and helped develop the previously undesirable technique of guitar amplifier feedback.[9]
Hendrix was one of the musicians who popularized the wah-wah pedal in mainstream rock which he often used to
deliver an exaggerated pitch in his solos, particularly with high bends and use of legato. He was influenced by blues
artists such as B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Albert King and Elmore James,[10] [11] [12] [13] rhythm and

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blues and soul guitarists Curtis Mayfield, Steve Cropper, as well as by funk and some modern jazz.[14] In 1966,
Hendrix, who played and recorded with Little Richard's band from 1964 to 1965, said, "I want to do with my guitar
what Little Richard does with his voice."[15]
As a record producer, Hendrix also broke new ground in using the recording studio as an extension of his musical
ideas. He was one of the first to experiment with stereophonic and phasing effects for rock recording.
Hendrix won many of the most prestigious rock music awards in his lifetime, and has been posthumously awarded
many more, including being inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of
Fame in 2005. An English Heritage blue plaque was erected in his name on his former residence at Brook Street,
London, in September 1997. A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (at 6627 Hollywood Blvd.) was dedicated in
1994. In 2006, his debut US album, Are You Experienced, was inducted into the United States National Recording
Registry, and Rolling Stone named Hendrix the top guitarist on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all-time in
2003.[16] He was also the first person inducted into the Native American Music Hall of Fame.

Biography
Early life
Hendrix was born on November 27, 1942, in Seattle, Washington, while his father, James Allen "Al" Hendrix
(19192002), was stationed at an Army base in Oklahoma. He was named Johnny Allen Hendrix by his mother,
Lucille Hendrix, ne Jeter (19251958).[17] When he was two years old, his mother put him in the temporary care of
friends in California. His father, upon being discharged from the Army in November 1945, took custody of his son
and legally changed his name to James Marshall Hendrix in memory of his late brother, Leon Marshall Hendrix.[18]
[19]
He was known as "Buster" to friends and family, from birth.[20] Shortly after, Al reunited with Lucille. He found
it hard to gain steady employment after the Second World War, and the family experienced financial hardship.
Hendrix had two brothers, Leon and Joseph, and two sisters, Kathy and Pamela. Joseph was born with physical
difficulties and at the age of three was given up to state care. His two sisters were both given up at a relatively early
age, for care and later adoption, Kathy was born blind and Pamela had some lesser physical difficulties.
Hendrix's parents divorced when he was nine years old; his mother, a heavy drinker who had developed cirrhosis of
the liver, died in 1958 when the state of her liver caused her spleen to rupture.[21] On occasion, he was sent to live
with his grandmother in Vancouver, British Columbia because of the unstable household, and his brother Leon was
put into temporary welfare care for a period.[22] Hendrix grew up as a shy and sensitive boy, deeply affected by the
poverty and family disruption he experienced. Unusually for his era, Hendrix's high school had a relatively equitable
ethnic mix of African Americans, European Americans, and Asian Americans.[23] At age 15, around the time his
mother died, he acquired his first acoustic guitar for $5 from an acquaintance of his father. This guitar replaced both
the broomstick he had been strumming in imitation, and a ukulele which his father had found while cleaning out a
garage.[24] [25] [26] Hendrix learned to play by practicing almost constantly, watching others play, getting tips from
more experienced players, and listening to records. In mid-1959, his father bought Hendrix a white Supro Ozark, his
first electric guitar, but there was no available amplifier. According to fellow Seattle bandmates, he learned most of
his acrobatic stage moves, a major part of the blues/R&B tradition, including playing with his teeth and behind his
back, from a fellow young musician, Raleigh "Butch" Snipes, guitarist with local band The Sharps. Hendrix himself
performed Chuck Berry's trademark "duck walk" on occasion.[27] Hendrix played in a couple of local bands,
occasionally playing outlying gigs in Washington State and at least once over the border in Vancouver, British
Columbia.[28]
Hendrix was particularly fond of Elvis Presley, whom he saw perform in Seattle, in 1957.[29] Leon Hendrix claimed,
in an early interview, that Little Richard appeared in his Central District neighborhood and shook hands with his
brother, Jimi. This is unattested elsewhere and vehemently denied by his father.[30] Hendrix's early exposure to blues
music came from listening to records by Muddy Waters and B.B. King which his father owned.[31] Another early

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impression came from the 1954 western Johnny Guitar, in which the hero carries no gun but instead wears a guitar
slung behind his back.
Hendrix's first gig was with an unnamed band in the basement of a synagogue, Seattle's Temple De Hirsch. After too
much wild playing and showing off, he was fired between sets. The first formal band he played in was The
Velvetones, who performed regularly at the Yesler Terrace Neighborhood House without pay. He later joined the
Rocking Kings, who played professionally at such venues as the Birdland. When his guitar was stolen (after he left it
backstage overnight), Al bought him a white Silvertone Danelectro. He painted it red and had "Betty Jean"
emblazoned on itthe name of his high school girlfriend.
Hendrix completed junior high at Washington Junior High School with little trouble but did not graduate from
Garfield High School. Later he was awarded an honorary diploma, and in the 1990s a bust of Hendrix was placed in
the school library. After he became famous in the late 1960s, Hendrix told reporters that he had been expelled from
Garfield by racist faculty for holding hands with a white girlfriend in study hall. Principal Frank Hanawalt says that
it was simply due to poor grades and attendance problems.[32]

In the Army
Hendrix got into trouble with the law twice for riding in stolen cars. He was given a choice between spending two
years in prison or joining the Army. Hendrix chose the latter and enlisted on May 31, 1961. After completing boot
camp, he was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division and stationed in Fort Campbell, Kentucky. His commanding
officers and fellow soldiers considered him to be a subpar soldier: he slept while on duty, had little regard for
regulations, required constant supervision, and showed no skill as a marksman. For these reasons, his commanding
officers submitted a request that Hendrix be discharged from the military after he had served only one year. Hendrix
did not object when the opportunity to leave arose.[33] He would later tell reporters that he received a medical
discharge after breaking his ankle during his 26th parachute jump. The rock music journalist Charles Cross
contended in his biography of Hendrix, Room Full of Mirrors (2005) that Hendrix faked being
homosexualclaiming to have fallen in love with a fellow soldierin order to be discharged, but did not produce
credible evidence to support this contention.
At the base recreation center, Hendrix met fellow soldier and bass player Billy Cox, and the two forged a loyal
friendship that Hendrix would call upon from April 1969 until Billy's breakdown shortly before Hendrix's death. The
two would often perform with other musicians at venues both on and off the base as a loosely organized band there
named the Casuals. As a celebrity in the UK, Hendrix mentioned his military service in three published interviews;
one in 1967 for the film See My Music Talking (much later released under the title Experience), which was intended
for TV to promote his recently released Axis: Bold as Love LP, in which he spoke very briefly of his first
parachuting experience: "...once you get out there everything is so quiet, all you hear is the breezes-s-s-s..." This
comment has later been used to claim that he was saying that this was one of the sources of his "spacy" guitar sound.
The second and third mentions of his military experience were in interviews for Melody Maker in 1967 and 1969,
where he spoke of his dislike of the army.[34] In interviews in the US, Hendrix almost never mentioned it, and when
Dick Cavett brought it up in his TV interview, Hendrix's only response was to verify that he had been based at Fort
Campbell.[35]

Early career
After his Army discharge, Hendrix and Army friend Billy Cox moved to nearby Clarksville, Tennessee and
undertook in earnest to earn a living with their existing band. Hendrix had already seen Butch Snipes play with his
teeth in Seattle and now Alphonso 'Baby Boo' Young the other guitarist in the band, was featuring this gimmick.[36]
Not to be upstaged, it was then that Hendrix learned to play with his teeth properly, according to Hendrix himself:
"... the idea of doing that came to me in a town in Tennessee. Down there you have to play with your teeth or else
you get shot. Theres a trail of broken teeth all over the stage..."[37] They played mainly in low-paying gigs at

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obscure venues. The band eventually moved to Nashville's Jefferson Street, the traditional heart of Nashville's black
community and home to a lively rhythm and blues scene.[38] After they moved to Nashville, upon learning there was
already an established band by the name "The Casuals", they amended their name to the "King Kasuals".[39] While in
Nashville, according to Cox and Larry Leewho replaced Alphonso Young on guitarthey were basically the
house band at "Club del Morocco".[40] Hendrix and Cox shared a flat above "Joyce's House Of Glamour".[41]
Hendrix's girlfriend at this time was Joyce Lucas. Bill 'Hoss' Allen's memory of Hendrix's supposed participation in a
session with Billy Cox in November 1962, in which he cut Hendrix's contribution due to his over-the-top playing,
has now been called into question; a suggestion has been made that he may have confused this with a later 1965
session by Frank Howard And The Commanders in which Hendrix participated.[42] In December 1962, Hendrix
visited his relatives in Vancouver, Canada, where as a child he had sometimes lived with his grandmother. It has
been claimed that while there, he performed with future members of the Motown band Bobby Taylor & the
Vancouvers, including Tommy Chong (of later Cheech & Chong fame).[43] Chong, however, disputes this ever
happened and that any such appearance is a product of Taylor's "imagination".[44] In early 1963, Hendrix returned to
the South. For the next two years, Hendrix made a living performing on a circuit of venues throughout the South
catering to black audiences. These were venues affiliated with the Theater Owners' Booking Association (TOBA),
sarcastically known as "Tough On Black Asses" because the audiences were very demanding. The TOBA circuit was
also widely known as the Chitlin' Circuit. In addition to performing in his own band, he performed with Bob Fisher
and the Bonnevilles,[45] and in backing bands for various soul, R&B, and blues musicians, including Chuck Jackson,
Slim Harpo, Tommy Tucker, Sam Cooke, and Jackie Wilson. The Chitlin' Circuit was where Hendrix refined his
style.
Feeling he had artistically outgrown the circuit and frustrated at following the rules of bandleaders, Hendrix decided
to try his luck in New York City and in January 1964 moved into the Hotel Theresa in Harlem,[46] where he soon
befriended Lithofayne Pridgeon (known as "Faye",[47] who became his girlfriend) and the Allen twins, Arthur and
Albert (now known as Taharqa and Tunde-Ra Aleem). The Allen twins became friends and kept Hendrix out of
trouble in New York. The twins also performed as backup singers (under the name Ghetto Fighters) on some of his
recordings, most notably the song "Freedom". Pridgeon, a Harlem native with connections throughout the area's
music scene, provided Hendrix with shelter, support, and encouragement. In February 1964, Hendrix won first prize
in the Apollo Theater amateur contest. Hoping to land a gig, Hendrix made the club circuit and sat in with various
bands. Eventually, Hendrix was offered the guitarist position with The Isley Brothers' back-up band and he readily
accepted. Hendrix' first studio recording occurred in March 1964, when the Isley Brothers, with Hendrix as a
member of the band, recorded the two-part single "Testify". Hendrix then went on tour with the Isley Brothers.
"Testify" was released in June 1964, but did not make an impact on the charts. After touring as a member of the Isley
Brothers until mid-late 1964,[48] [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] Hendrix grew dissatisfied and left the band in Nashville. There,
he found work with the tour's MC "Gorgeous" George Odell. On March 1, 1964, Hendrix (then calling himself
Maurice James) began recording and performing with Little Richard. Hendrix would later (1966) say, "I want to do
with my guitar what Little Richard does with his voice."[54] During a stop in Los Angeles while touring with Little
Richard in 1965, Hendrix played a session for Rosa Lee Brooks on her single "My Diary". This was his first
recorded involvement with Arthur Lee of the band "Love".[55] [56] While in L.A., he also played on the session for
Little Richard's final single for Vee-Jay, "I Don't Know What You've Got, But It's Got Me".[57] He later made his
first recorded TV appearance on Nashville's Channel 5 "Night Train" with "The Royal Company" backing up
"Buddy and Stacy" on "Shotgun".[58] Hendrix clashed with Richard, over tardiness, wardrobe, and, above all,
Hendrix's stage antics.[57] On tour with Richard they shared billing a couple of times with Ike and Tina Turner. It has
been suggested that he left Richard and played with Ike & Tina briefly before returning to Richard, but there is no
firm evidence to support this, and this is emphatically denied by Tina. Months later, he was either fired or he left
after missing the tour bus in Washington, D.C.[59] He then rejoined the Isley Brothers in the summer of 1965 and
recorded a second single with them, "Move Over and Let Me Dance" backed with "Have You Ever Been
Disappointed" (1965 Atlantic 45-2303).

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Later in 1965, Hendrix joined a New Yorkbased R&B band, Curtis Knight and the Squires, after meeting Knight in
the lobby of the Hotel America, off Times Square, where both men were living at the time.[60] He performed on and
off with them for eight months.[61] In October 1965, Hendrix recorded a single with Curtis Knight, "How Would
You Feel" backed with "Welcome Home" (1966 RSVP 1120) and on October 15 he signed a three-year recording
contract with entrepreneur Ed Chalpin, receiving 1% royalty. While the relationship with Chalpin was short-lived,
his contract remained in force, which caused considerable problems for Hendrix later on in his career. The legal
dispute has continued to the present day.[62] (Several songs (and demos) from the 19651966 Curtis Knight
recording sessions, deemed not worth releasing at the time, were marketed as "Jimi Hendrix" recordings after he
became famous.)[63] Aside from Curtis Knight and the Squires, Hendrix then toured for two months with Joey Dee
and the Starliters.
In between performing with Curtis Knight in 1966, Hendrix toured and recorded with King Curtis. Hendrix recorded
the two-part single "Help Me (Get the Feeling)" with Ray Sharpe and the King Curtis Orchestra (1966 Atco
45-6402) (the backing track was subsequently overdubbed by other vocalists with different lyrics and released as
new songs).[64] Later in 1966, Hendrix also recorded with Lonnie Youngblood, a saxophone player who occasionally
performed with Curtis Knight. The sessions produced two singles for Youngblood: "Go Go Shoes"/"Go Go Place"
(Fairmount F-1002) and "Soul Food (That's What I Like)"/"Goodbye Bessie Mae" (Fairmount F-1022). Additionally,
singles for other artists came out of the sessions: The Icemen's "(My Girl) She's a Fox"/ "(I Wonder) What It Takes"
(1966 SAMAR S-111) and Jimmy Norman's "You're Only Hurting Yourself"/"That Little Old Groove Maker" (1966
SAMAR S-112). As with the King Curtis recordings, backing tracks and alternate takes for the Youngblood sessions
would be overdubbed and otherwise manipulated to create many "new" tracks.[65] (Many Youngblood tracks without
any Hendrix involvement would later be marketed as "Jimi Hendrix" recordings).[66] Also around this time in 1966,
Hendrix got his first composer credits for two instrumentals "Hornets Nest" and "Knock Yourself Out", released as a
Curtis Knight and the Squires single (1966 RSVP 1124).[67]
Hendrix, now going by the name Jimmy James, formed his own band, The Blue Flame, composed of Randy Palmer
(bass), Danny Casey (drums), a 15-year-old guitarist who played slide and rhythm named Randy Wolfe, and the
occasional stand in June 1966.[68]
Since there were two musicians named "Randy" in the group, Hendrix dubbed Wolfe "Randy California" (as he had
recently moved from there to New York City) and Palmer (a Tejano) "Randy Texas". Randy California would later
co-found the band Spirit with his stepfather, drummer Ed Cassidy. It was around this time that Hendrix's only
daughter Tamika was conceived with Diana Carpenter (also known as Regina Jackson), a teenage runaway and
prostitute that he briefly stayed with. Her claim has not been recognized by the US courts where, after death, she
may not have a claim on his estate even if she could legally prove he was her father, unless recognized previously as
such by him or the courts.[69]
Hendrix and his new band played at several places in New York, but their primary venue was a residency at the Cafe
Wha? on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village. The street runs along "Washington (Square) Park" which
appeared in at least two of Hendrix's songs. Their last concerts were at the Cafe au Go Go, as John Hammond Jr.'s
backing group, billed as "The Blue Flame". Singer-guitarist Ellen McIlwaine and guitarist Jeff "Skunk" Baxter also
claim to have briefly worked with Hendrix in this period.[70]

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Early in 1966 at the Cheetah Club on Broadway at 53rd Street, Linda Keith, then girlfriend of Rolling Stones
guitarist Keith Richards, befriended Hendrix and recommended him to Stones' manager Andrew Loog Oldham and
later, producer Seymour Stein. Neither man took a liking to Hendrix's music, and they both passed. She then referred
Hendrix to Chas Chandler, who was ending his tenure as bassist in The Animals and looking for talent to manage
and produce. Chandler liked the song "Hey Joe" and was convinced he could create a hit single with the right artist.

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Impressed with Hendrix's version, Chandler brought him to London


and signed him to a management and production contract with himself
and ex-Animals manager Michael Jeffery. Chandler then helped
Hendrix form a new band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, with
guitarist-turned-bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell,
both English musicians. Shortly before the Experience was formed,
Chandler introduced Hendrix to Pete Townshend and to Eric Clapton,
who had only recently helped put together Cream. At Chandler's
request, Cream let Hendrix join them on stage for a jam on the song
"Killing Floor". Hendrix and Clapton remained friends up until
Hendrix's death. The first night he arrived in London, he began a
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relationship with Kathy Etchingham that lasted until February 1969.
She later wrote a well received autobiographical book about their relationship and the sixties London scene in
general.[71]
Hendrix sometimes had a camp sense of humor, specifically with the song "Purple Haze". A mondegreen had
appeared, in which the line "'Scuse me while I kiss the sky" was misheard as "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy." In a
few performances, Hendrix humorously used this, deliberately singing "kiss this guy" while pointing to Mitch or
Noel, as he did at Monterey.[72] In the Woodstock DVD he deliberately points to the sky at this point,[73] to make it
clear. A volume of misheard lyrics has been published, using this mondegreen itself as the title, with Hendrix on the
cover.
UK success
After his enthusiastically received performance at France's No. 1 venue, the Olympia theatre in Paris on the Johnny
Hallyday tour, an on-stage jam with Cream, a showcase gig at the newly opened, pop-celebrity oriented nightclub
Bag O'Nails and the all important appearances on the top UK TV pop shows "Ready Steady Go!" and the BBC's
"Top of the Pops", word of Hendrix spread throughout the London music community in late 1966. His showmanship
and virtuosity made instant fans of reigning guitar heroes Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck, as well as Brian Jones and
members of The Beatles and The Who, whose managers signed Hendrix to their new record label, Track Records.
Hendrix's first single was a cover of "Hey Joe", using Tim Rose's slower arrangement of the song including his
addition of a female backing chorus. Backing this first 1966 "Experience" single was Hendrix's first songwriting
effort, "Stone Free". Further success came in early 1967 with "Purple Haze" which featured the "Hendrix chord" and
"The Wind Cries Mary". The three singles were all UK Top 10 hits and were also popular internationally including
Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan (though failed to sell when released later in the US). Onstage, Hendrix
was also making an impression with sped up renderings of the B.B. King hit "Rock Me Baby" and Howlin' Wolf's hit
"Killing Floor".
Are You Experienced
The first Jimi Hendrix Experience album, Are You Experienced, was released in the United Kingdom on May 12,
1967 and shortly thereafter internationally, outside of USA and Canada. It contained none of the previously released
(outside North America) singles or their B sides ("Hey Joe/Stone Free", "Purple Haze/51st Anniversary" and "The
Wind Cries Mary/Highway Chile"). Only The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band prevented Are You
Experienced from reaching No. 1 on the UK charts.
At this time, the Experience extensively toured the United Kingdom and parts of Europe. This allowed Hendrix to
develop his stage presence, which reached a high point on March 31, 1967, when, booked to appear as one of the
opening acts on the Walker Brothers farewell tour, he set his guitar on fire at the end of his first performance, as a
publicity stunt. This guitar has now been identified as the "Zappa guitar" (previously thought to have been from

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Miami), which has been partly refurbished. Later, as part of this press promotion campaign, there were articles about
Rank Theatre management warning him to "tone down" his "suggestive" stage act, with Chandler stating that the
group would not compromise regardless.[74] On June 4, 1967, the Experience played their last show in England, at
London's Saville Theatre, before heading off to America. The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album had just been released on
June 1 and two Beatles (Paul McCartney and George Harrison) were in attendance, along with a roll call of other UK
rock stardom, including: Brian Epstein, Eric Clapton, Spencer Davis, Jack Bruce, and pop singer Lulu. Hendrix
opened the show with his own rendering of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", rehearsed only minutes before
taking the stage, much to McCartney's astonishment and delight.[75]
While on tour in Sweden in 1967, Hendrix jammed with the duo
Hansson & Karlsson, and later opened several concerts with their song
"Tax Free", also recording a cover of it during the Electric Ladyland
sessions.[76] He played there frequently throughout his career, and his
only son James Daniel Sundquist was born there in 1969 to a Swede,
Hendrix on stage in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1967.
Eva Sundquist, recognized as such by the Swedish courts and paid a
settlement by Experience Hendrix LLC.[77] He wrote a poem to a woman there (probably Sundquist). Sundquist had
sent Hendrix roses on each of his opening nights in Stockholm, and began according to the Swedish courts a
sexual relationship from then until conceiving Daniel with him, after his third visit in January 1969. Hendrix also
dedicated songs to the Swedish-based Vietnam deserters organization in 1969.[78]
Months later, Reprise Records released the US and Canadian version of Are You Experienced with a new cover by
Karl Ferris, removing "Red House", "Remember" and "Can You See Me" to make room for the first three single
A-sides. Where the (Rest of the World) album kicked off with "Foxy Lady", the US and Canadian one started with
"Purple Haze". Both versions offered a startling introduction to the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and the album was a
blueprint for what had become possible on an electric guitar, basically recorded on four tracks, mixed into mono and
only modified at this point by a "fuzz" pedal, reverb and a small bit of the experimental "Octavia" pedal on "Purple
Haze", produced by Roger Mayer in consultation with Hendrix. A remix using the mostly mono backing tracks with
the guitar and vocal overdubs separated and occasionally panned to create a stereo mix was also released, only in the
US and Canada.
US success
Although very popular internationally at this time, the Experience had yet to crack America, their first single there
failed to sell.[79] Their chance came when Paul McCartney recommended the group to the organizers of the
Monterey International Pop Festival. This proved to be a great opportunity for Hendrix, not only because of the large
audience present at the event, but also because of the many journalists covering the event who wrote about him. The
performances were filmed by D. A. Pennebaker and later shown in some movie theaters around the country in early
1969 as the concert documentary Monterey Pop, which immortalized Hendrix's iconic burning and smashing of his
guitar at the finale of his performance.
The opening song was Hendrix's very fast arrangement of Howlin' Wolf's 1965 R&B hit "Killing Floor". He played
this frequently from late 1965 through 1968, usually as the opener to his shows. The Monterey performance included
an equally lively rendering of B.B. King's 1964 R&B hit "Rock Me Baby", Tim Rose's arrangement of "Hey Joe"
and Bob Dylan's 1965 Pop hit "Like a Rolling Stone". The set ended with The Troggs "Wild Thing" and Hendrix
repeating the act that had boosted his profile in the UK (and internationally) with him burning his guitar on stage,
then smashing it to bits and tossing pieces out to the audience. This show finally brought Hendrix to the notice of the
US public. A large chunk of this guitar was on display at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, along with the
other psychedelically painted Stratocaster that Hendrix smashed (but did not burn) at his farewell concert in England
before he left for the US and Monterey.

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At the time Hendrix was playing sets in the Scene club in NYC in July 1967, he met Frank Zappa, whose Mothers of
Invention were playing the adjacent Garrick Theater, and he was reportedly fascinated by Zappa's recently purchased
wah-wah pedal.[80] Hendrix immediately bought one from Manny's and starting using it right away on the sessions
for both sides of his new single, and slightly later, on several jams recorded at Ed Chalpin's studio.[81]
Following the festival, the Experience played a series of concerts at Bill Graham's Fillmore replacing the original
headliners Jefferson Airplane at the top of the bill. It was at this time that Hendrix became acquainted with future
musical collaborator Stephen Stills, and reacquainted himself with Buddy Miles who introduced Hendrix to his
future partner, Devon Wilson. She had a turbulent on/off relationship with him, right up to the night of his death, and
was the only one of his partners to record with him. She died only six months after Hendrix under mysterious
circumstances, apparently falling from an upper window in the Chelsea Hotel.
Following this very successful West Coast introduction, which also included two open air concerts (one of them a
free concert in the "panhandle" of Golden Gate Park) and a concert at the Whisky a Go Go, they were booked as one
of the opening acts for pop group The Monkees on their first American tour. The Monkees asked for Hendrix
because they were fans,[82] but their (mostly early teens) audience sometimes did not warm to their act, and he quit
the tour after a few dates. Chas Chandler later admitted that being thrown off the Monkees tour was engineered to
gain maximum media impact and publicity for Hendrix,[83] similar to that gained from the manufactured Rank
Theatre's indecency dispute on the earlier UK Walker Brothers tour. At the time, a story circulated claiming that
Hendrix was removed from the tour because of complaints made by the Daughters of the American Revolution that
his stage conduct was "lewd and indecent". This report was concocted by a journalist accompanying the tour, the
Australian Lillian Roxon.
Meanwhile in Western Europe, where Hendrix was appreciated for his authentic blues as well as his hit singles and
recognized for his avant-garde musical ideas, his wild-man image and musical gimmickry (such as playing the guitar
with his teeth and behind his back) had faded; but they later plagued him in the US following Monterey. He became
frustrated by the US media and audience when they concentrated on his stage tricks and best known songs.
Axis: Bold as Love
The Jimi Hendrix Experience's second 1967 album, Axis: Bold as Love was his first recording made for stereo
release and used panning and other stereo effects. It continued the style established by Are You Experienced. The
opening track, "EXP", featured a stereo effect in which a sound emanating from Hendrix's guitar appeared to revolve
around the listener, fading out into the distance from the right channel, then returning in on the left. This album
marked the first time Hendrix recorded the whole album with his guitar tuned down one half-step, to E, which he
used exclusively thereafter and was his first to feature the wah-wah pedal. A mishap almost delayed the album's
pre-Christmas release: Hendrix lost the master tape of side one of the LP, leaving it in the back seat of a London taxi.
With the release deadline looming, Hendrix, Chas Chandler and engineer Eddie Kramer had to remix most of side
one in an overnight session, but they couldn't match the lost mix of "If 6 was 9". They soon learned that bassist Noel
Redding had a tape recording of this mix. The tape had to be smoothed out as it had gotten wrinkled.[84] Hendrix was
disappointed that the album had to be finished so quickly and felt it could have been better, given more time. He was
also somewhat disappointed in the album cover art work, which depicts Hendrix and his Experience bandmates as
the various forms of Vishnu, incorporating a painting of them by Roger Law (from a photo-portrait by Karl Ferris).
Hendrix remarked that it would have been more appropriate if the cover had highlighted his American Indian
heritage.[85]
The album was released in the UK near the end of their first headlining tour there, after which the pace slowed
briefly during the Christmas holidays. In January 1968 the group went to Sweden for a short tour, and after the first
show Hendrix, reportedly after drinking and according to Hendrix his drink being spiked, went berserk and smashed
up his hotel room in a rage, injuring his hand and culminating in his arrest. Then on the 6th in Denmark his famous
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for his trial and eventual large fine.[87]
Electric Ladyland
Hendrix's third recording, the double album Electric Ladyland (1968), was a departure from previous efforts.
Following his third and penultimate French concert at the Paris Olympia, Hendrix flew to the US to start his first tour
there, and after two months returned to his Electric Ladyland project at the newly opened Record Plant Studios with
engineers Eddie Kramer and Gary Kellgren and initially Chas Chandler as producer.
As the album's recording progressed, Chas Chandler became so frustrated with Hendrix's perfectionism and with
various friends and guests milling about the studio that he decided to sever his professional relationship with
Hendrix. Chandler's departure had a clear impact on the artistic direction that the recording took.
Hendrix began experimenting with different combinations of musicians and instruments, and modern electronic
effects. For example, Dave Mason, Chris Wood, and Steve Winwood from the band Traffic, drummer Buddy Miles
and former Bob Dylan organist Al Kooper, among others, were involved in the recording sessions. He described how
Hendrix went from a disciplined recording regimen to an erratic schedule, which often saw him beginning recording
sessions in the middle of the night and with any number of guests.
Chandler also expressed exasperation at the number of times Hendrix would insist on rerecording particular tracks;
the song "Gypsy Eyes" was reportedly recorded 43 times. This was also frustrating for bassist Noel Redding, who
would often leave the studio to calm himself, only to return and find that Hendrix had recorded the bass parts himself
during Redding's absence.
Electric Ladyland includes "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" as well as Hendrix's rendering of Bob Dylan's "All
Along the Watchtower".
Throughout the four years of his fame, Hendrix often appeared at impromptu jams with various musicians, such as
B.B. King.[88] In March 1968, Jim Morrison of The Doors joined Hendrix onstage at New York's Scene Club.
Albums of this Electric Ladyland-era bootleg recording were released under various titles, some falsely claiming the
presence of Johnny Winter, who has denied, several times, being a participant at that jam session, and to ever having
met Morrison.[89]

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After a year based in the US, Hendrix temporarily moved back to London and into his girlfriend Kathy Etchingham's
rented Brook Street flat, next door to the Handel House Museum, in the West End of London. During this time The
Jimi Hendrix Experience toured Scandinavia, Germany, and included a final French concert. They later performed
two sold-out concerts at London's Royal Albert Hall on February 18 and February 24, 1969, which were the last
European appearances of this line-up of the "Jimi Hendrix Experience". A Gold and Goldstein-produced film titled
Experience was also recorded at these two shows, which, according to Experience Hendrix LLC, "Elements of these
recordings are sure to be utilized when the official release of this material is finally made."[90]
Noel Redding felt increasingly frustrated by the fact that he was not playing his original and favored instrument, the
guitar. In 1968, he decided to form his own band, Fat Mattress, which would sometimes open for the Experience
(Hendrix would jokingly refer to them as "Thin Pillow"). Redding and Hendrix would begin seeing less and less of
each other, which also had an effect in the studio, with Hendrix playing many of the bass parts on Electric Ladyland.
Fruitless recording sessions at Olympic in London; Olmstead and the Record Plant in New York that ended on April
9, which only produced a remake of Stone Free for a possible single release, were the last to feature Redding.
Hendrix then flew Billy Cox to New York and started recording and rehearsing with him on April 21 as a
replacement for Noel.[91]
In a recorded interview by Nancy Carter on June 15 at his hotel in Los Angeles, Hendrix announced that he had been
recording with Cox and that he would be replacing Noel as bass player in "The Jimi Hendrix Experience".[92]

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The last Experience concert took place on June 29, 1969 at Barry Fey's Denver Pop Festival, a three-day event held
at Denver's Mile High Stadium that was marked by police firing tear gas into the audience as they played "Voodoo
Child (Slight Return)". The band escaped from the venue in the back of a rental truck which was partly crushed by
fans trying to escape the tear gas. The next day, Noel Redding announced that he had quit the Experience.[93]

Gypsy Sun and Rainbows


After the departure of Noel Redding from the group, Hendrix rented the eight-bedroom 'Ashokan House' in the
hamlet of Boiceville[94] near Woodstock in upstate New York, where he spent some time in mid-1969. Manager
Michael Jeffery, who had a house in Woodstock, arranged the stay, with hopes that the respite would produce a new
album. To replace Redding as bassist, Hendrix had been rehearsing and recording with Billy Cox, his old and trusted
Army buddy, since at least April 21.[95]

Woodstock

Hendrix playing The Star-Spangled Banner,


Woodstock, 1969

Mitchell was unavailable to help fulfill Hendrix's commitments at this


time, which include his first appearance on US TV on the Dick
Cavett show where he was backed by the studio orchestra, and an
appearance on The Tonight Show where he appeared with his new bass
player Billy Cox, and session drummer Ed Shaughnessy sitting in for
Mitchell.[96] Mitchell returned in time for the Woodstock music
festival on August 18, 1969, for whichin an effort to expand his
sound beyond the power trio formatHendrix then added rhythm
guitarist Larry Lee (another old friend from his R&B days), and
percussionists Juma Sultan and Jerry Velez.

They recorded some jam-based material such as "Jam Back at the


House", "Shokan Sunrise" (posthumous title for untitled jam),
"Villanova Junction", and early renderings of the funk-driven centerpieces of Hendrix's post-Experience sound:
"Machine Gun", "Message to Love" and "Izabella".
Bad weather and logistical problems caused long delays, so that Hendrix did not appear on stage until Monday
morning. By this time, the audience (which had peaked at over 500,000 people) had been reduced to, at most,
180,000, many of whom merely waited to catch a glimpse of Hendrix before leaving. Festival MC Chip Monck
introduced the band as "The Jimi Hendrix Experience", but Hendrix quickly corrected this to "Gypsy Sun and
Rainbows, for short it's nothin but A Band Of Gypsies" and launched into a two hour set, the longest of his career.
As well as the two percussionists, the performance notably featured Larry Lee performing two songs and Lee
sometimes soloing while Hendrix played rhythm in places. Most of this has been edited out of the officially released
recordings, including Lee's two songs, reducing the sound to basically a three piece. The concert was relatively free
of the technical difficulties that frequently plagued Hendrix's performances, although one of his guitar strings
snapped while performing "Red House" (he kept playing regardless). The band, unused to playing large audiences
and exhausted after being up all night, could not always keep up with Hendrix's pace, but in spite of this the guitarist
managed to deliver a memorable performance, climaxing with his highly regarded rendering of "The Star-Spangled
Banner",[97] a solo improvisation which is now regarded as a special symbol of the 1960s era.[98]
This expanded band did not last long. After the Woodstock festival they appeared on only two more occasions. The
first was a street benefit in Harlem where, in a scenario similar to the festival, most of the audience had left and only
a fraction remained by the time Hendrix took the stage. Within seconds of Hendrix arriving at the site two youths
had stolen his guitar from the back seat of his car, although it was later recovered. The band's only other appearance
was at the Salvation club in Greenwich Village, New York. After some studio recordings, Hendrix disbanded the

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group. Some of this band's recordings can be heard on the MCA Records box set The Jimi Hendrix Experience and
on South Saturn Delta. Their final work together was a session on September 6.[99] Hendrix's September 9
appearance on TV's The Dick Cavett Show, backed by Cox, Mitchell and Juma Sultan, was credited as the "Jimi
Hendrix Experience".[100]

Band of Gypsys
In 1967, a contractual dispute arose in relation to an agreement Hendrix had entered into with producer Ed Chalpin
in 1965.[101] The resolution for the dispute included Hendrix having to record an LP of new material for Chalpin
company, which wouldn't feature the Experience band, and wouldn't be associated with the Experience band name.
In addition, Chalpin was granted 2% of profits from Hendrix's back catalog sold in US. For the agreed upon album,
Hendrix chose to record Band of Gypsys, a live album.[102]
Along with Billy Cox and drummer Buddy Miles (formerly with Wilson Pickett and The Electric Flag) with whom
he had been jamming together since September, Hendrix wrote and rehearsed material which they then performed at
a series of four concerts over two nights, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day at Fillmore East. The second night
produced the material for the Band Of Gypsys LP, which was produced by Hendrix (under the name "Heaven
Research").
The Band of Gypsys LP was the only official completely live LP released in Hendrix's lifetime. The band also
released a single "Stepping Stone" which failed to sell, and recorded several studio songs slated for Hendrix's future
LP. In 1999, the tapes from the four Fillmore concerts were remastered and additional tracks and edits were released
as Live at the Fillmore East. Litigation with Chalpin ended in 2007 after the "singularly uncredible witness" was
fined nearly $900,000 for failure to abide by contractual limitations and failure to pay Experience Hendrix L.L.C. its
court ordered royalties.
On January 26 and 27, 1970, Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding flew into New York and signed contracts with
Jeffery for the upcoming Jimi Hendrix Experience tour. The next day, a second and final Band of Gypsys appearance
occurred at a twelve-act show in Madison Square Garden which was a benefit for the massively popular
anti-Vietnam War Moratorium Committee, titled the "Winter Festival for Peace". Similar to Woodstock, set delays
forced Hendrix to take the stage at an inopportune 3 a.m., only this time he was obviously in no shape to play. He
played "Who Knows" before snapping a vulgar response at a woman who shouted a request for "Foxy Lady". He
played a second song, Earth Blues, he then told the audience: "That's what happens when earth fucks with
spacenever forget that".[103] He then sat down on the drum riser for a minute and then walked off stage. Various
unverifiable assertions have been proffered to explain this bizarre scene. Buddy Miles claimed that manager Michael
Jeffery dosed Hendrix with LSD in an effort to sabotage the current band and bring about the return of the
Experience lineup.[104] But none of Hendrix's other close associates verifies his statement.

Cry of Love tour


A week after the botched Band of Gypsys show, Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding gave an interview to
Rolling Stone for the upcoming tour dates as a reunited Jimi Hendrix Experience. But Redding never even got to
rehearse, as Hendrix just continued to work with Billy Cox. Noel was not told he wasn't going to be playing until the
pretour rehearsals. Fans refer to this final "Jimi Hendrix Experience" lineup as the "Cry of Love" band, named after
The Cry of Love Tour to distinguish it from the original. Billy Cox has countered on several occasions that this
lineup considered themselves "The Jimi Hendrix Experience" before they even went on tour and that any other title
is bogus. All billing, adverts, tickets etc. on the tour used "Jimi Hendrix Experience" or occasionally, as previously,
just "Jimi Hendrix".
Two of Hendrix's later recordings were the lead guitar parts on "Old Times Good Times" from Stephen Stills hit
eponymous album (1970), and on "The Everlasting First" from Arthur Lee's new incarnation of Love's, not so
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unexplained visit to London in March 1970, following Kathy Etchingham's marriage.[105]
He spent the next four months of 1970 working on his next LP tentatively titled First Rays of the New Rising Sun,
recording during the week and playing live on the weekends. The "Cry of Love" tour, launched that April at the LA
Forum, was partly undertaken to earn money to repay the Warner Bros loan for completing his Electric Lady
Studios. Performances on this tour featured Hendrix, Cox, and Mitchell playing new material alongside older
audience favourites. The USA leg of the tour included 30 performances and ended at Honolulu, Hawaii on August 1,
1970. A number of these shows were recorded and produced some of Hendrix's most memorable live performances.

Electric Lady Studios


In 1968, Hendrix and Jeffery had invested jointly in the purchase of the Generation Club in Greenwich Village.
Their initial plans to reopen the club were scrapped when the pair decided that the investment would serve them
much better as a recording studio. The studio fees for the lengthy Electric Ladyland sessions were astronomical, and
Hendrix was constantly in search of a recording environment that suited him. In August 1970, Electric Lady Studios
was opened in New York.
Designed by architect and acoustician John Storyk, the studio was made specifically for Hendrix, with round
windows and a machine capable of generating ambient lighting in a myriad of colors. It was designed to have a
relaxing feel to encourage Hendrix's creativity, but at the same time provide a professional recording atmosphere.
Engineer Eddie Kramer upheld this by refusing to allow any drug use during session work.
Hendrix spent only two and a half months recording in Electric Lady, most of which took place while the final
phases of construction were still ongoing. Following a recording/dubbing session on August 26, an opening party
was held later that day.[106] He then boarded an Air India flight for London with Billy Cox, joining Mitch Mitchell to
perform at the Isle of Wight Festival.

European tour
The group then commenced the European leg of the tour. Longing for his new studio and creative outlets, the tour
was a commitment that Hendrix was not eager to perform. In Aarhus, Hendrix abandoned his show after only two
songs, remarking: "I've been dead a long time". In the months before Hendrix's death, a British music paper alleged
that Hendrix had plans to join the band Emerson, Lake & Palmer.[107] On September 6, 1970, his final concert
performance, Hendrix was greeted with some booing and jeering by fans at the Isle of Fehmarn Festival in Germany,
due to his non-appearance at the end of the previous nights bill, (due to the torrential rain and risk of electrocution).
Several acts played after he left the stage, later part of the stage was burnt during the first stage appearance of Ton
Steine Scherben. Billy Cox quit the tour and headed home to Memphis, Tennessee, reportedly suffering paranoia
after taking LSD or being given it unknowingly, earlier in the tour.[108]
Hendrix returned to London, where he reportedly spoke to Chas Chandler, Eric Burdon, and others about leaving his
manager, Michael Jeffery. Hendrix's last public performance was an informal jam at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in
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Death
Early on September 18, 1970, Jimi Hendrix died in London. He had
spent the latter part of the previous evening at a party and was picked
up by girlfriend Monika Dannemann and driven to her flat at the
Samarkand Hotel, 22 Lansdowne Crescent, Notting Hill. According to
the estimated time of death, from autopsy data and statements by
friends about the evening of September 17, he died within a few hours
after midnight, though no precise estimate was made at the original
inquest.[109]
Dannemann claimed in her original testimony that after they returned
to her lodgings the evening before, Hendrix, unknown to her, had taken
nine of her prescribed Vesperax sleeping pills. The normal medical
dose was half a tablet, but Hendrix was unfamiliar with this very strong
German brand. According to surgeon John Bannister, the doctor who
initially attended to him, Hendrix had asphyxiated in his own vomit,
mainly red wine which had filled his airways, as the autopsy was to
The two buildings which composed the
show.[110] For years, Dannemann publicly claimed that she had only
Samarkand Hotel. Hendrix died in one of the two
discovered that her lover was unconscious and unresponsive sometime
basement apartments which were accessed from
one of the two exterior steps in front of the
after 9 a.m., that Hendrix was alive when placed in the back of the
buildings.
ambulance after half past eleven, and that she rode with him on the
way to the hospital; the latter two are denied by the ambulance crew.
However, Dannemann's comments about that morning were often contradictory, varying from interview to
interview.[111] Police and ambulance statements reveal that there was no one but Hendrix in the flat when they
arrived at 11:27 a.m., and not only was he dead when they arrived on the scene, but was fully clothed and had been
dead for some time.[112]
Later, Dannemen claimed that former road managers Gerry Stickels and Eric Barrett had been present before the
ambulance was called and had removed some of Hendrix's possessions, including some of his most recent messages.
Lyrics written by Hendrix, which were found in the apartment, led Eric Burdon to make a premature announcement
on the BBC-TV program 24 Hours that he believed Hendrix had committed suicide. Burdon often claimed he had
been telephoned by Dannemann after she discovered that Jimi failed to wake up.[113]
Following a libel case brought in 1996 by Hendrix's long-term English girlfriend Kathy Etchingham, Monika
Dannemann committed suicide.

Allegations of murder
A former Animals "roadie," James "Tappy" Wright, published a book in May 2009 claiming Hendrix's manager,
Mike Jeffery, admitted to him that he had Hendrix killed because the rock star wanted to end his management
contract.[114] John Bannister, the doctor who attended the scene of his death in 1970 stated publicly in 2009
"The amount of wine that was over him was just extraordinary. Not only was it saturated right through
his hair and shirt but his lungs and stomach were absolutely full of wine. I have never seen so much
wine. We had a sucker that you put down into his trachea, the entrance to his lungs and to the whole of
the back of his throat. We kept sucking him out and it kept surging and surging. He had already vomited
up masses of red wine and I would have thought there was half a bottle of wine in his hair. He had really
drowned in a massive amount of red wine."[115]
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It was claimed that Mike Jeffery was not "in London," he was in Spain when Jimi died in London on September 18,
1970.
"There was a freak storm across Majorca and all the phone lines were down. Somebody told Mike that
Jimi had been trying to phone him. The first call that got through was to say Jimi was dead. Mike was
terribly upset at the thought of Jimi not being able to get through to him." - Trixie Sullivan,
secretary/assistant for Mike Jeffery [117]

Fashion
Hendrix was well known for his unique sense of fashion and wardrobe
and his Dylan-esque (c. 1966) hairstyle. A set of hair curlers was one
of the few possessions that traveled with him to England when he was
first discovered in 1966. When his first advance check arrived, Hendrix
immediately took to the streets of London in search of clothing at
famous boutiques like I Was Lord Kitchener's Valet and Granny Takes
a Trip, both of which specialized in vintage fashion. He purchased at
least two army dress uniform jackets, including an old Hussar's jacket
adorned with tasseled ropes. A group of policemen once ordered him
to remove a Royal Veterinary Corps dress jacket, saying it was an
offense to the men who had worn it.[118]
Many photographs of Hendrix show him wearing various scarves,
rings, medallions, and brooches, and in the early days occasionally
badges (pins or buttons) that professed his support for the hippie
movement or his fascination with Bob Dylan. He initially wore a dark
suit and plain silk shirts that progressively became "louder" and more
psychedelically
patterned. He later favored a bright blue velvet suit,
A pair of Hendrix's bellbottoms on display at the
Hard Rock Cafe, Hollywood
then a bright red one, antique military dress jackets, a very broadly
striped suit, psychedelically patterned silk jackets, various exotic
waistcoats and brightly colored flared trousers. At Monterey, he wore a hand-painted silk jacket by Chris Jagger
(Mick Jagger's brother) and a bright pink feather boa. In late 1967 he started to wear a wide-brimmed Western style
hat (brand name "The Westerner").[119] It was adorned with a narrow purple band and various brooches, as shown in
the original Jimi Plays Monterey film. This hat was stolen in 1968, and replaced later with another, crowned
variously with a longer purple scarf, a star-like brooch in front and a set of silver bangles, sometimes with an angled
feather, though he went hatless for protracted periods after this.
From late 1968 he began tying scarves to one leg and one arm, and in mid-1969 he gave up the hat for bandanas. He
started wearing increasingly fantastic custom-made stage costume with long trailing sleeves, culminating in his
African-styled "Fire Angel" outfit that he wore throughout most of his final "Cry Of Love" tour, until it began to
come apart during the Isle of Wight concert. He appeared in this outfit only once more (in just the jacket) at the
disastrous concert in Aarhus, Denmark. His only non-work-related vacation was a two-week trip to Morocco in July
1969 with friends Colette Mimram, Stella Benabou (the then-wife of producer Alan Douglas), and Deering Howe.
Upon his return Hendrix decorated his Greenwich Village apartment with Moroccan objets d'art and fabrics.
Mimram and Benabou created some of Hendrix's most memorable later attire, the shortened blue kimono-style jacket
that he wore in three TV appearances and the white fringed jacket, ornamented with blue glass beads, he wore at the
Woodstock Festival.[120]

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Drug use
Hendrix is widely known for and associated with the use of
psychedelic drugs, most notably lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), as
were many other famous musicians and celebrities of that time. He
supposedly had never taken psychedelic drugs until the night he met
Linda Keith, but smoked cannabis and drank alcohol previously.
Amphetamines are also recorded as being used by Hendrix during
tours. Hendrix was notorious among friends and bandmates for
sometimes becoming angry and violent when he drank too much
alcohol.[121] Kathy Etchingham spoke of an incident that took place in
His arrest photo in Canada. He was subsequently
a London pub in which an intoxicated Hendrix beat her with a public
acquitted of the drug possession charges.
telephone handset because he thought she was calling another man on
the pay phone.[122] Carmen Borrero, another girlfriend, says she required stitches after he hit her with a bottle after
drinking and becoming jealous.[123] Alcohol was also cited as the cause of Hendrix's 1968 rampage that badly
damaged a Stockholm hotel room and led to his arrest. Paul Caruso's friendship with Hendrix ended in 1970 when
Hendrix, while under the influence, punched him and accused him of stealing from him.[124]
On May 3, 1969, while checking through Canadian customs at Toronto Pearson International Airport, Hendrix was
arrested when small amounts of heroin and hashish were found in his luggage. After being released on a $10,000
cash bail the same day, only four hours before his show was to begin, (and being required to appear in court at a later
date), the Experience were able to play their concert at Maple Leaf Gardens.
In his trial defense, Hendrix claimed that the drugs were slipped into his bag by a fan without his knowledge. He was
acquitted.[125]

Gravesite

The original gravestone of Jimi Hendrix, incorporated into the granite base of his memorial on which it is intended
that a large brass statue will be installed.

The memorial gravesite of Jimi Hendrix in Renton, Washington


Hendrix's body was returned to Seattle and he was interred in Greenwood Memorial Park, Renton, Washington. As
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fans damaging the adjoining graves at Greenwood, and the growing, extended Hendrix family further prompted his
father to create an expanded memorial site separate from other burial sites in the park. The memorial was announced
in late 1999, but Al Hendrix's deteriorating health led to delays and he died two months before its scheduled
completion in 2002. Later that year, the remains of Jimi Hendrix, his father Al Hendrix, and grandmother Nora Rose
Moore Hendrix were moved to the new site. The headstone contains a depiction of a Fender Stratocaster guitar, the
instrument he was most famed for using although the guitar is shown right-side up, rather than the way Hendrix
played it, upside down (left-handed).
The memorial is a granite dome supported by three pillars under which Jimi Hendrix and other family members are
interred. Hendrix's autograph is inscribed at the base of each pillar, while two stepped entrances and one ramped
entrance provide access to the dome's center where the original Stratocaster adorned headstone has been incorporated
into a statue pedestal. A granite sundial complete with brass gnomon adjoins the dome, along with over 50 family
plots that surround the central structure, half of which are currently adorned with raised granite headstones.
To date, the memorial remains incomplete: brass accents for the dome and a large brass statue of Hendrix were
announced as being under construction in Italy, but since 2002, no information as to the status of the project has been
revealed to the public. A memorial statue of Jimi playing a Stratocaster stands near the corner of Broadway and Pine
Streets in Seattle.
In May 2006, the city of Seattle honored Hendrix with the re-naming of a park near Seattle's Colman School in the
Central District.[126]

Recordings
Hendrix's recordings were originally released in North America on Reprise Records (a division of Warner
Communications) from 1967 until 1993 and were released Internationally (outside of US & Canada) on Polydor
Records. (Because it was recorded to settle a legal dispute, the Band of Gypsys album was released on Capitol
Records in US & Canada.) British releases of all his albums up to and including The Cry Of Love were first issued on
the independent label Track Records, which was originally created by the managers of The Who. The label was later
absorbed by Polydor.
In 1994, the Hendrix family prevailed in its long standing legal attempt to gain control of Jimi's music, and
subsequently licensed the recordings to MCA Records (later Universal Music) through the family-run company
Experience Hendrix. In August 2009, Experience Hendrix announced that it had entered a new licensing agreement
with Sony Music Entertainment's Legacy Recordings division which would take effect in 2010.

Unfinished work and posthumous releases


Reports that Hendrix's tapes for a concept album Black Gold had been stolen and lost from the London flat, are
incorrect. Hendrix gave those tapes to Mitch Mitchell at the Isle of Wight Festival three weeks prior to his death.[127]
They are now in the possession of Experience Hendrix LLC.
Hendrix's unfinished album was partly released as the 1971 title The Cry of Love. The album was well received and
charted in several countries. However, the album's producers, Mitchell and Kramer, would later complain that they
were unable to make use of all the tracks they wanted. This was due to some tracks being used for 1971's Rainbow
Bridge and 1972's War Heroes for contractual reasons.
Material from The Cry of Love was rereleased in 1997 as First Rays of the New Rising Sun, along with the rest of the
tracks that Mitchell and Kramer wanted to include.
Many of Hendrix's personal items, tapes, and many pages of lyrics and poems are now in the hands of private
collectors and have attracted considerable sums at the occasional auctions.[128] These materials surfaced after two
employees, under the instructions of Mike Jeffery, removed items from Hendrix's Greenwich Village apartment
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In 2010, Legacy Recordings and Experience Hendrix LLC launched the 2010 Jimi Hendrix Catalog Project, starting
with the release of Valleys of Neptune in March.[129] Legacy is also planning to release deluxe CD/DVD editions of
the Hendrix albums Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold As Love, Electric Ladyland and First Rays of the New Rising
Sun, as well as reissuing the 1968 compilation album Smash Hits.[129]

Legacy
Hendrix synthesized many styles in creating his musical voice and his guitar style was unique, later to be abundantly
imitated by others. Despite his hectic touring schedule and notorious perfectionism, he was a prolific recording artist
and left behind more than 300 unreleased recordings.
His career and death grouped him with Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (of the
Grateful Dead), and Kurt Cobain as one of the 27 Club, a group including iconic 1960s rock stars who suffered
drug-related deaths at age 27 within months of each other, leaving legacies in death that have eclipsed the popularity
and influence they experienced during their lifetimes. Despite his popularity and the lavish praise heaped upon his
guitar skills, he was surprisingly humble. Musically, Hendrix did much to further the development of the electric
guitar's repertoire, establishing it as a unique sonic source, rather than merely an amplified version of the acoustic
guitar. Likewise, his feedback, wah-wah and fuzz-laden soloing moved guitar distortion well beyond mere novelty,
incorporating other effects pedals and units specifically designed for him by his sound technician Roger Mayer (such
as the Octavia and Univibe) with dramatic results.
Hendrix affected popular music with similar profundity; along with earlier bands such as The Who and Cream, he
established a sonically heavy yet technically proficient bent to rock music as a whole, significantly furthering the
development of hard rock and paving the way for heavy metal. He took blues to another level. His music has also
had a great influence on funk and the development of funk rock especially through the guitarists Ernie Isley of The
Isley Brothers and Eddie Hazel of Funkadelic, Prince, John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jesse
Johnson of The Time. His influence even extends to many hip hop artists, including Questlove, Chuck D of Public
Enemy, Ice-T (who covered "Hey Joe" with his heavy metal band Body Count), El-P and Wyclef Jean. Miles Davis
was also deeply impressed by Hendrix and compared his improvisational skills with those of saxophonist John
Coltrane,[130] and Davis would later want guitarists in his bands to emulate Hendrix.[131] Hendrix was ranked
number 3 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock behind Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. Hendrix was ranked
number 3 on VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of Rock N' Roll, behind the Rolling Stones and the Beatles. He
has been voted by Rolling Stone, Guitar World, and a number of other magazines and polls as the best electric
guitarist of all time.
Guitar World's readers voted six of Hendrix's solos among the top "100 Greatest" of all time: "Purple Haze" (70),
"The Star-Spangled Banner" (52), "Machine Gun" (32), "Little Wing" (18), "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" (11) and
"All Along the Watchtower (5).[132]
In 1992, Hendrix was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Financial legacy
When Al Hendrix died of congestive heart failure in 2002, his will stipulated that Experience Hendrix, LLC was to
exist as a trust designed to distribute profits to a list of Hendrix family beneficiaries. Upon his death, it was revealed
that Al had signed a revision to his will which removed Hendrix's brother Leon Hendrix as a beneficiary. A 2004
probate lawsuit merged Leon's challenge to the will with charges from other Hendrix family beneficiaries that Janie
Hendrix, Al's adopted daughter, was improperly handling the company finances. The suit argued that Janie and a
cousin of Jimi Hendrix (Robert Hendrix) paid themselves exorbitant salaries and covered their own mortgages and
personal expenses from the company's coffers while the beneficiaries went without payment and the Hendrix
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Janie and Robert's defense was that the company was not profitable yet, and that their salary and benefits were
justified given the work that they put into running the company. Leon charged that Janie bilked Al Hendrix, then old
and frail, into signing the revised will, and sought to have the previous will reinstated.[133] The defense argued that
Al willingly removed Leon from his will because of Leon's problems with alcohol and gambling. In early 2005,
presiding judge Jeffrey Ramsdell handed down a ruling that left the final will intact, but replaced Janie and Robert's
role at the financial helm of Experience Hendrix with an independent trustee.

The Jimi Hendrix Foundation


In 1987, Leon Hendrix commissioned the James (Jimi) Marshall Hendrix Foundation. This foundation is based in
Renton, Washington. Though run for some time by Jimi's brother Leon Hendrix, in August, 2006 Leon asked a
childhood friend of Jimi Hendrix James (Jimmy) Williams, to take control of the Foundation.[134]

Guitar legacy
Fender Stratocaster
Hendrix owned and used a variety of guitars during his career. His guitar of choice however, and the instrument that
became most associated with him, was the Fender Stratocaster, or "Strat". He started playing Stratocasters in 1966
and thereafter used it almost exclusively for his stage performances and recordings.
Hendrix bought many Strats and gave some away as gifts. The original sunburst Stratocaster that Hendrix burnt at
the Astoria in 1967, and that he kept as a souvenir, was given to Frank Zappa by a Hendrix roadie at the 1968 Miami
Pop Festival; Zappa assumed it was the one Hendrix had played there.[135]
Hendrix used right-handed guitars, turned upside down for left-hand playing, and restrung so that the heavier strings
were in their standard position at the top of the neck.[136] This had an important effect on his guitar sound: because
of the slant of the Strat's bridge pickup, his lowest string had a bright sound while his highest string had a mellow
sound, the opposite of the Stratocaster's intended design.[137]
Heavy use of the tremolo bar necessitated frequent tuning; Hendrix often asked the audience for a "minute to tune
up", as heard on many live bootlegs of his performances.
In addition to Fender Stratocasters, Hendrix was also photographed playing Jazzmasters, Duosonics, two different
Gibson Flying Vs, a Gibson Les Paul, three Gibson SGs, a Gretsch Corvette he used at the 1967 Curtis Knight
sessions and miming with a right strung Fender Jaguar on the "Top Of The Pop's" TV show, as well as several other
brands.[138] Hendrix borrowed a Fender Telecaster from Noel Redding to record "Hey Joe" and "Purple Haze",[139]
used a white Gibson SG Custom for his performances on the Dick Cavett show in the summer of 1969, and the Isle
of Wight film shows him playing his second Gibson Flying V. While Jimi had previously owned a Flying V that he'd
painted with a psychedelic design, the Flying V used at the Isle of Wight was a unique custom left-handed guitar
with gold plated hardware, a bound fingerboard and "split-diamond" fret markers that were not found on other
60s-era Flying Vs.
On December 4, 2006, one of Hendrix's 1968 Fender Stratocaster guitars with a sunburst design was sold at a
Christie's auction for USD$168,000.[140]
Amplifiers and effects
Hendrix was a catalyst in the development of modern guitar effects pedals. His high volume and use of feedback
required robust and powerful amplifiers. For the first few rehearsals he used Vox and Fender amplifiers. Sitting in
with Cream, Hendrix played through a new range of high-powered guitar amps being made by London drummer
turned audio engineer Jim Marshall, and they proved perfect for his needs. Along with the Stratocaster, the Marshall
stack and amplifiers were crucial in shaping his heavily overdriven sound, enabling him to master the use of
feedback as a musical effect, and he created a "definitive vocabulary for rock guitar."[141]

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While his mainstays were the Arbiter Fuzz Face and a Vox wah-wah pedal,[141] Hendrix experimented with guitar
effects as well. He had a fruitful association with engineer Roger Mayer who later went on to make the Axis fuzz
unit, the Octavia octave doubler and several other devices based on units Mayer had created or tweaked for Hendrix.
The Japanese-made Univibe, designed to simulate the modulation effects of the rotating Leslie speaker, provided a
rich phasing sound with a speed control pedal, and is heard on the Band of Gypsys track "Machine Gun," which
highlights use of the univibe, octavia and fuzz face pedals.
The Hendrix sound combined high volume and high power, feedback manipulation, and a range of cutting-edge
guitar effects. He was also known for his trick playing, which included playing with only his right (fretting) hand and
using his teeth or playing behind his back and between his legs. Hendrix had large hands and characteristically used
his thumb to fret bass notes, leaving his fingers free to play melodic lines on top. A clear demonstration of this
thumb technique can be witnessed in the Woodstock video; during the song Red House there are closeups of
Hendrix's fretting hand.

Discography
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Are You Experienced (1967)
Axis: Bold as Love (1967)
Electric Ladyland (1968)

Jimi Hendrix/Band of Gypsys


Band of Gypsys (1970) [recorded live]

Posthumous studio albums

The Cry of Love (1971)


Rainbow Bridge (1971)
War Heroes (1972)
Loose Ends (1974)
Crash Landing (1975)
Midnight Lightning (1975)
Nine to the Universe (1980)
Radio One (1988)
First Rays of the New Rising Sun (1997)
South Saturn Delta (1997)
Valleys of Neptune (2010)

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See also

27 Club
Eire Apparent
Electric Church
Rainbow Bridge concert (Maui, Hawaii, 1970)

Further reading
Shapiro, Harry; Glebbeek, Cesar (1991). Jimi Hendrix Electric Gypsy. St. Martin's Press. p.722.
ISBN0312058616.
Brown, Tony (1992). Jimi Hendrix A Visual Documentary. Omnibus Press. p.128. ISBN0711927618.
Black, Johnny (1999). Jimi Hendrix The Ultimate Experience. Thunder's Mouth Press. p.256.
ISBN1560252405.
Roby, Steven (2002). Black Gold The Lost Archives of Jimi Hendrix. Billboard Books. p.278.
ISBN082307854X.
Shadwick, Keith (2003). Jimi Hendrix, Musician. Backbeat Books. pp.256. ISBN0879307641.
McDermott, John; Kramer, Eddie (1992). Hendrix, Setting The Record Straight. Grand Central Publishing.
pp.364. ISBN0446394319.
McDermott, John; Kramer, Eddie; Cox, Billy (2009). Ultimate Hendrix. Backbeat Books. pp.256.
ISBN0879309385.
McDermott, John; Kramer, Eddie; Cox, Billy (1995). Jimi Hendrix, Sessions. Little, Brown & Co.. pp.196.
ISBN0316876666.
Whitburn, Joel (1988). Top R&B Singles 19421988. Record Research, Inc. p.613. ISBN0898200687.
Ken Matesich, Jimi Hendrix: A Discography, 1982
David Stubbs, Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child: The Stories Behind Every Song, 2003
John Kruth, Bright Moments: The Life & Legacy of Rahsaan Roland Kirk, 2004: ISBN 1566491053
Brad Tolinski and Ross Halfin, Classic Hendrix: The Ultimate Hendrix Experience, Genesis Publications 2004
Charles R. Cross, Room Full Of Mirrors: A Biography Of Jimi Hendrix, 2005: ISBN 1401300286
Mark Lewisohn, The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, Hamlyn 1988: ISBN 0600612074. See pp.1645 re
Apple recording studio.
Gary Geldeart & Steve Rodham, "From The Benjamin Franklin Studios 3rd Edition Parts 1, 2 & 3" 2008

External links
Official Jimi Hendrix website [142]
Univibes [143] magazine; Popiglio, Italy
Experience Hendrix [144] magazine; Seattle, USA
Jimpress [145] Jimi Hendrix Magazine, UK
Als Gott auf den Bus warten musste [146], article with photographs of Hendrix in Hamburg, Germany, on
September 5, 1970.
"Jimi Hendrix: 'You never told me he was that good'" [147] Ed Vulliamy, The Guardian, 8 August 2010

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience

The Jimi Hendrix Experience performing for Dutch television in 1967. From left to right: Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding and Mitch
Mitchell.
Background information
Also known as

The Cry of Love (1970)

Origin

London, England

Genres

Psychedelic rock, blues-rock, hard rock

Years active

19661969 1970

Labels

Track (United Kingdom)


Reprise (North America)
Polydor (Europe)
Barclay (France)
MCA (post-breakup)

Associated acts

Gypsy Sun and Rainbows, Band of Gypsys, The Noel Redding Band,
Ramatam

Website

www.jimihendrix.com

[142]

Formermembers
Jimi Hendrix
Noel Redding
Mitch Mitchell

The Jimi Hendrix Experience were a British-American psychedelic rock band that formed in London in October
1966. Comprising eponymous singer-songwriter and guitarist Jimi Hendrix, bassist and backing vocalist Noel
Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell, the band was active until June 1969, in which time the group released three
successful studio albums. After Redding left the band, Hendrix and Mitchell stayed together through other projects.
The Experience 'reunited' in 1970 with Billy Cox dubbed "The Cry of Love", until Hendrix's death in September
1970. Redding died in 2003, and Mitchell became the last original member of the band to die in November 2008.
Widely recognised as a band hugely influential on the development of hard rock and heavy metal in the 1970s and
beyond, The Experience were best known for the skill, style and charisma of frontman Hendrix, who has been noted
as one of the greatest guitarists ever by various music publications and writers. All three of the band's studio albums,
Are You Experienced (1967), Axis: Bold as Love (1967) and Electric Ladyland (1968), were featured in the Rolling
Stone list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, at positions 15, 82 and 54 respectively, and in 1992, The Jimi
Hendrix Experience were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

History
Jimi Hendrix arrived in England in September 1966[1] and with his new manager Chas Chandler formed a backing
band with bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell.[2] Mitchell was a seasoned London drummer formerly
with Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames who brought Jazz chops and a lead style of playing to the band. He would
prove to be Hendrix's most valuable musical partner. Redding was chosen because Hendrix liked his attitude towards
music and hairstyle. It was the first time that he had ever played bass in a band, as he was a guitarist. The name "The
Jimi Hendrix Experience" was coined by their business manager Mike Jeffery.[3]
Though initially conceived as Hendrix's backing band, The Experience soon became much more than that. Following
the lead of Cream, they were one of the first groups to popularize the "power trio" format, which stripped a rock
band line-up down to guitar, bass, and drums. This smaller format also encouraged more extroverted playing from
the band members, often at very high volumes. In the case of The Experience, Hendrix mixed lead and rhythm guitar
duties into one, while also making use of guitar effects such as feedback and later the wah-wah pedal to an extent
that had never been heard before. Mitchell played hard-hitting jazz-influenced grooves that often served a melodic
role as much as they did timekeeping. Redding played deceptively simple bass lines that helped to anchor the band's
sound. Visually, they set the trend in psychedelic clothes, and, following his band-mates' Bob Dylan 1966-style
hair-dos, Mitchell got himself a permed copy. The group came to prominence in the US only after the June 1967
Monterey Pop Festival, one of the first major rock music festivals.[2] The band's performance ended with Hendrix
famously setting his psychedelically painted Fender Stratocaster on fire.[4] After the festival they were then asked to
go on tour with The Monkees. They joined the tour on July 8, 1967 in Jacksonville, FL, the second act on a three
band bill, opened by The Sundowners. Less than 2 weeks later and after only a handful of engagements, they left the
tour, reportedly frustrated by audience response. The last Hendrix/Monkees concert was performed at Flushing
Meadows in Queens, NY. - Chas Chandler later said that it was all a publicity stunt.[5]
With the band, Hendrix recorded his five hit singles "Hey Joe", "Purple Haze", "The Wind Cries Mary", "Burning of
the Midnight Lamp", and "All Along the Watchtower", and his three most successful albums, Are You Experienced,
Axis: Bold as Love, and Electric Ladyland. The band however was beginning to splinter by April of 1969. Hendrix's
deteriorating relations with Redding were coming to a head, and Hendrix also felt his musical development was
hampered by the trio format. Hendrix had also begun to experiment with depressants and psychedelic drugs. He was
prone to mood swings, which created conflicts within the band.[6] The original group held together long enough to
fulfill their existing engagements, culminating in the Denver Pop Festival on June 29, 1969. From the stage, Hendrix
made the infamous announcement: "This is the last gig we'll be playing together". The original Experience was
dissolved.
Hendrix experimented with a larger band line-up known as Gypsy Sun and Rainbows for his Woodstock concert in
August 1969, but would revert to the trio format with the Band of Gypsys. But by 1970, Hendrix had disbanded the
Band of Gypsys - it has been claimed this was due to the desire of Michael Jeffery (now Jimi's only manager) to
reform the original Experience line-up, but as Trixie Sullivan, Jeffery's assistant, testified, Jimi did exactly as he felt
musically and Jeffery just handled the business side, as usual. Also, according to Gypsys bassist Billy Cox, the
all-black power trio was mainly a one-off to help Hendrix fulfill an outstanding obligation to Ed Chalpin by
recording a one-off live LP. Jeffery called Redding and Mitchell about reforming the Experience. Both agreed to
participate in what would seem to be a great money maker of a tour; Mitchell and Redding could use the cash, and
the tour would also get Jimi out of the financial problems he was in at the time partly due to the building of Electric
Lady Studios. Hendrix was open to have Mitchell rejoin, but reluctant to bring Redding back into the fold.
In early February 1970, it seemed as if the original Experience was reformed. Manager Michael Jeffery even set up
an interview with Rolling Stone magazine to announce the return of the group, published on 19 March 1970 in
Rolling Stone as J.H.: The End of a Beginning Maybe (and reprinted in Guitar Player magazine five years after
Hendrix's death). While the interview gave the impression that the old wounds were healed and the future seemingly
bright for the Experience, it was far from the truth. Redding was waiting for weeks to hear back about rehearsals for

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the upcoming tour when he finally spoke with Mitchell's girlfriend only to learn that he had been replaced by Billy
Cox. Before it started, Jimi "called this tour The Cry of Love, because that's what it is" in an interview; this is the
only mention of that name, prior to the posthumous LP of that name (1971), and the group itself was still referred to
in all ads, articles, promos, bookings, introductions, etc. as the "Jimi Hendrix Experience" or just "Jimi Hendrix". So
after a break of nearly ten months (during which he only played six dates) the "Jimi Hendrix Experience" hit the road
for one last tour. Jimi felt the band should stay in America and record for the next LP, while Mike Jeffereys wanted a
tour of Europe. The band set for Europe and the tour was a bad decision from the start. Hendrix had a cold, was not
getting rest, and was still affected by the change of climate. His disdain for the management and his financial
situation accumulated stress, and by the European leg it was evident Hendrix was unhappy and unfit for tour.
Mitchell reported that Hendrix was not even doing sound checks before the performances.
During this period, before the Isle of Wight festival, Jimi spoke to his friend Richie Havens about his troubles.
Havens recollects, "He was terribly unhappy, extremely depressed, and asked for my help. 'I'm having a real bad
time with my managers and lawyers' Jimi said. 'They're killing me; everything is wired against me and it's getting so
bad I can't eat or sleep...'".
During a break in the tour later that year, Hendrix died on September 18, 1970 in controversial circumstances.[2] In
1992, The Experience was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[1]
Noel Redding was found dead in his home in Ireland on May 11, 2003.
Mitch Mitchell was found dead at approximately 3 AM on November 12, 2008 in his room at the Benson Hotel in
downtown Portland. He was the last surviving member of the original Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Members

Jimi Hendrix lead vocals, guitar1 (19661970)


Noel Redding bass, backing vocals2 (19661969)
Billy Cox bass, backing vocals (1970)
Mitch Mitchell - Drums

Discography
Are You Experienced (1967)
Axis: Bold as Love (1967)
Electric Ladyland (1968)

Notes
1. As well as his regular position on lead vocals and guitar, Jimi Hendrix also played bass on Electric
Ladyland; backing vocals on "Foxy Lady", "She's So Fine", "Long Hot Summer Night", "Mastermind",
"Changes" and "We Gotta Live Together"; piano on "Are You Experienced?", "Spanish Castle Magic" and
"Crosstown Traffic"; glockenspiel on "Little Wing"; flute on "If 6 Was 9"; harpsichord on "Bold as Love" and
"Burning of the Midnight Lamp"; mellotron on "Burning of the Midnight Lamp"; and percussion on "1983...
(A Merman I Should Turn to Be)".
2. As well as his regular position on bass and backing vocals, Noel Redding also played electric guitar and
acoustic guitar on "Little Miss Strange" and lead vocals on "She's So Fine" and "Little Miss Strange".

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Sources
Lawrence, Sharon (2005). Jimi Hendrix: The Intimate Story of a Betrayed Musical Legend (2006 ed.). New York,
N.Y.: Harper. ISBN006056301X.

External links
Jimi Hendrix official website [142]
The Jimi Hendrix Experience discography [7] at MusicBrainz
The Jimi Hendrix Experience [8] - slideshow by Life magazine

References
[1] "The Jimi Hendrix Experience" (http:/ / www. rockhall. com/ inductee/ the-jimi-hendrix-experience). Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 2008. .
Retrieved 2009-03-19.
[2] Unterberger, Richie; Westergaard, Sean. "Jimi Hendrix > Biography" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg&
sql=11:hnfexqr5ldte~T1). allmusic. . Retrieved 2009-03-19.
[3] Lawrence 2005, p.56
[4] Lawrence 2005, p.78
[5] Lawrence 2005, p.84
[6] Mitch Mitchell and John Platt, The Hendrix Experience,(London: Hamlyn, 1990), pp. 88-96, 48-149.
[7] http:/ / musicbrainz. org/ artist/ 33b3c323-77c2-417c-a5b4-af7e6a111cc9. html
[8] http:/ / www. life. com/ image/ first/ in-gallery/ 40682/ the-jimi-hendrix-experience

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Members
Noel Redding
Noel Redding

Noel Redding in 1967


Background information
Birth name

David Noel Redding

Born

25 December 1945
Folkestone, Kent, England

Died

11 May 2003 (aged57)


Clonakilty, County Cork, Ireland

Genres

Rock, psychedelic rock, hard rock, folk rock, blues-rock

Instruments

Bass guitar, guitar, vocals

Years active

1966-2003

Associated acts The Jimi Hendrix Experience


Fat Mattress
Road
The Noel Redding Band
Notableinstruments
Fender Jazz Bass

Noel Redding (25 December 1945 11 May 2003) was an English rock and roll guitarist best known as the bassist
for The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Noel Redding

Biography
Born as David Noel Redding in Folkestone,[1] he was selected by Chas Chandler to join Hendrix's band at its
inception in 1966, and left in 1969. Although he appeared in other bands before and after Hendrix's death, he never
achieved a similar level of success, and retired to Clonakilty, Ireland in 1972.
At age nine, Redding played violin at school and then mandolin and guitar. His first public appearances were at the
Hythe Youth Club then at Harvey Grammar School where he was a student.
His first local bands were:
The Strangers: with John "Andy" Andrews (bass)
The Lonely Ones: 1961 - John Andrews (bass) Bob Hiscocks (rhythm guitar); Mick Wibley (drums); Pete Kircher
(vocals and in '62. drums). The Lonely Ones made (45 EP vinyl, private record) at the Hayton Manor Studio in
Stanford, Kent, in 1963, with Derek Knight on vocals, Trevor Sutton on drums, Noel Redding on lead guitar and
John Andrews on bass. First recordings: Some Other Guy; Money; Talking About You; Anna.
The Loving Kind: 1966 with Pete (Kircher) Carter (drums); Jim Leverton (bass); and Derek Knight (vocals).
At 17 Redding went professional and toured in Scotland and Germany, in the clubs with Neil Landon and the
Burnettes formed in late 1962 and The Loving Kind formed in November 1965. Redding was the first person to join
the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and the first to leave. His final concert with them was in June 1969.[2] With the band,
he participated in recording the 3 landmark albums "Are You Experienced", "Axis: Bold as Love", and "Electric
Ladyland", as well as performing in some of Hendrix's most celebrated concerts. His playing style was distinguished
by the use of a pick, a mid-range "trebly" sound, and in later years the use of fuzz and distortion effects through
overdriven Sunn amps. His role in the band was that of a time-keeper. He would typically lay down a bass groove
which Hendrix and drummer Mitch Mitchell would loosely play on top of. He would however occasionally take a
solo during concert, and also played rhythm guitar on two album tracks ("Little Miss Strange" and "She's So Fine",
both composed by Redding).
In 1968, before leaving the Jimi Hendrix Experience Redding had formed the group Fat Mattress with another Kent
musician Neil Landon (born as Patrick Cahill, 27 July 1941, Kindford, Sussex) on vocals, Jim Leverton (born 1946,
Dover, Kent) and Eric Dillon, the drummer (born 1950, Swindon). Later, Martin Barre played for a short time before
he joined Jethro Tull. The band produced two albums before breaking up shortly after the release of the second in
1970.[3]
One more effort by Hendrix manager, Michael Jeffery was attempted to reunite the Jimi Hendrix Experience months
after the Woodstock event. This basically consisted of an interview with Hendrix, Redding and Mitchell by Rolling
Stone magazine. No shows or recordings resulted. He soon left the Jimi Hendrix Experience for the last time and
went on to other projects. While living in Los Angeles Redding joined Road,[4] a heavy metal three-piece, with Rod
Richards (born as Rod Cox; ex Rare Earth) on guitar, and Les Sampson on drums. They released one album, Road
(1972).
Noel Redding moved to Ireland in 1972. He formed The Noel Redding Band with Eric Bell from Thin Lizzy, Dave
Clarke, Les Sampson, and Robbie Walsh. They did two albums for RCA, three tours of the Netherlands, two tours of
England, one tour of Ireland and a 10-week tour in America. The band dissolved after a dispute with their
management company. Tracks recorded for a third, unreleased album were later released as The Missing Album on
Mouse Records. [5]
In his book Are You Experienced? (co-authored with Carol Appleby) he spoke openly about his disappointment in
his being cut off from the profits of the continued sale of the Hendrix recordings. He was forced to sign away his
royalties in 1974, and later had to sell the bass guitar he used during that time. Redding had received 100,000 as a
one-off payment after he had been told that there would be no more releases of Jimi Hendrix Experience material but
this had been before the advent of CDs and DVDs which sold millions of copies. Right up until his death, Redding
had been planning legal action against the Hendrix estate for payment estimated at 3.26 million for his part in

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Hendrix' recording and for ongoing royalties.[6]
Redding was married to a Danish school-teacher Susanne Redding, and has a son, Nicolas Noel Redding (who
reportedly inherited a settlement of 800,000 euro, which equals a minor part of the fortune).
Noel Redding recorded and toured sporadically through the years, occasionally doing session work on other artists'
albums including recording for Thin Lizzy and Traffic. He performed with the rock band Phish in 1993. He also
formed Shut Up Frank [7] with Dave Clarke, Mick Avory of The Kinks and Dave Rowberry of The Animals. They
toured extensively and recorded several albums, which are still available on Mouse Records Mouse Records website
[8]

Death
Redding was found dead in his home in Clonakilty on 11 May 2003.[9] A post mortem was carried out on 13 May at
Cork University Hospital in Wilton, Cork. The report concluded that Redding died from "Shock haemorrhage due to
oesophageal varices in reaction to cirrhosis of the liver."[10] He was 57 years old. In the village of Ardfield, local
people erected a plaque to his memory.
A compilation CD and record entitled The Experience Sessions was released by Experience Hendrix, LLC in 2004.
Along with the released tracks ("She's So Fine" and "Little Miss Strange") the collection contains rare and
unreleased Redding-penned songs recorded by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Most of the tracks are outtakes from
Axis: Bold As Love and Electric Ladyland, and feature Redding predominantly on guitar (with Hendrix on bass). It
also features a live version of Hendrix's "Red House" with Redding on rhythm guitar.

Discography
With The Loving Kind
"Accidental Love"/"Nothing Can Change This Love" (Piccadilly 7N 35299) 1966.
"I Love The Things You Do"/"Treat Me Nice" (Piccadilly 7N 35318) 1966.
"Ain't That Peculiar"/"With Rhyme And Reason" (Piccadilly 7N 35342) 1966.

With The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Are You Experienced (1967) Polydor.


Axis: Bold as Love (1967) Track.
Electric Ladyland (1968) Track.
Smash Hits (1968) Track.
Radio One (1989) Castle Communications.
BBC Sessions (1998) MCA.
The Experience Sessions (2004) Image Entertainment.

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With Fat Mattress

Fat Mattress (1969) Polydor.


Fat Mattress II (1970) Polydor.
"Naturally"/"Iridescent Butterfly" (Polydor 56352) 1969.
"Magic Lanterns"/"Bright New Way" (Polydor 56367) 1970.
"Highway"/"Black Sheep Of The Family" (Polydor 2058 053) 1970.

With Road
Road (1972) Natural Resources (a division of Motown); not to be confused with another band named The Road
that had 2 LPs on Kama Sutra

With Noel Redding Band (aka The Clonakilty Cowboys)

Clonakilty Cowboys (1975) RCA.


Blowin (1976) RCA.
"Roller Coaster Kids"/"Snowstorm" (RCA 2662).
"Take It Easy"/"Back On The Road Again" (RCA PB 9026).

With Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends


Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends (1970) Atlantic.

Sources

Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends


Noel Redding and Friends 2009 New Album - "Thank You, Goodnight and Gud'luck" [11]
Obituary from Billboard.com [12]
"Noel Redding" [13]. Find a Grave.

References
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www.independent.co.uk
[2] Noel Redding biodata (http:/ / www. telegraph. co. uk/ news/ main. jhtml?xml=/ news/ 2003/ 05/ 14/ db1403. xml)
[3] Unterberger, Richie. "Fat Mattress Biography at" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=11:g9fyxqy5ld0e~T1).
Allmusic.com. . Retrieved 2010-05-31.
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[5] http:/ / mouserecords. kastoffkinks. co. uk/ html/ noel_redding. html
[6] "Row over Hendrix royalties" (http:/ / news. bbc. co. uk/ 1/ hi/ entertainment/ film/ 2808091. stm). BBC News. 2003-02-28. . Retrieved
2010-05-31.
[7] http:/ / mouserecords. kastoffkinks. co. uk/ html/ shut_up_frank. html
[8] http:/ / mouserecords. kastoffkinks. co. uk
[9] "Hendrix bassist dies" (http:/ / news. bbc. co. uk/ 1/ hi/ entertainment/ music/ 3022817. stm). BBC News. 2003-05-13. . Retrieved
2010-05-31.
[10] UniVibes, Issue 46, December 2003
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[12] http:/ / www. billboard. com/ bbcom/ news/ article_display. jsp?vnu_content_id=1886017
[13] http:/ / www. findagrave. com/ cgi-bin/ fg. cgi?page=gr& GRid=7435531

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Mitch Mitchell

Background information
Birth name

John Mitchell

Born

9 July 1947
Ealing, Middlesex, England

Died

12 November 2008 (aged61)


Portland, Oregon, USA

Genres

Rock, psychedelic rock, hard rock, jazz fusion

Instruments

Drums, vocals

Years active

1966-2008

Associated
acts

The Coronets, Johnny Harris and the Shades, The Pretty Things, Georgie Fame, The Riot Squad, The Jimi Hendrix
Experience, Gypsy Sun and Rainbows, Gypsy Sun Experience, The Dirty Mac, Ramatam, The Who

John "Mitch" Mitchell (9 July 1947 12 November 2008) was an English drummer, best known for his work in
The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Biography
Early life and the Jimi Hendrix Experience
Before joining the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Mitchell gained considerable musical experience touring and playing as
a session musician. He also had an acting background, and had starred in a children's television programme,
Jennings and Derbyshire, when he was a teenager.[1] Pre-Experience bands included Frankie Reid and the Casuals
(1962), Johnny Harris and the Shades, The Pretty Things, Bill Knight & The Sceptres, The Riot Squad, Georgie
Fame and the Blue Flames, and The Who as a session drummer while the band was deciding on a replacement for
Doug Sandom.[2] (The band's eventual choice was Keith Moon). He had also worked in Jim Marshall's (creator of
the Marshall amplifier) music shop in London.[3] Mitchell auditioned for Hendrix's band in October of 1966, beating
out many other British drummers, including Aynsley Dunbar (who, according to Hendrix's manager Chas Chandler,
was their other final choice. Mitch won the job on the flip of a coin).
Mitchell was praised for his work with the Jimi Hendrix Experience on songs such as "Manic Depression", "Voodoo
Child (Slight Return)", "Fire" and "Third Stone from the Sun". Mitchell came from a jazz background and like many
of his drummer contemporaries was strongly influenced by the work of Elvin Jones, Max Roach, and Joe Morello.[4]
Mitchell played in Hendrix's Experience trio from October 1966 to mid-1969, in his Woodstock band of August
1969, and also with the later incarnation of the Experience in 1970 with Billy Cox on bass, known posthumously as
the "Cry of Love" band. Hendrix would often record tracks in the studio with only Mitchell, and in concert the two

Mitch Mitchell
fed off of each other to exciting effect.[3]
In December 1968, Mitchell played in the band The Dirty Mac assembled for The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll
Circus in 1968. Other members included John Lennon as vocalist and rhythm guitarist "Winston Leg-Thigh"; Yoko
Ono providing improvised primal screams; Eric Clapton as guitarist, and Keith Richards as bassist. The group
recorded a cover of "Yer Blues" as well as a jam called "Whole Lotta Yoko".[3]
Another noteworthy musical collaboration in the late 1960s was with the Jack Bruce and Friends band featuring
Mitchell along with ex-Cream bassist and vocalist Jack Bruce, keyboardist Mike Mandel and jazz-fusion guitarist
and future The Eleventh House frontman Larry Coryell. Mitchell played in this band during late 1969 and early
1970, when Hendrix was working with the Band of Gypsys.
Mitchell also took part in some of Miles Davis' demo sessions for Miles' 1969 album Bitches Brew, but does not
appear on the final album.

Post-Hendrix
After Hendrix's death, Mitchell (with engineer Eddie Kramer) finished production work on multiple incomplete
Hendrix recordings, resulting in the posthumous releases The Cry of Love and Rainbow Bridge. In 1972, he teamed
up with guitarists Mike Pinera (from Iron Butterfly) and April Lawton to form the innovative act Ramatam. They
recorded one album and were Emerson, Lake & Palmer's opening act at a number of concerts. Interestingly, Mitchell
and Hendrix had been offered spots in the band Keith Emerson and Greg Lake were forming. But it never came to
pass, Carl Palmer got the drum position and the band was Keyboard led with Lake doubling in on guitar now and
again.
Ramatam never achieved commercial success and Mitchell left the act before their second LP was released. Mitchell
also performed in some concerts with Terry Reid, Jack Bruce and Jeff Beck (substituting for drummer Cozy Powell,
then sick).
According to John McDermott's book Hendrix: Setting the Record Straight, Michael Jeffery, Hendrix's manager,
relegated Mitchell and Noel Redding to paid employees without an ownership share in future revenues. This limited
their earnings to a low rate and led to Mitchell and Redding being largely excluded from sharing in future revenues
generated from their work with the Experience. This arrangement pressured Mitchell in the mid-1970s to sell a
prized Hendrix guitar. In addition, he sold his small legal claim to future Hendrix record sales for a sum reported to
be about $200,000. In 1974, he auditioned for Paul McCartney's band Wings, but was turned down in favour of
drummer Geoff Britton.
For the rest of the 1970s through to the 1990s, Mitchell continued to perform and occasionally record, usually under
the radar of most of his fans. He kept reasonably busy with session work (such as Junior Brown's Long Walk Back
album) as well as participating in various Hendrix-related recordings, videos, and interviews.
In 1999, Mitchell appeared on the Bruce Cameron's album Midnight Daydream that included Billy Cox and Buddy
Miles along with Jack Bruce. Mitchell, seemingly in an attempt to satisfy the most enthusiastic fans of his drum
work with Hendrix, even played a series of live shows with the Hendrix emulator Randy Hansen. Most recently, he
was part of the Gypsy Sun Experience, along with Cox and guitarist Gary Serkin. He became semi-retired, living in
Europe.
In 2005, he was named the 23rd greatest drummer of all time by Rolling Stone.

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Death
His last days were spent celebrating Hendrix's music on the 2008 Experience Hendrix Tour. For nearly four weeks
the tour travelled coast to coast in an 18-city tour in the US, finishing in Portland, Oregon.[5] The tour also featured
Buddy Guy, Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Eric Johnson, Cesar Rosas, David Hidalgo, Aerosmith's Brad
Whitford, Hubert Sumlin, Chris Layton as well as Eric Gales and Mato Nanji. Five days after the tour ended
Mitchell was found dead at about 3am on November 12, in his room at the Benson Hotel in downtown Portland.[6]
Following medical tests, it was revealed by the Multnomah County Medical Examiner's Office that Mitchell had died
in his sleep[7] [8] of what was thought to be natural causes. He was the last surviving member of the original
Experience. Mitchell had planned to leave Portland that day to return to his home in England.

Style
Mitchell pioneered a style of drumming which would later become known as fusion. This is a "lead" style of playing
distinguished by interplay with lead instruments such as guitar or keyboards, and the blending of jazz and rock
drumming styles. Though the use of lead drums was not a new concept in the world of jazz, it was relatively unheard
of in the rock genre at the time. Upon joining Hendrix in late 1966, it soon became evident to Mitch that the trio
format of the band was similar to the recently formed Cream, and that it would allow him an opportunity to become
more free with his playing. Like a jazz drummer, Mitchell's playing not only provided a rhythmic support for the
music, but also a source of momentum and melody. He made heavy use of snare rudiments, fast single and double
stroke rolls, and jazz triplet patterns in his playing, and shifted between both traditional and matched grips. Notable
examples of his style include the rudiment-heavy fills on Hey Joe, which help to carry the song through a series of
increasingly intense climaxes. Manic Depression is a 3/4 rock waltz that finds Mitchell playing a driving
Afro-Cuban inspired beat, which then shifts to an explosion of triplets all around the drumkit during the outro.
Third Stone from the Sun incorporates a swing ride pattern to underpin Hendrix's jazzy surf guitar, and the spacey
breakdown section features polyrhythmic drum fills that float over the 4/4 meter. 1983... (A Merman I Should Turn
to Be) features military-style snare drum work and delicate cymbal playing that evokes the sound of wind chimes.
The long blues jam Voodoo Chile features Mitchell playing a deep blues groove with subtle hi-hat accenting and
powerful drum fills that help to propel the song to new heights. Alongside Hendrix's revolutionary guitar work and
songwriting, Mitchell's playing helped redefine rock music drumming.[9]

Discography

1967: The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?


1968: The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold As Love
1968: The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
1969: Martha Velez - Fiends and Angels
1971: Jimi Hendrix - The Cry Of Love
1971: Jimi Hendrix - Rainbow Bridge
1972: Jimi Hendrix - War Heroes
1972: Ramatam - Ramatam
1980: Roger Chapman - Mail Order Magic
1986: Greg Parker - 'Black Dog'
1998: Junior Brown- Long Walk Back
1999: Bruce Cameron- Midnight Daydream
2010: Jimi Hendrix - Valleys of Neptune

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External links

Mitch Mitchell/John Mitchell [10] at the Internet Movie Database


Obituary [11] in The Times
Obituary [12] in The Daily Telegraph
Remembered at NPR [13]
"Mitch Mitchell" [14]. Find a Grave.

References
[1] Cross, Charles R (2005). Room Full of Mirrors p.162 Hodder and Stoughton Ltd. ISBN 0-340-82683-5
[2] (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=w_bXxPnQtooC& pg=PA77& lpg=PA77& dq="julian+ covey"+ "the+ who"& source=bl&
ots=7Fw8DvFNpL& sig=_Gutspvq7m0ABYzMHqUbzVcxsmo& hl=en& ei=PJvwS_rdMYO88gbk6uX9Cg& sa=X& oi=book_result&
ct=result& resnum=5& ved=0CCIQ6AEwBA#v=onepage& q=golding& f=false) The Who Concert File
[3] Allmusic biography (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=11:gifyxqtgld0e~T1)
[4] Mitch Mitchell (http:/ / drummerworld. com/ drummers/ Mitch_Mitchell. html)
[5] Jimi Hendrix drummer Mitch Mitchell dies aged 62 (http:/ / www. telegraph. co. uk/ news/ worldnews/ northamerica/ usa/ 3450169/
Jimi-Hendrix-drummer-Mitch-Mitchell-dies-aged-62. html)
[6] Jimi Hendrix drummer found dead in Portland hotel (http:/ / www. kgw. com/ news-local/ stories/
kgw_111208_news_mitchell_drummer_hendrix_dies. 1a6f9664d. html) By DAVID KROUGH, kgw.com Staff
[7] Mitch Mitchell death was 'natural' (http:/ / www. google. com/ hostednews/ ukpress/ article/
ALeqM5jG-aVHAe5YG5zZR6nceo5QOBXqCA)
[8] Oregonlive.com (http:/ / www. oregonlive. com/ news/ index. ssf/ 2008/ 11/ jimi_hendrixs_drummer_mitch_mi. html)
[9] The Hendrix Experience (http:/ / mitchmitchell. de/ mitch/ mitchdrum98. htm)
[10] http:/ / www. imdb. com/ name/ nm0593614/
[11] http:/ / www. legacy. com/ timesonline-uk/ Obituaries. asp?page=LifeStory& personId=120122280
[12] http:/ / www. telegraph. co. uk/ news/ obituaries/ 3452610/ Mitch-Mitchell. html
[13] http:/ / www. npr. org/ templates/ story/ story. php?storyId=96978286
[14] http:/ / www. findagrave. com/ cgi-bin/ fg. cgi?page=gr& GRid=31352131

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Billy Cox

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Billy Cox
Billy Cox

Background information
Born

October 18, 1941 (age 68)


Wheeling, West Virginia, USA

Instruments

Bass guitar

Associated acts Gypsy Sun and Rainbows, Jimi Hendrix, Band of Gypsys, The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Notableinstruments
Fender Telecaster Bass

William 'Billy' Cox (born October 18, 1941, in Wheeling, West Virginia) is a bassist, best known for performing
with Jimi Hendrix.
Billy first met Hendrix in the early part of the 1960s, when they were both in the United States Army, stationed at
Fort Campbell. Cox teamed with Hendrix in an R&B band called the King Kasuals. The two performed at clubs in
Nashville, Tennessee. While in England, Hendrix invited Cox to join him in a new band; Cox declined, preferring to
work in various backing bands. The spot instead went to Noel Redding.
They re-united musically in 1969, when Hendrix called on Cox to play bass in the Band of Gypsys.
In addition to the Band of Gypsys release, Cox's bass playing can be heard on such posthumously released Hendrix
albums as South Saturn Delta, Live at Woodstock, Live at the Fillmore East, Nine to the Universe, and a
reconstructed version of First Rays of the New Rising Sun, in addition to such home-videos as Live at the Isle of
Wight 1970, Live at Woodstock, The Dick Cavett Show, Rainbow Bridge, and Jimi Hendrix.
Billy Cox played at Woodstock with Hendrix's Gypsy Sun and Rainbows; On September 8, 2006, Billy mentioned in
an interview on the KQRS-FM morning show that he can be heard playing bass on the first five notes of Jimi
Hendrix's famous Woodstock "Star Spangled Banner". The rendition was completely impromptu according to him.
He said he thought to himself at the moment, "I realized we had not rehearsed this, I had better lay off." He toured
with Hendrix (with Mitch Mitchell on drums) for most of 1970 on the Cry of Love tour. Cox lives in Nashville,
Tennessee, where he remains active in music, and acts as an ambassador for Jimi Hendrix, his music and philosophy.
In 1971 Cox released his album Nitro Function with Char Vinnedge (from Luv'd Ones) and Robert Tarrant.
Cox played with others, including the Charlie Daniels Band, as well as session work and live dates. In 1999 Billy
Cox appeared on the late Bruce Cameron's album, Midnight Daydream, that included other Hendrix alumni Mitch
Mitchell and Buddy Miles along with Jack Bruce and others. Cox continues to play to this day, including (in 1999)
performing some dates along with Mitch Mitchell and guitarist Gary Serkin with a Hendrix-tribute outfit called the
Gypsy Sun Experience.[1] Also he has played at the 2010 Jimi Hendrix tribute concert tour.

