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Articles
Overview
Jimi Hendrix
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Members
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Noel Redding
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Mitch Mitchell
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Billy Cox
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Larry Lee
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Juma Sultan
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Gerardo Velez
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Buddy Miles
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Discography
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Studio albums
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Electric Ladyland
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Rainbow Bridge
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War Heroes
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Loose Ends
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Crash Landing
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Midnight Lightning
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Valleys of Neptune
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Live albums
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Band of Gypsys
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Experience
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Isle of Wight
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More Experience
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Johnny B. Goode
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Band of Gypsys 2
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Live at Winterland
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Bleeding Heart
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Woodstock
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Live at Woodstock
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Live at Berkeley
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Live at Monterey
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Compilation albums
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Smash Hits
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Re-Experienced
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Stone Free
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Cornerstones: 19671970
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Stages
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Blues
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Voodoo Soup
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BBC Sessions
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Extended play
Are You Homeless?
Bootlegs
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Live in Ottawa
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Hear My Music
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Running Desire
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Live at Woburn
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Tributes
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Singles
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"Hey Joe"
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"Purple Hare"
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"Foxy Lady"
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"Crosstown Traffic"
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"Stone Free"
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"Fire"
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"Stepping Stone"
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"Freedom"
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"Angel"
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"Gypsy Eyes"
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"Dolly Dagger"
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"Johnny B. Goode"
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"Valleys of Neptune"
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"Bleeding Heart"
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Songs
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"Bold as Love"
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"Come On"
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"Ezy Ryder"
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"Highway Chile"
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"Little Wing"
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"Lover Man"
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"Machine Gun"
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"Manic Depression"
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"My Friend"
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"Red House"
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"Voodoo Chile"
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"Wild Thing"
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Tours
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Associated places
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Associated people
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Monika Dannemann
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Karl Ferris
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Leon Hendrix
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Michael Jeffrey
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Curtis Knight
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Related articles
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Black Gold
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Chas Chandler
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Dagger Records
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Hendrix chord
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Jimi Hendrix
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Radio One
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Rainbow Bridge
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References
Article Sources and Contributors
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Article Licenses
License
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Overview
Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix
Born
Died
Genres
Occupations
Instruments
Years active
19631970
Labels
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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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
hat was stolen.[86] The rest of the tour was uneventful, though Hendrix had to spend some time in Sweden waiting
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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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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]
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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.
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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.
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
Soho with Burdon and his latest band, War.
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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]
In 1992, Bannister, according to the Daily Mail, was struck off for "fraudulent conduct" .[116]
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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.
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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.
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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
gravesite in Renton went uncompleted.
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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.
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)
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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 performing for Dutch television in 1967. From left to right: Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding and Mitch
Mitchell.
Background information
Also known as
Origin
London, England
Genres
Years active
19661969 1970
Labels
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.
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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Members
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
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sql=11:hnfexqr5ldte~T1). allmusic. . Retrieved 2009-03-19.
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[4] Lawrence 2005, p.78
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[6] Mitch Mitchell and John Platt, The Hendrix Experience,(London: Hamlyn, 1990), pp. 88-96, 48-149.
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[8] http:/ / www. life. com/ image/ first/ in-gallery/ 40682/ the-jimi-hendrix-experience
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Members
Noel Redding
Noel Redding
Born
25 December 1945
Folkestone, Kent, England
Died
Genres
Instruments
Years active
1966-2003
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.
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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
Sources
References
[1] Noel Redding Bassist with Jimi Hendrix (http:/ / www. independent. co. uk/ news/ obituaries/ noel-redding-730294. html)
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
[11] http:/ / www. noelredding. net/
[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
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Mitch Mitchell
Mitch Mitchell
Background information
Birth name
John Mitchell
Born
9 July 1947
Ealing, Middlesex, England
Died
Genres
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
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External links
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
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
Born
March 7, 1943
Origin
Died
Genres
Occupations
Singer-songwriter, guitarist
Instruments
Years active
19632007
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.