Billy Cox
Cox worked on First Rays of the New Rising Sun, Hendrix's fourth studio album, which was cut off by Hendrix's
death. Cox has also been known to guest speak at University level music seminars. In this capacity he has been
helpful to the aspiring musicians by spending time with them in discussion and demonstration sessions. This spirit of
sharing and helping other musicians is similar to his former bandleader Hendrix's vision of providing musicians with
a no-pressure (including cost breaks if needed) recording environment in the now legendary Electric Lady studios
located in Greenwich Village, NYC. As of November 12, 2008, he is the only surviving member of both The Jimi
Hendrix Experience and the Band Of Gypsys.
On Monday, October 12, 2009, Billy Cox was inducted into Musician's Hall of Fame in ceremonies held at The
Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

Discography
Nitro Function, 1971
Them Changes, Buddy Miles
Band of Gypsys, Jimi Hendrix

External links
Billy Cox [2]
Biography [3]
Billy Cox in 1979 [4]

References
[1] "All Music.com biography of Billy Cox" (http:/ / www. allmusicguide. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=11:hikzikn6bbf9~T1).
Allmusicguide.com. . Retrieved 2006-04-26.
[2] http:/ / www. wtv-zone. com/ ruexperienced/ visitors/ billycox. html
[3] http:/ / www. artistdirect. com/ nad/ music/ artist/ bio/ 0,418151,00. html#bio
[4] http:/ / www. tennesseeconcerts. com/ billycox. html

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Larry Lee

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Larry Lee
Larry Lee
Birth name

Lawrence H. Lee, Jr.

Born

March 7, 1943

Origin

Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Died

October 30, 2007 (aged64)

Genres

Hard rock, psychedelic rock, blues-rock, rhythm and blues,


soul

Occupations

Singer-songwriter, guitarist

Instruments

Vocals, electric guitar

Years active

19632007

Associated acts Al Green, Gypsy Sun and Rainbows, The Impressions

Lawrence H. "Larry" Lee, Jr. (March 7, 1943 October 30, 2007) was an American singer, songwriter and
guitarist from Memphis, Tennessee, best known for his work with Al Green and Jimi Hendrix.

Gypsy Sun and Rainbows


Lee was an old friend of Jimi Hendrix and Billy Cox, they had all played together in various R&B acts, and in 1969
he joined Hendrix's new band Gypsy Sun and Rainbows as rhythm guitarist, occasionally playing alternating lead.
The newly formed band was hired to play the Woodstock Music Festival for which Hendrix had been previously
booked to play as the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Lee had only been back from the Vietnam war for two weeks, was
unemployed when Hendrix called him and had only joined Gypsy Sun and Rainbows a week before the Woodstock
concert.
At the concert Hendrix and Lee both wore white outfits and exotic headgear was much in evidence, Lee wore a
distinctive green bandana that had long tassles hanging over his eyes, which at the time he thought was a statement
of originality as he explains in the Woodstock DVD, whereas Billy Cox wore a multi coloured turban and Hendrix a
bright pink bandana and large shining ear studs. Lee played a Gibson Les Paul guitar and sang his own composition
'Master Mind' as well as two Impressions numbers sung as a medley - 'Gypsy Woman' and 'Aware of Love', with
Hendrix playing Curtis Mayfield style back up, he also took several solos and played some alternating lead
("weaving") with Hendrix (mostly edited from the official releases as is most of the percussion, which prevents the
casual listener from appreciating the true sound of this group.[1]
After Woodstock these "hired guns" briefly continued to help Hendrix develop his new style, which included the first
of his classic, new "message" songs, in which Hendrix attempted to communicate his complex philosophy towards
the current Vietnam war and human relationships in general: Machine Gun, Message to Love and Izabella. This
group then played at the Harlem, 'United Block' benefit and later performed at the small 'Salvation' club in
Greenwich Village to a mixed reception. Lee, Velez and Sultan then went off to pursue their briefly interrupted
careers, Sultan later played occasional sessions for Hendrix.

Larry Lee

Al Green years
During the seventies, Lee acted as the band director and lead guitarist for Al Green's touring band. He appeared on
the Johnny Carson Show and television specials around the world with Green. Lee also was a songwriter and wrote
for Stax Records early recording artists, the Astors. "Judy", a song he wrote during his days playing with Hendrix in
Nashville was covered by Al Green and the Spidells. Lee briefly traveled with blues great Albert King. He said King
fired him because his playing overshadowed King's.
In the eighties through the nineties, he teamed with his friend, Timothy Lee Matthews, and they collaborated on
Matthews' CD Songs for the Greats. Matthews, co-writer of the classic blues song, "Breaking Up Somebody's
Home," called Lee the consummate "sideman", Lee's distinctive complementary rhythm and lead style can be heard
on nine of the eleven songs on Matthews' CD.
Larry lived in Memphis, TN and played in the regional rock/blues/R&B outfit "Elmo & the Shades".Larry was a
member of Elmo and the Shades for eight years and was an integral part of their success during this period.The band
enjoyed much popularity during this time playing nightclubs,casinos,parties,and occasional blues festivals
throughout Memphis and the Mid-South.Larry Lee is featured on three cuts on the new CD(2009) by Elmo and The
Shades ,"Blue Memphis".They are "Same Old Dog","I Get the Blues for Free", and the title cut "Blue Memphis".
Larry took his leave from the group as his battle with cancer left him too weak to perform in August 2006. Larry was
as soulful a blues singer and incredibly moving blues guitarist as Memphis, Beale St. and the world has ever seen.
He also joined in with Mike Strickland and the Usual Unusual Clowns at random intervals.

Death
Larry Lee died in Memphis, Tennessee on October 29, 2007 after a year battling stomach cancer, and was buried at
11 a.m. on November 6 in West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery. He left wife Carrie Lee, daughter April D. Lee and
three sons - Lawrence H. Lee III, Robert A. Lee, and Thomas Lee. He was also survived by his mother, Lula Lee,
and five grandchildren.

Selective discography
with Jimi Hendrix
Woodstock (1994)
Live at Woodstock (1999)
with Al Green
I'll Rise Again (1983)
with Elmo and the Shades
Blue Memphis (2009)

References
"Lawrence (Larry) H. Lee Jr.: March 7, 1943 - October 30, 2007" [2]. Experience Hendrix, L.L.C.. 2007-10-31.
Retrieved 2009-02-07.
[1] listen to complete (bootleg) recordings of the show
[2] http:/ / www. jimi-hendrix. com/ news/ news,larrylee. html

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Juma Sultan

Juma Sultan

Juma Sultan (born April 13, 1942, in Monrovia, California) is an American percussionist best known for his brief
stint playing with rock legend Jimi Hendrix.
Sultan performed in 1969 at Woodstock in Hendrix's band, Gypsy Sun and Rainbows[1] and on the Dick Cavett show
and at a special show in Harlem, New York several weeks later. He was interviewed extensively for the documentary
films, Jimi Hendrix and Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock. He also recorded with Archie Shepp, Noah Howard,
Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, Sonny Simmons,[Daoud Haroon]], Asha Nan, Emmeretta Marks, Don Moore Band,
and Sankofa. He currently plays in the African performance group, Sankofa,[2] the band, Sons of Thunder, and with
Thom Buchanan[3] .
In 2006, Clarkson University in conjunction with Juma Sultan, received a grant from the National Endowment of the
Arts [4] to preserve Mr. Sultan's audio and video documentation of avant garde jazz during the 1960's and 1970's.
The collection may be viewed at www.jumasarchive.org[5] .
Juma is a Christian Minister affiliated with In His Name Ministries [6] .
Juma appeared at the National Rock Con[7] from July 30, 2010 - August 1, 2010.
Juma Sultan also joined Vince Martell, Spanky & Our Gang, and Bleu Ocean at B.B. Kings on August 2, 2010 for
the encore of "California Dreaming".

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Juma Sultan

References
[1] Shadwick, Keith (1 October 2003). Jimi Hendrix, musician (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=xyegGlo5LeoC& pg=PA192). Hal
Leonard Corporation. p.192. ISBN9780879307646. . Retrieved 22 May 2010.
[2] www.bak2roots.com
[3] www.thombuchanan.com
[4] http:/ / www. nea. gov/ grants/ recent/ 06grants/ 06AAE2. php?CAT=Access& DIS=Music
[5] www.jumasarchive.org
[6] www.ihnministries.org/community.html
[7] www.nationalrockcon.com

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Gerardo Velez

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Gerardo Velez
Gerardo "Jerry" Velez
Born

August 15, 1947


Puerto Rico

Origin

The Bronx, New York, USA

Genres

Jazz fusion, funk rock, soul, blues-rock, electronic, hip hop

Occupations

Musician, event producer, music director

Instruments

Percussion, congas, drums, harmonica, vocals

Years active

1969present

Associated
acts

Spyro Gyra, David Bowie, Martha Velz, Gypsy Sun and Rainbows, Duran Duran, Elton John, Jessica Simpson,
Slash, Stevie Wonder

Website

www.gerardovelez.com

[1]

Notableinstruments
Latin Percussion

Gerardo "Jerry" Velez (born August 15, 1947) is a Puerto Rican musician. Best known for performing with
American psychedelic rock musician Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock Festival in August 1969, Velez is a veteran
percussionist and drummer who has performed with many artists covering a number of different genres of music. He
is also a common member of jazz fusion band Spyro Gyra.

Life and career


Born in Puerto Rico on August 15, 1947, Velez began his musical career in The Bronx, New York. He notably
joined Jimi Hendrix's band Gypsy Sun and Rainbows in July 1969, performed at the Woodstock Festival and at a
small number of studio sessions, before Hendrix disbanded the group in favour of returning to the three-piece format
of The Jimi Hendrix Experience. The band's performance at Woodstock was released on the live album Woodstock
in 1994, followed by live album and video Live at Woodstock in 1999. For all releases Hendrix releases on which he
appears, Velez was credited with the nickname Jerry.
Since performing with Jimi Hendrix, Velez has continued to record and tour with high-profile artists, including
David Bowie, Elton John and Duran Duran. According to his official website, Gerardo Velez has been nominated for
seven Grammy Awards and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Selected discography
with Martha Velz
Hypnotized (1972) conga

Morning Dance (1979) percussion, bongos, conga


Catching the Sun (1980) percussion
Carnaval (1980) percussion, bongos
Incognito (1982) percussion
City Kids (1983) percussion
Access All Areas (1983) percussion
Alternating Currents (1985) percussion
Down the Wire (2009) percussion

Gerardo Velez
Black Tie White Noise (1993) percussion

References
"Biography" [2]. GerardoVelez.com. Retrieved September 19, 2009.
"Gerardo Velez > Credits" [3]. allmusic. Retrieved September 19, 2009.
"Gerardo Velez Discography" [4]. Discogs. Retrieved September 19, 2009.

External links
Official website [1]
Gerardo Velez [5] at MySpace

References
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]

http:/ / www. gerardovelez. com/


http:/ / www. gerardovelez. com/ bio. html
http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=11:0zfuxqegld0e~T4
http:/ / www. discogs. com/ artist/ Gerardo+ Velez?noanv=1
http:/ / www. myspace. com/ http:/ / www. myspace. com/ velezsez

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Buddy Miles

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Buddy Miles
Buddy Miles
Birth name

George Allen Miles, Jr.

Born

September 5, 1947
Omaha, Nebraska,
United States

Origin

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Died

February 27, 2008 (aged60)


Austin, Texas,
United States

Genres

Rock, R&B

Occupations

Drummer, guitarist, singer, songwriter, arranger

Instruments

drums, electric guitar, singing

Years active

19672008

Labels

Mercury, CBS, Columbia, Epic, Casablanca, Atlantic, Rykodisc, Hip-O, Ruf

Associated
acts

Ruby & the Romantics, Ink Spots, Delfonics, Wilson Pickett, Electric Flag, Mike Bloomfield, Jimi Hendrix, Band of
Gypsys, John McLaughlin, Carlos Santana, Bootsy Collins, The California Raisins

Website

www.buddymiles.com

[1]

George Allen Miles, Jr. (September 5, 1947 February 26, 2008), known as Buddy Miles, was an American rock
and funk drummer, most known as a member of Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys from 1969 through to January 1970.

Biography
Early life
George "Buddy" Miles was born in Omaha, Nebraska on September 5, 1947. He was known as a child prodigy,
originally playing drums in his father, George Miles, Sr.'s, jazz band, The Bebops, beginning at age 12. Miles Sr. had
played upright bass with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Charlie Parker and Dexter Gordon.
In his teens Miles Jr. was often seen hanging out as well as recording at the Universal Promotions Corporation
(U.P.C.) recording studios, which later became Rainbow Recording Studios[2]
Miles was given the nickname "Buddy" by his aunt after the drummer Buddy Rich.

Early career
Miles played in a variety of rhythm and blues and soul acts as a teenager, including Ruby & the Romantics, the Ink
Spots, the Delfonics and Wilson Pickett. By 1967 he moved to Chicago where he formed the Electric Flag with
guitarist Mike Bloomfield. Nick Gravenitis was the vocalist on this (and also some other Bloomfield LP's). The
blues-soul-rock band made their live debut at the Monterey Pop Festival in mid 1967 and released their debut
Columbia album, A Long Time Comin', early the next year (1968). Miles sometimes sang lead vocals for the group in
addition to playing drums. The group broke up after their second album An American Music Band (late 1968) and
Miles formed The Buddy Miles Express, with Jim McCarty, later the guitarist for Cactus. A Greatest Hits album by
The Electric Flag was issued in 1971 by Columbia. In 1974 The Electric Flag reformed briefly and released the
Atlantic album The Band Kept Playing.

Buddy Miles

Jimi Hendrix
After Electric Flag, Miles would begin involvement with the rock legend Jimi Hendrix. Miles had met Jimi Hendrix
in an earlier time when both were acting as sidemen for other artists in the early '60s. The meeting had occurred in
Canada in 1964, at a show both were participating in.
Miles said of his first meeting with Hendrix: "He was playing in the Isley Brothers band and I was in Ruby and the
Romantics ... [Jimi] had his hair in a pony-tail with long sideburns. Even though he was shy I could tell this guy was
different. He looked rather strange, because everyone else was wearing uniforms and he was eating his guitar, doing
flip-flops and wearing chains."[3]
This prefaced a later friendship that would result in varied collaborations between the two artists. In 1967, Hendrix
and Miles jammed at the Malibu home of Stephen Stills, and went on to play together again at various times, in both
Los Angeles and New York in 1968. Hendrix occasionally joined Electric Flag on stage. Soon after, Jimi Hendrix
started opening his recording style to include guest artists. And in this mode Hendrix was working in, Buddy Miles
quite naturally was invited to participate. Miles took part in the session recordings for Electric Ladyland, playing on
the songs "Rainy Day, Dream Away" and "Still Raining, Still Dreaming".
In 1969 an extremely busy Hendrix would somehow find time to produce the first two albums released by Buddy
Miles' own band, Buddy Miles Express - Expressway To Your Skull and Electric Church. There was obvious public
curiosity as to whether the name of the band "Buddy Miles Express" was influenced by Hendrix's act, "The Jimi
Hendrix Experience".
Soon after the release of the groundbreaking Electric Ladyland album, Noel Redding (original Experience bass
player) and Mitch Mitchell (the Experience drummer) had both parted company with Hendrix, not least because of
constant wrangling between Hendrix's manager (Michael Jeffery) and his producer (Alan Douglas), both vying for
control of his career. Everyone wanted a piece of Hendrix's success.
As Buddy Miles explained: "Jimi was not happy. He felt powerless. He couldn't do what he wanted to do."[4] .
Hendrix's solution to the problem was to found a short-lived band called Band of Gypsys, and Miles was brought in
to join him. One of the notable features for his audience at the time was the fact that all of the players were black.
This was a first for Hendrix as an international recording star although he had, of course, played with the Isley
Brothers in his early days and this choice reflected a move toward reconnecting with his soul roots. It also had the
effect of re-associating rock with its African American roots. Originally it was a solo lp , but in the last ten years or
so additional cuts from the concerts were released on a three piece cassette box. The band was based in New York
City where Hendrix was spending the majority of his time. Hendrix, who was tangled in legal litigation concerning
contracts he had signed prior to his becoming internationally recognized, was required to release a record to the
Capitol Records label as part of the agreement in court. This fact led to the live recording of his collaboration with
Buddy Miles and Billy Cox.
However during a follow up performance a month later, Hendrix had a minor, drug-related meltdown on stage which
has also been speculated to have been an act of sabotage on the part of a very frustrated manager Michael Jeffery,
who was not a fan of the Band of Gypsys all-black line-up and strong R&B roots. Miles had this to say about the
incident years later:
"Jeffery slipped [Jimi] two half-tabs of acid on stage as he went on ... [Jimi] just freaked out. I told Jeffery he was an
out-and-out complete idiot and a fucking asshole to boot. One of the biggest reasons why Jimi is dead is because of
that guy."[4] Miles and Jeffery already had a strained relationship, as Jeffery was always uncomfortable with Hendrix
and Miles' close friendship. After this performance at Madison Square Garden in January 1970, Jeffery fired Buddy
Miles and the Band of Gypsys was no more.
Miles continued to work with Hendrix during early and mid 1970 after the Jimi Hendrix Experience had failed to
re-form to record. Miles would share recording studio drumming duties on songs "Room Full of Mirrors", "Izabella",
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have been released in several posthumous Hendrix albums.Ironically, the album Band of Gypsys released in May
1970 made the Top 10 on both sides of the Atlantic, and stayed in the US charts for over a year. Hendrix died in
September 18, 1970, prompting the album to sell even better. There are now videos of Buddy and Randy Hansen
covering several of Jimi's songs on a major website.

Post-Hendrix
Buddy Miles went on to produce other records under his own name. A song he had written and recorded with the
Band of Gypsys, "Them Changes" was again recorded by Miles with his own band on a release soon after Hendrix's
passing on Mercury Records. Miles' former Band Of Gypsys sideman, Billy Cox, performed bass guitar on this track.
By this time Miles had dropped the "Buddy Miles Express" act name and shortened it to just his own name. That
band included bassist David Hull (who would go on to work with Joe Perry of Aerosmith) and guitarist Charlie
Karp. The same band would release a live album entitled Live which again included his by now signature song,
"Them Changes". In late 1968, they appeared in the Monkees television special 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee
which aired in April 1969.
In 1970, while recording the album We Got To Live Together Buddy Miles learned of the death of Hendrix, which he
mentions on the inner cover of the album. Released in 1971, We Got To Live Together is produced by Buddy Miles
and Robin McBride. It comprises 5 songs including the instrumental "Easy Greasy". High energy drumming with
funky overtones and big horns make this album quintessential Buddy. The other cuts on the album are: "Runaway
Child (Little Miss Nothin)", "Walking Down the Highway", "We Got To Live Together", "Take It Off Him and Put
It On Me". All the songs were written by Buddy Miles with C.Karp except for "Take it Off...".
Buddy also contributed to a number of Cheech and Chong songs. One was "Lost Due To Incompetence (Theme For
A Big Green Van) 1978" from the film Up In Smoke. Buddy did an album with Adrian Gurvitz (from the Gun group)
in 1973 called Chapter VII (this album has photos of Buddy and his family along with some shots of Carlos Santana,
Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone). Buddy had major success with Them Changes, a soul and pop hit in 70-71.
Miles would see the song released yet a fourth time on a collaborative live record he made with Carlos Santana. This
particular version was particularly notable for its intense energy, horn lines and blazing guitar work supplied by a
very young and energetic Santana. Miles would then go on to be signed by the '70s-'80s era record label, Casablanca
Records, best known for their rock act KISS. Miles' work for the label included the excellent album released under
his own name, Bicentennial Gathering Of The Tribes. It would include on its liner notes a quote from President John
F Kennedy concerning the American Indians. That quote would include the line "When we neglect the heroic past of
the American Indian, we thereby weaken our own heritage." This was interesting in relationship to his former
friendship and collaborations with Jimi Hendrix who, in fact, had much American Indian blood in his family line.
From 1994 - 1999 Buddy Miles formulated an excellent group in the N.Y.C./area featuring Charlie Torres on Bass
Guitar and Vocals . Rod Kohn on Guitar and vocals . Kenn Moutenot on drums / vocals /management . Mark "
Muggy Doo " Leach on Hammond B3 and Keyboards. They toured non stop in the United States and over seas with
almost one thousand concerts and festivals to their credit. Buddy also composed and recorded many songs with this
new version of " The Buddy Miles Express " that is yet to be released.It was Buddy's most enduring live band
throughout his illustrious career. This popular touring line up lasted for six fruitful years together with the same
members. Part of Miles' appeal as a rock musician was his physical appearance. He drew many stares and smiles as
he held court from the drumset in the Electric Flag days, with his American flag or sequined shirts, his high-brushed
Afro, and his massive frame and smile. Buddy was an eyeful for the hippies and concertgoers of the day. Once
guitarist for the band SNAIL (Cream Records), JOHN ROCKER was guitarist for THE BUDDY MILES EXPRESS
too for about 5 - 6 years as well touring throughout North America...

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The Unknown Work of Buddy Miles - The Club Fed Sessions


Perhaps the best work Buddy ever did was in collaboration with a team of musician/writers from Marin County,
California in late 1984, early 1985. Buddy was in a halfway house in Oakland and commuted every day to the Ice
House Studio in San Rafael, CA to work with Pat Craig of the Tazmanian Devils, David Jenkins of Pablo Cruise,
Dave Carlson of Tazmanian Devils and other Marin musicians and songwriters including Bill Craig, Tony Marty,
and Tony Saunders. The result was an album's worth of material written by Pat Craig, Buddy, David Jenkins, Robbie
Long, Bill Craig and Tony Marty. First recorded as a demo at the Ice House, the project was moved to The Record
Plant in Sausalito and Jim Gaines of Huey Lewis fame came in to take over production chores. The group produced
over 15 songs ranging from funky soul to beautiful ballads, and featuring some of the best singing that Miles ever
did. One cut, "When The Train Leaves the Station," featured solos by both Carlos Santana and Neil Schoen. The title
song of the proposed album, "Anna", was a beautiful soul stirrer that helped Buddy land his next gig with California
Raisins. While the album was being recorded, the Record Plant was taken over by the Federal Government when the
owner was busted for drug trafficking. The musicians and employees working there began calling the studio "Club
Fed" and that's how "The Club Fed Sessions" came to be. Unfortunately Buddy's reputation of inconsistency and
problems with the law closed many doors for him and the album was never released. The Masters remain in the can
in the hands of Buddy's former manager, but Pat Craig did manage to digitize some of the better mixes and has
offered them from time to time on Ebay as a collector's item under the title "Buddy and Me.". Songs on the demo
included "Anna," "Forever in a Moment," "Tonight," "Next to You," and "This Could Be An Everlasting Love." A
short-lived band featuring Pat Craig, David Jenkins, Rick Quintanal, Tony Saunders and other Marin musicians
played one gig in LA at a concert honoring Vietnam Veterans.

1980s-2000s
In 1986 Miles performed vocals for the California Raisins claymation ad campaign, most n otably singing "I Heard It
Through the Grapevine" and was also lead vocals on two California Raisins albums featuring 1960's R&B covers. In
1986 and 1987, after spending the late 1970s and early 1980s incarcerated for theft, he also rejoined Carlos Santana
as a vocalist on Santana's album Freedom.
In 1996, he sat in with rock band Phish at Madison Square Garden. also in 1996 Miles did several dates with the NJ
based blues band Rock'n Daddy, that also included former Tv Toy guitarist Bob "BIG BUD" solberg, drummer Paul
"fergy" Ferguson, and bassist Phil "catfish" Endean, Through the late 1990s, Miles' charitable side was seen in his
band's playing pro bono at several annual tribute concerts for local friend and fan Linda Gillespie, who had been
killed in a car accident in the Spring of 1994 in Winthrop Harbor, IL.
Buddy Miles was seen in the Hendrix-family-owned, official video release The Making of Electric Ladyland on
Rhino Records. That video featured interviews with the majority of players who were involved in recording the
legendary Hendrix album. Miles even went as far as to be video recorded playing his same drum tracks yet again in
the studio to the original multi-track recordings of Hendrix. In 1999 Miles appeared on the late Bruce Cameron's
album, Midnight Daydream that included other Hendrix alumni Billy Cox and Mitch Mitchell along with Jack Bruce
and others.
In 2004 Miles reunited yet again with Billy Cox of the Band of Gypsys to re-record songs from the original live
album of 1970 with guitarists Eric Gales, Kenny Olsen, Sheldon Reynolds, Andy Aledort, and Gary Serkin. The
album, titled The Band Of Gypsys Return, was released in 2006. Until his death, Buddy Miles continued to be active
musically and performed many shows with proceeds going to help support victims of natural disasters and other
noble causes.
Buddy Miles is credited on sessions with George Clinton/Parliament/Funkadelic.
In 2005 Buddy Miles began collaborating with Florida based Guitar Virtuoso Tony Smotherman in which the two
toured the Southeast with a Blues-Rock Band performing various pieces from Miles' Collaborations with Jimi
Hendrix. Miles and Smotherman last performed at the Austin Convention Center at the 2007 Summer NAMM Show

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with Vernon Reid of Living Colour.
Buddy Miles played his last live dates in 2007, on the West Coast of the United States with special assistance.Also in
Texas with Lance Lopez & Collin freekin Keeton. He was forced to cancel the remaining dates because of heart
problems.

Death
Buddy Miles died on February 26, 2008, at his home in Austin, Texas at the age of 60. According to his website he
died of congestive heart disease, although his publicist Duane Lee told the New York Times that Miles had been
suffering recently from congestive heart failure.
There was a history of congestive heart failure in his family. His sister and mother both died of the same illness. It is
known that his heart had certainly been struggling, working at only 15%, and his health had been consistently
deteriorating over the past few months. According to friends, "he had turned off his defibrillator and was ready for
heaven."[5] There was no funeral; Miles was cremated.
The day before Buddy died, he heard Steve Winwood and Eric Clapton playing 'Them Changes' at Madison Square
Garden through his cell phone. 'Them Changes' is now part of Clapton's set on tour as a tribute to Buddy. The
UK-based newspaper The Independent ran an almost full-page obituary for Buddy Miles in its Friday February 29,
2008 edition. The title for the piece was "Buddy Miles: Flamboyant Hendrix drummer", and can be found on page
47.
Asked how he would like to be remembered by the American music magazine Seconds in 1995, Miles simply said:
"The baddest of the bad. People say I'm the baddest drummer. If that's true, thank you world."[6] A memorial concert
took place on March 30, 2008 at Threadgills on Riverside Drive, South Austin.

Discography
Solo

Expressway to Your Skull - Mercury (1968)


Electric Church - Mercury (1969)
Them Changes - Mercury (1970)
We Got to Live Together - Mercury (1970)
A Message to the People - Mercury (1971)
Buddy Miles Live - Mercury (1971)
Booger Bear - Columbia (1973)
Chapter VII - Columbia (1973)
All the Faces of Buddy Miles - Epic (1974)
More Miles Per Gallon - Casablanca (1975)
Bicentennial Gathering of the Tribes - Casablanca (1976)
Sneak Attack - Atlantic (1981)
Hell and Back - Rykodisc (1994)
Tribute to Jimi Hendrix - CAS (1997)
Miles Away from Home - Hip-O (1997)
Blues Berries - Ruf (2002)
Changes - SPV (2005)

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Collaborative
Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys - Capitol (1970)
Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles! Live! - Columbia (1972)
Hardware - Third Eye Open (1994)

References
[1] http:/ / www. buddymiles. com/
[2] "Interview with Buddy Miles" (http:/ / www. thereader. com/ music. php?subaction=showfull& id=1185476324& archive=& start_from=&
ucat=7& ). . Retrieved 2007-09-17.
[3] From "Eyewitness Hendrix" by Johnny Black (1999)
[4] Independent Buddy Miles obituary article Feb 29, 2008
[5] Cheech And Chong dot com, February 28 2008
[6] Seconds Magazine, 1995

Pareles, Jon (February 29, 2008). " Buddy Miles, 60, Hendrix Drummer, Dies (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/
02/29/arts/music/29miles.html)". The New York Times. Retrieved on February 29, 2008.
Perrone, Pierre (February 29, 2008). " Buddy Miles: Flamboyant Hendrix drummer (http://www.independent.
co.uk/news/obituaries/buddy-miles-flamboyant-hendrix-drummer-789321.html)". The Independent newspaper.
Cheech and Chong Dot Com (February 27, 2008) " REST IN PEACE BUDDY MILES (http://www.
cheechandchong.com/news/2008/02/rest-in-peace-buddy-miles.html)". '

External links
Official website (http://www.buddymiles.com/)
Buddy Miles (http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:hifqxqe5ldte) at Allmusic
Michael Bloomfield Chronology (http://www.mikebloomfieldamericanmusic.com/) (with information on
Buddy Miles' time with the Electric Flag)

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Jimi Hendrixdiscography

Jimi Hendrix performs for Dutch television in 1967.


Releases
Studio albums

Live albums

Compilation albums

Singles

12

The original discography of Jimi Hendrix, an American hard rock guitarist and singer-songwriter, including The Jimi
Hendrix Experience, consists of three studio albums, two live albums, two compilation albums and twelve singles.
In September 1966, ex-Animals bassist Chas Chandler brought Hendrix from the United States to the United
Kingdom, where an eponymous band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, was formed around him. Noel Redding joined
as the band's bassist on 29 September and drummer Mitch Mitchell finalised the lineup on 6 October. The
Experience's first record was a cover of Billy Roberts' "Hey Joe", released in the UK on 16 December, where it
peaked at #6. The B-Side of that record was "Stone Free", written by Hendrix. "Purple Haze" and "The Wind Cries
Mary", original Hendrix compositions, were subsequently released on 17 March and 5 May 1967 and reached #3 and
#6 respectively, before the band's debut LP, Are You Experienced, was released on Track Records on 12 May. The
album reached #2 in the UK and a version with a different track listing reached #5 in the US in the wake of the
success of Hendrix's performance at the Monterey Pop Festival when released on Reprise Records in USA & Canada
on August 23. "Hey Joe" and "Purple Haze" were also released in the States, the latter of which peaked at #65.
The fourth single released by Hendrix was "Burning of the Midnight Lamp", which later appeared on The
Experience's third album. The record, not released in North America, became the band's least successful single so
far, reaching #18 in the UK. A Reprise single from Are You Experienced was released on 27 November; "Foxey
Lady" managed only to reach #67, despite the success of Are You Experienced. Hendrix et al. were bound by their
contract with Track to release at least two albums in 1967, thus Axis: Bold as Love was released on 1 December. The
follow-up to the band's successful debut was well-received, peaking at #5 in the UK and #3 in the US upon its later
release there on January 15, 1968. The only single released from Axis was a non-UK release; "Up from the Skies"
reached #82 in the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The Experience's first compilation, Smash Hits, was released in the UK
in April 1968, and reached #4 in the UK.

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On September 9 the band released the first single from their upcoming third album in the US; their now famous
cover of Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" became their highest-charting single in the States when it reached
#20. The song was released in the UK after the album's North America release and peaked at #5. Contrary to Are You
Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love and Smash Hits, Electric Ladyland was released first in Hendrix's native country on
September 30. Just over a week later, on 25 October, it was released in the UK with a different cover. The first
album produced by Hendrix himself, Electric Ladyland became the band's first #1 album when it reached the top
spot in the Billboard 200 chart. Despite this, the album was actually the least successful in England, where a version
sporting a controversial alternate cover reached #6. A mail order-only compilation of two sides of the album,
Electric Jimi Hendrix, was released by Track after Electric Ladyland, but was immediately withdrawn from sale.
After the UK and international release of "All Along the Watchtower", "Crosstown Traffic" was released in the US
on November 18, where it flopped at #52. The Experience began touring again in support of the new album, and a
very different compilation of Smash Hits was later issued in North America on July 30, 1969, where it peaked at #6.
Due to long-standing personal and musical differences, Redding left the band after they performed at the Denver Pop
Festival on June 29, 1969. Jimi's old army friend Billy Cox was brought in as Redding's replacement, and with the
addition of rhythm guitarist Larry Lee and percussionists Juma Sultan and Jerry Velez, Gypsy Sun and Rainbows
was formed. The unfamiliar large unit played at the famous Woodstock Festival on August 18, but after a few studio
sessions the band split. During this transitional phase, two more singles were released: firstly, "Stone Free" was
released in North America on September 15 (and reached #130), followed by "Fire" (under the title "Let Me Light
Your Fire") internationally on 14 November. Jimi and Cox enlisted the help of another old friend of Jimi's, drummer
and vocalist Buddy Miles. Dubbing themselves the Band of Gypsys, the all-black trio performed together at only two
venues. One of these venues was the Fillmore East, where the band's performances on December 31, 1969 and
January 1, 1970 were recorded and later released as Band of Gypsys on March 25 and 12 June in the North America
and internationally respectively. This live album reached #6 in the States and #5 in Britain, but by this time the
Gypsys had already split up. The Band also released one single; "Stepping Stone" was issued by Reprise in the US
on April 13, but did not chart.
Mitch Mitchell returned to Hendrix and Cox and the 'new Jimi Hendrix Experience' was formed, now known
unofficially, after the name of their 1970 tour, as The Cry of Love. This lineup remained until the guitarist's death, a
run which resulted in many hours of studio recordings and a tour which ran for over three months. The last record
issued before Hendrix's death was Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival on
August 26 in the US, which partly documented The Experience's performance at the Monterey Pop Festival on June
18, 1967. Jimi Hendrix died on September 18, 1970.

Albums
Studio albums

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53

Year

Album details

Peak positions

Certifications
(sales thresholds)

US NED NOR UK

United Kingdom release

United States release


[1] [2]

1967 Are You Experienced

Released: May 12, 1967


Label: Track (612 001)

Released: December 1, 1967


Label: Track (613 003)

Released: October 25, 1968


Label: Track (613 008/9)

[5]

US: 4 Platinum

12

US: Platinum

75

13

US: 2 Platinum

[5]

Released: January 15, 1968


Label: Reprise (RS 6281)

1968 Electric Ladyland

[4]

Released: August 23, 1967


Label: Reprise (RS 6261)

Axis: Bold as Love

[3]

[5]

Released: September 16, 1968


Label: Reprise (2RS 6307)
"" denotes a release that did not chart.

Live albums
Year

Album details

Peak positions

Certifications
(sales thresholds)

US NOR UK

United States release

United Kingdom release


[1] [3]

1970 Band of Gypsys

[6]
[5]

US: 2 Platinum

Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival1 16

US: Gold

Released: March 25, 1970


Label: Capitol (STAO-472)

Released: June 12, 1970


Label: Track (2406 001)

Released: August 26, 1970


Label: Reprise (MS 2029)

[5]

Not released

"" denotes a release that did not chart or was not issued in that region.

Compilation albums
Year

Album details

Peak positions

Certifications
(sales thresholds)

US NOR UK

United Kingdom release

United States release

1968 Smash Hits

Released: April 1968


Label: Track (613004)

Released: 1968
Label: Track (2856 002)

[4]

11

Released: July 30, 1969


Label: Reprise (MSK-2276)

Electric Jimi Hendrix2

[1] [3]

Not released

"" denotes a release that did not chart or was not issued in that region.

[5]

US: Platinum

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Singles
Year

Song

Peak positions

Album

US

AUT NOR UK

[1]

[7]

1966 "Hey Joe"

10

1967 "Purple Haze"

65

17

18

"Burning of the Midnight Lamp"3

18

Non-album single4

"Foxy Lady"5

67

Are You Experienced

1968 "Up from the Skies"5

82

Axis: Bold as Love

"All Along the Watchtower"

20

17

Electric Ladyland

"Crosstown Traffic"

52

37

1969 "Stone Free"5

130

"Fire"3

Non-album single6

69

Electric Ladyland

"The Wind Cries Mary"3

1970 "Stepping Stone"5


"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"

[3]

[4] [6]
Are You Experienced

Are You Experienced

"" denotes a release that did not chart or was not issued in that region.

Tribute albums

Various Artists: Power of Soul: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix (Image Entertainment, 2004)
Various Artists: Hazy Dreams: (Not Just) A Jimi Hendrix Tribute (Pick Up Records, 2003)
Various Artists: Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix (Warner Bros., 1993)
Dr. Lonnie Smith: Purple Haze: Tribute to Jimi Hendrix (Music Masters, 1995)
Dr. Lonnie Smith: Foxy Lady: Tribute to Jimi Hendrix (Music Masters, 1996)
Randy Hansen: Tribute to Jimi Hendrix; Classics Live (Ananaz Records, 1992)
Nguyen Le: Celebrating Jimi Hendrix (Act Music, 2002)
Paul Gilbert: Tribute to Jimi Hendrix (MGI Records, 1992)
Various Artists: Blue Haze Songs of Jimi Hendrix (Ruf Records, 2000)
Various Artists: In From The Storm (BMG Entertainment, 1995)
Various Artists: Searching for Jimi Hendrix (The Right Stuff, 1999)
Various Artists: If 6 Was 9; A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix (Imaginary Records, 1990)
Various Artists: Tribute to Jimi Hendrix; Return of the Gypsy (Blues Interactions, 1994)
Various Artists: Gypsy Blood; A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix (Comet Records, 2004)
Various Artists: Revenge; A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix (Gravity, 1995)

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Johnny B. Goode
The Hendrix version of Johnny B. Goode was recorded live by the Jimi Hendrix Experience during the first show at
Berkeley Community Theatre, California. It was first released on January 2, 1972 as a posthumous single only on
Polydor, and outside of the USA and Canada. The B side was "Little Wing," recorded in concert at the Royal Albert
Hall, London. This later caused a legal wrangle with Gold and Goldstein Productions who owned the soundtrack
rights to this concert. In the UK it reached #35 in the charts. It was later released world wide on the chart LP Hendrix
in the West.

See also
Medley performed during appearance at Woodstock
Jimi Hendrix posthumous discography

Notes
1. Historic Performances... was a joint LP with Otis Redding released in the United States only.
2. Electric Jimi Hendrix was released in the United Kingdom only and immediately withdrawn.
3. "The Wind Cries Mary", "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" and "Let Me Light Your Fire" were not released in the United States.
4. "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" was later featured on Electric Ladyland in 1968.
5. "Foxey Lady", "Up from the Skies", "Stone Free" and "Stepping Stone" were not released in the United Kingdom.
6. "Stepping Stone" was later featured on War Heroes in 1970.

References
General
Shapiro, Harry; Caesar Glebbeek (1995-08-15). "Appendix 1: Music, Sweet Music: The Discography". Jimi
Hendrix: Electric Gypsy. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. pp.521665. ISBN978-0312130626.
"The Jimi Hendrix Encyclopedia" [8]. Experience Hendrix, L.L.C.. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
Specific
[1] "American chart" (http:/ / www. billboard. com/ bbcom/ index. jsp). Billboard. . Retrieved 2008-07-13.
[2] "Discografie Jimi Hendrix" (http:/ / dutchcharts. nl/ showinterpret. asp?interpret=Jimi+ Hendrix) (in Dutch). dutchcharts.nl. . Retrieved
2008-11-18.
[3] "Discography Jimi Hendrix" (http:/ / norwegiancharts. com/ showinterpret. asp?interpret=Jimi+ Hendrix). norwegiancharts.com. . Retrieved
2008-11-18.
[4] "Chart Stats - Jimi Hendrix Experience" (http:/ / www. chartstats. com/ artistinfo. php?id=1926). Chart Stats. . Retrieved 2008-11-18.
[5] "Gold & Platinum" (http:/ / www. riaa. com/ goldandplatinumdata. php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS& artist=Jimi Hendrix&
format=ALBUM& go=Search& perPage=50). Recording Industry Association of America. 2008-07-11. . Retrieved 2008-07-11.
[6] "Chart Stats - Jimi Hendrix" (http:/ / www. chartstats. com/ artistinfo. php?id=1905). Chart Stats. . Retrieved 2008-11-18.
[7] "Discographie Jimi Hendrix" (http:/ / austriancharts. at/ showinterpret. asp?interpret=Jimi+ Hendrix) (in German). austriancharts.at. .
Retrieved 2008-11-18.
[8] http:/ / jimihendrix. com/ encyclopedia/ index. html

External links
Jimi Hendrix official site (http://www.jimihendrix.com/)

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The following is a discography of posthumous releases by American musician Jimi Hendrix. After his death on
September 18, 1970, work began immediately to compile new material for release. Hendrix left behind hundreds of
complete and incomplete takes of songs, and it was left to engineer Eddie Kramer and drummer Mitch Mitchell to
estimate his intentions for his next project. The first album released was The Cry of Love, named after the 1970 tour.
This album, along with Rainbow Bridge, comprised the majority of what Kramer and Mitchell believed to be
Hendrix's next studio album, though many more official releases followed, including controversially Alan
Douglas-produced Crash Landing and Midnight Lightning.
As well as the many licensed studio, live and compilation albums released after 1970, hundreds of unauthorised
bootlegs consisting of amateur recorded live concerts and also, unfinished demos and outtakes have been released,
the number of which is likely over one thousand. Despite this mass of material released, there are still items in
various places, many of which is now owned by the family company Experience Hendrix, L.L.C., as yet unseen and
unheard. Some of the tie-ups involve legal disputes or lost tapes, while others are simply being held by the company
for release at intervals which they deem worthy according to their long-term plans. In 1997 the album First Rays of
the New Rising Sun was released, containing all the songs that Kramer and Mitchell had wanted to include on The
Cry of Love but couldn't, due to contractual obligations.

Studio albums
Year

Album details

Chart positions
US

United States release

United Kingdom release

US

[1] [2] R&B

Certifications
(sales thresholds)

NOR UK

[3]

[4] [2]

[1]
1971 The Cry of Love

Released: March 1971


Format: LP
Label: Reprise (MS 2034)

Released: October 1971


Format: LP
Label: Reprise (MS 2040)

Released: December 1972


Format: LP
Label: Reprise (MS 2103)

US: Platinum

15

16

16

US: Gold

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[5]

Released: October 1, 1972


Format: LP
Label: Polydor (2302 020)

1974 Loose Ends


Not released

Released: November 1971


Format: LP
Labels: Reprise (K44159)

1972 War Heroes

Released: March 5, 1971


Format: LP
Label: Track (2408 101)

Rainbow Bridge

[5]

Released: February 1974


Label: Polydor (2310 301)
Format: LP

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1975 Crash Landing

Released: March 1975


Format: LP
Label: Reprise (MS 2204)

Format: LP
Released: November 1975
Label: Reprise (MS 2229)

Released: March 1980


Format: LP
Label: Reprise (HS 2299)

Released: November 1988

Formats: LP, CD, CS


Label: Ryko Analogue (#0078)

Released: March 9, 2010


Formats: CD, 2LP
Label: Legacy (88697640591)

43

46

127

119

30

21

US: Gold

[6]

UK: Gold

Released: February 1,
1989
Formats: LP, CD, CS
Label: Castle (CCS #212)

2010 Valleys of Neptune

35

Released: June 1980


Format: LP
Label: Polydor (2344 155)

1988 Radio One

Format: LP
Released: November 1975
Label: Polydor (2310 415)

1980 Nine to the Universe

Released: August 1975


Format: LP
Label: Polydor (2310 398)

Midnight Lightning

[5]

Released: March 8, 2010


Format: CD
Label: Sony

"" denotes a release that did not chart or was not issued in that region.

Live albums
Year

Album details

1971 Experience[A]

[7]
[2]

[8]

[9]

[10]

[11]

[3]

[12]

[13]

26

17

12

[4]
[2]

Released: January 1972 (UK); February 1972 (US)


Label: Polydor (2302 018); Reprise (MS 2049)
Format: LP

More Experience[A]

AUT ESP FRA NED NOR SWE SWI UK

Released: November 1971


Label: Polydor (2302 016)
Format: LP

1972 Hendrix in the West

US

Certifications
(sales
thresholds)

Released: August 1971


Label: Ember (5057)
Format: LP

Isle of Wight[A]

Peak chart positions

Released: March 1972


Label: Ember (NR 5061)
Format: LP

[5]

US: Gold

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1980 Woke Up This Morning and Found Myself Dead

16

192

37

37

72

40

67

40

25

65

90

200

191

Released: November 12, 2002


Label: US: MCA (#113 087); EU: MCA (#112 086)
Formats: 2CD, CD, 2CD/DVD

2003 Live at Berkeley

Released: July 6, 1999


Label: MCA (#11987)
Formats: 2CD, 2LP

2002 Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight

Released: February 23, 1999


Label: MCA (#11931)
Formats: 2CD, 2LP

Live at Woodstock

Released: August 20, 1994


Label: MCA (MCAD-11603)
Format: CD

1999 Live at the Fillmore East

Released: 1994
Label: Castle (MACCD 190)
Format: CD

Woodstock[B]

Released: May 1987


Label: Rykodisc (RCD #0038)
Formats: CD, 2LP

1994 Bleeding Heart

Released: October 1986


Label: Capitol (SJ 12416)
Format: LP

1987 Live at Winterland[B]

Released: June 1986 (US); 1986 (UK)


Label: Capitol (MLP 15022); Capitol/EMI (FA 3160)
Format: LP

Band of Gypsys 2[B]

Released: February 1986


Label: Reprise (#25358)
Formats: LP, CD

Johnny B. Goode

Released: August 1982


Label: US: Reprise (#2306); UK: CBS (88592)
Formats: 2LP, CD

1986 Jimi Plays Monterey[B]

Released: August 1980


Label: US: Red Lightnin' Records (#RL CD 0068);
Canada: Stony Plain Recording Co. (SPL 1038)
Formats: LP, CD

1982 The Jimi Hendrix Concerts

58

Released: September 16, 2003


Label: MCA (#B0001102)
Formats: CD, LP

[5]

US: Gold

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59

2007 Live at Monterey

171

Released: October 16, 2007


Label: Geffen (#B0009845)
Formats: CD, LP
"" denotes a release that did not chart.

Compilations and box sets


Year

Album details

1973 Sound Track Recordings from the Film Jimi


Hendrix

[10]

[15] [11]

[3]

[12]

[13]

[4]
[2]

37

77

Released: 1981
Label: Polydor
Formats: LP, CD

1983 The Singles Album[A]

[14] [8]

Released: July 1979 (US); January 1981


(UK)
Labels: Reprise (2RS 2293); Polydor (2311
014)
Format: LP

1981 Stone Free[A]

[7]
[2]

Released: July 1978


Labels: US: Reprise (2RS 2245); Polydor
(2612 034)
Format: 2LP

1979 The Essential Jimi Hendrix Volume Two

AUT FRA FIN NED NOR SWE SWI UK

Released: 1975
Label: Polydor (2679036)
Format: 2LP

1978 The Essential Jimi Hendrix

NZ

Released: 1975
Label: Barclay (80.555)
Format: LP

Re-Experienced[D]

US

Certifications
(sales thresholds)

Released: 14 June 1973 (UK); July 1973


(US)
Labels: Reprise (K 64017); Reprise (2RS
6481)
Format: 2LP

1975 Musique Originale du Film Jimi Plays


Berkeley[C]

Peak chart positions

Released: February 1983


Label: Polydor (PODV 6)
Format: 2LP

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1984 Kiss the Sky

174

72

28

99

20

Released: November 2, 1992 (UK); 1993


(US)
Labels: Polydor (517 235-2); MCA
(#10829)
Formats: CD, LP, CS

1994 Blues

Released: November 14, 1991 (US);


February 1992 (UK)
Labels: Reprise (9 26732-2); Polydor (511
763-2)
Format: 4CD

1992 The Ultimate Experience

Released: February 1991


Label: Polydor (847 235-2)
Format: 4CD

Stages

Released: February 1991


Label: Polydor (847 232-2)
Format: 4CD

Footlights[D]

Released: November 27, 1990


Label: Reprise (9 26435-2)
Format: 4CD

1991 Sessions[D]

Released: 22 October 1990


Label: Polydor (#847 231)
Formats: LP, CD

Lifelines: The Jimi Hendrix Story[B]

Released: 20 November 1989


Label: Castle (HB #100)
Formats: 5LP, 3CD

1990 Cornerstones: 1967-1970[A]

Released: November 1989


Label: Reprise (26035-2)
Format: 2CD

Live & Unreleased: The Radio Show[C]

148

Released: October 1984 (US); November


1984 (UK)
Labels: Reprise (#25119); Polydor (#823
704)
Formats: LP, CD

1989 The Essential Jimi Hendrix Volumes One and


Two[B]

60

Released: 18 April 1994 (UK); 26 April


1994 (US)
Labels: Polydor (521 037-2); MCA
(MCAD-11060)
Format: CD

45

44

14

14

US: 3
[5]
Platinum
CAN: 2
[16]
Platinum

[5]
US: Platinum
[16]
CAN: Gold

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1995 Voodoo Soup[B]

49

27

24

46

51

50

53

US: Gold

133

25

67

42

39

92

10

US: 2
[5]
Platinum
[17]
NOR: Gold

[5]

[5]

78

US: Platinum

112

10

US: Gold

Released: September 9, 2003


Label: MCA (B0000698-02)
Format: CD

Astro Man

Released: 2003
Label: MCA
Format: 10CD

Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Jimi


Hendrix

Released: May 8, 2001


Label: Universal (170 322-2)
Format: 2CD

2003 The Singles Collection

Released: September 12, 2000


Label: MCA (112 316-2)
Format: 4CD, 8LP box set

2001 Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix Collection

Released: November 3, 1998


Label: MCA (#11761)
Formats: CD, LP

2000 The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Released: June 2, 1998


Label: MCA (#11742)
Formats: 2CD, 2LP

Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi


Hendrix

Released: October 7, 1997


Label: MCA (#11684)
Formats: CD, LP

1998 BBC Sessions

Released: April 22, 1997


Label: MCA (#11599)
Formats: CD, LP

South Saturn Delta

66

Released: April 1, 1995


Label: MCA (MCAD-11236)
Format: CD

1997 First Rays of the New Rising Sun

61

Released:2003
Label:Alchemy Entertainment
Format:6CD(box set)
"" denotes albums that did not chart.

[5]

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Singles
Year

Single

Charts
US

Album

UK

[7] [2] [4] [2]


1970 "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"[A]

Electric Ladyland

Non-album single

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The Cry of Love

"Angel"[A]

"Gypsy Eyes/Remember"[A]

35

Electric Ladyland/Are You Experienced

"Dolly Dagger"[B]

74

Rainbow Bridge

1972 "Johnny B. Goode"[A]

35

Hendrix in the West

1973 "Hear My Train a Comin'"[A]

Sound Track Recordings from the Film Jimi Hendrix

1983 "Purple Haze"[B]

The Singles Album

1988 "Day Tripper"[B]

Radio One

1990 "Crosstown Traffic/Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"[A]

61

Cornerstones: 1967-1970

1997 "Dolly Dagger"[A]

First Rays of the New Rising Sun

1998 "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?"[B]

BBC Sessions

2010 "Valleys Of Neptune"

Valleys of Neptune

"No Such Animal"[B]


1971 "Freedom"[B]

"All Along the Watchtower"[B]

"Bleeding Heart"

"" denotes a release that did not chart.

Official bootlegs
Experience Hendrix official bootlegs
The Hendrix family company, Experience Hendrix, L.L.C., has released a number of amateur bootlegs of Hendrix
concerts recorded between 1968 and 1970. These bootlegs are free to stream from the company's official site.[18]

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Date(s) recorded

Venue

Location

February 18, 1968

Houston Music Hall

Houston, Texas

December 1, 1968

Chicago Coliseum

Chicago, Illinois

17 January 1969

Jahrhunderthalle

Frankfurt, Germany

May 5, 1969

Maple Leaf Gardens

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

May 18, 1969

Madison Square Garden

New York City, New York

May 25, 1969

Northern California Folk-Rock Festival Santa Clara, California

June 29, 1969

Denver Pop Festival

Denver, Colorado

December 18, 1969 Baggy's Studio


December 19, 1969

New York City, New York

April 25, 1970

The Los Angeles Forum

Inglewood, California

June 7, 1970

Assembly Center Arena

Tulsa, Oklahoma

June 13, 1970

Baltimore Civic Center

Baltimore, Maryland

August 1, 1970

Honolulu International Center

Honolulu, Hawaii

Dagger Records official bootlegs


As well as publishing their own free bootlegs, Experience Hendrix also set up a company called Dagger Records to
publish and sell officially recorded high-quality bootlegs and rare recordings.[19]
Title

Release date

Description

Live at the Oakland


Coliseum

February 27,
1998

Live performance at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California on April 27, 1969

Live at Clark University

July 6, 1999

Live performance at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts on March 15, 1968

Morning Symphony
Ideas

July 25, 2000

Studio demos and unfinished songs recorded between 1969 and 1970

Live in Ottawa

October 23,
2001

Live performance at the Capitol Theatre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on March 19, 1968

Baggy's Rehearsal
Sessions

June 25, 2002

Studio rehearsals at Baggy's Studio on December 18 and 19, 1969

Paris 1967/San
Francisco 1968

April 24, 2003

Live performances at the Olympia in Paris, France on October 9, 1967 and the Winterland in San
Francisco, California on February 4, 1968

Hear My Music

November 30,
2004

Studio jams and unfinished songs recorded between February and April 1969

Live at the Isle of


Fehmarn

December 13,
2005

Live performance at the Open Air Love & Peace Festival in Fehmarn, Germany on September 6, 1970

Burning Desire

December 12,
2006

Studio jams and unfinished songs recorded in November 1969 and January 1970

Live in Paris & Ottawa


1968

August 26, 2008 Live performances at the Olympia in Paris, France on January 29, 1968 and the Capitol Theatre in
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on March 19, 1968

Live at Woburn

July 28, 2009

Live performance at Woburn Music Festival in Woburn, Bedfordshire, UK on July 6, 1968

Jimi Hendrix posthumous discography

See also
Jimi Hendrix discography

Notes
Notes
A ^ Loose Ends, Experienced, Isle of Wight, More Experience, Stone Free, The Singles Album, Cornerstones:
1967-1970, "Voodoo Child", "Angel", "Gypsy Eyes/Remember", "Johnny B. Goode", "Hear My Train a Comin'"
and "Crosstown Traffic/Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" were not released in the United States.
B ^ Jimi Plays Monterey, Band of Gypsys 2, Live at Winterland, Woodstock, The Essential Jimi Hendrix Volumes
One and Two, Lifelines: The Jimi Hendrix Story, Voodoo Soup, "No Such Animal", "Freedom", "Dolly Dagger",
"Purple Haze", "All Along the Watchtower", "Day Tripper" and "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?"
were not released in the United Kingdom.
C ^ Musique Originale du Film Jimi Plays Berkeley and Live & Unreleased: The Radio Show were released in
France only.
D ^ Re-Experienced, Sessions and Footlights were released in Germany only.

References
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allmusic. . Retrieved February 5, 2010.
[2] Shapiro, Harry; Glebbeek, Caesar (1995-08-15). "Appendix 1: Music, Sweet Music: The Discography". Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy. New
York: St. Martin's Griffin. pp.524665. ISBN9780312130626.
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2008-11-17.
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[5] "Search Results" (http:/ / www. riaa. com/ goldandplatinumdata. php?resultpage=1& table=SEARCH_RESULTS& action=& title=&
artist=Jimi Hendrix& format=& debutLP=& category=& sex=& releaseDate=& requestNo=& type=& level=& label=& company=&
certificationDate=& awardDescription=& catalogNo=& aSex=& rec_id=& charField=& gold=& platinum=& multiPlat=& level2=&
certDate=& album=& id=& after=& before=& startMonth=1& endMonth=1& startYear=1958& endYear=2010& sort=Artist& perPage=50).
Gold & Platinum Searchable Database. Recording Industry Association of America. . Retrieved February 5, 2010.
[6] "Certified Awards Search" (http:/ / www. bpi. co. uk/ certifiedawards/ search. aspx). British Phonographic Industry. . Retrieved February 5,
2010. Note: User must manually define parameter as "Jimi Hendrix" and click 'Go'.
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chartFormatGroupName=Albums& model. vnuArtistId=69498& model. vnuAlbumId=1187165). Billboard. . Retrieved 2008-11-17.
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2008-11-17.
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[15] "Discography Jimi Hendrix" (http:/ / finnishcharts. com/ showinterpret. asp?interpret=Jimi+ Hendrix). finnishcharts.com. . Retrieved
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[16] "Certification Results" (http:/ / www. cria. ca/ cert_db_search. php). Canadian Recording Industry Association. . Retrieved 2008-11-18.
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[17] "Salgstrofer" (http:/ / www. ifpi. no/ sok/ index_trofe. htm). IFPI Norsk platebransje. . Retrieved 2008-11-18.
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Studio albums
Are You Experienced
Are You Experienced

Studio album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience


Released

May 12, 1967 (UK)


August 23, 1967 (US)

Recorded

26 October 1966 3 April 1967 in London, at De Lane Lea, CBS & Olympic Studios.

Genre

Hard rock, psychedelic rock

Length

40:12

Label

Track (mono), Barcay (mono), Polydor (Europe - fake stereo effect, overseas - mono), Reprise (different compilation,
stereo [new mix) & mono editions, MCA

Producer

Chas Chandler
Professional reviews
[1]

Allmusic
(U.K.) link
[2]
Allmusic
(U.S.) link
[3]
BBC (favourable) link
[4]
Blender
link
Q
(12/01/1993)
[5]
Rolling Stone
link

The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology


Are You
Experienced
(1967)

Axis: Bold as
Love
(1967)

US Cover

''Are You Experienced''

Are You Experienced is the debut album by English/American rock band The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Released in
1967, it was the first LP for Track Records. The album highlighted Jimi Hendrix's R&B-based, psychedelic,
distortion- and feedback-laden electric guitar playing, and launched him as a major new international star. In 2003,
Rolling Stone magazine ranked it #15 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The album was an
instant success and was the best-selling album in the United States in 1968.
In 2005 Are You Experienced was selected for permanent preservation in the National Recording Registry at the
Library of Congress in the United States.

Production
Hendrix had formed the Jimi Hendrix Experience in England in 1966, with Mitch Mitchell on drums and Noel
Redding on bass, and had signed with Track Records, newly formed by The Who's managers Kit Lambert and Chris
Stamp. The band had recorded three singles produced by Chas Chandler: "Hey Joe"/"Stone Free" (December 1966 released through Polydor Records because Track was not yet operational), "Purple Haze"/"51st Anniversary" (March
1967, the first release by the new Track Records label, on a special white label) and "The Wind Cries
Mary"/"Highway Chile" (May 1967). All three reached the Top 10 in the UK. During the making of these singles,
the Jimi Hendrix Experience also cut the tracks that became their debut album, which Chandler also produced with
the Olympic Studios engineer Eddie Kramer (some tracks were recorded with engineers Dave Siddle at De Lane Lea
and Mike Ross at CBS studios).

Release
Released in the United Kingdom in May 1967 without the three singles, as was the custom in the UK at that time, the
album reached number two in the UK, behind The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Album cover
In Europe this LP was released by three different companies: the new "independent" Track Records, which produced
the original cover with a picture by Bruce Fleming; the independent Barclay Records in France, which produced a
completely different cover featuring a photo of Hendrix performing on a recent French TV show, surrounded by
"psychedelic" painted, swirling graphics; and Polydor in Germany, Italy, and Spain. In Germany, Polydor used the
original Track Records cover but added "Jimi Hendrix" in similar lime green text above the white Are You
Experienced logos on the front; in Italy this added text was red, while in Spain it was yellow. These latter releases
featured "fake" stereo, processed from mono. The back cover had a track list added.
Barclay Records of France added final punctuation to the album title: Are You Experienced?. Some tracklists of the
album also add the question mark to the title track.[6] The South African Polydor release (due to the apartheid racial
barrier, and that the main customer base was seen to be "whites") had no pictures, only text on a plain red
background (mono only). Japan, Australia and New Zealand Polydor (mono only) copies used the original UK
layout.

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The Reprise American & Canadian compilation release


It was only after the band's show-stealing performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in June of that year that his
American and Canadian label Reprise Records prepared the album for release, but with some significant changes.
The UK cover was abandoned, and a more psychedelic design was devised by photographer Karl Ferris (whose
group portraits appeared on all three the band's US album covers). This is the cover image that most people are
familiar with: the fish-eye, infrared color film photograph.
Secondly, and more crucially, "Red House", "Can You See Me" and "Remember" were all removed in order to make
way for the three UK hit singles, with the running order being shuffled in the process. This time the running order
was selected by Hendrix himself, but "Red House" was excluded from the album against his wishes. He was told that
the US and Latin America did "not like the blues". This selection of tracks was also remixed into stereo. In August,
the US version of Are You Experienced saw issue in both the original mono mix and the new stereo mix and became
a strong and enduring seller. Indeed, Hendrix's own follow-up, Axis: Bold as Love, out that December in the UK, had
to be detained for six weeks due to his debut's stellar sales (and it still wouldn't reach its peak of #5 until October
1968).

The CD releases
The original Reprise (USA/Canada) CD was originally identical to their original stereo LP version, whereas the
European CD release used the original UK track list, but replaced with the Reprise stereo re-mix versions (except for
the original mono version of 'Red House', which has never been mixed into stereo and 'Remember', which used the
mono version, but processed to "sound stereo").
The 1993 Alan Douglas re-release (MCA 10893) had a chronological track list, starting with the first three UK
singles A and B sides replaced by the Reprise stereo mixes (except for "Stone Free", "51st Anniversary", and
"Highway Chile") and followed by the original track list of the UK LP. The version of "Red House" included on this
CD edition was the same as that originally included on the US LP "Smash Hits" in 1969, and different from the
version of "Red House" present on the original Track UK LP. That original Track UK LP version can be heard on
the CD "Jimi Hendrix: Blues." It might also be noted that at the end of the version of Red House on the original UK
Track LP, a bit of studio dialogue between Hendrix and Chas Chandler can be heard, and that on the "Blues" CD,
only a snippet of Hendrix speaking from the beginning of the dialog can be heard.
After Jimi's father, Al Hendrix, won back the rights to his son's musical catalogue, Are You Experienced was again
re-issued in 1997 (MCA 11602) and 2010, now under Sony Music Entertainment worldwide, preserving the UK and
US versions in their respective territories and including the extra tracks missing from the respective editions and
restoring the original mono version of "Red House" (minus the dialogue at the end). This new re-mastering was
marred by audible crackles through the stereo panning on "Can You See Me", and also, more seriously, on the CD
release, by heavy clipping throughout; the vinyl LP release doesn't suffer from the clipping.[7]
The current 2010 release only differs slightly, with minor tweaks in the sound with the help from Hendrix's original
sound engineer Eddie Kramer.

Reception
Are You Experienced has been cited as one of the greatest debut albums of the rock era. The TV channel VH1 named
it the fifth greatest album of all time in 2001. In 2003, the US version of the album was ranked number 15 on Rolling
Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, having been ranked as number 5 in their twentieth anniversary
listing The Best Albums of the Last Twenty Years published in 1987. Guitarist magazine named the album number
one on their list of "the most influential guitar albums of all time" in 1994[8] and Mojo magazine similarly listed it as
the greatest guitar album of all time in 2003.[9] Creem magazine named the album number six on the Top Ten Metal
Albums Of The 60s.[10] Vibe (12/99, p.156) included it in its list of 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century. NME

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(10/2/93, p.29) ranked it #29 in its list of the "Greatest Albums Of All Time".[11]

Track listing
All songs written and composed by Jimi Hendrix, except "Hey Joe" by Billy Roberts.
United Kingdom & international editions North American edition
Side one:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

"Foxy Lady" 3:22


"Manic Depression" 3:46
"Red House" 3:53
"Can You See Me" 2:35
"Love or Confusion" 3:17
"I Don't Live Today" 3:58

Side two:

2.
3.
4.
5.

"May This Be Love" 3:14


"Fire" 2:47
"Third Stone from the Sun" 6:50
"Remember" 2:53
"Are You Experienced?" 4:17

1997 MCA reissue

2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

"Hey Joe" 3:30


"Stone Free" 3:36
"Purple Haze" 2:51
"51st Anniversary" 3:15
"The Wind Cries Mary" 3:20
"Highway Chile" 3:32

1993 Alan Douglas edition

Side one:

1. "Hey Joe" 3:34


2. "Stone Free" 3:39
1. "Purple Haze" 2:46
3. "Purple Haze" 2:54
2. "Manic Depression" 3:46
4. "51st Anniversary" 3:18
3. "Hey Joe" 3:23
5. "The Wind Cries Mary" 3:24
4. "Love or Confusion" 3:15
6. "Highway Chile" 3:35
5. "May This Be Love" 3:14
7. "Foxey Lady" 3:22
6. "I Don't Live Today" 3:55
8. "Manic Depression" 3:46
Side two:
9. "Red House" 3:53
"The Wind Cries Mary"
10. "Can You See Me" 2:35
3:21
11. "Love or Confusion" 3:17
2. "Fire" 2:34
12. "I Don't Live Today" 3:58
3. "Third Stone from the Sun" 6:40 13. "May This Be Love" 3:14
4. "Foxey Lady" 3:15
14. "Fire" 2:47
5. "Are You Experienced?" 3:55
15. "Third Stone from the Sun" 6:50
16. "Remember" 2:53
1997 MCA reissue
17. "Are You Experienced?" 4:17
"Stone Free" 3:35
2. "51st Anniversary" 3:15
3. "Highway Chile" 3:32
4. "Can You See Me" 2:32
5. "Remember" 2:48
6. "Red House" 3:51

Personnel
All track numbers are according to the United Kingdom and international editions track listing.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Production personnel

Jimi Hendrix lead vocals, guitar, backing vocals on track 1, handclaps on


track 6, voice of "Star Fleet" on track 9, piano on track 11
Noel Redding bass, backing vocals on tracks 1, 8 and 14
Mitch Mitchell drums, tambourine on tracks 4, 7, 10 and 13, backing vocals
on track 6, cowbell on track 13

Chas Chandler production, voice of "Scout Ship" on track


9
Dave Siddle engineering on tracks 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12,
13, 14, 15 and 16
Eddie Kramer engineering on tracks 7, 11 and 17,
additional engineering on tracks 5, 8, 9 and 14
Mike Ross engineering on tracks 1, 3 and 9

''Are You Experienced''

Songbooks
Instrumental parts for 17 songs: ISBN 0-7935-2694-9
Drum parts for 17 songs: ISBN 0-634-00920-6

External links
http://www.discogs.com/release/993028 Are You Experienced, original release at discogs.com
Karl Ferris http://video.aol.com/video-detail/the-karl-ferris-experience/195934776
NPR special [12] on the selection of the album to the 2005 National Recording Registry

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Axis: Bold as Love|


Axis: Bold as Love

Studio album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience


Released

December 1, 1967 (UK)


January 15, 1968 (US)

Recorded May-June, October 1967


Olympic Studios
(London, England)
Genre

Psychedelic rock, blues rock, hard rock

Length

38:49

Label

Track (mono & stereo)


Barclay (stereo)
Polydor (Europe - different stereo mix only, Overseas - stereo
only)
Reprise (mono & stereo)
MCA (stereo CD & mono LP)

Producer Chas Chandler


Professional reviews
[1]

Allmusic
link
[2]
BBC (favorable) link
[3]
Q
link
[4]
Rolling Stone
link
[3]
VIBE (favorable) link
[5]
Warr.org
link

The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology


Are You
Experienced
(1967)

Axis: Bold as
Love
(1967)

Smash
Hits
(1968)

Axis: Bold as Love is the second studio album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Under pressure from their record
company to follow-up the successful debut of their May 1967 album Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love was
released on Track Records in the UK in December 1967. It reached #5 in the UK and later, #3 in the US.[6]
The album was recorded to fulfill the band's contract, which stated that they must produce two albums in 1967. Even
so, it was not released in the USA until 1968 due to fears that it might have disturbed the sales of the first album.[7]
Bassist Noel Redding has noted that this was his favourite of three Experience albums. He plays eight string bass on
some tracks.[7]

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Just before the album's completion, Hendrix left the master tapes of side 1 in a taxi. They were never found again,
and thus the A-side had to be mixed again quickly.[7]
The album was re-released on the week of March 30, 2010. Like the other 2010 re-releases, the sound varies slightly
with minor tweaks from Hendrix's sound engineer Eddie Kramer.

Legacy
In 2003, the album was ranked #82 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
The album is included in the book '1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die'.
Guitarist magazine named the album #7 on their list of "the most influential guitar albums of all time".[8]

Music
Many of the album's songs were composed with studio recording techniques in mind and as a result were rarely
performed live. Only 'Spanish Castle Magic' and 'Little Wing' were performed regularly.[7] The lyrics of "Spanish
Castle Magic" were inspired by 'The Spanish Castle', a dance hall in what is now Des Moines, Washington near
Seattle where Hendrix jammed with local rock groups during his high school years. On 'Little Wing' Hendrix plays
his guitar through a Leslie speaker (a revolving speaker which creates a wavering effect, that is typically used with
electric organs) for the first time.
The intro track, "EXP", begins with a few notes from 'Stone Free' (although played one-half step down) and then
features a conversation between Mitchell and Hendrix about UFOs, where Mitchell plays a radio host, and Hendrix
plays an outerspace alien in the guise of a human named Mr. Paul Caruso, whose voice is gradually slowed down
until he eventually takes off in his spaceship, much to the host's consternation ("But-but-but", he splutters). Paul
Caruso was actually a friend of Jimi's from his days in Greenwich Village. 'Up From the Skies' is a jazzy number
featuring Mitchell playing with brushes. The song is about a space alien who has visited the earth thousands of years
in the past, and returns to the present to "find the stars misplaced and the smell of a world, that has burned."
"Wait Until Tomorrow" is a pop-song with an R&B guitar riff with Mitchell and Redding singing backing vocals.
The fourth track, 'Ain't No Telling', is a rock song with a complex structure despite its short length. 'Little Wing', as
Jimi himself said, was his impression of the Monterey Pop Festival put into the form of a girl. 'If 6 Was 9', the last
song on side one, is the album's longest track and arguably the most psychedelic; Gary Leeds (from The Walker
Brothers) and Graham Nash use their feet during the outro to make some stomping. The song features prominently
on the soundtrack for the 1969 counterculture film, 'Easy Rider',as well as the Vietnam 'flashback' film "Apocalypse
Now" during the chaotic battle scene at the bridge.
"You Got Me Floatin", a rock song opening with a swirling backwards guitar solo (which is absent on the
mysterious, differently mixed Polydor version of this LP (only available in stereo), which outside of France & UK
was the only one available in Europe), opens the second side of the album. Roy Wood and Trevor Burton from The
Move, who toured with Hendrix on a package tour through Britain during winter 1967, supplied background vocals.
The following track, 'Castles Made of Sand', is a ballad also making use of a backwards guitar solo. 'She's so Fine',
Redding's contribution to the album as a composer, a very British Pop/Rock/Who influenced affair features Redding
on lead vocals with help from Mitchell. 'One Rainy Wish' begins as a ballad but develops a rock feel during the
chorus that is in a different time signature than the verses.
The song 'Little Miss Lover' was the first to feature a percussive muted wah-wah effect (with the fretboard hand
"killing" notes) - a technique that was later adopted by many guitarists. The final song of the album, Bold as Love,
opens very abruptly and segues into a mellow groove similar to Little Wing and Castles Made of Sand. With a
psychedelic chorus and an extended solo at the end it fades out the album.

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Album cover
Hendrix was a little disappointed with the album's cover art. Although he appreciated the symbolic design, he
mentioned in an interview that it would have been more appropriate if the cover art showcased his American
"Indian" heritage. The British Track records art department had independently chosen to use the current fad for all
things Indian to create the cover, and thus the album's cover has a photographed copy of a mass produced religious
poster of the Hindu devotional painting known as Viraat Purushan-Vishnuroopam with a small, superimposed
painting of the group by Roger Law. (from a photo portrait by Karl Ferris) blended in.[9]
In November a giant B&W blow up of the fantastic day-glo pink, orange & blue offset litho print over gold foil,
Haphash/Osiris poster featuring Hendrix dressed as a Native American, wearing a feathered War Bonnet, was used
as a background to his appearance on 'Hoepla', a controversial Dutch TV show. This poster, although produced later
in London, and supposedly commissioned by Hendrix has text along the top to make it appear as if it was an original
poster, advertising his (post Monterey) 1967 Fillmore concerts, this design was possibly what he had in mind. The
original prints of this poster are probably all in collections, and later copies which have surfaced fetch high prices at
auction.
The original Track UK issue came in a gatefold sleeve with a large B&W portrait photo of the group by Donald
Silverstein spread over the inside and an orange sheet insert with overprinted lyrics in red, the allegedly high cost of
this packaging was a topic of note in the music press. The USA issue had no insert and instead of the group photo
inside, had the lyrics. In Europe, the Polydor issue had no lyrics and stuck an inch wide white border round the
inside portrait, while the French dispensed with the original cover entirely and put it in a single sleeve with a photo
of the group taken from a recent French TV show on the front.

Track listing
All songs written and composed by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
Side one
No. Title

Length

1. "EXP"

1:55

2. "Up from the Skies"

2:55

3. "Spanish Castle Magic"

3:00

4. "Wait Until
Tomorrow"

3:00

5. "Ain't No Telling"

1:46

6. "Little Wing"

2:24

7. "If 6 Was 9"

5:32

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Side two
No. Title

Length

8. "You Got Me Floatin'"

2:45

9. "Castles Made of Sand"

2:46

10. "She's So Fine" (Noel


Redding)

2:37

11. "One Rainy Wish"

3:40

12. "Little Miss Lover"

2:20

13. "Bold as Love"

4:11

The last recording by Jimi Hendrix to have a dedicated mono mix, Axis was only released in the UK and the US. The
album was released in stereo world wide. The Polydor re-release mysteriously had a different stereo mix from that
originally released in UK, France, US and the rest of the world. This mix was more mono-compatible but omitted all
the stereo panning of the initial release. It first appeared on a Backtrack budget LP release but before long replaced
the original mix on all reissues and re-pressings, including the first UK CD. This may have been a simple confusion
over which tape in Polydor's library was sent to the mastering facility. Later CD reissues (without the Vishnu cover)
have reverted to the original mix.

Covers
"Little Wing" has become one of Hendrix's best-known songs. It was covered three years after its initial release by
Eric Clapton's short lived band, Derek and the Dominos. The song was also popularized as an instrumental rock song
by Stevie Ray Vaughan. Kirk Hammett of Metallica covered the song on live performances, Skid Row (not the
original group of that name) released a live version of it on their EP B-Side Ourselves, and Sting included a Gil
Evans arranged version of the song on his ...Nothing Like the Sun album. Irish band The Corrs also recorded a cover
of the song on their album Talk On Corners and on their Unplugged album. It was also covered by young American
singer/songwriter John Mayer. It also appeared on the album G3 Live: Rockin' in the Free World, namely by Steve
Vai, Joe Satriani and Yngwie Malmsteen. The song also made the leap into the world of jazz on several occasions,
most notably by celebrated composer, arranger and conductor Gil Evans, as well as by Lew Soloff (of Blood, Sweat
and Tears fame) on the album entitled "Little Wing".
Another notable musician who has covered a song from Axis: Bold as Love is Brian May who covered "One Rainy
Wish" on his Another World album. John Mayer covered "Wait Until Tomorrow" on Try! and "Bold as Love" on
Continuum. New York Rock & Roll Ensemble also covered "Wait Until Tomorrow." Joan Osborne also covered
"Bold as Love" on How Sweet It Is. The Pretenders also covered "Bold as Love" on the 1993 Hendrix tribute album
Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix.
Todd Rundgren also covered one of Jimi's songs, "If 6 Was 9", on his album Faithful, with Tori Amos covering the
same song on the limited edition version of her CD Single Cornflake Girl. Wolfmother is also known to have
covered it as well. (A7281CDX).
The Red Hot Chili Peppers recorded covers of "Little Miss Lover" and "Castles Made of Sand" for possible inclusion
on their album 'Blood Sugar Sex Magik'. They were later released as bonus tracks on the iTunes re-release of the
album. A live version of "Castles Made of Sand" was originally released on the Unbridled Funk N Roll 4 Your Soul
(Taste The Pain) EP in 1989, and later on the compilation 'Out in LA' and appeared remastered on the re-release of
their album Mother's Milk.
Pearl Jam has covered "Little Wing", which is featured on their 2007 release, "Live at the Gorge 05/06".
Phish has also covered some of Jimi's songs, including "Bold as Love", on live CDs and concerts.

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Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil covered "Wait Until Tomorrow" on their album Tropicalia 25.
"Spanish Castle Magic" has also been covered by Carlos Santana and appears on the album "Power of Soul: A
Tribute to Jimi Hendrix".
PM Dawn covered "You Got Me Floatin'", also on the 1993 Hendrix tribute album Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi
Hendrix.
Tuck and Patti covered Little Wing and Castles Made of Sand on their album Love Warriors.
"Castles Made of Sand" was covered by singer-songwriter Vance Gilbert on his album Angels Castles Covers.

Personnel
Jimi Hendrix guitar, vocals, bass, piano, flute, voice of 'Mr. Paul Caruso' on 'EXP'
Mitch Mitchell drums, glockenspiel on 'Little Wing', backing vocals, "interviewer" on 'EXP'
Noel Redding bass, 8 string bass, backing vocals, foot stamping on 'If 6 Was 9', lead vocals on 'She's So Fine'.
(An eight string bass is used on several tracks.)
Gary Leeds foot stamping on 'If 6 Was 9'
Graham Nash foot stamping on 'If 6 Was 9'
Michael Jeffery foot stamping on 'If 6 Was 9'

Trevor Burton back-up vocals on 'You Got Me Floatin


Roy Wood back-up vocals on 'You Got Me Floatin
Chas Chandler producer and foot stamping on 'If 6 Was 9'
Eddie Kramer Chief engineer

Engineers: George Chkiantz, Andy Johns and Terry Brown


Recorded at: Olympic Studios, London, England.
Cover design: David King, Roger Law, painted heads based on a Karl Ferris group portrait (front)
Photography: Donald Silverstein (UK inner portrait)
CD Remastering supervisors: Janie Hendrix, John McDermott
CD Remastering: Joe Gastwirt, Eddie Kramer, George Marino
CD Inlay design: Petra Niemeier
CD Liner notes: Michael Fairchild, Jym Fahey
CD Liner photography: David Sygall

External links
Information about The Spanish Castle, a legendary Seattle area dance hall where Jimi Hendrix gave some of his
earliest performances [10]
More information about The Spanish Castle and Jimi Hendrix's early days [11]

References
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http:/ / www. warr. org/ hendrix. html#Axis
Electric Gypsy by Harry Shapiro & Caesar Glebbeek
Liner notes of the album, Alan Douglas supervised CD issue, released in 1993 (with a different cover)
(http:/ / www. rocklistmusic. co. uk/ 50. html#guitaral)

[9] See Jimpress edited by Steve Rodham, #65 1999, cover and page 4
[10] http:/ / pnwbands. com/ spanishcastle. html
[11] http:/ / www. historylink. org/ essays/ output. cfm?file_id=3826

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''Electric Ladyland''

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Electric Ladyland
Electric Ladyland

Studio album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience


Released

October 25, 1968 (UK)


September 16, 1968 (US)

Recorded Olympic Studios, London & Record Plant Studios, New York, July 1967, December 1967, January 1968, AprilAugust
1968
Genre

Psychedelic rock, blues-rock, hard rock

Length

75:47

Label

Reprise, Track, Barclay, Polydor, MCA

Producer Jimi Hendrix


The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology
Smash
Hits
(1968)

Electric
Ladyland
(1968)

Electric Jimi
Hendrix
(1968)

Electric Ladyland is the third and final album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, released in September of 1968 on
Reprise Records. Produced and directed by Jimi Hendrix, the album is viewed by some as the peak of Hendrix's
mastery of the electric guitar. Electric Ladyland is the last album released as the Jimi Hendrix Experience as well as
the last Hendrix studio album professionally produced under his supervision. After Electric Ladyland, Hendrix spent
the remaining two years of his life organizing a new band, touring, and recording new songs. The controversial
original UK album cover photograph was of a group of nude women, which was soon replaced by a more modest
fiery portrait of Hendrix singing.
Released as a double album, Electric Ladyland is a cross-section of Hendrix's wide range of musical talent. It
includes examples of several genres and styles of music, including the psychedelic "Burning of the Midnight Lamp"
(previously a UK single in the summer of 1967), the extended blues jam "Voodoo Chile", the New Orleans-style
R&B of Earl King's "Come On", the epic studio production of "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)", the
Marvin Gaye-like social commentary of "House Burning Down," and the Noel Redding composition "Little Miss
Strange." The album also features a avant garde reworking of the Bob Dylan classic "All Along the Watchtower,"
which has been well received by critics as well as by Dylan himself,[1] as well as "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)", a
staple of both radio and guitar repertoire.
In 2003, the album was ranked number 54 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

''Electric Ladyland''

Recording and Production


The album was released at an important juncture of his career. In 1967 he had upstaged the guitar-smashing Who at
Monterey Pop Festival by setting fire to his Fender, in January 1968 he released Axis Bold As Love, and a year later
in 1969 he was immortalized at Woodstock.
Booked as a supporting act for the Monkees in 1968, Hendrix was thrown off the tour for his outrageous on-stage
performance. After a troubled tour of Scandinavia, a brief period of recordings for Electric Ladyland at Olympic
studios in London, England and a prestigious concert at the Paris Olympia, Hendrix moved back to the states for the
start of his first proper tour there.
Three months later he began work on the LP at engineer Gary Kellgren and Chris Stone's newly opened Record Plant
Studios which was situated close to his favorite clubs. It was recorded by Jimi's favorite engineers Eddie Kramer and
Gary Kellgren. Despite a claim by Chris Stone that Kellgren engineered "90%" of it, the studio records show that
most of the work was done by Kramer, only two tracks by Hendrix and Redding's one having Kellgren as engineer
(although he was engineer on some of the later mixing sessions and worked together with Eddie on the final mix of
the album).[2] . During the recording of the album Hendrix fell out with producer Chas Chandler and bassist Noel
Redding.
With a hectic tour schedule and also trying to record a masterpiece, Hendrix still wanted to have a life, so he
combined work with pleasure by inviting his friends and acquaintances to the studio. Chas Chandler hated spending
so much time in the studio and partly blamed it on these guests[3] , but Jimi was determined to have his way. So, his
regular producer, manager and mentor Chas Chandler eventually quit in May 1968. Chandler later complained that
Hendrix's insistence on doing multiple takes of every song, combined with what he saw as Hendrix's drugged
incoherence, led him to sell his share of the management company to his partner Michael Jeffery. Hendrix went on to
produce his most successful LP himself[4] and several very successful tours, mostly sold out.
Hendrix's studio perfectionism was legendary he and Mitchell recorded well over 50 takes of "Gypsy Eyes" over
three sessions[5] and he was always insecure about his voice often recording his vocals hidden behind studio
screens. Hendrix sings all the backing vocals himself on the title track and on "Long Hot Summer Night". He was
said to be very happy with the vocal results on "Have You Ever Been".[6]
Despite having to go back on tour before the album was finished, many of the album tracks show Hendrix's vision
expanding far beyond the scope of the original trio and saw him collaborating with a range of outside musicians
including Dave Mason, Chris Wood and Steve Winwood from Traffic; future Band of Gypsys drummer Buddy
Miles; Jefferson Airplane bassist Jack Casady; and former Dylan organist Al Kooper.
Co-operation between Hendrix and bassist Noel Redding (who was of the same opinion about time spent in the
studio as Chandler)[7] was strained during production. Hendrix plays bass tracks (on a right-handed bass guitar) on
many tracks including the bass solo parts on "1983".[8] Sometimes Hendrix recorded bass tracks just in order to
make things go on faster. Redding plays acoustic guitar and sings lead vocals with Mitchell on his own track, "Little
Miss Strange."

Release and Reception

Cover art of 1st UK 2CD edition (Polydor)

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Professional ratings
Review scores
Source

Rating

Uncut

[9]

Allmusic

[10]

Blender

[11]

Robert
Christgau

[12]

(favorable)

BBC

(favourable)

[13]

Rolling Stone

[14]

Electric Ladyland was first released in the U.S. in September 1968 and became a massive hit; it was Hendrix's only
#1 album. The UK edition reached #6 on its release amid considerable controversy. A letter Hendrix wrote to
Reprise described exactly what he wanted for the cover, but it was mostly ignored. He expressly asked for a color
photo by Linda Eastman of the group sitting with children on a sculpture from Alice in Wonderland in Central Park,
NY,[15] even drawing a picture of it for reference. The company instead used a blurred red & yellow photo of his
head, taken by Karl Ferris. Track Records had its own art department, which produced a cover depicting 19 nude
women lounging in front of a black background.[16] The original UK & German CD release from the 1980s features
the UK artwork cover, while the Allan Douglas' re-master CD issue features the U.S. version by Ferris, which has
since become the official worldwide cover of Electric Ladyland. The company Experience Hendrix, which owns the
rights to the album and most of Hendrix's catalog, has stated that the original UK nudes cover will not be used any
longer, since Hendrix himself did not like it; nonetheless Hendrix's own choice, the Eastman photo, is still ignored.
A dispute nearly occurred over the album's title. In the final stages of production, a studio technician renamed the
album "Electric Landlady."[17] The album was almost released under this official title until Hendrix noticed the error,
which upset him considerably. Kirsty MacColl later used this alternate title for an album of her own.
In 2005 Q magazine readers voted Electric Ladyland the 38th greatest album of all time; in 2003 the TV network
VH1 placed it at number 72. In 2003, Rolling Stone declared it the 54th greatest album of all time. The album is
included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Also, The Source magazine ranked it #40 on their
Critics Top 100 Black Music Albums of All Time list in 2006.[18]

Track listing
US Release (LP)

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79

Side one
No. Title

Writer(s)

1. "...And the Gods Made Love"

Length

Jimi Hendrix

1:21

2. "Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)" Hendrix

2:11

3. "Crosstown Traffic"

Hendrix

2:13

4. "Voodoo Chile"

Hendrix

15:00

Side two
No. Title

Writer(s)

Length

5. "Little Miss Strange"

Noel
Redding

2:52

6. "Long Hot Summer Night"

Hendrix

3:27

7. "Come On (Let the Good Times


Roll)"

Earl King

4:09

8. "Gypsy Eyes"

Hendrix

3:43

9. "Burning of the Midnight Lamp"

Hendrix

3:39

Side three
No. Title

Writer(s) Length

10. "Rainy Day, Dream Away"

Hendrix

3:42

11. "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)"

Hendrix

13:39

12. "Moon, Turn the Tides...Gently Gently Away" (instrumental) Hendrix

1:02

Side four
No. Title

Writer(s)

13. "Still Raining, Still Dreaming"

Hendrix

4:25

14. "House Burning Down"

Hendrix

4:33

15. "All Along the Watchtower"

Bob
Dylan

4:01

16. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" Hendrix

Nudes Cover Track Listing (UK) (CD)

Length

5:12

''Electric Ladyland''

80

Disc one
No. Title
1. "...And the Gods Made Love"

Writer(s)
Jimi Hendrix

Length
1:22

2. "Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)" Hendrix

2:11

3. "Crosstown Traffic"

Hendrix

2:25

4. "Voodoo Chile"

Hendrix

15:02

5. "Still Raining, Still Dreaming"

Hendrix

4:25

6. "House Burning Down"

Hendrix

4:33

7. "All Along the Watchtower"

Bob Dylan

4:00

8. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"

Hendrix

5:13

Disc two
No. Title
9. "Little Miss Strange"

Writer(s)

Length

Noel
Redding

2:51

10. "Long Hot Summer Night"

Hendrix

3:27

11. "Come On (Part 1)"

Earl King

4:10

12. "Gypsy Eyes"

Hendrix

3:43

13. "Burning of the Midnight Lamp"

Hendrix

3:40

14. "Rainy Day, Dream Away"

Hendrix

3:42

15. "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)"

Hendrix

4:49

16. "Moon, Turn the Tides....Gently Gently Away" Hendrix

9:54

Notes
As was common with some multi-LP albums, sides one and four were pressed back to back on the same platter,
likewise sides two and three. This was called "auto-coupling" or "automatic sequence" and was intended to make it
easier to play through the entire album in sequence on automatic record-changers. In this case it has led to some CD
releases of Electric Ladyland that have the sides in the incorrect one-four-two-three order. (e.g. "Voodoo Chile" followed
by "Still Raining, Still Dreaming")

Despite the different track lengths and listings, both album releases are exactly the same in total length.
The U.S. cassette version also has an alternate track listing, with Side One and Three on Side One with a running
time of 39:29, and Side Two and Four on Side Two with a running time of 38:16, this was done to keep both tape
sides as equal in length as possible with as little blank space at the end.
On the original LP version, "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)" is 13:39 and "Moon, Turn the Tides...
Gently, Gently Away" is 1:01, the total being 14:40. On the Nudes version, "1983" is 4:49 while "Moon, Turn the
Tides" is 9:54, the total being 14:43, just three seconds longer than the original. Both song structures stay virtually
the same but the break in tracks is different.

''Electric Ladyland''

Personnel
The following credits are from the CD booklet[19] (CD with the track listing as the US LP release).
Jimi Hendrix electric guitar, bass (on tracks 2, 6, 8, 11, 14 and 15), electric harpsichord (on track 9), percussion,
lead vocals (on all non-instrumental tracks except 5 in which Mitch and Noel sing), background vocals, kazoo
made of comb and paper (track 3), a slide used in "All Along the Watchtower" is actually a cigarette lighter
Mitch Mitchell drums (on all tracks except 10 and 13), percussion, background vocals, lead vocals (with
Redding on track 5)
Noel Redding bass (on tracks 3, 5, 7, 9, 10 and 16), background vocals, acoustic guitar (on track 5), lead vocals
(with Mitchell on track 5)

Jack Casady bass (on track 4)


Steve Winwood organ (on track 4)
Al Kooper piano (on track 6)
The Sweet Inspirations background vocals (on track 9)
Larry Faucette congas (on tracks 10 and 13)
Mike Finnigan organ (on tracks 10 and 13)
Freddie Smith tenor saxophone (on tracks 10 and 13)

Buddy Miles drums (on tracks 10 and 13)


Brian Jones- percussion [on track 15]
Dave Mason Acoustic 12-String guitar (on track 15), backing vocals (on track 3)
Chris Wood flute (on track 11)

Production

Producers - Jimi Hendrix & Chas Chandler


Engineers - Eddie Kramer & Gary Kellgren
Mixed by - Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Kramer & Gary Kellgren
Arranged by Jimi Hendrix
US cover liner note by Jimi Hendrix
US cover design - Karl Ferris
US cover inside photos - Linda Eastman (McCartney) & David Sygall
US art direction - Ed Thrasher
UK cover design - David King, Rob O'Connor
UK cover inside photos - David Montgomery

First CD remaster by Lee Herschberg (Reprise 6307-2)


Second CD remaster by Allan Douglas
Remastering - Joe Gastwirt
Liner notes - Michael Fairchild
Third CD remaster by Experience Hendrix

Remastering - Eddie Kramer & George Marino


Art direction - Vartan
Liner notes - Jeff Leve
Essay - Derek Taylor

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Charts
Album
Year

Chart

Position

1968 Billboard Top 200 Albums 1


1968 UK Albums Chart

Singles
Year

Single

Chart

Position

1967 "Burning of the Midnight Lamp"

UK Singles Chart 18

1968 "All Along the Watchtower"

Billboard Hot
100

1968 "All Along the Watchtower"

UK Singles Chart 5

1969 "Crosstown Traffic"

UK Singles Chart 37

1970 "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"

UK Singles Chart 1

1971 "Gypsy Eyes/Remember"

UK Singles Chart 35

20

1990 "All Along the Watchtower EP (with "Hey Joe" & "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)") UK Singles Chart 52
1990 "Crosstown Traffic"

UK Singles Chart 61

References
[1] Dimery, Robert "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die", p.136
[2] Ultimate Hendrix by McDermot, Kramer & Cox 2009
[3] Setting the Record Straight by McDermot, with Kramer 1992
[4] Classic albums Electric Ladyland DVD
[5] Ultimate Hendrix by McDermot, with Kramer & Cox 2009, pages 98-100
[6] Alan Douglas CD edition liner notes
[7] Are You Experienced? - Redding & Appleby
[8] Liner notes of Alan Douglas-supervised CD edition of the album, that was published in the early 1990s
[9] Uncut Review (http:/ / www. uncut. co. uk/ music/ the_jimi_hendrix_experience/ reviews/ 12679)
[10] Allmusic Review (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:e8ogtq2ztu42~T1)
[11] Blender Review (http:/ / www. blender. com/ guide/ reviews. aspx?ID=3624)
[12] Robert Christgau Review (http:/ / www. robertchristgau. com/ xg/ cdrev/ hendrix-ble. php)
[13] Rolling Stone Review (http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ artists/ jimihendrix/ albums/ album/ 154402/ review/ 6067397/ electric_ladyland)
[14] BBC Review (http:/ / www. bbc. co. uk/ music/ reviews/ h2f9)
[15] sleeve notes to Experience Hendrix/MCA re-release of Electric Ladyland
[16] Classic Albums Electric Ladyland DVD
[17] Electric Ladyland - television document about the making of the album
[18] http:/ / www. trevornelson. com/ nonflash/ top100. asp
[19] Some detailed information, including bass playing credits, is based on liner notes of Alan Douglas supervised CD edition of the album, that
was published in the early 1990s

UK Chart positions (http://www.chartstats.com/artistinfo.php?id=1926)


Rice, Tim; Gambaccini, Paul; Rice, Jonathan (1995), Guinness British Hit Singles (10th ed.), London: GRR
Publishing Ltd, ISBN0-85112-633-2

''Electric Ladyland''

See also

Classic Albums
The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Electric Church
Electric Larryland
Discogs.com (http://www.discogs.com/Jimi-Hendrix-Experience-Electric-Ladyland/master/24535)

83

''The Cry of Love''

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The Cry of Love


The Cry of Love

Studio album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

March 5, 1971

Recorded 19681970 at the Sound Center, Record Plant Studios and Electric Lady Studios in New York City, New York
Genre

Hard rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues-rock

Length

39:48

Label

Reprise, Track, Barclay, Polydor

Producer Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Kramer, Mitch Mitchell


Professional reviews
[1]

Allmusic
link
[2]
Robert Christgau (A) link
[3]
Rolling Stone (favorable) link

Jimi Hendrix chronology


Band of
Gypsys
(1970)

The Cry of
Love
(1971)

Experience
(1971)

The Cry of Love is a posthumous fourth studio album by American musician Jimi Hendrix, released on March 5,
1971. It was the first Hendrix album released after his death and was engineered, mixed and compiled by Eddie
Kramer and Mitch Mitchell. Album cover illustration by Nancy Reiner.

Overview
The pairing of The Cry of Love with Rainbow Bridge comprises the bulk of the most complete tracks that Hendrix
was intending to release on his next (double) LP, initially titled First Rays of the New Rising Sun but his last word on
this had Strate Ahead [sic] as the title and as per the title of one of the last songs he recorded. All songs on the album
were written by Hendrix and recorded from late December 1969 to summer 1970, except surprise addition "My
Friend". Hendrix' friend Paul Caruso (mistakenly listed as a fictitious 'Gers' on the L.P.) plays harmonica on "My
Friend".[4] [5] Mitchell and Kramer's involvement gave the album credibility, and it was well received by fans and
critics alike. The album managed to reach #3 in the U.S. and #2 in the UK, and was regarded as the most accurate
approximation of Hendrix's final album until First Rays of the New Rising Sun was released in 1997. "Freedom" b/w
"Angel" was released as a single in the U.S., but only reached #59. In the UK, "Angel" b/w "Night Bird Flying" was
the single released, though it did not manage to enter the charts. Remastered versions of all of the songs from The

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Cry of Love are featured on the 1997 compilation First Rays of the New Rising Sun.
The song "My Friend" was recorded during the early stages of the Electric Ladyland sessions in 1968. "Belly Button
Window", was Jimi's last studio recording with vocals. It was recorded at Electric Lady Studios on August 22, 1970.

Track listing
All songs written and composed by Jimi Hendrix.
No. Title

Length

1. "Freedom"

3:24

2. "Drifting"

3:46

3. "Ezy Ryder"

4:09

4. "Night Bird Flying"

3:50

5. "My Friend"

4:40

6. "Straight Ahead"

4:42

7. "Astro Man"

3:37

8. "Angel"

4:25

9. "In from the Storm"

3:42

10. "Belly Button


Window"

3:34

Personnel
Band members

Additional musicians

Jimi Hendrix lead vocals, guitars, backing vocals on tracks 3 and 9, piano on track 1,
production on all tracks except 5
Billy Cox bass on all tracks except 5 and 10
Mitch Mitchell drums on all tracks except 3, 5 and 10, posthumous production
Juma Sultan percussion on tracks 1, 4 and 7
Buddy Miles drums on track 3
Noel Redding bass on track 5

Additional personnel

Michael Jeffrey executive production


Eddie Kramer posthumous production, engineering on all tracks except 3 and 5
Tony Bongiovi engineering on track 3
Nancy Reiner artwork
Victor Kahn-Sunshine photography, graphic design

The Ghetto Brothers backing vocals


on track 1
Buzzy Linhart vibraphone on track 2
Billy Armstrong percussion on track 3
Steve Winwood backing vocals on
track 3
Chris Wood backing vocals on track 3
Kenny Pine twelve-string guitar on
track 5
Jimmy Mayes drums on track 5
Stephen Stills piano on track 5
Paul Caruso harmonica on track 5
Emeretta Marks backing vocals on
track 9

''The Cry of Love''

References

Shapiro, Harry (1995-08-15). "Appendix 1: Music, Sweet Music: The Discography". Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy (3rd Edition ed.). New
York: St. Martin's Griffin. pp.537538. ISBN9780312130626.

[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]

http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& token=& sql=10:q1ud6jph71q0


http:/ / www. robertchristgau. com/ get_album. php?id=1693
http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ artists/ jimihendrix/ albums/ album/ 304452/ review/ 5941671/ the_cry_of_love
McDermott, John; Eddie Kramer & Billy Cox (2009). "1968". Ultimate Hendrix (1st Edition ed.). Milwaukee: Hal Leonard. pp.93.
ISBN9780879309381.
[5] (1997) Album notes for First Rays Of The New Rising Sun by Jimi Hendrix, p. 16 [CD booklet]. Universal City, California: MCA
(MCD1159).

86

''Rainbow Bridge''

87

Rainbow Bridge
Rainbow Bridge

Studio album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

October 1971

Recorded

19681970 at TTG Studios, Record Plant Studios and Electric Lady Studios in New York City, New York and Berkeley
Community Theatre, Berkeley, California

Genre

Hard rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues-rock

Length

42:22

Label

Reprise

Producer

Jimi Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell, Eddie Kramer, John Jansen


Professional reviews
Robert Christgau (A) link

[1]

Jimi Hendrix chronology


Experience
(1971)

Rainbow
Bridge
(1971)

Isle of
Wight
(1971)

Rainbow Bridge is a posthumous fifth studio album by American guitarist Jimi Hendrix, released in October and
November 1971 in the United States and the United Kingdom respectively. It was the second Hendrix studio album
released after his death and was engineered, mixed and compiled by Eddie Kramer, John Jansen and Mitch Mitchell.
It has never been released on compact disc.

Overview
The pairing of Rainbow Bridge with The Cry of Love comprises the bulk of the most complete tracks that Hendrix
was intending to release on his next (double) LP, First Rays of the New Rising Sun. All songs on the album were
written by Hendrix, except the cover of "The Star-Spangled Banner", and recorded throughout 1969 and 1970, with
the exception of "Look Over Yonder", which was recorded in 1968. "Hear My Train A Comin'" was recorded live at
the Berkeley Community Theatre on May 30, 1970 (1st show). The album was the second to be produced by Kramer
and Mitchell, with the help of Jansen, and was again fairly well received, reaching #15 and #16 in the U.S. and the
UK respectively. "Dolly Dagger" b/w "Star Spangled Banner" was released as a single in the U.S., but only reached
#74. Four songs from Rainbow Bridge are featured on the 1997 compilation First Rays of the New Rising Sun. Two
songs are featured on another 1997 compilation South Saturn Delta. The (studio) version of "The Star Spangled
Banner" can be found in the 2000 box set The Jimi Hendrix Experience (Box set). Though misconstrued to be a live

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album of the famed concert uptop the Haleakala Crater; it is, indeed, the original soundtrack to the film as all tracks
appear in various scenes. The Berkeley performance of "Hear My Train A Comin'" doesn't appear in the film's
soundtrack as it was performed in the Haleakala concert sequence. All other songs are new material from studio
sessions. For details of recordings of the live concerts, see Rainbow Bridge Concert.

Track listing
All songs written and composed by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
Side one
No. Title

Length

1. "Dolly Dagger"

4:45

2. "Earth Blues"

4:20

3. "Pali Gap"

5:05

4. "Room Full Of Mirrors"

3:17

5. "Star Spangled Banner" (Francis Scott Key, John Stafford Smith, arr. Hendrix) (Studio Version)

4:07

Side two
No. Title
1. "Look Over Yonder"
2. "Hear My Train A Comin'" (Live)
3. "Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)"

Length
3:28
11:15
6:05

Non album tracks that appear in the film


"Bleeding Heart" (Recorded at Record Plant Studios in New York City, New York, USA on March 24, 1970.)
Released on "War Heroes" in 1972.
"New Rising Sun" (Recorded Fall, 1968 at TTG Studios.) This track has only been partially used in the composite
edit with "MLK" to make up the track "Captain Coconut" on the 1975 Alan Douglas produced Crash Landing and
as the opening track to 1995's deleted Voodoo Soup.
"Bolero" (Recorded July, 1970 at Electric Lady Studios). Never officially released.
Room Full Of Mirrors - alternate mix - (Recorded at Record Plant Studios on November 17, 1969 and Electric
Lady Studios, October 22, 1970.) This alternate mix has Buddy Miles' original drum tracks replaced with that of
Mitch Mitchell, recorded onto open tracks on the original 16 track master reel, while saving Miles' parts. This
alternate mix only appears very briefly in the movie and has not seen release elsewhere, bootleg or official, and is
still in the Hendrix tape archive.
"Beginnings" (Recorded July, 1970 at Electric Lady Studios.) Released on 1972's posthumous release, "War
Heroes" and 1997 Experience Hendrix compilation "First Rays of the New Rising Sun". An alternate take was
later erased of the original backing tracks and replaced with session musicians for use on the second Alan
Douglas/Hendrix release Midnight Lightning.

''Rainbow Bridge''

These original 1971 Reprise album mixes found on later releases


Rainbow Bridge, as an album, was never released on compact disc. However, all of the original Reprise mix masters
from the original Rainbow Bridge album have been issued on subsequent compilations.
"Dolly Dagger" is on the 1997 First Rays of the New Rising Sun album.
"Earth Blues" is on the 1997 First Rays of the New Rising Sun album.
"Pali Gap" is on the 1997 South Saturn Delta album.
"Room Full Of Mirrors" is on the 1997 First Rays of the New Rising Sun album.
"Star Spangled Banner" [Studio Version] is on the 2000 The Jimi Hendrix Experience (Box set).
"Look Over Yonder" is on the 1997 South Saturn Delta album.
"Hear My Train A Comin'" [Live], with a slightly truncated end applause fade, is on on the 2001 Voodoo Child: The
Jimi Hendrix Collection album.
"Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)" is on the 1997 First Rays of the New Rising Sun album.

Personnel
Jimi Hendrix guitars, lead vocals, backing vocals on tracks 1 and 2
Mitch Mitchell drums on all tracks except track 4.

Billy Cox bass on all tracks except track 6.


Juma Sultan congas, percussion
Albert Allen backing vocals on track 1
Buddy Miles drums on track 2 (prior to 1970 overdubs by Mitch Mitchell) and track 4, backing vocals on track
2
The Ronettes (Veronica Bennett, Estelle Bennett, Nedra Talley) backing vocals on track 2
Noel Redding bass on track 6

Recording details
Tracks 1, 3 and 8 recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York City, New York on July 1, 1970
Track 2 recorded at Record Plant Studios in New York City, New York on December 19, 1969 and Electric Lady
Studios, July, 1970
Track 4 recorded at Record Plant Studios on November 17, 1969 and Electric Lady Studios, July, 1970
Track 5 recorded at Record Plant Studios on March 18, 1969
Track 6 recorded at TTG Studios in New York City, New York on October 22, 1968
Track 7 recorded at Berkeley Community Theatre in Berkeley, California on May 30, 1970 (1st show)

References

Shapiro, Harry; Caesar Glebbeek (1995-08-15). "Appendix 1: Music, Sweet Music: The Discography". Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy (3rd
Edition ed.). New York: St. Martin's Griffin. pp.540541. ISBN9780312130626.

References
[1] http:/ / www. robertchristgau. com/ get_album. php?id=1692

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''War Heroes''

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War Heroes
War Heroes

Studio album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

October 1, 1972

Recorded

19671970 at De Lane Lea Studios in London, England, Olmstead Sound Studios, The Hit Factory, Record Plant
Studios and Electric Lady Studios in New York City, New York, USA

Genre

Hard rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues-rock

Length

35:20

Label

Polydor

Producer

Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Kramer, John Jansen


Professional reviews
[1]

Allmusic
link
[2]
Robert Christgau (B) link

Jimi Hendrix chronology


More
Experience
(1972)

War
Heroes
(1972)

Soundtrack Recordings from the Film Jimi


Hendrix
(1973)

War Heroes is a posthumous sixth studio album by American guitarist Jimi Hendrix, released on October 1 and
December 1972 in the United Kingdom and the United States respectively. It was the third Hendrix studio album
released after his death and was engineered, mixed and compiled by Eddie Kramer and John Jansen. Though
Hendrix produced many of the songs, he was not credited for such.
War Heroes contains the three remaining tracks featured on First Rays of the New Rising Sun which were not
included on The Cry of Love or Rainbow Bridge: "Stepping Stone", "Izabella" and "Beginnings" (listed on War
Heroes as "Beginning").

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Track listings
All songs written and composed by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
Side one
No. Title

Length

1. "Bleeding Heart"

3:18

2. "Highway Chile" (Re-processed Stereo)

3:34

3. "Tax Free" (Bo Hansson, Janne Karlsson)

4:58

4. "Peter Gunn Catastrophe" (Henry Mancini, Hendrix)

2:20

5. "Stepping Stone"

4:11

Side two
No. Title

Length

1. "Midnight"

5:35

2. "3 Little Bears"

4:16

3. "Beginning" (Mitch
Mitchell)

4:13

4. "Izabella"

2:51

Personnel

Jimi Hendrix guitars, lead vocals, bass on track 1, backing vocals on "Izabella"
Mitch Mitchell drums
Billy Cox bass
Noel Redding bass on "Highway Chile", "Tax Free" & "Midnight"

Recording details

Track 1 recorded at Record Plant Studios in New York City, New York, USA on March 24, 1970
Track 2 recorded at Olympic Studios in London, England on April 3, 1967
Track 3 recorded at Record Plant Studios on May 1, 1968
Track 4 recorded at Record Plant Studios on May 14, 1970
Track 5 recorded at Record Plant Studios on November 14, 1969
Track 6 recorded at Olmstead Studios on April 3, 1969
Track 7 recorded at Record Plant Studios on May 2, 1968
Track 8 recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York City, New York, USA on June 16 and/or July 1, 1970
Track 9 recorded at The Hit Factory in New York City, New York, USA on August 28 and 29, 1969

''War Heroes''

References

Shapiro, Harry; Caesar Glebbeek (1995-08-15). "Appendix 1: Music, Sweet Music: The Discography". Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy (3rd
Edition ed.). New York: St. Martin's Griffin. pp.537538. ISBN9780312130626.

References
[1] http:/ / allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& token=& sql=10:p1q67uu0h0jf
[2] http:/ / www. robertchristgau. com/ get_album. php?id=6999

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''Loose Ends''

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Loose Ends
Loose Ends

Studio album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

February 1974

Recorded

19681970

Genre
Length

Hard rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock,


blues-rock
35:09

Label

Polydor

Producer

Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Kramer, John Jansen


Professional reviews

Allmusic

link

[1]

Jimi Hendrix chronology


Soundtrack Recordings from the Film Jimi
Hendrix
(1973)

Loose
Ends
(1974)

Alternate Cover

French cover of "Loose Ends"


Alternate Cover

Crash
Landing
(1975)

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Japanese cover of "Loose Ends

Loose Ends is a posthumous seventh studio album by American guitarist Jimi Hendrix, released in February 1974 in
the United Kingdom. It was the fourth and last Hendrix studio album released after his death by manager Michael
Jeffery. The album features a collection of outtakes and jams, with the exception of "The Stars That Play with
Laughing Sam's Dice" which is the sole authorized track by Hendrix (the stereo mix was used on this LP). It was
engineered, mixed and compiled by John Jansen. (Additional engineering: Eddie Kramer, Dave Palmer, Kim King,
Gary Kellgren, Jack Adams, Tom Flye, Jim Robinson). John Jansen refused to have his name listed on the LP's
credits and used the pseudonym "Alex Trevor" on the records sleeve instead. Warner Bros. (Jimi Hendrix' label at
the time), refused to issue this release in the US & Canada due to the sub-par material on it. The UK, French and
Japan pressings all had different covers. This release was also repackaged in 1983 under the name The Jimi Hendrix
Album on LP & cassette.

Track listing
All songs written and composed by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
Side one
No. Title

Length

1. "Come Down Hard on Me Baby"

2:59

2. "Blue Suede Shoes" (Carl Perkins)

3:58

3. "Jam 292"

3:49

4. "The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam's


Dice"

4:20

5. "Drifter's Escape" (Bob Dylan)

3:02

Side two
No. Title

Length

1. "Burning Desire"

9:30

2. "Born a Hootchie Kootchie Man" (Willie Dixon)

5:59

3. "Electric Ladyland"

1:32

''Loose Ends''

Personnel

Jimi Hendrix guitars, lead vocals


Billy Cox bass, backing vocals on track 6
Mitch Mitchell drums on tracks 1, 3, 4 and 5
Buddy Miles drums on tracks 2, 6, 7 and 8 (track 8 wiped), backing vocals on tracks 6 and 7
Sharon Layne piano on track 3
Noel Redding bass on track 4

Recording details

Track 1 recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York City, New York on July 15, 1970
Track 2 recorded at Record Plant Studios in New York City, New York on January 23, 1970
Track 3 recorded at Record Plant Studios on May 14, 1969
Track 4 recorded at Mayfair Studios, New York City, New York on July 18 and 29, 1967
Track 5 recorded at Electric Lady Studios on June 17, 1970
Tracks 6 and 7 recorded at Record Plant Studios between December 15, 1969 and January 23, 1970
Track 8 recorded at Record Plant Studios on June 14, 1968

References

Shapiro, Harry; Caesar Glebbeek (1995-08-15). "Appendix 1: Music, Sweet Music: The Discography". Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy (3rd
Edition ed.). New York: St. Martin's Griffin. pp.544545. ISBN9780312130626.

References
[1] http:/ / allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:axfoxq95ldke

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''Crash Landing''

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Crash Landing
For the Die Toten Hosen album, see Crash-Landing.

Crash Landing

Studio album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

March 1975

Recorded 19681974
Genre

Hard rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues-rock

Length

29:34

Label

Reprise

Producer Alan Douglas, Tony Bongiovi


Professional reviews
[1]

Allmusic
link
[2]
Robert Christgau (B+) link

Jimi Hendrix chronology


Loose
Ends
(1974)

Crash
Landing
(1975)

Midnight
Lightning
(1975)

Crash Landing was the eighth studio album by American guitarist Jimi Hendrix, released in March and August 1975
in the United States and the United Kingdom respectively. It was the fifth Hendrix studio album released after his
death and was the first to be produced by Alan Douglas.
Before Hendrix died in 1970, he was in the final stages of preparing what he intended to be a double studio LP,
tentatively titled First Ray of the New Rising Sun. Most of the tracks intended for this LP were spread out over three
posthumous single LP releases: The Cry of Love (1971), Rainbow Bridge (1971), and War Heroes (1972). In the case
of last two of these LP's, a demo track, a live track, & unreleased studio tracks were used to fill out the releases. In
late 1973, his International label prepared to issue an LP titled Loose Ends which contained eight tracks, six of which
were generally regarded as incomplete or substandard (the only two "finished" tracks on this release were "The Stars
That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice", a B-side which had been released in 1969 on the European and Japanese
versions of the Smash Hits, and a cover of Bob Dylan's "The Drifter's Escape", both of which would ultimately be
re-released on the South Saturn Delta CD in 1997). Loose Ends was not released in the USA by Reprise because they
considered the quality of the tracks to be subpar .
Hendrix had amassed a lot of time in the studio in 1969 and 1970, resulting in a substantial amount of songs, some
close to completion, that were available for potential release. After the death of Hendrix' manager in 1973, Alan

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Douglas was hired to evaluate hundreds of hours of remaining material that was not used on earlier posthumous
albums. Except for "Stone Free Again", which was an April 1969 re-recording of "Stone Free" with the original Jimi
Hendrix Experience line up, the material used on Crash Landing consisted of recordings Hendrix originally made
with Billy Cox on bass and either Mitch Mitchell or Buddy Miles on drums.

Controversy
Crash Landing was the first release produced by Douglas, and immediately caused controversy. The liner notes of
the album indicated that Douglas used several session musicians, none of whom had ever even met Hendrix, to
re-record or overdub guitar, bass, drums, and percussion on the album, erasing the contributions of the original
musicians and changing the feel of the songs (Hendrix' vocals and guitar contributions were retained). This was
evidently done to give a finish to songs that were works in progress or may have been recorded as demos. Douglas
also added female backing vocals to the title track. Fans and critics were also chagrined to learn that Douglas
credited himself as co-writer of five of the eight songs on the album. Despite all this, the album peaked at #5 in the
U.S. and #35 in the UK, the highest chart positions since The Cry of Love.

Other appearances of songs


Some of the tracks on Crash Landing had appeared on previous Hendrix albums. "Message to Love" and "With the
Power" were on the original 6-song Band of Gypsys album recorded at the Fillmore East on New Year's Eve of
1969/70 (the latter was listed under the title "Power to Love") released in early 1970. "Message to Love" was
recorded in two sessions on December 1969 and January 1970. Besides its appearance on Crash Landing, "Message
to Love" was re-released on Douglas' 1995 compilation Voodoo Soup, along with the instrumental track "Peace in
Mississippi". The 1997 compilation South Saturn Delta contained an extended, reworked version of "Message to
Love" entitled "Message to the Universe" as well as a longer version of "With the Power"/"Power of Soul".
"Somewhere" was recorded in March 1968 prior to the sessions for Electric Ladyland. "Come Down Hard On Me" is
a slightly re-worked version of the same song that originally appeared on Loose Ends in 1974. This song was
recorded in July, 1970 and mixed by Hendrix and engineer Eddie Kramer in August. "Stone Free Again" was
recorded in April 1969 by the original Jimi Hendrix Experience line-up two months before Noel Redding's departure.
It was intended for release as a possible single in the U.S. but was shelved when the original version of the song was
included on Smash Hits that summer. "Message to Love", "Somewhere", "Come Down Hard on Me", and "Stone
Free (Again)" were included on The Jimi Hendrix Experience box set from 2000 with the original musicians
restored.

Track listing
All songs written and composed by Jimi Hendrix. Alan Douglas claimed co-writer credits on five tracks.
Side one
No. Title

Length

1. "Message to Love"

3:14

2. "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" (Correct title: "Somewhere")

3:30

3. "Crash Landing"

4:14

4. "Come Down Hard on Me"

3:16

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Side two
No. Title

Length

1. "Peace in
Mississippi"

4:21

2. "With the Power"

3:28

3. "Stone Free Again"

3:25

4. "Captain Coconut"

4:06

Captain Coconut is actually a composite of three separate pieces of music that had nothing to do with each other.
Engineer John Jansen was going through the Hendrix catalogue to find music to be used in the film "Rainbow
Bridge". He merged these three pieces of music together, and it was put into the vaults, until Alan Douglas came
upon it in 1975 and named it "Captain Coconut" for use on this release. It is not called "MLK", those were just three
stray markings on the original tape box.

Personnel

Jimi Hendrix guitars, lead vocals, backing vocals


Buddy Miles drums on tracks 1, 6, backing vocals on tracks 1 and 6
Billy Cox bass on tracks 1, 6 and 8, backing vocals on tracks 1 and 6
Noel Redding backing vocals on track 7
Juma Sultan percussion on track 1

Added in 1975:

Jimmy Maeulen percussion on tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8


Jeff Mironov guitars on tracks 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7
Allan Schwartzberg drums on tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8
Bob Babbitt bass on tracks 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7
Linda November backing vocals on track 3
Vivian Cherry backing vocals on track 3
Barbara Massey backing vocals on track 3

References

Shapiro, Harry; Caesar Glebbeek (1995-08-15). "Appendix 1: Music, Sweet Music: The Discography". Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy (3rd
Edition ed.). New York: St. Martin's Griffin. pp.54546. ISBN9780312130626.

References
[1] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:hifwxq85ldje
[2] http:/ / www. robertchristgau. com/ get_album. php?id=7001

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Midnight Lightning
Midnight Lightning

Studio album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

November 1975

Recorded 19691975
Genre

Hard rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues-rock

Length

35:58

Label

Reprise

Producer Alan Douglas, Tony Bongiovi


Professional reviews
[1]

Allmusic
link
[2]
Robert Christgau (B+) link

Jimi Hendrix chronology


Crash
Landing
(1975)

Midnight
Lightning
(1975)

Re-Experienced
(1975)

Midnight Lightning is a posthumous ninth studio album by American guitarist Jimi Hendrix, released in November
1975. It was the sixth Hendrix studio album released after his death and the second to be produced by Alan Douglas.
The songs used on the album consisted of post-Jimi Hendrix Experience recordings that originally featured Billy
Cox on bass and either Mitch Mitchell or Buddy Miles on drums.
Douglas continued his controversial methods he had adopted on Crash Landing and brought in many of the same
session musicians to overdub parts of songs. The only original recording (apart from those by Hendrix) was Mitch
Mitchell's drumming on "Hear My Train A Comin'". In response to the previous outcry from fans and critics,
Douglas did not claim co-writer credit for any songs on Midnight Lightning. Despite the fact that the album included
staples such as "Hear My Train A Comin'" and "Machine Gun", the album was not as well received as its
predecessor, peaking at #43 in the U.S. and #46 in the UK.

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Other appearances of songs


Like Crash Landing, the origin of the songs used for Midnight Lightning is somewhat murky. The track "Midnight
Lightning" appears to date from 1970. A live version of the song was recorded at the Isle of Wight Festival in
August of that year and is available on the soundtrack CD. "Hear My Train A Comin'" is a blues song written by
Hendrix that dates from 1967. An acoustic version of the song appeared on Sound Track Recordings from the Film
Jimi Hendrix which was the companion album to a 1973 documentary film. Hendrix performed the song at
Woodstock and at a series of concerts in 1969/70 at the Fillmore East with the Band of Gypsys. Another live version
was recorded on May 30, 1970, at the Berkeley Community Theater, and was later released on the 1971 Rainbow
Bridge LP. The 1967 acoustic version and live 1970 version from Berkeley also appear on the 1994 compilation
Blues. While Hendrix likely recorded studio versions of "Hear My Train A Comin'", specific information about the
track that appears on Midnight Lightning is unclear, though a studio version from February 1969 is included on the
The Jimi Hendrix Experience box set from 2000. "Gypsy Boy" likely dates from 1970 and is similar to the song
"Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)" from Rainbow Bridge, although it is over two minutes shorter in length. "Blue Suede
Shoes" appears to use the basic track from January 1970 that was used on the 1974 album Loose Ends. However, the
version from Midnight Lightning is presented as a completed track, whereas on Loose Ends (the song is preceded by
some studio chat from Hendrix, instructing drummer Buddy Miles how he wants the drums to be played!), fades out
shortly after it begins. The complete version of the song is over 11 minutes long, which included a harmonica player.
"Machine Gun" was an anti-war song that Hendrix wrote in 1969. He played elements of the song at Woodstock that
August and debuted a proper version in September on The Dick Cavett Show. The song was regularly performed by
Hendrix in concerts for the next year up until his death. It is not clear if this version of "Machine Gun" is based on a
legitimate studio recording, a demo tape, or a live performance, since no other studio version of the song has ever
been released. Little information also exists about "Once I Had a Woman", as it was not one of the songs identified
by Hendrix as a candidate for his intended next album First Ray of the New Rising Sun. A longer, slower version of
this song was also included on Blues, though it is unclear if this is an extended version of the Midnight Lightning
track (without backing vocals and some of the instruments added in 1975) or a completely separate take.
"Beginnings" is an instrumental track composed by Mitch Mitchell which is similar to the track of the same name
from the posthumous 1972 War Heroes album.

Track listing
All songs written and composed by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
Side one
No. Title

Length

1. "Trashman"

3:15

2. "Midnight Lightning"

3:49

3. "Hear My Train A Comin'"

5:43

4. "Gypsy Boy"

3:45

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Side two
No. Title

Length

1. "Blue Suede Shoes" (Carl Perkins)

3:29

2. "Machine Gun"

7:36

3. "Once I Had a Woman"

5:20

4. "Beginnings" (Mitch Mitchell)

3:02

Personnel
Jimi Hendrix guitars, vocals
Mitch Mitchell drums on track 3
Added in 1975:

Jeff Mironov guitar on tracks 1, 2, 3, 5 and 8


Lance Quinn guitar on tracks 2, 4, 6 and 7
Allan Schwartzberg drums on tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, percussion on tracks 3 and 4
Bob Babbitt bass
Jimmy Maelen percussion on tracks 2 and 8
Maeretha Stewart backing vocals on tracks 2, 4 and 7
Barbara Massey backing vocals on tracks 2, 4 and 7
Vivian Cherry backing vocals on tracks 2, 4 and 7
Buddy Lucas harmonica on track 7

References

Shapiro, Harry; Caesar Glebbeek (1995-08-15). "Appendix 1: Music, Sweet Music: The Discography". Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy (3rd
Edition ed.). New York: St. Martin's Griffin. pp.5478. ISBN9780312130626.

[1] http:/ / allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:kifwxq85ldje~T1


[2] http:/ / www. robertchristgau. com/ get_album. php?id=7002

''Nine to the Universe''

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Nine to the Universe


Nine to the Universe

Studio album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

March 1980

Recorded

AprilJune 1969 at Record Plant Studios and The Hit Factory in New York City,
New York

Genre

Hard rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues-rock, jazz fusion

Length

38:57

Label

Reprise

Producer

Alan Douglas
Professional reviews
[1]

Allmusic
link
[2]
Robert Christgau (B+) link

Jimi Hendrix chronology


The Essential Jimi Hendrix Volume
Two
(1979)

Nine to the
Universe
(1980)

Woke Up This Morning and Found Myself


Dead
(1980)

Nine to the Universe is a posthumous tenth studio album by American guitarist Jimi Hendrix, released in March and
June 1980 in the United States and the United Kingdom respectively. It was the seventh Hendrix studio album
released after his death and the third to be produced by Alan Douglas.
Unlike with Crash Landing and Midnight Lightning, Douglas did not bring in session musicians to overdub
instrumental parts of songs, and only one part - backing vocals by Devon Wilson on "Message from Nine to the
Universe" - was wiped from the original recordings.
The unedited versions of "Jimi/Jimmy Jam" and "Drone Blues" were featured on the 2004 Dagger Records release
Hear My Music.

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Track listing
All songs written and composed by Jimi Hendrix.
Side one
No. Title

Length

1. "Message from Nine to the


Universe"

8:45

2. "Jimi/Jimmy Jam"

8:04

Side two
No. Title
1. "Young/Hendrix"

Length
10:22

2. "Easy Blues"

4:30

3. "Drone Blues"

6:16

Personnel

Jimi Hendrix guitar, lead vocals on track 1


Billy Cox bass
Mitch Mitchell drums
Buddy Miles drums on track 1
Devon Wilson backing vocals on track 1 (wiped)
Jim McCarty guitar on track 2
Roland Robinson bass on track 2
Larry Young organ on track 3
Larry Lee rhythm guitar on track 4

Recording details

Track 1 recorded at Record Plant Studios in New York City, New York on May 29, 1969
Track 2 recorded at Record Plant Studios on March 25, 1969
Track 3 recorded at Record Plant Studios on May 14, 1969
Track 4 recorded at The Hit Factory in New York City, New York on June 25, 1969
Track 5 recorded at Record Plant Studios on April 24, 1969

References

Shapiro, Harry; Caesar Glebbeek (1995-08-15). "Appendix 1: Music, Sweet Music: The Discography". Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy (3rd
Edition ed.). New York: St. Martin's Griffin. pp.54950. ISBN9780312130626.

References
[1] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:difexq85ldje
[2] http:/ / www. robertchristgau. com/ get_album. php?id=4950

''Valleys of Neptune''

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Valleys of Neptune
Valleys of Neptune

Studio album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

March 5, 2010 (details)

Recorded

19671970 (details), {1987}

Genre

Blues-rock, psychedelic rock

Length

61:40

Label

Legacy

Producer

Jimi Hendrix, Chas Chandler, Janie Hendrix, Eddie Kramer, John McDermott
Jimi Hendrix chronology

Live at
Woburn
(2009)

Valleys of
Neptune
(2010)

West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix


Anthology
(2010)

Singles from Valleys of Neptune


1. "Valleys

of Neptune"
Released: February 9, 2010
2. "Bleeding Heart"
Released: March 1, 2010
Valleys of Neptune is a posthumous studio album by American psychedelic rock musician Jimi Hendrix. Released in
the United States on March 9, 2010, the album boasts "12 previously unreleased studio recordings,"[1] including the
title track, "one of the most sought after of all of Hendrix's commercially unavailable recordings."[1] The tracks on
Valleys of Neptune were largely self-produced by Hendrix, and received extra posthumous production from Janie
Hendrix, Eddie Kramer and John McDermott for Experience Hendrix, L.L.C.[2] Largely recorded in 1969 following
the release of Electric Ladyland, the album predominantly features the original lineup of The Jimi Hendrix
Experience: vocalist and guitarist Hendrix, bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell.[2] The lead single
released from the album was "Valleys of Neptune", on February 1, 2010, followed by "Bleeding Heart" on March
1;[3] music videos were produced for both songs.

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Background
The majority of the tracks featured on Valleys of Neptune were recorded in early 1969, while Hendrix was
experimenting with songs for his unfinished fourth album, following the successful release of Electric Ladyland in
September 1968. Numerous different versions have been released, both officially and otherwise, and the majority of
the 'previously unreleased' recordings present on the 2010 album have been released in one form or another before,
albeit sometimes in inferior quality or different versions.

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source

Rating
[4]

Allmusic
Washington Post

(favorable)

Lincoln Journal Star

(A)

[5]

[6]

Writing for music website MusicRadar.com, critic Joe Bosso compiled a track-by-track review of Valleys of
Neptune, an album in the whole that he described as "one of the best albums of 2010".[7] Ludovic Hunter-Tilney in
the Financial Times was equally positive, awarding the album a four-star (of a maximum five) rating and describing
it as "a cut above the many posthumous cash-ins released in [Hendrix's] name."[8] Ann Powers in the Los Angeles
Times awarded the album "Two and a half stars (Out of four)", summarising her review by saying: "Fans will be
fascinated by these bluesy riffs with the Experience, but this album of unreleased material from the archives doesn't
convey much that was unknown."[9]

Track listing
All songs written and composed by Jimi Hendrix, except "Bleeding Heart" by Elmore James and "Sunshine of Your
Love" by Pete Brown, Jack Bruce and Eric Clapton.
No. Title

Length

1. "Stone Free"

3:45

2. "Valleys of Neptune"

4:01

3. "Bleeding Heart" (Elmore James cover)

6:20

4. "Hear My Train a Comin'"

7:29

5. "Mr. Bad Luck"

2:56

6. "Sunshine of Your Love" (instrumental Cream cover)

6:45

7. "Lover Man"

4:15

8. "Ships Passing Through the Night"

5:52

9. "Fire"

3:12

10. "Red House"

8:20

11. "Lullaby for the Summer" (instrumental)

3:48

12. "Crying Blue Rain"

4:56

Total length:

61:40

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106

Target bonus tracks


No. Title

Length

13. "Slow Version" (instrumental)

4:56

14. "Trash Man" (instrumental)

7:23

Total length:

73:59

Recording details
All recording details are included in the Valleys of Neptune booklet,[2] except for the Target tracks, which are listed
on the inside of the Digipack behind the CD.
No.
1

Track
"Stone Free"

"Valleys of Neptune"

Date(s)

Studio(s)

Details

Ref(s).

Master recording

[10] [11]

April 9, 1969

Guitar and vocal


overdubs

[10] [11]
[12]

April 14, 1969

Guitar and vocal


overdubs

[10] [11]

May 17, 1969

Additional recording

Master recording

[13]

April 7, 1969

September 23,
1969

Record Plant Studios, New York City, New


York

Record Plant Studios, New York City, New


York

May 15, 1970

Additional recording

[14] [15]

"Bleeding Heart"

April 24, 1969

Record Plant Studios, New York City, New


York

All recording

[16] [17]

"Hear My Train a Comin'"

April 7, 1969

Record Plant Studios, New York City, New


York

All recording

[10] [11]

"Mr. Bad Luck"

May 5, 1967

Olympic Studios, London, England

All original recording

June 5, 1987

Air Studios, London, England

Bass and drum overdubs

February 16, 1969

Olympic Studios, London, England

All recording

[18] [19]

"Sunshine of Your Love"

"Lover Man"

"Ships Passing Through the


Night"

April 14, 1969

Record Plant Studios, New York City, New


York

All recording

[10] [20]

"Fire"

February 17, 1969

Olympic Studios, London, England

All recording

[21] [22]

11 "Lullaby for the Summer"

April 7, 1969

Record Plant Studios, New York City, New


York

All recording

[10] [11]

12 "Crying Blue Rain"

February 16, 1969

Olympic Studios, London, England

All recording

[18] [19]

June 5, 1987

Air Studios, London, England

Bass and drum overdubs

10 "Red House"

Target bonus tracks

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No.

Track

Date

Studio

Details

13 "Slow Version" February 14, 1969 Olympic Studios, London, England

14 "Trash Man"

April 3, 1969

Ref.

All
recording

Olmstead Studios, New York City, New York All


recording

Album artwork
The album artwork is based on a painting by Hendrix himself in 1957. "He went through a phase doing watercolors
at school and this was one of the 110 drawings of his that our father kept. When I saw this one he did in 1957, it
screamed 'Valleys of Neptune' to me so we knew we'd use it for this project," said his sister, Janie. The album
artwork is a mix of his painting and a Linda McCartney photograph of him with a blue tint.[23]

Personnel
Primary musicians

Original production personnel

Graphic personnel

Jimi Hendrix vocals, guitars, production on


all tracks except 5, front cover painting
Mitch Mitchell drums on all tracks except 3
Noel Redding bass on all tracks except 1, 2
and 3, backing vocals on track 9
Billy Cox bass on tracks 1, 2 and 3

Additional musicians

Rocki Dzidzornu percussion on tracks 6 and


12
Roger Chapman backing vocals on track 1
Andy Fairweather Low backing vocals on
track 1
Juma Sultan percussion on track 2
Rocky Isaac drums on track 3
Chris Grimes tambourine on track 3
Al Marks maracas on track 3

Eddie Kramer posthumous production,


mixing, engineering on tracks 1, 2, 5 and 14
Chas Chandler production on track 5
George Chkiantz engineering on tracks 6, 7,
9, 10, 12 and 13
Gary Kellgren engineering on tracks 1, 3 and
8
Jack Adams engineering on track 2

Posthumous production personnel

Janie Hendrix production


John McDermott production, essay
Chandler Harrod engineering assistance
Rick Kwan additional engineering
Derik Lee additional engineering
Charlie Stavish additional engineering
Aaron Walk additional engineering
George Marino mastering

Phil Yarnall graphic design


Linda McCartney front cover
photography
James Davenport back cover
photography, booklet photography
Jerry Schatzberg booklet
photography
Jonathan Stathakis booklet
photography
Graham F. Page booklet
photography
John Sullivan booklet photography
Ulvis Alberts booklet photography
Willis Hogan Jr. booklet
photography
Peter Riches booklet photography

Release details
Region
Benelux

Date
March 5, 2010

Label
Sony Music

Format
CD

Catalog

Ref.

886976405625

[24]

Germany

[25]

United Kingdom March 8, 2010

Sony Music

CD

88697640562

[26]

France

March 8, 2010

Strategic
Marketing

CD

[27]

United States

March 9, 2010

Legacy Recordings CD

Japan

March 10, 2010 Sony Music

8869764056

[28]

Double LP
album

88697640591

[29] [30]

CD

SICP2662

[31]

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Chart performance
Chart

Peak
position

Billboard 200

US Rock Albums

Australian Albums
[32]
Chart

Swedish Albums Chart

7
[33]

Polish Albums Chart

23

Hungarian Albums Chart

11

[34]

References
Geldeart, Gary; Rodham, Steve (2007), Jimi Hendrix: The Studio Log, Warrington, Cheshire: Jimpress,
ISBN9780952768647
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[2] McDermott, John (2009). Album notes for Valleys of Neptune by Jimi Hendrix, p.2023 [booklet]. Experience Hendrix, L.L.C..
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jimi-hendrix-valleys-of-neptune-review-track-by-track-237776). MusicRadar.com. . Retrieved February 23, 2010.
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03/ album-review-jimi-hendrixs-valleys-of-neptune. html). Los Angeles Times. . Retrieved March 8, 2010.
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Live albums
Band of Gypsys
Band of Gypsys

Live album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

March 25, 1970 (UK)


June 12, 1970 (US)

Recorded January 1, 1970 at the Fillmore East


Genre

Psychedelic rock, hard rock, acid rock, funk rock, R&B

Length

45:16

Label

Capitol (USA), Track Records (UK), Barclay Records (France), Polydor (rest of the world), MCA (now)

Producer

Heaven Research (Jimi Hendrix)


Professional reviews
[1]

Allmusic
link
[2]
Pitchfork Media (9.1/10) 2/1/1998
[3]
Robert Christgau (B+) link
[4]
Rolling Stone
2/2/1998

Jimi Hendrix chronology


Electric Jimi
Hendrix
(1968)

Band of
Gypsys
(1970)

The Cry of
Love
(1971)

Additional Artwork

''Band of Gypsys''

111

Band of Gypsys UK cover (Track Records)

Band of Gypsys is a blues rock band led by Jimi Hendrix and backed by Billy Cox and Buddy Miles. Hendrix
formed the band after the dissolution of The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Band of Gypsys is also the band's eponymous
live album recorded on two separate nights, 31 December 1969 and 1 January 1970, at the Fillmore East. Released
just three months before his death in 1970, it was the last album Hendrix himself authorized, and the only
Hendrix-authorized album to be released on Capitol Records (in the U.S.). This was the result of a settlement
regarding a recording contract he had signed in 1965.
Produced by Hendrix, Band of Gypsys reached #5 in the U.S. and #6 in the UK.

History
After Hendrix disbanded the Jimi Hendrix Experience in early-1969, he formed Gypsy Sun and Rainbows to fulfill
the contract for the Experience to play Woodstock. Bassist Billy Cox (who had played with Hendrix while they were
in the army) had been rehearsing and playing with Hendrix since April, but the band was short-lived.
With Cox and his drummer friend Buddy Miles, Hendrix next formed the Band of Gypsys, this time to fulfill his
obligation to produce an LP of new material for Ed Chalpin, to be released on the Capitol label. Hendrix, in
interviews as early as March 1969, had already mentioned a "jam" album to be titled Band of Gypsys. Hendrix also
mentioned in his introduction at Woodstock that "Band of Gypsys" was an alternative name for the group performing
there.
They recorded a single "Stepping Stone" (b/w "Izabella") for Reprise, which was quickly withdrawn after its release.
They also recorded some studio material, and several finished tracks, some of which have been released on First
Rays of the New Rising Sun and elsewhere. They made their live debut at the Fillmore East on New Year's Eve,
1969, for a series of four shows spread over two nights.
The Fillmore East concerts featured mostly new songs, as the songs for the Band of Gypsys LP would have to be
original due to a recent judgment against him in a contractual suit. This performance was captured using the then
new portable Sony Portapak B&W video camera and open-reel 1/2" videotape recorder, from two different angles.[5]
The set of concerts is notable for being the only known time in which Hendrix used an Octavia pedal, though its
effects were recorded on many of his studio songs, including "Purple Haze". Custom made for him, Hendrix rarely
brought the Octavia to shows for fear it might get stolen.
In some markets, including the UK, the album was released with a cover photograph that featured dolls of Hendrix,
Brian Jones, Bob Dylan and British DJ John Peel, an early supporter of Hendrix.
Hendrix selected two Buddy Miles songs and three of his own for the album, not wanting to give away any more of
his new songs than he had to. "We Gotta Live Together" is heavily edited to fit on the album. Its original length is
about twice that which can be heard on the album. A longer version can be heard on Live at the Fillmore East album;
the full version has never been officially released.
Due to the demands of four sets over two days, the band needed a lot of material and played the Experience-era
favorites "Wild Thing," "Hey Joe," "Purple Haze, "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)," "Foxy Lady," "Fire," and "Stone

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Free" to fill out the sets. Nearing the end of the fourth set, Hendrix said, "We're just trying to figure out something to
play, but we only know about six songs right now...seven...nine."[5] He then launched into a version of "Voodoo
Child (Slight Return)." "Foxy Lady" was included on the later Japanese/German re-release (details below).
Furthermore, "Wild Thing," "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" and "Stone Free" can be heard on Live at the Fillmore
East.
After a disastrous show at Madison Square Garden on January 28, 1970, where Hendrix insulted a woman in the
audience, played just two songs and then left the stage, Band of Gypsys was disbanded.
A documentary entitled Band of Gypsys: Live at the Fillmore East was released on DVD in 1999.[5] It focused on the
album and Hendrix's performances at the Fillmore during New Year's Eve 1969, and New Year's Day 1970. It
contains the original half-inch open-reel black and white video footage shot by a fan at the concerts, and interviews
with people that were involved in Hendrix at the time.[5]

Songs played at concerts


The recordings included on Band of Gypsys featured selections from
the final two shows. The set lists for the complete Fillmore East shows
are as follows.
* indicating inclusion on the Band of Gypsys album 1970
~ indicating inclusion on the Band of Gypsys reissued Polydor CD
1991
+ indicating inclusion on the Live At The Fillmore East CD 1999
Wednesday, December 31, 1969 (First Fillmore East set)
1. "Power of Soul"
2. "Lover Man"
3. "Hear My Train A-Comin'" ~ +
4. "Them Changes" +
5. "Izabella" +
6. "Machine Gun"
7. "Stop"
8. "Ezy Ryder"
9. "Bleeding Heart"
10. "Earth Blues"
11. "Burning Desire"

The platinum record of Band of Gypsys on


display at the Hard Rock Cafe Hollywood.

Wednesday, December 31, 1969 (Second Fillmore East set)


1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.

"Auld Lang Syne" +


"Who Knows" +
"Stepping Stone"
"Burning Desire"
"Fire"
"Ezy Ryder"
"Machine Gun" +
"Power of Soul"
"Stone Free/Nutcracker Suite/Drum Solo/Outside Woman Blues/Cherokee Mist/Sunshine Of Your Love"

10. "Them Changes"


11. "Message of Love"
12. "Stop"

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13. "Foxy Lady"


14. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"
15. "Purple Haze"
Thursday, January 1, 1970 (Third Fillmore East set)
1. "Who Knows" *
2. "Machine Gun *
3. "Them Changes"
4. "Power of Soul" +
5. "Stepping Stone" +
6. "Foxy Lady" ~
7. "Stop" ~ +
8. "Hear My Train A-Comin"
9. "Earth Blues"
10. "Burning Desire" +
Thursday, January 1, 1970 (Fourth Fillmore East set)
1. "Stone Free/Little Drummer Boy" +
2. "Them Changes" *
3. "Power of Soul" *
4. "Message of Love" *
5. "Earth Blues" +
6. "Machine Gun" +
7. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" +
8. "We Gotta Live Together" * +
9. "Wild Thing" +
10. "Hey Joe"
11. "Purple Haze"

Track listing
All songs written and composed by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted. The titles of tracks 3-5 are often incorrectly
listed on various LP and CD releases. They should read as "Them Changes", "Power of Soul" and "Message of
Love", as evidenced from pre-song announcements by Hendrix and Miles, song lyrics as well as their names on the
Live at the Fillmore East release..
No. Title

Length

1. "Who Knows"

9:32

2. "Machine Gun"

12:36

3. "Changes" ("Them Changes") (Buddy Miles)

5:10

4. "Power to Love" ("Power of Soul")

6:53

5. "Message of Love"

5:22

6. "We Gotta Live Together" (Buddy Miles)

5:46

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German/Japanese bonus tracks


No. Title

Length

7. "Hear My Train A-Comin'" (First set)

9:02

8. "Foxy Lady" (Third set)

6:33

9. "Stop" (Third set) (Howard Tate)

4:47

Personnel
Jimi Hendrix guitar, vocals
Billy Cox bass, backing vocals
Buddy Miles drums, vocals

Production personnel

Jimi Hendrix (Heaven Research) producer


Wally Heider Live recording engineer
Eddie Kramer Studio mixing engineer, mastering, remastering, remixing
Jan Blom album cover photography
Joseph Sia photography
Album cover designed by Victor Kahn
Robert Herman photography
George Marino remastering
John McDermott liner notes (later re-release)

External links
/ The complete Band Of Gypsys Fillmore Set List [6]

References
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]

http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:m95f8qftbtx4~T1


http:/ / pitchforkmedia. com/ article/ record_review/ 18446/ Jimi_Hendrix_Band_of_Gypsys
http:/ / www. robertchristgau. com/ get_album. php?id=1691
http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ reviews/ album/ _/ id/ 245798
Jimi Hendrix, Billy Cox, Buddy Miles. (1999-02-23). Band of Gypsys Live at the Fillmore East (http:/ / www. jimi-hendrix. com/ catalog/
videos,bandofgypsys,1. html). [DVD]. Experience Hendrix/Universal Musical Enterprises. . Retrieved 2009-12-27.
[6] http:/ / pagesperso-orange. fr/ hendrix. guide/ bog_fillmore. htm

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Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey


International Pop Festival
Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey
International Pop Festival

Live album by Otis Redding/The Jimi Hendrix Experience


[1]

Released

August 26, 1970

Genre

Psychedelic rock
Soul

Label

Reprise

Producer

Lou Adler, John Phillips


Professional reviews

Robert Christgau (A) link

[2]

Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival was a live album released by Reprise
Records on August 26, 1970 documenting two memorable performances at the Monterey Pop Festival; those by Otis
Redding and The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Reprise was restless for a new album release from one of its hottest stars,
but Hendrix had not delivered new material to Reprise in two years. Reprise decided not to wait any longer and
released the Monterey album. It was an opportune move because Hendrix died just after the album hit stores
(Redding had died in 1967). The album hit 15 on the Billboard album chart. It was impressive for an album of
material that had sat on the shelf for three years. It also fueled the idea at Reprise and other record companies that
old material could be repackaged and sold to Hendrix fans.
Although the Monterey International Pop Festival album was released three years after being recorded, it became
highly acclaimed. Both Jimi Hendrix and Otis Redding had given breakthrough performances at the Festival, which
launched both their careers onto a wider stage. The Monterey International Pop Music Festival took place from June
16 to June 18, 1967 and was the brainchild of Lou Adler. Over 200,000 people attended, and it is often regarded as
the precursor to Woodstock. Hendrix took the stage on the final day, June 18, 1967. Brian Jones of The Rolling
Stones introduced The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

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Track listing
Side 1: The Jimi Hendrix Experience
No. Title

Writer(s)

Length

1. "Like a Rolling Stone" Bob Dylan

6:22

2. "Rock Me Baby"

B. B. King, Joe
Josea

3:00

3. "Can You See Me"

Jimi Hendrix

2:30

4. "Wild Thing"

Chip Taylor

7:30

Side 2: Otis Redding


No. Title

Sam Cooke

2:37

6. "Respect"

Otis Redding

3:22

7. "I've Been Loving You Too Long" Otis Redding, Jerry Butler

3:32

8. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"

Mick Jagger, Keith Richards

3:21

9. "Try A Little Tenderness"

Harry M. Woods, Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly

4:40

The Jimi Hendrix Experience:


Jimi Hendrix guitar, vocals
Noel Redding bass
Mitch Mitchell drums
Otis Redding:
Otis Redding vocals
Booker T. Jones - organ
Steve Cropper - guitar
Donald "Duck" Dunn - bass guitar
Al Jackson, Jr. - drums
Wayne Jackson - trumpet
Andrew Love - tenor saxophone

Production

Length

5. "Shake"

Personnel

Writer(s)

Producers: Lou Adler, John Phillips


Engineers: Wally Heider, Eric Weinberg
Photography: Jim Marshall
Cover Layout: Ed Thrasher

See also
List of best-selling music artists
Jimi Hendrix discography

''Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival''

References
[1] "August 26, 1970" (http:/ / jimihendrix. com/ encyclopedia/ document,19700826,3. html). The Jimi Hendrix Encyclopedia. Experience
Hendrix. . Retrieved 2008-07-12.
[2] http:/ / www. robertchristgau. com/ get_album. php?id=7609

Experience
Experience

Live album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

August 1971

Recorded February 18, 1969 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England
Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues-rock

Length

30:05

Label

Ember

Producer Steve Gold, Michael Jeffery


Professional reviews
Allmusic

link

[1]

Jimi Hendrix chronology


The Cry of
Love
(1971)

Experience
(1971)

Rainbow
Bridge
(1971)

Experience was a posthumous live album by Jimi Hendrix, released in August 1971 in the United Kingdom by
Ember Records. The album was intended as a soundtrack to the unreleased film Experience documenting The Jimi
Hendrix Experience's performance at the Royal Albert Hall on February 18, 1969. The follow-up to Experience,
entitled More Experience, was released in 1972.

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Track listing
All songs written and composed by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
Side one
No. Title

Length

1. "Opening Jam (Sunshine of Your Love)" (Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Pete Brown)

6:48

2. "Room Full of Mirrors"

8:15

Side two
No. Title

Length

1. "C# Blues (People, People,


People)"

8:27

2. "Smashing of Amps"

6:25

Personnel
Jimi Hendrix guitar, vocals
Mitch Mitchell drums
Noel Redding bass guitar

See also
Jimi Hendrix discography
More Experience

External links
http://www.discogs.com/master/82804

References
[1] http:/ / allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:fjfuxq9hldke~T1

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Isle of Wight
Isle of Wight

Live album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

November 1971

Recorded August 30, 1970 at the Isle of Wight Festival in England


Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues-rock

Length

34:01

Label

Polydor

Producer

Michael Jeffrey
Professional reviews
Allmusic

link

[1]

Jimi Hendrix chronology


Rainbow
Bridge
(1971)

Isle of
Wight
(1971)

Hendrix in the
West
(1972)

Isle of Wight was a posthumous live album by Jimi Hendrix, released in November 1971 by Polydor. The album
documents Hendrix's performance at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival on August 30, 1970; his last performance in
England before his death in September. The album was engineered by Carlos Ohlms (a British based engineer). The
cover photo is from Berlin.
Isle of Wight contains just part of the concert. The entire performance was released on the 2002 album Blue Wild
Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight.

Track listing
All songs written and composed by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.

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Side one
No. Title

Length

1. "Midnight Lightning"

6:23

2. "Foxy Lady"

3:29

3. "Lover Man"

2:58

Side two
No. Title

Length

1. "Freedom"

4:36

2. "All Along the Watchtower" (Bob


Dylan)

5:39

3. "In From the Storm"

6:14

Personnel
Jimi Hendrix guitar, vocals
Mitch Mitchell drums
Billy Cox bass

See also
Jimi Hendrix discography
Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight

References
[1] http:/ / allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:hxfoxq95ldke~T1

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Hendrix in the West


Hendrix in the West

Live album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

January 1972

Recorded 19691970
Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues-rock

Length

40:21

Label

Polydor
Professional reviews
[1]

Allmusic
link
[2]
Robert Christgau (A) link

Jimi Hendrix chronology


Isle of
Wight
(1971)

Hendrix in the
West
(1972)

More
Experience
(1972)

Hendrix in the West was a posthumous live album by Jimi Hendrix, released in January 1972 by Polydor Records,
and later in February by Reprise Records. The album contains songs from Hendrix's performances at the Royal
Albert Hall on February, 24, 1969, the San Diego Sports Arena on May, 24, 1969, Berkeley Community Theatre on
May 30, 1970 and the Isle of Wight Festival on August 30, 1970. The album's credits mislabel "Little Wing" and
"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" as being recorded at the San Diego Sports Arena, when in fact these 2 tracks were
recorded at the Royal Albert Hall on February 24, 1969.

Track listing

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Side one
No. Title

Length

1. "The Queen" (traditional)

2:40

2. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)

1:16

3. "Little Wing"

3:14

4. "Red House"

13:06

All songs written and composed by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
Side two
No. Title

Length

1. "Johnny B. Goode" (Chuck Berry)

4:45

2. "Lover Man"

3:05

3. "Blue Suede Shoes" (Carl Perkins)

4:26

4. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"

7:49

Recording details

Tracks 1 and 2 recorded at The Isle of Wight Festival on the morning of August 31, 1970
Tracks 3 and 8 recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London, England on February 24, 1969
Track 4 recorded at the San Diego Sports Arena, California on May 24, 1969
Track 5 recorded at the Berkeley Community Theatre on May 30, 1970, 1st show
Track 6 recorded at the Berkeley Community Theatre on May 30, 1970, 2nd show
Track 7 recorded at the Berkeley Community Theatre on May 30, 1970, afternoon rehearsals

Personnel

Jimi Hendrix guitar, vocals


Mitch Mitchell drums
Billy Cox bass on tracks 1, 2, 5, 6 and 7
Noel Redding bass on tracks 3, 4 and 8

See also

Jimi Hendrix discography


Isle of Wight
Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight
Experience
More Experience
Live at Berkeley

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References
[1] http:/ / allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:aifqxq85ldje~T1
[2] http:/ / www. robertchristgau. com/ get_album. php?id=1694

More Experience
More Experience

Live album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

March 1972

Recorded

February 24, 1969

Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock

Length

27:11

Label

Ember

Producer

Steve Gold, Michael Jeffery


Professional reviews
Allmusic

link

[1]

Jimi Hendrix chronology


Hendrix in the
West
(1972)

More
Experience
(1972)

The Essential Jimi


Hendrix
(1979)

More Experience is a posthumous live album by Jimi Hendrix released in in March 1972 by Ember Records. The
album was promoted as a soundtrack to the unreleased film Experience documenting The Jimi Hendrix Experience's
performance at the Royal Albert Hall on February 24, 1969. The predecessor to More Experience, entitled
Experience, was released in 1971.

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Track listing
All songs written and composed by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
Side one
No. Title

Length

1. "Little Wing"

3:20

2. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"

7:17

3. "Room Full of Mirrors" (edited)

2:56

Side two
No. Title

Length

1. "Fire"

3:44

2. "Purple Haze"

3:04

3. "Wild Thing" (Chip Taylor)

1:30

4. "Bleeding Heart" (edited) (Elmore James)

5:30

See also
Jimi Hendrix discography
Experience

External links
http://www.discogs.com/master/100096

References
[1] http:/ / allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:wxftxq95ld0e~T1

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The Jimi Hendrix Concerts


The Jimi Hendrix Concerts

Live album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

August 1982

Recorded

19681970

Genre

Blues-rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock

Length

77:41

Label

Reprise (U.S.)
CBS (UK)
Castle Communications (France)

Producer

Alan Douglas
Professional reviews
Allmusic

link

[1]

Jimi Hendrix chronology


Woke Up This Morning and Found Myself
Dead
(1980)

The Jimi Hendrix


Concerts
(1982)

Jimi Plays
Monterey
(1986)

The Jimi Hendrix Concerts is a posthumous live album by Jimi Hendrix released in August 1982. The album
contains eleven songs from six different concerts between 1968 and 1970. The album was re-released on CD in
1990.

Track listing
All songs written and composed by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.

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Side one
No. Title

Length

1. "Fire"

3:43

2. "I Don't Live


Today"

6:50

3. "Red House"

8:45

Side two
No. Title
1. "Stone Free"

Length
10:39

2. "Are You Experienced?"

6:46

Side three
No. Title

Length

1. "Little Wing"

3:54

2. "Voodoo Chile"

7:10

3. "Bleeding Heart" (Elmore James)

7:39

Side four
No. Title

Length

1. "Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts)

4:50

2. "Wild Thing" (Chip Taylor)

3:31

3. "Hear My Train A Comin'"

8:27

4. "Foxey Lady" (Bonus track on the CD release)

4:46

Recording details

Tracks 1, 6 and 10 recorded at the Winterland Arena, San Francisco, California, USA on October 12, 1968
Track 2 recorded at San Diego Sports Arena, San Diego, California, USA on May 24, 1969
Track 3 recorded at New York Pop, Downing Stadium, Randall's Island, New York, USA on July 17, 1970
Tracks 4 and 8 recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London, England on February 24, 1969
Tracks 5, 7 and 11 recorded at the Winterland Arena, San Francisco, California, USA on October 10, 1968
Track 9 recorded at Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, California, USA on May 5, 1970 (1st show)
Track 12 recorded at The Forum, Los Angeles, California, USA on April 26, 1969

''The Jimi Hendrix Concerts''

Personnel

Jimi Hendrix guitar, vocals


Mitch Mitchell drums
Noel Redding bass
Billy Cox bass on tracks 3 and 9

See also

Jimi Hendrix discography


Live at Winterland
Experience
More Experience
Live at Berkeley

References
[1] http:/ / allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:kbfixqw5ldke

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''Jimi Plays Monterey''

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Jimi Plays Monterey


Jimi Plays Monterey

Live album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

February 1986

Recorded June 18, 1967 at the Monterey Pop Festival, Monterey, California, USA
Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock

Length

41:02

Label

Reprise

Producer Alan Douglas


Professional reviews
[1]

Allmusic
link
[2]
Robert Christgau (B+) link

Jimi Hendrix chronology


The Jimi Hendrix
Concerts
(1982)

Jimi Plays
Monterey
(1986)

Johnny B.
Goode
(1986)

Jimi Plays Monterey is a posthumous live album by Jimi Hendrix released in February 1986. The album documents
The Jimi Hendrix Experience's performance at the Monterey Pop Festival on June 18, 1967. As well as songs from
the band's debut album Are You Experienced, Monterey also includes covers of "Killing Floor" (Howlin' Wolf),
"Like a Rolling Stone" (Bob Dylan), "Rock Me Baby" (B. B. King) and "Wild Thing" (Chip Taylor). The version of
"Wild Thing" on the album is one of the most notable live performances ever, as, in an iconic moment in rock
history, he sets his guitar alight after the song and then smashes it.
Jimi Plays Monterey is also a short film directed by D. A. Pennebaker documenting the same performance as the
album, also released in 1986. It is notable for containing several interviews with rock stars, and containing an art
piece by Denny Dent during the performance of "Can You See Me".

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Track listing
All songs written and composed by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
No. Title

Length

1. "Killing Floor" (Chester Arthur Burnett)

3:37

2. "Foxy Lady"

3:34

3. "Like a Rolling Stone" (Dylan)

6:50

4. "Rock Me Baby" (Joe Josea, B. B.


King)

3:29

5. "Hey Joe" (Roberts)

4:03

6. "Can You See Me"

2:43

7. "The Wind Cries Mary"

3:46

8. "Purple Haze"

5:06

9. "Wild Thing" (Taylor)

6:59

See also
Jimi Hendrix discography
Monterey International Pop Festival - Otis Redding/The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Live at Monterey

External links
Jimi Plays Monterey [3] at the Internet Movie Database

References
[1] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:dnfyxqygld0e
[2] http:/ / www. robertchristgau. com/ get_album. php?id=4952
[3] http:/ / www. imdb. com/ title/ tt0093312/

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Johnny B. Goode
Johnny B. Goode: An Original Video Soundtrack

Live album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

June 1986

Recorded July 4, 1970 at the Atlanta Pop Festival, Middle Georgia Raceway, Byron, Georgia, USA
Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock

Label

Capitol
Professional reviews
[1]

Allmusic
link
[2]
Robert Christgau (A-) link

Jimi Hendrix chronology


Jimi Plays
Monterey
(1986)

Johnny B.
Goode
(1986)

Band of Gypsys
2
(1986)

Johnny B. Goode is a posthumous live album by Jimi Hendrix released in June 1986. This release was the "mini LP"
soundtrack to the VHS and laserdisc that were released at the same time. The album contains three songs from
Hendrix's performance at the 1970 Atlanta International Pop Festival on July 4, 1970 and two songs from his
performance at Berkeley Community Theatre on May 30, 1970. This release contains an edited version of Voodoo
Child (Slight Return) from the Atlanta International Pop Festival.

Track listing
All songs written and composed by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.

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Side one
No. Title

Length

1. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"


2. "Johnny B. Goode" (Chuck Berry)
3. "All Along the Watchtower" (Bob
Dylan)

Side two
No. Title

Length

1. "The Star Spangled Banner" (Francis Scott Key, John Stafford


Smith)
2. "Machine Gun"

Recording details
Tracks 1, 3 and 4 recorded at the Atlanta International Pop Festival, Middle Georgia Raceway, Byron, Georgia,
USA on July 4, 1970
Tracks 2 and 5 recorded at Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, California, USA on May 5, 1970

Personnel
Jimi Hendrix guitar, vocals
Mitch Mitchell drums
Billy Cox bass guitar

See also
Jimi Hendrix discography
Live at Berkeley

References
[1] http:/ / allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:fifpxq85ldje
[2] http:/ / www. robertchristgau. com/ get_artist2. php?id=652

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Band of Gypsys 2
Band of Gypsys 2

Live album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

October 1986

Recorded

December 31, 1969 and January 1, 1970 at the Fillmore East, New York City, New York, USA, July 4, 1970 at the
Atlanta International Pop Festival, Middle Georgia Raceway, Byron, Georgia, USA and May 30, 1970 at the Berkeley
Community Theatre, Berkeley, California, USA

Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock

Label

Capitol
Professional reviews
Allmusic

link

[1]

Jimi Hendrix chronology


Johnny B.
Goode
(1986)

Band of Gypsys
2
(1986)

Live at
Winterland
(1987)

Band of Gypsys 2 is a posthumous live album by Jimi Hendrix released in October 1986. This is the second time
producer Alan Douglas went with Capitol Records for a Hendrix release (The first being the live mini LP "Johnny B.
Goode"). Though the title suggests that all songs were performed by the Band of Gypsys, there are actually only
three tracks on the album which feature this band. The other songs come from Hendrix's performances at the 1970
Atlanta International Pop Festival on July 4, 1970 and the Berkeley Community Theatre on May 30, 1970. This
release was deleted from the Capitol records catalogue after it was found out that "Foxy Lady" and "Stop" were lifted
from a videotape of the January 1st, 1970 Fillmore East show (Producer Alan Douglas did not have access to the
master tapes at the time). Also a very limited run of side 2 was pressed accidentally with alternate tracks.

Track listing
All songs written and composed by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.

''Band of Gypsys 2''

133

Side one
No. Title

Length

1. "Hear My Train A Comin'"

8:51

2. "Foxy Lady"

6:41

3. "Stop" (Jerry Ragovoy, Mort Shuman)

4:38

Side two
No. Title

Length

1. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"

7:06

2. "Stone Free"

4:13

3. "Ezy Ryder"

7:58

Alternate rare pressing of Side two


No. Title

Length

1. "Ezy Ryder - Berkeley, May 30th 1970"

8:16

2. "Hey Joe - Atlanta Pop Fest. July, 4th


1970"

4:25

3. "Hey Baby - Berkeley, May 30th 1970"

6:18

4. "Lover Man - Berkeley, May 30th 1970"

3:05

Recording details
Track 1 recorded at the Fillmore East, New York City, New York, USA on December 31, 1969
Tracks 2 and 3 recorded at the Fillmore East, New York City, New York, USA on January 1, 1970
Track 4 recorded at the Atlanta International Pop Festival, Middle Georgia Raceway, Byron, Georgia, USA on
July 4, 1970
Tracks 5 and 6 recorded at Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, California, USA on May 5, 1970

Personnel

Jimi Hendrix guitar, vocals


Billy Cox bass guitar
Buddy Miles drums on tracks 1, 2 and 3
Mitch Mitchell drums on tracks 4, 5 and 6

See also

Jimi Hendrix discography


Band of Gypsys
Live at the Fillmore East
Live at Berkeley

''Band of Gypsys 2''

134

References
[1] http:/ / allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:hnfwxqtgldhe

Live at Winterland
Live at Winterland

Live album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience


Released

May 1987

Recorded October 1012, 1968 at Winterland, San Francisco, California, USA


Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock

Label

Rykodisc
Professional reviews
Allmusic

link

[1]

The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology


Band of Gypsys
2
(1986)

Live at
Winterland
(1987)

Radio
One
(1988)

Live at Winterland is a posthumous live album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience released in May 1987. The album
documents The Jimi Hendrix Experience's performances at Winterland, San Francisco, California which they played
two shows each night on October 10, 11 and 12, 1968. This release compiles the best of those performances.

Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.

"Prologue" 0:57
"Fire" 3:12
"Manic Depression" 4:46
"Sunshine of Your Love" (Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Pete Brown) 6:25
"Spanish Castle Magic" 5:32
"Red House" 11:32
"Killing Floor" (Chester Arthur Burnett) 8:05
"Tax Free" (Bo Hansson, Janne Karlsson) 8:00
"Foxy Lady" 4:50

''Live at Winterland''
10.
11.
12.
13.

"Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts) 6:44


"Purple Haze" 4:34
"Wild Thing" (Chip Taylor) 3:05
"Epilogue" 0:30

Personnel

Jimi Hendrix guitar, vocals


Mitch Mitchell drums
Noel Redding bass guitar, backing vocals on track 11
Jack Casady bass guitar on track 7

See also
Jimi Hendrix discography

References
[1] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:aifexq85ldje~T1

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''Bleeding Heart''

136

Bleeding Heart
Bleeding Heart

Live album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

1994

Recorded March 18, 1968 at The Scene, New York City, New York,
USA
Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, Funk Rock

Length

53:46

Label

Castle
Jimi Hendrix chronology
The Ultimate
Experience
(1992)

Bleeding
Heart
(1994)

Blues
(1994)

Bleeding Heart is a posthumous live album by Jimi Hendrix released officially in 1994 by Castle Communications.
The album documents Hendrix's jam session at The Scene club, 301 West 46th Street, New York City in March
1968, with guest vocals from Jim Morrison (that consist almost entirely of drunkenly shouted obscenities). Other
musicians on the recordings are unknown, though it is possible that the bassist is Randy Hobbs and the drummer is
Randy Zehringer, members of The Scene's house band at the time. It has been rumored that Noel Redding and
Johnny Winter also appear. In the case of Redding, this is definitely untrue. Winter himself has denied that he took
part in the jam, saying he never met Jim Morrison, although at times during the recording a second lead guitar (at a
lower volume than Hendrix's) can be heard playing in an electric blues style.
Bleeding Heart was released at various times in the past under various different names including High, Live 'N Dirty,
Woke Up This Morning and Found Myself Dead (1980, with covertext by Tony Brown, who claimed this was the
'first genuine release' of these recordings 'thanks to Peter Shertser', published by Surprise Records in Brussels
(Belgium). Tracking list is unaltered, but for the 'Woke up one morning (...) title: this now reads 'Wake up this
morning and you find yourself dead'.)', Sunshine of Your Love, Sky High, Live at the Scene Club, Red House, New
York Sessions and Tomorrow Never Knows, though all were unofficial releases.

''Bleeding Heart''

137

Track listing
All songs written and composed by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
No. Title
1. "Red House"
2. "Woke Up This Morning and Found Myself Dead"
3. "Bleeding Heart" (Elmore James)

10:57
8:05
12:29

4. "Morrison's Lament" (Jim Morrison)

3:30

5. "Tomorrow Never Knows" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)

5:11

6. "Uranus Rock"

3:11

7. "Outside Woman Blues" (Blind Joe Reynolds)

8:03

8. "Sunshine of Your Love" (Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton, Pete


Brown)

2:16

Personnel

Length

Jimi Hendrix electric guitar, vocals


Jim Morrison vocals, screaming, harmonica
Unknown (possibly Randy Hobbs) bass guitar
Buddy Miles drums

''Woodstock''

138

Woodstock
Woodstock

Live album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

August 20, 1994

Recorded August 18, 1969 at Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York, USA
Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock

Length

63:46

Label

Polydor

Producer

Alan Douglas
Jimi Hendrix chronology

Live at
Winterland
(1987)

Woodstock
(1994)

Live at the Oakland


Coliseum
(1998)

Woodstock is a live album by Jimi Hendrix released posthumously on August 20, 1994. The album is an edited
recording of Hendrix's performance with his band Gypsy Sun and Rainbows at Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New
York on August 18, 1969.

Track listing
No. Title

Length

1. "Introduction"

1:56

2. "Fire"

3:53

3. "Izabella"

5:10

4. "Hear My Train A Comin' (Get My Heart Back Together)"

9:16

5. "Red House"

5:40

6. "Jam Back At The House (Beginnings)"

7:58

7. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)/Stepping Stone"

12:49

8. "The Star Spangled Banner"

3:42

9. "Purple Haze"

3:25

10. "Woodstock Improvisation"

4:59

''Woodstock''

139
11. "Villanova Junction"

3:04

12. "Farewell"

1:54

Personnel

Jimi Hendrix lead guitar, vocals


Mitch Mitchell drums
Billy Cox bass guitar
Larry Lee rhythm guitar
Juma Sultan percussion
Jerry Velez percussion

See also
Jimi Hendrix discography
Live at Woodstock

''Live at the Fillmore East''

140

Live at the Fillmore East


Live at the Fillmore East

Live album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

February 23, 1999

Recorded December 31, 1969 and January 1, 1970 at the Fillmore East, New York City, New York, USA
Genre

Rock, blues-rock, acid rock, funk rock

Length

115:01

Label

MCA

Producer Janie Hendrix, Eddie Kramer and John McDermott


Professional reviews
[1]

Allmusic
link
[2]
Pitchfork Media (9.2/10) link
[3]
Rolling Stone
link

Jimi Hendrix chronology


Live at the Oakland
Coliseum
(1998)

Live at the Fillmore


East
(1999)

Live at
Woodstock
(1999)

Live at the Fillmore East is a posthumous live album by Jimi Hendrix released on February 23, 1999. The album
documents Hendrix's performances with the Band of Gypsys at the Fillmore East on December 31, 1969 and January
1, 1970. It is drawn from the same performances as, and can be seen as an extended alternative to, the Band of
Gypsys album.

Track listing
All songs written and composed by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.

''Live at the Fillmore East''

141

Disc one
No. Title

Length

1. "Stone Free"

12:56

2. "Power of Soul"

6:19

3. "Hear My Train A Comin'"

9:02

4. "Izabella"

3:40

5. "Machine Gun"

11:36

6. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"

6:01

7. "We Gotta Live Together" (lead vocals: Buddy Miles)

9:55

Disc two
No. Title

Length

1. "Auld Lang Syne" (Robert Burns)

3:54

2. "Who Knows"

3:55

3. "Them Changes" (lead vocals: Buddy


Miles)

5:38

4. "Machine Gun"

13:35

5. "Stepping Stone"

5:20

6. "Stop" (Jerry Ragovoy, Mort Shuman)

5:43

7. "Earth Blues"

5:48

8. "Burning Desire"

8:22

9. "Wild Thing" (Chip Taylor)

3:06

Personnel
Jimi Hendrix guitar, vocals, backing vocals on tracks D1-7 and D2-3
Buddy Miles drums, backing vocals, lead vocals on tracks D1-7 and D2-3
Billy Cox bass guitar, backing vocals

Recording details

Tracks 3, 4, and 10 recorded at the first show at the Fillmore East on December 31, 1969
Tracks 8, 9, and 11 recorded at the second show at the Fillmore East on December 31, 1969
Tracks 2, 12, 13, and 15 recorded at first show the Fillmore East on January 1, 1970
Tracks 1, 5, 6, 7, 14, and 16 recorded at second show the Fillmore East on January 1, 1970

''Live at the Fillmore East''

142

References
[1] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:7txsa9tgi23u
[2] http:/ / www. pitchforkmedia. com/ article/ record_review/ 18445-live-at-the-fillmore-east
[3] http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ artists/ jimihendrix/ albums/ album/ 195403/ review/ 5942021/ live_at_the_fillmore_east

Live at Woodstock
Live at Woodstock

Live album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

July 6, 1999

Recorded August 18, 1969 at Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York, USA
Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, heavy metal

Length

96:38

Label

MCA

Producer Janie Hendrix, Eddie Kramer and John McDermott


Professional reviews
Allmusic
Rolling Stone

[1]

link
[2]
link

Jimi Hendrix chronology


Live at the Fillmore
East
(1999)

Live at
Woodstock
(1999)

Live at Clark
University
(1999)

Live at Woodstock is a posthumous live album by Jimi Hendrix released on July 6, 1999. The album documents
Hendrix's performance with his band Gypsy Sun and Rainbows at Woodstock Festival on August 18, 1969. Many of
the tracks on this album were released in 1994 on Woodstock. Apart from the cover of "Gypsy Woman" (The
Impressions) and "Mastermind", both of which were sung by rhythm guitarist Larry Lee, Live at Woodstock contains
the full set played by the band.
The recording, sound mix and the 1999 remix were completed by Eddie Kramer, who has pointed out that the
conditions were primitive; in view of that, the result has been acclaimed, though the radical editing results in the
group sound being reduced to a three piece of Hendrix, Cox and Mitchell. Lee, as noted above, and the two
percussionists are essentially edited out of the mix. The original recording of the complete performance can be heard
on several bootleg releases and the full group is clearly audible, notably on "Jam Back At The House" (aka
"Beginnings"), where the volume of the two percussionists and Lee's guitar are noticeably a part of the whole.

''Live at Woodstock''

143

This collection is to be re-released as part of the Hendrix Family's project to remaster Jimi's discography.

Track listing
All songs written and composed by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
Disc one
No. Title

Length

1. "Introduction"

2:21

2. "Message to Love"

7:21

3. "Hear My Train A Comin'"

9:49

4. "Spanish Castle Magic"

7:05

5. "Red House"

5:24

6. "Lover Man"

5:11

7. "Foxey Lady"

5:06

8. "Jam Back at the House"

7:44

Disc two
No. Title
1. "Izabella"

6:42

2. "Fire"

3:42

3. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"

13:40

4. "Star Spangled Banner" (Francis Scott Key, John Stafford Smith)

3:43

5. "Purple Haze"

4:23

6. "Woodstock Improvisation"

3:59

7. "Villanova Junction"

4:28

8. "Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts)

5:52

Personnel

Length

Jimi Hendrix guitar, vocals


Mitch Mitchell drums
Billy Cox bass guitar
Larry Lee rhythm guitar
Juma Sultan percussion
Jerry Velez - percussion

''Live at Woodstock''

See also
Jimi Hendrix discography
Woodstock

References
[1] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:1ejqoatalijn
[2] http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ artists/ jimihendrix/ albums/ album/ 224635/ review/ 5943943/ live_at_woodstock

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''Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight''

145

Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight


Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight

Live album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

November 12, 2002

Recorded

August 31, 1970 at the Isle of Wight Festival, Isle of Wight, England

Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues

Length

1:59:02

Label

MCA

Producer

Janie Hendrix, Eddie Kramer, John McDermott


Professional reviews
[1]

Allmusic
link
[2]
BBC Music (mixed) link
[3]
Rolling Stone
link

Jimi Hendrix chronology


Live in
Ottawa
(2001)

Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of


Wight
(2002)

Paris 1967/San Francisco


1968
(2003)

"Live at the Isle of Wight" redirects here. For the album by The Who, see Live at the Isle of Wight Festival
1970 (album).
Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight is a posthumous live album by Jimi Hendrix released on November 12,
2002. The album documents Hendrix's performance at the Isle of Wight Festival on August 31, 1970, barely three
weeks before his death. Some songs on the album were available on the 1971 release Isle of Wight.
The set list for the concert contained songs from the original Experience albums, as well as new songs written
around the time of the performance. Tagged into the set was an adaptation of "God Save the Queen" and a cover of
The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", played just before launching into "Spanish Castle Magic".
The 22-minute version of "Machine Gun" includes walkie-talkie interference from security personnel feeding
through the sound equipment. The CD set is more thorough than the DVD release as it contains "Midnight
Lightning", "Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)", and "Hey Joe", three songs omitted from the DVD. There was also a
"highlights" album released as a single disc, which contained 11 songs; 9 from disc 1, and 2 from disc 2.

''Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight''

Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.

Disc one
1. "God Save the Queen" (Traditional) 3:54
2. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) 0:49
3. "Spanish Castle Magic" 5:09
4. "All Along the Watchtower" (Bob Dylan) 5:39
5. "Machine Gun" 22:10
6. "Lover Man" 2:58
7. "Freedom" 4:36
8. "Red House" 11:36
9. "Dolly Dagger" 6:01
10. "Midnight Lightning" 6:23

Disc two
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

"Foxy Lady" 9:11


"Message to Love" 6:23
"Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)" 6:58
"Ezy Ryder" 4:34
"Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts) 4:32
"Purple Haze" 3:31
"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" 8:16
"In From the Storm" 6:14

Highlights CD
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

"God Save the Queen" (Traditional) 3:54


"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (Lennon, McCartney) 0:49
"Spanish Castle Magic" 5:09
"All Along the Watchtower" (Dylan) 5:39
"Machine Gun" 18:22

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

"Lover Man" 2:58


"Freedom" 4:36
"Red House" 11:36
"Dolly Dagger" 6:01
"Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)" 6:58
"In From the Storm" 6:14

146

''Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight''

DVD
1. "God Save the Queen" (Traditional)
2. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (Lennon, McCartney)
3. "Spanish Castle Magic"
4. "All Along the Watchtower" (Dylan)
5. "Machine Gun"
6. "Lover Man"
7. "Freedom"
8. "Red House"
9. "Dolly Dagger"
10. "Foxey Lady"
11. "Message to Love"
12. "Ezy Ryder"
13. "Purple Haze"
14. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"
15. "In From the Storm"

Personnel
Jimi Hendrix guitar, vocals
Mitch Mitchell drums
Billy Cox bass guitar

References
[1] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:zjd4vwdqa9yk
[2] http:/ / www. bbc. co. uk/ music/ reviews/ whbd
[3] http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ artists/ jimihendrix/ albums/ album/ 319905/ review/ 5943412/ blue_wild_angel_live_at_the_isle_of_wight

147

''Live at Berkeley''

148

Live at Berkeley
Live at Berkeley

Live album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience


Released

September 16, 2003

Recorded May 30, 1970 at the Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, California, USA
Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock

Length

67:47

Label

MCA

Producer

Abe Jacob
Professional reviews
[1]

BBC Music (favourable) link


[2]
Robert Christgau
link

The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology


Paris 1967/San Francisco
1968
(2003)

Live at
Berkeley
(2003)

Live at the Isle of


Fehmarn
(2005)

Live at Berkeley is a posthumous live album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience released on September 16, 2003. The
album documents the band's second performance at the Berkeley Community Theatre on May 30, 1970.
After the Band of Gypsys split up, Jimi's manager, Michael Jeffery, wanted to reunite the original Experience. He
announced the re-formation of the Experience, and set up an interview with Rolling Stone magazine (with
interviewer John Burks) on March 19, 1970, but 2 weeks later, Jimi had decided he did not want to work with bassist
Noel Redding anymore. So with drummer Mitch Mitchell and bassist Billy Cox, the trio formed the new Jimi
Hendrix Experience, also known as The Cry of Love, and at this particular concert pushed the boundaries with
works-in-progress including embryonic versions of what would become "Straight Ahead" and "Hey Baby (New
Rising Sun)". Hendrix didn't tune his guitar down a half step as he usually did at all other shows and on most of his
albums. Instead, he stayed in standard tuning.

''Live at Berkeley''

Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
1. "Introduction" 1:47
2. "Pass It On (Straight Ahead)" 6:58
3. "Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)" 6:07
4. "Lover Man" 2:59
5. "Stone Free" 4:08
6. "Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts) 4:49
7. "I Don't Live Today" 5:26
8. "Machine Gun" 11:22
9. "Foxy Lady" 6:30
10. "The Star Spangled Banner" (Francis Scott Key, John Stafford Smith) 2:45
11. "Purple Haze" 3:48
12. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" 10:49

First Show Track Listing


The track listing for the first show is provided below. A few of these songs have been released previously, including
"Johnny B. Goode" and "Lover Man" on the posthumous album Hendrix in the West and "Hear My Train A Comin'"
on Rainbow Bridge and Blues. This show has not been released on CD in its entirety but is available on the
Wolfgang's Vault web site.
1. "Introduction/Tuning" 1:01
2. "Fire" 4:08
3. "Johnny B. Goode" 4:52
4. "Hear My Train A Comin'" 11:28
5. "Foxy Lady" 4:48
6. "Machine Gun" 10:56
7. "Freedom" 5:00
8. "Tuning/Red House" 8:43
9. "Message Of Love" 5:25
10. "Ezy Rider" 7:56
11. "The Star Spangled Banner" 2:18
12. "Purple Haze" 3:46
13. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" 12:26
(Total Time 1:22:47)

149

''Live at Berkeley''

Personnel
Jimi Hendrix guitar, vocals
Mitch Mitchell drums
Billy Cox bass guitar

References
[1] http:/ / www. bbc. co. uk/ music/ reviews/ fcbd
[2] http:/ / www. robertchristgau. com/ get_album. php?id=13063

150

''Live at Monterey''

151

Live at Monterey
Live at Monterey

Live album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience


Released

October 29, 2007

Recorded

June 18, 1967

Genre

Rock, Psychedelic rock

Length

43:08

Label

Geffen, UMe

Producer

Janie Hendrix, Eddie Kramer, John McDermott


Professional reviews
Allmusic

link

[1]

The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology


Burning
Desire
(2006)

Live at
Monterey
(2007)

Live in Paris & Ottawa


1968
(2008)

Live at Monterey is a posthumous live album released on October 16, 2007. It contains Hendrix' performance with
his band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.
The album is similar to the Reprise release Jimi Plays Monterey, released in 1986. The differences lie in the mixes
used - Joe Gastwirt mixed the 1986 Jimi Plays Monterey, whereas Eddie Kramer mixed this version. The
introduction to the concert is also trimmed in the 2007 version.

Track listing

''Live at Monterey''

152

No. Title

Writer(s)

1. "Introduction by Brian Jones"

Length
0:39

2. "Killing Floor"

Chester Burnett

3:14

3. "Foxey Lady"

Jimi Hendrix

3:28

4. "Like a Rolling Stone"

Bob Dylan

7:06

5. "Rock Me Baby"

B. B. King, Joe
Josea

3:37

6. "Hey Joe"

Billy Roberts

5:11

7. "Can You See Me"

Hendrix

2:37

8. "The Wind Cries Mary"

Hendrix

3:53

9. "Purple Haze"

Hendrix

5:34

Chip Taylor

7:49

10. "Wild Thing"


Total length:

43:08

See also
Monterey International Pop Festival - Otis Redding/The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Jimi Plays Monterey

References
[1] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:jpfpxzrdldae

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Compilation albums
Smash Hits
Smash Hits

Greatest hits by The Jimi Hendrix Experience


Released

April 16, 1968 (UK)


July 30, 1969 (U.S.)

Recorded October 1966-July 1967 (UK)


October 1966-May 1968 (U.S.)
Genre

Rock, hard rock, psychedelic rock, blues


rock

Length

44:31

Label

MCA

Producer Chas Chandler (UK)


Chas Chandler and Jimi Hendrix (U.S.)
Professional reviews

Allmusic
Rolling Stone

[1]

link
[2]
link

The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology


Axis: Bold as
Love
(1967)

Smash
Hits
(1968)

Electric
Ladyland
(1968)

Smash Hits is the first compilation album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience. It was released in 1968 in the UK and the
following year in the United States. Containing nothing but the band's biggest successes, both editions of the albums
have proven to be long and popular sellers.

''Smash Hits''

History
The UK version first appeared in April 1968, only four months after the band's second studio album, Axis: Bold as
Love, and while they were working on their third. Containing their first four (hit) UK singles (and their respective
B-sides) in addition to four standout tracks from their (hit) LP Are You Experienced, Smash Hits became exactly that
- a #5 album in the UK and one that had a long chart life. It also marked the first appearance on album of "Burning
of the Midnight Lamp", five months ahead of its placement on Electric Ladyland.
In the US, however, things were done a little differently. Jimi's then-record label, Reprise Records, felt that a greatest
hits collection was far too premature (as he hadn't had any there yet) and waited until mid-1969 (and, coincidentally,
the break-up of the original band once Noel Redding suddenly quit) to issue a different compilation with the same
title. Now with Electric Ladyland in the mix, there was more to choose from (and also a "hit" single, his only one in
US). There were also tracks that had been elbowed off the UK edition of Are You Experienced in 1967 to make way
for "Hey Joe", "Purple Haze" and "The Wind Cries Mary". As a result, the US version of Smash Hits - which
reached #6 in its territory - although only including one "smash hit", is more balanced and more representative of the
band's career, yet still failed to include any tracks from Axis: Bold As Love, and only two from Electric Ladyland.
However, the UK (612004) and Japanese mono editions include the mono mix of the rare 1967 B-Side "Stars That
Play With Laughing Sam's Dice". It is also available on CD on The Singles Album.
A Japanese version was released in 1969, with a Fish eye photograph cover by Karl Ferris, Jimi's personal
photographer/designer. In 1997, Experience Hendrix Inc. compiled and issued Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi
Hendrix, which currently stands as the definitive Hendrix compilation. However, this compilation was reissued and
remastered in 2001. Neither the UK or US version contained tracks from the acclaimed 1967 album Axis: Bold As
Love.

Track listing
All songs by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.

UK Version (April 1968)


Available in mono (612004), or 'mono enhanced for stereo' (fake stereo) Polydor (613004) & genuine stereo (1972?)
Polydor (Super 613004)
1. "Purple Haze" 2:52
2. "Fire" 2:45
3. "The Wind Cries Mary" 3:20
4. "Can You See Me" 2:33
5. "51st Anniversary" 3:16
6. "Hey Joe" (Roberts) 3:30
7. "Stone Free" 3:36
8. "The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice" 4:21
9. "Manic Depression" 3:42
10. "Highway Chile" 3:32
11. "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" 3:39
12. "Foxy Lady" 3:18

154

''Smash Hits''

155

US Version (July 1969)


Different LP stereo only
1. "Purple Haze" 2:52
2. "Fire" 2:45
3. "The Wind Cries Mary" 3:20
4. "Can You See Me" 2:33
5. "Hey Joe" (Roberts) 3:30
6. "All Along the Watchtower" (Dylan) 4:00
7. "Stone Free" 3:36
8. "Crosstown Traffic" 2:19
9. "Manic Depression" 3:42
10. "Remember" 2:48
11. "Red House" 3:50
12. "Foxy Lady" 3:19
This take of "Red House" (stereo) derives from a different session than the original (mono) take found on the UK
version of Are You Experienced.

Personnel
Jimi Hendrix guitar, vocals, bass, piano
Mitch Mitchell drums
Noel Redding bass, vocals

Chart positions
Year

Chart

1968 Australian Kent Music Report Albums


Chart

Position
1

References
[1] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:vso20r8ac489
[2] http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ artists/ jimihendrix/ albums/ album/ 260027/ review/ 5946153/ smash_hits

''Electric Jimi Hendrix''

156

Electric Jimi Hendrix


Electric Jimi Hendrix

Compilation album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience


Released

1968

Recorded July 7, 1967August 23, 1968 at Mayfair Studios and Record Plant Studios, New York City, New York
Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock

Length

36:00

Label

Track

Producer Jimi Hendrix, Chas Chandler


The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology
Electric
Ladyland
(1968)

Electric Jimi
Hendrix
(1968)

Band of
Gypsys
(1970)

Electric Jimi Hendrix is an out-of-print compilation album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. It was released in
late-1968 by Track Records and immediately withdrawn and very fewif anycopies were sold.[1] The album
comprised sides four and two of the band's third studio album, Electric Ladyland.