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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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
Origin
Genres
Occupations
Instruments
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.
Selected discography
with Martha Velz
Hypnotized (1972) conga
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]
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Buddy Miles
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Buddy Miles
Buddy Miles
Birth name
Born
September 5, 1947
Omaha, Nebraska,
United States
Origin
Died
Genres
Rock, R&B
Occupations
Instruments
Years active
19672008
Labels
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",
"Ezy Ryder" and the first version of "Stepping Stone" (for which Mitchell played a final drum track). These songs
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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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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
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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
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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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Discography
Jimi Hendrix discography
Jimi Hendrixdiscography
Live albums
Compilation albums
Singles
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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.
Albums
Studio albums
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Year
Album details
Peak positions
Certifications
(sales thresholds)
US NED NOR UK
[5]
US: 4 Platinum
12
US: Platinum
75
13
US: 2 Platinum
[5]
[4]
[3]
[5]
Live albums
Year
Album details
Peak positions
Certifications
(sales thresholds)
US NOR UK
[6]
[5]
US: 2 Platinum
US: Gold
[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
Released: 1968
Label: Track (2856 002)
[4]
11
[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]
10
65
17
18
18
Non-album single4
"Foxy Lady"5
67
82
20
17
Electric Ladyland
"Crosstown Traffic"
52
37
130
"Fire"3
Non-album single6
69
Electric Ladyland
[3]
[4] [6]
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)
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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Studio albums
Year
Album details
Chart positions
US
US
Certifications
(sales thresholds)
NOR UK
[3]
[4] [2]
[1]
1971 The Cry of Love
US: Platinum
15
16
16
US: Gold
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23
[5]
Rainbow Bridge
[5]
57
Format: LP
Released: November 1975
Label: Reprise (MS 2229)
43
46
127
119
30
21
US: Gold
[6]
UK: Gold
Released: February 1,
1989
Formats: LP, CD, CS
Label: Castle (CCS #212)
35
Format: LP
Released: November 1975
Label: Polydor (2310 415)
Midnight Lightning
[5]
"" 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]
More Experience[A]
US
Certifications
(sales
thresholds)
Isle of Wight[A]
[5]
US: Gold
16
192
37
37
72
40
67
40
25
65
90
200
191
Live at Woodstock
Released: 1994
Label: Castle (MACCD 190)
Format: CD
Woodstock[B]
Johnny B. Goode
58
[5]
US: Gold
59
171
Album details
[10]
[15] [11]
[3]
[12]
[13]
[4]
[2]
37
77
Released: 1981
Label: Polydor
Formats: LP, CD
[14] [8]
[7]
[2]
Released: 1975
Label: Polydor (2679036)
Format: 2LP
NZ
Released: 1975
Label: Barclay (80.555)
Format: LP
Re-Experienced[D]
US
Certifications
(sales thresholds)
174
72
28
99
20
1994 Blues
Stages
Footlights[D]
1991 Sessions[D]
148
60
45
44
14
14
US: 3
[5]
Platinum
CAN: 2
[16]
Platinum
[5]
US: Platinum
[16]
CAN: Gold
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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
Astro Man
Released: 2003
Label: MCA
Format: 10CD
66
61
Released:2003
Label:Alchemy Entertainment
Format:6CD(box set)
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[5]
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Singles
Year
Single
Charts
US
Album
UK
Electric Ladyland
Non-album single
59
"Angel"[A]
"Gypsy Eyes/Remember"[A]
35
"Dolly Dagger"[B]
74
Rainbow Bridge
35
Radio One
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Cornerstones: 1967-1970
BBC Sessions
Valleys of Neptune
"Bleeding Heart"
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
Houston, Texas
December 1, 1968
Chicago Coliseum
Chicago, Illinois
17 January 1969
Jahrhunderthalle
Frankfurt, Germany
May 5, 1969
Denver, Colorado
Inglewood, California
June 7, 1970
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Baltimore, Maryland
August 1, 1970
Honolulu, Hawaii
Release date
Description
February 27,
1998
Live performance at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California on April 27, 1969
July 6, 1999
Morning Symphony
Ideas
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
Paris 1967/San
Francisco 1968
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
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
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
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.