Track listing
Side A
No. Title

Writer(s)

Length

1. "Still Raining, Still Dreaming"

Jimi Hendrix

4:25

2. "House Burning Down"

Hendrix

4:32

3. "All Along the Watchtower"

Bob Dylan

4:00

4. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" Hendrix

5:13

''Electric Jimi Hendrix''

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Side B
No. Title

Writer(s)

Length

5. "Little Miss Strange"

Noel
Redding

2:52

6. "Long Hot Summer Night"

Hendrix

3:27

7. "Come On (Part 1)"

Earl King

4:09

8. "Gypsy Eyes"

Hendrix

3:43

9. "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" Hendrix

3:39

Total length:

36:00

Personnel
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Jimi Hendrix lead vocals, electric guitar, bass on "House Burning Down", "Long Hot Summer Night", "All
Along the Watchtower" and "Gypsy Eyes", backing vocals on "Long Hot Summer Night", electric harpsichord
and mellotron on "Burning of the Midnight Lamp", production
Noel Redding bass on "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)", "Little Miss Strange", "Come On (Part 1)" and "Burning
of the Midnight Lamp", lead vocals, electric guitar and acoustic guitar on "Little Miss Strange"
Mitch Mitchell drums, temple block on "All Along the Watchtower", backing vocals on "Little Miss Strange"
Additional personnel

Buddy Miles drums on "Still Raining, Still Dreaming"


Mike Finnigan organ on "Still Raining, Still Dreaming"
Larry Faucette congas on "Still Raining, Still Dreaming"
Dave Mason acoustic guitar on "All Along the Watchtower"
Al Kooper piano on "Long Hot Summer Night"
Chas Chandler production
Eddie Kramer engineering
Gary Kellgren engineering

References
[1] Shapiro, Harry; Caesar Glebbeek (1995-08-15). "Appendix 1: Music, Sweet Music: The Discography". Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy (3rd
Edition ed.). New York: St. Martin's Griffin. pp.p. 531. ISBN978-0312130626. "This was an alternative kind of 'best of' compilation set and
was upon its release immediately withdrawn. Hardly any copies made it to the shops, if any at all."

''Soundtrack Recordings from the Film Jimi Hendrix''

158

Soundtrack Recordings from the Film Jimi


Hendrix
Soundtrack Recordings from the Film Jimi Hendrix

Soundtrack by Jimi Hendrix


Released

July 1973

Recorded

19671970

Genre

Rock

Label

Reprise K64017 (US)

Producer

Joe Boyd
Professional reviews
[1]

Allmusic
link
[2]
Robert Christgau (C+) link

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War
Heroes
(1972)

Soundtrack Recordings from the Film Jimi


Hendrix
(1973)

Loose
Ends
(1973)

Soundtrack Recordings from the Film Jimi Hendrix is the soundtrack to the 1973 documentary film, Jimi Hendrix
and the second live album by him. The double album was released by Reprise Records in July 1973. It contains the
full-length live performances from the film and some clips from interviews (though not necessarily from the film).
Since there was no new material in this album, many fans passed on buying it. The album peaked at No. 89 on the
Billboard album chart, which generated concern at Reprise Records that repackaging old material would no longer
satisfy the fans of Jimi Hendrix. The album has not been released on compact disc.

''Soundtrack Recordings from the Film Jimi Hendrix''

Film
The documentary (or rockumentary) was made in 1973 by Joe Boyd, John Head and Gary Weis for Warner Bros.
The film contains concert footage from 1967 to 1970, including material from Isle of Wight and the Monterey Pop
Festival. The film also includes interviews with Hendrix' contemporaries, family and friends. The estate of Jimi
Hendrix authorized the 1973 film to be re-released on video and DVD in 1999, and a special edition DVD was
released 2005.

LP track listing
Songs by Jimi Hendrix unless otherwise noted.

Side 1
1.
2.
3.
4.

"Rock Me Baby" (B.B. King, Joe Josea) 3:01


"Wild Thing" (Chip Taylor) 5:18
"Machine Gun I" 7:45
"Interviews I" (Jimi Hendrix, Al Hendrix, Freddie Mae Gauthier and Dolores Hall) 3:41

Side 2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

"Johnny B. Goode" (Chuck Berry) 3:37


"Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts) 3:50
"Purple Haze" 3:40
"Like a Rolling Stone" (Bob Dylan) 6:11
"Interviews II" (Jimi Hendrix, Little Richard, Pat Hartley and Fayne Pridgon) 3:21

Side 3
1.
2.
3.
4.

"The Star Spangled Banner" (traditional) 3:42


"Machine Gun II" 12:35
"Hear My Train A Comin'" 3:05
"Interviews III" 2:36

Side 4
1. "Red House" 11:18
2. "In From the Storm" 4:27
3. "Interviews IV" (Pat Hartley, Alan Douglas, Fayne Pridgeon and The Ghetto Fighters) 5:55

Recording details

1, 2, 6, 8: Monterey Pop Festival (June 1967)


3, 14, 15: Isle of Wight Festival (August 31, 1970)
5, 7: Berkeley Community Center, Berkeley, California (May 30, 1970)
10: Woodstock (August 1969)
11: Fillmore East (December 31, 1969)
12: London (1967)

159

''Soundtrack Recordings from the Film Jimi Hendrix''

160

References
[1] http:/ / allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:kjftxqealdae~T1
[2] http:/ / www. robertchristgau. com/ get_album. php?id=7000

Jimmy Plays Berkeley


Musique Originale du Film Jimi Plays Berkeley
Soundtrack by Jimi Hendrix
Released

1975

Recorded

19671970

Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues-rock

Label

Barclay
Jimi Hendrix chronology

Sound Track Recordings from the Film Jimi


Hendrix
(1973)

Musique Originale du Film Jimi Plays


Berkeley
(1975)

Re-Experienced
(1975)

Musique Originale du Film Jimi Plays Berkeley (literally translated to Original Music of Film Jimi Plays Berkeley)
is the soundtrack to the 1971 film Jimi Plays Berkeley by Jimi Hendrix, released in France in 1975 by Barclay
Records. Though a soundtrack to Hendrix's performance at Berkeley Community Theatre on May 30, 1970, only two
songs on the soundtrack come from this performance; the other tracks are from different concerts and studio
versions.

Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

"Johnny B. Goode" (Chuck Berry)


"Purple Haze"
"Star Spangled Banner" (Francis Scott Key, John Stafford Smith)
"Little Wing"
"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"
"Machine Gun"
"I Don't Live Today"
"Lover Man"

''Jimmy Plays Berkeley''

Recording details
Tracks 1 and 8 recorded at Berkeley Community Theatre in Berkeley, California, USA on May 30, 1970
Track 2 recorded at De Lane Lea Studios in London, England on January 11, 1967 and Olympic Studios in
London, England on February 3 and 7, 1967
Track 3 recorded at Woodstock Festival in Bethel, New York, USA on August 18, 1969
Tracks 4 and 5 recorded at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England on February 24, 1969
Track 6 recorded at the Fillmore East in New York City, New York, USA on January 1, 1970
Track 7 recorded at De Lane Lea Studios in February 1967

Personnel

Jimi Hendrix guitars, lead vocals


Mitch Mitchell drums
Billy Cox bass on tracks 1, 3, 6 and 8, backing vocals on track 6
Noel Redding bass on tracks 2, 4, 5 and 7, backing vocals on track 2
Buddy Miles drums on track 6, backing vocals on track 6

161

''Re-Experienced''

162

Re-Experienced
Re-Experienced

Compilation album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

1975

Recorded

19661970

Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues-rock

Label

Polydor
Professional reviews
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link

[1]

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Musique Originale du Film Jimi Plays
Berkeley
(1975)

Re-Experienced
(1975)

The Essential Jimi


Hendrix
(1978)

Re-Experienced is a posthumous compilation album by Jimi Hendrix, released in Holland in 1975 by Polydor
Records. The album contains songs from Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love, Electric Ladyland and The Cry
of Love, as well as one track from War Heroes, one from Band of Gypsys and one live track from Hendrix in the
West.

Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.

Side one
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

"Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts)


"Stone Free"
"The Wind Cries Mary"
"Love or Confusion"
"Red House"
"Third Stone From the Sun"

''Re-Experienced''

Side two
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

"Purple Haze"
"Manic Depression"
"If Six Was Nine"
"Castles Made of Sand"
"All Along the Watchtower" (Bob Dylan)
"Cross Town Traffic"
"Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)"

Side three
1.
2.
3.
4.

"Electric Ladyland"
"Rainy Day Dream Away"
"1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)"
"Moon, Turn the Tides... Gently Gently Away"

Side four
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

"Angel"
"In From the Storm"
"Stepping Stone"
"Who Knows"
"Little Wing" (recorded live at The Royal Albert Hall in London, England February 24, 1969)

Personnel
Jimi Hendrix guitar, lead vocals, flute on track 9, bass on tracks 14, 15 and 16, kazoo on track 12, piano on
track 12, percussion on track 16
Mitch Mitchell drums, percussion on track 9, backing vocals on track 12, tambourine on track 14
Noel Redding bass, backing vocals
Gary Leeds foot stamping on track 9
Graham Nash foot stamping on track 9
Michael Jeffery foot stamping on track 9
Dave Mason acoustic guitar on track 11, bass on track 11, backing vocals on track 12
Buddy Miles drums on tracks 15, 20 and 21
Mike Finnigan organ on track 15
Larry Faucette congas on track 15
Chris Wood flute on track 16
Billy Cox bass on tracks 18, 19, 20 and 21

References
[1] http:/ / allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:gxfyxq95ld0e~T0

163

''The Essential Jimi Hendrix''

164

The Essential Jimi Hendrix


The Essential Jimi Hendrix (Vol. 1)

Greatest hits by Jimi Hendrix


Released

July 1978

Recorded

1966-1970

Genre

Rock

Length

67:49

Label

Warner Bros. Records


Professional reviews
Robert Christgau (C+) link

[1]

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More
Experience
(1972)

The Essential Jimi


Hendrix
(1979)

The Essential Jimi Hendrix Volume


Two
(1980)

UK cover

The Essential Jimi Hendrix is a greatest hits package released in 1978 that has some of Jimi Hendrix's most popular
songs. Some songs not included in this release would show up on the Volume 2 collection in 1979. When released
on CD, volumes 1 and 2 were put together as a double-CD package. The original release came out as a double
LP/single and long play cassette.

''The Essential Jimi Hendrix''

Track listing
Side one
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

"Are You Experienced?" - 4:07 (Are You Experienced?)


"Third Stone From The Sun" - 6:37 (Are You Experienced?)
"Purple Haze" - 2:47 (Are You Experienced?)
"Little Wing" - 2:24 (Axis: Bold As Love)
"If 6 Was 9" - 5:32 (Axis: Bold As Love)

Side two
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

"Bold As Love" - 4:08 (Axis: Bold As Love)


"Little Miss Lover" - 2:20 (Axis: Bold As Love)
"Castles Made of Sand" - 2:45 (Axis: Bold As Love)
"Gypsy Eyes" - 3:39 (Electric Ladyland)
"Burning Of The Midnight Lamp" - 3:35 (Electric Ladyland)
"Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)" - 5:08 (Electric Ladyland)

Side three
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

"Have You Ever Been (to Electric Ladyland)" - 2:11 (Electric Ladyland)
"Still Raining, Still Dreaming" - 4:22 (Electric Ladyland)
"House Burning Down" - 4:33 (Electric Ladyland)
"All Along the Watchtower" - 4:00 (Electric Ladyland)
"Room Full of Mirrors" - 3:16 (Rainbow Bridge)
"Izabella" - 2:51 (War Heroes)

Side four
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

"Freedom" - 3:24 (The Cry of Love)


"Dolly Dagger" - 4:43 (Rainbow Bridge)
"Stepping Stone" - 4:11 (War Heroes)
"Drifting" - 3:46 (The Cry of Love)
"Ezy Ryder" - 4:09 (The Cry of Love)

Personnel

Jimi Hendrix guitar, vocals


Noel Redding bass, backing vocals
Mitch Mitchell drums
Buddy Miles drums on "Still Raining, Still Dreaming", "Room Full of Mirrors" and "Ezy Ryder"

References
[1] http:/ / www. robertchristgau. com/ get_album. php?id=7003

165

''The Essential Jimi Hendrix Volume 2''

166

The Essential Jimi Hendrix Volume 2


The Essential Jimi Hendrix (Vol. 2)

Greatest hits by Jimi Hendrix


Released

July 1979

Genre

Rock

Label

Warner Bros. Records Reprise Records


Professional reviews
Allmusic

link

[1]

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The Essential Jimi
Hendrix
(1978)

The Essential Jimi Hendrix Volume


Two
(1980)

Nine to the
Universe
(1980)

The Essential Jimi Hendrix Volume Two, released a year after Volume 1 in 1979, is a continuation of the greatest
hits by Jimi Hendrix. When released on CD, both volumes were released together as a double-CD package.
The LP also contained a 7" 33 1/3 RPM one-sided single of The Jimi Hendrix Experience performing the song
"Gloria".

Track listing
All songs composed by Jimi Hendrix except where noted.

Side One
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

"Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts) - 3:25


"Fire" - 2:41
"Foxy Lady" - 3:15
"The Wind Cries Mary" 3:15
"I Don't Live Today" 3:49
"Crosstown Traffic" 2:17

''The Essential Jimi Hendrix Volume 2''

Side Two
1. "Wild Thing" (Chip Taylor) 6:44 (live)
2. "Machine Gun" 12:09 (live)
3. "The Star Spangled Banner" (Francis Scott Key, John Stafford Smith, arr. Hendrix) 3:45 (live)

Personnel

Jimi Hendrix guitar, vocals


Noel Redding bass, backing vocals
Mitch Mitchell drums
Billy Cox bass on Machine Gun
Buddy Miles drums on Machine Gun

Recording details
Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, from the album "Are You Experienced"
Track 6 from the album "Electric Ladyland"
Track 7 recorded live at the Monterey Pop Festival on June 18, 1967
Track 8 from the album "Band of Gypsys" recorded live at the Fillmore East in New York City, New York on
January 1, 1970 (1st show)
Track 9 recorded live at the Woodstock Festival in Bethel, New York on August 18, 1969

References
[1] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:0xfpxq95ld0e

167

''Stone Free''

168

Stone Free
Stone Free
Compilation album by Jimi Hendrix
Released

1981

Recorded

19661970

Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock,


blues-rock
Polydor

Label

Professional reviews
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link

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Nine to the
Universe
(1980)

Stone
Free
(1981)

The Jimi Hendrix


Concerts
(1982)

Stone Free is a posthumous compilation album by Jimi Hendrix, released in 1981 by Polydor Records. The album
contains songs from Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love, Electric Ladyland and The Cry of Love, as well as
one song from Loose Ends.

Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
1. "All Along the Watchtower" (Bob Dylan)
2. "Angel"
3. "Are You Experienced?"
4. "Castles Made of Sand"
5. "Crosstown Traffic"
6. "Drifter's Escape" (Dylan)
7. "Ezy Ryder"
8. "Johnny B. Goode" (Chuck Berry)
9. "Little Wing"
10. "Long Hot Summer Night"
11. "Red House"
12. "Stone Free"

''Stone Free''

Personnel
Jimi Hendrix guitar, lead vocals, piano on tracks 3 and 5, kazoo on track 5, glockenspiel on track 9, bass on
track 10, backing vocals on track 10
Mitch Mitchell drums, backing vocals on track 5, tambourine on track 9
Noel Redding bass, backing vocals
Dave Mason acoustic guitar on track 1, bass on track 1, backing vocals on track 5
Billy Cox bass on tracks 2, 6 and 7

References
[1] http:/ / allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:jxfpxq95ld0e

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''The Singles Album''

170

The Singles Album


The Singles Album

Compilation album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

1983

Genre

Hard rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues-rock

Length

89:56

Label

Polydor

Producer Chas Chandler, Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Kramer and John Jansen
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The Singles
Album
(1983)

Kiss the
Sky
(1984)

The Singles Album is a compilation of The Jimi Hendrix Experience's and Jimi Hendrix's singles (up to the 1979
release of Gloria) on a two record set and also on cassette, released only in Europe in 1983 (later released on disc
also as a two disc set). Digital engineering was done by Carlos Olms, London.

Track listing
All songs composed by Jimi Hendrix except where noted.

Disc One
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

"Hey Joe" (William Roberts) -3:25


"Stone Free" - 3:34
"Purple Haze" - 2:45
"51st Anniversary" - 3:14 (Mono)
"The Wind Cries Mary" - 3:16
"Highway Chile" - 3:28 (Mono)
"The Burning Of The Midnight Lamp" - 3:36

8. "The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam's Dice" - 4:17 (Mono)
9. "All Along the Watchtower" (Bob Dylan) - 3:58

''The Singles Album''


10. "Long Hot Summer Night" - 3:25
11. "Cross Town Traffic" - 2:18
12. "Let Me Light Your Fire" - 2:38

Disc Two
1. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" - 5:12
2. "Angel" - 4:15
3. "Night Bird Flying" - 3:51
4. "Gypsy Eyes" - 3:41
5. "Remember" - 2:44 (Mono enhanced for Stereo)
6. "Johnny B. Goode" (Live) (Chuck Berry) - 4:03
7. "Little Wing" (Live) - 3:15
8. "Foxy Lady" - 3:10
9. "Manic Depression" - 3:35
10. "3rd Stone From The Sun" - 6:38
11. "Gloria" (Van Morrison) - 8:45

References
CD Pamphlet from The Singles Album, 1983

References
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171

''Kiss the Sky''

172

Kiss the Sky


Kiss the Sky

Compilation album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

November 1984

Genre

Rock

Length

45:58

Label

Polydor, Reprise

Producer

Chip Branton, Alan Douglas, Kevin Laffey


Professional reviews
Allmusic

[1]

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The Singles
Album
(1983)

Kiss the
Sky
(1984)

Live & Unreleased: The Radio


Show
(1989)

Kiss the Sky is a compilation album by American rock guitarist, singersongwriter Jimi Hendrix; released through
Polydor Records in November 1984. The idea for this release was from producer Alan Douglas' favorite Hendrix
songs. The album's title is taken from the lyrics of "Purple Haze." "Red House" was listed in the liner notes as the
"unedited version" which amounted to a few seconds of studio chat that preceded the song. "Stepping Stone" was the
original Band of Gypsys single mix. "Killing Floor" from the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival was unreleased at the time
of the release.[2]

Track listing
1. "Are You Experienced?"
2. "I Don't Live Today" (live)
3. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"
4. "Stepping Stone"
5. "Castles Made of Sand"
6. "Killing Floor" (live)
7. "Purple Haze"
8. "Red House"
9. "Crosstown Traffic"
10. "Third Stone from the Sun"

''Kiss the Sky''


11. "All Along the Watchtower"

Personnel

Jimi Hendrix guitars, lead vocals, backing vocals on track 9, bass on track 11
Noel Redding bass
Mitch Mitchell drums
Billy Cox bass on track 4
Buddy Miles drums on track 4

Recording details
Track 2 recorded at San Diego Sports Arena, San Diego, California, on May 24, 1969
Track 6 recorded live at the Monterey Pop Festival on June 18, 1967

References
[1] Eder, Bruce. "Kiss the Sky review" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:gifpxq85ldje~T10). Allmusic. Rovi. .
Retrieved 26 November 2009.
[2] Doggett, Peter (2004). Jimi Hendrix: The Complete Guide to His Music (2nd ed.). Omnibus Press. p.102. ISBN1844494241.

173

''Live & Unreleased: The Radio Show''

174

Live & Unreleased: The Radio Show


Live & Unreleased: The Radio Show

Box set by Jimi Hendrix


Released

November 20, 1989

Recorded

19661970

Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues-rock

Label

Castle Communications
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The Essential Jimi Hendrix Volumes One and
Two
(1989)

Live & Unreleased: The Radio


Show
(1989)

Cornerstones:
1967-1970
(1990)

Live & Unreleased: The Radio Show is a posthumous compilation box set by Jimi Hendrix, released in France only
by Castle Communications on November 20, 1989. The tracks included were originally broadcast as a six-hour radio
show in the United States on September 2 and 3, 1988, and as such feature original narration. Live & Unreleased was
released as a 5-LP set and a 3-CD set in the same year. Featuring rare songs and outtakes, some still not released
through "Experience Hendrix"

Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.

Disc one
1. "Introduction"
2. "Testify" (Ronald Isley, O'Kelly Isley, Rudolph Isley)
Performed by The Isley Brothers; Hendrix on guitar
3. "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" (Lloyd Price)
Performed by Little Richard; Hendrix had no involvement with this track
4. "I'm A Man" (Bo Diddley)
Performed by Curtis Knight and the Squires; Hendrix on guitar and lead vocals
5. "Like a Rolling Stone" (Bob Dylan)

''Live & Unreleased: The Radio Show''


6. "Red House"
7. "Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts)
8. "Hoocie Koochie Man" (Willie Dixon)
9. "Purple Haze"
10. "The Wind Cries Mary"
11. "Foxy Lady BBC 1967"

Disc two
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.

"Third Stone From the Sun"


"Wild Thing" (Chip Taylor)
"Look Over Yonder/Mister Bad Luck" (from the "Are You Experienced" sessions)
"Burning of the Midnight Lamp"
"Spanish Castle Magic
"Bold as Love"
"One Rainy Wish"
"Little Wing"
"Drivin' South"
"The Things I Used to Do" (Eddie Jones)
"All Along the Watchtower" (Dylan)
"Drifter's Escape" (Dylan)
"Cherokee Mist"
"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"
"1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)"

Disc three
1. "Voodoo Chile"
2. "Come On (Part 1)" (Earl King)
3. "Manic Depression"
4. "Machine Gun"
5. "Room Full of Mirrors"
6. "Angel"
7. "Rainy Day Shuffle"
8. "Valleys of Neptune"
9. "Send My Love to Linda"
10. "South Saturn Delta"
11. "Dolly Dagger"
12. "Night Bird Flying"

See also
Jimi Hendrix discography

References
[1] http:/ / allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:3vfwxq85ldje

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''Cornerstones: 19671970''

176

Cornerstones: 19671970
Cornerstones 1967-1970

Greatest hits by Jimi Hendrix


Released

1990

Recorded

October 23, 1966 August


1970

Genre

Rock

Length

71:26

Label

Polydor

Producer

Various
Professional reviews
Allmusic

link

[1]

Jimi Hendrix chronology


Smash
Hits
(1969)

Cornerstones
1966-1970
(1990)

The Ultimate
Experience
(1993)

Cornerstones 1967-1970 is a 1990 compilation album by American guitarist Jimi Hendrix. It features 18 of his
greatest hits, including live renditions of "Fire" and "Stone Free" from the Atlanta International Pop Festival, July 4,
1970. It was released on the Polydor label in the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe. All songs were recorded
between October 23, 1966 and August, 1970. This was the only compact disc release at the time to have the studio
version of "The Star Spangled Banner" (that appeared on the Rainbow Bridge LP).

Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

"Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts)


"Purple Haze"
"The Wind Cries Mary"
"Foxy Lady"
"Crosstown Traffic"
"All Along the Watchtower" (Bob Dylan)
"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"
"Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)"

''Cornerstones: 19671970''
9. "Star Spangled Banner" (Francis Scott Key, John Stafford Smith, arr. Hendrix) (Studio version)
10. "Stepping Stone"
11. "Room Full Of Mirrors"
12. "Ezy Rider"
13. "Freedom"
14. "Drifting"
15. "In From The Storm"
16. "Angel"
17. "Fire" (Live at the Atlanta International Pop Festival July 4, 1970)
18. "Stone Free" (Live at the Atlanta International Pop Festival July 4, 1970)

Personnel
Jimi Hendrix electric guitar, lead vocals, bass (on track 7, 8), background vocals, kazoo made of comb and
paper (track 5)
Noel Redding bass, backing vocals
Mitch Mitchell drums
Billy Cox bass on tracks 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, background vocals on track 12
Buddy Miles drums on tracks 10, 11 and 12, background vocals on track 12

References
[1] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:djfuxq9hldke

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''Lifelines: The Jimi Hendrix Story''

178

Lifelines: The Jimi Hendrix Story


Lifelines: The Jimi Hendrix Story
Box set by Jimi Hendrix
Released

November 27, 1990

Recorded

19661970

Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock,


blues-rock
Reprise

Label

Professional reviews
Allmusic

link

[1]

Jimi Hendrix chronology


Cornerstones:
1967-1970
(1990)

Lifelines: The Jimi Hendrix


Story
(1990)

Sessions
(1991)

Lifelines: The Jimi Hendrix Story is a posthumous compilation box set by Jimi Hendrix, released by Reprise
Records on November 27, 1990. A 4-CD set, the first three discs comprise Live & Unreleased: The Radio Show,
while the fourth contains tracks from The Jimi Hendrix Experience's performance at the The Forum, Los Angeles,
California on April 26, 1969.

Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.

Disc one
1. "Introduction"
2. "Testify" (Ronald Isley, O'Kelly Isley, Rudolph Isley)
Performed by The Isley Brothers; Hendrix on guitar
3. "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" (Lloyd Price)
Performed by Little Richard; Hendrix had no involvement with this track
4. "I'm A Man" (Bo Diddley)
Performed by Curtis Knight and the Squires; Hendrix on guitar and lead vocals
5. "Like a Rolling Stone" (Bob Dylan)
6. "Red House"
7. "Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts)
8. "Hoocie Koochie Man" (Willie Dixon)
9. "Purple Haze"
10. "The Wind Cries Mary"
11. "Foxey Lady"

''Lifelines: The Jimi Hendrix Story''

Disc two
1. "Third Stone From the Sun"
2. "Rock Me Baby" (Joe Josea, B.B. King)
3. "Look Over Yonder/Mister Bad Luck"
4. "Burning of the Midnight Lamp"
5. "Spanish Castle Magic
6. "Bold as Love"
7. "One Rainy Wish"
8. "Little Wing"
9. "Drivin' South"
10. "The Things I Used to Do" (Eddie Jones)
11. "All Along the Watchtower" (Dylan)
12. "Drifter's Escape" (Dylan)
13. "Cherokee Mist"
14. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"
15. "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)"

Disc three
1. "Voodoo Chile"
2. "Come On (Part 1)" (Earl King)
3. "Manic Depression"
4. "Machine Gun"
5. "Room Full of Mirrors"
6. "Angel"
7. "Rainy Day Shuffle"
8. "Valleys of Neptune"
9. "Send My Love to Linda"
10. "South Saturn Delta"
11. "Dolly Dagger"
12. "Night Bird Flying"

Disc four
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

"Tax Free" (Bo Hansson, Janne Karlsson)


"Red House"
"Spanish Castle Magic"
"Star Spangled Banner" (Francis Scott Key, John Stafford Smith)
"Purple Haze"
"I Don't Live Today"
"Voodoo Chile"/"Sunshine of Your Love" (Hendrix/Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Pete Brown)

179

''Lifelines: The Jimi Hendrix Story''

See also
Jimi Hendrix discography

References
[1] http:/ / allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:3ifrxq85ldje~T1

180

''Stages''

181

Stages
Stages

Live album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

14 November 1991

Recorded

May 24, 1967 - July 4, 1970

Genre

Psychedelic rock

Length

197:15

Label

Warner Bros. Records

Producer

Unknown
Professional reviews
Allmusic

link

[1]

Jimi Hendrix chronology


Band of
Gypsys
(1970)

Stages
(1991)

First Rays of the New Rising


Sun
(1997)

Stages is a box set consisting of live performances by Jimi Hendrix covering four years of his career. Disc One is the
September 5, 1967 concert in Stockholm. Disc Two is the January 29, 1968 concert in Paris. Disc Three is the May
24, 1969 concert in San Diego. Disc Four is the July 4, 1970 concert in Atlanta.
Stages was released in November 1991 on Warner Bros. Records, but is currently out-of-print.

Track listing
Stockholm '67
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band


Fire
The Wind Cries Mary
Foxy Lady
Hey Joe
I Don't Live Today
Burning of the Midnight Lamp

8. Purple Haze

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182

Paris '68
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.

Killin' Floor
Catfish Blues
Foxy Lady
Red House
Drivin' South
The Wind Cries Mary
Fire
Little Wing
Purple Haze

San Diego '69


1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Introduction
Fire
Hey Joe
Spanish Castle Magic/Sunshine of Your Love
Red House

6. I Don't Live Today


7. Purple Haze
8. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

Atlanta '70
1. Fire
2. Lover Man
3. Spanish Castle Magic
4. Foxy Lady
5. Purple Haze
6. Hear My Train A Comin'
7. Stone Free
8. Star-Spangled Banner
9. Straight Ahead
10. Room Full of Mirrors
11. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

References
[1] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:pq1tk6gx9krh

''The Ultimate Experience''

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The Ultimate Experience


The Ultimate Experience

Greatest hits by The Jimi Hendrix Experience


Released

April 27, 1993

Recorded

October 23, 1966 July 23, 1970

Genre

Rock

Length

71:55

Label

MCA

Producer

Unknown
Professional reviews

Allmusic

link

[1]

The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology


Cornerstones
(1990)

The Ultimate
Experience
(1993)

Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi


Hendrix
(1998)

The Ultimate Experience is a 1993 compilation album of songs by songwriter and guitarist Jimi Hendrix. It features
20 of his greatest hits, most recorded with the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and live renditions of "The Star Spangled
Banner" and "Wild Thing". It was released with MCA Records. The track listing was compiled from a poll citing his
most popular recordings for the European market. All songs were recorded between October 23, 1966 and July 23,
1970.

Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

"All Along the Watchtower" (Bob Dylan) 4:01


"Purple Haze" 2:44
"Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts) 3:26
"The Wind Cries Mary" 3:18
"Angel" 4:17
"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" 5:13
"Foxy Lady" 3:15
"Burning of the Midnight Lamp" 3:35

''The Ultimate Experience''


9. "Highway Chile" 3:30
10. "Crosstown Traffic" 2:14
11. "Castles Made of Sand" 2:45
12. "Long Hot Summer Night" 3:27
13. "Red House" 3:54
14. "Manic Depression" 3:37
15. "Gypsy Eyes" 3:42
16. "Little Wing" 2:24
17. "Fire" 2:38
18. "Wait Until Tomorrow" 3:00
19. "Star Spangled Banner (live)" (Francis Scott Key, John Stafford Smith) 4:05
20. "Wild Thing (live)" (Chip Taylor) 6:54

See also
Jimi Hendrix discography
Jimi Hendrix posthumous discography

References
[1] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:dd2vad4kt8wo

184

''Blues''

185

Blues
Blues

Compilation album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

April 26, 1994

Recorded

19661970

Genre

Blues, blues-rock, electric blues

Length

72:17

Label

MCA
MCAD-11060

Producer

Alan Douglas
Bruce Gary (compilation)
Professional reviews

[1]

About.com
link
[2]
Allmusic
link
[3]
Robert Christgau (A) link
[4]
Entertainment Weekly (A) link
[5]
NME
link
[6]
Rolling Stone (favorable) 1994
[7]
Rolling Stone
2004
Jimi Hendrix chronology
Nine to the
Universe
(1980)

Blues
(1994)

Voodoo
Soup
(1995)

Blues is a posthumous compilation album by musician Jimi Hendrix, released April 26, 1994 on MCA Records.[8]
The album contains eleven blues songs recorded by Hendrix between 1966 and 1970. Out of these eleven, six were
previously unreleased. The tracks include seven of Hendrix's compositions along with covers of famous blues songs
such as "Born Under a Bad Sign" and "Mannish Boy". Most of the album's material consists of leftover studio tapes
that Hendrix might have never intended to release.
Compiled by MCA and released in 1994, Blues was met with favorable criticism and multiple chart success, selling
over 500,000 copies in its first two years of release. On February 6, 2001, Blues was certified platinum in sales by
the Recording Industry Association of America.[9] The album was re-released on Experience Hendrix Records in
1998, following the Hendrix family's acquisition of the musician's recordings.[10]

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186

Music
The opening song "Hear My Train A-Comin'" (aka (by Hendrix) "Getting My Heart Back Together Again") is a
Hendrix original that he often played live in concert, particularly in 1969 and 1970. The song was from a long lost
master tape of Hendrix alone playing a 12 string acoustic right hand guitar, strung for left hand and singing in a delta
blues manner. This live studio performance was filmed for, and included in the film See My Music Talking, and later
included in the 1973 documentary Jimi Hendrix and accompanying soundtrack LP. The last song on Blues is a live
version of "Hear My Train A-Comin'" recorded on May 30, 1970, at the Berkeley Community Theater that had
previously been released on the posthumous Rainbow Bridge album in 1971.
A different version of "Hear My Train A-Comin'" was included on the posthumous 1975 album Midnight Lightning
and was considered somewhat controversial since producer Alan Douglas used session musicians to augment
Hendrix' guitar and Mitch Mitchell's drums (overdubbing the bass guitar in the process). Another studio version from
February 1969 was included on The Jimi Hendrix Experience box set in 2000.
"Born Under a Bad Sign" is an instrumental jam of the Albert King number (performed by Band of Gypsys). "Red
House" is the original (mono) take from the European version of Are You Experienced, but minus the outro chat
(previously unavailable in USA & Canada).[11] Another take (stereo) from a different session was released on the
USA version of the 1969 compilation album Smash Hits. On this version Redding plays electric guitar tuned down to
resemble a bass. "Catfish Blues" is from a Dutch TV show Hoepla. Hendrix uses the first two verses from Muddy
Waters "Rollin Stone" (which is based on older versions usually with "Catfish" in the title) and the last verse is from
Muddy's "Still a Fool" itself based on "Roll and Tumble Blues" by Hambone Willie etc.
"Voodoo Chile Blues" is another creation of Alan Douglas, recorded during the sessions that produced the finished
track, "Voodoo Chile", for the critically acclaimed Electric Ladyland album. This track is made up of two different
takes of the song that were edited and joined together in order to come up with one consistent track. "Mannish Boy"
is actually a hybrid of Muddy Waters's "Mannish Boy" and Bo Diddley's "I'm a Man", it is a similar edited studio
creation that combines several takes. "Once I Had a Woman" is a slightly longer edited version of Hendrix's slow
blues song. The band starts to jam during the second half of the long song and then a fade out follows. "Bleeding
Heart" is a cover of the Elmore James number, performed here by Band of Gypsys. "Jelly 292" is actually take 2 of
the song "Jam 292" (the name on the tape box) which appeared on the 1974 European only LP "Loose Ends". It is an
uptempo jam based on Duke Ellington's "Dooji Wooji".[12] "Electric Church Red House" is a jam from TTG studios
in 1968 featuring a group introduction by Hendrix (lifted from another, different jam at TTG) and Lee Michaels on
organ.[13]

Track listing
No. Title

Writer(s)

Length

1. "Hear My Train a Comin'" (acoustic;


live)

Jimi Hendrix

3:05

2. "Born Under a Bad Sign" (instrumental)

Booker T. Jones, William Bell

7:37

3. "Red House"

Hendrix

3:41

4. "Catfish Blues"

Traditional, arr. Hendrix

7:46

5. "Voodoo Chile Blues"

Hendrix

8:47

6. "Mannish Boy"

Muddy Waters, Mel London, Ellas McDaniel

5:21

7. "Once I Had a Woman"

Hendrix

7:49

8. "Bleeding Heart"

Traditional, arr. Hendrix

3:26

9. "Jelly 292" (instrumental)

Hendrix

6:25

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10. "Electric Church Red House"

Hendrix

6:12

11. "Hear My Train a Comin'" (electric; live)

Hendrix

12:08

Chart history
Billboard Music Charts (North America) Blues[14]
1994: Billboard 200 #45
1994: Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums #38
1995: Top Blues Albums #4

Personnel
Musicians

Additional personnel

Jimi Hendrix guitars, vocals


Billy Cox bass on "Born Under a Bad Sign", "Mannish Boy", "Once I Had a Woman", "Bleeding Heart", "Jelly
292" and "Hear My Train a Comin' (Electric)"
Noel Redding bass on "Red House", "Catfish Blues" and "Electric Church Red House"
Buddy Miles drums on "Born Under a Bad Sign", "Mannish Boy", "Once I Had a Woman", "Bleeding Heart"
and "Electric Church Red House"
Mitch Mitchell drums on "Red House", "Catfish Blues", "Voodoo Chile Blues", "Jelly 292", "Electric Church
Red House" and "Hear My Train a Comin' (Electric)"
Jack Casady bass on "Voodoo Chile Blues"
Steve Winwood organ on "Voodoo Chile Blues"
Sharon Layne organ on "Jelly 292"
Lee Michaels organ on "Electric Church Red House"

Alan Douglas
production
Bruce Gary production
Mark Linett
engineering
Joe Gastwirt mastering
Rob O'Connor artwork,
design
Richard Bull artwork,
design
Michael J. Fairchild
liner notes

References
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7]

http:/ / blues. about. com/ od/ cddvdreviews/ fr/ HendrixBlues. htm


http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:1zrb28or05na
http:/ / www. robertchristgau. com/ get_album. php?id=1697
http:/ / www. ew. com/ ew/ article/ 0,,302564,00. html
http:/ / www. nme. com/ reviews/ jimi-hendrix/ 495
http:/ / www. tower. com/ blues-jimi-hendrix-cd/ wapi/ 106609339
http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=lRgtYCC6OUwC& pg=PA374& vq=jimi+ hendrix+ blues& dq=rolling+ stone+ jimi+ hendrix& lr=&
source=gbs_search_s& cad=0
[8] allmusic {{{Blues > Overview}}} (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:gjfuxqegldte~T0). All Media Guide, LLC.
Retrieved on 2008-08-09.
[9] RIAA Searchable Database - Search Results - Blues Jimi Hendrix (http:/ / www. riaa. com/ goldandplatinumdata. php?table=SEARCH).
Recording Industry Assoiation of America. Retrieved on 2008-08-09.
[10] Discogs.com - Blues (1998) (http:/ / www. discogs. com/ release/ 1256043). Discogs. Retrieved on 2008-08-09.
[11] :Blues CD sleeve notes, MCA
[12] From The Benjamin Franklin Studios by Steve Rodham
[13] From The Benjamin Franklin Studios by Steve Rodham
[14] allmusic ((( Blues > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums ))) (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:gjfuxqegldte~T3).
All Media Guide, LLC. Retrieved on 2008-08-09.

''Voodoo Soup''

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Voodoo Soup
Voodoo Soup

Compilation album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

April 11, 1995

Recorded

1968-1970

Genre

Rock, Acid Rock, Hard rock, Blues-rock, Funk rock

Length

56:57

Label

MCA

Producer

Alan Douglas
Professional reviews
Allmusic

link

[1]

Jimi Hendrix chronology


Blues
(1994)

Voodoo
Soup
(1995)

Jimi By Himself: The Home


Recordings
(1995)

Voodoo Soup is a posthumous album by Jimi Hendrix. It was released on April 11, 1995 by MCA Records and was
compiled by Alan Douglas, who was also responsible for the posthumous Hendrix releases Midnight Lightning and
Crash Landing in the 1970s. The album was made up of unfinished studio recordings which were intended to be
released on Hendrix's newest studio album, which was never-to-be. Douglas is a controversial figure amongst
Hendrix fans, as on his previous releases he had brought in musicians who had never worked with Hendrix to
overdub damaged/badly recorded drum, bass and even guitar parts. For the production of this album, two tracks'
drum parts were overdubbed by Bruce Gary of The Knack, "Room Full of Mirrors" and "Stepping Stone". Most of
the tracks on this album were released - in one form or another - on either First Rays of the New Rising Sun or South
Saturn Delta in later years, with the exception of the instrumentals "The New Rising Sun" and "Peace in
Mississippi". A portion of the instrumental released on this album as "The New Rising Sun" can be heard in the song
"Captain Coconut" on the Crash Landing album, originally released in 1975. The version of "Peace In Mississippi"
included on Voodoo Soup is the genuine original version of the song, as recorded by Hendrix, drummer Mitch
Mitchell and bassist Noel Redding in 1968, and different from the version of "Peace In Mississippi" included on
Crash Landing, in which Mitchell and Redding's contributions were supplanted by overdubbed drum and bass parts
performed by other musicians in 1975; the version on Crash Landing also included overdubbed guitar and percussion
parts performed in 1975. In addition, the version on Voodoo Soup is about a minute longer than the one on Crash

''Voodoo Soup''
Landing. Voodoo Soup is no longer available to purchase, as it was deleted when the Hendrix family gained control
of his recordings, and has been replaced by First Rays of the New Rising Sun.
The album was badly received by some fans who objected to the overdubbing, and it also omits several notable
songs, such as "Dolly Dagger" and "Izabella". However, the album was praised by Charles Shaar Murray, the author
of the acclaimed book Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and Post-War Pop, who claimed that it "more than earns its
place in the pantheon of great Hendrix albums" and said that it "brought the Hendrix studio quartet -finally!- to a
satisfactory conclusion."[2]
The album cover artist is Moebius.

Track listing
All songs written by Jimi Hendrix.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

"The New Rising Sun" 3:21 (previously unreleased)


"Belly Button Window" 3:34 (from (The Cry of Love)
"Stepping Stone" 4:07 (from War Heroes)
"Freedom" 3:25 (from The Cry of Love)
"Angel" 4:18 (from The Cry of Love)

6. "Room Full of Mirrors" 3:09 (from Rainbow Bridge)


7. "Midnight" 6:01 (from War Heroes)
8. "Night Bird Flying" 3:46 (from The Cry of Love)
9. "Drifting" 3:52 (from The Cry of Love)
10. "Ezy Ryder" 4:08 (from The Cry of Love)
11. "Pali Gap" 4:42 (from Rainbow Bridge)
12. "Message to Love" 3:33 (from Crash Landing)
13. "Peace in Mississippi" 5:22 (from Crash Landing)
14. "In From the Storm" 3:39 (from The Cry of Love)

Personnel

Jimi Hendrix vocals, guitar, piano


Billy Cox - bass guitar, backing vocals
Mitch Mitchell - drums
Buddy Miles - drums on "Room Full of Mirrors" and "Ezy Ryder"
Juma Sultan - percussion

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Notes
Tracks 2-6, 8, 9 and 10 re-released on First Rays of the New Rising Sun
Tracks 7, 11, 12 and 14 re-released on South Saturn Delta

See also
List of best-selling music artists
Jimi Hendrix discography

References
[1] http:/ / allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:k9fexquhldke~T1
[2] Murray, Charles Shaar (2001). Crosstown Traffic:Jimi Hendrix and Postwar Pop. Faber and Faber. pp.272.

190

''First Rays of the New Rising Sun''

191

First Rays of the New Rising Sun


First Rays of the New Rising Sun

Studio album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

April 22, 1997

Recorded March 13, 1968, November 17, 1969August 26, 1970, October 19, 1970, November 20, 1970
Genre

Hard rock, Psychedelic rock, Blues-rock

Length

69:25

Label

MCA

Producer Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Kramer, Mitch Mitchell, John Jansen


Professional reviews
Allmusic

link

[1]

Jimi Hendrix chronology


Jimi By Himself: The Home
Recordings
(1995)

First Rays of the New Rising


Sun
(1997)

South Saturn
Delta
(1997)

First Rays of the New Rising Sun is a "concept compilation" attempting to recreate the album Jimi Hendrix was
working on at the time of his death in 1970, as closely as is feasible to how he would have wanted it (based on
recordings and notes he made during the last months of his life). After its release in 1997, the album reached #49 in
the US and #37 in the UK.
It was originally projected as a double-LP with a presumed release date of late 1970 or early 1971. Hendrix went off
to England in late August 1970 to play the Isle of Wight festival, followed by a brief European tour, but never
returned. He asphyxiated after taking an overdose of sleeping pills in London on September 18, 1970 at the age of
27.[2]

''First Rays of the New Rising Sun''

Hendrix's original plan for the album


The original plans for the album changed many times and were never finalized. Hendrix was looking towards
releasing a double or even triple-LP. During mid-summer 1970, Hendrix even talked about releasing an additional
LP of new songs that didn't fit the project, under the name "People, Hell And Angels."
The last documented working name for the album was Strate Ahead [sic] (the title atop the last documented track list
found in Hendrix's notes). The name of this release (First Rays of the New Rising Sun) is referenced in at least two
songs intended on the album -- "Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)" and "Izabella" -- and in several onstage comments
Hendrix made during performances that were recorded at that time. [3]
During the recording of his next album Hendrix had written a few conceptual track listings. This tracklist written on
a 3M tape box has no title and is not in Hendrix's hand:[4]
Side A
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Dolly Dagger
Night Bird Flying
Room Full Of Mirrors
Belly Button Window
Freedom

Side B
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Ezy Rider
Astro Man
Drifting
Straight Ahead
Freedom

Side C
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Night Bird Flying


(Drifter's Escape)
(Come Down On Me)
Beginnings [scored out]
Cherokee Mist [scored out]
(Angel)

Side D
This section was blank.
On the tracklisting mentioned above, "Freedom" is both on side A and B, and "Night Bird Flying" is both on side A
and C. Also, on the handwritten tracklisting, two songs on side C have lines through them. It is remarkable that
Hendrix did not include many other songs which he had been working on during the summer of 1970, including
"Izabella", "Lover Man", "Stepping Stone", "Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)", "Earth Blues", "In From The Storm",
"Bleeding Heart", "Burning Desire", "Can I Whisper In Your Ear", "Hear My Train A'Comin'", "Midnight
Lightning" and "Send My Love To Linda".
Other proposed track listings
The last track listing available is for an LP titled Strate Ahead [sic], which is in Hendrix's handwriting.[4] It is
unknown what the crosses, ticks and dashes signify:
->Strate Ahead-> x [sic]
1. Ezy Ryder x
2. Room full of Mirrors x3. Earth Blues - Today

192

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4. Valleys of Neptune 5. Have you heard* - *aka "Straight Ahead"
6. Cherokee Mist - instr.
7. Freedom x
8. Steppin Stone
9. IZABella
10. Astroman x
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.

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Drifters Escape
Angel
Burning Desire
Nightbird Flying
Electric Lady - Slow.
Getting My Heart Back Together Again
Lover Man
Midnight Lightning
Can I Whisper In Your Ear - slow

20.
21.
22.
23.
24.

Sending My Love - slow to medium


This Little Boy
Locomotion
Dolly Dagger
The New Rising Sun (Hey Baby)

These lists include several new songs that were in the process of being created. Some can be heard now on various
releases, in early stages of development; others are difficult to identify. It is unknown whether "Sending My Love" is
the same song as "Sending My Love to Linda". The song "Burning Desire" only exists in live rehearsal/concert
versions and nothing of "Locomotion" is known beyond a couple of early lyric lines on a piece of paper. The identity
of the song "Electric Lady-slow" is impossible to ascertain. "This Little Boy" appears to have no references and has
disappeared without a trace. Most of the rest of the songs were almost finished when Hendrix died.

Initial releases
All but three of the songs on this album were released on the first two posthumous Hendrix albums, released seven
months apart in 1971: The Cry of Love and Rainbow Bridge, both produced by Eddie Kramer and Mitch Mitchell.
The remaining three songs were on the third posthumous LP (and last produced by Kramer), War Heroes.
Release of the original albums was complicated by Hendrix & Jeffery's contract to provide a soundtrack LP for the
film Rainbow Bridge. Even though none of the songs on Rainbow Bridge actually appear in the movie of that name,
the album cover stated that it was the official soundtrack, and the three tracks used for War Heroes were replaced on
Rainbow Bridge by "Look Over Yonder" (a leftover song from 1968 recording sessions), the live "Hear My Train A
Comin'," and a multi-tracked instrumental "Pali Gap". A multi-tracked solo studio version of "The Star Spangled
Banner" from 1969 was also added.
These tracks were an attempt to give the album more of a "live" feel, as the movie revolved around a small outdoor
concert by Hendrix in Maui, Hawaii. "Hear My Train A Comin" was an alternate title for "Getting My Heart Back
Together Again"; a studio version may have been part of Hendrix's plan for this album, though the cut on Rainbow
Bridge is a live performance taken from the May 30, 1970 concert depicted in the movie "Jimi Plays Berkeley."

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Controversy over control of Hendrix's music


For many years after Jimi Hendrix's death, producer Alan Douglas controlled the release of the musician's remaining
unreleased tracks. Many of Douglas' choices were controversial, such as his removal of the original backing
musicians, replacing them with studio musicians who had never played with Hendrix, overdubbing guitar parts and
adding female backing vocalists, reworking most of the songs and claiming co-composer credits on some.
In 1995, Douglas had produced an album of Hendrix's work titled Voodoo Soup. This collection covers much of the
same material as First Rays of the New Rising Sun but leaves out several important tracks, replaced by songs that
have no connection to the original project. In addition, its tracks were heavily edited. For example, some drum parts
were removed and replaced with new overdubs by Bruce Gary (best known as drummer for pop-rock group The
Knack), who had never played with Hendrix.
After a long legal struggle initiated by Al Hendrix and his adopted daughter Janie, they finally gained control of
Jimi's recorded works in 1995 (under the name "Experience Hendrix LLC") and hired Eddie Kramerwho had
recorded most of Hendrix's music, including his last songsto put these tracks back together on one album, where
previously they had been separated onto three.

Reconstructing the album


The tracks for this album ranged from finished to skeletal at the time of Hendrix's death. Much of the material had
been recorded over the summer of 1970 at Jimi's just-completed Electric Lady Studios in New York City. Many
songs seemed to be missing just their finishing touches, but Hendrix was a perfectionist who had already spent two
years developing this album, making it hard to be sure. Mitchell and Kramer have claimed that only the changes that
had been discussed with Hendrix have been made for the unfinished tracks.
Recording engineer Eddie Kramer used the same tracks with the same posthumous overdubs, production and mixing
that he and Mitch Mitchell had applied on the "Cry of Love", "Rainbow Bridge" and "War Heroes" albums (apart
from the removal of the drum beats at the beginning of "Easy Rider"). For First Rays of the New Rising Sun Kramer
remastered and resequenced these tracks.
Many songs only needed a final mix, which was made posthumously. However, "Belly Button Window" was
possibly intended to have more overdubs. Both "Beginnings" and "Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)" are in early stages
of production, featuring basic tracks which might ultimately have been re-recorded. (In the latter song, Hendrix can
be heard asking "Is the microphone on?") Some tracks, such as "Straight Ahead", feature a preliminary vocal track
that Hendrix had intended to re-record. A vibraphone track was added to "Drifting" like Hendrix had planned though he also had an idea of using another guitar track instead of vibraphones.
Other songs planned for the album were left out of this compilation as simply too raw, including "Come Down Hard
On Me" and "Cherokee Mist" (both released on 2000's four-CD The Jimi Hendrix Experience), "Drifter's Escape"
(later found on the 1997 compilation South Saturn Delta) and "Valleys of Neptune" (released on the 2010 album
Valleys of Neptune). "Can I Whisper In Your Ear" is in too early a stage of development to be considered for a
mainstream release.
The song "My Friend", is an exception. It was recorded much earlier than the rest of the material (during Electric
Ladyland sessions in 1968), and some people have raised doubts as to whether Hendrix had ever intended to include
it. "Ezy Ryder" was not used in the similarly named movie Easy Rider but was inspired by Hendrix's viewing of it.

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Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix
1. "Freedom" 3:27
2. "Izabella 2:50
3. "Night Bird Flying" 3:50
4. "Angel" 4:22
5. "Room Full of Mirrors" 3:20
6. "Dolly Dagger" 4:44
7. "Ezy Ryder" 4:09
8. "Drifting" 3:48
9. "Beginnings" 4:13
10. "Stepping Stone" 4:12
11. "My Friend" 4:36
12. "Straight Ahead" 4:42
13. "Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)" 6:04
14. "Earth Blues" 4:21
15. "Astro Man" 3:34
16. "In From the Storm" 3:41
17. "Belly Button Window" 3:36
Note: "Straight Ahead" used the music from the earlier "Pass It On" but had completely new lyrics.

Personnel

Jimi Hendrix guitar, lead vocals, backing vocals, bass, piano, producer, mixing
Billy Cox bass, backing vocals
Mitch Mitchell drums, producer, mixing
Juma Sultan percussion

Buddy Miles drums (on tracks 5 & 7 ), backing vocals


Albert Allen (The Ghetto Fighters) backing vocals on "Freedom"
Arthur Allen (The Ghetto Fighters) backing vocals on "Freedom"
Billy Armstrong percussion on "Ezy Rider"
Buzzy Linhart vibraphone on "Drifting"
Emmeretta Marks backing vocals
The Ronettes backing vocals
Steve Winwood (Traffic) backing vocals on "Ezy Rider"
Chris Wood (Traffic) backing vocals on "Ezy Rider"
Ken Pine (The Fugs) 12 string on "My Friend"
Stephen Stills piano on "My Friend"
Paul Caruso harmonica on "My Friend"
Jimmy Mayes drums on "My Friend"

Eddie Kramer producer, engineer, mixing, photography, remastering


Tony Bongiovi engineer
Jack Adams engineer
Bob Cotts engineer

Bob Hughes engineer


John Jansen engineer

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John McDermott liner notes, remastering supervisor

References
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]

http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:38rc28gt05ja


Verdict of coroner's inquest
Sleeve notes to Voodoo Soup CD by Michael Fairchild
Jimpress magazine Steve Rodham

196

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South Saturn Delta


South Saturn Delta

Compilation album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

October 7, 1997

Recorded

19671970

Genre

Rock, Acid Rock, Blues-rock, Hard rock, Funk rock

Length

65:47

Label

MCA
Professional reviews

[1]

Allmusic
link
[2]
Pitchfork Media (7.6/10) link
[3]
Rolling Stone link
Jimi Hendrix chronology
First Rays of the New Rising
Sun
(1997)

South Saturn
Delta
(1997)

BBC
Sessions
(1998)

South Saturn Delta is a posthumous Jimi Hendrix album compiled by the Hendrix estate that consists of material
such as demo tapes, unfinished takes, previously released material that Hendrix had been working on prior to his
death in 1970.
When the Hendrix family acquired the rights for Jimi's catalog in 1995, they signed a contract with MCA Records
(predecessor to the Universal Music Group) to release compilations of rare or newly discovered material. The first
album that resulted of this contract was First Rays of the New Rising Sun, which was released in 1997 and was an
attempt to rebuild the album left unfinished at Hendrix's death. South Saturn Delta followed it some months later and
is a collection of unreleased material. The track list includes tracks from out-of-print albums such as Rainbow Bridge
("Look Over Yonder", "Pali Gap"); War Heroes ("Bleeding Heart", "Tax Free", "Midnight"); and Loose Ends ("The
Stars That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice", "Drifter's Escape") along with new mixes of songs ("All Along the
Watchtower").
"Look Over Yonder" is an outtake from 1968 featuring the original Experience line-up. The incorrectly tagged
"Little Wing" is a demo tape performed solely by Hendrix and Mitch Mitchell and musically identical to "Angel".
"Here He Comes (Lover Man)" is a well known Hendrix concert staple song that never made it to any of his albums.
"South Saturn Delta" is a horn-laden funk-jazz song while "Power of Soul" and "Message to the Universe (Message
to Love)" are studio versions of two Band of Gypsys tracks, the latter performed by Hendrix's Woodstock band
Gypsy Sun and Rainbows. "Tax Free" is a studio recording of the song written by the Swedish instrumental duo

''South Saturn Delta''


Hansson and Carlsson, occasionally played on stage by Hendrix. "All Along the Watchtower" is the same take that
appears on the Electric Ladyland album, but this one is the earlier mix by Chas Chandler. The stereo mix of "The
Stars That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice" (originally the B-side to "Burning of the Midnight Lamp") is taken from
the Loose Ends album, which was released in 1974 in Europe and Japan. "Midnight" is an instrumental song from
the Electric Ladyland sessions. "Sweet Angel" is an early demo version of the song "Angel" featuring Hendrix using
a primitive drum machine (the original tape had become slightly damaged some years back, but this was the only
source for this song). "Bleeding Heart" is a jam based on an old blues song that appeared in 1972 on War Heroes and
in 1994 on Blues. "Pali Gap" is an instrumental. "Drifter's Escape" is a Bob Dylan cover that also appeared on Loose
Ends. "Midnight Lightning" is a demo tape of Hendrix's delta blues song featuring Hendrix alone tapping his foot to
keep time while playing.

Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
1.
2.
3.
4.

"Look Over Yonder" 3:25


"Little Wing" 2:44
"Here He Comes (Lover Man)" 6:33
"South Saturn Delta" 4:07

5. "Power of Soul" 5:20


6. "Message to the Universe (Message of Love)" 6:19
7. "Tax Free" (Bo Hansson) 4:58
8. "All Along the Watchtower" (Bob Dylan) 4:01
9. "The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice" 4:20
10. "Midnight" 5:32
11. "Sweet Angel (Angel)" 3:55
12. "Bleeding Heart" (Elmore James) 3:15
13. "Pali Gap" 5:08
14. "Drifter's Escape" (Bob Dylan) 3:05
15. "Midnight Lightning" 3:07

References
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[2] http:/ / www. pitchforkmedia. com/ article/ record_review/ 18444-south-saturn-delta
[3] http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ artists/ jimihendrix/ albums/ album/ 127252/ review/ 5941256/ south_saturn_delta

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Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix


Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix

Greatest hits by Jimi Hendrix


Released

September 16, 1997

Recorded

October 1966 October 1970

Genre

Psychedelic rock, Psychedelic soul, blues-rock, hard rock

Length

73:32

Language

English

Label

MCA

Producer

Chas Chandler and Jimi Hendrix


Professional reviews
Allmusic
Q

link
[2]
link

[1]

Jimi Hendrix chronology


Nine to the
Universe
(1980)

Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi


Hendrix
(1997)

Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix is a greatest hits career-spanning compilation of Jimi Hendrix's best
known music from 1966 to 1970 released on September 16, 1997 in the United Kingdom and on November 3, 1998
in the United States.

''Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix''

Reception
It reached #10 in the UK and #133 in the US where it ultimately went platinum. It is noted as one of the most
successful posthumous greatest hits albums ever released for an artist.

Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
1. "Purple Haze" 2:52
2. "Fire" 2:43
3. "The Wind Cries Mary" 3:20
4. "Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts) 3:30
5. "All Along the Watchtower" (Bob Dylan) 3:59
6. "Stone Free" 3:36
7. "Crosstown Traffic" 2:19
8. "Manic Depression" 3:42
9. "Little Wing" 2:25
10. "If 6 Was 9" 5:34
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.

"Foxy Lady" 3:19


"Bold as Love" 4:11
"Castles Made of Sand" 2:47
"Red House" 3:50
"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" 5:12
"Freedom" 3:25
"Night Bird Flying" 3:50
"Angel" 4:22
"Dolly Dagger" 4:45
"The Star Spangled Banner" (Key, Smith) 3:46 [Recorded live at Woodstock]

Bonus disc
The album was also released in a two-CD limited edition. The bonus disc contains eight tracks:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

"Highway Chile" 3:41


"Gloria" (Morrison) 8:54
"It's Too Bad" 8:53
"Spanish Castle Magic" 5:50
"Hear My Train A-Comin'" 6:58
"Lover Man" 2:58
"I Don't Live Today" (Live) 6:34
"Purple Haze" (Live) 4:03

Tracks 115 are performed by The Jimi Hendrix Experience.


Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 11 and 14 are from the album Are You Experienced?.
Tracks 9, 10, 12 and 13 are from the album Axis: Bold as Love.
Tracks 5, 7 and 15 are from the album Electric Ladyland.
Tracks 16, 17, 18 and 19 are from the posthumous album First Rays of the New Rising Sun.
Track 20 is from the album Live at Woodstock.

The version of "Red House" found here derives from a different take than the one found on the UK edition of Are
You Experienced.

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Personnel
Jimi Hendrix guitar, vocals, bass guitar, piano
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Mitch Mitchell drums
Noel Redding bass guitar, vocals
Additional musicians
Billy Cox - bass guitar, vocals
Buddy Miles - drums

References
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[2] http:/ / www. cduniverse. com/ productinfo. asp?pid=1104045

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''BBC Sessions''

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BBC Sessions

Live album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience


Released

June 2, 1998

Recorded

1967, 1969

Genre

Rock, Acid Rock, Hard rock, Blues-rock, Funk rock

Length

107:20

Label

MCA
Professional reviews
[1]

Allmusic
link
[2]
Robert Christgau (B+) link
[3]
Rolling Stone
link

The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology


Live at the Oakland
Coliseum
(1998)

BBC
Sessions
(1998)

Live at Clark
University
(1999)

BBC Sessions is an album of recordings by the rock group The Jimi Hendrix Experience, released on MCA Records
on June 2, 1998. It contains all the surviving tracks from their various appearances on BBC radio programmes, such
as Saturday Club and Top Gear, recorded in 1967. At a BBC radio 'session', a practice still alive in British radio
today, a band is required to record material in a studio quickly, with limited overdubbing, largely limited to and
relying upon their live sound. Many groups as part of this tradition choosing to record some songs that are not part of
their main repertoire. The album also includes the only two surviving Hendrix UK TV soundtracks (both BBC) Late
Night Line Up ("Manic Depression" only survives) and the 1969 Lulu Show (complete).
BBC Sessions therefore offers its own unique example of the Experience sound, and a revealing glimpse of a song
from their early repertoire Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor" and their only known studio recording of Bob Dylan's
"Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?".
Apart from the "live" in studio versions of well-known Experience songs, there are several unique studio recordings
of songs, ie "Driving South" (x3), "Hoochie Coochie Man", "Catfish Blues", "Hound Dog", "Hear My Train a
Comin'"(x2) and a couple of novelty tracks: the amusing parody of a BBC Radio 1 jingle "Radio One", and a
recording with a young Stevie Wonder on drums (a cover of Wonder's own "I Was Made to Love Her"). It also
includes the sound track from the band's infamous appearance on Lulu's television show in 1969.

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203

The Top of the Pops references were overdubbed by Brian Mathews onto Top Gear recordings for the BBC produced
Swedish (English language) radio show of the same name. The original recordings minus Brian no longer exist.

Track listing
Disc one
No. Title

Writer(s)

1. "Foxy Lady"

Jimi Hendrix

Length
2:59

2. "Alexis Korner Introduction"

0:27

3. "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" Bob Dylan

3:31

4. "Rhythm and Blues World Service"

0:12

5. "(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man"

Willie Dixon

6. "Traveling With The Experience"

5:31
0:22

7. "Driving South"

Curtis Knight

5:30

8. "Fire"

Hendrix

2:43

9. "Little Miss Lover"

Hendrix

2:57

10. "Introducing The Experience"

0:51

11. "Burning of the Midnight Lamp"

Hendrix

3:43

12. "Catfish Blues"

Robert Petway

5:28

13. "Stone Free"

Hendrix

3:25

14. "Love or Confusion"

Hendrix

2:54

15. "Hey Joe"

Billy Roberts

4:01

16. "Hound Dog"

Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller

2:42

17. "Driving South"

Knight

4:49

18. "Hear My Train a Comin'"

Hendrix

5:00

Disc two
No. Title

Writer(s)

Length

1. "Purple Haze"

Hendrix

3:17

2. "Killing Floor"

Chester Arthur Burnett

2:29

3. "Radio One"

Hendrix

1:34

4. "Wait Until Tomorrow"

Hendrix

2:57

5. "Day Tripper"

Lennon/McCartney

3:24

6. "Spanish Castle Magic"

Hendrix

3:07

7. "Jammin'"

Hendrix

3:20

8. "I Was Made to Love Her"

Stevie Wonder, Lula Mae Hardaway, Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy

3:04

9. "Foxy Lady"

Hendrix

2:43

10. "A Brand New Sound"

0:54

11. "Hey Joe" (alternate take)

Roberts

2:57

12. "Manic Depression"

Hendrix

3:10

''BBC Sessions''

13. "Driving South" (alternate take)

204
Knight

14. "Hear My Train a Comin'" (alternate take) Hendrix

5:02

15. "A Happening for Lulu"

0:19

16. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"

Hendrix

17. "Lulu Introduction"


18. "Hey Joe"

Roberts

2:43

19. "Sunshine of Your Love"

Pete Brown, Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton

1:17

Based on CD track numbers.


Tracks 1, 13-15 and 27-29 recorded February 13, 1967.
Tracks 8, 19 and 20 recorded March 28, 1967.
Track 30 recorded April 17, 1967.
Tracks 9-12, 16-17, 25-26 and 31 recorded October 6, 1967
Tracks 2-7 recorded October 17, 1967.
Tracks 18, 21-24 and 32 recorded December 15, 1967.
Tracks 33-37 recorded January 4, 1969.

Personnel
Jimi Hendrix- Vocals, Guitar
Mitch Mitchell- Drums, except on tracks 25-26
Noel Redding- Bass
Stevie Wonder- Drums on tracks 25-26
Alexis Korner- Slide guitar on track 5

Sources
Jimi Hendrix BBC Sessions CD [4]

References
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]

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Recording details

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience


The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Box set by The Jimi Hendrix Experience


Released

September 12, 2000

Recorded

1966 - 1970

Genre

Rock

Length

4:19:55

Label

MCA Records
Professional reviews
Allmusic
Rolling Stone

[1]

link
[2]
link

The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology


Live at Clark
University
(1999)

The Jimi Hendrix Experience (MCA


Box)
(2000)

Live in
Ottawa
(2001)

MCA continued the series of definitive masters of the Jimi Hendrix catalogue in 2000, releasing the self-titled box
set The Jimi Hendrix Experience, consisting of four discs. The material includes alternate recordings, live
performances and some rarities. Although most of the material had been released in earlier compilations, some
previously unreleased material (such as live versions of "Killing Floor" and "The Wind Cries Mary") was also
included.
The alternative recordings include some tracks from Hendrix's studio albums, even including some from First Rays
of the New Rising Sun. This list includes "Purple Haze", "Highway Chile", "Little Wing", "Gypsy Eyes", "Stone
Free", among others. The live songs are taken from performances such as the Monterey Pop Festival, the Royal
Albert Hall, and the Isle of Wight and includes a near-complete version of Hendrix in the West.
On some tracks, especially on those from Hendrix in the West, the recordings have been slightly altered to clean up
the sound, but even when modifications were made the result does not differ too much from the original masterings.
Another edition of this boxed set was released on 28th November 2005, which, under the Universal music group
label, included an exclusive bonus DVD featuring a 30 minute documentary called "Hendrix And The Blues",
originally created as part of the 'Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues' series. As well as this, this bonus DVD also
includes several Live tracks, including "Johnny B. Goode" which was recorded live at Berkeley Community Theatre,
Berkeley, California on May 30 1970, "Red House" and "In From The Storm", both of which were recorded live at
Isle Of Wight, England on August 30 1970.

''The Jimi Hendrix Experience''

Album Cover
The cover shot is by Karl Ferris, Jimi's chosen photo/designer for all three US/International "Experience" original
albums.

Track listing
Disc one
1. "Purple Haze" (Hendrix) 3:26
2. "Killing Floor" (Burnett) 3:05
3. "Hey Joe" (Roberts) 2:52
4. "Foxy Lady" (Hendrix) 3:27
5. "Highway Chile" (Hendrix) 3:40
6. "Hey Joe" (Roberts) 3:06
7. "Title#3" (Hendrix) 2:12
8. "Third Stone from the Sun" (Hendrix) 9:18
9. "Taking Care of No Business" (Hendrix) 3:42
10. "Here He Comes (Lover Man)" (Hendrix) 3:02
11. "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" (Hendrix) 1:30
12. "If 6 Was 9" (Hendrix) 5:57
13. "Rock Me Baby" (Josea, King) 3:20
14. "Like a Rolling Stone" (Dylan) 6:52
Tracks 7 and 9 are previously unreleased recordings.
Tracks 5, 6, 8, 10, 11 and 12 are previously
unreleased alternate recordings.
Tracks 2 and 3 recorded live at Olympia Theatre, Paris, France, October 18 1966.
Tracks 13 and 14 recorded live at the Monterey International Pop Festival, June 18 1967.

Disc two
1. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
(Lennon/McCartney) 1:51
2. "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" (Hendrix) 4:06
3. "Little Wing" (Hendrix) 3:23
4. "Little Miss Lover" (Hendrix) 2:21
5. "The Wind Cries Mary" (Hendrix) 4:11
6. "Catfish Blues" (Petway) 5:26
7. "Bold as Love" (Hendrix) 7:09
8. "Sweet Angel" (Hendrix) 4:12
9. "Fire" (Hendrix) 2:43
10. "Somewhere" (Hendrix) 3:48
11. "Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)"
(Hendrix) 1:28
12. "Gypsy Eyes" (Hendrix) 3:43
13. "Room Full of Mirrors" (Hendrix) 1:26
14. "Gloria" (Van Morrison) 8:53
15. "Its Too Bad" (Hendrix) 8:52

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16. "Star Spangled Banner" (Francis Scott Key, John Stafford Smith, arr. Hendrix) (Studio version) 4:12

Track 15 is a previously unreleased recording.


Tracks 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 are previously unreleased alternate recordings.
Track 16 is a studio recording.
Tracks 1 and 2 recorded live at Stockholm, Sweden, September 5 1967.
Tracks 5 and 6 recorded live at Olympia Theatre, Paris, France, October 9 1967.
Track 9 recorded live at Clark University, Worcester, MA, March 15 1968.

Disc three
1. "Stone Free" (Hendrix) 3:43
2. "Spanish Castle Magic" (Hendrix) 5:50
3. "Hear My Train a Comin" (Hendrix) 6:58
4. "Room Full of Mirrors" (Hendrix) 7:56
5. "I Dont Live Today" (Hendrix) 6:33
6. "Little Wing" (Hendrix) 3:16
7. "Red House" (Hendrix) 13:07
8. "Purple Haze" (Hendrix) 4:03
9. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" (Hendrix) 7:53
10. "Izabella" (Hendrix) 3:40
Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4 and 10 are previously unreleased
alternate recordings.
Track 5 recorded live at Los Angeles Forum, CA,
April 26 1969.
Tracks 6 and 9 recorded live at the Royal Albert
Hall, London, February 24 1969.
Tracks 7 and 8 recorded live at San Diego Sports Arena, CA, May 24 1969.

Disc four
1. "Message to Love" (Hendrix) 3:35
2. "Earth Blues" (Hendrix) 4:08
3. "Astro Man" (Hendrix) 4:11
4. "Country Blues" (Hendrix) 8:27
5. "Freedom" (Hendrix) 3:52
6. "Johnny B. Goode" (Berry) 4:46
7. "Lover Man" (Hendrix) 2:57
8. "Blue Suede Shoes" (Perkins) 4:28
9. "Cherokee Mist" (Hendrix) 6:02
10. "Come Down Hard on Me" (Hendrix) 3:18
11. "Hey Baby/In from the Storm" (Hendrix) 8:56
12. "Ezy Ryder" (Hendrix) 3:43
13. "Night Bird Flying" (Hendrix) 4:24
14. "All Along the Watchtower" (Bob Dylan) 4:22
15. "In from the Storm" (Hendrix) 4:21
16. "Slow Blues" (Hendrix) 1:46

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''The Jimi Hendrix Experience''

Tracks 4, 7, 9 and 16 are previously unreleased recordings.


Tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 12 and 13 are previously unreleased alternate recordings.
Tracks 6 and 8 recorded live at Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, CA, May 30 1970. (First Show)
Track 11 recorded live at Maui, Hawaii, July 30 1970.
Tracks 14 and 15 recorded live at the Isle of Wight, England, August 30 1970.

See also
Jimi Hendrix discography
Jimi Hendrix posthumous discography

References
[1] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:81adqj2lojka
[2] http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ artists/ jimihendrix/ albums/ album/ 92634/ review/ 5945835/ the_jimi_hendrix_experience

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''Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix Collection''

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Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix Collection


Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix Collection

Compilation album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

May 8, 2001

Recorded

November 22, 1966-Oct 19, 1970

Genre

Rock

Length

2:25:30

Label

MCA Records
Professional reviews
Allmusic
Robert Christgau

[1]

link

link

[4]

Jimi Hendrix chronology


The Jimi Hendrix
Experience
(2000)

Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix


Collection
(2001)

Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of


Wight
(2002)

Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix Collection (2001, MCA Records) is a two-disc set compilation. The first disc
contains studio recordings and the second disc contains live recordings. It contains many alternate recordings of
studio tracks, and previously unavailable and unreleased recordings. It contains an essay by Kurt Loder.

Track listing
All songs written and composed by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.

Disc one (Studio)


1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.

Purple Haze 2:50


Hey Joe (Roberts) 3:30
The Wind Cries Mary 3:20
Fire 2:43
Highway Chile (Alternate Recording) 3:39
Are You Experienced? 4:14
Burning of the Midnight Lamp 3:39
Little Wing 2:24
All Along the Watchtower (Alternate Recording) (Bob Dylan) 3:59

''Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix Collection''


10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.

Crosstown Traffic 2:12


Voodoo Child (Slight Return) 5:12
Spanish Castle Magic (Alternate Recording) 5:48
Stone Free (Alternate Recording) 3:43
Izabella 2:46
Stepping Stone 4:07
Angel 4:21
Dolly Dagger 4:44
Hey Baby (New Rising Sun) 6:04

Disc two (Live)


1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Fire 3:33
Hey Joe (Roberts) 6:46
I Don't Live Today 6:45
Hear My Train A Comin' 11:00
Foxey Lady 4:25
Machine Gun 11:36

7. Johnny B. Goode (Berry) 4:45


8. Red House 8:00
9. Freedom 4:06
10. Purple Haze 3:55
11. The Star Spangled Banner (Key, Smith) 3:43
12. Wild Thing (Taylor) 7:41

References
[1] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:z0djvwrla92k

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''The Singles Collection''

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The Singles Collection


Re-Experienced
Compilation album by Jimi Hendrix
Released

2003

Recorded

19661970

Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues-rock

Label

MCA
Jimi Hendrix chronology

Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of


Wight
(2002)

The Singles
Collection
(2003)

Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Jimi


Hendrix
(2003)

The Singles Collection is a posthumous compilation album by Jimi Hendrix, released in 2003 by MCA Records. The
album is made up of ten discs, each of which contains one single released by Hendrix, including some after his
death.

Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.

Disc one
1. "Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts)
2. "Stone Free"

Disc two
1. "Purple Haze"
2. "51st Anniversary"

Disc three
1. "The Wind Cries Mary"
2. "Highway Chile"

Disc four
1. "Burning of the Midnight Lamp"
2. "The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice"

Disc five
1. "Foxy Lady"
2. "Manic Depression"

''The Singles Collection''

Disc six
1. "Crosstown Traffic"
2. "Gypsy Eyes"

Disc seven
1. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"
2. "Hey Joe" (Roberts)
3. "All Along the Watchtower" (Bob Dylan)

Disc eight
1. "Stepping Stone"
2. "Izabella"

Disc nine
1. "Dolly Dagger"
2. "Night Bird Flying"

Disc ten
1.
2.
3.
4.

"Little Drummer Boy" (Katherine K. Davis)


"Silent Night" (Josef Mohr, Franz Gruber)
"Auld Lang Syne" (Robert Burns, Traditional)
"Three Little Bears"

Personnel
Jimi Hendrix guitar, lead vocals, electric harpsichord on track 7, mellotron on track 7, kazoo on track 11, piano
on track 11
Mitch Mitchell drums, backing vocals on track 11
Noel Redding bass, backing vocals
Dave Mason bass on track 11, acoustic guitar on track 15, bass on track 15
Buddy Miles drums on track 16 and 17
Billy Cox bass on tracks 16, 17, 18 and 19

212

''Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Jimi Hendrix''

213

Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Jimi Hendrix


Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Jimi Hendrix

Compilation album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

September 9, 2003

Recorded

October 1966 - October 1970

Genre

Blues, blues rock

Length

1:15:02

Label

MCA

Producer

Janie Hendrix, John McDermott, Eddie Kramer


Professional reviews

Allmusic
PopMatters

[1]

link
[2]
link

Jimi Hendrix chronology


Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi
Hendrix
(1998)

Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Jimi


Hendrix
(2003)

Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Jimi Hendrix is a ten track companion release to the critically acclaimed series
Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues shown on PBS in September 2003.
This special Jimi Hendrix title features two previously unreleased blues inspired performances including "Georgia
Blues" (recorded on March 19, 1969 at New York's Record Plant Studios). This previously unreleased studio
recording was recorded with saxophonist Lonnie Youngblood, whom Hendrix joined in the studio for his first
recordings in 1963. Also featured on this special ten track release is the previously unreleased "Blue Window"
recorded in March 1969 at Mercury Studios in New York. This track features Buddy Miles on drums, Duane
Hitchings on organ, Bill Rich on bass guitar and brass players Tobie Wynn, James Tatum, Bobby Rock, Pete Carter,
and Tom Hall, now known as Khalil Shaheed, who also composed the horn arrangements and directed the brass
section.

''Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Jimi Hendrix''

Track listing
1. Red House 3:50
2. Voodoo Chile 15:00
3. Come On (Let the Good Times Roll) 4:09
4. Georgia Blues 7:57
5. Country Blues 8:26
6. Hear My Train a Comin' 6:57
7. It's Too Bad 8:52
8. My Friend 4:36
9. Blue Window 12:51
10. Midnight Lightning 3:06

Personnel
Jimi Hendrix - Guitar, Vocals
Mitch Mitchell, Jimmy Mayes, Buddy Miles - Drums
Noel Redding, Jack Casady, Hank Anderson, Billy Cox, Bill Rich - Bass

Lonnie Youngblood - Vocals, Saxophone


Ken Pine - 12-String Guitar
Paul Caruso - Harmonica
Bobby Rock - Tenor Saxophone
Tobie Wynn - Baritone Saxophone
Tom Hall (Khalil Shaheed), Pete Carter - Trumpet
Stephen Stills - Piano
Steve Winwood, John Winfield, Duane Hitchings - Organ

References
[1] http:/ / allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:0cfyxqtald6e~T1
[2] http:/ / www. popmatters. com/ music/ reviews/ h/ hendrixjimi-martinscorsese. shtml

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Extended play
Are You Homeless?
Are You Homeless?

EP by The Jimi Homeless Experience


Released

2007

Genre

Comedy rock, Parody music, Rock, Comedy,


Parody

Length

26:06

Label

MK-ULTRA RECORDS

Producer Jon Kinyon

Are You Homeless? is an EP from The Jimi Homeless Experience. It contains seven tracks of parody songs written
by Jon Kinyon,[1] each one lampooning a well known Jimi Hendrix hit. The CD was officially released on August
23, 2007, the 40th anniversary of The Jimi Hendrix Experience's first LP, Are You Experienced.[2] The album cover
itself is a parody of this influential album.

Production

Produced by Jon Kinyon


Recorded and engineered by Jeff Gross, June '07 - August '07 at Studio 144, Los Angeles, CA
Mixed by Jon Kinyon and Jeff Gross, August '07
Mastered by Michael Edmonds, August '07 at MK-ULTRA STUDIOS, Burbank, CA
Art design by Jon Kinyon
Graphics by Big Tasty

''Are You Homeless?''

216

Studio musicians
Josh Curtis -- vocals, bass guitar;
Jason DeCorse -- guitar;
Kevin Zelch -- drums.

Track listing
The track listing of parodies are as follows:
Track

Title

Length (Style) Parody of

Description

"Purple Veins"

3:31

"Purple Haze"

The lament of a man hopelessly addicted to street narcotics. He knows they are a source
of his misery, anger and confused state but they are also capable of providing him an
escape - however short lived.

"Pliers"

2:56

"Fire"

In Hendrix' time, just singing about wanting to have sex with someone (see: Fire) was
considered taboo. 40 years later nothing seems shocking, even this song expressing pure
sexual deviancy seems tame compared to some popular hit songs today.

"Hey Bro"

4:20

"Hey Joe"

"Boxy Lady"

3:43

"Foxy Lady"

"The Wind Cries


Larry"

3:42

"The Wind Cries A homeless man surveys his surroundings and reveals his pessimism on love/marriage,
Mary"
his distrust of the police and his belief that nature is ultimately out to do him in.

"Hobo Child (No


Deposit No
Return)"

4:45

"Voodoo Child
(Slight Return)"

"Are You
Homeless?"

3:44

"Are You
Experienced"

A man gets evicted from his apartment, beats up his landlady and winds up on the run
from the cops.
A homeless man expresses his affection for a homeless lady who collects and lives in
cardboard boxes. Though he shares his panhandled change with her she still ignores his
advances. He is relentless nonetheless.

Even deep down in the gutter, men are able to find pride of which to boast. In this case, it
is the actual condition of being down and out. Hobo's (as opposed to homeless people)
are traditionally romanticized in literature and sometimes even in popular culture - this
label actually becomes a badge of honor to some.
An unfortunate person, new to the streets, is welcomed and educated by a man who has
been around for some time.

External links
Official site [3]
Jimi Homeless Experience webcomic [4]
MK-ULTRA Records [5]

References
[1] Official Press Release 10/25/2007 (http:/ / www. jimihomeless. com/ pressrelease001. html)
[2] "The Jimi Homeless Experience: Even Weirder Than Weird Al" (http:/ / www. melodika. net/ index. php?option=com_content& task=view&
id=58& Itemid=1). Home of Music. Melodika. 2007-10-28. . Retrieved 2008-06-13.
[3] http:/ / www. jimihomeless. com/
[4] http:/ / www. jimihomeless. com/ comic/
[5] http:/ / www. mkultrarecords. com/

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Bootlegs
Live at the Oakland Coliseum
Live at the Oakland Coliseum

Live album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience


Released

February 27, 1998

Recorded April 27, 1969 at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California


Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues-rock

Length

84:28

Label

Dagger
The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology

Radio
One
(1988)

Live at the Oakland


Coliseum
(1998)

BBC
Sessions
(1998)

Live at the Oakland Coliseum is a two-disc posthumous live album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, released on
February 27, 1998 by Dagger Records. The album documents the band's performance at the Oakland Coliseum in
Oakland, California on April 27, 1969.

The concert
The band's performance at the Coliseum was not professionally recorded, only captured as monophonic sound by fan
Ken Koga. The set list for the concert was one typical of the 1969 tour, featuring staples "Fire", "Purple Haze" and
"Spanish Castle Magic". Highlights include the improvised "Hey Joe", strong blues numbers "Red House" and "Hear
My Train A Comin'", the extended "Foxey Lady" and the finale of the night, an eighteen-minute jam on "Voodoo
Child (Slight Return)", for which Jefferson Airplane bassist Jack Casady joined the band.[1]

''Live at the Oakland Coliseum''

Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.

Disc one
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

"Introduction" 0:42
"Fire" 4:19
"Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts) 4:26
"Spanish Castle Magic" 8:53
"Hear My Train a Comin'" 10:25
"Sunshine of Your Love" (Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Pete Brown) 6:45
"Red House" 13:12

Disc two
1. "Foxey Lady" 10:36
2. "Star Spangled Banner" (Francis Scott Key, John Stafford Smith) 2:58
3. "Purple Haze" 4:08
4. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" 18:04

Personnel

Jimi Hendrix guitar, lead vocals


Mitch Mitchell drums
Noel Redding bass, backing vocals
Jack Casady bass on track 11

See also
Jimi Hendrix discography

References
[1] "The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live at the Oakland Coliseum" (http:/ / www. daggerrecords. com/ disc1. html). Dagger Records. . Retrieved
2008-07-11.

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''Live at Clark University''

219

Live at Clark University


Live at Clark University

Live album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience


Released

July 6, 1999

Recorded March 15, 1968 at Clark University in Worcester,


Massachusetts
Genre
Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues-rock
Length

69:31

Label

Dagger
The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology

BBC
Sessions
(1998)

Live at Clark
University
(1999)

The Jimi Hendrix


Experience
(2000)

Live at Clark University is a posthumous live album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, released on July 6, 1999 by
Dagger Records. The album documents the band's performance at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts on
March 15, 1968. "Fire", "Red House" and "Foxey Lady", as well as the two interviews with Jimi Hendrix, were
featured on the companion CD to the 2007 book Jimi Hendrix: An Illustrated Experience. The album was re-released
on vinyl in 2010 as part of Record Store Day.

The concert
The performance at the University was part of the band's extensive American tour in support of Axis: Bold As Love.
The Experience played in the Atwood Hall, which could accommodate more than six hundred students. Tickets for
the concerts, which sold out, were modestly priced, with seats priced at $3.00, $3.50, and $4.00. Hendrix was
interviewed before his band's set, a recording of which is featured on the album. The album opens with "Fire",
though it is unknown if other tracks preceded it. The show was professionally recorded, and post-concert interviews
with bassist Noel Redding, drummer Mitch Mitchell and Hendrix are also included.

''Live at Clark University''

Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.

Jimi Hendrix: Pre-Concert Interview 20:56


"Fire" 3:33
"Red House" 7:09
"Foxey Lady" 4:31
"Purple Haze" 5:05
"Wild Thing" (Chip Taylor) 8:12
Noel Redding: Post-Concert Interview 7:13
Mitch Mitchell: Post-Concert Interview 8:58
Jimi Hendrix: Post-Concert Interview 4:54

Personnel
Jimi Hendrix guitar, lead vocals
Mitch Mitchell drums
Noel Redding bass, backing vocals

220

''Morning Symphony Ideas''

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Morning Symphony Ideas


Morning Symphony Ideas

Compilation album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

July 25, 2000

Recorded

19691970

Genre
Length

Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock,


blues-rock
70:29

Label

Dagger
Jimi Hendrix chronology

Live at
Woodstock
(1999)

Morning Symphony
Ideas
(2000)

Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix


Collection
(2001)

Morning Symphony Ideas is a posthumous compilation album by Jimi Hendrix, released on July 25, 2000 by
Dagger Records. The album contains previously unreleased studio and home demo recordings. "Keep on Grooving"
was later featured on the companion CD to the 2007 book Jimi Hendrix: An Illustrated Experience.

Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

"Keep on Grooving" 28:05


"Jungle" 9:04
"Room Full of Mirrors" 5:53
"Strato Strut" 4:38
"Scorpio Woman (Morning Symphony Ideas)" 21:41
"Acoustic Demo" 1:08

''Morning Symphony Ideas''

Recording details

Tracks 1 and 2 recorded at Record Plant Studios, New York City, New York, USA on November 14, 1969
Track 3 recorded at Record Plant Studios on September 25, 1969
Track 4 recorded at Record Plant Studios on December 19, 1969
Track 5 recorded at the Island of Maui, Hawaii, August 1970
Track 6 recorded at Jimi's apartment, New York City, New York, February 1970

Personnel
Jimi Hendrix guitar, vocals on tracks 3 and 5
Buddy Miles drums on tracks 1, 2, 3 and 4
Billy Cox bass on track 4

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''Live in Ottawa''

223

Live in Ottawa
Live in Ottawa

Live album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience


Released

October 23, 2001

Recorded

March 19, 1968 at the Capitol Theatre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues-rock

Length

58:55

Label

Dagger
The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology
The Jimi Hendrix
Experience
(2000)

Live in
Ottawa
(2001)

Paris 1967/San Francisco


1968
(2003)

Live in Ottawa is a posthumous live album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, released on October 23, 2001 by
Dagger Records. The album documents the band's second performance at the Capitol Theatre in Ottawa, Ontario on
March 19, 1968.
Recently, it was announced by Dagger Records that three songs from the first show, which are sourced from a
previously undiscovered tape, will be released on Live in Paris & Ottawa 1968.

The concert
The performances in Ottawa were part of the band's extensive American tour in support of Axis: Bold As Love. The
band arrived to play two shows at the Capitol Theatre, for which Jimi varied the set lists. In the second show, an
energetic run through of "Killing Floor" was played, as well as a long instrumental jam on "Tax Free", among
regular live staples. The show was not professionally recorded, though Hendrix was aware of the fact that his
performance was being set to tape, pointing it out to the audience at times.

''Live in Ottawa''

Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.

"Killing Floor" (Chester Arthur Burnett) 6:07


"Tax Free" (Bo Hansson, Janne Karlsson) 10:51
"Fire" 3:38
"Red House" 9:20
"Foxey Lady" 5:32
"Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts) 6:19
"Spanish Castle Magic" 7:48
"Purple Haze" 6:51
"Wild Thing" (Chip Taylor) 2:29

Personnel
Jimi Hendrix guitar, lead vocals
Mitch Mitchell drums
Noel Redding bass, backing vocals

224

''The Baggy's Rehearsal Sessions''

225

The Baggy's Rehearsal Sessions


The Baggy's Rehearsal Sessions

Compilation album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

June 25, 2002

Recorded

December 18 and 19, 1969 at Baggy's Studio in New York City, New York,
USA

Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues-rock

Length

67:39

Label

Dagger
Jimi Hendrix chronology

Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix


Collection
(2001)

The Baggy's Rehearsal


Sessions
(2002)

Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of


Wight
(2002)

The Baggy's Rehearsal Sessions is a posthumous compilation album by Jimi Hendrix, released on June 25, 2002 by
Dagger Records. The album contains recordings from two rehearsal sessions (on December 18 and 19, 1969) for the
Band of Gypsys' performances at the Fillmore East on December 31, 1969 and January 1, 1970.

Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
1. "Burning Desire" 9:33
2. "Hoochie Coochie Man" (Willie Dixon) 5:57
3. "Message to Love" 4:50
4. "Ezy Ryder" 5:32
5. "Power of Soul" 7:33
6. "Earth Blues" 5:10
7. "Changes" (Buddy Miles) 5:20
8. "Lover Man" 3:39
9. "We Gotta Live Together" (Miles) 0:44
10. "Baggy's Jam" 4:55
11. "Earth Blues" 6:26
12. "Burning Desire" 7:20

''The Baggy's Rehearsal Sessions''

Personnel
Jimi Hendrix guitar, lead vocals, backing vocals on tracks 7 and 10
Buddy Miles drums, backing vocals, lead vocals on tracks 7 and 10
Billy Cox bass, backing vocals

226

''Paris 1967/San Francisco 1968''

227

Paris 1967/San Francisco 1968


Paris 1967/San Francsico 1968

Live album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience


Released

April 24, 2003

Recorded October 9, 1967 at the Olympia Theatre in Paris, France and February 4, 1968 at Winterland in San Francisco, California,
USA
Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues-rock

Label

Dagger
The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology

Live in
Ottawa
(2001)

Paris 1967/San Francsico


1968
(2003)

Live at
Berkeley
(2003)

Paris 1967/San Francisco 1968 is a posthumous live album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, released on April 24,
2003 by Dagger Records. The album contains songs from The Jimi Hendrix Experience's performances at the
Olympia in Paris, France on October 9, 1967 and Winterland in San Francisco, California, USA on February 4,
1968.
The Paris show is not complete on this release. Two superb examples of the spirited performance were included as
part of the 2000 Jimi Hendrix Experience box set. "The Wind Cries Mary" and "Catfish Blues", two additional Paris
performances have not been included. Technical problems commenced during the latter half of "Catfish Blues" and a
malfunctioning microphone rendered "Burning Of The Midnight Lamp" and "Foxey Lady" unusable.

Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
Live at the Olympia Theatre, Paris, France, October 9, 1967
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

"Stone Free"
"Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts)
"Fire"
"Rock Me Baby" (Joe Josea, B.B. King)
"Red House"
"Purple Haze"
"Wild Thing" (Chip Taylor)

Live at the Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA, February 4, 1968

''Paris 1967/San Francisco 1968''

2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

"Killing Floor" (Chester Arthur Burnett)


"Red House"
"Catfish Blues" (Robert Petway)
"Dear Mr. Fantasy" (Part 1) (Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood, Chris Wood)
"Dear Mr. Fantasy (Part 2) (Capaldi, Winwood, Wood)
"Purple Haze"

Personnel

Jimi Hendrix guitar, vocals


Mitch Mitchell drums
Noel Redding bass
Buddy Miles drums on "Dear Mr. Fantasy Part 1 & 2

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''Hear My Music''

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Hear My Music
Hear My Music

Compilation album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

November 30, 2004

Recorded

FebruaryApril 1969

Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues-rock

Label

Dagger
Jimi Hendrix chronology

Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Jimi


Hendrix
(2003)

Hear My
Music
(2004)

Burning
Desire
(2006)

Hear My Music is a posthumous compilation album by Jimi Hendrix, released on November 30, 2004 by Dagger
Records. The album contains instrumental studio jams and demos recorded in early 1969.

Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
1. "Slow Version" 4:56
2. "Drone Blues" 8:29
3. "Ezy Ryder/Star Spangled Banner" (Hendrix/Francis Scott Key, John Stafford Smith) 10:17
4. "Jimi/Jimmy Jam" 16:59
5. "Jam 292" 5:22
6. "Trash Man" 7:23
7. "Message to Love" 2:36
8. "Gypsy Blood" 1:24
9. "Valleys of Neptune (Guitar)" 3:59
10. "Blues Jam at Olympic" 5:10
11. "Valleys of Neptune (Piano)" 3:05

''Hear My Music''

Recording details

Tracks 1, 3 and 10 recorded at Olympic Studios, London, England on February 14, 1969
Track 2 recorded at Record Plant Studios, New York City, New York, USA on April 24, 1969
Track 4 recorded at Record Plant Studios on March 25, 1969
Track 5 recorded at Record Plant Studios on May 14, 1969
Track 6 recorded at Olmstead Studios on April 3, 1969
Tracks 7, 8, 9 and 11 recorded at Olympic Studios on February 22, 1969

Personnel

Jimi Hendrix guitar, piano on track 11


Noel Redding bass on tracks 1, 3 and 10, 8-string bass on track 6
Mitch Mitchell drums on tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 10
Billy Cox bass on tracks 2 and 5
Rocky Isaac drums on track 2
Al Marks percussion on track 2
Roland Robinson bass on track 4

Jim McCarty guitar on track 4


Sharon Layne piano on track 5

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''Live at the Isle of Fehmarn''

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Live at the Isle of Fehmarn


Live at the Isle of Fehmarn

Live album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience


Released

December 13, 2005

Recorded September 6, 1970 at the Open Air Love & Peace Festival in Fehmarn, Germany
Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues-rock

Length

72:11

Label

Dagger
The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology

Live at
Berkeley
(2003)

Live at the Isle of


Fehmarn
(2005)

Burning
Desire
(2006)

Live at the Isle of Fehmarn is a posthumous live album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, released on December 13,
2005 by Dagger Records. The album documents the band's performance at the Open Air Love & Peace Festival in
Fehmarn, Germany on September 6, 1970; Jimi Hendrix's final concert performance. On its release a small number
of copies were manufactured with a defect in playback speed. Experience Hendrix replaced the defective discs free
of charge.[1]

The concert
The Experience were originally scheduled to play on September 5, but heavy rain and Gerry Stickels interference
delayed their appearance to the next day. Before the concert was slated to begin, former roadie Gerry Stickels [who
was fired three nights previously, after Aarhus] stormed the box office and attempted to shut the concert down.
Stickels and Hendrix exchanged insults in front of the crowd, and by the end of the concert a group of Hells Angels
had attacked the crowd and Hendrix's roadie, Rocky, had been shot in the leg, forcing Hendrix to flee the stage. Two
weeks later, Hendrix was dead, and the presence of Gerry Stickels and Eric Barrett at Hendrix's apartment would
raise questions about a possible role in his death (at the concert, Hendrix had revealed the two as being lovers).
Amateur recordings were made and released as bootlegs over the years, and after a new source of audio from the
festival's promoters surfaced, the album was mixed and produced.[2]

''Live at the Isle of Fehmarn''

Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
1. "Introduction" 3:36
2. "Killing Floor" (Chester Arthur Burnett) 3:35
3. "Spanish Castle Magic" 4:49
4. "All Along the Watchtower" (Bob Dylan) 4:26
5. "Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts) 4:20
6. "Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)" 5:35
7. "Message to Love" 4:43
8. "Foxey Lady" 4:23
9. "Red House" 9:24
10. "Ezy Ryder" 3:51
11. "Freedom" 7;45
12. "Room Full of Mirrors" 3:26
13. "Purple Haze" 2:26
14. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" 9:12

Personnel
Jimi Hendrix guitar, vocals
Mitch Mitchell drums
Billy Cox bass

References
[1] Announcement on the Jimi Hendrix Official Web Site>
[2] "The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live at the Isle of Fehmarn" (http:/ / www. daggerrecords. com/ disc8. html). Dagger Records. . Retrieved
2008-07-11.

232

''Running Desire''

233

Running Desire
Burning Desire

Compilation album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

December 12, 2006

Recorded November 7, 1969, January 7 and 23, 1970 at Record Plant Studios in New York City, New York
Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues-rock

Length

65:30

Label

Dagger
Jimi Hendrix chronology

Live at the Isle of


Fehmarn
(2005)

Burning
Desire
(2006)

Live at
Monterey
(2007)

Burning Desire is a posthumous compilation album by Jimi Hendrix, released on December 12, 2006 by Dagger
Records. The album contains instrumental studio jams and rough demos recorded in late-1969 and early-1970.

Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

"Izabella" 4:23
"Ezy Ryder/MLK (aka Captain Coconut)" 19:59
"Cherokee Mist/Astro Man" 5:18
"Record Plant 2X" 11:03
"Villanova Junction Blues" 4:56
"Burning Desire" 7:27
"Stepping Stone/Villanova Junction Blues" 6:38
"Slow Time Blues" 3:49

''Running Desire''

Recording details
Tracks 1 and 7 recorded at Record Plant Studios in New York City, New York on November 7, 1969
Tracks 2, 4, 5, 6 and 8 recorded at Record Plant Studios on January 23, 1970
Track 3 recorded at Record Plant Studios on January 7, 1970

Personnel
Jimi Hendrix guitars
Buddy Miles drums
Billy Cox bass

234

''Live in Paris & Ottawa 1968''

235

Live in Paris & Ottawa 1968


Live in Paris & Ottawa 1968

Live album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience


Released

September 5, 2008

Recorded 29 January 1968 at the Olympia Theatre, Paris, France; March 19, 1968 at the Capitol Theatre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues-rock

Label

Dagger
The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology

Live at
Monterey
(2007)

Live in Paris & Ottawa


1968
(2008)

Live at
Woburn
(2009)

Live in Paris & Ottawa 1968 is a posthumous live album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, released on September 5,
2008 by Dagger Records. The album contains songs from the band's performances at the Olympia Theatre in Paris,
France on 29 January 1968 and the Capitol Theatre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on March 19, 1968.
The concert in Paris was previously issued as part of the 1991 box set Stages. The songs from the concert in Ottawa
are sourced from a previously undiscovered tape and were recorded during the first show of that evening. The second
show at the Capitol Theatre in Ottawa was previously issued on Live in Ottawa.

Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
Live at the L'Olympia Theatre, Paris, France, January 29, 1968
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.

"Killing Floor" (Chester Arthur Burnett) 4:32


"Catfish Blues" (Robert Petway) 8:46
"Foxey Lady" 5:29
"Red House" 4:24
"Drivin' South" 9:24
"The Wind Cries Mary" 3:55
"Fire" 4:16
"Little Wing" 3:40
"Purple Haze" 5:59

Live at the Capitol Theatre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, March 19, 1968

''Live in Paris & Ottawa 1968''


"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) 2:16
2. "Fire" 3:29
3. "Purple Haze" 5:15

Personnel
Jimi Hendrix guitar, vocals
Mitch Mitchell drums
Noel Redding bass

236

''Live at Woburn''

237

Live at Woburn
Live at Woburn

Live album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience


Released

July 28, 2009

Recorded

July 6, 1968 at the Woburn Music Festival


1968

Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues-rock

Length

48:01

Label

Dagger Records
The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology

Live in Paris & Ottawa


1968
(2008)

Live at
Woburn
(2009)

Valleys of
Neptune
(2010)

Live at Woburn is a posthumous live album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, released on July 28, 2009 by Dagger
Records. The concert was captured from a recording made from the stage soundboard on July 6, 1968 at the Woburn
Music Festival in Woburn, Bedfordshire, England. Jimi and the Experience had not been to back to England since
December 1967 (except for an appearance on the television show "It Must Be Dusty!" in June), so the concert was
eagerly anticipated. The recording is raw and overdrivien sometimes, but effectively presents all of the voices and
instruments on stage.

Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

"Introduction" 1:07
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (John Lennon/Paul McCartney) 1:11
"Fire" 4:19
"Tax Free" (Bo Hansson and Jan Carlsson) 10:11
"Red House" 11:30
"Foxy Lady" 4:55
"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" 6:38
"Purple Haze" 8:10

''Live at Woburn''

Personnel
Jimi Hendrix guitar, vocals
Mitch Mitchell drums
Noel Redding bass

238

239

Tributes
Electric Chubbyland: Popa Chubby Plays Jimi
Hendrix
Electric Chubbyland: Popa Chubby
Plays Jimi Hendrix
Studio album by Popa Chubby
Released

December 11, 2006

Recorded

February 10-11, 2006 (Live)


2006 (Studio)

Genre

blues-rock

Length

144:23

Label

Dixie Frog Records

Producer

Popa Chubby

Electric Chubbyland: Popa Chubby Plays Jimi Hendrix is a live and studio album by Popa Chubby recorded in
tribute to Jimi Hendrix. The concert part was recorded in Middletown, New York at the Corner Stage, February
10-11, 2006. The studio part was recorded in 2006 at the Serpentine Studio, which include San Catri is an
instrumental song writen by Popa Chubby in the style of Jimi Hendrix. The album was re-released in 2007 in
two-single album by Blind Pig Records which include Fire in place of Hey Joe.

Track listing
All songs written by Jimi Hendrix, except where stated otherwise.

CD 1 (Live)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.

Intro - 0:55
Spanish Castle Magic - 5:04
Foxy Lady - 6:20
Catfish Blues (Robert Petway) - 6:00
The Wind Cries Mary - 7:44
Purple Haze - 3:23
Can You See Me? - 5:38
Remember - 3:44
Third Stone From The Sun - 3:37

''Electric Chubbyland: Popa Chubby Plays Jimi Hendrix''

CD 2 (Live)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

Intro - 0:55
Come On (Part 1) (Earl King) - 6:36
Red House - 8:59
Who Knows - 6:58
Hey Joe (Billy Roberts) - 11:14
Little Wing - 9:11
Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - 6:05

CD 3 (Studio)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

Manic Depression - 4:53


Up From The Sky - 7:59
I Don't Live Today - 4:04
Izabella - 4:51
Burning Of The Midnight Lamp - 5:28
Highway Chile - 4:27
Bold As Love - 4:14

8. San Catri (For Jimi) (Popa Chubby) - 16:06

The Band
Popa Chubby: vocals, Guitar;
A.J. Pappas: Bass Guitar;
Chris Reddan: drums.

240

''The Hendrix Set''

241

The Hendrix Set


The Hendrix Set

EP by Paul Rodgers
Released

1993

Recorded

July 4, 1993 at Bayfront Park in Miami, Florida

Genre

Rock

Length

22:06

Label

Victory Music, Inc.

Producer

Paul Rodgers and Neal Schon


Professional reviews

Allmusic [[File:Star full.svg|11px|link=|2.5/5 stars

[1]

The Hendrix Set is a live EP by Paul Rodgers of Free and Bad Company fame. Released 2 November 1993, The
Hendrix Set consists of covers of five of Jimi Hendrix's songs. It was recorded live at Bayfront Park in Miami,
Florida on 4 July 1993.

Track listing
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

"Purple Haze"
"Stone Free"
"Little Wing"
"Manic Depression"
"Foxy Lady"

''The Hendrix Set''

Personnel

Paul Rodgers: Vocals


Neal Schon: Guitar
Todd Jensen: Bass
Deen Castronovo: Drums

References
[1] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:0jfwxq9gldse

242

''The Jimi Hendrix Memorial Concerts''

243

The Jimi Hendrix Memorial Concerts


The Jimi Hendrix Memorial Concerts: 1995

Live album by The Hamsters


Released

1996

Recorded Recorded live during October, 1995 at the Robin Hood, Brierley Hill West Midlands, UK
Genre

Blues Rock

Length

118:00

Label

Rockin' Rodent Recordings

Producer The Hamsters


The Hamsters chronology
Route 666 The Jimi Hendrix Memorial Concerts: 1995 Pet Sounds: 10 Years Of Rodent Rock

The Jimi Hendrix Memorial Concerts: 1995 is a live, double CD composed entirely of Jimi Hendrix covers. It is
The Hamsters fifth CD release.
The tour the album ultimately derived from was performed as a tribute to Jimi Hendrix as a celebration of 25 years
since his death. The band's first album, Electric Hamsterland, also a compilation of Hendrix covers, was released in
1990, 20 years after the death of Hendrix. For the 25th anniversary the band decided to do a full UK tour playing
predominantly Hendrix covers. This album was recorded during that tour, as was a concert film, Band of Gerbils
which was initially released on VHS with a subsequent release on DVD ten years later.

Track listing
Disk 1 (Red CD)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

"Foxy Lady" 4:20


"Fire" 3:53
"Little Wing" 6:39
"Izabella" 5:05
"Up From The Skies" 4:51
"Power of Soul" 1:10
"Spanish Castle Magic" 3:54

8. "Rock Me, Baby" 2:49


9. "Voodoo Chile" 6:49
10. "Hey, Baby (Land of the New Rising Sun)" 5:53

''The Jimi Hendrix Memorial Concerts''


11. "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" 3:48
12. "Ezy Rider" 4:10
13. "Hey Joe'" 5:52

Disk 2 (Purple CD)


1. "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)" 6:58
2. "Room Full of Mirrors" 4:31
3. "Third Stone From The Sun" 3:59
4. "Come On (Let the Good Times Roll)" 3:46
5. "51st Anniversary" 3:55
6. "I Don't Live Today" 2:12
7. "Love or Confusion" 3:37
8. "The Wind Cries Mary" 3:38
9. "Manic Depression" 4:05
10. "Stone Free" 3:44
11. "All Along the Watchtower" 5:53
12. "Star-Spangled Banner" 3:38
13. "Purple Haze'" 4:32
14. "Angel" 4:19

Musicians
Snail's-Pace Slim - guitars, lead vocals.
Rev Otis Elevator - drums, vocals.
Ms Zsa Zsa Poltergeist - bass, vocals.

Production

Recorded live at the Robin Hood, Brierley Hill, West Midlands, UK on the 'Zipper Mobile'.
Recording supervised by Richard Willis
Mixed by Dave Morris & Mark Tempest at Workshop Studios, Redditch, Worcestershire.
Post-production sonic enhancement and editing by Jerry Stevenson.
Mastered by Iestyn Rees.
Produced by The Hamsters
Cover design by Phil Smee of Waldo's Design Emporium.
Cover concept by The Hamsters
'Jimi Hamster' design by Des Penny
Photography by Nixon

244

''Power of Soul: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix''

245

Power of Soul: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix


Power of Soul: A Tribute to
Jimi Hendrix
Compilation album by various artists
Released

May 4, 2004

Genre

Rock

Label

Image Entertainment

Producer

Various
Professional reviews

Allmusic

link

[1]

Power of Soul: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix Track Listing:


(All Writing: Jimi Hendrix)

Track listing
1. Gratitude = performed by Al Hendrix = 0:18
2. Are You Experienced? = performed by Musiq Soulchild = 4:23
3. Spanish Castle Magic = performed by Santana = 4:09
4. Purple House = performed by Prince = 3:39
5. The Wind Cries Mary= performed by Sting = 4:31
6. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) = performed by Earth, Wind & Fire = 3:38
7. Power of Soul = performed by Bootsy Collins = 4:48
8. Burning of the Midnight Lamp = performed by Eric Clapton = 4:23
9. Have you Ever Been To (Electric Ladyland) = performed by the Lenny Kravitz = 3:08
10. 30 Years = performed Al Hendrix = 0:13
11. Who Knows = performed by Devoted Spirits = 3:16
12. Purple Haze = performed by Robert Randolph = 4:37
13. Going Home = performed by Velvet Turner = 0:43
14. Little Wing = performed and produced by Chaka Khan, Kenny Olson = 3:40
15. Castles Made of Sand = performed by Sounds of Blackness = 3:06
16. May This Be Love = performed by Eric Gales = 4:26
17. Foxy Lady = performed by Cee Lo = 3:40
18. Red House = performed by John Lee Hooker = 4:04
19. Little Wing/3rd Stone from the Sun (live) = performed by Stevie Ray Vaughan = 12:28
}} }}

References
[1] http:/ / allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:wnfuxqyaldhe

''Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix''

246

Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix


Stone Free: A Tribute to
Jimi Hendrix

Compilation album by various artists


Released

November 9, 1993

Genre

Rock

Length

62:52

Label

Reprise Records

Producer

Various

Professional reviews

Allmusic

link

[1]

Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix is a 1993 album recorded by various artists in tribute to Jimi Hendrix. The
artists were drawn from many genres of popular music. Contributors include his classic rock contemporaries Eric
Clapton and Jeff Beck, blues man Buddy Guy, classical violinist Nigel Kennedy, alternative pop/rock bands Belly
and Spin Doctors, hip hop artists P. M. Dawn, among others. According to the liner notes, the "artists were
encouraged to not only record one of their own personal favorites but to also place their stamp on Jimi's songs."
Several artists recorded radically different interpretations, particularly, P. M. Dawn, The Cure, Nigel Kennedy and
Pat Metheny. Some artists, on the other hand, recorded versions that were rather similar to the originals.
The band M.A.C.C. is made up of Mike McCready (guitarist from Pearl Jam), Jeff Ament (bassist from Pearl Jam),
Matt Cameron (drummer for Soundgarden and later for Pearl Jam), and Chris Cornell (singer of Soundgarden and
later Audioslave). The cover of "Hey Baby (Land of the New Rising Sun)" is their only known recording. All four
members of this group had previously worked together on the Temple of the Dog project.

Track listing
All songs written and composed by Jimi Hendrix, except track five (by Billy Roberts).

''Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix''

No. Title

247

Length

1. "Purple Haze" (performed by The Cure, produced by Robert Smith and Bryan "Chuck" New)

5:19

2. "Stone Free" (performed by Eric Clapton, produced by Nile Rodgers)

4:25

3. "Spanish Castle Magic" (performed by the Spin Doctors, produced by Eddie Kramer)

4:06

4. "Red House" (performed by Buddy Guy, produced by Eddie Kramer)

3:48

5. "Hey Joe" (performed by Body Count, produced by Ernie C)

4:28

6. "Manic Depression" (performed by Seal and Jeff Beck, produced by Jeff Beck, Eddie Kramer and Seal)

5:11

7. "Fire" (performed and produced by Nigel Kennedy)

4:39

8. "Bold as Love" (performed by the Pretenders, produced by Stephen Street)

3:23

9. "You Got Me Floatin'" (performed and produced by P. M. Dawn)

4:49

10. "I Don't Live Today" (performed by Slash, Paul Rodgers and Band of Gypsys, produced by Eddie Kramer)

4:32

11. "Are You Experienced?" (performed by Belly, produced by Paul Q. Kolderie and Sean Slade)

3:38

12. "Crosstown Traffic" (performed by Living Colour, produced by Ron Saint Germain)

3:10

13. "Third Stone from the Sun" (performed and produced by Pat Metheny)

6:00

14. "Hey Baby (Land of the New Rising Sun)" (performed by M.A.C.C.)

5:26

References
[1] http:/ / allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:3nfrxqugld0e

248

Singles
"Hey Joe"
"Hey Joe"

The Leaves' third release of "Hey Joe"


Singleby The Leaves
from the album Hey Joe
B-side

"Be With You" (original)


"Girl from the East" (re-release)
"Funny Little World" (second re-release)

Released

November 1965
1966 (re-releases)

Format

7" single

Genre

Garage rock

Length

2:52

Label

Mira

Writer(s)

Billy Roberts

Producer

Nick Venet (original)


Norm Ratner (re-releases)
The Leaves singles chronology

"Love Minus
Zero"
(1965)

"Hey Joe, Where You Gonna


Go?"
(1965)

"You Better Move


On"
(1965)

"Hey Joe"

249

The Leaves singles chronology


"Be With
You"
(1966)

"Hey Joe, Where You Gonna


Go?"
(1966)

"Hey
Joe"
(1966)

The Leaves singles chronology


"Hey Joe, Where You Gonna
Go?"
(1965)

"Hey
Joe"
(1966)

"Too Many
People"
(1965)

"Hey Joe (Where You Gonna Go)"


Song by The Byrds from the album Fifth Dimension
Released

July 18, 1966

Recorded

May 1619, 1966, Columbia Studios, Hollywood, CA

Genre

Rock

Length

2:17

Label

Columbia

Writer

Billy Roberts

Producer

Allen Stanton

"Hey Joe"

1967 U.S. picture sleeve.


Singleby The Jimi Hendrix Experience
B-side

"Stone Free" (UK)


"51st Anniversary" (US)

Released

December 16, 1966 (UK)


May 1, 1967 (US)

Format

7" single

Recorded October 23, 1966, De Lane Lea Studios, London


Genre

Rock, Blues-rock

Length

3:30

Label

Polydor (UK)
Reprise (US)

"Hey Joe"

250
Writer(s) Billy Roberts
Producer Chas Chandler
The Jimi Hendrix Experience singles chronology
"Hey
Joe"
(1966)

"Purple
Haze"
(1967)

"Hey Joe"
Song by Deep Purple from the album Shades of Deep Purple
Released

June 1968 (US)


September 1968 (UK)

Recorded

May 1968, Pye Studios, London

Genre

Hard rock, blues-rock

Length

7:33

Label

Tetragrammaton (US)
Parlophone (UK)

Writer

Billy Roberts

Producer

Derek Lawrence

"Hey Joe"

Singleby Patti Smith


B-side

"Piss Factory"

Released

1974

Format

7" single

Recorded June 5, 1974, Electric Lady Studios, New York City


Genre

Protopunk, Blues-rock

Length

5:05

Label

Mer

Writer(s) Patti Smith, Billy Roberts


Producer Lenny Kaye
Patti Smith singles chronology

"Hey Joe"

251

"Hey
Joe"
(1974)

"Gloria"
(1976)

"Hey Joe" is an American popular song from the 1960s that has become a rock standard and as such, has been
performed in a multitude of musical styles by hundreds of different artists since it was first written.[1] [2] [3] "Hey
Joe" tells the story of a man who is on the run and planning to head to Mexico after shooting his wife.[4] However,
diverse credits and claims have led to confusion as to the song's true authorship and genesis.[3] [4] The earliest known
commercial recording of the song is the late 1965 single by the Los Angeles garage band, The Leaves,[5] who also
had the first hit version of the song with a re-recording in 1966. Currently the best-known version is The Jimi
Hendrix Experience's 1966 recording.[6] The song title is sometimes given as "Hey Joe, Where You Gonna Go?" or
similar variations.

Authorship
While claimed by some to be a traditional song,[7] or often erroneously attributed to the pen of American musician
Dino Valenti (who also went by the names Chester or Chet Powers, and Jesse Farrow), "Hey Joe" was registered for
copyright in the U.S. in 1962 by Billy Roberts.[3] Scottish folk singer Len Partridge has claimed that he helped write
the song with Roberts when they both performed in clubs in Edinburgh in 1956.[8] Other sources (including singer
Pat Craig), claim that Roberts assigned the rights to the song to his friend Valenti while Valenti was in jail, in order
to give him some income upon release.[3] [9]
Roberts was a relatively obscure California-based folk singer, guitarist and harmonica player who performed on the
West Coast coffeehouse circuit.[10] He later recorded the country rock album Thoughts of California with the band
Grits in San Francisco in 1975, produced by Hillel Resner.[11] Resner has stated that a live recording of Roberts
performing "Hey Joe" exists, dating from 1961.[3]
Roberts possibly drew inspiration for "Hey Joe" from three earlier works: his girlfriend Niela Miller's 1955 song
"Baby, Please Dont Go To Town"[3] (which uses a similar chord progression based on the circle of fifths);[10] Carl
Smith's 1953 US country hit "Hey Joe!" (written by Boudleaux Bryant), which shared the title and the "question and
answer" format; and the early 20th century traditional ballad "Little Sadie", which tells of a man on the run after he
has shot his wife.[12] The lyrics to "Little Sadie" often locate the events in Thomasville, North Carolina and Jericho,
(near Hollywood, South Carolina). Roberts was himself born in South Carolina.
Variations of "Little Sadie" have been recorded under various titles (including "Bad Lee Brown", "Penitentiary
Blues", "Cocaine Blues", "Whiskey Blues") by many artists, including Clarence Ashley (1930),[13] Johnny Cash
(1960 & 1968), Slim Dusty (1961),[14] and Bob Dylan (1970).
Despite extensive archives of U.S. folk and blues music, and studies of the same, in the Library of Congress, the
Smithsonian Institution,[15] and other bodies, no documentary evidence has been provided to support the claim, by
the late Tim Rose[7] and others, that "Hey Joe" is a wholly traditional work. (see also the article on "Morning Dew"
regarding Rose and song copyrights).
Rights to the song were administered from 1966 into the 2000s by the music publisher Third Story Music (now Third
Palm Music); they list the author as Billy Roberts.[16]

"Hey Joe"

Early recordings (19651966)


Roberts' song gained fans in the Los Angeles music scene of the mid-1960s, which led to fast-paced recordings in
1965 and 1966 by The Leaves, The Standells, The Surfaris, Love and The Byrds, swiftly making the song a garage
rock classic.[5] Both Dino Valenti and The Byrds' David Crosby have been reported as helping to popularize the song
before it was recorded by The Leaves in December 1965.[17]
The Leaves, who had been introduced to the song while attending live concerts by The Byrds (who had yet to record
their own version of the song) at Ciro's on Sunset Boulevard,[17] recorded and released three versions of "Hey Joe"
between 1965 and 1966.[4] Their first version was released in November/December 1965 but sold poorly.[5] The
band's third recorded version of the song became a hit in May/June 1966 and reached #31 on the Billboard Hot 100
chart.[5] The Leaves' version is notable for being the only recording of the song to reach the Top 40 of the Billboard
chart.[4]
The Surfaris recording of the song, released on the B-side of their "So Get Out" single, is sometimes cited as being
the first rock recording of the song[18] but a number of reliable sources contend that, in fact, the Surfaris' version
dates from 1966, well after The Leaves' original 1965 version.[3] [19] [20] There is some dispute over exactly when
The Surfaris' recording of the song was released. Some sources list its release date as being late 1965[18] but there are
many other sources that list it as being June 1966.[21] [22] However, the catalogue number of The Surfari's single is
Decca 31954, which when cross-referenced with other contemporaneous Decca single releases, allows the single to
be conclusively dated to a May - June 1966 time frame.[23] A June 1966 release date is further corroborated by the
discographical information on Gary Usher's website.[23] Usher was the producer of The Surfaris' recording of the
song and the discographical information on his website comes from the late producer's personal archives, as
compiled by his biographer Stephen J. McParland at the request of the Usher family.[24]
The Standells also recorded a version of the song, titled "Hey Joe, Where You Gonna Go", which was included on
their 1966 Dirty Water album.[25] The garage rock band, The Music Machine, recorded a slow, moody, fuzz-laden
version of the song in late 1966 which bears a strong resemblance to Jimi Hendrix's later version.[26]
The Los Angeles band Love included a version of "Hey Joe" on their debut album, Love, released on Elektra
Records in April 1966.[27] The song was brought to the band by guitarist and singer, Bryan MacLean, who had been
introduced to the song by David Crosby during 1965, while MacLean had been a roadie for The Byrds.[17] The
band's lead vocalist, Arthur Lee, claimed in later years that it was Love's version that turned Jimi Hendrix onto the
song as well as most of the other Los Angeles acts who covered the song.[28] The song was initially intended to be
Love's first single, however, Lee knew that The Leaves had released a recording of it and so Love issued a cover of
Burt Bacharach's "My Little Red Book" as their debut single instead. Love's recording of "Hey Joe" features slightly
different lyrics to most versions of the song, due to the fact that Bryan MacLean didn't know all of the words to the
song. For example, the lyric "gun in your hand" became "money in your hand" in Love's version.[29] The Byrds
recording of the song also features the same altered lyrics as Love's version.[30]
The Byrds included a recording of the song, titled "Hey Joe (Where You Gonna Go)", on their 1966 album, Fifth
Dimension.[17] The lead vocalist on The Byrds' version was David Crosby, who was instrumental in bringing the
song to the group and in popularising the song within the larger L.A. music community.[17] Crosby had wanted to
record the song almost since the band first formed in 1964 but the other members of The Byrds had been
unenthusiastic toward the song.[17] By the time of the recording sessions for Fifth Dimension, several other bands
had enjoyed success with covers of "Hey Joe", leaving Crosby angered by his bandmates' lack of faith in the song. In
interview, Byrds' guitarist and band leader Roger McGuinn recalled that "The reason Crosby did lead on 'Hey Joe'
was because it was his song. He didn't write it but he was responsible for finding it. He'd wanted to do it for years but
we would never let him. Then both Love and The Leaves had a minor hit with it and David got so angry that we had
to let him do it."[9]
General consensus within the band and among critics was that The Byrds' version wasn't an entirely successful
reading of the song and was inferior to previous recordings of the song by Love and The Leaves.[31] In later years,

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both McGuinn and the band's manager, Jim Dickson, criticised Crosby's vocal performance on the song for not being
powerful enough to carry the aggressive subject matter and expressed regret that the song had been included on Fifth
Dimension. Even Crosby himself later admitted that the recording of the song was an error on his part, stating "It was
a mistake, I shouldn't have done it. Everybody makes mistakes."[17]
The song would go on to become a staple of The Byrds' live concert repertoire during 1966 and 1967.[17] The band
also included the song in their performance at the Monterey Pop Festival, which is included on the 2002 The
Complete Monterey Pop Festival DVD box set as well as on the 1992 The Monterey International Pop Festival CD
box set.[32] [33]

Tim Rose and Jimi Hendrix (1966)


Folk rock singer Tim Roses slower version of the song (recorded in 1966 and claimed to be Rose's arrangement of a
wholly traditional song)[7] inspired the first single by The Jimi Hendrix Experience.[6] The ex-bassist for The
Animals, Chas Chandler, who was now focusing on managing other acts, had seen Rose performing the song at the
Cafe Wha? in New York City and as a result, was looking for an artist to record a rock version of "Hey Joe".[34] [35]
Chandler discovered Jimi Hendrix, who had also been playing at the Cafe Wha? in 1966 and performing an
arrangement of "Hey Joe" inspired by Rose's rendition.[35] Chandler decided to take Hendrix with him to England in
September 1966, where he would subsequently turn the guitarist into a star.[34] Tim Rose re-recorded "Hey Joe" in
the 1990s, re-titling it "Blue Steel .44"[36] and again claimed the song as his own arrangement of a traditional song.
Some accounts credit the slower version of the song by the British band The Creation as being the inspiration for
Hendrix's version; Chandler and Hendrix saw them perform the song after Jimi arrived in the UK, although The
Creation's version was not released until after Hendrix's.[37] It is unclear if the members of The Creation had heard
Tim Rose's version.
Released in December 1966, Hendrix's version became a hit in the United Kingdom, entering the Top 10 of the UK
Singles Chart in January 1967 and peaking at #6.[38] The single was released in the United States on May 1, 1967
with the B-side "51st Anniversary" but failed to chart.[39] "Hey Joe", as recorded by The Jimi Hendrix Experience,
remains the best known version of the song[6] and is listed as #198 on Rolling Stone magazine's The 500 Greatest
Songs of All Time.[40] In 2009 it was named the 22nd greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1.[41] "Hey Joe" was
the last song Jimi Hendrix performed at the Woodstock festival in 1969 and as such, it was also the final song of the
whole festival. The song was performed after the crowd, comprising the 80,000 who hadn't yet left the festival,
cheered for an encore.[42]

Later recordings (1968present)


Marmalade recorded a version of the song in 1968 because they needed a B-side to their single "Lovin' Things" in a
hurry, and because they thought it was a traditional song and as such, the band would get the songwriting royalties
from it.[43] Marmalade guitarist, Junior Campbell, stated in interview that "Jimi Hendrix's version had already sold
about 200,000 copies and then we sold about 300,000 on the flip of 'Lovin' Things'. But then the following year, the
bloke who'd written the bloody song suddenly turned up out of the woodwork!".[43]
Frank Zappa recorded a parody of the song, titled "Flower Punk", on The Mothers of Invention album We're Only in
It for the Money in 1968.[44] The song was one of several on the album that parodied the fashionable hippie lifestyle.
Lyrics in Zappa's version included "Hey Punk, where you goin' with that flower in your hand?/Well, I'm goin' up to
Frisco to join a psychedelic band."[45] Frank also included the opening chord riff of "Hey Joe" in the song "Honey,
Don't You Want a Man Like Me?" from his Zappa in New York album.
Patti Smith released a cover of the song as the A-side of her first single, "Hey Joe" b/w "Piss Factory", in 1974.[46]
The arrangement of Smith's version is based on a recording by blues guitarist Roy Buchanan that was released the
previous year (and dedicated to Hendrix). Smith's version is unique in that she includes a brief and salacious

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monologue about fugitive heiress Patty Hearst and her kidnapping and participation with the Symbionese Liberation
Army.[47] Smith's version portrays Patty Hearst as Joe with a "gun in her hand".[47]
Sonic Youth's song "Hey Joni", included on their 1988 album, Daydream Nation, is titled in reference to "Hey Joe"
and to Joni Mitchell but it shares no lyrical themes with the Billy Roberts' song.[48]
The rock band The Who occasionally performed "Hey Joe" during their 1989 tour. Their version was influenced by
Jimi Hendrix's arrangement and was dedicated to him.[49]
Willy DeVille recorded a mariachi version of the song that was a hit in Europe in 1992, going to #1 in Spain.[50] The
song was released as a single in Europe and appeared on DeVille's Backstreets of Desire album.
Type O Negative re-titled the song as "Hey Pete" (in reference to frontman Peter Steele) on their 1992 The Origin of
the Feces album and changed the song's protagonist to an axe-murderer. This fit the song into a story arc spanning
several of the band's own compositions.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers were seen in 2006 rehearsing the song on
the TV program Live From Abbey Road on Channel 4.
Bap Kennedy, was so inspired by Hendrix's performance of "Hey Joe"
as the closing song of the Woodstock Festival that he released his own
version forty years later on his 2009 album, Howl On.[51]
1,572 guitarists played "Hey Joe" simultaneously in the town square of
Wrocaw, Poland on May 1, 2006, breaking a Guinness record. A new
record was set when 1,881 guitarists played "Hey Joe" in Wrocaw on
May 1, 2007. Then on May 1, 2008, 1,951 guitarists played "Hey Joe"
in Wrocaw to set a new world record. The record was further broken
in Wroclaw on May 1, 2009, when 6346 guitarists played the song in
the same venue.

1,881 guitarists played "Hey Joe" in Wrocaw on


May 1, 2007, setting what was, at the time, a new
Guinness record.

Selected list of recorded versions


The following versions of "Hey Joe" made the pop charts in the US or UK:
The Leaves as "Hey Joe, Where You Gonna Go" (Mira 207, December 1965); re-recorded as "Hey Joe, Where
You Gonna Go" (Mira 222, 1966), and then again as "Hey Joe" (Mira 222, May 1966). This last version charted,
peaking at #31 in the US.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1966) Peaked at UK #6. In 2000, Total Guitar magazine ranked it as the 13th
greatest cover version of all time.[52]
Cher (1967) on her album With Love, Cher. Peaked at US #94.
Wilson Pickett (Atlantic 2648, July 1969) Peaked at #29 on the US R&B charts, #59 on the US pop charts, and
#16 on the UK charts. Featured Duane Allman on guitar.
Other recorded versions of "Hey Joe" include:

The Surfaris as "Hey Joe, Where Are You Going" (Decca 31954, June 1966)
Love (1966) on their album Love
The Byrds on their album Fifth Dimension (1966)
The Standells (1966) on their album Dirty Water
The Music Machine (1966) on their album (Turn On) The Music Machine
The Shadows of Knight (1966) on their album Back Door Men
Warlocks (1966)

Tim Rose (1966)


The Cryan' Shames (1966) on their album Sugar & Spice

"Hey Joe"

Gonn (1966 or '67)


The SoulBenders (1967) on their album Can't Believe in Love
The Hazards (1967) on the compilation CD Aliens, Psychos and Wild Things, Vol. 2
Johnny Hallyday (1967) French lyrics by Gilles Thibault, on the album Olympia 67
Mart (1967) Italian lyrics by Francesco Guccini
Los Locos (1967) Mexican lyrics by Rafael Acosta, on the EP Negro es Negro
Ant Trip Ceremony (1968) on their album 24 Hours
The Golden Cups (1968) Japanese group
The Creation (1968)
Marmalade (1968)
The Mothers of Invention (1968) parodied "Hey Joe" and took a satirical swipe at hippies in their song "Flower
Punk" from We're Only In It For The Money
Deep Purple on their first album, Shades of Deep Purple (1968), which mistakenly credited them as the writers
Johnny Rivers (1968) on the album Realization
Band Of Joy (1968) demo version with Robert Plant issued in 2003 on the album Sixty Six to Timbuktu
Fever Tree (1970) on For Sale
Lee Moses (1971) on the album Time and Place
Carson (1971) on the album On the Air
The Les Humphries Singers (1971) on the album We'll Fly You to the Promised Land
Roy Buchanan (1973)
Patti Smith (1974) her first music single.
Spirit (1975) on the album Spirit of '76
Suzie Hendrix (1978)
Alvin Lee (1979) on the album Ride On
Buldoer (1982) on their live album Ako ste slobodni veeras
Soft Cell (1983) as part of the B-side "Hendrix Medley", later re-issued on The Art of Falling Apart
"Weird Al" Yankovic (1984) as part of the medley "Polkas on 45" on the album "Weird Al" Yankovic In 3-D
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (1986) on the album Kicking Against the Pricks
Dead Moon (1988) on the album In The Graveyard
Francesco Di Giacomo (1989) on the album Non Mettere le Dita nel Naso in duet with Sam Moore
Seal (1991) on the "Killer" single
The Offspring (1991 and 1997) on their Baghdad EP and, in a different version, as a B-side on their "Gone
Away" single
Willy DeVille (1992) on the album Backstreets of Desire
Type O Negative (1992) as "Hey Pete" on the album The Origin of the Feces
Jerry Douglas (1992) on the album Slide Rule. Vocals by Tim O'Brien
Buckwheat Zydeco (1992) on the album On Track
Roy Buchanan (1992) on the album The Best of Roy Buchanan
Body Count (1993) on the albums Born Dead and Stone Free
Eddie Murphy (1993) on the album Love's Alright
Captain Sensible (1994) on his live album Live at the Milky Way
Mathilde Santing (1994) as "Hey Joan", where the woman shoots her man
Lick the Tins (1995) on the album Blind Man on a Flying Horse
O Rappa (1996) Portuguese version on the album Rappa Mundi, with considerably different lyrics and plot
Fifteen (1996) on the EP There's No Place Like Home (Good Night)

Otis Taylor (1996) on the album Blue Eyed Monster. This version has slightly different lyrics, though.
The Make-Up (1999)

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Axel Rudi Pell (1999) on the album The Ballads II


Medeski Martin & Wood (2000) on the album Tonic
Franco Battiato (2001) on the album Ferro Battuto
Robert Plant (2002) on the album Dreamland and also earlier with the Band of Joy in 1967
Brant Bjork (2004) on his album Local Angel
Gabe Dixon Band (2005) on Live at World Cafe
Cassie Steele (2005) on How Much For Happy
Psychedelic Deja Vu (2006)
Guitar Shorty (2006) Guitar Shorty is Jimi Hendrix's brother in law.* Insted (2008)
Arklio Galia (2007) Lithuanian version called "Ei, Juozai" on their debut album.
Bap Kennedy (2009) on Howl On
Brown Sugar (2009) as an extra on the cassette release of their Deportation EP

In the media
The Hendrix version appears in the following films:[53]
Forrest Gump
Empire Records

Wayne's World 2
Death Sentence
Reaper
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
Crooklyn

"Hey Joe" as performed by The Jimi Hendrix Experience also appears in the Deep Space Nine episode "Past
Tense".[53]
A version sung by Michael Pitt with the band The Twins of Evil features in the film The Dreamers.[54]
The Deep Purple version appears in Vietcong computer game.[55]
The Roger Waters' song "Folded Flags" from the soundtrack to the film, When The Wind Blows, features a reference
to "Hey Joe" in the lines "Hey Joe, where you goin' with that gun in your hand?" and "Hey Joe, where you goin' with
that dogma in your head?"[56]

Samples and quotes


The critically-acclaimed 2006 T.I. song "What You Know" uses the same chord progression as "Hey Joe".[57]
Mike Shinoda sampled Hendrix's version for his "Jimi Remix" of the Styles of Beyond's song "Bleach", which
appeared on Fort Minor's We Major mixtape.[58]
Rapper Fat Joe sampled the Jimi Hendrix version for his song "Hey Joe" on his 2009 album Jealous Ones Still
Envy 2 (J.O.S.E. 2).[59]
The professional wrestling stable, known as the "b-team" nWo, made use of several Hendrix samples, including a
small section of "Hey Joe", in their entrance music.[60] [61]

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"Purple Haze"

A 1988 CD titled after the song


Singleby The Jimi Hendrix Experience
from the album Are You Experienced
B-side

"51st Anniversary"

Released

March 17, 1967

Format

7"

Recorded January 11 and February 3, 1967 at De Lane Lea and Olympic Studios in London, England
Genre

blues-rock, acid blues, psychedelic rock, acid rock, heavy metal

Length

2:50

Label

Track

Writer(s) Jimi Hendrix


Producer Chas Chandler
The Jimi Hendrix Experience singles chronology
"Hey
Joe"
(1966)

"Purple
Haze"
(1967)

"The Wind Cries


Mary"
(1967)

"Purple Haze" is a song written in 1966 and recorded in 1967 by The Jimi Hendrix Experience and released as a
single (Hendrix's second) in both the United Kingdom and the United States. It appeared on the US release of their
1967 album Are You Experienced and on subsequent re-releases of the album. "Purple Haze" has become one of the
"archetypical psychedelic drug songs of the sixties"[] and is often cited as one of Jimi Hendrix's greatest songs, and
for many is his signature song.
Reportedly, the song came into being after his manager Chas Chandler heard him playing the riff backstage and
suggested that he write lyrics to go with it. There is some dispute about the lyrics: supposedly written in the dressing
room of the Upper Cut Club on Boxing Day, 1966, Chandler claims that the lyrics were never cut in any way
(though he admits that this was doing on general principle with Hendrix's lyrics), while Hendrix stated that the
original song contained much more text.[1]
The single was released in the UK (as Track 604001) on 17 March 1967; it entered the charts at #39 and peaked at
number three, spending 14 weeks in the chart. It was released in the US (as Reprise 0597) on 19 June 1967, where it
peaked at #65, spending only 8 weeks in the chart.[2]

"Purple Hare"
In March 2005, Q magazine ranked "Purple Haze" at number one in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.[3]
Rolling Stone magazine placed the song at #17 in their "500 Greatest Songs of All Time."[4] Australian music TV
channel MAX placed "Purple Haze" at #17 on their 2008 countdown Rock Songs: Top 100.

Lyrics
"I dream a lot and I put a lot of my dreams down as songs," Hendrix said in a 1969 interview with the New Musical
Express, "I wrote one called 'First Around the Corner' and another called 'The Purple Haze,' which was all about a
dream I had that I was walking under the sea."[5] The term "purple haze" has been used to refer to LSD, due to the
form sold by Sandoz, called Delysid, which came in purple capsules. Furthermore, Purple Haze is a particular strand
of marijuana noted for its 'purple' appearance, therefore this is the most credible reference as 'kissing the sky' means
'to get high'.[6] [7] Common legend is that Jimi was on Owsley Stanley Purple Haze LSD when he composed the
song.[8]
The phrase itself appears in print as early as 1861, in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, chapter 54: "There was
the red sun, on the low level of the shore, in a purple haze, fast deepening into black..."

Common mondegreen
A common misheard lyric in the song is "excuse me while I kiss this guy". The actual line is "excuse me while I kiss
the sky". In fact, it has even been documented that Jimi Hendrix himself perpetrated this mondegreen by actually
using it as a joke while singing Purple Haze live in concert,[9] particularly at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. This
can also be heard in Purple Haze(Live at Woodstock) on Guitar Hero World Tour. In Cheech & Chong's film Nice
Dreams, the line is parodied as, "excuse me while I kiss this fly". The mondegreen has lent its name to a site devoted
to misheard lyrics, KissThisGuy [10]

Music
The song is known for its use of the "Hendrix chord" (dominant 7 # 9) played as the first chord after the introduction.
This chord structure was often used in jazz by artists such as Horace Silver in the early 1960s, but was not used in
rock on a regular basis. The intro itself is notable for its prominent use of the distinctive tritone interval, also used
commonly by jazz musicians. It is sounded when Hendrix plays an E7 #9 (low to high: E, G#, D, G) on the guitar
while the bass plays an E (and its octave);[11] such a "dissonant" interval was unusual in popular music of the time.
The guitar solo is played through an Octavia,[12] an effects pedal that increases notes by one octave. The effect was
developed by Roger Mayer, an acoustical and electronics engineer, and Mayer claims he made it in cooperation with
Jimi Hendrix.[13] A dubbed guitar part using the Octavia can also be heard during the outro.

Covers of and references to Purple Haze


Johhny Jones & the King Casuals covered "Purple Haze" in 1968. Hendrix was a member of The King Casuals prior
to his solo career. A pop version by Dion reached #72 in Canada in February 1969. In 1973, in National Lampoon's
Lemmings, a parody of Woodstock, John Belushi's Joe Cocker parody "Lonely at the Bottom" refers to the late
1960s as "days of Purple Haze and freon". In the 1979 film Apocalypse Now, the character Lance deploys a purple
smoke grenade on the boat and sings the song, while on LSD.
In Cheech & Chong's film Nice Dreams, released in 1981 by Columbia Pictures, when the protagonists are in a
mental institution, a black patient dressed like Jimi Hendrix (played by Michael Winslow) sings a parody version of
"Purple Haze". A live recording of the song is featured in the opening credits of the 1983 comedy-drama film of the
same name. Near the end of the Huey Lewis and the News 1984 song "I Want a New Drug", the famous Intro to
"Purple Haze" can be heard as the music fades out. Los Angeles art rock band The Fibonaccis recorded a discordant
avant-garde cover of "Purple Haze" in 1984, releasing a psychedelic music video for the song the same year. San

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Francisco string quartet Kronos Quartet play "Purple Haze" live regularly; the song is included on their album
Kronos Quartet (1986) and on the music DVD In Accord (2000).[14] [15]
A version by the Art Ensemble of Chicago is featured on their album Ancient to the Future, which was released in
1987. The song "Purple Haze" is played in the movie Masters of the Universe from 1987 starring Swedish actor
Dolph Lundgren. Art Rock band The Fibonaccis covered the song in an in-film performance in the 1987 comedy
Valet Girls. The band Winger performed a cover of the song on their self-titled debut album released by Atlantic
Records in 1988. The song was featured in the 1988 action film Shakedown. A heavy version of the song has been
performed live by Ozzy Osbourne at the Moscow Music Peace Festival, a one-time gathering of high-profile hard
rock acts who put on a concert for the people in Moscow, Soviet Union on 12 and 13 August 1989 to promote world
peace. This version is featured on the compilation album Stairway to Heaven/Highway to Hell, which was released
in the same year. The Traveling Wilburys song "End of the Line", released in 1989, contains the lyrics "Maybe
somewhere down the road a ways / You'll think of me and wonder where I am these days / Maybe somewhere down
the road when somebody plays / Purple Haze"
Frank Zappa performs a parody version of the song on 1991 live album The Best Band You Never Heard in Your
Life, recorded in 1988. The Bobs recorded an a capella version of "Purple Haze" in 1991.[16] A version of "Purple
Haze" by Tangerine Dream is on the group's concert album 220 Volt Live, which was recorded live in USA in 1992.
A version by The Cure is the first track on 1993 tribute album Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix. In the film
Apollo 13, released in 1995, Jim Lovell's oldest daughter was playing "Purple Haze" before watching Apollo 13's
live broadcast from space.
In an episode of My Wife and Kids, Michael Kyle shows his son and his friend his guitar skills by playing the song;
he also lit the guitar on fire and played it with his tongue. A copy of the single was found in a CD player in one of
Uday Hussein's luxury vehicles. In the 2006 song "Dimension" by the Australian band Wolfmother, they use the
lyrics "Purple Haze is in the sky". The intro to "Purple Haze" can be heard during the guitar solo of the song "Dani
California" a single by The Red Hot Chili Peppers released on May 1, 2006.
In 2007, the Buena Vista Social Club covered this song in the album Rhythms del Mundo Classics.
The piece One Winged Angel, from Final Fantasy VII by Nobuo Uematsu, is inspired by Purple Haze including its
famous intro. A live version of the song appears along side "The Wind Cries Mary" in the music video game Guitar
Hero World Tour.
D.H. Peligro, ex-drummer of the Dead Kennedys, recently recorded a punk rock cover of Purple Haze, which was
nominated for a Grammy Award.
Seattle band Eclipse Revolution covered Purple Haze live.

See also
Jimi Hendrix discography
Hendrix chord

External links
Live performance of "Purple Haze" at the Berkeley (Calif.) Community Theatre in 1970. [17]
Allmusic [18] review

References
[1] Shapiro and Glebbeek, Jimi Hendrix, Electric Gypsy, 147.
[2] Shapiro and Glebbeek, Jimi Hendrix, Electric Gypsy, 524-526.
[3] "Rocklist.net...Q Magazine Lists" (http:/ / www. rocklistmusic. co. uk/ qlistspage3. htm). Rocklistmusic.co.uk. . Retrieved 2010-03-25.

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[4] "The RS 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" (http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ news/ coverstory/ 500songs). Rolling Stone. . Retrieved
2009-01-25.
[5] Shapiro and Glebbeek, Jimi Hendrix, Electric Gypsy, 148.
[6] Miller, Richard Lawrence (2002). Drugs of abuse : a reference guide to their history and use (http:/ / books. google. com/
?id=G7As-qawdzMC& pg=PA228& lpg=PA228& dq="purple+ haze"+ Sandoz). Westport, Connecticut, U.S.A: Greenwood Press. p.228.
ISBN0313318077 9780313318078. OCLC224044107. . Retrieved 2009-03-11.
[7] Noon, Chris (April 2005). "Novartis CEO Posts Strong Quarter" (http:/ / www. forbes. com/ 2005/ 04/ 21/ 0421autofacescan09. html). Forbes
(April 21). . Retrieved 2009-03-11.
[8] Sriram, J. (2008-05-05). "My five" (http:/ / www. hindu. com/ mp/ 2008/ 04/ 05/ stories/ 2008040551670900. htm). The Hindu. . Retrieved 11
March 2009.
[9] "The Jimi Hendrix Story - 'scuze me while I kiss this guy!" (http:/ / www. kissthisguy. com/ jimi. php). Kissthisguy.com. . Retrieved
2010-03-25.
[10] http:/ / www. kissthisguy. com/
[11] Rooksby, Rikky (2002). Riffs: How to Create and Play Great Guitar Riffs. p.24. ISBN0879307102.
[12] Shapiro and Glebbeek, Jimi Hendrix, Electric Gypsy, 524.
[13] "Octavia" (http:/ / www. roger-mayer. co. uk/ octavia. htm). Guitar Effects by Roger Mayer. . Retrieved 2009-01-25.
[14] Walsh, Michael (1986-11-17). "Once Upon A Time In America" (http:/ / www. time. com/ time/ magazine/ article/ 0,9171,962874,00.
html?iid=chix-sphere). Time. . Retrieved 2009-01-24.
[15] Wierzbicki, James (1990-01-29). "Kronos Quartet Audience Gets Ear-load Of Quality" (http:/ / nl. newsbank. com/ nl-search/ we/
Archives?p_product=SL& p_theme=sl& p_action=search& p_maxdocs=200& p_topdoc=1& p_text_direct-0=0EB04C8AFB3D913D&
p_field_direct-0=document_id& p_perpage=10& p_sort=YMD_date:D& s_trackval=GooglePM). Saint Louis Dispatch. . Retrieved
2009-01-24.
[16] "Sing the Songs Of" (http:/ / www. bobs. com/ stso. html). The Bobs. . Retrieved 2010-03-25.
[17] http:/ / video. aol. com/ video/ jimi-hendrixpurple-haze/ 1799316
[18] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=33:tn7uak3ksmhx

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"The Wind Cries Mary"
Singleby The Jimi Hendrix Experience
from the album Are You Experienced
B-side

"Highway Chile"

Released

May 5, 1967

Format

7"

Recorded

January 11, 1967 at De Lane Lea Studios in London, England

Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock, blues-rock

Length

3:20

Label

Track

Writer(s)

Jimi Hendrix

Producer

Chas Chandler
The Jimi Hendrix Experience singles chronology

"Purple
Haze"
(1967)

"The Wind Cries


Mary"
(1967)

"Burning of the Midnight


Lamp"
(1967)

"'The Wind Cries Mary" is a song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. It was released as the band's third single, backed
with "Highway Chile", on May 5, 1967. The track is an example of psychedelic blues-rock, as the song is in the key
of F major, with a guitar solo primarily involving the F major pentatonic scale. One of Hendrix's first hits in
England, the song was recorded at the end of the "Fire" sessions. Today, the song is considered a classic and
continues to receive decent airplay around the world. It is #370 on Rolling Stones list of the 500 greatest songs of all
time.
In the USA, the song was first released as B-side to the song "Purple Haze" in June 1967 and later on the USA
compilation version of the album Are You Experienced and along with the other sides of their first three singles, on
most later re-releases of Are You Experienced.
The song is said to have been inspired when Hendrix and his then girlfriend, Kathy Etchingham, had an argument
over her cooking; after she stormed out of their apartment, Hendrix wrote "The Wind Cries Mary", as Mary was
Etchingham's middle name. Kathy has said that many of the Dylanesque lyrics describe the test card that appeared at
the end of BBC television transmissions at that time.[1] a mistake on Kathy's behalf as that particular testcard wasn't
first broadcast until July 1967, while the song had been written long before that. Billy Cox, who was the bassist for
the Band of Gypsys and long-time friend of Hendrix has stated Curtis Mayfields' influence on the song.
"'The Wind Cries Mary' was a riff that was influenced by Curtis Mayfield, who was a big influence for
Jimi."
It is a misconception that Hendrix wrote the song about marijuana use, as "Mary Jane" is a slang term for marijuana.
"The Wind Cries Mary" and "Highway Chile" were re-released in 1983, on The Singles Album compilation.[2]
The song appears in the music video game Guitar Hero World Tour and once it's played on career mode, an avatar of
Jimi Hendrix himself appears singing and playing the guitar.

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References
[1] Interview, The 100 Greatest Albums, E4, 2007
[2] CD Pamphlet notes, The Singles Album, 1983

"Burning of the Midnight Lamp"


"Burning of the Midnight Lamp"
Singleby The Jimi Hendrix Experience
B-side

"The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice"

Released

August 19, 1967

Format

7"

Recorded

July 7 and 20 1967 at Mayfair Studios in New York,


USA

Genre

Psychedelic rock

Length

3:39

Label

Track

Writer(s)

Jimi Hendrix

Producer

Chas Chandler
The Jimi Hendrix Experience singles chronology

"The Wind Cries


Mary"
(1967)

"Burning of the Midnight


Lamp"
(1967)

"Foxy
Lady"
(1967)

"Burning of the Midnight Lamp" is a song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, first released as a mono single b/w
"The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice" in the United Kingdom on August 19, 1967 (peaking at #18). It
later appeared on the band's third and final studio album, Electric Ladyland (1968). The single features more
sophisticated instrumentation and production than his earlier 1967 releases, and anticipates the richness and detail of
Axis: Bold as Love (1967) and Electric Ladyland. Both songs feature the wah-wah guitar effect, a first for Hendrix
and later to become a regular element of his playing. The song is also one of the few on which Hendrix plays
keyboard.
Recorded July 7 and 20 1967 at Mayfair Studios, "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" features complex instrumentation
and studio production. The song opens with a delicate melody played on an electric harpsichord and wah-wah guitar
that is soon joined by Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell's bass and drums. During the verses, the rhythm section
playing is insistent, in contrast to the angelic background vocals and harpsichord that provide a crescendo to each
verse. According to engineer Eddie Kramer, the vocals are by Cissy Houston and The Sweet Inspirations. The
mandolin effect is produced by recording two or more guitars playing the same part slowly, then speeding it up so
that it plays at double speed on the record, effecting a unique timbre. The building instrumentation is repeated for
each verse.
Hendrix's attachment to the song is evidenced by the decision to include it on Electric Ladyland over a year (and an
album) after first releasing it.

"Burning of the Midnight Lamp"

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External links
Chas Chandler and Eddie Kramer discuss the recording and instrumentation [1]

References
[1] http:/ / www. youtube. com/ watch?v=iwxih6hzU88

"Foxy Lady"
"Foxy Lady"
Song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience from the album Are You Experienced
Published

1967

Released

May 12, 1967 (UK)

Recorded

December 13, 1966

Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock

Length

3:22

Label

Track Records (UK)

Producer

Chas Chandler
Are You Experienced track listing

(UK) Side 1
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

"Foxy Lady"
"Manic Depression"
"Red House"
"Can You See Me"
"Love or Confusion"
"I Don't Live Today"

(UK) Side 2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

"May This Be Love"


"Fire"
"3rd Stone from the Sun"
"Remember"
"Are You Experienced"

"Foxy Lady"
Singleby The Jimi Hendrix Experience
from the album Are You Experienced
B-side

"Hey Joe"

Released

August 1967 (USA only)

Format

7" 45rpm

Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock

Length

3:19

Label

Reprise Records
The Jimi Hendrix Experience singles chronology

"Foxy Lady"

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"Burning of the Midnight


Lamp"
(1967)

"Foxy
Lady"
(1967)

"Up from the


Skies"
(1968)

"Foxy Lady" (or alternatively "Foxey Lady") is a song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience from their 1967 album
Are you Experienced. It can also be found on a number of Hendrix's greatest hits compilations, including Smash Hits
(1968/1969) and Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix (1997). Rolling Stone magazine placed the song at
#152 in their "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list.
The song is well known for its guitar riff, which alternates between the bass F# (and its octave), which Hendrix
played with his thumb on the second fret, and the ringing EA dyad at the fifth fret. It is one of Hendrix's earliest
uses of feedback in a studio recording. The song is also known for its use of the so-called "Hendrix chord", the
dominant 7#9.
The United States version of Are You Experienced (also released in Canada) listed the song with a spelling mistake
as "Foxey Lady"[1] and this is how it is still known among many North American fans and critics today.
The group had difficulties deciding how to end the song. Bass player Noel Redding claims that the last chord was his
suggestion.[2]
Hendrix commented on his own lyrics by saying that he did not approach women in such a straightforward manner
as the lyrics might suggest ("You got to be all mine" etc.)[2]

Covers
Recordings
1968 Booker T. and the M.G.'s Soul Limbo
1979 The Cure Three Imaginary Boys
1989 Roger Taylor's The Cross Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
1991 Blue Cheer Dining With the Sharks
1999 ESP Lost and Spaced
2007 ZZ Top Live From Texas DVD (bonus track)
Live performances
1993 Paul Rodgers The Hendrix Set
1998 Popa Chubby The Jimi Hendrix Music Festival
Red Hot Chili Peppers[3] and ZZ Top [4] sometimes cover this song live.
Paul McCartney occasionally plays this song after playing "Let Me Roll It"
Guitarist Roy Buchanan occasionally played this song after playing "Hey Joe"
Guitarist Buckethead is known to play the song live as well as the song "Purple Haze"
The song was covered by Mick Jagger with Jeff Beck live.
Other
Is played frequently on G3 tours during the G3 jam. It appeared on the G3: Live in Tokyo DVD, where it was
played as the first song in the jam by Joe Satriani (who also provided vocals), Steve Vai, and John Petrucci,
with special guest Mike Portnoy on drums.

"Foxy Lady"

References
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]

(http:/ / perso. wanadoo. fr/ hendrix. guide/ lifetime. htm)


Liner notes of Are You Experienced album, 1992 CD issue
http:/ / www. youtube. com/ watch?v=ffGpPy23wMk
http:/ / www. youtube. com/ watch?v=ZyJi0CG0nps

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"Up from the Skies"

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"Up from the Skies"


"Up from the Skies"

The cover of the Spanish "Up from the Skies" single.


Singleby The Jimi Hendrix Experience
from the album Axis: Bold as Love
B-side

"One Rainy Wish"

Released

26 February 1968

Format

7" vinyl

Recorded

29 October 1967 at Olympic Sound Studios, London

Genre

Jazz rock, Reggae rock

Length

2:55

Label

Reprise, Barclay

Writer(s)

Jimi Hendrix

Producer

Chas Chandler
The Jimi Hendrix Experience US singles chronology

"Foxy
Lady"
(1967)

"Up from the


Skies"
(1968)

"All Along the


Watchtower"
(1968)

"Up from the Skies"

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Axis: Bold as Love track listing


Side 1
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

"EXP"
"Up from the Skies"
"Spanish Castle Magic"
"Wait Until Tomorrow"
"Ain't No Telling"
"Little Wing"
"If 6 Was 9"

Side 2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

"You Got Me Floatin'"


"Castles Made of Sand"
"She's So Fine"
"One Rainy Wish"
"Little Miss Lover"
"Bold as Love"

"Up from the Skies" is a song by English/American psychedelic rock band The Jimi Hendrix Experience, featured
on their 1967 second album Axis: Bold as Love. Written by lead vocalist and guitarist Jimi Hendrix, the song details
the experience of a specimen of extraterrestrial life returning to Earth and displaying concern with the damage
caused by the human beings living there. It was released as the only single from Axis: Bold as Love, in the United
States and France only, and reached number 82 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.[1]

Background and style


"Up from the Skies" was recorded on 29 October 1967, the last day of recording for the album, at Olympic Sound
Studios in London.[1] Music website allmusic reviewer Matthew Greenwald described the song as "Musically, [...] a
breezy, jazz-based stroll, and it's quite different from anything on his debut album."[2] The musical style of the song
was noted in popular Hendrix biography Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy as boasting an "easy triplet jazz feel,"
bringing attention to the "delicate wah-wah and Mitch [Mitchell, The Jimi Hendrix Experience drummer]'s
brush-work."[1]
The lyrical content of the song is said to be articulated from the perspective of a visiting alien "concerned about what
has happened to [Earth] since the last time he passed through."[1] Greenwald suggests that this motif is adopted to
"[address] the older generation and their flaws and judgements against the youth of the 1960s," which Hendrix
supposedly does "with a sense of idle curiosity rather than distaste, not unlike an alien visiting the planet Earth for
the first time."[2]

Reception
Despite being less commercially successful than previous singles, "Up from the Skies" was generally well-received
critically. For magazine Rolling Stone, critic Parke Puterbaugh identified the song as an effective opening song for
the album, suggesting that ""Up From the Skies," the mission statement of Axis: Bold As Love, [...] [draws] the ear
into an album that wanted to take you higher, past gravity or limits of any kind."[3] Reviewer Cub Koda, for
allmusic, summarised the song as a "spacy rocker."[4]

"Up from the Skies"

Personnel
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Jimi Hendrix vocals, guitar
Noel Redding bass
Mitch Mitchell drums, brushes
Additional personnel
Chas Chandler production
Eddie Kramer engineering

Cover versions
"Up from the Skies" has been covered by a number of artists, mainly on cover and tribute albums.[5] Artists who
have covered the song include Sting, Ellen McIlwaine, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts, Rickie Lee Jones and The
Hamsters.[5]

References
[1] Shapiro, Harry; Caesar Glebbeek (1995-08-15). "Appendix 1: Music, Sweet Music: The Discography". Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy. New
York: St. Martin's Griffin. pp.222, 223, 529. ISBN0-312-13062-7.
[2] Greenwald, Matthew. "Up From The Skies" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=33:gpfpxct5ld6e). allmusic. . Retrieved
June 5, 2009.
[3] Puterbaugh, Parke (May 20, 2003). "Jimi Hendrix: Axis: Bold As Love" (http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ artists/ jimihendrix/ albums/ album/
189916/ review/ 5943211/ axis_bold_as_love). Rolling Stone. . Retrieved June 5, 2009.
[4] Koda, Cub. "Axis: Bold as Love > Review" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:f9x8b5t4tsqf~T1). allmusic. .
Retrieved June 5, 2009.
[5] "Song: Up From The Skies - The Jimi Hendrix Experience" (http:/ / www. secondhandsongs. com/ song/ 2817). Second Hand Songs. .
Retrieved June 5, 2009.

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"All Along the Watchtower"

271

"All Along the Watchtower"


"All Along the Watchtower"

Singleby Bob Dylan


from the album John Wesley Harding
B-side

"I'll Be Your Baby Tonight"

Released

November 22, 1967

Recorded

November 6, 1967

Genre

Folk rock

Length

2:31

Label

Columbia

Writer(s)

Bob Dylan

Producer

Bob Johnston
Bob Dylan singles chronology

"Drifter's
Escape"
(1968)

"All Along the


Watchtower"
(1968)

"I Threw It All


Away"
(1969)

John Wesley Harding track listing


"I Dreamed I Saw St.
Augustine"
(3)

"All Along the


Watchtower"
(4)

"The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas


Priest"
(5)

Music sample
"All Along the Watchtower"

"All Along the Watchtower" is a song written and recorded by singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. It initially appeared
on his album John Wesley Harding. It has been covered by other artists in different genres, most notably by The Jimi
Hendrix Experience. There exists much speculation as to what the song is actually about.

"All Along the Watchtower"

272

Bob Dylan's original


Background
Dylan wrote "All Along the Watchtower" along with the other songs on John Wesley Harding over the year or so
following his motorcycle accident in the summer of 1966.[1] His recuperation from the accident, which occurred near
his home in Woodstock, New York, enabled Dylan to escape the excesses of touring and make a dramatic
turnaround in his lifestyle.[2] [3] With one child born in early 1966 and another in mid-1967, he settled into family
life and even took a growing interest in the Bible, as reflected in the album's Biblical allusions, particularly in songs
such as "All Along the Watchtower", "Dear Landlord", "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine" and "The Wicked
Messenger".[4] [5]

Recording
Dylan recorded the song on November 5, 1967, at Columbia Studio A in Nashville, Tennessee, the same studio
where he completed Blonde on Blonde in the spring of the previous year.[6] Accompanying Dylan, who played
acoustic guitar and harmonica, were two Nashville veterans from the Blonde on Blonde sessions, Charlie McCoy on
bass guitar and Kenneth Buttrey on drums. The producer was Bob Johnston, who produced Dylan's two previous
albums, Highway 61 Revisited in 1965 and Blonde on Blonde in 1966.[7]
The session of the beginning was the second of three in the recording of John Wesley Harding. "All Along the
Watchtower", the session's first song, was done in five takes, the third and fifth of which were spliced to create the
album track.[6] As with most of the album's selections, the song is a dark, sparse work that stands in stark contrast
with Dylan's previous recordings of the mid-1960s.[8]

Analysis
Several reviewers have pointed out that the lyrics in "All Along the
Watchtower" echo lines in the Book of Isaiah, Chapter 21, verses 5-9:
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise ye
princes, and prepare the shield./For thus hath the Lord said unto
me, Go set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth./And he
saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a
chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much
heed./...And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a
couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is
fallen, is fallen, and all the graven images of her gods he hath
broken unto the ground.[9] [10]

Watchtower building in Brooklyn, seen from


Manhattan, said to be source of the title

Commenting on the songs on his album John Wesley Harding, in an interview published in the folk music magazine
Sing Out! in October 1968, Dylan told John Cohen and Happy Traum:

"I haven't fulfilled the balladeers's job. A balladeer can sit down and sing three songs for an hour and a half... it can all unfold to you. These
melodies on John Wesley Harding lack this traditional sense of time. As with the third verse of "The Wicked Messenger", which opens it up,
and then the time schedule takes a jump and soon the song becomes wider... The same thing is true of the song "All Along the Watchtower",
[11]
which opens up in a slightly different way, in a stranger way, for we have the cycle of events working in a rather reverse order."

The unusual structure of the narrative was remarked on by English Literature professor Christopher Ricks, who
commented that "All Along the Watchtower" is an example of Dylan's audacity at manipulating chronological time:
"at the conclusion of the last verse, it is as if the song bizarrely begins at last, and as if the myth began again."[12]

"All Along the Watchtower"


Critics have described Dylan's version as a masterpiece of understatement. In Andy Gill's words: "In Dylan's version
of the song, it's the barrenness of the scenario which grips, the high haunting harmonica and simple forward motion
of the riff carrying understated implications of cataclysm; as subsequently recorded by Jimi Hendrix, ... that
cataclysm is rendered scarily palpable through the dervish whirls of guitar."[13]
Others have been more critical of Dylan's achievement. Dave Van Ronk, an early supporter and mentor of Dylan,
made the following criticism of the song:
That whole artistic mystique is one of the great traps of this business, because down that road lies
unintelligibility. Dylan has a lot to answer for there, because after a while he discovered that he could get away
with anythinghe was Bob Dylan and people would take whatever he wrote on faith. So he could do
something like "All Along the Watchtower," which is simply a mistake from the title on down: a watchtower
is not a road or a wall, and you can't go along it.[14]

Performances and subsequent releases


John Wesley Harding came out at the end of the 1967, on December 27, less than two months after the recording
sessions.[15] The song was the second single from the album, released on November 22, 1968, but did not chart. A
live recording of "All Along the Watchtower" from the album Before the Flood appeared as the B side of "Most
Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)" in 1974. The recordings came from separate concerts earlier that year
at the Forum outside Los Angeles, both with Dylan backed by The Band.[6]
Dylan first performed the song live on January 3, 1974, in Chicago on the opening night of his 'comeback tour'.[16]
From this first live performance, Dylan has consistently performed the song closer to Hendrix's version than to his
own original recording.[16] Michael Gray writes that this is the most often performed of all of Dylan's songs. By
Gray's count, Dylan had performed the song in concert 1,393 times by the end of 2003.[16]
In recent years, Dylan in live performances has taken to singing the first verse again at the end of the song. As Gray
notes in The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, "Dylan chooses to end in a way that at once reduces the song's apocalyptic
impact and cranks up its emphasis on the artist's own centrality. Repeating the first stanza as the last means Dylan
now ends with the words 'None of them along the line/Know what any of it is worth' (and this is sung with a
prolonged, dark linger on that word 'worth')."[17] Dylan may have followed the Grateful Dead in concluding the song
by repeating the first verse; the Dead covered the song in this fashion, with and without Dylan.[18]
The original recording of "All Along the Watchtower" appears on most of Dylan's "greatest hits" albums, as well as
his two box set compilations, Biograph in 1985 and Dylan in 2007. In addition, Dylan has released four different live
recordings of the song on the following albums: Before the Flood, Bob Dylan at Budokan, Dylan & The Dead and
MTV Unplugged.

Selective list of notable recordings


The Jimi Hendrix Experience

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"All Along the Watchtower"

European single cover


Singleby The Jimi Hendrix Experience
from the album Electric Ladyland
B-side

US "Burning of the Midnight Lamp", UK "Long Hot Summer Night"

Released

US September 21, 1968, UK October 18

Recorded Olympic Studios, London, January 1968; Record Plant Studios, New York, JuneAugust 1968
Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock

Length

4:20

Label

Reprise, Track, Polydor, Barclay

Writer(s) Bob Dylan


Producer Jimi Hendrix
The Jimi Hendrix Experience singles chronology
"Up from the
Skies"
(1968)

"All Along the


Watchtower"
(1968)

"Crosstown
Traffic"
(1968)

The Jimi Hendrix Experience began to record their cover version of Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" on January
21, 1968, at Olympic Studios in London.[19] According to engineer Andy Johns, Jimi Hendrix had been given a tape
of Dylans recording by publicist Michael Goldstein, who worked for Dylans manager Albert Grossman. "(Hendrix)
came in with these Dylan tapes and we all heard them for the first time in the studio, recalled Johns.[20] According
to Hendrixs regular engineer Eddie Kramer, the guitarist cut a large number of takes on the first day, shouting chord
changes at Dave Mason who had appeared at the session and played guitar. Halfway through the session, bass player
Noel Redding became dissatisfied with the proceedings and left. Mason then took over on bass. According to
Kramer, the final bass part was played by Hendrix himself.[20] Kramer and Chas Chandler mixed the first version of
"All Along The Watchtower" on January 26, but Hendrix was quickly dissatisfied with the result and went on
re-recording and overdubbing guitar parts during June, July, and August at the Record Plant studio in New York.[21]
Engineer Tony Bongiovi has described Hendrix becoming increasingly dissatisfied as the song progressed,
overdubbing more and more guitar parts, moving the master tape from a four-track to a twelve-track to a
sixteen-track machine. Bongiovi recalled, "Recording these new ideas meant he would have to erase something. In
the weeks prior to the mixing, we had already recorded a number of overdubs, wiping track after track. [Hendrix]
kept saying, I think I hear it a little bit differently.[22] The finished version was released on the album Electric
Ladyland in September 1968. The single reached number five in the British charts, and number 20 on the Billboard
chart, Hendrix's only top 20 / top 40 entry there.[23] The song also had the #5 spot on Guitar World's 100 Greatest
Guitar Solos.[24]

"All Along the Watchtower"


Dylan has described his reaction to hearing Hendrix's version: "It overwhelmed me, really. He had such talent, he
could find things inside a song and vigorously develop them. He found things that other people wouldn't think of
finding in there. He probably improved upon it by the spaces he was using. I took license with the song from his
version, actually, and continue to do it to this day."[25] In the booklet accompanying his Biograph album, Dylan said:
"I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way... Strange how when I sing it,
I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."
This version of the song appears at number 47 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time[26] , and in 2000,
British magazine Total Guitar named it top of the list of the greatest cover versions of all time.[27]

U2
Irish rock band U2 first played a cover of "All Along the Watchtower" during their Boy Tour in 1981. Years later,
during the Joshua Tree Tour in 1987, the cover was played for a second time, in San Francisco, California, with an
additional verse added by Bono. This performance was later included as a scene in U2's 1988 rockumentary film,
Rattle and Hum, and also appeared on the album of the same name. The performance was impromptu, with the band
learning the chords and lyrics within minutes of taking the stage, and as a result, there were problems in editing the
soundtrack. The song made its way into almost 50 live shows during the band's 1989 Lovetown Tour.

Dave Matthews Band


Dave Matthews Band has played the song since the band's inception in the early 1990s.[28] Their rendition maintains
Dylan's three chord structure and key signature but differs in style. Dave Matthews typically begins the song slowly
with just bass, vocals and acoustic guitar. The band members come in after the line "the hour is getting late", picking
up the tempo and intensity. The band's members then take extended solos, culminating with the line, "No reason to
get excited." "Watchtower", as it is referred to by the band's fans, is a concert staple, often performed as either a
closer or encore. In all, they have covered the song live more than 600 times, including solo performances by
Matthews[28] , and it has appeared on six of their officially released live albums, though the band has never released
a studio version.

Dionysis Savvopoulos
Greek singer and composer Dionysis Savvopoulos's album Ballos (released in 1970) included a version of this song.
The lyrics are adapted into Greek. The Greek name of the song is "Paliatsos kai listis", which is a Greek translation
for the phrase "the joker and the thief".

Neil Young
Neil Young performed a version live, and was joined onstage by The Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde. This version
later appeared on Young's live album Road Rock Vol. 1: Friends & Relatives. He has also played this song with the
above mentioned Dave Matthews Band and performed it with Booker T. and the M.G.'s at the Dylan 30th
Anniversary Celebration (aka "Bobfest") at Madison Square Garden. The subsequent recording of the Dylan tribute
was issued in 1993.

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Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead performed the song 124 times[29] , first on June 20, 1987. This adds to a lengthy repertoire of Bob
Dylan covers by the Dead.

Bryan Ferry
Bryan Ferry recorded this song as a demo with Robin Trower in the mid 1990s. He completed the track during
sessions in August 2006 for his Dylan tribute album Dylanesque released March 2007.

Pearl Jam
After playing the song four different times from 20042006, lead singer Eddie Vedder was asked to play the song
with The Million Dollar Bashers for the I'm Not There soundtrack. In 2008, it was played 3 times during the band's
US East Coast Summer Tour, including the 2008 Bonnaroo Music Festival. In 2009, the band were joined by Ronnie
Wood of The Rolling Stones to perform the song at the Shepherds Bush Empire.[30]

Bear McCreary/Battlestar Galactica


Television composer Bear McCreary arranged a version of "All Along the Watchtower" for use in the final scene of
the Battlestar Galactica season three finale "Crossroads, Part II". The song was also played in various adaptations in
the fourth season, including the series finale. A version with all the lyrics was included on the Battlestar Galactica
Season 3 Soundtrack. The lyrics had been written into the screenplay by Ronald D. Moore.[31] Versions of the song
are used again throughout the fourth season, including a piano version. The song became a thematic motif as well as
a plot element of the show, with lyrics frequently referenced in dialog during many episodes, and with the final scene
of the series' last episode playing out to the Jimi Hendrix version of the song. ("The Music" [32])

Others
The song has been covered by many other artists[33] , including:

The Allman Brothers Band


Brewer and Shipley
Giant Sand
Blink-182
Richie Havens
Jeff Healey
Indigo Girls
The Killers
Phil Lesh and Friends
Taj Mahal
Dave Mason
John Mellencamp
Mountain
Phish
Spirit
Paul Weller
Widespread Panic
Bobby Womack

XTC
Eric Clapton
Michael Hedges

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Cultural references
Hendrix's version was featured in the movies Withnail and I, Rush, Land of the Lost (without Hendrix's vocals),
Private Parts, Forrest Gump, A Bronx Tale, Vegas Vacation, Tupac: Resurrection, the 2001 remake of Brian's Song
and Watchmen (among others) and also in television shows such as The Simpsons, in episodes "Mother Simpson"
and "My Mother the Carjacker". The song was also mentioned by Fox Mulder in The X-Files season one episode
"Beyond the Sea".
Chapter X in the DC limited comic book series Watchmen by Moore and Gibbons is titled "Two Riders Were
Approaching" with a brief excerpt of the lyrics at the end of the chapter, attributed to Bob Dylan. In the film
adaptation, Hendrix's cover plays during the same scene.
In the 2000 film Hamlet, the grave digger can be heard softly singing a few lines of the song shortly before
Ophelia's funeral.

References
Blake (ed.), Mark (2005). Dylan: Visions, Portraits, and Back Pages. Mojo/DK Publishing, Inc..
ISBN978-0-7566-3725-5.
Cott (ed.), Jonathan (2006). Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews. Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN0340923121.

Gill, Andy (1999). Classic Bob Dylan: My Back Pages. Carlton. ISBN1-85868-599-0.
Gray, Michael (2006). The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia. Continuum International. ISBN0-8264-6933-7.
Heylin, Clinton (2003). Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited. Perennial Currents. ISBN0-06-052569-X.
Kramer, Eddie (1992). Hendrix: Setting the Record Straight. Warner Books. ISBN0751511293.
Ricks, Christopher (2003). Dylan's Visions of Sin. Penguin/Viking. ISBN0-670-80133-X.
Sounes, Howard (2001). Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan. Grove Press. ISBN0-0821-1686-8.

Further reading
Marqusee, M (2003). Chimes of Freedom: The Politics of Bob Dylan's Art, New Press

External links
Lyrics to the song [34]
"Reason to Rock" - The lyrics explained [35]

References
[1] "The Bob Dylan Motorcycle-Crash Mystery" (http:/ / www. americanheritage. com/ email/ articles/ web/
20060729-bob-dylan-motorcycle-woodstock-methamphetamine-robert-shelton-howard-sounes-ed-thaler. shtml). American Heritage.
2006-07-29. . Retrieved 2009-02-08.
[2] Clark p. 108 and 112
[3] Sounes p. 215-8
[4] Clark p. 108
[5] Sounes p. 227-8
[6] Bjorner, Olof (May 7, 2000). "Still on the Road: Bob Dylan Recording Sessions" (http:/ / www. bjorner. com/ DSN01620 1967.
htm#DSN01641). Olof Bjorner. . Retrieved 2009-10-18.
[7] Gray p. 356-7
[8] Gray p. 7
[9] Heylin p. 285
[10] Gill p. 1301
[11] Cott p. 122
[12] Ricks p. 359
[13] Gill p. 131
[14] Dave Van Ronk, The Mayor of Macdougal Street, ISBN 9780306814792

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[15] Gray p. 350
[16] Gray, 2006, The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, p. 7.
[17] Michael Gray, The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, p. 7
[18] Cf. "Dylan and the Dead."
[19] Eddie Kramer, 'Hendrix: Setting The Record Straight, p. 135
[20] Eddie Kramer, 'Hendrix: Setting The Record Straight, p. 136
[21] Eddie Kramer, 'Hendrix: Setting The Record Straight, p. 174
[22] Eddie Kramer, 'Hendrix: Setting The Record Straight, p. 175
[23] Eddie Kramer, 'Hendrix: Setting The Record Straight, p. 198
[24] http:/ / www. guitarworld. com/ article/ 100_greatest_guitar_solos_5_quotall_along_the_watchtowerquot_jimi_hendrix
[25] "Interview with Dylan: 09/29/95" (http:/ / www. interferenza. net/ bcs/ interw/ florida. htm). Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel. 1995-09-29. .
[26] http:/ / cbs2chicago. com/ entertainment/ rolling. stone. songs. 2. 1721498. html
[27] "The Best Cover Versions Ever". Total Guitar (Future Publishing). August 2000
[28] "DMBAlmanac.com" (http:/ / www. dmbalmanac. com/ SongStats. aspx?sid=96). .
[29] DeadBase - Searchable Grateful Dead Setlists (http:/ / www. deadbase. com/ )
[30] "NME.com: Pearl Jam and Rolling Stones star unite onstage at intimate gig" (http:/ / www. nme. com/ news/ pearl-jam/ 46641). NME.com. .
Retrieved 2009-08-12.
[31] Moore, Ronald D. Podcast commentary for Crossroads, Part 2.
[32] http:/ / en. battlestarwiki. org/ wiki/ The_Music
[33] As of March 29, Allmusic lists about 500 recorded versions, a figure which should be reduced to its quarter, after erasing all the duplicates.
[34] http:/ / www. bobdylan. com/ #/ songs/ all-along-the-watchtower
[35] http:/ / www. reasontorock. com/ tracks/ watchtower. html

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"Crosstown Traffic"

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"Crosstown Traffic"
"Crosstown Traffic"
Singleby The Jimi Hendrix Experience
from the album Electric Ladyland
B-side

"Gypsy Eyes"

Released

November 21, 1968 (US)


April 11, 1969 (UK)

Format

Single & Lp track

Recorded Record Plant Studios, New York, July 1967, December 1967, January 1968, AprilAugust 1968
Genre

Psychedelic rock, hard rock

Length

2:26

Label

Reprise Records, Track Records, Polydor, Barclay Records, MCA

Writer(s) Jimi Hendrix


Producer Jimi Hendrix
The Jimi Hendrix Experience singles chronology
"All Along the
Watchtower"
(1968)

"Crosstown
Traffic"
(1968)

"Stone
Free"
(1969)

"Crosstown Traffic" is the 3rd song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience from the album Electric Ladyland.

Composition
The song features a makeshift kazoo made with a comb and tissue paper. The backing vocals are performed by
Experience bassist Noel Redding and Traffic's Dave Mason.
Hendrix stated that he had written the song about a girlfriend.

Charts
US Chart: #52
UK Chart: #37

Trivia
The song is part of the soundtrack for the movie S.W.A.T.
The song has been covered by Shudder to Think, Ben Folds, The Link Quartet, Medeski Martin and Wood,
Living Colour, Chico Magnetic Band and Red Hot Chili Peppers which was featured as a live performance track
on their 1989 album Mother's Milk.
Aynsley Lister covered the track and released it on his album All or Nothing.
The song will be a playable track in Rock Band 3.

"Crosstown Traffic"

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External links
Songfacts [1]

References
[1] http:/ / www. songfacts. com/ detail. php?id=5051

"Stone Free"
"Stone Free"
B-side to "Hey Joe" by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Released

December 16, 1966

Recorded

November 2, 1966

Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock

Length

3:35

Label

Track

Writer

Jimi Hendrix

Producer

Chas Chandler

"Stone Free"
Singleby The Jimi Hendrix Experience
B-side

"If 6 Was 9"

Released

September 15, 1969

Format

7"

Recorded November 2, 1966, at De Lane Lea Studios in London, England


Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock

Length

3:35

Label

Reprise

Writer(s) Jimi Hendrix


Producer Chas Chandler
The Jimi Hendrix Experience singles chronology
"Crosstown
Traffic"
(1969)

"Stone
Free"
(1969)

"Fire"
(1969)

"Stone Free" is a song by Jimi Hendrix, the first song he wrote.[1] The Jimi Hendrix Experience first released it in
December 1966 as the B-side of Hendrix's first single "Hey Joe." In December 1969 "Stone Free" was released as a
single in the US, backed with "If 6 Was 9."
The song is one of the few songs by Hendrix played in standard tuning.[1] It was written in one night, apparently
inspired by a jam session in London. The bass line for the song resembles that the Mar-Keys song "Philly Dog."[2]

"Stone Free"

History
"Stone Free" was recorded after the Experience had signed with Track Records, and was paid for with the Track
advance. Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp of Track had arranged for the label to be "underpinned" by Polydor Records,
which distributed their releases. It was recorded in De Lane Lea Studios on November 2, 1966, and quickly became
popular as "a counterculture anthem" with lyrics reflecting Hendrix's restless way of life.[3]
The song, a staple of Hendrix's set list, slowly changed form and became looser and longer. Inspired by a long,
notable performance in the Royal Albert Hall in February 1969[4] (released in 1982 on The Jimi Hendrix Concerts)
Hendrix re-recorded it in April of that year[5] at the Record Plant.[6]

Notable covers, other uses of the title


Supergrass recorded a cover of the song that was available on a limited-edition 7" vinyl companion disc to certain
packagings of the 12" vinyl release of their debut album, I Should Coco.
Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix was also the name of a 1993 Jimi Hendrix tribute album featuring his songs
performed by various artists, including Eric Clapton, Living Colour, The Cure and Pretenders.
This song is included on the Gran Turismo 3 soundtrack.

References
[1] Johnson, Chad (2006). Jimi Hendrix, Volume 2 (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=dJnsiQJnfj4C& pg=PA97). Hal Leonard. pp.97-101.
ISBN9780634077722. .
[2] Roby, Steven (2002). Black gold: the lost archives of Jimi Hendrix (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=tpfUzwASj0YC& pg=PA61).
Watson-Guptill. pp.61. ISBN9780823078547. .
[3] Shadwick, Keith (2003). Jimi Hendrix, musician (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=xyegGlo5LeoC& pg=PA90). Hal Leonard. pp.89-90.
ISBN9780879307646. .
[4] Shadwich, Keith (2003). Jimi Hendrix, musician (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=xyegGlo5LeoC& pg=PA175). Hal Leonard. pp.175.
ISBN9780879307646. .
[5] Doggett, Peter (9781844494248). Jimi Hendrix: the complete guide to his music (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=NZC39WzfzG8C&
pg=PA116). Omnibus. pp.116. ISBN9781844494248. .
[6] Geldeart, Gary; Steve Rodham (2007). Jimi Hendrix - the Studio Log: A Complete Chronological Guide to Jimi Hendrix's Studio Recording
Sessions (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=vH9VLtB3r7UC& pg=PA73). Jimpress. pp.73. ISBN9780952768647. . Retrieved 19 May
2010.

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"Fire"

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"Fire"
"Fire"
Singleby The Jimi Hendrix Experience
from the album Are You Experienced
A-side

"Let Me Light Your Fire" (Fire)

B-side

"Burning Of The Midnight Lamp"

Released LP May 12, 1967 (UK)


stereo single April 1969
Format

vinyl record (7") & LP

Genre

Psychedelic rock, acid rock, hard rock

Length

2:47

Label

Track Records, Polydor (LP & single); Reprise (LP only)

Writer(s) Jimi Hendrix


Producer Chas Chandler
The Jimi Hendrix Experience singles chronology
"Stone
Free"
(1969)

"Fire"
(1969)

"Stepping
Stone"
(1970)

"Fire" is a song written and originally recorded by Jimi Hendrix and released on the 1967 Are You Experienced
album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

History
The 1967 USA Reprise stereo remix of "Fire" was subsequently released as a stereo single in 1969, outside of USA
and Canada as "Let Me Light Your Fire." The track has been included on a number of greatest hits collections,
including Jimi Hendrix: The Ultimate Experience. 'The Experience' frequently opened live concerts with this song.
Despite its sexual overtones, the song had an innocuous origin, stemming from a cold New Year's Eve in Folkestone,
England after a gig. Noel Redding, bass player for The Jimi Hendrix Experience invited Jimi and Cathy as guests at
his mother's house. Jimi asked her if he could stand next to her fireplace to warm himself. She agreed, but her Great
Dane was in the way, hence the line, "Aw, move over, Rover, and let Jimi take over..." ("Electric Gypsy").[1]
The album version of the song contained a very short and simple solo, but through several live performances,
Hendrix expanded it. "Fire" was later covered by many artists, such as Alice Cooper; a Top Forty version of the song
was released by the pop group Five By Five in 1968. It was used in TV commercials for the 1993 Chevrolet Camaro
and the 1999 Pontiac Sunfire, and in 2007 for a commercial for Verizon's V-Cast.
A notable band to cover the song are Red Hot Chili Peppers, who started playing it regularly from around March
1983. When the band's original guitarist Hillel Slovak died in 1988, the recording of "Fire" was added as a tribute to
their Mother's Milk, released in 1989. The Red Hot Chili Peppers had their version as part of their Woodstock '99
setlist. In their recorded version, they replaced "Oh, move over Rover, and Let Jimi take over" with "Oh, move over
Mr. Rover, and let Mr. Huckleberry take over". Since Slovak's death, however, Mr. Huckleberry has been replaced
by "Mr. Frusciante", though it has never been said in a recorded version.

"Fire"
Another notable cover, by The Real McKenzies, was released on their debut album Real McKenzies (album) in
1995, in a slightly faster tempo and with lyrics not related to those of Fire.
Lupe Fiasco has also sampled the song for his own of the same name.
Fire was featured as a playable song in the game Lego Rock Band.

References
[1] Record Collector (330): p96. 2006.

This song was also played by Cassandra Wong (played by Tia Carrera) in Wayne's World.

283

"Stepping Stone"

284

"Stepping Stone"
"Stepping Stone"
Singleby Jimi Hendrix
from the album War Heroes
B-side

"Izabella"

Released

April 8, 1970

Format

7" vinyl

Recorded February 15, 1970 at Record Plant Studios, New York City, New York, USA
Genre

Rock, funk rock

Length

4:05

Label

Reprise

Writer(s)

Jimi Hendrix

Producer

Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix US singles chronology

"Fire"
(1969)

"Stepping
Stone"
(1970)

"No Such
Animal"
(1970)

War Heroes track listing


"Peter Gunn
Catastrophe"
(4)

"Stepping
Stone"
(5)

"Midnight"
(6)

"Stepping Stone" is a song by American psychedelic rock musician Jimi Hendrix, featured on his 1972 third
posthumous studio album War Heroes. It was originally released as a single in the United States backed with
"Izabella" on April 8, 1970 the last single released by Hendrix before his death. Written and produced by Hendrix,
the song was recorded early in 1970 with the short-lived Band of Gypsys lineup of Hendrix, Billy Cox and Buddy
Miles.

History
"Stepping Stone" first appeared, in part, when Gypsy Sun and Rainbows performed at Woodstock Festival on August
18, 1969, as Hendrix incorporated its rhythm into their long rendition of "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)". The band
made an attempt at recording the song (which was then known as "Sky Blues Today") in the studio on August 30,
and it was next touched on during a long studio jam session with Buddy Miles on November 14[1] (see Morning
Symphony Ideas). "Stepping Stone" was first played live during the second show at the Fillmore East on December
31, 1969 by the Band of Gypsys, and again during the first show of January 1, 1970.[2] These turned out to be the
only live performances of the song.
Into 1970 the band continued work on the song at Record Plant Studios, recording three takes with the name "I'm a
Man" on January 7, the third of which provided the basic track with which they would work.[2] They revisited the

"Stepping Stone"
take on January 20, adding guitar overdubs and renaming it "Sky Blues Today", and another mix was prepared on
January 22.[2] More mixing was completed on February 12, and on February 15 the master take, which was later
renamed "Stepping Stone" was recorded and subsequently prepared for release with "Izabella".[2] The single,
credited to 'Hendrix Band of Gypsys' was released on April 8, 1970 by Reprise Records.
Hendrix, being the perfectionist that he was, did not entirely accept the final mix of "Stepping Stone". On June 26,
1970, he and Mitch Mitchell, who had rejoined the band, recorded new guitar and drum parts respectively. With
these changes, the song was later released on War Heroes in 1972 and First Rays of the New Rising Sun in 1997.

Personnel
Musicians

Jimi Hendrix vocals, guitars, production (as Heaven Research Unlimited)


Billy Cox bass
Buddy Miles drums on single version
Mitch Mitchell s drums on album version

Additional personnel
Bob Hughes engineering

References
[1] Kees de Lange. "Plug Your Ears" (http:/ / osiris. cs. kun. nl/ ~tvdw/ pye/ index. html). . Retrieved 2008-07-12.
[2] "The Jimi Hendrix Encyclopedia" (http:/ / jimihendrix. com/ encyclopedia/ ). Experience Hendrix. . Retrieved 2008-07-12.

Shapiro, Harry; Glebbeek, Caesar. Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1995. ISBN
0-312-13062-7
The Jimi Hendrix Encyclopedia (http://jimihendrix.com/encyclopedia/). Experience Hendrix.

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"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"


"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"
Singleby The Jimi Hendrix Experience
from the album Electric Ladyland
B-side

"Hey Joe" and "All Along the Watchtower"

Released

September 16, 1968 (album)


1970 (single)

Format

7" single

Recorded May 1968


Genre

Hard rock, blues-rock, psychedelic rock, heavy metal

Length

5:12

Label

Track, Polydor

Writer(s) Jimi Hendrix


Producer Jimi Hendrix
The Jimi Hendrix Experience singles chronology
"No Such
Animal"
(1970)

"Voodoo Child (Slight


Return)"
(1970)

"Angel"
(1971)

"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" is the last track on the third and final album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience,
Electric Ladyland. The song is known for its wah-wah-heavy guitar work. It is #101 on Rolling Stone's list of 500
greatest songs of all time.[1]
The song was recorded in 1968, and was re-released as a single after Hendrix's death in 1970. It was the A side on a
three-track record, and reached Number 1 in the UK. It was catalogued as "Voodoo Chile" (Track 2095 001), and
that is the title which appears on the single and is the title referred to officially. This obviously confuses it with the
15-minute song on the album Electric Ladyland. The B-side of the single featured two of his previous hits: "Hey
Joe" and "All Along the Watchtower".

Origins and recording


The genesis of "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" was essentially in "Voodoo Chile", a long blues jam featuring guest
Steve Winwood.[2] On May 3, 1968 (the day after "Voodoo Chile"'s recording), a crew from ABC filmed the Jimi
Hendrix Experience while they played. As Hendrix explained it:
[S]omeone was filming when we started doing [Voodoo Child]. We did that about three times because they
wanted to film us in the studio, to make us"Make it look like you're recording, boys"one of them scenes,
you know, so, "OK, let's play this in E, a-one, a-two, a-three", and then we went into "Voodoo Child".[3]
(Technically, the track is in Eb -- Jimi tuned down one half step)
The song became one of Hendrix's staples in live performances and would vary in length from 7 to 18 minutes.
Notable live performances were at Woodstock and during his 1969 show at the Royal Albert Hall, originally released
on the posthumous Hendrix in the West album, later re-released on the Experienced Box Set. On the Band of Gypsys
live album Live at the Fillmore East, Hendrix refers to the song as the Black Panthers' national anthem.