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Studio albums
Are You Experienced
Are You Experienced
Recorded
26 October 1966 3 April 1967 in London, at De Lane Lea, CBS & Olympic Studios.
Genre
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
Axis: Bold as
Love
(1967)
US Cover
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 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.
Side two:
2.
3.
4.
5.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Side one:
Personnel
All track numbers are according to the United Kingdom and international editions track listing.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Production personnel
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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arts-entertainment/ music/ news/ hendrix-heads-list-of-100-guitar-greats-with-are-you-experienced-587496. html). The Independent. .
Retrieved 20 February 2010.
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Length
38:49
Label
Allmusic
link
[2]
BBC (favorable) link
[3]
Q
link
[4]
Rolling Stone
link
[3]
VIBE (favorable) link
[5]
Warr.org
link
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]
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
2:55
3:00
4. "Wait Until
Tomorrow"
3:00
5. "Ain't No Telling"
1:46
6. "Little Wing"
2:24
5:32
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Side two
No. Title
Length
2:45
2:46
2:37
3:40
2:20
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.
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'
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
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[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
Recorded Olympic Studios, London & Record Plant Studios, New York, July 1967, December 1967, January 1968, AprilAugust
1968
Genre
Length
75:47
Label
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''
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''Electric Ladyland''
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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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Side one
No. Title
Writer(s)
Length
Jimi Hendrix
1:21
2:11
3. "Crosstown Traffic"
Hendrix
2:13
4. "Voodoo Chile"
Hendrix
15:00
Side two
No. Title
Writer(s)
Length
Noel
Redding
2:52
Hendrix
3:27
Earl King
4:09
8. "Gypsy Eyes"
Hendrix
3:43
Hendrix
3:39
Side three
No. Title
Writer(s) Length
Hendrix
3:42
Hendrix
13:39
1:02
Side four
No. Title
Writer(s)
Hendrix
4:25
Hendrix
4:33
Bob
Dylan
4:01
Length
5:12
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Disc one
No. Title
1. "...And the Gods Made Love"
Writer(s)
Jimi Hendrix
Length
1:22
2:11
3. "Crosstown Traffic"
Hendrix
2:25
4. "Voodoo Chile"
Hendrix
15:02
Hendrix
4:25
Hendrix
4:33
Bob Dylan
4:00
Hendrix
5:13
Disc two
No. Title
9. "Little Miss Strange"
Writer(s)
Length
Noel
Redding
2:51
Hendrix
3:27
Earl King
4:10
Hendrix
3:43
Hendrix
3:40
Hendrix
3:42
Hendrix
4:49
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)
Production
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Charts
Album
Year
Chart
Position
Singles
Year
Single
Chart
Position
UK Singles Chart 18
Billboard Hot
100
UK Singles Chart 5
UK Singles Chart 37
UK Singles Chart 1
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
''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)
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84
March 5, 1971
Recorded 19681970 at the Sound Center, Record Plant Studios and Electric Lady Studios in New York City, New York
Genre
Length
39:48
Label
Allmusic
link
[2]
Robert Christgau (A) link
[3]
Rolling Stone (favorable) link
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
3:50
5. "My Friend"
4:40
6. "Straight Ahead"
4:42
7. "Astro Man"
3:37
8. "Angel"
4:25
3:42
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
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]
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''Rainbow Bridge''
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Rainbow Bridge
Rainbow Bridge
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
Length
42:22
Label
Reprise
Producer
[1]
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
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
''Rainbow Bridge''
Personnel
Jimi Hendrix guitars, lead vocals, backing vocals on tracks 1 and 2
Mitch Mitchell drums on all tracks except track 4.