"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"

Personnel

Producer: Jimi Hendrix


Engineer: Eddie Kramer
Guitar, vocals, percussion: Jimi Hendrix
Bass: Noel Redding
Drums, percussion: Mitch Mitchell

Legacy
Hendrix's solo was named the 11th greatest solo of all-time in Guitar World's 100 Greatest Guitar Solos; Guitar
Legends Issue #46. Hendrix was listed 6 times, more than any other artist on the list.
In the same issue Joe Satriani listed this as his favorite guitar solo:
"It's just the greatest piece of electric guitar work ever recorded. In fact, the whole song could be
considered the holy grail of guitar expression and technique. It is a beacon of humanity."
Kenny Wayne Shepherd:
"This is pretty much the guitar anthem of all time. From that amazing opening riff to the way he breaks
it down in the middle and gets funky, the whole thing is incredible. There are things Jimi did on the
guitar that humans just can't do. You can try all day, even if you're playing the right notes, it's not the
same. It definitely seems as if he was coming from a higher place when he played."

Cover versions
The song was covered and released by the Argentine band Divididos in their record "Acariciando lo spero".[4]
The song is usually performed in their concerts. The guitar player, Ricardo Mollo, usually does the main riffs of
the song with different objects such as trainers, tennis balls, drumsticks, carrots, and his own teeth.[5]
The song featured as a jam between Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Yngwie Malmsteen at G3: Live in Denver in
2003.
The intro of the song was sometimes covered by Slash before Guns N' Roses went into "Civil War" during their
Use Your Illusion Tour.[6]
The intro riff is used by The Pink Blue Things in the solo to "Smile Over Substance"
Buddy Guy covered it live.
The song has also been covered numerous times by Ben Harper during live performances[7]
Pearl Jam played it once.[8]
The song was also covered by Anglique Kidjo for her 1998 album Oremi.
Another cover was recorded by Yngwie Malmsteen on the album The Genesis.
Mick Mars of Mtley Cre used parts of the song during his guitar solo during the Carnival of Sins tour in 2006
and during Cruefest in 2008.
The song was covered by Zakk Wylde's band Pride and Glory also featuring Slash of Guns N' Roses at Gibson
Guitar Corporation's 100th Anniversary.
Gabriel Ros and Jef Neve made an acoustic cover of the song for Rios' album Angelhead/Morehead.
The song was covered by Kenny Wayne Shepherd and released as a bonus track on his "Blue on Black" single
released in 1997 and is a staple in his live setlist.
Voodoo Child was also covered by Rob Thomas and pedal steel maestro Robert Randolph.
The track was covered by avid Hendrix fan[9] Stevie Ray Vaughan for his 1984 album Couldn't Stand the
Weather in a slightly extended version. Stevie played this song all throughout his career, and it was included on
his 1986 concert album Live Alive, as well as on several of his live video releases and the 2000 SRV retrospective
box set.

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"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"


Top of the Poppers covered the song in 1970, with their version later appearing on their album The Best of Top of
the Pops '70 (Hallmark HALMCD 1037).
The song has also been covered numerous times by the Naughty Thoughts.
John Mayer performed this song live at his show at SPAC in Saratoga Springs, New York on August 8, 2010, and
again at First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre in Tinley Park, Illinois on August 14, 2010.

Other usage
Hanoi Rocks guitarist Andy McCoy quoted the song as his "last words" when he was sliding down from his
balcony in 1999. McCoy said to his wife before falling down to the ground "If I see you no more in this world, I
see you in the next world, and don't be late". McCoy, however, survived the fall (though his leg required multiple
operations afterwards). "I quoted Hendrix", he told later in the interview in Helsingin Sanomat newspaper's
weekly supplement.
Samples of "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" feature on the KMFDM song "We Must Awaken" from the Money
album.
The song has been featured in the films Payback, In the Name of the Father, Under Siege, Almost Famous, Black
Hawk Down, Flashback, and Withnail and I.
Stevie Ray Vaughan's cover of "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" was also featured in the 2002 film Black Hawk
Down.
The song has been featured in a Nissan Xterra commercial.
In the late 1990s, the nWo, a heel stable in World Championship Wrestling, frequently used "Voodoo Child
(Slight Return)" as its entrance theme, with Hendrix's vocals cut. The edited song was also the regular entrance
music of the nWo's most prominent member, Hulk Hogan. Following his return to the WWE in 2002, Hogan used
the theme again for a short while.[10] The song is also featured on WWE SmackDown! Shut Your Mouth, WWE
WrestleMania XIX and WWE Raw 2 as his entrance music.
The opening to the song also is one of the demos included in Guitar Pro 5.
Radio personality Bubba the Love Sponge opens and closes his show with the song.
Muse frontman Matthew Bellamy has played the intro in between songs live.[11]
Comedian Bill Hicks, on his album Dangerous, presents the lyrics "Well I'm standing next to a mountain, and I
knock it down with the edge of my hand" "like an anaconda, flapping in the wind."
Nuno Bettencourt plays the beginning lick at the end of his solo break (time 3:59) during the second track "Rest
in Peace" on Extreme's III Sides to Every Story.
Black Stone Cherry covers up to the first chorus as part of their finale in concert.
Former New York Mets catcher Mike Piazza used the song as his at-bat music while playing at Shea Stadium
Detroit Tigers pitcher Joel Zumaya comes into games from the bullpen to this song.

References
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9]

"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" at rollingstone.com (http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ news/ story/ 6595946/ voodoo_child_slight_return)
McDermott, R., Kramer, E., Cox, B. (2009). Ultimate Hendrix, page 101. Backbeat Books. ISBN 978-0-87930-938-1
Henderson, David. Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky. 2003, page 350
Acariciando lo spero - Rock.com.ar (http:/ / www. rock. com. ar/ discos/ 0/ 883. shtml)
YouTube - Voodoo Chile DIVIDIDOS en Chile (http:/ / www. youtube. com/ watch?v=wfPPTXi6o-k)
Civil War live (http:/ / www. youtube. com/ watch?v=SHoDKldosXk)
http:/ / www. youtube. com/ watch?v=ZZNGAR7U7hY
Ten Club (http:/ / www. pearljam. com/ song/ voodoo-child-jam)
"Vaughan worshiped at the altar of Hendrix, brazenly inviting comparisons with him and even recording one of his songs, "Voodoo Chile." "
(http:/ / www. djnoble. demon. co. uk/ ints/ STEVIER. VS. html)

[10] Hulk Hogan's 2002 WWE Titantron on YouTube (http:/ / www. youtube. com/ watch?v=a54OpoXMb7c)
[11] http:/ / musewiki. org/ Riffs_and_jams#Voodoo_Child_. 28Slight_Return. 29

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"Freedom"
"Freedom"
Singleby Jimi Hendrix
from the album The Cry of Love
B-side

"Angel"

Released

April 3, 1971

Recorded 1970
Genre

Hard rock

Length

3:24

Label

Reprise Records (1000)

Writer(s) Jimi Hendrix


Producer Jimi Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell, Eddie
Kramer
Jimi Hendrix singles chronology
"Angel" "Freedom"
(1971)
(1971)

"Dolly
Dagger"
(1971)

"Freedom" is a Jimi Hendrix song released in 1971 from the album The Cry of Love. The album, released after his
death, was released in 1971 and became a major hit. This was the only single released from the album and was
somewhat successful on the charts, reaching number 74 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. It is now one of the
more popular songs in the Hendrix collection, and is a staple in many compilation works. It was later featured on the
1997 album First Rays of the New Rising Sun.

Interpretation
The lyrics "Keep on pushing straight ahead..." towards the end of the song are most likely a reference to the Curtis
Mayfield song "Keep On Pushing" from the album of the same name. Mayfield was a major influence on Hendrix,
from whom he borrowed much of his R&B rhythm guitar style, as heard on recordings such as "Have You Ever
Been (To Electric Ladyland)" and "Little Wing". Also, Straight Ahead is a phrase which features on several tracks
from the period- and it was one of the titles considered for his final studio album. The recurring use of the phrase
may indicate the intent to make a concept album with that title, or may just be a coincidence.

Guitar Hero World Tour


As of March 19, 2009, the song, as well as "Angel" and "Foxy Lady (Live At Woodstock)" has been released as
downloadable content for Guitar Hero: World Tour in the Jimi Hendrix Track Pack 2.

"Angel"

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"Angel"
"Angel"
Singleby Jimi Hendrix
from the album The Cry Of Love
B-side

US Freedom
UK Night Bird Flying

Released

April 1971

Recorded

July 23, 1970

Genre

Psychedelic rock

Label

Reprise, Track, Barclay, Polydor

Writer(s)

Jimi Hendrix

Producer

Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix singles chronology

"Voodoo Child (Slight


Return)"
(1970)

"Angel" "Freedom"
(1971)
(1971)

"Angel" is the name of a song written and recorded by Jimi Hendrix. It was first released in March 1971 on the
posthumous LP The Cry of Love, and in April it was released on a single to promote the LP. In the US the single was
backed with Freedom and in the UK with "Night Bird Flying". The LP charted, but the single didn't sell well'. The B
side "Night Bird Flying" was the B side of the final single Hendrix had cut at Sterling Sound with Eddie Kramer, the
A side of this single was the final Reprise USA & Canada single release "Dolly Dagger"
In 1972, Rod Stewart released his version of this song as a single from his album Never a Dull Moment. While it
failed to achieve the major success of its predecessor "You Wear It Well," the song still did well in several markets
worldwide. Rod Stewart's version of Angel can also be heard in one of the scenes in the 2000 film Charlie's Angels,
but is not included in the film's original motion picture soundtrack album. In the United Kingdom, the song charted
as a double A-side with "What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me). In 1990 released by Tori
Amos on her album "Tales of a Librarian."
This song was also recorded by singer/songwriter and harpist Dee Carstensen in her 1995 studio album release
Regarding The Soul. This was the first ever release of this song using harp as primary instrument. The album "The
Gil Evans Orchestra Play The Music Of Jimi Hendrix" features Angel rendered heavy on saxophone, as well as other
Hendrix's pieces.
Some of this song's lyrics were recited at Hendrix's funeral.

"Gypsy Eyes"

291

"Gypsy Eyes"
"Gypsy Eyes"
Song by Jimi Hendrix from the album Electric Ladyland
Released

October 16, 1968

Recorded

Record Plant Studios, December 1967

Genre

Psychedelic rock, funk rock

Length

3:47

Label

MCA

Writer

Jimi Hendrix

Producer

Jimi Hendrix
Electric Ladyland track listing

(US) Side 1
1.
2.
3.
4.

"...And The Gods Made Love"


"Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)"
"Crosstown Traffic"
"Voodoo Chile"

(US) Side 2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

"Little Miss Strange"


"Long Hot Summer Night"
"Come On (Part I)"
"Gypsy Eyes"
"Burning of the Midnight Lamp"

(US) Side 3
1. "Rainy Day, Dream Away"
2. "1983...(A Merman I Should Turn to Be)"
3. "Moon, Turn the Tides...Gently Gently Way"

(US) Side 4'


1.
2.
3.
4.

"Still Raining, Still Dreaming"


"House Burning Down"
"All Along the Watchtower"
"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"

"Gypsy Eyes" is a song by Jimi Hendrix, performed by The Jimi Hendrix Experience on their 1968 album Electric
Ladyland, and based on the field holler[1] .

Lyrics
This song is one of many about Jimi's mother. Jimi had major issues with his mother abandoning him as a child. He
has almost romanticized her as being a good mom...and he seems to continually want to know if she loves him. The
true story is that of a messed up woman who died young. While Jimi's mother was pregnant, his father was fighting
in WWII. Jimi's mom had an affair with a guy named Johnny. Hence, when Jimi was born and his dad Al was
fighting in the war, Jimi was named Johnny Allen Hendrix. Jimi's mother basically abandoned Jimi as a baby with
relatives. When Al came back from the war, he went searching for his boy. He found him named after himself and
his wife's boyfriend. So, he changed his name to James Marshall Hendrix. Jimi spent only little time with his mother
before she died when he was a teenager. So as typical with a child, he created a fictional belief of her.

"Gypsy Eyes"
The telling verse is as follows:
I remember the first time I saw you
The tears in your eyes look like they're tryin' to say
Oh little boy you know I could love you
But first I must make my get away
Two strange men fightin' to the death over me today
This describes when Jimi's mum left him with relatives and describes the issue with Jimi's Dad and her boyfriend.

Music
The song features guitar themes that float between left and right channels.
Richard Middleton [2] notes that licks in rock music are often used through a formula and variations technique and
that "Gypsy Eyes" "is put together from variants of five stock ideas...familiar from other recordings in the same
style."
1. "Drum lick A"
2. "Drum lick B"
3. "A complex of riffs on guitar and bass guitar"
4. "A basic melodic falling pattern, using the notes of the pentatonic scale"
5. "A characteristic guitar effecty, the attacked single note with long decay and glissando fall"
He concludes that "the combination and variations of these formulae are many and highly imaginatve. But the basic
formulae are so simple that the recording could well have been worked out 'in performance.'"

References
[1] Review of "Gypsy Eyes" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=33:induak1k5mgx), AllMusic.
[2] Middleton, Richard (1990/2002). Studying Popular Music, p.137. Philadelphia: Open University Press. ISBN 0335152759.

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"Dolly Dagger"

293

"Dolly Dagger"
"Dolly Dagger"
Singleby Jimi Hendrix
from the album Rainbow Bridge
B-side

"The Star-Spangled Banner"

Released

October 23, 1971

Format

7" vinyl

Recorded July 1, 1970 at Electric Lady Studios, New York City, New York, USA
Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock

Length

4:45

Label

Reprise

Writer(s)

Jimi Hendrix

Producer

Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix US singles chronology

"Freedom"
(1971)

"Dolly
Dagger"
(1971)

"Johnny B.
Goode"
(1972)

"Dolly Dagger" is the name of a song written and recorded by Jimi Hendrix. It was first released on 9 October 1971
on the posthumous LP Rainbow Bridge, and on 23 October it was released on a single to promote the LP, backed
with a solo rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. The LP was released only to fulfill manager Mike Jeffery and
Hendrix' contract to give Reprise records a soundtrack album for the film Rainbow Bridge, for this reason several
tracks that would otherwise have been released on The Cry Of Love were used.
Although labeled as an "Original Soundtrack", it did not feature any music from the original film and was made
available only through Reprise Records. The B side of this single was "Night Bird Flying" which was released as the
B side of the final UK studio single "Angel". The song was written for Hendrix' girlfriend, groupie Devon Wilson.

"Johnny B. Goode"

294

"Johnny B. Goode"
"Johnny B. Goode"

Singleby Chuck Berry


from the album Chuck Berry Is on Top
B-side

"Around and Around"

Released

March 31, 1958

Format

45 rpm, 78 rpm

Recorded January 6, 1958 at Chess Records studio, Chicago,


IL
Genre

Rock and roll

Length

2:30

Label

Chess 1691

Writer(s)

Chuck Berry

Producer

Little "Bongo" Kraus


Chuck Berry singles chronology

"Sweet Little
Sixteen"
(1958)

"Johnny B.
Goode"
(1958)

"Johnny B. Goode"

Singleby Judas Priest


from the album Ram It Down
Released

1988

"Beautiful
Delilah"
(1958)

"Johnny B. Goode"

295
Recorded 1987
Genre

Heavy Metal

Label

Columbia

Producer Tom Allom, Glenn Tipton, K.K. Downing, Rob Halford


Judas Priest singles chronology
Ram It
Down
(1988)

"Johnny B.
Goode"
(1988)

"Painkiller"
(1990)

Ram It Down track listing


I'm A
Rocker
(7)

"Johnny B.
Goode"
(8)

"Love You To
Death"
(9)

"Johnny B. Goode" is a 1958 rock and roll song composed by Chuck Berry. It is one of Berry's most important
songs, being listed #7 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[1]
It reached #8 on the Billboard pop chart.

Recording
Written by Berry in 1955, the song is about a poor country boy who plays a guitar "just like ringing a bell," and who
might one day have his "name in lights."[2] Berry has acknowledged that the song is partly autobiographical, and
originally had "colored boy" in the lyrics, but he changed it to "country boy" to ensure radio play.[3] The title is
suggestive that the guitar player is good, and hints at autobiographic elements because Berry was born on Goode
Avenue in St. Louis.[2] The song was initially inspired by Berry's piano player, Johnnie Johnson,[4] [5] though
developed into a song mainly about Berry himself.[6] Even though Johnnie Johnson played on many other Chuck
Berry songs, it was Lafayette Leake who played piano on this song.[7]
The opening guitar riff on "Johnny B. Goode" is essentially a note-for-note copy of the opening single-note solo on
Louis Jordan's "Ain't That Just Like a Woman" (1946), played by guitarist Carl Hogan.[8]
Berry has written 3 more songs involving the character Johnny B. Goode, "Bye Bye Johnny", "Go Go Go", and
"Johnny B. Blues"; and titled an album, and the nearly 19 min instrumental title track from it, as "Concerto in B.
Goode".

"Johnny B. Goode"

Musicians

Chuck Berry - Vocals and guitar[7]


Lafayette Leake - Piano[7]
Willie Dixon - Bass[7]
Fred Below - Drums[7]

Legacy
Berry's recording of the song was included on the Voyager Golden Record, attached to the Voyager spacecraft as
representing rock and roll, one of four American songs included among many cultural achievements of humanity.
The song was prominently featured in the 1985 film Back to the Future, in which Michael J. Fox's character Marty
McFly plays a cover version of the song at a high-school dance when he travels back to 1955 (three years before the
song's release). McFly, who subs in for the lead guitarist after he was injured, plays the song on stage. While McFly
plays the song, the lead singer, Marvin Berry, calls his cousin Chuck about a "new sound he has been looking for."
When Chuck Berry was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986[9] , he performed "Johnny B. Goode"
and "Rock and Roll Music", backed by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.[10] . The Hall of Fame included
these songs and "Maybellene" in their list of the 500 songs that shaped Rock and Roll.[11]
In March 2005, Q magazine placed "Johnny B. Goode" at number 42 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. In
2008, Rolling Stone placed it at #1 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs Of All Time.[12] Guitar World rated
the song #12 on the 100 Greatest Guitar Solos list. The song is currently ranked as the #6 song of all time in an
aggregation of critics' lists at acclaimedmusic.net.[13]

Cover versions
"Johnny B. Goode" is among the most widely covered rock and roll songs in history. The list of performers includes:

AC/DC
Aerosmith
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Bad Religion
BB King
Beach Boys
Burning
The Beatles
Big Tom And The Mainliners
Bill Haley & His Comets
Bon Scott (with Cheap Trick)
Marc Broussard
Andrs Calamaro
Mark Campbell as Marty McFly
The Carpenters
Dion
Down Low
Dr. Feelgood
Johnny Dowd
Earthlings?

John Farnham
Five Iron Frenzy

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"Johnny B. Goode"

Freddie & the Dreamers


Green Day
The Grateful Dead
Hanson
Jimi Hendrix
Will Hoge
Buddy Holly
Elton John
Judas Priest
Jerry Lee Lewis
Julian Lennon
Led Zeppelin
Living Colour
LL Cool J ("Go Cut Creator Go")
Lynyrd Skynyrd
MF Doom
Wes Paul

Eddie Meduza
Frank Marino
Marty McFly
Men at Work
Motrhead
NOFX
NRBQ
Off Kilter
Operation Ivy
Buck Owens
Phish
Elvis Presley
Prince
Ratdog
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Carlos Santana
The Sex Pistols
The Shadows
Slade
Slaughter & The Dogs
The Stimulators
Stray Cats
Los Suaves
George Thorogood
The Tornadoes
Peter Tosh (1983)
Cidade Negra

Twisted Sister
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

297

"Johnny B. Goode"

Uncle Tupelo
The Who
Brian Wilson
Johnny Winter
Jonny Lang
Phillip Magee
John Mayer Trio

References
[1] "The RS 500 Greatest Songs of All Time : Rolling Stone" (http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ news/ coverstory/ 500songs). rollingstone.com. .
Retrieved 2010-02-21.
[2] Richard Middleton, Reading pop: approaches to textual analysis in popular music, page 166 (http:/ / books. google. co. uk/
books?id=XmSwJENE9OsC& pg=PA165& dq=Johnny+ B. + Goode+ lyrics& as_brr=3& client=firefox-a& cd=3#v=onepage& q=Johnny B.
Goode lyrics& f=false). Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 0198166117. . Retrieved 2010-02-21.
[3] "Johnny B. Goode : Rolling Stone" (http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ news/ story/ 6595852/ johnny_b_goode). rollingstone.com. . Retrieved
2010-02-21.
[4] "Johnnie Johnson" (http:/ / www. bluesmusicnow. com/ jj20. html). www.bluesmusicnow.com. . Retrieved 2010-02-21.
[5] Ratliff, Ben (2005-04-14). "The New York Times > Arts > Music > Johnnie Johnson, 80, Dies; Inspired 'Johnny B. Goode'" (http:/ / www.
nytimes. com/ 2005/ 04/ 14/ arts/ music/ 14johnson. html?_r=1). www.nytimes.com. . Retrieved 2010-02-21.
[6] Richard Middleton, Reading pop: approaches to textual analysis in popular music, page 167 (http:/ / books. google. co. uk/
books?id=XmSwJENE9OsC& pg=PA165& dq=Johnny+ B. + Goode+ lyrics& as_brr=3& client=firefox-a& cd=3#v=onepage& q=Johnny B.
Goode lyrics& f=false). Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 0198166117. . Retrieved 2010-02-21.
[7] Richard Middleton, Reading pop: approaches to textual analysis in popular music, page 177 (http:/ / books. google. co. uk/
books?id=XmSwJENE9OsC& pg=PA165& dq=Johnny+ B. + Goode+ lyrics& as_brr=3& client=firefox-a& cd=3#v=onepage& q=Johnny B.
Goode lyrics& f=false). Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 0198166117. . Retrieved 2010-02-21.
[8] Miller, James (1999). Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977. Simon & Schuster, 104. ISBN 0-684-80873-0.
[9] http:/ / en. wikipedia. org/ wiki/ List_of_Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame_inductees
[10] Barker, Derek (2009). Liner notes to Bruce Springsteen's Jukebox: The Songs that Inspired the Man [CD]. Chrome Dreams.
[11] The 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll (http:/ / www. rockhall. com/ exhibithighlights/ 500-songs/ )
[12] The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time: Rolling Stone (http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ news/ coverstory/ 20947527)
[13] "Acclaimed Music Top 3000 songs" (http:/ / www. acclaimedmusic. net). 27 May 2009. .

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"Valleys of Neptune"

299

"Valleys of Neptune"
"Valleys of Neptune"

Singleby Jimi Hendrix


from the album Valleys of Neptune
B-side

"Cat Talking to Me"

Released

February 9, 2010

Format

7" vinyl, digital download

Recorded September 23, 1969 and May 15, 1970 at Record Plant Studios, New York City, New York
Genre

Rock, blues-rock, Psychedelic rock

Length

4:02

Label

Legacy

Writer(s)

Jimi Hendrix

Producer

Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix singles chronology

"Can You Please Crawl Out Your


Window?"
(1998)

"Valleys of
Neptune"
(2010)

"Bleeding
Heart"
(2010)

Valleys of Neptune track listing


"Stone
Free"
(1)

"Valleys of
Neptune"
(2)

"Bleeding
Heart"
(3)

"Valleys of Neptune" is a song by American rock musician Jimi Hendrix, featured on his 2010 posthumous studio
album Valleys of Neptune. Written and produced by Hendrix, the song was originally recorded between 1969 and
1970, and was released on March 8, 2010.
The song is featured as downloadable content in the video game, Rock Band, as a playable single. The song was
released alongside his album, Axis: Bold as Love, on the week of March 30th, 2010. [1]

"Valleys of Neptune"

Composition and recording


Hendrix began work on the musical composition for "Valleys of Neptune", under the title of "Gypsy Blood", in
February 1969, with the first recordings taking place at Olympic Sound Studios in London on February 22 & 26,
1969 three takes on guitar and piano and one take on guitar, respectively.[2] Hendrix wrote the lyrics for the song
under the title of "Valleys of Neptune... Arising" on June 7, 1969 while staying at the Beverly Rodeo Hotel in
Beverly Hills, California.[3] Bassist Noel Redding left The Jimi Hendrix Experience following a show on June 26,
1969 in Denver, Colorado, at which point Hendrix began to form a new band to continue work on his new
compositions.
During and following the formation of The Jimi Hendrix Experience successor Gypsy Sun and Rainbows, "Valleys
of Neptune" began to take more shape, and the first full-band recording of the song took place on September 6, 1969
at The Hit Factory in New York City.[4]
A few weeks later, on September 23, 1969, the first master recording of "Valleys of Neptune" was recorded at New
York City's Record Plant Studios with bassist Billy Cox, drummer Mitch Mitchell (later stated by Hendrix and his
management as the Experience in 1970) and percussionist Juma Sultan, in addition to seven instrumental takes of the
track.[5] Another full take was completed a week later, featuring Hendrix on bass with Stephen Stills on guitar and
piano, John Sebastian on guitar and Buddy Miles on drums.[6]
Gypsy Sun and Rainbows broke up in late 1969, and the Band of Gypsys was formed with bassist Cox and drummer
Miles. The band recorded rough takes of the song on January 21, 1970 at the Record Plant,[7] but ultimately the song
was left to the Mitchell/Cox rhythm section of the reformed Experience to complete later in the year. An
instrumental take on May 15, 1970 provided the musical master track,[8] and the track featured on the 2010 album
was completed. Further recordings took place on June 15, 1970 (with keyboardist Steve Winwood, flute player Chris
Wood, drummer Dave Palmer and an unknown bassist),[9] June 16,[9] June 25 (with Juma Sultan),[10] and June 26,
1970 (15 takes).[10] Hendrix died in September 1970, ultimately without completing "Valleys of Neptune" to his
satisfaction.

Music video
The music video for "Valleys of Neptune", produced by String Theory Design, is centred around a 1957 painting by
Hendrix used as the cover for the single, and debuted on AOL's Spinner.com on February 18, 2010.[11]

Personnel

Jimi Hendrix vocals, guitars, production


Billy Cox bass
Mitch Mitchell drums
Juma Sultan percussion

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"Valleys of Neptune"

References
General references
Geldeart, Gary; Rodham, Steve (2007), Jimi Hendrix: The Studio Log, Warrington, Cheshire: Jimpress,
ISBN9780952768647
Specific notes
[1] "Classic Jimi Hendrix Album Coming to Rock Band" (http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ rockdaily/ index. php/ 2010/ 03/ 25/
jimi-hendrix-coming-to-rock-band-with-full-axis-album-more-exclusives-to-follow/ ). Rolling Stone. March 25, 2010. . Retrieved March 25,
2010.
[2] Geldeart & Rodham 2007, p.69
[3] "June 7, 1969" (http:/ / jimihendrix. com/ encyclopedia/ document,19690607,1. html). The Jimi Hendrix Encyclopedia. Experience Hendrix,
L.L.C.. . Retrieved January 13, 2010.
[4] Geldeart & Rodham 2007, p.83
[5] Geldeart & Rodham 2007, p.84
[6] Geldeart & Rodham 2007, p.85
[7] Geldeart & Rodham 2007, p.96
[8] Geldeart & Rodham 2007, p.101
[9] Geldeart & Rodham 2007, p.103
[10] Geldeart & Rodham 2007, p.105
[11] "" (http:/ / www. spinnermusic. co. uk/ 2010/ 02/ 18/ jimi-hendrix-valleys-of-neptune-video-premiere/ ). Spinnermusic.co.uk. February 18,
2010. . Retrieved February 18, 2010.

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"Bleeding Heart"

302

"Bleeding Heart"
"Bleeding Heart"
Singleby Jimi Hendrix
from the album Valleys of Neptune
B-side

"Peace in Mississippi"

Released

March 1, 2010 (digital)


March 8, 2010 (physical)

Format

Digital download, 7" vinyl

Recorded April 24, 1969 at Record Plant Studios, New York City, New York
Genre

Blues-rock

Length

6:20

Label

Legacy

Writer(s) Elmore James


Producer

Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix singles chronology

"Valleys of
Neptune"
(2010)

"Bleeding
Heart"
(2010)

Valleys of Neptune track listing


"Valleys of
Neptune"
(2)

"Bleeding
Heart"
(3)

"Hear My Train a
Comin'"
(4)

"Bleeding Heart" is a song written and originally performed by American blues musician Elmore James. The song
was subsequently recorded by blues-rock musician Jimi Hendrix, and is featured on his 2010 posthumous studio
album Valleys of Neptune. Produced by Hendrix, the song has been released on a number of posthumous Hendrix
albums (notably War Heroes, Blues and South Saturn Delta), and was released as the second single from the album
on March 1 (digital download) and March 8, 2010 (7" vinyl). Recorded in April 1969 at Record Plant Studios,
"Bleeding Heart" is backed with a previously unreleased version of the rare song "Peace in Mississippi".[1]

"Bleeding Heart"

Music video
The music video for "Bleeding Heart", directed by Julien Temple, debuted on Spotify on February 25, 2010.[2]

Personnel (Hendrix version)

Jimi Hendrix vocals, guitars, production


Billy Cox bass
Rocky Isaac drums
Chris Grimes tambourine
Al Marks maracas

References
General references
Geldeart, Gary; Rodham, Steve (2007), Jimi Hendrix: The Studio Log, Warrington, Cheshire: Jimpress,
ISBN9780952768647
Specific notes
[1] "Jimi Hendrix's rare blues cover to be released after 40 years" (http:/ / www. nme. com/ news/ jimi-hendrix/ 49823). NME. February 18, 2010.
. Retrieved February 23, 2010.
[2] "Jimi Hendrix video premiere" (http:/ / www. facebook. com/ event. php?eid=347320685165). Facebook. . Retrieved February 23, 2010.

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304

Songs
"1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)"
"1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)"
Song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience from the album Electric Ladyland
Released

September 16, 1968

Genre

Psychedelic rock

Length

13:39

Label

Reprise

Writer

Jimi Hendrix

Producer

Jimi Hendrix
Electric Ladyland track listing

(US) Side 1
1.
2.
3.
4.

"...And The Gods Made Love"


"Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)"
"Crosstown Traffic"
"Voodoo Chile"

(US) Side 2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

"Little Miss Strange"


"Long Hot Summer Night"
"Come On (Part I)"
"Gypsy Eyes"
"Burning of the Midnight Lamp"

(US) Side 3
1. "Rainy Day, Dream Away"
2. "1983...(A Merman I Should Turn to Be)"
3. "Moon, Turn the Tides...Gently Gently Away"

(US) Side 4'


1.
2.
3.
4.

"Still Raining, Still Dreaming"


"House Burning Down"
"All Along the Watchtower"
"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"

"1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)" (also known as "1983") is a song by English/American psychedelic
rock band The Jimi Hendrix Experience, featured on their 1968 third studio album Electric Ladyland. Often
recognised as one of the most psychedelic songs written by Jimi Hendrix, "1983" is also the second longest song by
the band, surpassed only by the fifteen-minute "Voodoo Chile." The song features Jimi Hendrix on multiple guitars,
bass and vocals, Mitch Mitchell on drums, and Chris Wood on flute. Various sound effect overdubs were also added.
"1983" details a science fiction scenario of an apocalyptic war and the protagonist/Hendrix's desire to "take our last
walk through the noise to the sea" with his female companion in order to escape the destruction.[1] The song segues
into "Moon, Turn the Tides...Gently Gently Away", which represents their descent together into the ocean depths.[2]
By some, "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)" is considered Jimi Hendrix's most philosophical and political
song. The lyric of the song talks about a man who awakes and says "hurray" from waking up from yesterday. His

"1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)"


aim is to be a Merman. For Jimi, a Merman is somebody who walks away from war and oppression and does what
the government had told him was against God and the king (meaning the president). Man has been told that he can't
live underwater. He can't be against God (meaning the powers that be). Jimi tells us to walk straight into the sea.
1983, the number of a section in the Civil Rights Act of 1871, gives his dream meaning. 1983 isn't a year in this case.
It envisions the freedom of man especially the minority man or woman. "Straight ahead" are words that also are
voiced in the song "House Burning Down" which is said to refer to the riots following the assassination of Martin
Luther King, Jr.[3] . Jimi asks why we are burning down our own neighbourhoods.

References
[1] "JIMI HENDRIX Lyrics : 1983 (A MERMAN I SHOULD TURN TO BE) Song" (http:/ / www. searchlyrics. org/ jimi_hendrix/
1983_(a_merman_i_should_turn_to_be). html). . Retrieved 2008-07-06. "So my love, Catherina and me/decide to take our last walk through
the noise to the sea/Not to die but to reborn,/away from lands so battered and torn"
[2] "JIMI HENDRIX Lyrics : 1983 (A MERMAN I SHOULD TURN TO BE) Song" (http:/ / www. searchlyrics. org/ jimi_hendrix/
1983_(a_merman_i_should_turn_to_be). html). . Retrieved 2008-07-06. "So down and down and down and down/And down and down we
go"
[3] Classic Albums - The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland DVD

305

"Are You Experienced?"

306

"Are You Experienced?"


"Are You Experienced?"
Song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience from the album Are You Experienced
Released

May 12, 1967 (UK)

Recorded

April 3, 1967 at Olympic Sound Studios in London, England

Genre

Psychedelic rock, experimental rock

Length

4:17

Label

Track Records (UK)

Writer

Jimi Hendrix

Producer

Chas Chandler
Are You Experienced track listing

(UK) Side 1
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

"Foxy Lady"
"Manic Depression"
"Red House"
"Can You See Me"
"Love or Confusion"
"I Don't Live Today"

(UK) Side 2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

"May This Be Love"


"Fire"
"3rd Stone from the Sun"
"Remember"
"Are You Experienced"

"Are You Experienced?" is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and recorded by The Jimi Hendrix Experience for their
1967 debut album Are You Experienced.[1] The song was recorded on April 3, 1967 at Olympic Sound Studios in
London, England;[2] the songs "May This Be Love" and "Highway Chile" were recorded on the same day.[2]
Described as a "psychedelic symphony", the recording combines backwards and forward recorded guitars and
drums.[2]
In the lyrics, Hendrix invites the listener to break through and go beyond "your measly little world",[3] to go on a
journey, "Trumpets and violins I can hear in the distance, / I think they're calling our names. / Maybe now you can't
hear them, but you will, ha-ha, / If you just take hold of my hand",[4] and pleads to answer "yes" to the question,
"Have you ever been experienced?".[4]
The song is the final track of the album Are You Experienced, except for the latest Experience Hendrix/MCA
re-release where the first three singles have been added at the end. It has been covered by Devo for their 1984 album
Shout and Patti Smith for her 2007 cover album Twelve. The introductory backward drums and guitar section was
sampled by The Pharcyde in their 1993 song "Passin' Me By".

"Are You Experienced?"

References
[1] "Are You Experienced?" (http:/ / allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=33:gxfpxxq0ldae) at Allmusic
[2] Roby, Steven (2002). Black Gold: The Lost Archives of Jimi Hendrix. Watson-Guptill, p. 72 ISBN 082307854X
[3] Bromell, Nicholas Knowles (2004). Tomorrow Never Knows: Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s. University of Chicago Press, p. 108. ISBN
0226075532
[4] Robertson, John & Dogget, Peter (2004). Jimi Hendrix: The Complete Guide to His Music. Omnibus Press, p. 13 ISBN 1844494241

307

"Bold as Love"

308

"Bold as Love"
"Bold as Love (song)"
Song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience from the album Axis: Bold as Love
Released

1 December 1967 (UK)


15 January 1968 (US)

Genre

Psychedelic rock

Length

4:11

Label

MCA (reissues)

Writer

Jimi Hendrix

Producer

Chas Chandler
Axis: Bold as Love track listing

Side 1
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

"EXP"
"Up from the Skies"
"Spanish Castle Magic"
"Wait Until Tomorrow"
"Ain't No Telling"
"Little Wing"
"If 6 Was 9"

Side 2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

"You Got Me Floatin'"


"Castles Made of Sand"
"She's So Fine"
"One Rainy Wish"
"Little Miss Lover"
"Bold as Love"

"Bold as Love" is a song by Jimi Hendrix, the final song and title track of the Jimi Hendrix Experience's 1967 album
Axis: Bold As Love.

Themes and lyrics


Jimi Hendrix, a self-taught guitarist, was unable to read music, and as such often experienced musical and emotional
ideas in terms of color (similar to the condition of synesthesia). The lyrics reflect this (Hendrix stated, in explanation
of his color-emotion interpretations, "Anger is purple; I'm purple with rage...", paralleling the lyrical reference to the
"purple armor" of a personified anger). The piece also has elements of a love song, as Hendrix explained that his
usage of color is how "... you explain your different emotions in colours toward this certain girl who has all the
colors in the world...".

"Bold as Love"

Recording
The song was recorded on a four-track machine. After the initial recording was completed, Hendrix overdubbed
harpsichord and additional bass parts. Recording engineers Eddie Kramer and George Chkiantz introduced phased
stereo sound, which Hendrix called the sound he had been "hearing in [his] dreams".
Noel Redding did say that the song came quite naturally to the group, yet it took 27 takes to fulfill what needed to be
recorded. Take 24 can be heard on the box set.

Covers
The song was covered by John Mayer in 2006 for his album Continuum. That cover was later performed by the John
Mayer Trio on Mayer's live DVD Where the Light Is.

Personnel
Jimi Hendrix: vocals, guitars, bass guitar, harpsichord
Mitch Mitchell: drums
Noel Redding: bass guitar

See also
1967 in music

References
John McDermott (1997). Bold As Love. In Experience Hendrix (p. 13) [CD liner notes]. Universal City, CA:
MCA Records, Inc.

309

"Castles Made of Sand"

310

"Castles Made of Sand"


"Castles Made of Sand"
Song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience from the album Axis: Bold as Love
Released

1 December 1967 (UK)


15 January 1968 (US)

Genre

Psychedelic rock, hard rock, blues-rock

Length

2:46

Label

MCA (reissues)

Writer

Jimi Hendrix

Producer

Chas Chandler
Axis: Bold as Love track listing

Side 1
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

"EXP"
"Up from the Skies"
"Spanish Castle Magic"
"Wait Until Tomorrow"
"Ain't No Telling"
"Little Wing"
"If 6 Was 9"

Side 2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

"You Got Me Floatin'"


"Castles Made of Sand"
"She's So Fine"
"One Rainy Wish"
"Little Miss Lover"
"Bold as Love"

"Castles Made of Sand" is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and released by The Jimi Hendrix Experience on their
second studio album, Axis: Bold As Love, in 1967 in the UK and 1968 in the U.S. It was available in two different
stereo mixes and a mono mix.

Structure
The song is a melancholy meditation on thwarted plans, the first verse features a relationship, the second the death of
an Indian boy before battle, and the third a disabled girl who prepares for suicide, only to see a "golden winged ship"
passing her way, which causes her to jump up out of her wheelchair and say, "Look, a golden-winged ship is passing
my way," therefore, as Jimi states, it didn't have to stop - "it just kept on goin'," causing a happier ending than the
former two anecdotes. Each specific occurrence supported by chorus-lines: three slight variations of "...and so castles
made of sand fall in the sea, eventually...".
The song is known for its intricate solo, heard on record as being completely backwards in time (at first recorded
properly, then reversed on track) and its lack of a conventional chorus.

"Castles Made of Sand"

Interpretation
A common interpretation of the lyrics is the message that nothing lasts forever (thus "Castles made of sand fall in the
sea eventually"), not only the good things like love, dreams or life, but also the bad, like diseases, death and fears, as
shown in the last part of the song.
Leon Hendrix, the younger brother of Jimi, has said that Jimi revealed privately to him that the song was about their
family[1] . The first verse is their mother leaving their father Al again for the final time. The second verse is
referencing his Native American heritage and the stories his grandmother (a quarter Cherokee)[2] would tell him. The
boy who played "war games in the woods with his Indian friends" is said to be Leon (as stated by himself) but could
also be about Jimi. The third verse recounts Jimi's mother Lucille in the hospital suffering from liver disease,
wishing to die so she would suffer no more, "to her legs she smiled you won't hurt me no more." Lucille did have
cirrhosis of the liver, but was recovering outside of Hospital, when she was admitted unconscious to hospital, where
she died from a ruptured spleen caused by a blow from an unknown source, not a liver complaint as is often
repeated, although this was listed as a contributing factor on her death certificate. The song "Little Wing" is also
about his mother Lucille as stated by Leon, although in interviews he gave an alternate interpretation, most likely so
he would not have to recount painful memories for strangers. Jimi himself said the song was about the Monterey Pop
Festival personified as a girl.
Locals from the Moroccan town Diabat have claimed that the song title was inspired by the Bordj El
Berod-watchtower ruin. This statement however is not likely to be true as Jimi stayed in Morocco in 1969 (Castles
Made Of Sand was written in 1967).

Covers
The song was covered by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and a live version was featured on the 1994 B-Sides, Remixes,
Outtakes and Live compilation CD Out In L.A.. The same version was released on the 2003 remastered version of
their album Mother's Milk. The studio version was recorded in 1991 but was unknown to fans until it was released as
an iTunes exclusive bonus track to Blood Sugar Sex Magik in 2006. Four Tet also covered the song for the Late
Night Tales mix album. The song was also covered (with "Little Wing") by Tuck & Patti.

References
[1] http:/ / video. google. com/ videoplay?docid=-6452669018231715695& q=jimi+ hendrix
[2] Electric Gypsy by Harry Shapiro & Caesar Glebeek

311

"Come On"

312

"Come On"
"Come On (Part I)"
Singleby Earl King
from the album Come On: The Complete Imperial Recordings
B-side

"Come On Part II"

Released

1960

Format

7" single

Recorded

October 27, 1960

Genre

Rhythm and blues

Label

Imperial Records 5713

Writer(s)

Earl King

Producer

Dave Bartholomew
Earl King singles chronology

"The Things That I Used to


Do"
(1960)

"Come
On"
(1960)

"You're More to Me Than


Gold"
(1960)

"Come On (Part I)"


Song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience from the album Electric Ladyland
Released

September 16, 1968

Genre

Rock and Roll, Rhythm and blues

Length

4:09

Label

Reprise

Writer

Earl King

Producer

Jimi Hendrix
Electric Ladyland track listing

"Come On"

313
(US) Side 1
1.
2.
3.
4.

"...And The Gods Made Love"


"Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)"
"Crosstown Traffic"
"Voodoo Chile"

(US) Side 2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

"Little Miss Strange"


"Long Hot Summer Night"
"Come On (Part I)"
"Gypsy Eyes"
"Burning of the Midnight Lamp"

(US) Side 3
1. "Rainy Day, Dream Away"
2. "1983...(A Merman I Should Turn to Be)"
3. "Moon, Turn the Tides...Gently Gently Way"

(US) Side 4'


1.
2.
3.
4.

"Still Raining, Still Dreaming"


"House Burning Down"
"All Along the Watchtower"
"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"

"Come On", also known as "Let the Good Times Roll" is a song written and first performed by New Orleans R&B
artist Earl King. Jimi Hendrix introduced it to wider audience by his cover in 1968.

Original version
The earliest version of this song by Earl King came out in 1960 from Ace Records subsidiary Rex label under the
name "Darling Honey Angel Child". In the same year, King left Ace for Imperial Records where he recorded the
song again this time with changed lyrics. The recording was released as "Come On Part 1 b/w Come On Part 2
(Imperial 5713) in 1960.

Cover versions
The most well known cover of this song is the one done by The Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1968. It appears on their
third album Electric Ladyland. Hendrix sped up the tempo to give more rock and roll feel, however the original
guitar licks remain intact.
Dr. John played a bluesy version of the song on his critically acclaimed album Dr. John's Gumbo (1972) under the
name "Let the Good Times Roll". He plays the lead guitar on this version. Dr. John also plays it on the live album
Right Place, Right Time: Live at Tipitina's (2006) under different arrangement. He plays piano on this one.
Freddie King on album "Burglar" (1974) also recorded this theme.
Stevie Ray Vaughan covered the song on his third album Soul to Soul (1985). His version is basically a straight
cover of the Hendrix version.
Steve Miller Band covered the song on their album Bingo!
Other artists who did the song include Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets on their first album Talk To You By
Hand (1981).

"Ezy Ryder"

314

"Ezy Ryder"
"Ezy Ryder"
Song by Jimi Hendrix from the album The Cry of Love
Released

March 5, 1971

Recorded

Basic Track: December 18, 1969; January 20; at Record Plant Studios, New York City

Genre

Hard rock, acid rock, heavy metal

Length

4:09

Label

Reprise

Writer

Jimi Hendrix

Producer

Heaven Research
The Cry of Love track listing

"Drifting"
(2)

"Ezy
Ryder"
(3)

"Night Bird
Flying"
(4)
First Rays of the New Rising Sun track listing

"Dolly
Dagger"
(6)

"Ezy
Ryder"
(7)

"Drifting"
(8)

"Ezy Ryder" (sometimes written as "Easy Ryder" and "Ezee Ryeder";[1] also known as "Slow"[2] and "Lullaby for
the Summer"[3] ) is a song by American rock musician Jimi Hendrix, featured on his 1971 first posthumous studio
album The Cry Of Love. Written and produced by vocalist and guitarist Hendrix, the song's lyrics are said to be
inspired by the 1969 film of the same name;[4] The Jimi Hendrix Experience had previously contributed "If 6 Was 9"
to the film's soundtrack.[5]

History
Early performances
An early version of "Ezy Ryder" was first recorded, under the name "Slow", on February 16, 1969 at Olympic
Studios, in a session which also featured the debuts of "Room Full of Mirrors", "In from the Storm" (under the name
"Crying Blue Rain") and "Here He Comes (Lover Man)", an extended version of "Lover Man".[2] The basic track for
the song was not recorded until December 18, 1969 (at New York's Record Plant Studios),[6] [7] on the same day as
the rehearsal at Baggy's Studios for the upcoming performances at the Fillmore East (from which the live album
Band of Gypsys was produced).[8] "Ezy Ryder" was also performed at aforementioned rehearsal session at Baggy's.[8]

"Ezy Ryder"

315

Progression and completion


"Ezy Ryder" made its live debut during the first show of the December 31, 1969 performance at the Fillmore East,
appearing in the middle of the set between covers of Howard Tate's "Stop" and Elmore James' "Bleeding Heart".[9] It
was not performed during either of the January 1, 1970 shows.[10] Back in the studio, "Ezy Ryder" was rehearsed,
recorded and mixed a number of times during early 1970, at Olympic, Olmstead and Record Plant Studios.[11] The
song was then performed at the majority of dates on The Cry of Love Tour between April and June (and
subsequently between July and September),[11] before the first recording session at newly-built Electric Lady Studios
on June 15 was focused on advancing the studio version of "Easy Ryder or Ezee Ryeder".[1] This work-in-progress,
for which backing vocals by Traffic musicians Steve Winwood and Chris Wood were recorded during said session,
was released on the compilation box set The Jimi Hendrix Experience in 2000.[1] Another recording session three
days later was also dedicated to "Ezy Ryder",[12] "additional overdubs and mix attempts" were completed on July
2,[13] and final mixes were produced over three days on August 22, 23 and 26, along with the majority of the songs
intended for Hendrix's next album.[14] [15] "Ezy Ryder" was subsequently performed at most of the final concerts at
which Hendrix played, including the final date at the Open Air Love & Peace Festival on September 6.[11]

Posthumous releases
The completed song was originally released on the 1971 album The Cry of Love the first posthumous album of
original material compiled by The Jimi Hendrix Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell and engineer Eddie Kramer.[7]
As well as featuring on posthumously released live albums Live at the Fillmore East and Blue Wild Angel: Live at
the Isle of Wight, "Ezy Ryder" was included on the 1997 compilation First Rays of the New Rising Sun, along with
the rest of the songs from The Cry of Love.[16]

Personnel
Band members

Guest musicians

Jimi Hendrix vocals, guitars, production Steve Winwood backing


Billy Cox bass
vocals
Buddy Miles drums, backing vocals
Chris Wood backing vocals
Juma Sultan percussion
Additional personnel

Tony Bongiovi engineering

References
Shapiro, Harry; Glebbeek, Caesar (1995). Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy. New York: St. Martin's Griffin.
ISBN0312130627.
Pesant, Steven C.. The Jimi Hendrix Encyclopedia. Seattle, Washington: Experience Hendrix, L.L.C..

References
[1] Pesant, p. June 15, 1970 (http:/ / jimihendrix. com/ encyclopedia/ document,19700615,1. html)
[2] Pesant, p. February 16, 1969 (http:/ / jimihendrix. com/ encyclopedia/ document,19690216,1. html)
[3] Pesant, p. April 7, 1969 (http:/ / jimihendrix. com/ encyclopedia/ document,19690407,1. html)
[4] Shapiro & Glebbeek 1995, p.403
[5] "Easy Rider (1969) - Soundtracks" (http:/ / www. imdb. com/ title/ tt0064276/ soundtrack). Internet Movie Database. . Retrieved 2009-03-07.
[6] Pesant, p. December 18, 1969 (http:/ / jimihendrix. com/ encyclopedia/ document,19691218,1. html)
[7] Shapiro & Glebbeek 1995, p.537
[8] Pesant, p. December 18, 1969 (http:/ / jimihendrix. com/ encyclopedia/ document,19691218,2. html)
[9] Pesant, p. December 31, 1969 (http:/ / jimihendrix. com/ encyclopedia/ document,19691231,1. html)
[10] Pesant, p. January 1, 1970 (http:/ / jimihendrix. com/ encyclopedia/ document,19700101,1. html)
[11] Pesant, p. 'Search by Song' Results: Ezy Ryder (http:/ / jimihendrix. com/ encyclopedia/ search,song,ezyryder. html)

"Ezy Ryder"
[12] Pesant, p. June 18, 1970 (http:/ / jimihendrix. com/ encyclopedia/ document,19700618,1. html)
[13] Pesant, p. July 2, 1970 (http:/ / jimihendrix. com/ encyclopedia/ document,19700702,1. html)
[14] Pesant, p. August 22-23, 1970 (http:/ / jimihendrix. com/ encyclopedia/ document,19700822,1. html)
[15] Pesant, p. August 26, 1970 (http:/ / jimihendrix. com/ encyclopedia/ document,19700826,1. html)
[16] "First Rays of the New Rising Sun" (http:/ / jimihendrix. com/ catalog/ catalog,firstraysofthenewrisingsun,tracks. html). The Jimi Hendrix
Catalog. Experience Hendrix, L.L.C.. . Retrieved 2009-03-07.

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"Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland"

317

"Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland"


"Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)"
Song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience from the album Electric Ladyland
Released

September 16, 1968

Recorded

April 1968 at Record Plant Studios, New York City, New York, USA

Genre

Psychedelic rock, blues-rock, Acid Blues

Length

2:11

Label

Reprise

Writer

Jimi Hendrix

Producer

Jimi Hendrix
Electric Ladyland track listing

(US) Side 1
1.
2.
3.
4.

"...And The Gods Made Love"


"Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)"
"Crosstown Traffic"
"Voodoo Chile"

(US) Side 2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

"Little Miss Strange"


"Long Hot Summer Night"
"Come On (Part I)"
"Gypsy Eyes"
"Burning of the Midnight Lamp"

(US) Side 3
1. "Rainy Day, Dream Away"
2. "1983...(A Merman I Should Turn to Be)"
3. "Moon, Turn the Tides...Gently Gently Way"

(US) Side 4'


1.
2.
3.
4.

"Still Raining, Still Dreaming"


"House Burning Down"
"All Along the Watchtower"
"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"

"Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)" (often shortened to "Electric Ladyland") is a song by psychedelic
rock band The Jimi Hendrix Experience, featured on their 1968 third studio album Electric Ladyland. Written and
produced by vocalist and guitarist Jimi Hendrix (who also played bass on the song), "Electric Ladyland" is written as
a tribute to the women in his life who inspired him "electric ladies", as Hendrix chose to refer to them.[1] [2] The
song is the title track of the album, and also shares its name with that of the recording studio designed by Hendrix in
1969 Electric Lady Studios. It was recorded in April 1968 at the newly opened Record Plant Studios in New York
City.[3] [4]
Compared structurally to the more well-known "Little Wing",[1] [2] the song is described, by Denise Sullivan of
allmusic, as a "soulful ballad" featuring "fluid and always excellent [guitar] playing" which produces a "dreamlike
quality".[2] "Have You Ever Been" has also been described as "in the spirit of 'Spanish Castle Magic' and 'The Stars
That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice'";[1] the vocal performance in particular, "Jimi harmonising falsetto with
himself",[1] has also been identified as a highlight of the song a "magic carpet ride".[2]

"Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland"


An alternate take of "Electric Ladyland", recorded on 14 June 1968, was released on the posthumous studio album
Loose Ends in 1974 under the title "Electric Lady Land";[4] a previously unreleased instrumental demo of "Electric
Ladyland" was featured on the 2000 compilation box set The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Personnel
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Jimi Hendrix vocals, guitars, bass, production
Mitch Mitchell drums, tambourine
Additional personnel
Gary Kellgren engineering

References
Shapiro, Harry; Glebbeek, Caesar (1995). Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy. New York: St. Martin's Griffin.
ISBN0312130627

References
[1] Shapiro & Glebbeek 1995, p.309
[2] Sullivan, Denise. "Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=33:0pfwxct5ld6e).
allmusic. . Retrieved 2009-03-03.
[3] Shapiro & Glebbeek 1995, p.530
[4] Foley, Randy M.. "Jimi Hendrix Recording Chronology" (http:/ / www. rockmine. com/ Hendrix/ Chronolo. html). Rockmine. .

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"Highway Chile"

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"Highway Chile"
"Highway Chile"
B-side to "The Wind Cries Mary" by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Released

5 May 1967

Recorded

3 April 1967 at Olympic Sound Studios, London

Genre

Psychedelic rock, blues-rock

Length

3:19

Label

Track

Writer

Jimi Hendrix

Producer

Chas Chandler
Smash Hits (international version) track listing

"Manic
Depression"
(9)

"Highway
Chile"
(10)

"Burning of the Midnight


Lamp"
(11)

Are You Experienced (1997 reissue North American version) track listing
"51st
Anniversary"
(13)

"Highway
Chile"
(14)

"Can You See


Me"
(15)

Are You Experienced (1997 reissue international version) track listing


"The Wind Cries
Mary"
(16)

"Highway
Chile"
(17)

The Jimi Hendrix Experience track listing


"Foxy
Lady"
(4)

"Highway
Chile"
(5)

"Hey
Joe"
(6)

"Highway Chile" is a song by English/American psychedelic rock band The Jimi Hendrix Experience, featured as
the B-side to their 1967 third United Kingdom single "The Wind Cries Mary". The song was written by vocalist and
guitarist Jimi Hendrix and later appeared on the international version of the compilation Smash Hits, released in
April 1968.
The song was described, in the book Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy, as "a joyful autobiographical stomp," explaining
it as being a story of the pursuit of the American Dream.[1] Matthew Greenwald of allmusic also talks about the song
as autobiographical, claiming that "It's easy to see that Hendrix was writing about himself here, and his life as a
musician on the road in the R&B/soul "Chitlin' Circuit," and forming his own unique vision and style."[2]
Musically, "Highway Chile" has been described as "A funky shuffle [...] a great place for Hendrix's mid-tempo,
R&B riffing, based on a blues pattern."[2] The song was released, both on "The Wind Cries Mary" and Smash Hits,
in mono; it was made available in stereo for the first time when released on the box set The Jimi Hendrix Experience

"Highway Chile"
in September 2000.[2]
The use of the word 'chile' is a deliberate misspelling of the word "child", to mimic that Hendrix didn't pronounce the
end of the word, which he also used on the song "Voodoo Chile" from Electric Ladyland.
A very personnal psychobilly version of that song was recorded by The Lucky Devils 1st album "Time Passes By".
The main riff of the song features on the WCW wrestling stable NWOs theme song.

Personnel
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Jimi Hendrix vocals, guitar
Noel Redding bass
Mitch Mitchell drums
Additional personnel
Chas Chandler production
Eddie Kramer engineering

References
[1] Shapiro, Harry; Glebbeek, Caesar (1995). Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN0312130627.
[2] Greenwald, Matthew. "Highway Chile" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=33:fpfyxcr5ldte). allmusic. . Retrieved April
20, 2009.

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"I Don't Live Today"

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"I Don't Live Today"


Are You Experienced

Studio album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience


Released

May 12, 1967 (UK)


August 23, 1967 (US)

Recorded

26 October 1966 3 April 1967 in London, at De Lane Lea, CBS & Olympic Studios.

Genre

Hard rock, psychedelic rock

Length

40:12

Label

Track (mono), Barcay (mono), Polydor (Europe - fake stereo effect, overseas - mono), Reprise (different compilation,
stereo [new mix) & mono editions, MCA

Producer

Chas Chandler
Professional reviews
[1]

Allmusic
(U.K.) link
[2]
Allmusic
(U.S.) link
[3]
BBC (favourable) link
[4]
Blender
link
Q
(12/01/1993)
[5]
Rolling Stone
link

The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology


Are You
Experienced
(1967)

Axis: Bold as
Love
(1967)

US Cover

"I Don't Live Today"


Are You Experienced is the debut album by English/American rock band The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Released in
1967, it was the first LP for Track Records. The album highlighted Jimi Hendrix's R&B-based, psychedelic,
distortion- and feedback-laden electric guitar playing, and launched him as a major new international star. In 2003,
Rolling Stone magazine ranked it #15 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The album was an
instant success and was the best-selling album in the United States in 1968.
In 2005 Are You Experienced was selected for permanent preservation in the National Recording Registry at the
Library of Congress in the United States.

Production
Hendrix had formed the Jimi Hendrix Experience in England in 1966, with Mitch Mitchell on drums and Noel
Redding on bass, and had signed with Track Records, newly formed by The Who's managers Kit Lambert and Chris
Stamp. The band had recorded three singles produced by Chas Chandler: "Hey Joe"/"Stone Free" (December 1966 released through Polydor Records because Track was not yet operational), "Purple Haze"/"51st Anniversary" (March
1967, the first release by the new Track Records label, on a special white label) and "The Wind Cries
Mary"/"Highway Chile" (May 1967). All three reached the Top 10 in the UK. During the making of these singles,
the Jimi Hendrix Experience also cut the tracks that became their debut album, which Chandler also produced with
the Olympic Studios engineer Eddie Kramer (some tracks were recorded with engineers Dave Siddle at De Lane Lea
and Mike Ross at CBS studios).

Release
Released in the United Kingdom in May 1967 without the three singles, as was the custom in the UK at that time, the
album reached number two in the UK, behind The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Album cover
In Europe this LP was released by three different companies: the new "independent" Track Records, which produced
the original cover with a picture by Bruce Fleming; the independent Barclay Records in France, which produced a
completely different cover featuring a photo of Hendrix performing on a recent French TV show, surrounded by
"psychedelic" painted, swirling graphics; and Polydor in Germany, Italy, and Spain. In Germany, Polydor used the
original Track Records cover but added "Jimi Hendrix" in similar lime green text above the white Are You
Experienced logos on the front; in Italy this added text was red, while in Spain it was yellow. These latter releases
featured "fake" stereo, processed from mono. The back cover had a track list added.
Barclay Records of France added final punctuation to the album title: Are You Experienced?. Some tracklists of the
album also add the question mark to the title track.[1] The South African Polydor release (due to the apartheid racial
barrier, and that the main customer base was seen to be "whites") had no pictures, only text on a plain red
background (mono only). Japan, Australia and New Zealand Polydor (mono only) copies used the original UK
layout.

The Reprise American & Canadian compilation release


It was only after the band's show-stealing performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in June of that year that his
American and Canadian label Reprise Records prepared the album for release, but with some significant changes.
The UK cover was abandoned, and a more psychedelic design was devised by photographer Karl Ferris (whose
group portraits appeared on all three the band's US album covers). This is the cover image that most people are
familiar with: the fish-eye, infrared color film photograph.
Secondly, and more crucially, "Red House", "Can You See Me" and "Remember" were all removed in order to make
way for the three UK hit singles, with the running order being shuffled in the process. This time the running order

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was selected by Hendrix himself, but "Red House" was excluded from the album against his wishes. He was told that
the US and Latin America did "not like the blues". This selection of tracks was also remixed into stereo. In August,
the US version of Are You Experienced saw issue in both the original mono mix and the new stereo mix and became
a strong and enduring seller. Indeed, Hendrix's own follow-up, Axis: Bold as Love, out that December in the UK, had
to be detained for six weeks due to his debut's stellar sales (and it still wouldn't reach its peak of #5 until October
1968).

The CD releases
The original Reprise (USA/Canada) CD was originally identical to their original stereo LP version, whereas the
European CD release used the original UK track list, but replaced with the Reprise stereo re-mix versions (except for
the original mono version of 'Red House', which has never been mixed into stereo and 'Remember', which used the
mono version, but processed to "sound stereo").
The 1993 Alan Douglas re-release (MCA 10893) had a chronological track list, starting with the first three UK
singles A and B sides replaced by the Reprise stereo mixes (except for "Stone Free", "51st Anniversary", and
"Highway Chile") and followed by the original track list of the UK LP. The version of "Red House" included on this
CD edition was the same as that originally included on the US LP "Smash Hits" in 1969, and different from the
version of "Red House" present on the original Track UK LP. That original Track UK LP version can be heard on
the CD "Jimi Hendrix: Blues." It might also be noted that at the end of the version of Red House on the original UK
Track LP, a bit of studio dialogue between Hendrix and Chas Chandler can be heard, and that on the "Blues" CD,
only a snippet of Hendrix speaking from the beginning of the dialog can be heard.
After Jimi's father, Al Hendrix, won back the rights to his son's musical catalogue, Are You Experienced was again
re-issued in 1997 (MCA 11602) and 2010, now under Sony Music Entertainment worldwide, preserving the UK and
US versions in their respective territories and including the extra tracks missing from the respective editions and
restoring the original mono version of "Red House" (minus the dialogue at the end). This new re-mastering was
marred by audible crackles through the stereo panning on "Can You See Me", and also, more seriously, on the CD
release, by heavy clipping throughout; the vinyl LP release doesn't suffer from the clipping.[2]
The current 2010 release only differs slightly, with minor tweaks in the sound with the help from Hendrix's original
sound engineer Eddie Kramer.

Reception
Are You Experienced has been cited as one of the greatest debut albums of the rock era. The TV channel VH1 named
it the fifth greatest album of all time in 2001. In 2003, the US version of the album was ranked number 15 on Rolling
Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, having been ranked as number 5 in their twentieth anniversary
listing The Best Albums of the Last Twenty Years published in 1987. Guitarist magazine named the album number
one on their list of "the most influential guitar albums of all time" in 1994[3] and Mojo magazine similarly listed it as
the greatest guitar album of all time in 2003.[4] Creem magazine named the album number six on the Top Ten Metal
Albums Of The 60s.[5] Vibe (12/99, p.156) included it in its list of 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century. NME
(10/2/93, p.29) ranked it #29 in its list of the "Greatest Albums Of All Time".[6]

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Track listing
All songs written and composed by Jimi Hendrix, except "Hey Joe" by Billy Roberts.
United Kingdom & international editions North American edition
Side one:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

"Foxy Lady" 3:22


"Manic Depression" 3:46
"Red House" 3:53
"Can You See Me" 2:35
"Love or Confusion" 3:17
"I Don't Live Today" 3:58

Side two:

2.
3.
4.
5.

"May This Be Love" 3:14


"Fire" 2:47
"Third Stone from the Sun" 6:50
"Remember" 2:53
"Are You Experienced?" 4:17

1997 MCA reissue

2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

"Hey Joe" 3:30


"Stone Free" 3:36
"Purple Haze" 2:51
"51st Anniversary" 3:15
"The Wind Cries Mary" 3:20
"Highway Chile" 3:32

1993 Alan Douglas edition

Side one:

1. "Hey Joe" 3:34


2. "Stone Free" 3:39
1. "Purple Haze" 2:46
3. "Purple Haze" 2:54
2. "Manic Depression" 3:46
4. "51st Anniversary" 3:18
3. "Hey Joe" 3:23
5. "The Wind Cries Mary" 3:24
4. "Love or Confusion" 3:15
6. "Highway Chile" 3:35
5. "May This Be Love" 3:14
7. "Foxey Lady" 3:22
6. "I Don't Live Today" 3:55
8. "Manic Depression" 3:46
Side two:
9. "Red House" 3:53
"The Wind Cries Mary"
10. "Can You See Me" 2:35
3:21
11. "Love or Confusion" 3:17
2. "Fire" 2:34
12. "I Don't Live Today" 3:58
3. "Third Stone from the Sun" 6:40 13. "May This Be Love" 3:14
4. "Foxey Lady" 3:15
14. "Fire" 2:47
5. "Are You Experienced?" 3:55
15. "Third Stone from the Sun" 6:50
16. "Remember" 2:53
1997 MCA reissue
17. "Are You Experienced?" 4:17
"Stone Free" 3:35
2. "51st Anniversary" 3:15
3. "Highway Chile" 3:32
4. "Can You See Me" 2:32
5. "Remember" 2:48
6. "Red House" 3:51

Personnel
All track numbers are according to the United Kingdom and international editions track listing.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Production personnel

Jimi Hendrix lead vocals, guitar, backing vocals on track 1, handclaps on


track 6, voice of "Star Fleet" on track 9, piano on track 11
Noel Redding bass, backing vocals on tracks 1, 8 and 14
Mitch Mitchell drums, tambourine on tracks 4, 7, 10 and 13, backing vocals
on track 6, cowbell on track 13

Chas Chandler production, voice of "Scout Ship" on track


9
Dave Siddle engineering on tracks 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12,
13, 14, 15 and 16
Eddie Kramer engineering on tracks 7, 11 and 17,
additional engineering on tracks 5, 8, 9 and 14
Mike Ross engineering on tracks 1, 3 and 9

Songbooks
Instrumental parts for 17 songs: ISBN 0-7935-2694-9
Drum parts for 17 songs: ISBN 0-634-00920-6

External links
http://www.discogs.com/release/993028 Are You Experienced, original release at discogs.com
Karl Ferris http://video.aol.com/video-detail/the-karl-ferris-experience/195934776
NPR special [12] on the selection of the album to the 2005 National Recording Registry

"I Don't Live Today"

References
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]

(http:/ / www. discogs. com/ viewimages?what=R& obid=368699)


Jimpress by Steve Rodham
The Top 50 Most Influential Guitar Albums Of All Time Ever! (http:/ / www. rocklistmusic. co. uk/ 50. html#guitaral). Rocklist.
Barnes, Anthony (21 July 2003). "Hendrix heads list of 100 guitar greats with 'Are You Experienced'" (http:/ / www. independent. co. uk/
arts-entertainment/ music/ news/ hendrix-heads-list-of-100-guitar-greats-with-are-you-experienced-587496. html). The Independent. .
Retrieved 20 February 2010.
[5] "Rocklist.net...Guitar Lists" (http:/ / www. rocklistmusic. co. uk/ 50. html#creem). Rocklistmusic.co.uk. . Retrieved 2010-03-19.
[6] "Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced? CD" (http:/ / www. cduniverse. com/ productinfo. asp?pid=1104015). Cduniverse.com. 1997-04-22. .
Retrieved 2010-03-19.

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"If 6 Was 9"


"If 6 Was 9"
Song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience from the album Axis: Bold as Love
Released

1 December 1967 (UK)


15 January 1968 (US)

Genre

Psychedelic rock, hard rock, acid rock

Length

5:32

Label

MCA (reissues)

Writer

Jimi Hendrix

Producer

Chas Chandler
Axis: Bold as Love track listing

Side 1
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

"EXP"
"Up from the Skies"
"Spanish Castle Magic"
"Wait Until Tomorrow"
"Ain't No Telling"
"Little Wing"
"If 6 Was 9"

Side 2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

"You Got Me Floatin'"


"Castles Made of Sand"
"She's So Fine"
"One Rainy Wish"
"Little Miss Lover"
"Bold as Love"

"If 6 Was 9" is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and recorded by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. It appeared on the
release of their 1967 album Axis: Bold as Love and on the soundtrack for the 1969 film Easy Rider and the
soundtrack for the 1991 film Point Break.

Style and instrumentation


The style of the song has been referred to as "acid-fueled blues".[1] The guitar solo is noteworthy for making
innovative use of studio technology for the time, with stereo panning from left to right and vice versa, along with
other effects, such as slap echo, fuzzbox distortion, and reverb. [2]
There is some confusion as to whether Hendrix played a flute or a soprano recorder on this track. The credits list
Hendrix as playing flute, but recorder player Rodney Waterman and Joe Vanderford of Independent Weekly refer to
Hendrix's instrument as a recorder. Early music enthusiast Nicholas S. Lander maintains that "the high tessitura, the
typical 'breaking' between octaves, and other characteristics are more suggestive of a soprano recorder."[3]

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Interpretation
The theme has been described as an "individualist anthem".[4] The lyrics portray the underlying conflict of the
counterculture of the 1960s: the "social and cultural dichotomies" between the hippies and the "white collared
conservative" business world of the establishment. Beginning with a blues riff, the lyrics accompany a "spacey"
free-form jam, with Hendrix epitomizing the existentialist voice of the youth movement: "I'm the one that's got to die
when it's time for me to die/so let me live my life/the way I want to."[5]
Authors Harry Shapiro and Caesar Glebbeek believe the lyrics, "if the mountains fell into the sea" are a reference to
the creation myth of the second world of Hopi mythology.[6] Frank Waters' Book of the Hopi (1963) was known to
have influenced Hendrix, and many of his songs contain mythological themes and images related to Native
Americans in the United States;[7] Hendrix himself was part Cherokee.[8]

Urban legend
Various urban legends based on numerology have developed around the
meaning of number 9 in the song and Hendrix's subsequent accidental death
from asphyxiating on his vomit after taking a mixture of Secobarbital and
alcohol in 1970.[9]

Cover versions
Notable cover versions include the 1995 release by Bootsy Collins with
guitarist Buckethead on Funkcronomicon (released as a single in 1996)[10]
and Todd Rundgren's cover on the 1976 album Faithful. Punk-rock band
Fifteen also quotes the 'White Collared Conservative Businessman' verse in
their song "Brian's Song".

Buckethead, unusually playing a Fender


Stratocaster in the music video of Axiom
Funk's cover version (1996).

Tori Amos covered this song on the CD Single of "Cornflake Girl".[11]


In 1994, the band Beautiful People did a remixed version of the song called "If 60's Were 90's" on their album by the
same name.[12]
Wolfmother covered "If 6 Was 9" for their 2009 album Cosmic Egg which also was partially recorded at Electric
Lady Studios.
Maria Pia De Vito covered "If 6 Was 9" on her 2009 album Mind The Gap.

See also
Thank You (Led Zeppelin song)

References
Shapiro, Harry; Caesar Glebbeek (1995). Jimi Hendrix, Electric Gypsy. St. Martin's Press. ISBN0312130627.

Further reading
Kubernik, Harvey (2006). Hollywood Shack Job: Rock Music in Film and on Your Screen. University of New
Mexico Press. ISBN082633542X.
Roby, Steven (2002). Black Gold: The Lost Archives of Jimi Hendrix. Billboard Books. ISBN082307854X.
Shadwick, Keith (2003). Jimi Hendrix: Musician. Backbeat Books. ISBN0879307641.

"If 6 Was 9"


Stubbs, David (2003). Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child: The Stories Behind Every Song. Thunder's Mouth Press.
ISBN1560255374.

References
[1] Newquist, Harvey P. (2003). The Blues-Rock Masters. Backbeat Books. p.32. ISBN0879307358.
[2] Prown, Pete; Harvey P. Newquist (1997). Legends of Rock Guitar: The Essential Reference of Rock's Greatest Guitarists. Hal Leonard. p.50.
ISBN0793540429.
[3] Lander, Nicholas S.. "Recordings" (http:/ / www. recorderhomepage. net/ torture5. html). Recorder Home Page: Instrument of Torture or
Instrument of Music?. . Retrieved 2007-07-16. "Most of this article was previously published in the Australian Journal of Musical Education.
From an interview with Lander in Recorder and Music (http:/ / www. recorderhomepage. net/ interview. html). 20, 2: 50-53 (2000)."
[4] Pendergast, Sara (2000). "Jimi Hendrix" (http:/ / findarticles. com/ p/ articles/ mi_g1epc/ is_bio/ ai_2419200532). St. James Encyclopedia of
Popular Culture. St. James Press. . Retrieved 2007-06-18.
[5] Vincent, Ricky (1996). Funk: The Music, the People, and the Rhythm of the One. St. Martin's Press. p.107. ISBN0312134991.
[6] Shapiro & Glebbeek 1995, p. 225
[7] Shapiro & Glebbeek 1995, p. 148
[8] Shapiro & Glebbeek 1995, p. 13
[9] Patterson, Gary R. (2004). Take a Walk on the Dark Side: Rock and Roll Myths, Legends, and Curses. Simon and Schuster. p.200.
ISBN0743244230.
[10] Axiom Funk's "If 6 Was 9" at Discogs (http:/ / www. discogs. com/ Axiom-Funk-If-6-Was-9/ release/ 595267)
[11] Rogers, Kalen (1994). Tori Amos: All These Years. Omnibus Press. pp.81. ISBN0711948275.; See also: Tori Amos' "If 6 Was 9" at
Discogs (http:/ / www. discogs. com/ Tori-Amos-Cornflake-Girl/ release/ 906739)
[12] If 60's Were 90's at Discogs (http:/ / www. discogs. com/ Beautiful-People-If-60s-Were-90s/ release/ 725803)

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"Little Wing"
"Little Wing"
Song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience from the album Axis: Bold as Love
Released

1 December 1967 (UK)


15 January 1968 (US)

Genre

Psychedelic rock, acid blues

Length

2:24

Label

MCA (reissues)

Writer

Jimi Hendrix

Producer

Chas Chandler
Axis: Bold as Love track listing

Side 1
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

"EXP"
"Up from the Skies"
"Spanish Castle Magic"
"Wait Until Tomorrow"
"Ain't No Telling"
"Little Wing"
"If 6 Was 9"

Side 2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

"You Got Me Floatin'"


"Castles Made of Sand"
"She's So Fine"
"One Rainy Wish"
"Little Miss Lover"
"Bold as Love"

"Little Wing" is a song written by Jimi Hendrix. It was first recorded by The Jimi Hendrix Experience on their 1967
album Axis: Bold as Love. It is ranked #357 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "the 500 Greatest Songs of All
Time".
"Little Wing" is played using the unique chord/melody guitar style that Hendrix developed during his early career
stints in rhythm and blues bands. In this style, the guitar sounds as though it is playing two parts. This is done by
simultaneously playing multiple complementary notes, often parts of chords, and then changing a note within the
chord to create a melodic effect, similar to "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd and "Gimme All Your Lovin'" by
ZZ Top. The unusual flanging sound of the lead guitar part is a result of the Doppler effect which is created using a
rotating speaker cabinet, or Leslie speaker.
The studio version features a glockenspiel.
Hendrix's studio version can be found on numerous compilation albums, including The Ultimate Experience (1993).
He also performed the song in concert, and some of those recordings are available on CD, including The Jimi
Hendrix Experience.

"Little Wing"

Covers
Little Wing has been covered by numerous artists:

Derek and the Dominos on the 1970 album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs.
Sting on the 1987 album ...Nothing Like the Sun.
Def Leppard on the Deluxe Edition of Adrenalize.
Stevie Ray Vaughan, in a Grammy-winning instrumental version on 1991's The Sky Is Crying.
Concrete Blonde on the 1994 album, Still in Hollywood.
In 1997 by The Corrs on the album Talk on Corners.
In 1999 by Nigel Kennedy, the English violinist and violist, on the album, The Kennedy Experience[1]

Other artists who have covered the song include Snowy White, Andy Timmons, Eric Clapton, Widespread Panic, Joe
Satriani, Steve Vai, Shawn Lane, Joanna Newsom, Yngwie Malmsteen, Monte Montgomery, Joe Perry of
Aerosmith, Frank Zappa, Kirk Hammett of Metallica, Pearl Jam, John Mayer, Skid Row, Toto, Tak Matsumoto,
John Petrucci, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Paul Rodgers, Iiro Rantala New Trio, Gil Evans, Corinne Bailey Rae and Eric
Johnson.
Stevie Ray Vaughan's version earned a Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1992.[2]
One of Gil Evans' versions was recorded with RMS (band) at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1983.

In popular culture
This was used as the entrance song for Alan Belcher at UFC 113.

References
[1] http:/ / www. amazon. com/ gp/ product/ B00000K4IY/ ref=cm_rdp_product_img
[2] http:/ / www. tommyshannon. com/ awards. html#Grammys

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"Lover Man"

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"Lover Man"
"Lover Man"
Song by Jimi Hendrix
Genre Rock, psychedelic rock, blues-rock, acid rock
Writer Jimi Hendrix

"Lover Man" (also known as "Here He Comes", "Here Comes Your Lover Man" and variations) is a song written
and performed by American psychedelic rock musician and singer Jimi Hendrix. Although a studio version was
never officially released until 2010 in Valleys of Neptune, the song was performed many times from as early as
1968, notably at Woodstock Festival in 1969, and Berkeley Community Theatre and the Isle of Wight Festival in
1970. The tune from "Lover Man" was also used when The Jimi Hendrix Experience covered B. B. King's "Rock Me
Baby", which they did a number of times in 1967, most notably at Monterey Pop Festival. In the notes to "Valleys of
Neptune' there is a reference to producer Chas Chandler giving Mitchell and Redding the "opportunity to add or
replace" their original bass and drum parts for both "Crying Blue Rain" and "Lover Man". In "Lover Man" in
particular, Mitchell's new drum track demonstrates his mastery at providing edgy counterpoint to Hendrix's
free-flowing style.
A studio version of "Lover Man", entitled "Here He Comes (Lover Man)", appears on the compilation South Saturn
Delta. This version contains some dialogue at the beginning between Hendrix and an unidentified person (possibly
Chas Chandler or Eddie Kramer), before he begins the "long beginning". The song also features a long guitar solo
after a couple of verses. "Lover Man" was also featured twice on the four-disc box set The Jimi Hendrix Experience
one an instrumental version just over three minutes in length, on disc one; the other an alternate recording just
under three minutes in length, on disc four. The song was recorded many times throughout Hendrix's career, but he
never achieved a take he was ultimately happy with.[1]

References
[1] "'SEARCH BY SONG' RESULTS" (http:/ / jimihendrix. com/ encyclopedia/ search,song,loverman. html). The Jimi Hendrix Encyclopedia.
Experience Hendrix, L.L.C.. . Retrieved 2008-08-10.

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"Machine Gun"
"Machine Gun"

cover for 1999 promo single


Singleby Jimi Hendrix
from the album Band of Gypsys
Released

March 25, 1970

Recorded January 1, 1970 at the Fillmore East, New York City, New York
Genre

Rock, blues-rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock

Length

12:36

Label

Capitol

Writer(s)

Jimi Hendrix

Producer Heaven Research

"Machine Gun" is a song by American musician Jimi Hendrix, featured on his first live album Band of Gypsys
(1970). It is a lengthy, loosely defined (jam-based) protest of the Vietnam War,[1] and perhaps a broader comment on
conflict of any kind.[2] Although a proper studio recording was never released, there are several other live recordings
on album, including Jimi Hendrix: Live at Berkeley and Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight. The Band of
Gypsys performance is often lauded as Hendrix's finest, and is widely considered the finest electric guitar
performance in the history of recorded music.[3] The Band of Gypsys version of "Machine Gun" is roughly 12
minutes long. Hendrix's long guitar solos and percussive riffs combine with controlled feedback to simulate the
sounds of a battlefield, such as helicopters, dropping bombs, explosions, machine guns, and the screams and cries of
those wounded or grieving.
"Machine Gun" debuted in September 1969 with a performance by Hendrix and his bandmates at that time, drummer
Mitch Mitchell and bassist Billy Cox. The song was broadcast on the Dick Cavett Show the week of September 5.
Most known performances are between ten and twenty minutes long, varying somewhat in their lyrics. The
improvisatory material revolves around a core descending riff and bassline: the song opens with a Univibe
pedal-based guitar riff intended to mimic the sound of a firing machine gun. The memorable bass and drum patterns
then commence. The rather sparse lyrics, which differ in every performance, relate the point of view of a soldier
fighting in war:
Machine gun
Tearin' my body all apart
Evil man make me kill you
Evil man make you kill me
Evil man make me kill you
Even though we're only families apart

"Machine Gun"
Well, I pick up my axe and fight like a farmer
But your bullets still knock me down to the ground
The same way you shoot me down, baby
You'll be goin' just the same
Three times the pain
And your own self to blame
I ain't afraid of your bullets no more, baby
I ain't afraid no more
After a while your cheap talk don't even cause me pain
So let your bullets fly like rain
'Cause I know all the time you wrong, baby
And you'll be going just the same
In the Band of Gypsys recording, Hendrix's vocals are accompanied by drummer Buddy Miles's vocals. "Machine
Gun" is a prime example of Hendrix's use of guitar effects, as most recordings use a wah-wah pedal, an Arbiter Fuzz
Face, a Univibe pedal, and an Octavia pedal,[4] as well as heavy feedback.
The intro to "Hear My Train A Comin'" at Jimi's Woodstock performance in August 1969 is reminiscent of the
"Machine Gun" intro, once again using the Univibe pedal. He used similar vocal lines and riffs in a blues jam mainly
beginning at the 12th fret, much like the "Machine Gun" intro.
The song was performed twice on Hendrix's "Live at the Fillmore East" album. The first performance was featured
in the "Goy's teeth" sequence of the Coen Brothers' 2009 film 'A Serious Man'.

Midnight Lightning version


During the writing and recording of (what would have been) Hendrix's fourth studio album, Hendrix began a studio
version of "Machine Gun", which was later heavily edited by Alan Douglas and released on the 1975 posthumous
album Midnight Lightning. This version, which was some 7.5 minutes long, was not well-received among fans, as
Douglas had brought in session musicians to overdub drum, bass and even guitar parts, which had been lacking due
to either poor recording quality or damage to the tapes. Although the Hendrix estate gained control of his recordings
in 1995 and re-released what are presumed to be authentic recordings of some of songs that Douglas had
overdubbed, an unaltered studio version of "Machine Gun" has yet to be released.

References
[1] http:/ / mywebpages. comcast. net/ loudfast/ writeweb/ mgun. htm
[2] Introducing the song at Berkley, Hendrix said "I'd like to dedicate this song to soldiers fighting in Berkleyyou know what soldiers I'm
talking aboutand oh yeah, the soldiers fighting in Vietnam too ... and dedicate [it] to other people that might be fighting wars too, but within
themselves, not facing up to the realities.
[3] http:/ / mywebpages. comcast. net/ loudfast/ writeweb/ mgun. htm
[4] http:/ / mywebpages. comcast. net/ loudfast/ writeweb/ mgun. htm

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"Manic Depression"

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"Manic Depression"
"Manic Depression"
Song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience from the album Are You Experienced
Released

May 12, 1967

Recorded

March 29, 1967

Genre

Psychedelic rock, blues-rock, hard rock, heavy metal

Length

3:30

Label

Track Records (UK)


MCA (reissues)

Writer

Jimi Hendrix

Producer

Chas Chandler
Are You Experienced track listing

(UK) Side 1
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

"Foxy Lady"
"Manic Depression"
"Red House"
"Can You See Me"
"Love or Confusion"
"I Don't Live Today"

(UK) Side 2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

"May This Be Love"


"Fire"
"3rd Stone from the Sun"
"Remember"
"Are You Experienced"

Manic Depression is a song written and recorded by Jimi Hendrix and first released in 1967 on the Are You
Experienced album.
The song's name, Manic Depression, is an old name for bipolar disorder, a mental health disorder. There is no
evidence that Hendrix ever suffered from (or did not suffer from) bipolar disorder himself , but when he was doing a
press conference in London his manager at the time, Chas Chandler, told him that he sounded like a manic
depressive. So the next day Hendrix wrote this tune . One interesting aspect to the song is its unusual meter. Hendrix
wrote the song in 3/4, which is a time signature found in classical waltzes.
At Winterland in 1968, Jimi explains to the crowd: "I'd like to do a frustrating type of song for you, it's called Manic
Depression, a story about a cat wishing he could make love to music, instead of the same old everyday woman."
"Manic Depression" has been covered by the Red Hot Chili Peppers; Styx; Blood, Sweat and Tears; Tanya Donelly;
Carnivore; Nomeansno; David Ryan Harris; Seal & Jeff Beck; Clawfinger; Jan Hammer; Katharina Franck; King's
X; Stevie Ray Vaughan; Yngwie J. Malmsteen; Type O Negative; et al.. Emilie Autumn covered the song with her
instruments of choice (Electric Violin & Harpsichord). The Hungarian Gypsy band Besh O Drom have a track called
Mnis Depresszi on their album Gyi! which uses Hendrix's tune. Rozz Williams and Gitane Demone released a
very different version of Manic Depression on their album Dream Home Heartache. Singer/comedian Sandra
Bernhard combined the song with the song "Everything's Alright" from the musical Jesus Christ Superstar to create
the song Manic Superstar on her album Excuses For Bad Behavior (Part One).
In 2006, jazz fusion guitarist Larry Coryell covered the song from his album "Traffic."[1] [2]

"Manic Depression"
There is also an unrelated song called "Manic Depression (Jimi)" by Ian Dury and the Blockheads on their album
Laughter.
The distinctive first three notes were sampled into MC Twix's 1989 song Devastatin 2 Yo Ear. [3]

References
[1] "Traffic overview" (http:/ / allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:0cfexqtdldte). Allmusic.com. .
[2] "Traffic by Larry Coryell, Victor Bailey, Lenny White" (http:/ / www. chesky. com/ core/ details. cfm?PRODUCTCODE=SACD322&
productcategoryid=3). Chesky Records. .
[3] IRS #23937 1989 MC Twix "Devastatin 2 Yo Ear"

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"My Friend"

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"My Friend"
"My Friend"
Song by Jimi Hendrix from the album The Cry of Love
Released

March 1971

Length

4:40

Writer

Jimi Hendrix

Producer

Jimi Hendrix
The Cry of Love track listing

Side one
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

"Freedom"
"Drifting"
"Ezy Ryder"
"Night Bird Flying"
"My Friend"

Side two
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

"Straight Ahead"
"Astro Man"
"Angel"
"In from the Storm"
"Belly Button Window"

"My Friend" is a song written and recorded by Jimi Hendrix in New York City in 1968 during the recording
sessions for Electric Ladyland. The song was first released in 1971 on the posthumous album The Cry of Love and
later appeared on the CD First Rays of the New Rising Sun. It was mixed posthumously by Hendrix's engineer Eddie
Kramer. Because it was left unreleased at the time it was recorded some people have raised doubts if Hendrix had
ever intended to use that song on any of his albums.
The recording of "My Friend" combines a humorous song with sound effects to create a bar or nightclub atmosphere.
Hendrix' friend Paul Caruso (mistakenly listed as a fictitious 'Gers' on the L.P.) plays harmonica on "My Friend".[1]
[2]
. In late 1966 Frank Zappa had used the same ideas to record "America Drinks and Goes Home" on the album
Absolutely Free. This song parodied Zappa's own experiences playing with drunken bar bands in the early 1960s.
Songs with a similar effect were recorded by The Rolling Stones, On With The Show (1967) and The Beatles, You
Know My Name (Look Up The Number) (recorded in 1967 and 1969, released in 1970.)
As with many Hendrix songs, this one is introspective. The main idea behind the song is that Jimi began to believe
the only "true" friend, the one that will be with him through good and bad times, is his own shadow. Everyone else
were "hangers-on" and wanted something from him.

References
[1] McDermott, John; Eddie Kramer & Billy Cox (2009). "1968". Ultimate Hendrix (1st Edition ed.). Milwaukee: Hal Leonard. pp.93.
ISBN9780879309381.
[2] (1997) Album notes for First Rays Of The New Rising Sun by Jimi Hendrix, p. 16 [CD booklet]. Universal City, California: MCA
(MCD1159).

"One Rainy Wish"

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"One Rainy Wish"


"One Rainy Wish"
Song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience from the album Axis: Bold as Love
Released

December 1, 1967

Recorded

October 1967 at Olympic Sound Studios, London

Genre

Blues-rock, psychedelic rock

Length

3:40

Label

Track

Writer

Jimi Hendrix

Producer

Chas Chandler
Axis: Bold as Love track listing

Side 1
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

"EXP"
"Up from the Skies"
"Spanish Castle Magic"
"Wait Until Tomorrow"
"Ain't No Telling"
"Little Wing"
"If 6 Was 9"

Side 2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

"You Got Me Floatin'"


"Castles Made of Sand"
"She's So Fine"
"One Rainy Wish"
"Little Miss Lover"
"Bold as Love"

"One Rainy Wish" (also known as "Gold and Rose") is a song by English/American psychedelic rock band The Jimi
Hendrix Experience, featured on their 1967 second album Axis: Bold as Love. The song was written by lead vocalist
and guitarist Jimi Hendrix based on a dream that he had in which "the sky was filled with a thousand stars [...] and
eleven moons played across the rainbows," according to the song's lyrics.[1] Shortly after the release of Axis: Bold as
Love, "One Rainy Wish" was featured as the B-side to "Up from the Skies", released in February 1968.[2]

Background and style


"One Rainy Wish" was "one of Jimi [Hendrix]'s many songs born out of a dream".[1] The style of guitar playing
displayed by Hendrix is said to be reminiscent of that of American jazz guitarists Jim Hall and Wes Montgomery,
according to fellow guitarist Mike Stern, who said the following about the song:

His playing is so lyrical. It has that same singing quality that I dig in Jim Hall's playing or Wes Montgomery's playing. But the thing about
Hendrix was that he had that sound, he could achieve that lyrical feeling with a fatter sound on his Strat than you could get with a regular
[3]
hollow-bodied jazz guitar.

In the Hendrix biography Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy, the song is described as "creak[ing] with radical harmonies
and rhythmic concepts, not least the fact that the verse is in 3/4 time while the chorus is in 4/4."[1] "One Rainy Wish"
was recorded sometime midway through the Axis: Bold as Love sessions, in October 1967, at Olympic Sound
Studios with producer Chas Chandler and engineer Eddie Kramer.[4]

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Reception
In reviews of Axis: Bold as Love, "One Rainy Wish" has generally been positively regarded. In a review for the
BBC, critic Chris Jones noted the song as one of the album's examples of Hendrix's "loveliest lyrics,"[5] while
allmusic reviewer Cub Koda described the song as a "beautiful, wistful ballad."[6]

Personnel
Musicians

Additional personnel

Jimi Hendrix vocals,


guitars
Noel Redding bass
Mitch Mitchell drums

Chas Chandler production


Eddie Kramer engineering

References
Shapiro, Harry; Glebbeek, Caesar (1995). Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy. New York: St. Martin's Griffin.
ISBN0312130627.

References
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]

Shapiro & Glebbeek 1995, p.229


Shapiro & Glebbeek 1995, p.529
Shapiro & Glebbeek 1995, p.228
Shapiro & Glebbeek 1995, p.528
Jones, Chris (April 24, 2007). "Review of The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis Bold As Love" (http:/ / www. bbc. co. uk/ music/ reviews/
rmjw/ ). Music. BBC. . Retrieved May 24, 2009.
[6] Koda, Cub. "Axis: Bold as Love > Review" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:f9x8b5t4tsqf~T1). allmusic. .
Retrieved May 24, 2009.

"Outside Woman Blues"

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"Outside Woman Blues"


"Outside Woman Blues"
Singleby Blind Joe Reynolds
Format

78rpm record

Recorded November 1929 at Grafton, Wisconsin


Genre

Blues

Length

2:59

Label

Paramount Records

Writer(s) Blind Joe Reynolds

"Outside Woman Blues" is a standard blues song originally recorded by Blind Joe Reynolds in 1929. The song has
been covered by numerous artists most notably by Cream in 1967.

Background
"Outside Woman Blues" is one of few known recordings made by Blind Joe Reynolds. Other songs recorded by
Blind Joe have the words "Woman Blues" in the title including "Cold Woman Blues", "Goose Hill Woman Blues",
and "Third Street Woman Blues".

Cream version
"Outside Woman Blues"
Song by Cream from the album Disraeli Gears
Released

November 1967

Recorded

May 1967 at Atlantic Studios, New York City

Genre

Blues-rock
Psychedelic rock

Length

3:27

Label

Reaction (UK)
Atco (US)
Polydor (US Reissue)

Writer

Arthur Reynolds

Producer

Felix Pappalardi
Disraeli Gears track listing

"We're Going
Wrong"
(8)

"Outside Woman
Blues"
(9)

"Take It
Back"
(10)

Cream's first version of "Outside Woman Blues" appeared on their 1967 album Disraeli Gears that clocked in at
3:27 and had a writing credit given to Arthur Reynolds with arrangement by Eric Clapton.[1] This song was one of
the more bluesier tunes on an album known for its Psychedelic sound, along with the Jack Bruce/Pete Brown
composition "Take It Back". It was also one of only two remakes on the album, along with "Mother's Lament".