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
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
Length
35:20
Label
Polydor
Producer
Allmusic
link
[2]
Robert Christgau (B) link
War
Heroes
(1972)
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
3:34
4:58
2:20
5. "Stepping Stone"
4:11
Side two
No. Title
Length
1. "Midnight"
5:35
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
February 1974
Recorded
19681970
Genre
Length
Label
Polydor
Producer
Allmusic
link
[1]
Loose
Ends
(1974)
Alternate Cover
Crash
Landing
(1975)
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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
2:59
3:58
3. "Jam 292"
3:49
4:20
3:02
Side two
No. Title
Length
1. "Burning Desire"
9:30
5:59
3. "Electric Ladyland"
1:32
''Loose Ends''
Personnel
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
March 1975
Recorded 19681974
Genre
Length
29:34
Label
Reprise
Allmusic
link
[2]
Robert Christgau (B+) link
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.
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
3:30
3. "Crash Landing"
4:14
3:16
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Side two
No. Title
Length
1. "Peace in
Mississippi"
4:21
3:28
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
Added in 1975:
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
''Midnight Lightning''
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Midnight Lightning
Midnight Lightning
November 1975
Recorded 19691975
Genre
Length
35:58
Label
Reprise
Allmusic
link
[2]
Robert Christgau (B+) link
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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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
5:43
4. "Gypsy Boy"
3:45
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Side two
No. Title
Length
3:29
2. "Machine Gun"
7:36
5:20
3:02
Personnel
Jimi Hendrix guitars, vocals
Mitch Mitchell drums on track 3
Added in 1975:
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.
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March 1980
Recorded
AprilJune 1969 at Record Plant Studios and The Hit Factory in New York City,
New York
Genre
Length
38:57
Label
Reprise
Producer
Alan Douglas
Professional reviews
[1]
Allmusic
link
[2]
Robert Christgau (B+) link
Nine to the
Universe
(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
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
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
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Valleys of Neptune
Valleys of Neptune
Recorded
Genre
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)
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)
(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
6:20
7:29
2:56
6:45
7. "Lover Man"
4:15
5:52
9. "Fire"
3:12
8:20
3:48
4:56
Total length:
61:40
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Length
4:56
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
[10] [11]
[12]
[10] [11]
Additional recording
Master recording
[13]
April 7, 1969
September 23,
1969
Additional recording
[14] [15]
"Bleeding Heart"
All recording
[16] [17]
April 7, 1969
All recording
[10] [11]
May 5, 1967
June 5, 1987
All recording
[18] [19]
"Lover Man"
All recording
[10] [20]
"Fire"
All recording
[21] [22]
April 7, 1969
All recording
[10] [11]
All recording
[18] [19]
June 5, 1987
10 "Red House"
''Valleys of Neptune''
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No.
Track
Date
Studio
Details
14 "Trash Man"
April 3, 1969
Ref.
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
Graphic personnel
Additional musicians
Release details
Region
Benelux
Date
March 5, 2010
Label
Sony Music
Format
CD
Catalog
Ref.