"Outside Woman Blues"


The song also appears on the Cream live albums BBC Sessions and Royal Albert Hall London May 2-3-5-6, 2005.
The song appears on the compilation album Those Were the Days.
Eric Clapton has performed the song live as a solo artist.

Other cover versions


The following list of artist have also recorded version(s) of "Outside Woman Blues":[2]
Jimi Hendrix performed the song several times and is included on Woke Up This Morning and Found Myself
Dead.
The song was also performed by the Jimi Hendrix led group Band of Gypsys.
The Atlanta Rhythm Section on their 1976 album A Rock and Roll Alternative.
Back Door Slam on their 2007 debut album Roll Away.
Gwyn Ashton released a version on Two Man Blues Army.
Doyle Bramhall II performed the song at the Crossroads Guitar Festival in 2007.
Son Lewis has performed the song several times.
Rick Derringer performed the song on L.A. Blues Authority: Cream of the Crop.
Van Halen performed the song live at least once.[3]
Johnny Winter has also performed the song at least once.[4]

References
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]

Disraeli Gears Polydor Reissue Liner Notes


http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=17:3268562
http:/ / www. youtube. com/ watch?v=CZp7NjD7gLU
http:/ / www. youtube. com/ watch?v=zXQIYaQJKac

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"Performances and adaptations of the


Star-Spangled Banner"
In the course of the adoption of The Star-Spangled Banner as the national anthem of the United States, a variety of
people have either sung or performed the anthem using a variety of instruments and methods. Some of these methods
include using only one instrument, such as a guitar or trumpet. Other methods have included singing the anthem
using different vocal ranges or even changing some of the words to show support for a home team or for an event.
However, veterans groups have spoken out on occasion about these recordings, mainly calling them disrespectful to
the country and to the anthem.

Versions
Igor Stravinsky's unconventional major seventh chord in his arrangement of the Star-Spangled Banner led to an
incident on January 15, 1944 with the Boston police, but "Boston Police Commissioner Thomas F. Sullivan said
there would be no action."[1] "After Stravinsky conducted it with the Boston Symphony for the first time in 1944, the
police informed the composer of a Massachusetts law against tampering with national property[2] , and removed the
parts from Symphony Hall."[3] The incident soon established itself as a myth in which Stravinsky was supposedly
arrested for playing the music[4] .
One of the most controversial renditions of the anthem was Jimi Hendrix's solo guitar performance at the 1969
Woodstock Festival. Hendrix played the anthem with a number of distorted regressions (such as mimicking planes,
bombs, and screams in reference to the Vietnam War), to great acclaim from the audience. The performance still has
a number of detractors. It was voted 52nd on the list of the 100 greatest guitar solos of all time by readers of Guitar
World Magazine. Hendrix also recorded a studio version of The Star-Spangled Banner some time before Woodstock
festival. That version features numerous guitar tracks played through octave shifting effects. The studio version is
available on the Rainbow Bridge album and Cornerstones collection.
An early controversial version was performed by Jos Feliciano at the 1968 World Series, a rendition that Feliciano
has said negatively affected his career.[5][6] His Latinized approach did not sit well with everyone, but Detroit
Tigers announcer Ernie Harwell, a musician in his own right, liked it and defended it (as noted in the CD collection,
Ernie Harwell's Audio Scrapbook.)
Another famous rendition of the anthem was that of Marvin Gaye at the 1983 NBA All-Star Game at The Forum in
Inglewood, California. Gaye's highly soul-flavored performance also received much acclaim from the crowd.
Prior to Game 5 of the 1986 World Series, Smokey Robinson performed the national anthem before switching to the
final four lines of America the Beautiful after "...That Our Flag Was Still There." This was the first that both the
national anthem and America the Beautiful were arranged into the same song and melody. Other notable blendings of
both songs included those by the Whiffenpoofs prior to the 1989 World Series opener and by singer Natalie Cole at
Super Bowl XXVIII.
The entire crowd at Madison Square Garden cheered loudly when New York Rangers anthem singer John Amirante
sang a stirring rendition of the Canadian and American national anthems before the Rangers win over the Vancouver
Canucks in Game 7 of the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals.[7] (The NHL requires arenas in both the U.S. and Canada to
perform both "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "O Canada" (Canadian national anthem) at games that involve teams
from both countries, a practice that has also been picked up by Major League Baseball.[8] ) Five years later, when
Wayne Gretzky played his final game, Amirante changed the line of "O'er the land of the free" to "O'er the land of
Wayne Gretzky" to reflect Gretzky's retirement.[7]
Robert Merrill sang the national anthem at seven World Series games, more than any other performer, and all seven
came at Yankee Stadium: in Game 3 of the 1976, 1978, and 1999 World Series, at the 1977, 1981 and 1996 World

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Series openers, and Game 2 of the 1998 World Series.
Allusions to the tune appear in a number of classical works. For example, Richard Wagner's American Centennial
March, commissioned for the centennial of U.S. independence in 1876, appears to repeatedly quote part of the
theme. Sergei Rachmaninoff arranged it for solo piano. The beginning of the song is also used in the beginning of
the march titled National Emblem. Giacomo Puccini used the opening notes as a motif throughout his opera Madama
Butterfly. The Pneu World for cello and piano, H.163 (1925) by Frank Bridge is a parody on the opening bars of The
Star-Spangled Banner.[9]
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir's recorded version solved the range problem as any mixed choir mightwith the
male voices carrying the main melody in the lower part of the range, and the female voices carrying the upper part of
the range while the male voices provide lower-keyed harmony. The MTC version also contains a rare singing of the
fourth verse as well as the first.
Composer John Williams wrote two new arrangements; one for the Rose Bowl and one for a Red Sox playoff game
at Fenway Park.
Chicago Cubs public address announcer Wayne Messmer has performed the anthem on many occasions before Cubs
games at Wrigley Field.
HSN fitness guest and ICON Health & Fitness' own Kristie Belliston (originally named Kristie Brooks), a native of
Spring Hill, Florida, sings the same with the US Army Field Chorus' rendition, while Jeremy Strom, a native of
Chicago, Illinois, also sings the same with the US Army Field Chorus' rendition. HSN plus-size model Regina
Marlow sings the same with Jerry Stackhouse's rendition of the anthem. Belliston sings the anthem before a few
Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Tampa Bay Rays games. Strom sings the anthem before a few Chicago Bears, Chicago
Bulls, and Chicago Blackhawks games.

Sports stars singing the anthem


NBA
Jerry Stackhouse
Michael Jordan
Dennis Scott
NFL

Jerome Bettis
Mike Nugent
Ryan Grant
Chris Redman

MLB

Curt Schilling
Todd Helton
Al Simmons
Gary Sheffield
Jim Thome
Derek Jeter

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NHL
Jeff Norton
Vincent Lecavalier
NASCAR
Jeff Gordon
Jeff Burton

Various others singing the anthem


Kristie Belliston - sings at Pasco County high school graduation ceremonies and various Tampa Bay Buccaneers
and Tampa Bay Rays games
Jeremy Strom - sings at various Chicago Bears, Chicago Bulls, and Chicago Blackhawks games and a NASCAR
race at ChicagoLand Speedway
Chuck Long - sings at various Oakland Raiders and Oakland A's games
Freddie Fuller - sings at Pinellas County high school graduation ceremonies
Lou Caputo - sings at Hillsbrough County high school graduation ceremonies and various Tampa Bay Rays
games
Lou Lentine - sings at various New York Giants and New York Yankees games
Charlie Cowan - sings at various Los Angeles Lakers games

Notable errors, changed or forgotten lyrics


Perhaps the most infamous rendition of the national anthem came from comedienne Roseanne Barr, who sang it at a
San Diego Padres baseball game in August 1990. As her voice was not well liked by the audience, because either she
has little singing ability or because she purposefully botched the performance, the large crowd heckled her and threw
objects onto the field in her direction in disgust. Her poor performance might have been forgotten, except that she
appended a couple of gestures associated with baseball players (adjusting one's protective cup and spitting on the
ground), which drew widespread complaints, including from then-President George H.W. Bush. She has not been
asked to sing again at a baseball game since.[10]
In 1993, Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis attempted to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" before a Nets game.
Lewis sang the entire song off-key and at a range too high for his voice. After his voice broke on the word "glare,"
he stopped and said "Uh oh," then said "I'll make up for it now" near the end of the song. He was widely ridiculed for
the incident. ESPN SportsCenter anchor Charley Steiner described Lewis' version of the national anthem as being
written by "Francis Scott Off-Key".
When performing the anthem before a game in the 2003 American League Championship Series at Fenway Park,
singer Michael Bolton briefly forgot the lyrics and had to look at his hand, where he had apparently written them
down for reference.[11]
On April 25, 2003, during an NBA game between the Portland Trail Blazers and the Dallas Mavericks, Trail Blazers'
coach Maurice Cheeks aided 13-year-old Natalie Gilbert in singing the National anthem. After Gilbert forgot the
words at "At the twilight's last gleaming", Cheeks rushed over to help her and they finished it together, as the entire
Rose Garden crowd sang with them. Cheeks and Gilbert received a standing ovation after the song was over.
Steven Tyler of Aerosmith was invited to sing the national anthem at the 2001 Indianapolis 500. His performance,
however, was widely criticised when after singing "free" he sang some kind of phrase leading into
"bam-de-la-bam-bam", and also he changed the lyrics of the last line from "...the home of the brave" to "the home of
the Indianapolis 500."[12] [13]

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Robert Goulet forgot the lyrics when invited to sing the anthem before one of Muhammad Ali's championship bouts
in the 1960s.[10] He was often chided for this, usually by people who were not aware that he was Canadian by birth.
In 2002, pop-singer Anastacia sang the national anthem before the 2002 MLB All-Star Game In it, she sang
"perilous night" instead of "perilous fight". This was the first in a long line of debacles that night after all of which
the game ended in a 7-7 tie.
In 2006, as Aretha Franklin was singing the anthem at Super Bowl XL, with Aaron Neville and Dr. John, after
singing "free", she said "yes".
R&B legend Anita Baker was criticized for her performance of the Star-Spangled Banner at Game 4 of the 2010
NBA Finals.[14]

Whitney Houston version (Super Bowl XXV)


"The Star Spangled Banner" became a charity single recorded by Pop/R&B singer Whitney Houston and produced
by music director Rickey Minor, along with Houston herself, to raise funds for soldiers and families of those
involved in the Persian Gulf War. Houston performed "The Star Spangled Banner" at Super Bowl XXV in 1991. The
recording of her live performance was released as a single in the U.S. on February 12, 1991 and as the Gulf War was
drawing to a close, and it peaked at number twenty on the Billboard Hot 100. Its B-side was "America the
Beautiful". The single's video comprises footage from the recording of Houston's performance at the Super Bowl in
1991.
The song would not be released elsewhere until it appeared on Whitney: The Greatest Hits in 2000.
After the September 11, 2001 attacks, Arista Records arranged a re-release of Houston's version of "The Star
Spangled Banner" (again with "America the Beautiful" as the B-side), with all profits going towards the firefighters
and victims of the attacks. It peaked at number six on the Hot 100 and was certified platinum by the RIAA.
The two single releases of Houston's version are the only times the anthem has ever appeared on the Hot 100.

Certifications
Country
United
States

Certification Sales/Shipment
[15] 1,000,000

Platinum

References
[1] "Stravinsky Liable to Fine" (http:/ / select. nytimes. com/ gst/ abstract. html?res=F20A1FFE3E59147B93C4A8178AD85F408485F9&
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books?id=uzXtKwJQv1gC& lpg=PA152& dq=Stravinsky Arres "Star-Spangled Banner"& pg=PA152#v=onepage& q& f=false). University
of California Press. ., page 152
[5] http:/ / www. youtube. com. offcampus. lib. washington. edu/ watch?v=jrY9RVfVkws
[6] http:/ / josefeliciano. com/ ?page=anthem
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2009/ 10/ john_amirante_on_performing_th. html). New York Magazine. October 1, 2009. . Retrieved 2010-01-22.
[8] Allen, Kevin (2003-03-23). "NHL Seeks to Stop Booing For a Song" (http:/ / www. usatoday. com. offcampus. lib. washington. edu/ sports/
hockey/ nhl/ 2003-03-23-anthem-booing_x. htm). USA Today. . Retrieved 2008-10-29.
[9] Hindmarsh, Paul (1982). Frank Bridge: A Thematic Catalogue, 19001941. London: Faber Music. p.125.

"Performances and adaptations of the Star-Spangled Banner"


[10] Wolf, Buck (May 2, 2006). "Oh Say, Can't You Sing: Celebs Who Tortured the National Anthem: From Rosanne to Jimi Hendrix, 'The Star
Spangled Banner' Sometimes Gets Mangled" (http:/ / abcnews. go. com. offcampus. lib. washington. edu/ Entertainment/ WolfFiles/
story?id=1941484). ABC News. .
[11] "10 Worst National-Anthem Renditions" (http:/ / www. time. com. offcampus. lib. washington. edu/ time/ specials/ packages/ article/
0,28804,1889754_1889752_1889733,00. html). Time. 2009-04-07. . Retrieved 2010-04-20.
[12] "The Star-Mangled Banner" (http:/ / www. wnew. com/ 2008/ 04/ the-star-spangl. html). wnew.com. 2008-04-22. . Retrieved 2008-06-13.
[13] "Oh say, can you sing" (http:/ / www. nctimes. com/ articles/ 2006/ 07/ 02/ sports/ professional/ 21_33_287_1_06. txt). North County Times.
2007-06-01. . Retrieved 2008-06-13.
[14] abcnews.go.com/.../anita_baker-sings-national-anthem-at-nba-finals-10885518
[15] http:/ / www. riaa. com/ goldandplatinumdata. php?table=SEARCH Certification Date 3 Oct 2001

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"Red House"

346

"Red House"
"Red House"
Song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience from the album Are You Experienced
Released

May 12, 1967 (UK)

Recorded

December 13, 1966

Genre

Blues, Electric blues

Length

3:44

Label

Track Records (UK)

Writer

Jimi Hendrix

Producer

Chas Chandler
Are You Experienced track listing

(UK) Side 1
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

"Foxy Lady"
"Manic Depression"
"Red House"
"Can You See Me"
"Love or Confusion"
"I Don't Live Today"

(UK) Side 2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

"May This Be Love"


"Fire"
"3rd Stone from the Sun"
"Remember"
"Are You Experienced"

"Red House" is a blues song, written by famed guitarist Jimi Hendrix and originally recorded by The Jimi Hendrix
Experience.
There are two different takes of this song: the original version (mono) that appeared on the UK issue of Are You
Experienced?, and the alternate version (stereo) featured on the 1969 USA Smash Hits compilation on which bass
player Noel Redding plays electric guitar tuned down to resemble a bass guitar. Despite Hendrix's complaints, the
song was omitted from the USA issue of Are You Experienced because the recording company reportedly argued that
"America does not like blues".
The original mono take became available in the USA & Canada when it was released (minus most of the chat at the
end) on the posthumous Blues album. The alternate stereo take (3:50) recorded around the same time, was
unavailable outside of USA & Canada until the Kiss The Sky CD compilation. The Blues album also features a live
studio jam version - onto which Hendrix's introduction from a different jam has been dubbed - "Electric Church Red
House". This was recorded by Jimi at TTG Studios in LA on 10/29/68 with Buddy Miles on drums and featuring Lee
Michaels playing Hammond organ.
While playing Red House at Woodstock, Hendrix snapped his high E-string in the middle of the performance and
kept playing the second half of the song with just five strings. "Long" versions of the song like the Woodstock
rendition are generally about 610 minutes. One of the longest live versions of the song is a nearly thirteen-minute
long version on 5/24/69 at the San Diego Sports Arena, which is found on Hendrix in the West, a live album
sampling four different shows. A studio recorded version of 8 minutes 35 seconds appears on the Valleys of Neptune
album.

"Red House"
"Red House" was inspired by Hendrix's first love Betty Jean Morgan and the New York apartment where Hendrix
first met Keith Richard's then-girlfriend Linda Keith.[1]
The song has been covered by many other blues musicians, and is widely regarded as a blues standard to be judged
by. On the album Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Guy covers this song. Albert King covers it on an
album named after the song. Also, John Lee Hooker has played the song and it appeared on the Dirty Bones Band
live CD Stronger Than Dirt. Grammy Award-winning rock band Toto covered this song on a live album; they
continue to play it live to this day. Paul Gilbert also covered it on the album Gilbert Hotel. Johnny Winter frequently
covers it live. Gary Moore did a version for the 50th Anniversary of the Fender Stratocaster Guitar celebration at
Wembley Arena in 2004 that can easily be found on the internet. At the concert for the opening of the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium in 1995, Red House was sung by Boz Scaggs, with Slash playing
guitar.
While performing on the G3 tour, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, and both Eric Johnson and Yngwie Malmsteen (during the
1996 and 2003 tours respectively) covered the song.
Red House was covered in a unique way by Prince on his DVD "Rave until the year 2000", together with Maceo
Parker and Johnny Lang.
Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry has played the song a few times on their recent tour. He sings the lead vocals.

References
[1] Record Collector issue 330 (2006) p. 94

347

"Spanish Castle Magic"

348

"Spanish Castle Magic"


"Spanish Castle Magic"
Song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience from the album Axis: Bold as Love
Released

December 1, 1967

Recorded

October 27 and 28, 1967 at Olympic Studios in London, England

Genre

Hard rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues-rock

Length

3:00

Label

Track

Writer

Jimi Hendrix

Producer

Chas Chandler
Axis: Bold as Love track listing

Side 1
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

"EXP"
"Up from the Skies"
"Spanish Castle Magic"
"Wait Until Tomorrow"
"Ain't No Telling"
"Little Wing"
"If 6 Was 9"

Side 2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

"You Got Me Floatin'"


"Castles Made of Sand"
"She's So Fine"
"One Rainy Wish"
"Little Miss Lover"
"Bold as Love"

"Spanish Castle Magic" is a song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Written by Jimi Hendrix and produced by Chas
Chandler, it is the third track from their second studio album Axis: Bold as Love.

Lyrics
The song was inspired by Jimi's high school days (roughly 1958-1961), when he regularly visited a dance hall called
The Spanish Castle. The club was south of Seattle in what was then unincorporated King County (now Des Moines,
Washington). The Spanish Castle was built in the 1930s outside the city to avoid Seattle's then restrictive nightclub
laws. By 1959 it began featuring top local rock groups, such as The Wailers and occasional touring stars. Events at
The Castle were hosted by Seattle's best known DJ of the time, Pat O'Day. Jimi had the opportunity to play with
other musicians at the club on several occasions.
Hendrix would later describe his frustration getting to the club, saying, "(The bass player) in the band had this
beat-up car, and it would break down every other block, on the way there and back..." hence the line, "Takes 'bout a
half a day to get there..." In the days when Jimi visited the club there was no freeway between Seattle and Des
Moines, so the drive was much longer than today. It was not until the mid 1960s that Interstate 5 linked the two
towns. The Spanish Castle was demolished in April 1968.
Rock critic Dave Marsh said about the song Once you know the legend of the Wailers at the Castle and the facts of
Jimis attendance there, the lyrics of his Spanish Castle Magic seem haunted by homesick nostalgia. Its very far
away, it takes about half a day/to get there/if we travel by...dragonfly, he sings, in the voice of a kid stranded a

"Spanish Castle Magic"


couple continents from home.

Music
The music alternates between aggressive, thickly textured guitar lines during the intro, choruses, and solos, and a riff
played in rhythmic lock step by guitar, drum and bass during the verses.

Cover versions
The song has a considerable following otherwise, being covered by various artists of several styles including a cover
by Latino Rock guitarist Santana and the Finnish band Hay and Stone, as well as guitarist Yngwie J. Malmsteen who
performed the song live on his album Trial by Fire.
MDC recorded a cover of Spanish Castle Magic on their album, "Millions of Dead Cops/More Dead Cops"
Spin Doctors also covered the tune on the album Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix.
Hiram Bullock covered this song on his "World of Collision" Album.
A cover of the song was playable in the 2005 video game Guitar Hero, but the song featured was instrumental, as the
Hendrix estate did not want Hendrix's distinct voice to be impersonated.

External links
Information about The Spanish Castle in [[Des Moines, Washington [10]], a legendary Seattle area dance hall
where Jimi Hendrix gave some of his earliest performances]
More information about The Spanish Castle and Jimi Hendrix's early days [11]

349

"The Satrs That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice"

350

"The Satrs That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice"


"The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice"
B-side by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Released

August 19, 1967

Recorded

July 19 and 29, 1967 at Mayfair Studios, London, England

Genre

Psychedelic rock, acid rock

Length

4:20

Label

Track

Writer

Jimi Hendrix

Producer

Chas Chandler
Smash Hits track listing

"Stone
Free"
(7)

"The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam's


Dice"
(8)

"Manic
Depression"
(9)

South Saturn Delta track listing


"All Along the
Watchtower"
(8)

"The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam's


Dice"
(9)

"Midnight"
(10)

"The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice", also known as "STP with LSD" and various related
abbreviations and shortenings,[1] is a song by English-American psychedelic rock band The Jimi Hendrix
Experience, featured as the B-side to their 1967 fourth single "Burning of the Midnight Lamp". Written by vocalist
and guitarist Jimi Hendrix, the song was later featured on the 1968 compilation album Smash Hits and the 1997
posthumous South Saturn Delta compilation.

Recording
"The Stars That Play..." was first recorded by The Experience at Houston Studios in Los Angeles, California in late
June 1967, with a number of demos taped between June 28 and 30.[2] With the recording of "...Midnight Lamp"
taking place throughout July, with the single completed by July 20, the B-side was also completed at the same time,
with the basic track recorded on July 19 and additional overdubs and mixing taking place on July 29.[3] The track
features a largely unidentified group of people referred to as "The Milky Way Express" providing backing vocals,
whistles and other sounds, which is said to include musician Frank Zappa.[1] The song was also the first recording
released by Hendrix to feature his subsequently characteristic wah-wah sound.[1]

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Background and release


According to Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy, "...Laughing Sam's Dice" was "hardly commented upon at the time [of
the release of "The Burning of the Midnight Lamp" single] dismissed as a good-time joke with lots of guitar to fill
up the B-side."[4] Due to its title, it has been suggested in later years that the song is a reference to (and possibly even
influenced by) the hallucinogenics STP ("Stars That Play") and LSD ("Laughing Sam's Dice"), which were also said
to be significant in the development of psychedelic music.[4] Further on the background of the song, the following
has been proposed:

Jimi [Hendrix] was developing into a seasoned traveller in the metal territories of psychedelic experience. No mind tourist he. Like so many
others, from his use of mainly LSD flowed an interest in the occult science, I Ching, astrology, numerology and colour as sound. But like any
traveller who knows the roads, Jimi also knew the potholes. He had tried to persuade Fay [Fayne Pridgeon, a former love interest of Hendrix's]
and her friends not to take as much [LSD] as he because they weren't used to it. The passenger on Jimi's joyride did not heed the warning
about opening Aldous Huxley's Doors of Perception without due regard to the dangers of sensory overload and he certainly didn't have his
[5]
parachute.

"The Stars..." has also been compared to "Spanish Castle Magic" and "Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)",
insofar as being a song which embodies a "magical mystery tour spirit."[6] The song was originally released as the
B-side to the "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" single, released in the United Kingdom and some parts of Europe on
August 19, 1967,[1] which reached number 18 on the UK Singles Chart.[7] The song was later featured on the
international (non-North America) edition of the Smash Hits compilation released in April 1968,[8] and
posthumously on the 1997 South Saturn Delta album.[9]

Personnel
The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Additional personnel

Jimi Hendrix guitars, vocals, speech


Noel Redding bass
Mitch Mitchell drums

"The Milky Way Express" speech,


whistles
Chas Chandler production
Eddie Kramer engineering

References
General
Geldeart, Gary; Rodham, Steve (2007), Jimi Hendrix: The Studio Log, Warrington, Cheshire: Jimpress,
ISBN9780952768647
Shapiro, Harry; Glebbeek, Caesar (1995), Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy, New York: St. Martin's Griffin,
ISBN9780312130626
Specific
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7]

Shapiro & Glebbeek 1995, p.527


Geldeart & Rodham 2007, p.35
Geldeart & Rodham 2007, p.36
Shapiro & Glebbeek 1995, p.209
Shapiro & Glebbeek 1995, p.210
Shapiro & Glebbeek 1995, p.309
"Jimi Hendrix Experience - Burning Of The Midnight Lamp" (http:/ / www. chartstats. com/ songinfo. php?id=4689). Chart Stats. . Retrieved
February 4, 2010.
[8] Shapiro & Glebbeek 1995, p.529
[9] "South Saturn Delta" (http:/ / www. jimihendrix. com/ catalog/ catalog,southsaturndelta,tracks. html). The Jimi Hendrix Catalog. Experience
Hendrix, L.L.C.. . Retrieved February 4, 2010.

"Sunshine of Your Love"

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"Sunshine of Your Love"


"Sunshine of Your Love"

Singleby Cream
from the album Disraeli Gears
B-side

"SWLABR"

Released

December, 1967

Format

Vinyl Single

[1]

[2]

; September 1968 (British Release)

Recorded May 1967 at Atlantic Studios, New York City


Genre

Psychedelic rock, blues rock, hard rock

Length

4:10 (album version)


[3]
3:03 ( single )

Label

Reaction Records (UK)


Atco (US)

Writer(s) Eric Clapton


Jack Bruce
Pete Brown
Producer Felix Pappalardi
Cream singles chronology
"Spoonful"
(1967)

"Sunshine of Your
Love"
(1967)

"Anyone For
Tennis"
(1968)

"Sunshine of Your Love" is a song by the British supergroup Cream, released on the Disraeli Gears album. It was
Cream's best-selling song and Atlantic Records' best-selling to date as well. It features a distinctive guitar/bass guitar
riff and an acclaimed guitar solo from Eric Clapton. It was written by bassist Jack Bruce, lyricist Pete Brown, and
guitarist Clapton.

"Sunshine of Your Love"

Development
Development of the song began in January 1967 when Bruce and Clapton attended a Jimi Hendrix show at the
Saville Theatre in London. Inspired by Hendrix's performance, Bruce returned home and wrote the memorable bass
riff that runs throughout the song. Most of the lyrics to "Sunshine of Your Love" were written during an all-night
creative session between Bruce and Brown, a poet who worked with the band: "I picked up my double bass and
played the riff. Pete looked out the window and the sun was coming up. He wrote 'It's getting near dawn and lights
close their tired eyes'"[4] Clapton later wrote the chorus ("I've been waiting so long") which also yielded the
song's title.
Clapton's guitar tone on the song is created using his 1964 Gibson SG guitar and a Marshall amplifier. It is also
believed that a Vox Clyde McCoy Picture Wah is placed fully in the bass position for the solo section. The song is
renowned among guitarists as perhaps the best example of his legendary late-'60s "woman tone", a thick yet
articulate sound that many have tried to emulate. For the solo Clapton quoted the opening lines from the pop
standard "Blue Moon," creating a contrast between the sun and the moon.
Drummer Ginger Baker's distinctive, slow, downbeat-stressing drum beat forms a key element of the song. Unlike
most standard rock beats which have a bass drum on 1 and 3 with a snare on 2 and 4, the beat in "Sunshine" is played
almost exclusively on tom-toms, emphasizing beats 1 and 3. At the end of the song the rhythm is dramatically
increased, with Baker (as well as the other two) abandoning the song's progression and simply jamming over an open
A chord. Engineer Tom Dowd later claimed to have suggested the drum part, but Baker insists that he was indeed the
one who came up with the drum pattern and didn't receive writing credit: "not even a thank you!"
The band's publisher, Atlantic Records, initially rejected the song. Booker T. Jones, leader of Booker T. and the
MG's and a respected Atlantic musician, heard the band rehearsing the song in the Atlantic studios and
recommended it to the record company bosses. Based on this recommendation, Atlantic approved the recording.

Chart success
"Sunshine of Your Love" was the band's first big US hit. In the US, this first charted in February, 1968 at #36. With
the release of the new album Wheels of Fire in August, it re-entered the chart and went to #5.[5] In England the single
was less popular reaching only #25, which was lower than two of their previous singles, "I Feel Free" and "Strange
Brew," which reached #11 and #17, respectively.[6]

Appearances in popular culture


The song appears on the soundtracks of the movies School of Rock, Goodfellas, Uncommon Valor, and True Lies.
The opening riff also appeared at the end of the Futurama episode "The 30% Iron Chef" after Bender offers to make
the crew a brunch laced with LSD. The riff also appears in The Simpsons episode "Mother Simpson", played when
Mona Simpson sees Joe Namath's long hair. In the 1985 movie The Breakfast Club, the opening riff is air-guitared
by character John Bender. It is a playable track in the video game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. It is also in the
Johnny Knoxville movie The Ringer.

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"Sunshine of Your Love"

Legacy
In 2004, the song was named the 65th greatest song of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.
In March 2005, Q magazine placed "Sunshine of Your Love" at number 19 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar
Tracks.
In 2009 it was named the 44th best hard rock song of all time by VH1.[7]

Personnel
Jack Bruce: Vocals & bass guitar
Eric Clapton: Vocals & guitars
Ginger Baker: Drums

Solo versions
Jack Bruce performed the track live at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester on June 1, 1975 and released it on Live
'75.[8] Another live version was released on Cities of the Heart and was performed during Jack's 50th birthday
concerts in 1993.[9]
Jack Bruce also recorded the song with Peter Frampton on guitar on the Ringo Starr All-Starr Band tour 1997-1998.
On the Jack Bruce album Shadows in the Air the song was covered with Eric Clapton on guitar.[10]

Versions by other performers


Jimi Hendrix performed "Sunshine of Your Love" as a setlist staple throughout his 1968 and 1969 concerts,
employing wailing guitar riffs in place of the lyrics and ending the song by dramatically slowing the tempo to a
grinding halt, as well as including leitmotifs from other Cream songs such as "Outside Woman Blues". Recordings
of the song can be found on Experience Vol. 1, The Last Experience Concert: Live at the Royal Albert Hall as well as
the 2010 release Valleys of Neptune in their entirety (slightly less than seven minutes) and in a truncated version on
BBC Sessions. During a January 1969 appearance on the "Happening for Lulu" television show, Hendrix halted his
band near the end of the set and broke into "Sunshine of Your Love", running the show past its scheduled end time.
This moment inspired Elvis Costello's rendition of "Radio Radio" on Saturday Night Live in 1977.
Blood, Sweat & Tears also used the riff in their song "Blues Part II," and a cappella singer Bobby McFerrin recorded
a voice instrumental version of the song on the album Simple Pleasures (1988), in which he replicates Clapton's
guitar solo using only his vocals and some effects processing. Ella Fitzgerald also recorded a version in 1968. The
trippiness of her rendition might be compared with that of The 5th Dimension's, which appeared on the vocal group's
The Age of Aquarius LP. A version (with some sexually-charged lyric changes) performed by Frank Zappa (and
band) appears on his The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life album, along with a cover of Hendrix' frequent
staple "Purple Haze" and a number of other covers.
English sludge band Fudge Tunnel recorded it on their album Hate Songs in E Minor in the 1990s.
Living Colour recorded their take on the song in 1994 for the True Lies soundtrack, which also appears on their
Everything Is Possible: The Very Best of Living Colour 2006 compilation album.
"Sunshine of Your Love" was also given a skanking up-tempo cover by Bim Skala Bim on the Tuba City (1989)
album.
Hardcore band Earth Crisis released a live version on their Best-Of album Forever True.
The song was also covered by Ozzy Osbourne on his 2005 cover album Under Cover.
Former Kyuss drummer Brant Bjork covered this song with his band Brant Bjork and the Bros on their double-album
Saved by Magic.

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The riff appears at the end of the noise section of "Dead Bob" by Nomeansno on the album Sex Mad. It is also
borrowed by Alexander 'Skip' Spence at the end of the song "War In Peace" from his 1969 cult album Oar.
A hard rock cover of the song can be heard in the third season of Family Guy the episode of Mr. Saturday Knight.
Funkadelic recorded a cover of the song for their album By Way of the Drum in 1984, but this album was shelved
until its release in 2007.
Trini Lopez included "Sunshine Of Your Love" on his Reprise Records album The Whole Enchilada (Reprise 6337).
The song was covered as a hard rock version on the Goo Goo Dolls's eponymous debut album.
Also, this song received a rapcore version in Thousand Foot Krutch's first album, That's What People Do.
The Syracuse, New York straight edge hardcore group Earth Crisis, covered the song on their live album The Oath
That Keeps Me Free.
American rock band Toto covered it on their 2002 cover album Through the Looking Glass.
Elvis Costello and The Police covered Sunshine of Your Love for Costello's show Spectacle: Elvis Costello with....
Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, James Franco and Shaun Weiss perform the song various times in Freaks and Geeks during
the episode I'm With the Band.
Chilly played a disco version of the song on the album Come To L.A. in 1978
Australian guitarrist and singer Orianthi covered the song for Believe (II), the re-release of her album Believe.

References
[1] http:/ / rateyourmusic. com/ release/ single/ cream/ sunshine_of_your_love___swlabr_f4/ |Rate Your Music
[2] * Discography (http:/ / www. eric-clapton. co. uk/ ecla/ discography. html)
[3] http:/ / www. connollyco. com/ discography/ cream/ sunshine7. html
[4] "The Birth of Rock". Seven Ages of Rock. BBC. BBC2. No. 1, season 1.
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[6] http:/ / www. everyhit. com/ type in "Cream" under Name of Artist to get all Cream Singles
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[8] http:/ / www. jackbruce. com/ 2008/ Music/ Albums/ live_75. htm
[9] http:/ / www. jackbruce. com/ 2008/ Music/ Albums/ cities_of_the_heart. htm
[10] http:/ / www. jackbruce. com/ 2008/ Music/ Albums/ shadows_in_the_air. htm

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McDermott, John. The Best of Cream: 20th Century Masters The Millennium Collection (liner notes). 2000,
Universal International Music.
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External links
Lyrics (http://www.eric-clapton.co.uk/ecla/lyrics/sunshine-of-your-love.html)

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"Third Stone from the Sun"


"Third Stone From the Sun"
Song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience from the album Are You Experienced
Released

May 12, 1967 (UK)


August 23, 1967 (US)

Recorded

1966

Genre

Space rock, psychedelic rock, Jazz Fusion

Length

6:52

Label

Track Records (UK)

Writer

Jimi Hendrix

Producer

Chas Chandler
Are You Experienced track listing

(UK) Side 1
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

"Foxy Lady"
"Manic Depression"
"Red House"
"Can You See Me"
"Love or Confusion"
"I Don't Live Today"

(UK) Side 2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

"May This Be Love"


"Fire"
"3rd Stone from the Sun"
"Remember"
"Are You Experienced"

Third Stone From the Sun is a song written and originally recorded by Jimi Hendrix and released as "3rd Stone
From The Sun" on the 1967 Are You Experienced album by Jimi Hendrix Experience. It is mostly an instrumental,
but includes pieces of spoken word, performed by Hendrix, over the music.
Because the song mixes the styles of rock and jazz, it is often cited as one of the earliest examples of fusion. The title
3rd Stone From the Sun is a direct reference to Earth, which is the third planet away from the Sun in the Solar
System.
The song features slowed-down voices and dialogues between Hendrix and his manager Chas Chandler. They
wanted to reproduce the spacy sounds from Star Trek. The word Stone in the title was a way to depict the Earth from
an alien point of view.
This song, along with "Purple Haze," was frequently covered live by Jaco Pastorius. Part of the guitar chorus melody
has been quoted on other records, amongst them The Amboy Dukes ("Baby, Please Don't Go"), Cozy Powell
("Dance With The Devil"), Weather Report ("Slang"), The Allman Brothers ("Mountain Jam"), Devo (a cover of
Hendrix's "Are You Experienced"), Bruno Blum ("Bruno Blum Bruno Blum Bruno Blum") and Right Said Fred
("I'm Too Sexy").
Guitarist Joe Satriani's 2002 album and
music publishing company are both
The often-quoted guitar chorus melody.

"Third Stone from the Sun"


named "Strange Beautiful Music" which is a twist on a lyric from Third Stone From The Sun ("strange beautiful
grass of green").

Dialogues
With the track sped-up by a factor of two (or playing the 33 1/3 RPM LP at 45 RPM), one can clearly hear what is
said, especially at the beginning of the song. The version heard on The Jimi Hendrix Experience: 1966-1967 begins
with the overdub session for the dialogue, including Hendrix and Chandler's first "verse" at regular speed, including
two incomplete outtakes:

Hendrix : Star fleet to scout ship, please give your position. Over.
Chandler : I am in orbit around the third planet of star known as sun. Over.
Hendrix : May this be Earth? Over.
Chandler : Positive. It is known to have some form of intelligent species. Over.
Hendrix : I think we should take a look,(Jimi then makes vocal spaceship noises).

On the original mono version (titled "3rd Stone From The Sun") the last line is buried by a normal speed overdub of
Jimi saying "War, speak water" followed by a very quiet "Speak" (He later used this unusual phrase in 'Freedom' "You've got my heart, speak electric water") this was removed from the Stereo version in favour of revealing the last
line - "I think we should take a look"
The later stereo mix reveals more slowed talk e.g. "Yeah, a acid drop can make people fly" etc.
Towards the end of the song, which was the only instrumental on the album, Hendrix, in what has been popularly
perceived to be a taunt to the popular music of the period, says, "To you I shall put an end, then you'll never hear surf
music again." According to popular surf musician Dick Dale in the liner notes of Better Shred Than Dead: The Dick
Dale Anthology[1] , the line "Then you'll never hear surf music again" was Hendrix's reaction upon hearing that Dale
was battling a possibly terminal case of colon cancer, intended to encourage his comrade to recuperate. Dale, in
gratitude to his late friend, later covered this song as a tribute to Hendrix. This interpretation is given some credence
in the aforementioned overdub sessions which reveal two additional sentences:
Hendrix: ...Then you'll never hear surf music again. That sounds like a lie to me. Come on, man; let's go home.

Notable Covers
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Jaco Pastorius
Dick Dale

External links
YouTube - Sped-up version of song with vocal tracks enhanced [2]

References
[1] Dick Dale, Better Shred Than Dead: The Dick Dale Anthology (Rhino Records, 1997), liner notes to Disc 2, Track 12.
[2] http:/ / www. youtube. com/ watch?v=sWKwBfTHRMM

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"Voodoo Chile"

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"Voodoo Chile"
"Voodoo Chile"
Song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience from the album Electric Ladyland
Released

September 1968

Genre

Psychedelic rock, blues-rock, Acid Blues

Length

14:59

Label

MCA
Electric Ladyland track listing

(US) Side 1
1.
2.
3.
4.

"...And The Gods Made Love"


"Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)"
"Crosstown Traffic"
"Voodoo Chile"

(US) Side 2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

"Little Miss Strange"


"Long Hot Summer Night"
"Come On (Part I)"
"Gypsy Eyes"
"Burning of the Midnight Lamp"

(US) Side 3
1. "Rainy Day, Dream Away"
2. "1983...(A Merman I Should Turn to Be)"
3. "Moon, Turn the Tides...Gently Gently Way"

(US) Side 4'


1.
2.
3.
4.

"Still Raining, Still Dreaming"


"House Burning Down"
"All Along the Watchtower"
"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"

"Voodoo Chile" is a song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience from the album Electric Ladyland. Recorded on May 2,
1968 at the Record Plant Studios in New York City, the recording session included Mitch Mitchell, drummer of The
Jimi Hendrix Experience, Steve Winwood of Traffic on B3 organ, and Jack Casady of Jefferson Airplane on bass
duties. The song, basically a 15-minute blues jam, evolved into the final product over the course of an hour.
After many of the late night Electric Ladyland recording sessions, Hendrix and the band went to one of the New
York City clubs to jam with whoever was there. One such jam at The Scene Club included Steve Winwood and Jack
Casady. Noel Redding was not present as he had stormed out of the Record Plant studio earlier that evening. They
spent the night playing "Voodoo Chile", and when the club closed, Hendrix invited everyone back to the studio.
At about 7 a.m. the next morning they began to formally record "Voodoo Chile". It took only three takes and the
final 15 minute version was Hendrix's longest studio recording. The second take did not come out well, since a string
broke. The first and second takes are used in "Voodoo Chile Blues" that is a combination of two takes released on
Hendrix leftovers-album called Blues.
While "Voodoo Chile" sounds like a live recording, the crowd noise was actually recorded afterwards. Some twenty
people were brought to the studio to record appropriate background noise.
The song evolved over time from a song called "Catfish Blues" which Hendrix also called "Experiencing the Blues",
an homage to Muddy Waters. The song was made up of a medley of verses based on Muddy Waters' songs,

"Voodoo Chile"
including "Rollin' Stone", "Still a Fool", and "Rollin' and Tumblin'".
The song "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" appears on the same album. A signature Hendrix number, "Slight Return"
has been heavily covered by guitarists (and others) in the four decades since its recording and release.
The use of the word 'chile' is a deliberate misspelling of the word "child", to mimic that Hendrix didn't pronounce the
end of the word, which he also used on the song "Highway Chile".

References
McDermott, John & Cox, Billy & Kramer, Eddie (1996). Jimi Hendrix: Sessions: The Complete Studio Recording
Sessions, 1963-1970. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN0-316-55546-0.

External links
The Legend of Jimi Hendrix [1] by Charles R. Cross

References
[1] http:/ / www. geocities. com/ thadoc78/ hendrix. htm

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"Wait Until Tomorrow"

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"Wait Until Tomorrow"


"Wait Until Tomorrow"
Song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience from the album Axis: Bold as Love
Released

December 1, 1967

Recorded

October 26, 1967 at Olympic Sound Studios,


London

Genre

Blues-rock, psychedelic rock

Length

3:00

Label

Track, Reprise

Writer

Jimi Hendrix

Producer

Chas Chandler
Cover versions

John Mayer Trio, Try! (2005)


Axis: Bold as Love track listing

Side 1
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

"EXP"
"Up from the Skies"
"Spanish Castle Magic"
"Wait Until Tomorrow"
"Ain't No Telling"
"Little Wing"
"If 6 Was 9"

Side 2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

"You Got Me Floatin'"


"Castles Made of Sand"
"She's So Fine"
"One Rainy Wish"
"Little Miss Lover"
"Bold as Love"

"Wait Until Tomorrow" is a song by English/American psychedelic rock band The Jimi Hendrix Experience,
featured on their 1967 second album Axis: Bold as Love. Written by lead vocalist and guitarist Jimi Hendrix, the
song details the scenario of a male protagonist addressing his female love with whom he plans to leave home, only to
be shot dead by her father. Despite not being released as a single, "Wait Until Tomorrow" has been recognised as
one of the strongest songs on the album.[1] [2]

Background and style


"Wait Until Tomorrow" was one of the first "situation song[s]" written by Hendrix and is said to be influenced by
soul artists such as The Isley Brothers (with whom Hendrix performed before forming The Experience)[1] and
stylistically similar to guitarist Steve Cropper.[3] A "head-on boygirl song,"[3] "Wait Until Tomorrow" was one of
the final songs recorded for the album on October 26, 1967, before the album was completed with the recording of
title track "Bold as Love" three days later.[3] In a review for music website allmusic, Matthew Greenwald described
the progression and style of the song thus:

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A great bass and guitar duet is the core riff, and, as usual, Hendrix builds up to gentle and entertaining crescendos from there. Lyrically, the
song finds Hendrix writing a situation song, creating characters in the first person. This was one of his first attempts at this, and it's fun
[1]
listening to him stretch his songwriting abilities.

Reception
Reviews of Axis: Bold as Love have generally mentioned "Wait Until Tomorrow" in a positive light. Matthew
Greenwald of allmusic identifies the "playful song" as "one of the low-key highlights" of the album,[1] while Parke
Puterbaugh of music magazine Rolling Stone describes it as a "taut, funky, could've-been-hit."[2] In reviewing the
album for the BBC, Chris Jones summarised "Wait Until Tomorrow" as "a wry, funky little tale,"[4] while
Sputnikmusic reviewer "Broken Arrow" had the following to say about the song:

The intro is light and quick, [with a] guitar part and a real heavy bass [line] that only consists of one note but really adds to the intro. As Jimi
[Hendrix]'s vocals and Mitch [Mitchell]'s drums come in the band goes into more of a groove. After a nice guitar fill that resembles the intro
the extremely catchy chorus comes with some nice background vocals. The intro theme gets repeated a few times in the song before every
[5]
verse. Mitch plays some very nice fills in this song and keeps a solid beat throughout [it]. 4/5

Personnel
The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Additional personnel

Jimi Hendrix lead vocals, guitars


Noel Redding bass, backing vocals
Mitch Mitchell drums, tambourine, backing
vocals

Chas Chandler production


Eddie Kramer engineering

Cover versions
American blues-rock band the John Mayer Trio have performed "Wait Until Tomorrow" a number of times, with live
performances featured on their 2005 live album Try![6] and lead vocalist and guitarist John Mayer's 2008 live album
Where the Light Is: John Mayer Live in Los Angeles.[7]

References
[1] Greenwald, Matthew. "Wait Until Tomorrow" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=33:jpfpxct5ld6e). allmusic. .
Retrieved May 16, 2009.
[2] Puterbaugh, Parke (May 20, 2003). "Axis: Bold As Love" (http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ artists/ jimihendrix/ albums/ album/ 189916/
review/ 5943211/ axis_bold_as_love). Music Reviews. Rolling Stone. . Retrieved May 16, 2009.
[3] Shapiro, Harry; Glebbeek, Caesar (August 15, 1995) [September 17, 1990]. "Chapter Eight: No More Surf Music". Jimi Hendrix: Electric
Gypsy. St. Martin's Griffin. pp.223, 224, 528. ISBN0312130627.
[4] Jones, Chris (April 24, 2007). "Review of The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis Bold As Love" (http:/ / www. bbc. co. uk/ music/ reviews/
rmjw/ ). Music. BBC. . Retrieved May 16, 2009.
[5] Broken Arrow (October 15, 2005). "Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold As Love Review" (http:/ / www. sputnikmusic. com/ album.
php?albumid=6296). Sputnikmusic. . Retrieved May 16, 2009.
[6] "Wait Until Tomorrow - John Mayer Trio with Steve Jordan and Pino Palladino" (http:/ / www. secondhandsongs. com/ song/ 38904). Second
Hand Songs. . Retrieved May 16, 2009.
[7] Collar, Matt. "Where the Light Is: John Mayer Live in Los Angeles > Overview" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg&
sql=10:kjfqxzljldse~T0). allmusic. . Retrieved May 16, 2009.

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"Wild Thing"
"Wild Thing"
Singleby The Troggs
B-side

"From Home" (UK)


"From Home" (US Fontana)
"With A Girl Like You" (US
Atco)
"Lost Girl" (FRG)

Released

1966

Format

7" single

Genre

Rock

Length

2:30

Label

Fontana 267570TF (UK)


Fontana 1548 (US)
Atco 6415 (US)
Hansa 18940AT (FRG)

Writer(s)

Chip Taylor

Producer

Larry Page
The Troggs singles chronology

"Lost
Girl"
(1965)

"Wild
Thing"
(1966)

"With a Girl Like


You"
(1966)

"Wild Thing" is a hit song written by New York City-born songwriter Chip Taylor and originally recorded by The
Wild Ones in 1965.[1] The song is best known for its 1966 cover by the English band The Troggs, which reached the
number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 in July 1966. The song charted one position lower in Britain, reaching #2.
The song as sung by The Troggs is ranked #257 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of
All Time.

Composition
The song's central guitar riff is immediately recognizable and frames the central lyric:
Wild thing
You make my heart sing
You make everything ... groovy
The music stops for the counter lyric:
Wild thing, I think I love you...
But I WANNA KNOW for sure.
So come on, and hold me tight
I love you
The Second counter lyric is as follows:
Wild thing, I think you move me

"Wild Thing"
But I WANNA KNOW for sure
So come on, and hold me tight You move me
The song is in the key of A major, and is based around the chord progression (I - IV - V - IV), which is the basis for
the main riff, and the instrumental parts during the chorus. However, the guitars are not strictly tuned to middle C in
the Troggs version and the slightly sharp tuning causes the chords to actually be midway between A and Bb. This
has, of course, mystified many guitar players trying to play along with the record. The middle eight was originally
someone whistling, but in the Troggs' version this was replaced by Colin Fretcher, musical director, playing an
ocarina.

Troggs single
The Troggs version was recorded in mono in one piece on the second take at Olympic Studios which was then at
Carton Street, off Baker Street in London, by engineer Keith Grant.
Because of a distribution dispute, the Troggs single was available on two competing labels: Atco and Fontana.[2]
Because both pressings were taken from the identical master recording, Billboard combined the sales for both
releases, making it the only single to simultaneously reach #1 for two companies.[3] On the ATCO label, "Wild
Thing" is credited to Reg Presley (Troggs' lead vocalist) and "With a Girl Like You" (its flip side) to Chip Taylor.
The author credits are reversed. On the Fontana label, "Wild Thing" is credited to Chip Taylor and the flip contains a
different song, "From Home", credited to Reg Presley. The Fontana label credits production to Page One
Productions, England while the ATCO label credits production as "A Larry Page Production, Recorded in England".

Other versions
The song has remained popular ever since The Troggs' hit single, and has been covered again many times perhaps
most notably by Jimi Hendrix, whose stage performance of the song was featured in the 1967 documentary Monterey
Pop. Hendrix recorded the song live and it can be heard in the compilation album The Ultimate Experience.
In 1967, the novelty team of Senator Bobby released a version of "Wild Thing". Sung by comedian Bill Minkin in
the verbal style of Democratic Senator Bobby Kennedy while a recording engineer is heard giving instructions, the
stammering single charted at #20 in the United States. The flip side of the Senator Bobby 45 featured "Senator
Everett McKinley" (an impression of Republican Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen) doing the same song; the initial
voiceover by the recording engineer encourages Senator Bobby to respond to his "hit single" (the Senator Everett
McKinley version also had some radio airplay at the time). The songs were credited to The Hardly-Worthit Players,
and the Senator Bobby version was included as a bonus track on reissues of their 1962 Parkway LP called The
Hardly-Worthit Report (the rest of the album is a comedic takeoff on the NBC national news broadcast The
Huntley-Brinkley Report).
The British group Fancy recorded a version of the song in 1974, which reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100. The
British comedy troupe The Goodies recorded a version of the song, and performed it during a 1976 episode of their
television series. In 1983 the song was covered by the psychobilly band The Meteors for their Wreckin' Crew album,
and was also performed by the Australian pub band Cold Chisel during their Last Stand concert. Sister Carol did a
reggae version in 1986.
The Runaways performed a live version of the song on their live album, "Live in Japan". Drummer Sandy West sang
on the track.
Comedian Sam Kinison recorded a hit novelty version in 1988, with a music video featuring cameos from Rodney
Dangerfield as well as many well-known rock musicians including Steven Tyler and Joe Perry from Aerosmith,
Slash, Billy Idol, Steve Vai, Dweezil Zappa, Sebastian Bach, Richie Sambora and Jon Bon Jovi of Bon Jovi, and
Tommy Lee, and a raunchy "roll on the mat" dance with Jessica Hahn. A cover by the Los Angeles-based punk band

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X was used in the 1989 film Major League and its 1994 sequel, Major League II. The 1990 cartoon version of the
comic book character Swamp Thing had a theme song that parodied the song, with the lyrics "Swamp Thing! You
are amazing!" Cheap Trick recorded the song for the soundtrack to Encino Man in 1992, possibly as a tribute to
Kinison who had died that year. The Troggs recorded a new version in 1993, which charted in the lower reaches of
the British charts. A cover version was recorded by Hank Williams, Jr. in 1995. Australian rock group Divinyls
covered the song in 1993 for the soundtrack of the movie Reckless Kelly. Prince interpolated the chorus of the song
into his cover of Tommy James and the Shondells' "Crimson and Clover".
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed the song on numerous occasions during their Working on a
Dream Tour.
The Swedish rock band Trash Cans made a cover of Wild Thing in 2010.

Amanda Lear version


"Wild Thing"
Singleby Amanda Lear
from the album Secret Passion
[4]

B-side

"Aphrodisiac"

Released

1987

Format

7"

Recorded

1986

Genre

pop, synthpop, new wave

Length

3:26

Label

Carrere Records

Writer(s)

Chip Taylor

Producer

Christian de Walden, Steve Singer


Amanda Lear singles chronology

"Les
Femmes"
(1986)

"Wild
Thing"
(1987)

"Aphrodisiaque"
(1987)

"Wild Thing" is a single by French singer Amanda Lear released in 1987 by Carrere Records.

"Wild Thing"

Song information
The track is a cover of Chip Taylor's 1965 song "Wild Thing", that was one year later recorded by the English band
The Troggs. Amanda Lear's version adds synthpop feel to the song.

Music video
Music video is set in a bedroom. It features French actor Jean-Luc Lahaye, who appears reading in bed Amanda's
previously released novel L'Immortelle[5] .

Track listing
1. "Wild Thing" (Chip Taylor) - 3:26
2. "Aphrodisiac" (M. Shepstone - S. Singer - A. Lear - L. Macaluso) - 3:44

Use in sports, television and film


The 1989 baseball film Major League used "Wild Thing" recorded by L.A. punk band X as the theme song for Rick
Vaughn, the team's erratic relief pitcher. Life soon imitated art, when the Philadelphia Phillies closer Mitch Williams
adopted the song for his entrances from the bullpen, including in the 1993 World Series. During the late 2000s, the
song is played at Fenway Park whenever Boston Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon comes in from the bullpen,
followed by "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" by the Dropkick Murphy's.
In 1992, the Troggs' version was used in the film D2: The Mighty Ducks. That same year a version by Cheap Trick
was used for the film Encino Man. In 2003, Aerosmith recorded a version of the song with a video, which was used
for commercials and teasers advertising ABC's coverage of the NFL Wild Card playoffs.
In the UK the song was used heavily by television programme "You've Been Framed", for clips generally involving
animals.
Japanese Pro Wrestler Atsushi Onita used the X cover of the song as his entrance theme.
The song was featured in a prominent scene in the 1997 miniseries Painted Lady featuring Helen Mirren.
In 1998, the song was used in The Vicar of Dibley episode Love and Marriage - the choir at St. Barnabus' Church
sang the song after Hugo and Alice made their vows and were pronounced man and wife.
In the Full House episode, "Just Say No Way," Jesse Katsopalis plays this song with the marching band at DJ's
school dance (replacing Dogface, a popular high school band, who broke up hours beforehand).
The title of the 1986 film Something Wild was itself an inversion of the song title. The film features a scene where
two main characters (played by Jeff Daniels and Melanie Griffith) pick up some hitch-hikers in their convertible and
the party then sing "Wild Thing".

External links
The Screamin Sam Show Tribute to Sam Kinison [6]
Cover history at Second Hand Songs [7]
Tablature and chords [8]

References
[1] The release was United Artists 947. See history at Second Hand Songs (http:/ / www. secondhandsongs. com/ song/ 29292. html).
[2] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=9BAEAAAAMBAJ& pg=PA3& dq=%22troggs%22+ %2B+ atco+ %2B+ fontana& hl=en&
ei=RwcqTML_OdH_nAeb1IyjAQ& sa=X& oi=book_result& ct=result& resnum=1& ved=0CCUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&
q=%22troggs%22%20%2B%20atco%20%2B%20fontana& f=false
[3] Mojo Magazine #173 (April 2008), pg. 39
[4] Wild Thing. Amanda Lear Official Site (http:/ / amandalear_singoli. tripod. com/ 061_wild_thing_87. htm). Retrieved: 2009-10-08.

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[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]

Wild Thing. YouTube (http:/ / www. youtube. com/ watch?v=K1DY2h_occ4). Retrieved: 2009-10-08.
http:/ / www. screaminsam. com/
http:/ / www. secondhandsongs. com/ song/ 29292. html
http:/ / www. guitaretab. com/ t/ troggs/ 19802. html/

"You Got Me Floating"


You Got Me Floating (or You've Got Me Floating; You Got Me Floatin') is a song composed by Jimi Hendrix.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience recorded it in 1967 and released it on their album Axis: Bold as Love.
Allmusic describes the song as the "purest pop song" in Hendrix's body of work.[1]
The song has also been performed by Hiram Bullock, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Patron Saints, and PM Dawn.
A heavy metal version was performed by Eric Burdon since 1994. It's still part of his recent setlist.

References
[1] Ward, Thomas. "You Got Me Floatin'" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=33:wjfuxqq0ldhe). allmusic. Macrovision. .
Retrieved 2009-02-06.

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Tours
The Cry of Love Tour
The Cry of Love Tour
Tour by Jimi Hendrix
Start date

April 25, 1970

End date

September 6, 1970

Legs

Shows

41 (6 festivals)
Jimi Hendrix tour chronology

Electric Ladyland
Tour
(19681969)

The Cry of Love


Tour
(1970)

The Cry of Love Tour was a United States concert tour by American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist Jimi
Hendrix, which ran from April 25 to September 6, 1970. The tour turned out to be the last on which Hendrix
performed before his death in September, and featured many songs that he was working on for his double album
First Rays of the New Rising Sun. Though the band did not feature original bassist Noel Redding, the trio of Hendrix,
Mitch Mitchell (drums) and Billy Cox (bass) were often billed as "The Jimi Hendrix Experience".

Band members
The original Experience broke up in June 1969, after bassist Noel Redding left the band. Hendrix subsequently
formed Gypsy Sun and Rainbows, which famously performed at the 1969 Woodstock Festival. After only two more
performances, the band split up; Hendrix kept bassist Billy Cox and formed the Band of Gypsys with drummer and
vocalist Buddy Miles. After a similarly short run, the trio disbanded, and Hendrix and Cox re-recruited drummer
Mitch Mitchell to form what was often billed as "the new Jimi Hendrix Experience". The band was later dubbed
"The Cry of Love", a name taken from the tour and the album on which they performed.
Jimi Hendrix lead vocals, guitar
Mitch Mitchell drums
Billy Cox bass, backing vocals

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Sample set list


The set lists on The Cry of Love Tour consisted largely of new songs being worked on by Hendrix, including "Lover
Man", "Room Full of Mirrors", "Machine Gun" and "Ezy Ryder". A number of songs from his original albums with
The Jimi Hendrix Experience were still present, however, such as "Fire", "Red House", "Purple Haze" and "Voodoo
Child (Slight Return)".
The following is the set list from the band's May 9 concert at the Will Rogers Coliseum in Fort Worth, Texas, which
serves well as a sample set list for the tour.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.

"Fire"
"Lover Man"
"Hear My Train A Comin'"
"Foxy Lady"
"Room Full of Mirrors"
"Red House"
"Freedom"
"Ezy Ryder"
"Machine Gun"

10. "The Star-Spangled Banner"


11. "Purple Haze"
12. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"
"Fire" and "Lover Man" were regularly used as the first songs in performances, and "Purple Haze" and "Voodoo
Child" were regularly used as the last. A number of concerts featured "Spanish Castle Magic" as the opening song,
and in the later dates songs like "Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)", "Stone Free", "Hey Joe" and "All Along the
Watchtower" were introduced. "Straight Ahead" and "Midnight Lightning" also made their live debuts, both at the
May 30 Berkeley concerts.

Tour dates
Number

Date

City

Country

Venue
United States I

Support

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April 25, 1970

Los Angeles

April 26, 1970

United
States

The Forum

Buddy Miles Express


Ballin' Jack

Sacramento

Cal Expo

Buddy Miles Express


Blue Mountain Eagle

May 1, 1970

Milwaukee

Milwaukee Arena

Oz

May 2, 1970

Dane County

Dane County Memorial Coliseum

May 3, 1970

Saint Paul

Saint Paul Civic Center

Savage Grace
Oz

May 4, 1970

New York City

The Village Gate

Johnny Winter with Noel Redding

May 8, 1970

Norman

University of Oklahoma Field House

Bloodrock

May 9, 1970

Fort Worth

Will Rogers Coliseum

10

May 10, 1970

San Antonio

San Antonio Hemisphere Arena

11
(Festival)

May 16, 1970

Philadelphia

Temple University Stadium

Grateful Dead
Steve Miller Band
Cactus

12

May 30, 1970

Berkeley

Berkeley Community Theatre

Tower of Power

14

June 5, 1970

Dallas

Dallas Memorial Auditorium

15

June 6, 1970

Houston

Sam Houston Coliseum

16

June 7, 1970

Tulsa

Assembly Center Arena

17

June 9, 1970

Memphis

Mid-South Coliseum

18

June 10, 1970

Evansville

Roberts Municipal Stadium

19

June 13, 1970

Baltimore

Baltimore Civic Center

20

June 19, 1970

Albuquerque

Albuquerque Civic Auditorium

22

June 20, 1970

San Bernardino

Swing Auditorium

23

June 21, 1970

Ventura

Ventura County Fairgrounds

24

June 23, 1970

Denver

Mammoth Gardens

25

June 27, 1970

Boston

Boston Garden

The Illusion
Cactus

26
(Festival)

July 4, 1970

Byron

Middle Georgia Raceway


(Atlanta Pop Festival)

Rare Earth
The Chambers Brothers
Lee Michaels
Jethro Tull
Cactus
Cat Mother & the All Night
Newsboys
Rotary Connection
The Gypsy

27

July 5, 1970

Miami

Miami Jai-Alai Fronton

13

Ballin' Jack

Ballin' Jack
Cactus

21

28
United States II

Ballin' Jack
Grin

The Cry of Love Tour

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29
(Festival)

July 17, 1970

Randall's Island

30

July 25, 1970

31

32

United
States

Downing Stadium
(New York Pop Festival)

John Sebastian
Grand Funk Railroad
Steppenwolf
Jethro Tull

San Diego

San Diego Sports Arena

Cat Mother & the All Night


Newsboys

July 26, 1970

Seattle

Sick's Stadium

Cactus
Rube Tuben and the Rhondonnas

July 30, 1970

Maui

Haleakala Crater

August 1, 1970

Honolulu

Honolulu International Center

33
34

Europe
35
(Festival)

August 30, 1970

Isle of Wight

England

East Afton Farm


(Isle of Wight Festival)

36

August 31, 1970

Stockholm

Sweden

Grna Lund

37

September 1, 1970

Gothenburg

38

September 2, 1970

Aarhus

39

September 3, 1970

Copenhagen

40
(Festival)

September 4, 1970

Berlin

41
(Festival)

September 6, 1970

Fehmarn

Kris Kristofferson
Ralph McTell
Heaven
Free
Donovan
Pentangle
The Moody Blues
Jethro Tull
Joan Baez
Richie Havens
Leonard Cohen

Liseberg
Denmark

Germany

Vejlby Risskov Hallen


K.B. Hallen

Blue Sun

Deutschlandhalle
(Super Concert '70)

Murphy Blend
Procol Harum
Canned Heat
Ten Years After
Cat Mother & the All Night
Newsboys

Mecklenburg Bay

Alexis Korner
Floh de Cologne
Limbus 4
Embryo

The Cry of Love Tour

References
Shapiro, Harry; Caesar Glebbeek. "Appendix 3: Jimi Hendrix - A Life in Music: A Chronology". Jimi Hendrix:
Electric Gypsy. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. pp.738740. ISBN978-0-312-13062-6.
"Jimi Hendrix Set List" [1]. earthlink.net. Retrieved 2008-09-07.
Wilkinson, Paul. "just ask the Axis" [2]. Digital Highway. Retrieved 2008-09-07.

References
[1] http:/ / home. earthlink. net/ ~ldouglasbell/ dir1/ jhe_sets. htm
[2] http:/ / www. digitalhighway. co. uk/ axis/ index. asp

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience French Tour 1966

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience French Tour 1966


French Tour 1966
Tour by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Location

France

Start date

October 13, 1966

End date

October 18, 1966

Legs

Shows

The Jimi Hendrix Experience tour chronology


French Tour
1966

UK Tour 1967

The French Tour 1966 (officially untitled) was a short concert tour by American psychedelic rock band The Jimi
Hendrix Experience. The tour began on October 13, 1966, concluded on October 18, 1966 and featured four
shows.[1] On all four dates, The Experience were supporting Long Chris, The Blackbirds and Johnny Hallyday; The
Brian Auger Trinity also performed, before headliner Hallyday, on the final date.[1]

Band members
The 1966 tour of France marked the first show performed by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, on October 13. This was
only one week after the formation of the band, after drummer Mitch Mitchell joined on October 6.[1]
Jimi Hendrix vocals, guitar
Noel Redding bass
Mitch Mitchell drums

Set lists
The set lists for the first three dates of the tour remain unclear, though are known to have included "Hey Joe",
planned as the band's first single; Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor"; "Land of a Thousand Dances", popularised by
Wilson Picket; Otis Redding's "Respect"; and "Have Mercy Baby", most recently recorded by James Brown.[2]
"Killing Floor" and "Hey Joe" were retained for the final date at the Olympia, to which rock standard "Wild Thing"
was added as a finale; this was the first Experience performance recorded.

Tour dates

The Jimi Hendrix Experience French Tour 1966

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Number

Date

City

Venue

October 13,
1966

vreux

Novelty

October 14,
1966

Nancy

Unknown

October 15,
1966

October 18,
1966

Villerupt Salle ds Ftes

Paris

Olympia

References
Shapiro, Harry; Glebbeek, Caesar (1995), Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy, St. Martin's Griffin,
ISBN9780312130626

References
[1] Shapiro & Glebbeek 1995, pp.700701
[2] Shapiro & Glebbeek 1995, pp.121122

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Associated places
34 Montagu Square, Marylebone
34 Montagu Square, Marylebone was the address of a London
basement flat, owned by Ringo Starr of The Beatles during the
mid-1960s. Its location is conveniently close to Abbey Road
Studios, where the band recorded.
Starr leased the flat in 1965, before his marriage to Maureen Cox.
Before long he and Maureen moved to a new home, Sunny
Heights, outside London, but Starr chose to keep the lease. Paul
McCartney had Ian Sommerville install recording equipment
(including two Revox reel-to-reel tape machines) at one point,
planning to use the place as a studio hideaway. Sommerville
The gardens in the middle of Montagu Square
recorded writer William S. Burroughs there,[1] but discouraged
other interested persons, believing he was working for McCartney exclusively.[2]
McCartney later gave up the flat and it remained empty until Ringo rented it to Jimi Hendrix in December 1966.[3]
Starr also lent the flat to other pop stars and friends over the next few years, when they needed a place to stay in
London. John Lennon's mother-in-law Lillian Powell stayed at Montagu Square, rather than at Kenwood, when she
came to visit daughter Cynthia Powell.
When Lennon got together with Yoko Ono in 1968, he moved out of Kenwood and the two lived in the flat for the
next several months, as the Beatles's "White Album" was being made. Lennon and Ono's experimental Two Virgins
album had been recorded at Kenwood, but its notorious nude cover photos were taken at Montagu Square. The
couple also gave an early interview to Rolling Stone, when journalist Jonathan Cott visited the apartment.
Ono was pregnant during their stay, and the two were also in the throes of heroin addiction. In the autumn, the flat
was raided by London's Drugs Squad, and police dogs discovered hashish on the premises. Both were arrested, and
Lennon pled guilty to hashish possession, absolving Ono, who miscarried their unborn baby not long after.
After the police raid, the landlord sought an injunction against Starr, forbidding anyone but Starr or his family to live
there, and allowing no music or instruments to be played. Starr appealed, and a compromise was reached; only Starr
or a family member would live in the flat.
Nonetheless, Starr never used the place again, and sold his lease during 1969.

34 Montagu Square, Marylebone

External links
The Ultimate Rock Pad [4]
John Lennon's Homes [5]
Geographical coordinates: 51317N 0935W

References
[1] Miles. pp240
[2] Miles. pp242
[3] Hendrix outside Montagu Place (http:/ / www. bbc. co. uk/ london/ content/ articles/ 2006/ 10/ 06/ hendrix_interview_feature. shtml)
bbc.co.uk: 6 October 2006
[4] http:/ / www. beatlesnews. com/ montagu. htm
[5] http:/ / homepage. ntlworld. com/ carousel/ pob41. html

Electric Lady Studios


Electric Lady Studios, at 52 West 8th Street, in New York City's Greenwich Village, is a recording studio originally
built by Jimi Hendrix and designed by John Storyk in 1970. A variety of artists have recorded music there, including
John Lennon, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Carly Simon, The Clash, Peter Frampton, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie,
Al Green, Dave Matthews Band, Christina Aguilera, Bad Religion, Stevie Wonder, Cactus, Goldfrapp, Greezy
Wheels, Billy Cobham, Curtis Mayfield, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Lou Reed, Mandrill, Muse, Arctic Monkeys, The
Early Years, Sinad O'Connor, Billy Joel, Billy Idol, Nas, The Mars Volta, Frank Zappa, Mike Oldfield, The
Magnetic Fields, Guns N' Roses (Chinese Democracy sessions), Elkie Brooks, Patti Smith, John McLaughlin, Kiss,
Van Halen, Weezer, Interpol, Ryan Adams, Steve Earle, Monster Magnet, The Pink Spiders, Deee Lite, Chris
Braide, Rancid, D'Angelo, Wolfmother, Miley Cyrus, The Big Pink, Erykah Badu, Common (as well as the majority
of the Soulquarians), and Metric.

History
In 1968, Hendrix and his manager Michael Jeffery had invested jointly in the purchase of the Generation Club in
Greenwich Village. Their initial plans to reopen the club were scrapped when the pair decided that the investment
would serve them much better as a recording studio. The studio fees for the lengthy Electric Ladyland sessions were
astronomical, and Jimi was constantly in search of a recording environment that suited him.
Construction of the studio took nearly double the amount of time and money as planned: permits were delayed
numerous times, the site flooded due to heavy rains during demolition, and sump pumps had to be installed (then
soundproofed) after it was determined that the building sat on the tributary of an underground river. A six-figure loan
from Warner Brothers was required to save the project.
Designed by architect and acoustician John Storyk, the studio was made specifically for Hendrix, with round
windows and a machine capable of generating ambient lighting in myriad colors. It was designed to have a relaxing
feel to encourage Jimi's creativity, but at the same time provide a professional recording atmosphere. Engineer Eddie
Kramer upheld this by refusing to allow any drug use during session work. Artist Lance Jost painted the studio in a
psychedelic space theme.[1]
Hendrix spent only four weeks recording in Electric Lady, most of which took place while the final phases of
construction were still ongoing. An opening party was held on August 26, 1970 and the following day Hendrix
created his last ever studio recording: a cool and tranquil instrumental known only as "Slow Blues". He then boarded
an Air India flight for London to perform at the Isle of Wight Festival, and died less than three weeks later.

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Electric Lady Studios


Electric Lady Studio's address at 52 West 8th Street has a long history. It was previously inhabited by Abstract
Expressionist artist, Hans Hofmann. Known as the "Village Barn", he began lecturing there in 1938, eventually
retiring from teaching in 1958 to paint full time.

Popular culture
Electric Lady Studios was prominently featured in the movie Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist where a series of
scenes were shot inside the actual recording studios. Nick (Michael Cera) and Norah (Kat Dennings) make multiple
mentions during their visit there of the historical nature of the studio, and list many factual references to the
multitude of artists who recorded there.

See also
Albums recorded at Electric Lady Studios

External links
Official web site [2]

References
[1] "Lance Jost Designs Vintage Paintings" (http:/ / lancejostdesigns. com/ paint1. htm). . Retrieved 2007-04-09.
[2] http:/ / www. electricladystudios. com/

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Associated people
Monika Dannemann
Monika Dannemann (June 24, 1945 April 5, 1996) was a German figure skater and painter and was the last
girlfriend of American rock guitarist/singer Jimi Hendrix.

Figure skating
In 1965 she participated in the German Figure Skating Championships representing the club Dsseldorfer EG. She
came in 16th position. She never participated in Europeans or Worlds.

Hendrix and his death


Dannemann was first introduced to Hendrix after being invited to one of his concerts. After that meeting, a
relationship blossomed. She would later claim that Hendrix had asked her to marry him and would have done so had
he not died. Dannemann is known for being the last person to have seen Jimi Hendrix alive. On the morning of
September 18, 1970, he was found dead in the basement apartment of the Samarkand Hotel, 22 Lansdowne Crescent,
London, where Dannemann and Hendrix spent the night together. Hendrix died in bed after taking a reported nine
Vesperax sleeping pills and asphyxiating on his own vomit.
Police and ambulance reports from the time reveal that Hendrix was dead when they arrived on the scene, the
apartment's front door was wide open, and the apartment itself empty. Dannemann claimed Hendrix was alive when
he was placed in the back of the ambulance. However, her comments about that morning were often contradictory
and confused, varying from interview to interview. The case was re-examined by UK police and Dannemann was
never blamed for Hendrix's death, although she was held under a cloud of suspicion by others close to Hendrix.
In the book, The Final Days of Jimi Hendrix, author Tony Brown theorizes that Dannemann was directly or
indirectly involved in the death of Jimi Hendrix. David Henderson, author of the biography Scuse Me While I Kiss
the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix, claims that Dannemann waited several hours before she called an ambulance, and
that the ambulance driver noticed a scarf tied tightly around Hendrix's neck when he arrived.
Another of Hendrix's girlfriends, Kathy Etchingham, continued with more suggestions that blame should be put on
Dannemann.

After Hendrix
After Hendrix's death, Dannemann became romantically involved with German rock guitarist Ulrich Roth, formerly
of the Scorpions, with whom she collaborated on several songs (notably "We'll Burn the Sky") and album cover
designs and artwork. Roth also wrote the foreword to Dannemann's 1995 book about her experiences living and
working with Hendrix, entitled The Inner World of Jimi Hendrix. The front cover featured a photo of Hendrix taken
by Dannemann on the afternoon of his death.
After his death Dannemann held onto Hendrix's famous black Stratocaster (nicknamed Black Beauty by Hendrix). It
was kept in its case until 1993, when it was examined by Len Jones. It only saw daylight for 3 hours until it was
fitted back into its case. Dannemann then disappeared with it.

Monika Dannemann

Death
In 1996 Dannemann was convicted of breaking a British High Court order not to repeat allegations that Kathy
Etchingham was an "inveterate liar" for accusing her of playing a role in Hendrix's death. Etchingham asked the
judge to jail Dannemann but she was released. Two days later Dannemann was found dead in a fume-filled
Mercedes-Benz near her cottage in Seaford, East Sussex, aged 50. Her death was ruled a suicide,[1] though Uli Jon
Roth suggested that foul play may have been involved, as Dannemann had received numerous death threats
following Hendrix's death.
It is rumoured that Hendrix's black Stratocaster is now kept in storage by Roth, but this has never been confirmed.

Book
Inner World of Jimi Hendrix (1995) ISBN 0-312-13738-9

External links
Collected press reports [2]
Monika Dannemann shrine, 10 pages by Uli Jon Roth [3]
German newspaper report [4]

References
[1] Braid, Mary (May 1, 1996). "A rock legend unto herself" (http:/ / www. independent. co. uk/ life-style/ a-rock-legend-unto-herself-1345098.
html). The Independent. . Retrieved July 8, 2009.
[2] http:/ / www. edenwaith. com/ uliroth/ media/ monika. html
[3] http:/ / www. ulijonroth. com/ sky/ lux_artis/ monika_1. htm
[4] http:/ / rhein-zeitung. de/ on/ 96/ 04/ 07/ topnews/ dannemann. html

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Karl Ferris

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Karl Ferris
Karl Ferris
Born

Hastings, Sussex, England

Nationality British
Field

Photography

Karl Ferris is an English photographer/designer, best-known as one of the principal innovators of "psychedelic"
photography. A photographer to the British Rock Elite - Eric Clapton, Cream, Donovan, The Hollies and Jimi
Hendrix - Ferris was invited - as a style consultant and their personal photographer - to help create their public
images. He was given an insider's access to the Experience that helped define the look of the 1960s and influence
youth culture and lifestyles worldwide.

Early years
As a post World War II baby who grew up in Hastings, England in the 1950s, Ferris learned two things that would
later affect his life - the first being the history of Hastings, which had been conquered by the Normans in 1066. This
spawned an interest in this medieval period of history and young Karl would bicycle around Norman castles
fantasizing about battles, knights, chivalry and heraldry. The second thing he learned was an appreciation of art, with
some of his early paintings included in a show at the Hastings Museum. He later went on to study at Hastings
College of Art, focusing on the Pre-Raphaelite style of painting which would later influence his psychedelic
photography of the late 1960s.
After school, and with dreams of traveling to India, Ferris signed up as
a steward on a P&O liner that went to Australia via India. After
returning to England, he served two years with the Royal Air Force for
his National Service (Conscription) as an aerial photographer, where
he often flew in jet fighters operating the gun camera during dog fight
practice. During this period he became friends with a fellow
conscriptee who was a member of a Liverpool Mersey Beat group,
and he was introduced for the first time to this type of music.

"Are You Experienced?" Jimi Hendrix, front and


back covers

He was invited back to Liverpool to see a new group - The Beatles who were appearing at the Cavern Club and was introduced to them
there. From that point, he was hooked on Beat music from which The
Beatles took their name.
After his military service, Ferris immigrated to Vancouver, Canada
working as an assistant there to master photographer Harry Nygard.
From Nygard, Karl learned the skills of composition, form and texture.
"Electric Ladyland", double gatefold cover, both
He also began an involvement in the Beatnik lifestyle and began
sides
hanging out in coffee bars, listening to poetry readings and the
progressive jazz of such artists as Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, John
Coltrane, Eric Dolphy and Ornette Coleman. He photographed his first music subjects at these gatherings for local
newspapers and magazines. He also began to take fashion shots of girlfriends and models, building

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up a respectable portfolio. Nygard told him that he had a real talent in


this area, but to further expand his portfolio, he should return to
London where the Mod fashion scene was creating new opportunities
in the world of arts, music and fashion.
In 1964 Karl returned to England and the happening Beat scene.
Ferris received commissioned work as a fashion and cover
photographer for teen magazines 19 and Petticoat and later for Vogue,
Harpers Bazaar, French Mode and Marie Claire. These commissions
brought him to such locations as Paris, Cannes, Munich, Ibiza and
Morocco. When he wasnt working he would join into the Scene, and
after meeting (and eventually dating) Denmarks top superstar model
of the time (Maude Bertelsen), Karl was introduced to a Pop group
called the The King Bees who invited him to sing cover versions of
Rolling Stones songs with them, and so he began touring in and around
Copenhagen with this group.

"Axis Bold As Love", cover,illustration of photo


portrait

He eventually returned to England for a fashion shoot offer with


Vogue. In 1966 The Beatles had just released Rubber Soul and Karl
had the chance to meet up with their official photographer, Robert
Freeman, who encouraged Ferris to experiment with different styles of
images - which he promptly did and created his unique psychedelic
style. That summer on a trip to the Spanish island of Ibiza he
discovered and began shooting the innovative psychedelic fashion
work of designers Simon Posthuma and Marijke Koger aka The Fool
(design collective) - and these photos were eventually printed in the
fashion section of The Times. This was the first time such psychedelic
photography and fashions had been seen anywhere. He and The Fool
were then invited to come to London to shoot some more Psychedelic
fashion features.
From this work, Ferris received many commissions. He also began
working on Psychedelic Happening shows during which moving
images of colored liquid and photographs were projected over freeform
dancers. The likes of Paul McCartney, Graham Nash, Eric Clapton, T
Rex, Pink Floyd and John Lennon dropped by and began participating
- by playing music - with these shows. In 1966, Ferris was also invited
to do a stage "Liquid light show" for Pink Floyd, which is believed to
be one of the first ever done in England.

"The Jimi Hendrix Experience", 2000 box set

Ferris meets Jimi Hendrix


Ferris was introduced to guitarist Jimi Hendrix in 1967 through
musician/producer Chas Chandler, who had discovered Hendrix. Karl
received the compliment of a lifetime when Hendrix remarked to him,
on seeing his portfolio, Youre doing with photography what Im
doing with music - going far out beyond the limits and blowing minds.

"A Gift From A Flower To A Garden", the first


Rock/Pop box set

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Hendrix then asked Ferris to be his photographer and to re-shoot the


cover for the UK version of his album Are You Experienced which
he was unhappy with - for the US market. Hendrix said he wanted
something psychedelic to blow the minds of the fans and that
represented his music and style.
And so Ferris began experimenting, using a giant Nikon fisheye lens
and a secret Infrared film that had just been released by the military,
who had used it for U2 plane spying. This film was given to him by
Kodak London who had seen his color experiments going through their
Lab. The manager asked Karl if he could find some way to use the
Infrared film commercially, so he started using it on Fashion and Rock
shoots. Kodak was so please with the results that they gave Karl his
first exhibit in their London gallery. Out of this experimentation came
the famous fisheye photograph used for Jimis first US record album
cover, which he also designed. His images then appeared on all three
US "Experience" album covers released during Hendrixs short life Are You Experienced?, Axis Bold As Love, Electric Ladyland
and the Japanese "Smash Hits".
Karl went on to create the album cover images for Donovans Gift
From A Flower To A Garden, Wear Your Love Like Heaven, For
The Little Ones and Hurdy Gurdy Donovan E.P. and (again,
partnering with The Fool) for The Hollies' Evolution. He was also
instrumental in creating their overall looks for the shoots, which then
became their recognized public images. During the years 1967-69, Karl
Ferris was one of the preferred photographers to the British rock elite,
shooting also many publicity photos for them. He was called "The Icon
with the Nikon" by the musicians and Press back then.

"Wear Your Love Like Heaven", front cover

"Hurdy Gurdy Donovan", front cover

In 1968, Ferris accompanied Donovan on his U.S. tour and was


commissioned by LOOK Magazine to shoot a feature article on
Donovan, after which he was retained as a 'Stringer' in Europe to shoot
images for music articles there. In 1969, Karl's Donovan psychedelic
shots were featured in an article in TWEN, the famous German art
magazine.

1970s through 2000


Karl left London with his pregnant wife Anke in 1970 and went to live
in Ibiza to bring up their son Lorien in that idyllic setting. Joni Mitchell
visited Karl in Ibiza in 1970 on the recommendation of Graham Nash
"Evolution", The Hollies, the first psychedelic
photo cover
and was photographed by Ferris. Karl continued shooting fashion and
glamour photographs for magazines in Europe and the USA. In 1980,
Ferris received a commission from Playboy Magazine to photograph "Welcome Back Kotter" star Melonie Haller
(John Travolta's love interest and the only female Sweathog) for a "Celebrity Pictorial" in the famous Bo Derek
issue. In 1983, Karl married Melonie and they went to live in Hampstead, London near Karl's original 60's studio. In

Karl Ferris
1984, a daughter Melissa was born in London, and during this time in the U.K., Karl worked shooting glamour and
nude photos for Oui, Club and the Raymond Revue. In 1990, Karl was commissioned by Playboy in the Netherlands
and Germany to shoot glamour layouts for them. Later, in 1995, Karl and Melonie returned to the U.S. and lived in
the New York area, where Melonie Haller-Ferris took on various acting rolls in film and television.

2000 to present
In 2000, Ferris returned once again to the Vancouver, Canada area and established his new studio and publishing
company there. Working alongside with famed illustrator Bob Masse, Karls best-known works have been
reproduced in a new series of posters and fine art prints that recreated promotional posters of many of the events that
Ferris had photographed in the 60s at such iconic London concert venues as the Royal Albert Hall and Saville
Theatre and featuring acts such as Cream, the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Donovan. Also in 2000, Karl was
commissioned to supply three of his original 1967 Hendrix photographs for cover and inside booklet of the
ultra-premium "The Jimi Hendrix Experience" box set.
In 2003 Ferris began his quest to revisit a time in music that defined a generation with The Ferris Experience
Happening. Exhibiting his famous record album cover photographs and a psychedelic multimedia video and slide
show, the first of these Happenings opened in Vancouver, Canada at The Exhibitions Gallery. It was be the first
time in 35 years that such an exhibition had been staged.
In 2005, Karls Happening show and photo gallery exhibit began a tour of major cities in the U.S., starting with the
San Francisco Art Exchange and continuing in Toronto and other cities in 2006. Also that year, Karl was asked by
the Hip-Hop group Sweatshop Union to shoot and design the album cover for their record titled United We Fall.
They admired his 60s-style approach to photography and wanted something Beatle-esque for their new albums
cover image.
In 2006, a feature film documentary called "Revolution" went into production (to coincide with the 40th anniversary
of "the Summer of Love"). Also in 2006, Karl's film company Helixus Productions started to film a feature
documentary and mini-series called "Revolution - The Cultural Revolt of the Sixties and its Continuing Legacy
which explores the origin, flowering and long-term influence of psychedelia, a subculture that in the 1960s achieved
a mass influence.. This film includes over 100 interviews with many of the eras key innovators and will show how
revolutionary new art forms were created as an expression of the counterculture and utilized as a tool for tearing
down the existing establishment. A sample of interviews included: musicians Donovan, Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood
Mac), Willie Nelson, Paul Kantner (Jefferson Airplane), Keith Emerson, John Densmore (Doors), Patrick Simmons
(Doobie Brothers) George Hunter (Charlatans) and Mickey Jones (Dylan's 1st Electric Band), Woodstock MC Wavy
Gravy. designers Alan Aldridge (Beatles), Storm Thorgerson (Pink Floyd), Alton Kelley, Stanley Mouse (Grateful
Dead), Klaus Voorman (Beatles), John Van Hamersveld and The Fool (Simon and Marjke), models Patti Boyd and
Charlotte Martin, Jenny Boyd, actor/activist Peter Coyote, Summer of Love exhibit curator Christoph Grunenberg,
photographers Astrid Kirchherr (Beatles-Hamburg), Bob Seidemann, Gered Mankowitz (Rolling Stones), Bob
Whitaker (Beatles) and Herb Worthington (Fleetwood Mac)and many others, The documentary is a serious
investigation of the phenomenon and long-term impact of this cultural shift. In addition to the featured interviews,
the film will also include music, period stock footage and current footage of locations of many of the events covered
in the film (as well as many psychedelic images which are used as transitions). The film is scheduled to be released
in early 2010.
In 2009, a book "The Karl Ferris Psychedelic Experience" of his Psychedelic Hendrix, Donovan, Cream, Fool and
Fashion photographs (including a DVD Slide show screensaver) will be published.
Karl is also producing a Trilogy of feature films based on the biography and influence of the 15th century father of
Surrealism Hieronymus Bosch. Of which he is also a Writer, Producer, Director and Art Director.
Currently a TV documentary on Karl's work and life "The Karl Ferris Experience" is being finished.

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External links

Artist's film "Revolution" Sixties documentary web site [1]


The Karl Ferris Experience on YouTube [2]
Slide show of Karl Ferris Psychedelic photographs [3]
Interview article about the making of the cover for Jimi Hendrixs Are You Experienced? [4]
Interview with Karl Ferris about the making of The Hollies "Evolution" Album cover [5]
Magazine article [6]
Magazine article [7]
Magazine article [8]
Vancouver Courier [9]
Magazine article [10]
AOL video [11]
Artist's website [12]

References
[1] http:/ / www. revolutiondocumentary. com
[2] http:/ / video. google. com/ videoplay?docid=-656216843663463249#
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]

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Douglas Kent Hall

Born

December 12, 1938


Vernal, Utah, U.S.

Died

March 30, 2008 (aged69)


Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.

Occupation

Writer, photographer

Language

English

Nationality

American

Education

Brigham Young University; Iowa Writers' Workshop

Period

1955-2008

Spouse(s)

Claire Nicholson (1959-1970)


Dawn Claire Davidson (1971-2008)

Children

Devon Hall (b. 1980)

Douglas Kent Hall (December 12, 1938 - March 30, 2008) was an American writer and photographer. Hall was a
fine art photographer and writer of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, essays, and screenplays. He was in high school when
he first published a story, and his first published photographs were of Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.
He published twenty-five books, including two with Arnold Schwarzenegger. His photographs are of rock and roll
superstars, rodeo, cowboys, prison, flamenco, bodybuilders, the U.S.-Mexico border, the American West, New
Mexico, New York City, Japan, Brazil, Mexico, Great Britain, Greece, Russia, Native Americans, writers, and
artists. Hall's artistic output included collaborations with Larry Bell, Bruce Nauman, Terry Allen, and his son Devon
Hall.
At the time of his death in 2008, solo exhibitions of his photographs hung concurrently at the Harwood Museum of
Art, Taos, New Mexico; the Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico; and the Roswell Museum and Art Center,
Roswell, New Mexico. His book In New Mexico Light had just been selected for the Hoffer Book Award.

Douglas Kent Hall

Biography
Early years
Hall was born in Vernal, Utah, to Phyllis Hiatt and Charles William "Peck" Hall; he was the elder of two children.
His brother, Wayne Hall, was born eighteen months after Douglas. Although Vernal is a Mormon community, the
young Hall family did not practice the faith. While Peck Hall was serving in the Navy during World War II, his
marriage to Phyllis broke up and the two small boys started living with their maternal grandmother, Beulah Perry.
Hall's elementary and high school years were spent with his grandparents on rural farms in the Vernal area. He raised
sheep and cows that he exhibited and sold at County Fairs. During high school Hall was a rodeo contestant.[1]

College years
At the age of seventeen, Hall entered Utah State University, Logan, to study creative writing. He was already a
published author. He transferred to the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and then to Brigham Young University
where he earned his bachelor's degree in English in 1960. At BYU Hall started what would become lifelong
friendships with Alfred Bush and David Stires. The three enthusiastic writers lived and breathed literature and other
creative arts. Bush became the Curator of Western Americana at the Firestone Library, Princeton University, and
Stires became a publishing executive. Highlights of Hall's undergraduate years included study of the creative process
with Brewster Ghislen, author of the landmark book The Creative Process. Between his junior and senior years at
BYU, Hall met and married Claire Nicholson, of Boise, Idaho. The two remained married for ten years.[2] After
earning his undergraduate degree at BYU, Hall was accepted into the prestigious Writer's Workshop at the
University of Iowa, Iowa City. For three years he worked as special assistant to Paul Engle, director of the program.
While at the Writer's Workshop Hall befriended, among others, Mark Strand, Galway Kinnell, W. S. Merwin, and
Adrian Mitchell. While at Iowa Hall wrote and published extensively.[3]

Early career
Hall's master of fine arts degree in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa's Writer's Workshop in 1963 led to
a position at the University of Portland teaching Creative Writing and Literature. Hall and Claire moved to Portland,
Oregon, in 1964. During his time at the University of Portland, Hall brought many well-known poets to the school
for readings, such as Allen Ginsburg, W. H. Auden, Anais Nin, Gary Snyder, Robert Duncan, William Stafford, and
Robert Bly. At this time a friend lent Hall a camera and he taught himself photography, seriously studying
photographic technique and style. He photographed poets and the group of artists he befriended in Portland,
including Lee Kelly, Duane Zaloudek, Carl Morris, Hilda Morris, Doug Lynch, among others.[4]
Hall's method of teaching creative writing included taking his students on car trips, overseeing student film
productions, and having students grade themselves. His increasing interest in photography led to freelance
photographic work. He photographed Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison of the Doors for Sunn Music, makers of
amplifiers. He received various other commercial and magazine photographic assignments. Hall realized he could
dedicate himself to his writing and photography and left the world of academia.[5]
In 1967 Hall traveled throughout England, France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal with his cameras. He shot his first
images in the Dark Landscapes series. In 1968 Hall moved from Portland to London and continued work in
advertising and on his series of artist and writer portraits and his art photography. He began formulating the idea of
Passing, which dominated most of the philosophy behind his personal work.[6]

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Career as an independent writer and photographer


Hall and his wife moved from London to New York City in 1968. He continued to photograph rock and roll stars,
which resulted in the publication of Rock: A World Bold as Love, released later in paperback as The Superstars: In
Their Own Words. In New York, Hall continued writing. He published his first novel, On the Way to the Sky, in
1970. This book fictionalized Hall's childhood years in Vernal, Utah, and his renegade Hall relatives.[7]
While driving across the country with his college friend Alfred Bush in 1969 to photograph American Indians,
returning to the West of his youth, Hall shot his first Passing series. In 1971 he developed the first negatives for
Passing II. The idea of time and the photograph continued to deepen and became the guiding influence behind his
total photographic output.[8]
Hall's marriage to Claire dissolved in 1970. He returned briefly to Portland, Oregon, and worked doing commercial
photography jobs and writing. He met his future second wife, Dawn Claire Davidson, a fashion coordinator, in May
of 1971. The following December the two moved to New York and set up residence and studio in a loft on 21st
Street and 7th Avenue. As they were moving in, comedian and filmmaker Christopher Guest was moving out. Of
note, when Hall and Dawn moved out of the loft in 1976, the poet Mark Strand moved in.[9]
In the 1970s Hall lived in New York but spent much time traveling. His work included writing a book about rodeo
titled Let Er Buck; writing and codirecting a feature documentary film about rodeo titled The Great American
Cowboy, which won an Academy Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary; and publishing a photography book
titled Rodeo, which was followed in the early 1980s by another book about cowboys, this one about ranch cowboys,
titled Working Cowboys. Mark Strand writes, "These cowboys, as opposed to urban cowboys, drugstore cowboys,
rodeo cowboy, or movie cowboys, stay on horseback all day long working cattle. And when they stand in front of the
camerain Hall's best photos, they are standing, looking straight into the camera lenstheir detached way of life
shows."[10] The 1970s also saw the publication of Hall's second novel, Rock and Roll Retreat Blues. Significantly, in
1974, Hall exhibited his photographs for the first time, at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. The
exhibition and accompanying catalog, Photography in America, is where the public first viewed the now iconic
photograph Mesquite, Texas.[11]
During the latter half of the 1970s and the early 1980s, Hall worked on books collaboratively for the first time in his
career. In 1975 Hall's literary agent, Bob Dattila, asked him if he would be interested in working on a project with
the bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger. Hall and Schwarzenegger published two books, Arnold: The Education of
a Bodybuilder and Arnold's Bodyshaping for Women. Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder topped the New York
Times Best Seller List for twelve weeks in 1978.[12] In 2002, Sports Illustrated included the Hall/Schwarzenegger
collaboration in their "Top 100 Sports Books of All Time" list.[13] During the writing and photographing of
Bodyshaping for Women, Hall started an acquaintance with the female bodybuilder Lisa Lyon, which led to the
publication of their Lisa Lyon's BodyMagic. The Incredible Lou Ferrigno, with bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno, rounded
out Hall's collaborative publishing ventures with bodybuilders.[14]
In 1977 Hall and his partner Dawn moved from New York to the small village of Alcalde in northern New Mexico.
After living together for more than six years, they were married in Santa Fe on July 23, 1977. In 1980 their son
Devon Douglas was born.
Hall traveled throughout the Southwest and along the Mexico-U.S. border in the 1980s gathering material for two
photographic books. The Border: Life on the Line introduced Hall to the varied types of people who live and work
on both sides of the border. The book includes many color photographs. "In an ideal marriage of uncompromising
photography and compelling prose, Hall transports us to 2,000 miles of borderland, revealing it in all its
contradictory dimensions."[15] Frontier Spirit: Early Churches of the Southwest also includes many color images.
"Photographer-author Douglas Kent Hall takes us to the most celebrated churches as well as to the most obscure,
including hauntingly evocative ruins in remote parts of New Mexico."[16] Known primarily for his black-and-white
work, these two books highlight the diversity of Hall's oeuvre.

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Most well known for his silver prints, in 1992 Hall began printing with platinum. His classic western images of
cowboys and Matachines comprise the suite of prints. Also in the early 1990s, Hall traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia
to document the Hermitage Museum's art school for children. He photographed in the student's homes and at the
museum. During this period Hall also traveled to Minas Gerais, Brazil to document the region's gold and gemstone
miners.[17]
In the mid-1990s Hall began producing one-of-a-kind photographic artworks. His Zen Ghost Horses series are
images of Peruvian Paso and Clydesdale horses exposed onto hand-made paper that was brushed with emulsion. Hall
embellished the works with gold leaf, Chinese and Japanese calligraphy, and acrylics.[18] Taking color images shot
along the Mexico-U.S. border, Hall created a suite of artes de caja (art boxes). These pieces incorporate color
photograph, poems, milagros, objects picked up while traveling the border, and pages from Mexican graphic
novelettes into and on hand-painted wooden wine boxes. The Albuquerque Museum showed fifteen of the border
boxes for four months as part of a tribute exhibition for Hall in the summer of 2008.[19]
The Halls sold their Alcalde home and studio in 2001 and moved to Albuquerque, where they built a studio and wet
and dry darkrooms onto an existing round house. Hall's New Mexico cohort included artists Larry Bell, Terry Allen,
Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg, Tom Palmore, Ken Price, Bill Barrett, Paul Pletka, Charles Strong, Ron Cooper,
Gus Foster, and others. After being awarded the New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts in 2005,
the Museum of New Mexico Press published Hall's In New Mexico Light, a compilation of his most enduring,
compelling images taken over a forty-year time span.[20]
Writer and photographer Hall was not only a novelist, photographer, writer of nonfiction, and film script author, he
was also a poet. In 2002 his first collection of poems was published in Visionary. The book also contains an
extended automemoir/poem.

Martial arts
Hall began studying and practicing Kaju Kenpo karate in Santa Fe in 1986, receiving his Nidan black belt in 1998.
He taught karate in Espaola, New Mexico until 2002. While continuing to practice karate, Hall also incorporated
Tai Chi into his daily spiritual practice. When photographer Joyce Tenneson selected Hall in 2004 for inclusion in
her book Amazing Men, she photographed him working with martial arts weapons.[21]

Death
Hall died suddenly, unexpectedly, at his home in Albuquerque on March 30, 2008; the cause of death was described
as "a cardiac incident." He was survived by his wife, Dawn, and son, Devon Hall, a composer and pianist.[22]

Writing
Hall's first writing was fiction. He has been called the "iconic storyteller of the American experience" . . . "this
author is a veritable shaman of contemporary culture."[23] His first novel, On the Way to the Sky, is set in Utah and
explores themes that surface frequently in his work: small-town life, surviving a broken home, Mormonism, hunting
and fishing, music, and rodeo. Writer Mag Dimond asked Hall in 1997 which of his books were his favorite and
why. "His first choice was On the Way to the Sky, the book he wrote when he was about twenty-one, a steely, sweet
autobiographical novel he didn't publish until almost six years later. About this book he simply says, 'I was able to
define my past, get it behind me where it belongs.' . . . This stunning little novel is rich in characters suggested by
real people . . . written in startlingly original language."[24] The New York Times Book Review noted, "Mr. Hall
invents distinctive family backgrounds for his three heroes and arranges them into an impressionistic chronicle."[25]
In Rock and Roll Retreat Blues, his second novel, the humor is sardonic; it is a commentary on the world of rock and
roll and the culture it creates and drives. According to a Publisher's Weekly review, "The book is chock-full of
familiar contemporary figuresHell's Angels, revolutionaries, people spaced out on religion or brown rice or drugs,
even such exotics as the "plaster casters." Yet Hall is fresh and funny, and he makes Artie's [the protagonist's] search

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for his own psyche very real and very much a part of our times. (Excerpts ran in Penthouse)."[26] The third novel,
The Master of Oakwindsor, set in 1908 England, explores the clash between rural England and a new and darker
industrial Britain and between two families. Bestseller magazine writes, "After three successful novels and an
Academy Awardwinning screenplay, it is no surprise that Hall's novel brings a fresh outlook to the overworked
genre of historical romance. The Master of Oakwindsor is a diverse and brilliantly colored portrait of England and
Europe at the turn of the century, bristling with event and detail."[27]
Hall's numerous books of nonfiction, which include his photographs, treat various subjects, including rock and roll,
rodeo, cowboy life, bodybuilding, prison, the historic churches of the Southwest, and the border between the United
States and Mexico. "The Border, about desperate lives lived on both sides of the United StatesMexico border, is at
once a compelling piece of work, a lucid and personal rendering of Hall's own border experiences both in words and
'pictures.'"[28] Let 'Er Buck is "a really deep look at rodeo and some rodeo people. Most of us have seen what goes on
in the arena; this book mostly deals with the rest of it. . . . What [Hall] has said with his typewriter and his camera is
bound to be controversial."[29] About Hall's book In New Mexico Light, Bill Richardson, governor of New Mexico,
wrote: "the thoughtful text in this book [is] testimony to the work of an artist who has dedicated his life to observing
the rich cultural texture of New Mexico."[30] In New Mexico Magazine, Jon Bowman writes, "Hall accompanies the
images [in In New Mexico Light] with some of the most lucid, engaging essays on the photographic process you'll
ever read. He's a straight-shooter all the way. There's no mention of f-stops or arcane technical knowledge, but rather
some fine storytelling, mixing in roughly equal doses of the sacred and the profane."[31]

Photographs
Many of Hall's images have become known as icons of Americana, such as Mesquite, Texas 1973, and Jim
Morrison, Portland. Princeton University curator Alfred Bush writes: "Unlike the majority of the photographic
explorers, who are continually clicking away at the American West, Douglas Hall's camera is firmly rooted in the
region's very center."[32] Hall's photographs are mainly of people; he finds his subjects worldwide, from New York
to the Southwest, from Russia to Japan, Brazil to Mexico, as well as in places like Morocco and the Outer Hebrides
Islands. On the occasion of the exhibition in Santa Fe of Os Brasilieros (The Brazilians), David Bell notes, "Hall,
who has recently made several trips to Brazil and the Amazon, takes as his subjects not only the miners who were his
first objective but families, farmers . . . and students, too. The result is a composite portrait of a people who in most
cases appear to give themselves with equal abandon to the camera and to life."[33] "With avid observation of
humanity, Hall's photographs represent the inner truth and spirit that resides in peoples from various socio-cultural
constructs throughout the Americas. Whether he is focused on the confined dwelling within the prison system, or
indigenous elders from across the United States, Hall elucidates American iconography by way of the camera and
pen."[34] He continued to work in film and branched into digital imagery, shooting both color and black-and-white.
Hall crossed the digital photography boundary by moving into fine art color photographs printed on handmade
watercolor paper. Mark Strand noted in Vogue Magazine, "There is nothing provisional about Hall's enterprise; it is
both broad and, in individual photographs, scrupulously resolved. His pictures have an edge, a magical certainty
about them that not only justifies but also honors their subjects, no matter how odd or how exploited."[35] Writing
about Hall's 2007 book In New Mexico Light, Dave Gagon notes, "A filmmaker and poet, as well as a photographer,
Hall has photographed and written about New Mexico's unique mix of places and people, a broad representation
including ancient sites and Spanish churches, Indian ceremonial dances, portraits of artists and writers, viejos and
vagabonds. He invigorates his 182 black and white photographs with descriptive prosesomething most visual
artists have difficulty achieving."[36] In his Foreword to In New Mexico Light actor/playwright Sam Shepard writes,
"The photographs in this book are naked impressions of the mind and spirit just waiting for somebody as lucky and
gifted as Douglas Kent Hall to hunt them down and seize them with a little black box."[37]

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Transition to digital photography


Hall started out with a 35mm camera, added a 2 1/4 square format camera, and kept working with those two formats
using Nikons, Leicas, and Hasselblads. In the mid-1990s he added digital cameras to his arsenal. In a Rangefinder
magazine article, Hall said to author/photographer Paul Slaughter: "I am using a Nikon D70s digital SLR and I
always carry a Nikon point-and-shoot that fits into my pocket. It does interesting things to the color (which I like). I
also use an Olympus C-5050 digital camera that has a wonderful f/1.8 lens. My new series, Travel, is all digital color
and I am fascinated by the images because they are different from anything I've done before. The creative part is the
same, the tools are the toolsthe cameras."[38] Hall had five external hard drives full of images and did his best to
keep them organized. He said to Slaughter, "I am a bit haphazard in my approach to work. I am more intuitive than
anything else. That is part of my imagery evolvement."[39] Hall used the Photoshop and LightRoom software
programs for after-capture processing and did his own printing, both digital and traditional. He had four Epson inkjet
printers. For digital printing he favored watercolor papers as they render a softer image. He told Slaughter: "I am
often upset that I can no longer readily find traditional printing supplies. . . . That concerns me more than thinking
about where photography is going. I look at the photographs being done and feel that the new digital work is less
convincing than film work. But I feel certain that photographers such as Edward Weston would have brought a
special look to digital. I hope I am doing the same. In the end, with either digital or film, I choose what pleases my
eye. I think the world of professional photography is much like it has always been, full of challenge."[40]

Quotations
The camera, the split-second blink of the shutter, taught me that time does not pass. It is we who pass. We pass
through time and we waste only ourselves. Time is indifferent to us and to our folly. Time remains the one
certainty we have, the fixed and constant factor-more concrete than life, more permanent than space. --Douglas
Kent Hall, 3 / Photographers (Roswell: Roswell Museum and Art Center, 1986), p. 3
New Mexico makes its way into my negatives, insinuating its fabulous light into the print leaving its tindery smell
mysteriously in the air . . .
Light stands as the single most important constituent that allows my photographs to be.
History, or the ghost of history, frames each image yet leaves it vulnerable, prone to corruption, reversal, and
revision. The photograph, as such, is a kind of grail. Viewers can choose to believe in it for what it claims to be,
some truth or emblem that prevails outside of the reality of the image on the paper; they can give it a new reality;
or they can reject it out of hand. The image, existing without prejudice, appears independent of bias. The
photographer or the viewer is free to accept the image or dispute its authenticity. The camera expresses no
opinion; the camera simply produced a "fly on the wall" documentation of who was there the instant the shutter
snapped or of what transpired. The camera takes responsibility but offers no liability.
Artist statement
Art is my beginning and my end.
It is everything I domy morning, my noon, and my night.
Art is my confessor and my salvation.
It is each photograph I shoot, each novel, poem, and film I write.
Art defines what the photograph is, just as the photograph defines who I am; in the same way the words I craft
tell the secrets of my heart.
Art is my Bible, my Constitution.
Art is my God and my devil.
Art is everything I am, all I want to be.
It will be my epitaph.

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Bibliography

Rock: A World Bold As Love (1970) SBN 402-12591-6


The Superstars: In Their Own Words (1970) ISBN 0-8256-6020-3
On the Way to the Sky (1972) ISBN 0-8415-0125-4
Let 'Er Buck! (1973) ISBN 0-8415-0274-9
Rock and Roll Retreat Blues (1974) ISBN 0-380-00159-4
Rodeo (1975) ISBN 0-345-24877-5-795
The Master of Oakwindsor (1976) ISBN 0-690-01171-7
Ski with Billy Kidd (1976) ISBN 0-8092-8310-7
Van People: The Great American Rainbow Boogie (1977) ISBN 0-690-01418-X, ISBN 0-690-01452-X (pbk.)
Arnold: The Education of a Body Builder (with Arnold Schwarzenegger) (1977) ISBN 0-671-22879-X
Bodyshaping for Women (with Arnold Schwarzenegger) (1979) ISBN 0-671-24301-2
Bodymagic (with Lisa Lyon) (1981) ISBN 0-533-01296-7
The Incredible Lou Ferrigno (1982) ISBN 0-671-42863-2
Working Cowboys (1984) ISBN 0-03-070418-9
The Border: Life on the Line (1988) ISBN 0-89659-685-0
In Prison (1988) ISBN 0-8050-0592-7

Passing Through: Western Meditations of Douglas Kent Hall (1989) ISBN 0-87358-485-6
Frontier Spirit: Early Churches of the Southwest (1990) ISBN 0-89659-914-0
New Mexico: Voices in an Ancient Landscape (1995) ISBN 0-8050-1233-8
Prison Tattoos (1997) ISBN 0-312-15195-0, ISBN 978-0-312-15195-9
Albuquerque 2000 (2000)
The Thread of New Mexico (2001)
Visionary (2002) ISBN 0-938631-46-2
Noches Perdidas, 2003
In New Mexico Light (2007) ISBN 978-0-89013-501-3
City Light: Douglas Kent Hall's New York, forthcoming

Filmography

The Great American Cowboy, screenplay and narration


Wheels of Fire, director and screenplay
Arnold and Maria, interviewee
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hollywood Hero, interviewee
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, screenplay (with Justin Ackerman)
The Great Joe Bob, screenplay, based on a song by Terry Allen
Sirens, photographer
Fool for Love, photographer
Roosters, photographer

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Public collections

Atlantic-Richfield, Dallas, TX, and Los Angeles, CA


Center for Southwest Research, UNM, Albuquerque, NM
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
The Doan Collection, Fort Dodge, IA
Fannin National Bank, Houston, TX
Wells Fargo Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Steve Gold, Inc., New York, NY
Ovenwest Corporation, Albuquerque, NM
The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Sheldon Memorial Museum, Lincoln, NE
Western Americana Collection, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, NM
Bibliothque Nationale, Paris, France
Blue Cross-Blue Shield, Albuquerque, NM

Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM


El Paso Museum of Archaeology, TX
Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell NM
New Mexico State University Museum, Las Cruces, NM
Blue Cross-Blue Shield, Philadelphia, PA
Mid-Western State University, Wichita Falls, TX
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Marina Pacific Hotel, Venice Beach, CA, two collections
Mobil Oil Corporation, Dallas, TX
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
City of Phoenix, AZ
State of New Mexico, Capitol Building, Santa Fe, NM
Museum of the American West, Autry National Center, Los Angeles, CA
McAllen International Museum, McAllen, TX
The Martin Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Star Canyon, Las Vegas, NV
Albuquerque International Sunport Collection, NM
Princess Cruise Line, CA
University of New Mexico, Los Alamos, NM
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Regency Hotel, Hong Kong, China
University of California at Los Angeles, Arts Library, CA
Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM

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Notable photographs

Mesquite, Texas
Jimi Hendrix Seattle
Taos Man
Bareback Rider
Tina Turner
Andy Warhol at the Factory
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Horse, La Villita
Sandia
Jim Morrison Portland
Calf Roping, Pendleton
Picuris Man
Bell Spur
Paris, 1980

Notable personalities photographed

Terry Allen
Robert Altman
W. H. Auden
Kim Basinger
Larry Bell
Marisa Berenson
Ralph Berkowitz
Robert Bly
Sonia Braga
Dorothy Brett
James Brown
Judy Chicago
Robert Creeley
Salvador Dali
Robert Duncan
Lou Ferrigno
Allen Ginsberg
R. C. Gorman
Hugh Grant
Rahim al Haj
Frederick Hammersley
Suzan Shown Harjo
Lou Harrison
Edith Head
Jimi Hendrix
Tony Hillerman
Linda Hogan

Allan Houser
Mick Jagger
Japan's Living National Treasures, 1994

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Luis Jimenez
Billy Kidd
Lee Krasner
Lisa Lyon
Larry Mahan
Agnes Martin
Elle McPherson
W. S. Merwin
Henry Miller
Adrian Mitchell
Jim Morrison
Bruce Nauman
Anais Nin
Sam Neill
Willie Nelson
Edward James Olmos
Florence Miller Pierce

Paul Pletka
Ken Price
Bill Richardson
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Sam Shepard
Leslie Marmon Silko
Nina Simone
Mark Strand
Tina Turner
Andy Warhol
Frank Waters
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yogi Bhajan
Frank Zappa

Other books, catalogs, and portfolios about Hall or with contribution by Hall

Photography in America, New York, Random House, 1974


Boundary 2: A Journal of Postmodern Literature, Binghamton, NY, 1982
The Cowboy, New York, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, 1983
Photoflexion, New York, St. Martin's Press, 1984
Third Western States Exhibition, New York, The Brooklyn Museum; Santa Fe, Western States Arts Foundation,
1986
3 / Photographers: Douglas Kent Hall, Bruce Berman, and Roger Manley, Roswell Museum and Art Center, NM,
1986
Images of Spirit and Vision, Santa Fe, NM, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1987
Die Gleichzeitigkeit des Anderen, Stuttgart, Germany, Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1987
Way Out West, Tokyo, Japan, Treville Publishing Co., 1990

Electric Gypsy, London, England, Heinemann and Heinemann, 1990


Zero Mass, The Art of Eric Orr, Stockholm, Sweden, Propexus, 1990
Esquire/Japan, Working Cowboys and Artist Profile, Tokyo, Japan, July 1991

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Southwest Profile, Portfolio of Fourteen Photographs; Santa Fe, NM, August, September, October 1991
Southwest Profile, Portfolio of Nine Photographs, Santa Fe, NM, November, December, January 1991/1992
The Jimi Hendrix Concerts, Bella Godiva Music, Inc., 1991
Radio One, Hendrix, Bella Godiva Music, Inc., 1991
Imago, vols. 35, Japan, Portfolio, 1992
Chaco Past, Boxed Portfolio, 1992
Chaco Future, Boxed Portfolio, 1992
Photographer's Forum, Exclusive magazine interview and portfolio of eight photographs, November 1992
a simple story (Jurez), Terry Allen, Ohio State University, Wexner Center, 1992
The Photograph and the American Indian, by Alfred L. Bush and Lee Clark Mitchell, Princeton University Press,
1994
The Paintings of William Lumpkins, "William Lumpkins in Roswell," catalog essay, Roswell Museum and Art
Center, NM, 1995
Understanding Art, Fourth Edition, by Lois Fichner-Rathus, Prentice Hall, 1995
It's Only Rock and Roll: Rock and Roll Currents in Contemporary Art, by David S. Rubin, Munich, Prestel, 1995
The World of Jimi Hendrix, by Monika Dannemann, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1995
Jimi Hendrix: The Ultimate Experience, by Adrian Boot and Chris Salewicz, London, Boxtree, 1995

Philadelphia Photo Review, portfolio, Prison Tattoos, the Stations of the Body, volume 19, number 4, Fall 1996
Westerns, by Lee Clark Mitchell, University of Chicago Press, 1996
A Borderless Vision: A Douglas Kent Hall Retrospective, catalog for Solo Exhibition, Wiegand Gallery, Belmont,
CA, 1997
Larry Bell: Zones of Experience, two essays, Albuquerque, The Albuquerque Museum, 1997
Master Breasts, Aperture, New York, NY, 1998
23. International Biennial of Graphic Arts/Mednarodni Graficni Bienale, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1999
Tamarind: Forty Years, by Marge Devon, University of New Mexico Press, 2000
Alvin Lee & Ten Years After, by Herb Staehr, Hingham, MA, Free Street Press, 2001
New Mexico Magazine, Master's Showcase, July, 2001
Chokecherries 2001 (Cover photo), SOMOS, Taos, NM, 2002
Magnifico: Art of Albuquerque: A World of Paint and Polish, catalog essay, August 2002
Tony Price Atomic Artist, catalog essay, The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM, "Dancing to the Music: Tony
Price in Retrospect," November 2002
The Book of War, boxed portfolio of photographs, DVD of poetry read by DKH and music composed by Devon
Hall, collaboration with Devon Hall, composer, 2002
The Social Lens, University Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM, July 2003
Just You Just Me: The Art of Lily Fenichel, catalog essay, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM, 2004
Amazing Men, photographs by Joyce Tenneson, Bulfinch, New York, 2004
Classic Hendrix, Genesis Publications, Surrey, England, 2004
New Mexico 24/7, DK Publishing, New York, 2004
Dugout, by Terry Allen, Austin, University of Texas Press, 2005
Carl*s Cars Magazine, Photographic Portfolio and Interview, "Van People." Issue 12, Summer 2005, Oslo,
Norway
Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix, by Charles Cross, Hyperion, 2005
Carl*s Cars Magazine, Cover and Photographic Portfolio, "Passing." Issue 14, Winter 2005, Oslo, Norway
Biennale Internazionale Dell'arte Contemporanea, Quinta Edizione, Florence Biennale, Italy, 2005
Hope: Preserving Tibetan Culture, Dalai Lama Benefit, CoolGreySeven/Dalai Lama Norbulinka Institute, 2006
Jimi Hendrix: An Illustrated Experience, Janie L. Hendrix and John McDermott, New York and London, Atria
Books, 2007

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Green, Inaugural Exhibition, essay by Sharyn Udall, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM, 2007
El Palacio, excerpt from In New Mexico Light, 6 pages, Fall 2007
Iconic America, Tommy Hilfiger with George Lois, New York, Rizzoli/Universe, November 2007
Insights: The Portraiture Of Charles R. Rushton, Nabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, Norman Oklahoma, 2008
Titans: Muhammad Ali and Arnold Schwarzenegger, photographs by Al Satterwhite, essay contributions by
Douglas Kent Hall, Dalton Watson Fine Art Books, 2008
Mass: Of This World: The Art of Alan Paine Radebaugh, Radebaugh Fine Art, Albuquerque 2008
Photography: New Mexico, essays by Kristin Barendsen, Fresco Fine Art Publishers, 2008
Thirty Year Selected Retrospective, Midwestern State University Art Gallery, Wichita Falls, TX, 2008
Illumination: The Paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe, Agnes Pelton, Agnes Martin, and Florence Miller Pierce,
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, 2009
Rangefinder, portfolio of eight photographs, article by Paul Slaughter, March 2009

Awards
Hoffer Award for Art books, for In New Mexico Light, 2008
Finalist, New Mexico Book Awards, art books, for In New Mexico Light, 2008
Medici Gold Medal Career Award, Florence Biennale Internazionale Dell'Arte Contemporanea, 2005
New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, 2005
Distinguished Alumnus of Uintah High School, Vernal, Utah, 1999
Honorary Chair, College of Notre Dame's Sister Catherine Julie Cunningham visiting scholar award. Fine Arts
Department, College of Notre Dame, San Francisco, Spring 1997
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Great American Cowboy, 1974
J. Marinus Jensen Short Story Contest, Brigham Young University, 1959

External links

Douglas Kent Hall official Web site [41]


Riva Yares Gallery [42]
The Photographer's Gallery [43]
The Collector's Guide [44]
Devon Hall official Web site [45]
Museum of New Mexico Press [46]
Open Mind Space [47]

References
[1] Douglas Kent Hall, Visionary: An Autobiography with Commentary (Santa Fe: Pennywhistle Press, 2002), 27134.
[2] Douglas Kent Hall, Visionary: An Autobiography with Commentary (Santa Fe: Pennywhistle Press, 2002), 27134.
[3] Douglas Kent Hall, Visionary: An Autobiography with Commentary (Santa Fe: Pennywhistle Press, 2002), 27134.
[4] Douglas Kent Hall, Visionary: An Autobiography with Commentary (Santa Fe: Pennywhistle Press, 2002), 27134.
[5] Douglas Kent Hall, Visionary: An Autobiography with Commentary (Santa Fe: Pennywhistle Press, 2002), 27134.
[6] Douglas Kent Hall, Visionary: An Autobiography with Commentary (Santa Fe: Pennywhistle Press, 2002), 27134.
[7] Douglas Kent Hall, Visionary: An Autobiography (Santa Fe: Pennywhistle Press, 2002), 27134.
[8] Douglas Kent Hall, Visionary: An Autobiography with Commentary (Santa Fe: Pennywhistle Press, 2002), 149.
[9] Douglas Kent Hall, Visionary: An Autobiography (Santa Fe: Pennywhistle Press, 2002), 27134.
[10] Mark Strand, "Sure Enough Cowboys," in Douglas Kent Hall, Visionary (Santa Fe: Pennywhistle Press, 2002), 150.
[11] Robert Doty, ed., Photography in America (New York: The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1974), 246.
[12] Hawes Publications, at http:/ / www. hawes. com/ 1978/ 1978. htm.
[13] Sports Illustrated, December 16, 2002, at http:/ / sportsillustrated. cnn. com/ si_online/ features/ 2002/ top_sports_books/ 1/
[14] Douglas Kent Hall, Visionary: An Autobiography (Santa Fe: Pennywhistle Press, 2002), 27134.
[15] Douglas Kent Hall, The Border: Life on the Line (New York: Abbeville Press, 1988), flap copy.

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[16] Douglas Kent Hall, Frontier Spirit: Early Churches of the Southwest (New York: Abbeville Press, 1990), flap copy.
[17] Douglas Kent Hall, Visionary: An Autobiography (Santa Fe: Pennywhistle Press, 2002), 27134.
[18] Douglas Kent Hall, Visionary: An Autobiography (Santa Fe: Pennywhistle Press, 2002), 27134.
[19] At www.cabq.gov/museum.
[20] Douglas Kent Hall, In New Mexico Light (Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2007).
[21] Joyce Tenneson, Amazing Men (New York: Bulfinch, 2004), 5051.
[22] Craig, Smith, (March 31, 2008). "Douglas Kent Hall, 1938-2008: A career full of diversity, insight" (http:/ / www. santafenewmexican. com/
Local News/ douglas-kent-hall---1938-2008-A-career-full-of-diversity--insig). The Santa Fe New Mexican. . Retrieved May 18, 2010.
[23] ImagingInfo, "Forty ImagesForty Years: A Retrospective," posted online October 15, 2007, updated July 8, 2008, at
http//www.imaginginfo.com.
[24] Mag Dimond, Douglas Kent HallA Borderless Vision (Belmont, CA: Wiegand Gallery of the College of Notre Dam, 1997), 10.
[25] New York Times Book Review, May 7, 1972.
[26] Publisher's Weekly, October 7, 1974.
[27] Bestsellers, September 1977
[28] Mag Dimond, Douglas Kent HallA Borderless Vision (Belmont, CA: Wiegand Gallery of the College of Notre Dame, 1997), 12-13.
[29] Western Horseman, December 1973, 74.
[30] Bill Richardson, in In New Mexico Light (Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2007), back jacket.
[31] Jon Bowman, "Books: Guest Review by Jon Bowman," New Mexico Magazine (January 2008): 24.
[32] Alfred Bush, Introduction, in Douglas Kent Hall, Passing Through (Flagstaff, AZ: Northland, 1989).
[33] David Bell, Journal North, December 14, 1989, 4.
[34] ImagingInfo, "Forty ImagesForty Years: A Retrospective," posted online October 15, 2007, updated July 8, 2008, at
http//www.imaginginfo.com.
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Dave Gagon, Deseret Morning News, January 13, 2008.
Sam Shepard, Foreword, In New Mexico Light, photographs by Douglas Kent Hall (Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2007), 12.
Paul Slaughter, "Douglas Kent Hall, 21st Century Renaissance Artist," Rangefinder (March 2009): 96101.
Paul Slaughter, "Douglas Kent Hall, 21st Century Renaissance Artist," Rangefinder (March 2009): 96101.
Paul Slaughter, "Douglas Kent Hall, 21st Century Renaissance Artist," Rangefinder (March 2009): 96101.
http:/ / www. douglaskenthall. com/
http:/ / www. rivayaresgallery. com/
http:/ / www. photographersgallery. com/ by_artist. asp?id=173/
http:/ / www. collectorsguide. com/
http:/ / www. devonhallmusic. com/
http:/ / www. mnmpress. org/
http:/ / www. TheOpenMindSpace. com/

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Leon Hendrix
Birth name

Leon Morris Hendrix

Born

January 13, 1948 (age 62)


Seattle, Washington, USA

Genres

Hard rock, blues-rock

Occupations Musician, songwriter


Instruments

Guitar, vocals

Years active

1990's - present

Website

Leon Hendrix.Com

[1]

Leon Hendrix (born January 13, 1948) is the younger brother of late American hard rock singer/guitarist and icon
Jimi Hendrix. He is an artist, songwriter and guitarist who began playing the guitar later in life and has released
several albums. Best known for his original artwork of his beloved brother Jimi and his songwriting regarding his
life growing up as part of the Hendrix legacy.
When he was in his late teens, he went on the road with his famous brother. Sadly Leon at one time suffered from
drug addiction. Leon finally broke down and sought treatment. Currently Leon has been clean for over twelve years
and lives with his girlfriend who is a doctor in Los Angeles, California.
Leon has had many jobs. He was employed for many years as an expert draftsman by the Boeing Company.
In recent years the father of six and grandfather of four has been attempting to make a living from music and art. [2]
His band named 'The Leon Hendrix Band' have released 1 album to date (March 21, 2010) called Keeper of the
flame and its genre is rock. Leon has also toured in the past couple of years with The Magic Carpet Ride performing
large venue concerts. Leon's wish is to keep his brother Jimi's legacy alive by dedicating his songs to Jimi when he
performs.

Discography
Seattle Rain
Keeper Of The Flame (2006)

External links

Renton Community Update Jimi Hendrix family drama hindered completion of house restoration [3]
Official Web Site [4]
Leon Hendrix Band Myspace [5]
CC Carole interviews Leon Hendrix [6]

Leon Hendrix

References
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]

http:/ / www. leonhendrix. com/


Seattle Weekly The Leon Hendrix Experience (http:/ / www. seattleweekly. com/ 2009-03-04/ music/ the-leon-hendrix-project/ 2)
http:/ / randycorman. livejournal. com/ 324817. html
http:/ / leonhendrix. com
http:/ / www. myspace. com/ leonhendrixband
http:/ / video. google. com/ videoplay?docid=-6385972560691937196

Michael Jeffrey
Michael Frank Jeffery (died 5 March 1973) was a music business manager of the 1960s who is best known for his
management of British band The Animals and American guitarist-composer Jimi Hendrix, whom he co-managed for
a time with former Animals bassist Chas Chandler. A former associate of noted British pop impresario Don Arden,
Jeffery was and remains a controversial figure. He was killed in 1973 in a mid-air collision over Nantes, France,
whilst aboard an Iberia Airlines DC-9.

Beginnings
Mike Jeffery started his career in music as the owner/manager of venues in Newcastle upon Tyne in northern
England; the Marimba coffee bar and the Downbeat jazz club. Eric Burdon of the Animals was a patron of the latter,
which eventually became a beat music venue featuring local bands such as The Alan Price Combo (originally The
Pagans and soon to be The Animals) as well as The Kylastrons and The Invaders.
After the club was closed due to fire regulations, both establishments burned down. Jeffery then opened the Club
AGogo in partnership with Ray Grehan, sales manager for the Automaticket company. The Club A'Gogo was to
become Newcastle's most celebrated venue, particularly after it was the subject of a best-selling song by The
Animals who were house band there (to be replaced by The Junco Partners when they became an international act),
and saw 1960s concerts by Captain Beefheart, Cream, Fleetwood Mac, The Graham Bond Organisation, Howlin
Wolf, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, John Lee Hooker, John Mayalls Bluesbreakers, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, The
Who and The Yardbirds among others. It attracted younger Newcastle clientele such as Sting and Bryan Ferry.[1]

The Animals
Jeffery contracted to manage The Animals and obtained a recording contract with Columbia, the recordings to be
produced by Mickie Most. After the success of their second record "The House of the Rising Sun" the Animals
embarked on a tour of the USA. Despite this success Jeffery has been openly condemned by members of The
Animals, who blame him for the breakup of the band, claiming that he worked the group into the ground and
appropriated most of their earnings.

Jimi Hendrix
When Chas Chandler decided to move into management himself and signed Jimi Hendrix, he appears to have been
informed by Jeffery that, since he was still under contract, he must continue to pay a percentage. Hence Jeffreys
became co-manager of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, taking care of business while Chandler produced.[2]
Jeffery has received almost unanimous criticism from biographers of Hendrix. Several have alleged that Jeffery
siphoned off much of Hendrix's income and channeled it into off-shore bank accounts, that Jeffery had dubious
connections to US intelligence services (it has been reported that insiders often claimed that he worked for MI5,
British Secret Intelligence and that he had connections to European organised crime). When Experience bassist Noel
Redding inquired as to where Jeffery was going with briefcases of the band's money, he was asked to leave. Jeffery

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was played by actor Billy Zane in the movie Hendrix.
In October 2006 a $15 million auction took place of items of Michael Jeffery's estate including the rights to many of
Jimi Hendrix's hits including "Purple Haze" and "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)". Experience Hendrix, a company
formed and owned by Hendrix's family, have said they will prove they own the titles to these songs and that they
intend to sue.[3]

Hendrix death allegation


Hendrix died in September 1970. His body was found in London at the flat of Monika Dannemann, who was
Hendrix's girlfriend at the moment. In May 2009 the UK media reported claims that Michael Jeffery had murdered
Jimi Hendrix. James "Tappy" Wright, who was a roadie for Hendrix and The Animals in the 1960s, claimed he met
Michael Jeffery in 1971, one year after Hendrix's death, and Jeffery confessed to having murdered Hendrix by plying
him with pills and a bottle of wine[4] in order to kill him and claim on the guitarist's life insurance.
Jeffrey is quoted by Wright as telling him: "I was in London the night of Jimi's death and together with some old
friends.. we went 'round to Monika's hotel room, got a handful of pills and stuffed them into his mouth...then poured
a few bottles of red wine deep into his windpipe." The manager was allegedly worried that Hendrix was about to
sack him. He had reputedly taken out an insurance policy worth $2 million on Hendrix' life, with himself as
beneficiary.
At the time of Hendrix's death, a coroner recorded an open verdict, stating that the cause was "barbiturate
intoxication and inhalation of vomit". However Dr. John Bannister, the doctor who attempted to resuscitate Hendrix,
later raised the possibility that Hendrix actually died from forced inhalation of copious amounts of red wine.[5] [6]

References
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]

History of the Club A'Gogo at http:/ / www. readysteadygone. co. uk/ club-agogo-newcastle/
According to Noel Redding in Egan, S., Not Necessarily Stoned, but Beautiful, Unanimous, 2002
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Hendrix family disputes song sale (http:/ / news. bbc. co. uk/ 1/ hi/ entertainment/ 6090332. stm)
Independent | Hendrix murdered by his manager, says former aide (http:/ / www. independent. co. uk/ news/ people/ news/
hendrix-murdered-by-his-manager-says-former-aide-1693583. html)
[5] (http:/ / www. nme. com/ news/ jimi-hendrix/ 46213)
[6] source: NME.com via news.yahoo.com; eddietrunk.com/

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Curtis Knight
Curtis Knight (b. Mont Curtis McNear, Fort Scott, Kansas, May 9, 1929 - November 29, 1999) was an American
music artist and band leader who is known for his connection to Jimi Hendrix. Knight was an artist in the 1960s
Harlem music scene, usually fronting his own band "the Squires". This band gigged in clubs in New York City, and
other surrounding areas. It was through Knight that Hendrix got involved with Ed Chalpin, a record producer who
signed the future superstar to a contract which Hendrix soon forgot about and left for England to form "The Jimi
Hendrix Experience".
Both Knight and Chalpin would later claim that they were trying to make Hendrix a "star", but Chalpin had him sign
a contract that gave Hendrix only 1% of any royalties that his recordings earned and the sum of "one dollar".
Meanwhile, Chas Chandler actually "discovered" Hendrix in Greenwich Village while he was fronting his first band
The Blue Flames. It was only after Chalpin read music trade papers that he realized that Hendrix had made it
successfully across the Atlantic in the "Psychedelic" and "Flower Power" period, and began to pursue legal action
against Hendrix, his management and record companies, with Knight as his main witness.
During the legal battles, Chalpin released some of his Hendrix records:

Ballad of Jimi

Dont Accuse Me

Hush Now

Drivin South

No Business

Flashing

Odd Ball

Future Trip

Simon Says

Get That Feeling

Strange Things

Gloomy Monday

Welcome Home

Happy Birthday

You Dont Want Me

Hornets Nest

How Would You Feel

Some of these tracks were actually recorded during a "jam session" that occurred after Hendrix visited Knight in
1967 between the Monterey Pop Festival and the Monkees tour that the Experience participated in. Hendrix was
under the impression that the jam that took place in Ed Chaplin's recording studio was not to be recorded. However,
his wishes were not honored which resulted in several tracks being released. All were released with pictures of
Hendrix that were post-Squires, and stated that Knight played a big part in Hendrix's style.
These tracks were used on a CD/LP release entitled The Summer of Love Sessions. :[1] .
During the 1970s, after Hendrix's demise, Knight moved to London, England where he formed the group "Curtis
Knight, Zeus", and toured throughout Europe, relying on his "Hendrix" connection for many years. Among the
musicians enlisted was "Fast" Eddie Clarke who went on to fame as part of the line up which made Motrhead
famous on such records as "Bomber" and "Ace of Spades" during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Knight wrote the book Jimi: An Intimate Biography of Jimi Hendrix, published in 1974 by Praegar Publishers, New
York. The book includes A Jimi Hendrix Discography, compiled by John McKellar.
Knight was also a competitive table tennis player who played in some local tournaments while living in New York.

Curtis Knight

External links
Curtis Knight at discogs.com [2]

References
[1] http:/ / www. jungle-records. demon. co. uk/ jungle/ freudcd067. htm The Summer of Love Sessions release notes written by guitarist/author
John Perry
[2] http:/ / www. discogs. com/ artist/ Curtis+ Knight

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Related articles
Black Gold
Black Gold
Studio album (unreleased) by Jimi Hendrix
Recorded

1970

Genre

Rock

In early 1970, Jimi Hendrix recorded an autobiographical song cycle in his Greenwich Village apartment that he
titled Black Gold.[1] The tapes consisted of 16 songs, all created by a solo Hendrix armed only with his voice and a
Martin acoustic guitar. Near the end of the collection lies an embryonic two-part rendition of his superhero themed
funk-rock tune Astro Man, in which Hendrix sings lines from the 1950s Mighty Mouse cartoon theme and makes
humorous references to Superman. Other songs from the Black Gold sessions were also further developed in the
studio and have surfaced in the Hendrix catalogue (Stepping Stone, Machine Gun, and Drifting), but at least nine of
the songs are known to be unique to the tapes.
Months later, at the Isle of Wight Festival, Hendrix gave the tapes to his drummer Mitch Mitchell to have him listen
and comment on the necessary rhythm section requirements for recording the songs. After Hendrix's death in
September 1970, Mitchell simply forgot about the tapes, apparently unaware that they were one-of-a-kind masters.
For 22 years, the Black Gold tapes sat in a black Ampex tape box that Hendrix tied shut with a headband and
labelled "BG".
It was not until 1992 that Tony Brown, the avid Hendrix collector and biographer, interviewed Mitchell and learnt
that the mythical Black Gold tapes, thought to have been stolen from Jimi's apartment by vandals who ransacked it
for collectibles soon after his death, were lying in Mitchell's home in England. Mitchell also possessed the Martin
guitar that was used to create the material. Brown was invited to review the tapes and published a summary of his
account, but to date the material has not been released and is not available to Hendrix collectors.
There is a bootleg release called Black Gold but that is a collection of Electric Ladyland outtakes and reahearsals,
and does not include the Greenwich Village material. Only Brown and a handful of friends close to Mitch Mitchell
have listened to the real Black Gold tapes.
Many aficionados consider Black Gold the "holy grail" of Hendrix collectibles. The themed songs, plus the label
markings and conventions used by Hendrix to identify the tapes lead fans to believe that this demo represents a
proposed fifth studio album and predict that the material will reveal the broadest extensions of Hendrix's intended
musical direction.
Mitch Mitchell's association with Experience Hendrix LLC was an indicator that Black Gold might see worldwide
release. Mitchell's death, however, means that the future and whereabouts of Black Gold are even more uncertain. In
March 2010, Janie Hendrix stated that Black Gold will be released "this decade".[2]

''Black Gold''

Tentative track listing


There is precious little to go by regarding the actual names of the tracks on Black Gold. On the only recorded source
Jimi had written "Idea for L.P. side 1 suite ... Black Gold" on side A. On the B side of the cassette the only writing
was "cont from side A". Some of the tracks have been released on other albums, such as the tracks "Machine Gun"
and "Drifting", found on Band of Gypsys and First Rays of the New Rising Sun, respectively.

Side A
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

Suddenly November Morning


Drifting
Captain Midnight
Local Comotion
Here Comes Black Gold
Stepping Stone
Little Red Velvet Room

Side B
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

The Jungle is Waiting


Send My Love to Joan of Arc
God Bless This Day
Black Gold
Machine Gun
Here Comes Black Gold
Astro Man (Parts 1 & 2)
I've Got a Place to Go

References
[1] Robertson, John; Doggett, Peter (2004). Jimi Hendrix: The Complete Guide to His Music (http:/ / books. google. co. uk/
books?id=NZC39WzfzG8C& pg=PA31& dq="Black+ Gold"+ + Hendrix+ + album& num=100& sig=GvwssXVvjakhYu4_9MrNhOvjnjg).
Omnibus Press. pp.31. ISBN1844494241. .
[2] "Many cosmic returns" (http:/ / www. theage. com. au/ news/ entertainment/ music/ many-cosmic-returns/ 2010/ 03/ 11/ 1268203345755.
html?page=2). .

Roby, Steven (2002). Black Gold: The Lost Archives of Jimi Hendrix. Billboard Books. ISBN082307854X.

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''Friends from the Beginning Little Richard and Jimi Hendrix''|

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Friends from the Beginning Little Richard and


Jimi Hendrix|
Friends from the Beginning - Little Richard and Jimi Hendrix

Studio album by Little Richard and Jimi Hendrix


Released

1972

Recorded

June 1964 - April 1971

Genre

Rock 'n' Roll

Length

34:55

Label

Ala Records
Little Richard chronology

Southern
Child
(1972)

Friends from the Beginning - Little Richard and Jimi


Hendrix
(1972)

Right
Now!
(1973)

Friends from the Beginning Little Richard and Jimi Hendrix was Little Richard's eighteenth album release
containing new material. Although many of the tracks present had been available on albums dating as far back as
September 1964, the album did contain five new tracks *not* from the Vee-Jay vaults: "Belle Stars", "Funky Dish
Rag", both instrumentals probably cut in 1971, and "Why Don't You Love Me?", recorded that same year; plus
instrumental reworkings of "Lucille" and "Keep A-Knockin'". Technically there was nothing "new" about the album
(albeit long, stereo versions of very common sides) as it contained material over six years old, but the final release of
the archived tracks, coupled with the tie-in to Jimi Hendrix as guitarist, meant that the release was a viable one.
[Tracks 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12 Personnel include Little Richard (keyboards?); rest unknown (possibly a mix of Little
Richard's 1970s touring band and contemporary studio musicians)].
Note: "Tutti Frutti" (instrumental) is actually "Long Tall Sally" (instrumental).

History
The files at Vee Jay hold that Richard had seven sessions at the company from June 1964 - c. 1965, remaking
seventeen of his old hits ("Tutti Frutti", "Good Golly Miss Molly" et al.) and recording thirty brand new ones. Even
though Richard had left the company and moved on for several years, many of the unreleased VeeJay tracks were
then turning up on "new" albums up till 1974. Playing guitar on all of the tracks on the album was Jimi Hendrix, then
before he became known in his own right, but having had his career and died before this album was released. Despite
this, and the album being released in the same period as the movie footage of Little Richard in Sweet Toronto, the
album failed to chart.

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Track listing
1. Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On (3:01)
2. Goodnight Irene (2:49)
3. Keep a Knockin' (3:21)
4. Going Home Tomorrow (3:18)
5. Belle Stars (2:54)
6. Tutti Frutti (2:56)
7. Lawdy Miss Clawdy (2:26)
8. Why Don't You Love Me (3:12)
9. Lucille (2:55)
10. Hound Dog (2:24)
11. Money Honey (2:26)
12. Funky Dish Rag (3:14)

Personnel - tracks 1, 2, 4, 7, 10 and 11


Little Richard vocals, piano

Dewey Terry - guitar


Glen Willings - guitar
Jimi Hendrix - guitar
Don "Sugarcane" Harris - bass, violin

Two unknown drummers and unknown female vocal group - records not kept by Vee Jay

Personnel - tracks 3, 5, 8, 9 and 12

Little Richard vocals, piano, organ


Jimi Hendrix - guitar
Black Arthur - guitar
Henry Oden - bass

Rest of personnel unknown - records not kept by Vee Jay

Personnel - track 6
Little Richard vocals, piano
Rest of personnel unknown - records not kept by Vee Jay

Charts
Album[1]
Year Chart

Position

1972 Billboard Pop


Albums

Did not chart

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References
[1] White, Charles. (2003). The Life and Times of Little Richard: The Authorised Biography. Omnibus Press.

Jimi Hendrix: An Illustrated Experience


Jimi Hendrix: An Illustrated
Experience

Author

Janie Hendrix
John McDermott

Cover artist

Kasey Free

Country

United States

Language

English

Subject(s)

Jimi Hendrix

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Publication date

October 9, 2007

Media type

Print (Hardcover)

Pages

64

ISBN

9780743297691

OCLC Number

144525031

LC
Classification

ML410.H476 H49 2007

[1]

Jimi Hendrix: An Illustrated Experience is a biography of legendary American guitarist Jimi Hendrix, written by
his stepsister Janie and his biographer John McDermott, and published on October 9, 2007.[2] The book tells the
story of Hendrix and his life through reproductions of rare material such as letters, drawings, postcards and posters.
An Illustrated Experience also contains a companion CD entitled Hendrix: Live, which includes three live tracks,
two interviews, and a studio jam entitled "Keep on Groovin'".

Overview
The focus of An Illustrated Experience is on the interactive features used to tell Hendrix's life story. Authors Janie
Hendrix and John McDermott both work for Experience Hendrix, L.L.C., the exclusive copyright holder to all
Hendrix material, and so had exclusive access to the family archives when compiling the book, allowing them to
reproduce rare first-hand Hendrix memorabilia such as handwritten lyrics, drawings and postcards, from various
periods throughout his life. The companion CD also aims to give an insight into the musician's life as it includes a

''Jimi Hendrix: An Illustrated Experience''


studio jam running for over twenty minutes, featuring many unsorted parts of future songs.

Chapters
1. West Coast Seattle Boy
Jimi's early life and childhood.
2. Screamin' Eagle
Jimi's life in the army, including his time with The King Kasuals.
3. Sideman
Jimi's early career with such acts as Little Richard, Curtis Knight and The Blue Flames.
4. The Experience
The formation of The Jimi Hendrix Experience and their first LP, Are You Experienced.
5. Wild Thing
Monterey Pop Festival and the release of Axis: Bold as Love.
6. Electric Ladyland
The writing, recording, release and promotion of Electric Ladyland.
7. Seeds of Change
The breakup of The Experience and the introduction of more musicians for Gypsy Sun and Rainbows.
8. Woodstock
Woodstock Festival and the formation of the Band of Gypsys.
9. Cry of Love
The Cry of Love Tour and work on First Rays of the New Rising Sun.
10. The Last Days
Jimi's last few days alive and his untimely death.

Hendrix: Live
Hendrix: Live consists mainly of material from The Jimi Hendrix Experience's concert at Clark University on March
15, 1968; namely the performances of "Fire", "Red House" and "Foxy Lady", as well as the pre- and post-concert
interviews. The final track on the disc is a jam session from Record Plant Studios in November 1969 entitled "Keep
on Groovin'", which featured Hendrix and drummer Buddy Miles laying down the groundwork for some of the many
songs they were working on, including "Power of Soul", "Burning Desire" and "Stepping Stone". This recording was
previously issued as part of 2000's Morning Symphony Ideas.

Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix.
Live at Clark University, March 15, 1968
1. Backstage Pre-Concert Interview 20:58
2. "Fire" 3:36
3. "Red House" 7:12
4. "Foxey Lady" 4:35
5. Backstage Post-Concert Interview 4:56
Studio recording at Record Plant Studios, November 1969
"Keep on Groovin'" 28:06

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Credits

Jimi Hendrix guitars, vocals


Noel Redding bass, backing vocals on track 2
Mitch Mitchell drums on tracks 2, 3 and 4
Buddy Miles drums on track 6
Producers: Janie Hendrix, Eddie Kramer, John McDermott

External links
Jimi Hendrix: An Illustrated Experience at Simon & Schuster [3]
Feminist Review [4]

References
[1] http:/ / worldcat. org/ oclc/ 144525031
[2] "Jimi Hendrix: An Illustrated Experience (Hardcover)" (http:/ / www. simonsays. com/ content/ book. cfm?tab=1& pid=526261). Simon &
Schuster. . Retrieved 2008-06-21.
[3] http:/ / www. simonsays. com/ content/ book. cfm?tab=1& pid=526261
[4] http:/ / feministreview. blogspot. com/ 2007/ 11/ jimi-hendrix-illustrated-experience. html

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Chas Chandler
Chas Chandler
Birth name

Bryan James Chandler

Born

18 December 1938, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Died

17 July 1996 (Aged 57)

Genres

R&B, psychedelic rock

Occupations

Musician, producer and manager

Instruments

Bass

Associated acts The Animals, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Soft Machine, Slade

Bryan James "Chas" Chandler (18 December 1938 17 July 1996) was an English musician, record producer
and manager of several successful music acts.
Born in Heaton, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he began his career playing bass guitar in a trio with Alan Price. After
vocalist Eric Burdon joined them the group was renamed The Animals and became one of the most successful R&B
bands ever. Chandler's most famous bass lines are the opening foundation riffs of their 1965 hits "We Gotta Get Out
of This Place" and "It's My Life". Chandler was also the most prominent of the group's backing vocalists and did
occasional songwriting with Burdon.
After the group split up in late 1966, Chandler reinvented himself, becoming manager of Jimi Hendrix and recruiting
other musicians to form The Jimi Hendrix Experience. He also produced their first two albums. Chandler was also
instrumental in introducing Hendrix to Eric Clapton. It was through this introduction that Hendrix got a chance to
play with Clapton and Cream on stage.
Chandler then went on to manage and produce the English rock band Slade for twelve years. During this time,
Chandler bought and ran IBC Studios for four years and launched Barn Records.
He later helped develop Newcastle Arena, a ten-thousand seat sports and entertainment venue that opened in 1995.
Chandler had one son, Steffan, from his first marriage. He later married Madeleine Stringer, the 1977 Miss United
Kingdom and the sixth runner-up at Miss World 1977, and they had a son, Alex, and two daughters, Elizabeth and
Katherine, together.
Chandler died of a heart condition in Newcastle in 1996, days after performing his final solo show.
The character Francis "Chas" Chandler from the comic book Hellblazer is named after him.
Chandler's former home in Heaton is to be remembered with a black plaque placed on the wall.[1]

References
[1] IC Newscastle Link (http:/ / icnewcastle. icnetwork. co. uk/ chroniclelive/ eveningchronicle/
tm_headline=star-s-home-added-to-heritage-trail& method=full& objectid=19529764& siteid=50081-name_page. html/ )

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Dagger Records
Parent company

Experience Hendrix

Founder

James "Al" Hendrix

Distributing label MCA


Genre

Rock, psychedelic rock, blues-rock, acid rock

Country of origin United States


Location

Seattle, Washington

Official Website

www.daggerrecords.com

[1]

Dagger Records is an American record label based in Seattle, Washington.[2] Dagger produces and releases, in
conjunction with Experience Hendrix, L.L.C. and MCA Records, official Jimi Hendrix bootlegs and collections of
rare studio recordings.[3]
The first Dagger release was Live at the Oakland Coliseum, a live album documenting The Jimi Hendrix
Experience's performance at the Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, California on April 27, 1969.[4] The label has released
eleven albums, one every year (except 2007). Dagger releases are not distributed to retail outlets, they are only
available by ordering online from the company themselves or Authentic Hendrix.[5]

Releases

Live at the Oakland Coliseum (1998)


Live at Clark University (1999)
Morning Symphony Ideas (2000)
Live in Ottawa (2001)
The Baggy's Rehearsal Sessions (2002)
Paris 1967/San Francisco 1968 (2003)
Hear My Music (2004)
Live at the Isle of Fehmarn (2005)
Burning Desire (2006)
Live in Paris & Ottawa 1968 (2008)
Live at Woburn (2009)

Dagger Records

See also
List of record labels

External links
Official site [1]
Authentic Hendrix [6]
Experience Hendrix [142]

References
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]

http:/ / www. daggerrecords. com/


"Dagger Records" (http:/ / www. allrecordlabels. com/ db/ 6/ 8566. html). AllRecordLabels.com. . Retrieved 2008-07-11.
"The Dagger Records Story" (http:/ / www. daggerrecords. com/ story. html). Dagger Records. . Retrieved 2007-07-11.
"The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live at the Oakland Coliseum" (http:/ / www. daggerrecords. com/ disc1. html). Dagger Records. . Retrieved
2008-07-11.
[5] "Dagger Records" (http:/ / www. authentichendrix. com/ pgi-CUSTOMLISTPRODUCTS7?4,Dagger Records,2,90,=,0002,). Authentic
Hendrix. . Retrieved 2008-07-21.
[6] http:/ / www. authentichendrix. com/

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Hendrix chord

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Hendrix chord

Hendrix chord, G7#9:


G B D F A# (A#=Bb)

Hendrix chord
Component intervals from root
augmented ninth
minor seventh
perfect fifth
major third
root

In music, the dominant 7#9 chord, sometimes known colloquially as the Hendrix chord or Purple Haze chord,[1] is
an extended dominant chord using the sharpened or augmented ninth, named for guitarist Jimi Hendrix.[2] While the
sharpened ninth and other complex voicings built on the dominant seventh had been used in jazz and jazz harmony,
and even in The Spencer Davis Group's 1967 song "I'm a Man," Hendrix helped popularize the chord's use in
popular music.
Hendrix songs built around the 7#9 chord include "Purple Haze" (recorded 1966) and the chord is implied
throughout "Foxy Lady" (1967)[3] [4] , both from his 1967 album Are You Experienced?. Though the technique is one
of many that contribute to "the dirty, raw, metallic, angular sounds of...many other Hendrix songs"[2] the earliest
recorded evidence of his use of the chord is on the Isley Brothers "Testify, Parts 1 and 2" (1964), one of the few
known recordings he made in the years prior to his solo career in 1966.

Harmony and scales


The chord is harmonically ambiguous, as it effectively is a major and a minor chord simultaneously (the augmented
ninth being in effect a minor third above the tonic) and is thus similar to (in fact, an extension of) the chord referred
to as a mixed third chord (see also blue notes). It may also be found in the tonally ambiguous octatonic scale. It is an
example of how Hendrix would embellish chords "to add new colours to the music, often derived from his own roots
in black music".[2] "In essence," one author has written, the Hendrix chord is "the whole of the blues scale condensed
into a single chord."[4]

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Hendrix chord, F7#9, as an uncommon pentatonic scale on F

The chord may also be considered "jazzy"[5] rather than bluesy, and while the dorian may be the scale most
commonly used for the 7#9, the mixed third allows flexibility including the use of mixolydian, aeolian, and other
modes.[6] In jazz, 79 chords, along with 79 chords, are often employed as the dominant chord in a minor ii-V-I
turnaround. For example, a ii V I in Cm could be played as: Dm75 - G79 - Cm7.
When performing "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" live Hendrix later used not only E7#9, the sharpened ninth chord
on the tonic, but also D7#9 and C7#9 chords, the subtonic and submediant,[4] which would total nine and imply
eleven notes, rather than only five.

Other uses
Though the augmented 9th dominant chord was a favorite of Jimi
Hendrix, it was not his exclusively and had been used as far back as the
bebop era of the 1940s, notably on the Rachmaninoff-inspired
introduction to Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker's arrangement of the
popular standard "All the Things You Are." Instances of the
augmented ninth chord appear with some regularity in blues and
rhythm-and-blues of the 1950s and 1960s, but guitarist Billy Butlers
use of the chord in Bill Doggetts "Hold It" (1958) proved so
memorable that musicians began referring to it as the "Hold It" chord.
The chord is employed in the John Coltrane jazz standard "Blue Train".
Hendrix chord chart, E7#9, in guitar chord chart
format
The chord had also been used previously by Hendrix's contemporaries
in songs including the Beatles' "Taxman", and "The Word", also "I
Feel Free" from Cream's debut album Fresh Cream (1966); both songs predate the release "Purple Haze". It is also
used in the opening of "Kid Charlemagne" from the Steely Dan album The Royal Scam (1976). Additionally, this
chord can be heard in Wes Montgomery's album, The Incredible Jazz guitar of Wes Montgomery (1960), in the piece
"Four on Six", as well as throughout Muse's "Hyper Music".

The chord is favored by Pixies lead guitarist Joey Santiago, with D7#9, reminiscent of the opening to "A Hard Day's
Night", opening "Here Comes Your Man" and F7#9 featured on the chorus to "Tame" against the three chord rhythm
guitar part's D, C, and F.[8]

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Further reading
Hanford, John. "With the Power of Soul: Jimi Hendrix in Band of
Gypsys" Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington, 2003.

Hendrix chord E7#9, as it may be played on a


[7]
guitar in an open position Play

van der Bliek, Rob. The Hendrix Chord: Blues, Flexible Pitch Relationships, and Self-standing Harmony,
Popular Music 26:2 (May 2007), pp 343364.

References
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7]

(2007). The Complete Idiot's Guide to Rock Guitar Songs, p.58. ISBN 0739046284.
Shapiro, Harry and Caesar Glebbeek (1995). Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy, p.144. ISBN 0312130627.
Roby, Steven (2002). Black Gold: The Lost Archives of Jimi Hendrix, p.32. ISBN 082307854X.
Perry, John (2004). Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland, p.120-121. ISBN 0826415717.
Munro, Doug (2001). Jazz Guitar: Bebop and Beyond, p.58. ISBN 0757982816.
Gill, Danny (2001). Practice Trax for Guitar[sic], p.13. ISBN 0634026216.
Radio: "Shiver down the backbone - Jimi Hendrix comes to Radio 3" (http:/ / www. spectator. co. uk/ the-magazine/ arts/ 365466/
shiver-down-the-backbone. thtml), The Spectator, by Kate Chisholm, Wednesday, 21st November 2007
[8] Sisario, Ben (2006). Doolittle, p.82 and 90. ISBN 0826417744.

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Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix

The theatrical release poster.


Directed by

Joe Boyd
John Head
Gary Weis

Music by

Jimi Hendrix

Editing by

Peter Colbert

Distributed by

Warner Bros.

Release date(s)

1973

Running time

98 min.

Country

US

Language

English

Jimi Hendrix is a 1973 rockumentary about Jimi Hendrix, directed and produced by Joe Boyd, John Head and Gary
Weis. The film contains concert footage from 1967 to 1970, including the Monterey Pop Festival the 1970 Isle of
Wight Festival, Woodstock and a Berkeley concert. The film also includes interviews with Hendrix' contemporaries,
family and friends. People appearing in the film include Paul Caruso, Eric Clapton, Billy Cox, Alan Douglas,
Germaine Greer, Hendrix' father, James A. "Al" Hendrix, Mick Jagger, Eddie Kramer, Buddy Miles, Mitch Mitchell,
Juggy Murray, Little Richard, Lou Reed and Pete Townshend.
The film is also known as A Film About Jimi Hendrix. The title was used on the 2005 DVD-cover and theatrical
poster.

''Jimi Hendrix''

Soundtrack
The soundtrack to the film features 12 songs as well as excerpts from interviews with Hendrix, his father Al Hendrix,
Little Richard and others.

Releases
The estate of Jimi Hendrix authorized the 1973 film to be re-released on video and DVD in 1999. An expanded DVD
edition was issued in 2005, featuring a new documentary, From the Ukulele to the Strat, with more remembrances of
Hendrix through interviews with family and friends, the making of "Dolly Dagger", with producer-engineer Eddie
Kramer breaking down the studio mix of the song and unreleased archive footage of a performance of "Stone Free"
from the July 4, 1970 Atlanta Pop Festival.

External links
Jimi Hendrix [1] at the Internet Movie Database
Jimi Hendrix [2] at Allmovie
Jimi Hendrix [3] at Rotten Tomatoes

References
[1] http:/ / www. imdb. com/ title/ tt0070242/
[2] http:/ / www. allmovie. com/ work/ 153786
[3] http:/ / www. rottentomatoes. com/ m/ jimi_hendrix/

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''The Jimi Hendrix Album''

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The Jimi Hendrix Album


The Jimi Hendrix Album

Studio album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

February 1983

Recorded 19681970
Genre

Hard rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues-rock

Length

35:20

Label

Pickwick

Producer Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Kramer, John Jansen


Professional reviews
See Loose Ends

The Jimi Hendrix Album is a posthumous studio album by American guitarist Jimi Hendrix, released in 1983 in the
United Kingdom. This album is a re-packaging of the Loose Ends 1974 LP release. See the Loose Ends (Jimi
Hendrix album) page for more details.

Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.

Side one
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

"Come Down Hard on Me Baby"


"Blue Suede Shoes" (Carl Perkins)
"Jam 292"
"The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice"
"Drifter's Escape" (Bob Dylan)

''The Jimi Hendrix Album''

Side two
1. "Burning Desire"
2. "Born a Hootchie Kootchie Man" (Willie Dixon)
3. "Electric Ladyland"

Personnel

Jimi Hendrix guitars, lead vocals


Billy Cox bass, backing vocals on track 6
Mitch Mitchell drums on tracks 1, 3, 4 and 5
Buddy Miles drums on tracks 2, 6, 7 and 8 (track 8 wiped), backing vocals on tracks 6 and 7
Sharon Layne piano on track 3
Noel Redding bass on track 4

Recording details
Track 1 recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York City, New York on July 15, 1970
Track 2 recorded at Record Plant Studios in New York City, New York on January 23, 1970

Track 3 recorded at Record Plant Studios on May 14, 1969


Track 4 recorded at Mayfair Studios, New York City, New York on July 18 and 29, 1967
Track 5 recorded at Electric Lady Studios on June 17, 1970
Tracks 6 and 7 recorded at Record Plant Studios between December 15, 1969 and January 23, 1970
Track 8 recorded at Record Plant Studios on June 14, 1968

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The Isley Brothers

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The Isley Brothers


The Isley Brothers
Also known as

The Isley Brothers featuring Ronald Isley AKA "Mr. Biggs"


The Isleys

Origin

Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.


Teaneck, New Jersey, U.S.

Genres

R&B, Doo-Wop, Soul, Gospel, Funk, Rhythm and Blues, disco, Psychedelic Soul

Years active

1954present

Labels

RCA, Wand, United Artists, Tamla (Motown), T-Neck, Atlantic, Buddah, Epic, Warner Bros., Island, DreamWorks,
Def Soul

Associated acts Jimi Hendrix


Angela Winbush
R. Kelly
Tim & Bob
Website

Isley Brothers homepage

[1]

Members
Ronald Isley
Ernie Isley
Formermembers
O'Kelly Isley, Jr. (deceased)
Rudolph Isley
Marvin Isley (deceased)
Chris Jasper
Vernon Isley (deceased)
Jimi Hendrix

The Isley Brothers (pronounced /azli/; IZE-lee) are a successful and long-running American group consisting of
different line-ups of six brothers, and a brother-in-law, Chris Jasper. The founding and central members were
O'Kelly Isley, Jr., Rudolph Isley and Ronald Isley. Their music has developed from 1950's R&B, through Motown
soul to 1970's funk,[2] and they have had long-running success on the Billboard charts, being the only act to appear
in the Top 40 in six separate decades. In 2006, they reached the Top Ten of the Billboard album chart for the ninth
time. Over the years, the act has performed in a variety of genres, including doo-wop, R&B, rock 'n' roll, soul, funk,
disco, urban adult contemporary and hip-hop soul. The group's lineups have ranged from a quartet to a trio to a
sextet; and are currently a duo.
The band were formed in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1954, from the three elder sons of O'Kelly Isley, Sr. and Sally Bell
Isley: O'Kelly Jr., Rudolph and Ronald, and recorded with small labels singing doo-wop and rock 'n' roll. After
modest success with singles such as "Shout", "Twist and Shout" and the Motown single "This Old Heart of Mine (Is
Weak for You)", and a brief tenure with Jimi Hendrix as a background guitar player, the group settled on a brand of
gritty soul and funk defined by the Grammy-winning smash "It's Your Thing" in 1969.
After reforming the group as a six-member lineup in 1973, featuring younger brothers Ernie and Marvin and
brother-in-law Chris Jasper, they became known as 3 + 3 and charted gold and platinum success with albums such as
3 + 3, The Heat Is On, Go For Your Guns and Between the Sheets, while charting a succession of hit singles such as
"That Lady", "Fight the Power", "For the Love of You", "Don't Say Goodnight (It's Time For Love)" and "Between
the Sheets", between 1973 and 1983.

The Isley Brothers


After the younger brothers splintered from the group in 1984 the remaining trio continued recording until O'Kelly's
death from a cancer-related heart attack in 1986. Rudolph left the group for a career in the ministry in 1989. In 1991
Ron reformed the group with Ernie and Marvin returning to the lineup. Since 1997 after diabetes forced Marvin into
retirement, the lineup has been Ron and Ernie (now on hiatus due to Ron's current prison sentence after a tax evasion
conviction in 2006). The Isleys recordings have been sampled by 2Pac, The Notorious B.I.G., Outkast, Ice Cube,
Snoop Dogg and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony among others.

Early years (1954-1961)


The band were formed in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1954, from the three elder sons of O'Kelly Isley, Sr. and Sally Bell
Isley: O'Kelly Jr., Rudolph and Ronald. Occasionally performing in churches throughout their childhood, Rudolph,
O'Kelly, Vernon and Ronald, were taught how to perform in front of crowds by their parents, who were also
musicians, along with their younger siblings. A few years after the death of younger brother Vernon from a road
accident, O'Kelly, Rudolph and Ron were convinced by their parents to form a new singing group together. After
forming the group in 1957, the brothers immediately moved to New York and began recording in the doo-wop music
genre, issuing singles on the small Teenage, Cindy, End and Mark-X labels. In 1959, RCA Records signed the group
after catching them in concert where they had opened for R&B star Jackie Wilson. Their second release from the
label, "Shout", became the group's first charted single, reaching No. 47 on the Billboard Hot 100, though it failed to
enter the R&B chart. The single, written by the three brothers, was a modest single when the group released it, but
the song gained a mainstream following after cover versions by singers such as Lulu and Joey Dee and the
Starlighters helped the song eventually sell over a million copies. Motivated by its success, RCA later re-released the
group's original version in 1961 but the song only peaked at No. 92. A follow-up success to "Shout!" never came and
the group was released from their contract.

"Twist & Shout" to Buddah Records (1962-1973)


After a period with Atlantic, the group signed with Wand Records in 1962, the group scored their first top-40 single,
"Twist & Shout", which was originally recorded in a calypso production by the Top Notes. The Isleys' version,
which had a more rock flavor, influenced many groups, including The Beatles, who would record the single the
following year and finding huge success before the group moved on to record their own compositions. After several
more releases, the group left Wand Records in 1964 and signed with United Artists, and after a handful of singles
formed T-Neck Records after moving to New Jersey. Finding only local success with the single "Testify"
(distributed by Atlantic), recorded with a young Jimi Hendrix on guitar, the group temporarily folded T-Neck and
continued to record for Atlantic. The group then signed with Motown's Tamla imprint in 1965. The following year's
"This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)" gave the group their biggest success up to that point on the American
Billboard chart, reaching No. 12 on the Hot 100 and No. 6 in R&B. Much like their earlier tenures in other labels,
the Isleys couldn't come up with a follow-up and after complaining of being given "leftover tracks" from the label's
staff songwriters such as Smokey Robinson and Holland-Dozier-Holland, they asked to be let go from their contract
in 1968.
Upon separating from Motown, the group discovered that they had a huge following in England where three of their
Motown singles had reached the top 40 (among them "This Old Heart", "Put Yourself in My Place" and "Behind a
Painted Smile"). Touring in the UK that year, they returned to the U.S. with a new image and sound. Signing a new
distribution deal with Buddah Records, the group recorded the gritty soul single, "It's Your Thing", a noted departure
from their earlier recordings and showcasing a more independent sound in addition to featuring younger brother
Ernie on lead guitar. It was released under the group's revived T-Neck label and eventually rose to No. 2 on the
Billboard Hot 100, becoming their biggest charted success, selling over a million copies and winning the group a
Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group. The success of "It's Your Thing" reportedly
irked Motown CEO Berry Gordy, who had agreed to let the band leave Motown in 1968; Gordy began making

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accusations that "It's Your Thing" was recorded while they were still in Motown, which the group denied. After
several years, Gordy settled with the group out of court. The group released a succession of seven albums for
Buddah including The Brothers: Isley, Givin' It Back and Brother, Brother, Brother. After the release of a live
album, the group left Buddah in 1973 after being offered a long-term distribution deal with Epic by Clive Davis, then
president of CBS Records.

3 + 3 (1974-1984)
After signing with Epic, the group updated their lineup, now including Ernie, brother Marvin and brother-in-law
Chris Jasper. The addition of songwriters and musicians Chris, Marvin and Ernie made the group a self-contained
act. The trio had worked initially in the background on some of the group's Buddah recordings. Their 1973 album,
aptly titled 3 + 3, featured the crossover hit, "That Lady", and featured guitarist Ernie Isley in a memorable solo near
the end of the song. By the end of the year 3 + 3 became their first album to be certified gold. In 1975 the group hit
No. 1 in the album chart with The Heat Is On, featuring "Fight the Power" and "For the Love of You". Throughout
the 1970s and 1980s the Isleys issued other successful recordings such as Harvest for the World, Showdown and
Between the Sheets.
In 1984, the lineup splintered, with Chris Jasper, Ernie and Marvin Isley forming the Isley-Jasper-Isley group. The 3
+ 3 period is still considered by some as the most notable Isley Brothers era sandwiched between the group's earlier
classic rock/soul period and the group's later tenure into smooth urban contemporary music. While the group
members shared lyrical composition rights, it is noted that most of the group's singles were constructed by Ernie,
Marvin and Chris, while allowing O'Kelly, Rudolph and Ronald to share credit, easily splitting royalties with the
members. By 1985 Ronald, O'Kelly and Rudolph found themselves in trouble with the IRS for not paying back taxes
and evading payments. To settle the three agreed to sell their label, thereby folding the company, though its imprint's
logo would still be on Isley Brothers records. All of the group's T-Neck recordings are in the control of Sony Music.
Afterwards the group, which reverted back to the original lineup of Kelly, Rudolph and Ronald, left Epic for Warner
Bros. Records and continued to record, now relying on outside writers, musicians and producers.

Later years (1985-present)


In 1985 the three-member group released Masterpiece, which featured a cover of Phil Collins' "If Leaving Me Is
Easy". A year later O'Kelly Isley died after suffering a heart attack in his New Jersey home. Rudolph and Ronald
dedicated their Angela Winbush-produced 1987 album Smooth Sailin', which included the tribute song "Sending a
Message", to O'Kelly's memory. Nearly two years before the release of 1989's Spend the Night (also produced by
Winbush, whom Ron married soon after), Rudolph left the group to become a minister, leaving Ron to carry on a
solo career. Ron found success collaborating with Rod Stewart on a remake of "This Old Heart of Mine". In 2000
Michael Bolton unsuccessfully tried to buy the Isley Brothers' catalogue after the Isleys won a lawsuit alleging that
Bolton's song "Love Is a Wonderful Thing" plagiarized their 1966 VEEP single (VEEP 1230) track of the same
title.[3]
Around the same time, The Isley Brothers were re-formed when Isley-Jasper-Isley split. Chris Jasper continued on
with his solo career, and Ernie and Marvin returned to the lineup with Ron to record the album, Tracks of Life in
1992. That same year, the original six-member group was inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. In 1996 the
group released their first hit album in years with Mission to Please, boosted significantly because of lead singer Ron
Isley's music video character, "Mr. Biggs", created by frequent collaborator, hip-hop/R&B singer R. Kelly, who first
used Isley in the 1996 single for his hit "Down Low". The character would dominate much of the group's later
recordings and helped to gain the group a brand new audience.
The group, now consisting of Ron and Ernie, would top that success with their biggest-selling release, 2001's
Eternal, which featured their biggest hit single in over 20 years with "Contagious", a song written by R. Kelly, who
recorded it as Mr. Biggs' answer to Down Low. The single and its heavily rotated video returned the Isley Brothers to

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the top of the music chart. Eternal eventually sold more than two million copies. With "Contagious" and Eternal,
they had become the only group to have a single and album chart in over five decades, longer than any group in
recording history (42 years). They stretched their streak with 2003's gold-certified Body Kiss, which was their first
No. 1-charted album in nearly 30 years (since The Heat Is On), and their first to debut at No. 1. It featured the top 50
single, "What Would You Do" and 2006's '"Baby Makin' Music", which peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200.

Personnel
Rudolph "Rudy" Isley sang background vocals from 1957 to 1989. He lives in California with Elaine Jasper Isley,
his wife of over 50 years, where he is a minister in a local church.[4]
Ronald Isley was the lead singer during 19571989 and from 1991 to the present. After quietly divorcing Winbush
in 2002, he married for a third time to his backup singer Kandy Johnson, formerly of the group JS, and became a
father again in 2006. He also has a daughter from a previous marriage. In 2004 the singer suffered a mild stroke
during a touring schedule in London. He has kidney cancer and other failing organs. He was convicted of tax evasion
charges in 2006 for not paying taxes between 1997 and 2002, giving band mates cash rather than taking the money to
cash a check, and using money from his late brother O'Kelly's estate to continue his "expensive lifestyle". Isley was
sentenced to serve 37 months (at least three years) in prison.[5] Isley was released early from federal prison in
October 2009 and transferred to a halfway house in St. Louis, Missouri, where he served out the remainder of his
sentence, before he was released on April 13, 2010.
O'Kelly Isley, Jr. (19571986): background vocals, until his death.
Marvin Isley provided bass and background vocals during the periods 1973-1984 and 19911997. He suffered from
diabetes, and retired in 1997. Complications from the diabetes led to a stroke, high blood pressure, the loss of both
legs and use of his left hand. He died on June 6, 2010 in Chicago.[6]
Chris Jasper provided piano, clavinet, synthesizers, keyboards and background vocals from 1973 to 1984. In 1984 he
formed Isley-Jasper-Isley with Ernie and Marvin.[4] When that band split in 1987, Jasper worked as a solo artists,
and has released eight albums featuring a mix of R&B/funk/gospel for his own Gold City Music label.[7]
Ernie Isley (1973-1984; 1991present): guitars, drums, percussion and background vocals. Ernie Isley is currently
working on his first solo album in nearly 20 years after the release of 1990's High Wire and is scheduled to
participate in the Experience Hendrix festival in March.
Ernie, Marvin and Chris were the group's background instrumentalists between 1968 and 1973 before becoming
members.

Discography
Top 10 singles
The following singles reached the Top Ten of either the U.S. pop singles chart or the United Kingdom pop singles
chart. Also included are the singles that hit No. 1 on the U.S. R&B singles chart.[8] [9]

422

The Isley Brothers

423

Year

Single

Chart positions
US UK US
Pop Pop R&B

1966 "This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)"

12

1968 "Behind a Painted Smile"

1969 "It's Your Thing"

30

1973 "That Lady (Part 1)"

14

1975 "Fight the Power (Part 1)"

1976 "Harvest for the World"

63

10

1977 "The Pride (Part 1)"

63

1978 "Take Me to the Next Phase (Part 1)"

50

1979 "I Wanna Be with You (Part 1)"

1980 "Don't Say Goodnight (It's Time for Love) (Parts 1 & 2)"

39

1996 "Down Low (Nobody Has to Know)" (R. Kelly featuring The Isley
Brothers)
"" denotes the single failed to chart

23

Top 10 albums
The following albums reached the Top Ten on either the United States pop albums chart or the United Kingdom pop
albums chart or the Billboard R&B charts. [10]

1969: It's Our Thing (US R&B #2)


1972: Brother, Brother, Brother (US R&B #5)
1973: 3 + 3 (US #8; US R&B #2)
1974: Live It Up (US #14; US R&B #1)
1975: The Heat Is On (US #1; US R&B #1)
1976: Harvest for the World (US #9; US R&B #1)
1977: Go for Your Guns (US #6; US R&B #1)
1978: Showdown (US #4; US R&B #1)
1979: Winner Takes All (US R&B #3)
1980: Go All the Way (US #8; US R&B #1)
1981: Grand Slam (US R&B #3)
1981: Inside You (US R&B #8)
1982: The Real Deal (US R&B #9)
1983: Between the Sheets (US R&B #1)
1987: Smooth Sailin' (US R&B #5)
1989: Spend the Night (US R&B #4)
1996: Mission to Please (US R&B #2)
2001: Eternal (US #3; US R&B #1)
2003: Body Kiss (US #1; US R&B #1)
2006: Baby Makin' Music (US #5; US R&B #1)

The Isley Brothers

External links
The Isley Brothers [1] Official Website
The Isley Brothers [11] at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The Isley Brothers [12] at the Vocal Group Hall of Fame

References
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bolton_loses_love_appeal). Rolling Stone. January 23, 2001. . Retrieved 2007-09-23.
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ei=ucRCTNSJLOiJ4gan45yCDg& sa=X& oi=book_result& ct=result& resnum=1& ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage& q=Rudolph Isley&
f=false). books.google.com. . Retrieved 2010-07-18.
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htm). www.usatoday.com. . Retrieved 2010-07-18.
[6] "Marvin Isley of The Isley Brothers dies at age 56 in Chicago" (http:/ / www. nydailynews. com/ entertainment/ music/ 2010/ 06/ 07/
2010-06-07_marvin_isley_of_the_isley_brothers_dies_at_age_56_in_chicago. html). www.nydailynews.com. . Retrieved 2010-07-18.
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chartstats.com. .
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sql=11:fifyxqe5ldae~T51). allmusic.com. .
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sql=11:fifyxqe5ldae~T50). allmusic.com. .
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[12] http:/ / www. vocalhalloffame. com/ inductees/ the_isley_brothers. html

424

''Radio One''

425

Radio One
Radio One
Studio album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Released

November 1988 (United States)


February 1, 1989 (United Kingdom)

Recorded FebruaryDecember 1967 at the BBC Broadcasting House and Playhouse Theatre, London
Genre

Psychedelic rock, blues-rock

Length

50:12

Label

Rykodisc
The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology

Live at
Winterland
(1987)

Radio
One
(1988)

Live at the Oakland


Coliseum
(1998)

Radio One is a posthumous studio album by English-American psychedelic rock band The Jimi Hendrix Experience,
released in the United States in November 1988 by Rykodisc. Later released in the United Kingdom on February 1,
1989, the album comprises tracks recorded at a number of sessions for the BBC in 1967. All tracks were later
released on the compilation BBC Sessions in 1998.

Track listing
No. Title

Writer(s)

Length

1. "Stone Free"

Jimi Hendrix

3:23

2. "Radio One"

Hendrix

1:27

3. "Day Tripper" (The Beatles cover)

Lennon/McCartney

3:18

4. "Killing Floor"

Chester Arthur Burnett

2:27

5. "Love or Confusion"

Hendrix

2:52

6. "Drivin' South"

Hendrix

4:49

7. "Catfish Blues"

Robert Petway

5:28

8. "Wait Until Tomorrow"

Hendrix

2:55

9. "Hear My Train a Comin'"

Hendrix

4:52

10. "Hound Dog" (Elvis Presley


cover)

Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller

2:44

11. "Fire"

Hendrix

2:39

12. "Hoochie Coochie Man"

Willie Dixon

5:30

13. "Purple Haze"

Hendrix

3:02

14. "Spanish Castle Magic"

Hendrix

3:06

15. "Hey Joe"

Billy Roberts

4:01

16. "Foxy Lady"

Hendrix

2:57

17. "Burning of the Midnight Lamp"

Hendrix

3:42

''Radio One''

426
Total length:

50:12

Personnel

Jimi Hendrix guitar, lead vocals


Noel Redding bass, backing vocals on track 3
Mitch Mitchell drums, backing vocals
Paul McCartney backing vocals on track 3
Jimmy Leverton backing vocals on track 11
Trevor Burton backing vocals on track 11

Recording details

Tracks 1, 5, 15 and 16 recorded at the BBC Broadcasting House in London, England on February 13, 1967
Tracks 2, 3, 8, 9 and 14 recorded at the BBC Playhouse Theatre in London, England on December 15, 1967
Tracks 4, 11 and 13 recorded at the BBC Broadcasting House on March 28, 1967
Tracks 6, 7, 10 and 17 recorded at the BBC Playhouse Theatre on October 6, 1967
Track 12 recorded at the BBC Playhouse Theatre on October 17, 1967

''Rainbow Bridge''

427

Rainbow Bridge
Rainbow Bridge
Directed by

Chuck Wein

Produced by

Barry De Prendergast
Michael Jeffery

Written by

Charlie Bacis

Starring

Pat Hartley

Music by

Jimi Hendrix

Cinematography Vilis Lapenieks


Release date(s)

March 1972
San Francisco

Running time

74 min. (original)
125 min. (director's cut)

Language

English

Rainbow Bridge is a 1972 film directed by Chuck Wein that features footage from a Jimi Hendrix concert, and a
short piece of conversation between Pat Hartley, Wein and Hendrix. It was mainly financed by Hendrix manager
Mike Jeffery, hence his appearance. The film is about Pat Hartley's "spiritual awakening" via a visit to the 'Rainbow
Bridge' planetary meditation cult on Maui, where, as part of the proceedings Jimi Hendrix visits to play a concert
during a 'Rainbow Bridge' mass meditation/colour/sound "experiment". The "Rainbow Bridge" concert was a free
concert by Jimi Hendrix that was held on July 30, 1970, in a horse pasture above Seabury Hall, on the "Upcountry"
slopes of Haleakala, the volcano that makes up 75% of the island of Maui, Hawaii, although it probably last erupted
in the 1600s, it is officially considered as being active.
A modest audience of a few hundred island hippies, surfers, and students turned up following announcements that
Hendrix would play a free concert for a film. Hendrix was also in Hawaii to play the last concert on his 'Cry of Love'
tour with his reformed 'Jimi Hendrix Experience' (with Billy Cox replacing Noel Redding on bass & backing vocals.
Mitch Mitchell & Cox were also - previously - members of Gypsy Sun and Rainbows). The director Chuck Wein
introduced Hendrix' performance (no mention of a group name) as the driving force of this 'Rainbow Bridge'
"experiment" , (this title is often mistaken as being the name of the site of this concert rather than the name of this
"Planetary meditation" cult, an extension of the Gaia hypothesis into spiritual realms). The original cut, not
surprisingly used very little of the concert footage, as this was not intended to be a concert film and no music from
the performance was released on the official Reprise LP "Rainbow Bridge- Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" for
contractual reasons and due to the original music soundtrack being unreleasable due to its very substandard sonic
quality on account of strong winds that day. The album does include, however, the studio tracks featured in the film.
However, the music from the concert was distributed as a bootleg recording for three decades, before Radioactive
Records released this same bootleg recording on the 2003 album, The Rainbow Bridge Concert: The Early Show
until it was withdrawn due to a court action by 'Experience Hendrix' which makes this officially a 'bootleg' CD
release. The 'Rainbow Bridge' concert was the penultimate performance by Hendrix in the United States, his last was
two days later on August 1, 1970, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Hendrix died less than two months later on September 18,
1970 in London, England.

''Rainbow Bridge''

External links
Rainbow Bridge [1] at the Internet Movie Database

References
[1] http:/ / www. imdb. com/ title/ tt0069161/

428

''Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix''

Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi


Hendrix
Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi
Hendrix
Author

Charles R. Cross

Country

United States

Language

English

Genre(s)

Biography

Publisher

Sceptre

Publication date August 15, 2005


Pages

384

ISBN

ISBN 0-3408-2683-5

Preceded by

Heavier Than Heaven - A Biography Of Kurt Cobain

Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix is a 2005 biography of musician Jimi Hendrix, the influential
guitarist, singer, and songwriter of the psychedelic rock band The Jimi Hendrix Experience. It was written by
Charles R. Cross.
Room Full of Mirrors was released in the year of the 35th anniversary of Hendrix's death and is composed of over
300 interviews that Cross conducted. More than half of the people interviewed had never spoken about Jimi since his
death. It takes the reader from his troubled home in Seattle's projects to his time at military school and from his
attempts to make it big in New York City's Greenwich Village to his rise to fame as the leader of the psychedelic
rock music style.
Cross took the name Room Full of Mirrors from the song on The Jimi Hendrix Experience's First Rays of the New
Rising Sun. First Rays of the New Rising Sun is an attempt to recreate the studio album Hendrix was working on at
the time of his death.

External links
http://www.curledup.com/jhendrix.htm
http://andybullbookreviews.blogspot.com/2007/08/room-full-of-mirrors-biography-of-jimi.html

429

''Woke Up This Morning and Found Myself Dead''

430

Woke Up This Morning and Found Myself Dead


Woke Up This Morning and Found Myself Dead

Live album by Jimi Hendrix


Released

1980

Recorded

March 18, 1968 at The Scene, New York City, New York, USA

Genre

Alternative rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock, Funk rock, Blues-Rock, Blues

Length

53:46

Label

Stony Plain Recording Co.


Jimi Hendrix chronology

Nine to the
Universe
(1980)

Woke Up This Morning and Found Myself


Dead
(1980)

The Jimi Hendrix


Concerts
(1982)

Woke Up This Morning and Found Myself Dead is a posthumous live album by Jimi Hendrix released in Canada
1980 by Stony Plain Recording Co. and in the USA by Red Lightnin' Records. The album documents Hendrix's jam
session (which he recorded himself on his portable reel to reel machine that he had brought with him) at The Scene
club, 301 West 46th Street, New York City in March 1968, with guest vocals from Jim Morrison (that consist almost
entirely of drunkenly shouted obscenities). Other musicians on the recordings are unknown, though it is possible that
the bassist is Randy Hobbs and the drummer is Randy Zehringer, members of The Scene's house band at the time. It
has been rumored that Noel Redding and Johnny Winter also appear. In the case of Redding, this is definitely untrue.
Winter himself has denied that he took part in the jam, saying he never met Jim Morrison, although at times during
the recording a second lead guitar (at a lower volume than Hendrix's) can be heard playing in an electric blues style.
The LP release is interesting for its strange depiction of Hendrix on the cover (an illustration by artist George Snow).
The material on Woke Up This Morning and Found Myself Dead was first released on a bootleg LP entitled Sky High
[1], and at various times in the past and present under different names including High, Live 'N Dirty, Sunshine of
Your Love, Live at the Scene Club, Red House, New York Sessions, Tomorrow Never Knows, Bleeding Heart, and
many more, though all are semi-official releases. This is probably the most bootleged material from Jimi Hendrix
appearing on hundreds of releases (records, cassettes, CD's etc.) worldwide. Experience Hendrix now owns the
original reel to reel tape, and has it safely put away in the vaults.

''Woke Up This Morning and Found Myself Dead''

431

Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
Side 1
1. "Red House" 10:57
2. "Wake Up This Morning and Find Yourself Dead" 8:05
3. "Bleeding Heart" (Elmore James) 12:29
Side 2
1. "Morrison's Lament" (Jim Morrison) 3:30
2. "Tomorrow Never Knows" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
5:11
3. "Uranus Rock" 3:11
4. "Outside Woman Blues" (Blind Joe Reynolds) 8:03
5. "Sunshine of Your Love" (Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton, Pete
Brown) 2:16

Personnel

Jimi Hendrix electric guitar, vocals


Jim Morrison vocals, screaming
Unknown (possibly Randy Hobbs) bass guitar
Unknown (possibly Randy Zehringer or Buddy Miles) drums
Unknown harmonica
Johnny Winter second electric guitar

References
[1] http:/ / upload. wikimedia. org/ wikipedia/ en/ e/ e4/ Sky_high_jh. jpg

CD cover of Woke Up This Morning and Found Myself


Dead

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Experience Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=376008114 Contributors: After Midnight, Andre666, Badwolftv, Berenlazarus, Bumm13, E-Kartoffel, Ian13, Kingfish, Koavf,
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Hendrix in the West Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=374896581 Contributors: 75pickup, After Midnight, Andre666, AndrewHowse, Badwolftv, Bumm13, CDV,
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More Experience Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=362391238 Contributors: Andre666, Badwolftv, E-Kartoffel, Jameselmo, Koavf, Rockfan231, Sugar Bear, Tassedethe, 1
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Live at Winterland Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=374612571 Contributors: Andre666, Hoju1394, Koavf, Orcanaoftime, Rockfan231, Xnux, lfgar, 1 anonymous edits
Bleeding Heart Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=363438511 Contributors: Ak85lp, AlienRage, Andre666, Badwolftv, Cuervo7, Dreadarthur, Jameselmo, Jfkinyon, Jtsterling,
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Woodstock Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=374600984 Contributors: Andre666, Anetode, Badwolftv, Koavf, Wiher, 4 anonymous edits
Live at the Fillmore East Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=374363768 Contributors: 75pickup, Acebrock, After Midnight, All systems go, Andre666, Anger22, Badwolftv,
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Live at Woodstock Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=378724715 Contributors: 75pickup, After Midnight, All systems go, Andre666, Anger22, Badwolftv,
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Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=374359715 Contributors: After Midnight, All systems go, Andre666, Anger22, Badwolftv,
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Smash Hits Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=374367937 Contributors: 312one, After Midnight, Alcuin, Alex 101, Ary29, BGC, Big weezay, Bubba73, Bumm13,
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Electric Jimi Hendrix Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=364695767 Contributors: Andre666, Dan56, Koavf, Orcanaoftime, PigFlu Oink, Rockfan231, Wiher, Xnux, 4
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Soundtrack Recordings from the Film Jimi Hendrix Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=374779280 Contributors: After Midnight, Bumm13, CarolGray, E-Kartoffel, Edgarde,
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Jimmy Plays Berkeley Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=370881593 Contributors: Andre666, Cjc13, Koavf
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The Essential Jimi Hendrix Volume 2 Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=374620618 Contributors: Andre666, Bluemask, Bumm13, CanisRufus, Drilnoth, Gingout, Koavf,
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Stone Free Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=374600480 Contributors: Andre666, Koavf, Richhoncho, Sugar Bear, 1 anonymous edits
The Singles Album Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=374889916 Contributors: After Midnight, Bumm13, Frka, J Clear, Jogers, Koavf, Orcanaoftime, Sugar Bear, Swanrizla,
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Kiss the Sky Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=374622370 Contributors: After Midnight, Cannibaloki, Elkman, Fnlayson, Gyrofrog, Iridescent, Jogers, Koavf, LuciferMorgan,
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Live & Unreleased: The Radio Show Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=372226702 Contributors: Andre666, Koavf, Orcanaoftime, Richhoncho, Sugar Bear, 2 anonymous
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Lifelines: The Jimi Hendrix Story Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=364742025 Contributors: Andre666, Koavf, Ray from texas, Rayfromtexas123, Refutor, Richhoncho,
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Stages Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=375488863 Contributors: After Midnight, Alcuin, Andre666, Eaefremov, Gcstackmoney, Koavf, Mdumas43073, Mickraus, Momet,
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The Ultimate Experience Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=374728736 Contributors: 20coconuts, After Midnight, Alcuin, BauerPower, Cmdrjameson, Cyfal, Daltonls,
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Blues Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=374359624 Contributors: After Midnight, Andre666, BGC, Brewcrewer, Bubba73, Cheeze420, Cmdrjameson, Dan56,
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Voodoo Soup Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=374369350 Contributors: AlienRage, Andre666, Dan56, Jameselmo, Koavf, Pawnkingthree, Raine-07, Rich Farmbrough,
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First Rays of the New Rising Sun Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=364550251 Contributors: A plague of rainbows, Abenwoha, After Midnight, Alan Liefting, Andre666,
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