886976405625
[24]
Germany
[25]
Sony Music
CD
88697640562
[26]
France
March 8, 2010
Strategic
Marketing
CD
[27]
United States
March 9, 2010
Legacy Recordings CD
Japan
8869764056
[28]
Double LP
album
88697640591
[29] [30]
CD
SICP2662
[31]
''Valleys of Neptune''
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Chart performance
Chart
Peak
position
Billboard 200
US Rock Albums
Australian Albums
[32]
Chart
7
[33]
23
11
[34]
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Live albums
Band of Gypsys
Band of Gypsys
Length
45:16
Label
Capitol (USA), Track Records (UK), Barclay Records (France), Polydor (rest of the world), MCA (now)
Producer
Allmusic
link
[2]
Pitchfork Media (9.1/10) 2/1/1998
[3]
Robert Christgau (B+) link
[4]
Rolling Stone
2/2/1998
Band of
Gypsys
(1970)
The Cry of
Love
(1971)
Additional Artwork
''Band of Gypsys''
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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
''Band of Gypsys''
112
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]
''Band of Gypsys''
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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
5:10
6:53
5. "Message of Love"
5:22
5:46
''Band of Gypsys''
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Length
9:02
6:33
4:47
Personnel
Jimi Hendrix guitar, vocals
Billy Cox bass, backing vocals
Buddy Miles drums, vocals
Production personnel
External links
/ The complete Band Of Gypsys Fillmore Set List [6]
References
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
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Released
Genre
Psychedelic rock
Soul
Label
Reprise
Producer
[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
6:22
2. "Rock Me Baby"
B. B. King, Joe
Josea
3:00
Jimi Hendrix
2:30
4. "Wild Thing"
Chip Taylor
7:30
Sam Cooke
2:37
6. "Respect"
Otis Redding
3:22
7. "I've Been Loving You Too Long" Otis Redding, Jerry Butler
3:32
3:21
4:40
Production
Length
5. "Shake"
Personnel
Writer(s)
See also
List of best-selling music artists
Jimi Hendrix discography
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
August 1971
Recorded February 18, 1969 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England
Genre
Length
30:05
Label
Ember
link
[1]
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.
117
''Experience''
118
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
8:15
Side two
No. Title
Length
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
''Isle of Wight''
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Isle of Wight
Isle of Wight
November 1971
Length
34:01
Label
Polydor
Producer
Michael Jeffrey
Professional reviews
Allmusic
link
[1]
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.
''Isle of Wight''
120
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
5:39
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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January 1972
Recorded 19691970
Genre
Length
40:21
Label
Polydor
Professional reviews
[1]
Allmusic
link
[2]
Robert Christgau (A) link
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
122
Side one
No. Title
Length
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
4:45
2. "Lover Man"
3:05
4:26
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
See also
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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
March 1972
Recorded
Genre
Length
27:11
Label
Ember
Producer
link
[1]
More
Experience
(1972)
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.
''More Experience''
124
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
Side one
No. Title
Length
1. "Little Wing"
3:20
7:17
2:56
Side two
No. Title
Length
1. "Fire"
3:44
2. "Purple Haze"
3:04
1:30
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
125
August 1982
Recorded
19681970
Genre
Length
77:41
Label
Reprise (U.S.)
CBS (UK)
Castle Communications (France)
Producer
Alan Douglas
Professional reviews
Allmusic
link
[1]
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
6:50
3. "Red House"
8:45
Side two
No. Title
1. "Stone Free"
Length
10:39
6:46
Side three
No. Title
Length
1. "Little Wing"
3:54
2. "Voodoo Chile"
7:10
7:39
Side four
No. Title
Length
4:50
3:31
8:27
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
Personnel
See also
References
[1] http:/ / allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:kbfixqw5ldke
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128
February 1986
Recorded June 18, 1967 at the Monterey Pop Festival, Monterey, California, USA
Genre
Length
41:02
Label
Reprise
Allmusic
link
[2]
Robert Christgau (B+) link
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".
129
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
No. Title
Length
3:37
2. "Foxy Lady"
3:34
6:50
3:29
4:03
2:43
3:46
8. "Purple Haze"
5:06
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/
''Johnny B. Goode''
130
Johnny B. Goode
Johnny B. Goode: An Original Video Soundtrack
June 1986
Recorded July 4, 1970 at the Atlanta Pop Festival, Middle Georgia Raceway, Byron, Georgia, USA
Genre
Label
Capitol
Professional reviews
[1]
Allmusic
link
[2]
Robert Christgau (A-) link
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.
''Johnny B. Goode''
131
Side one
No. Title
Length
Side two
No. Title
Length
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
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
Label
Capitol
Professional reviews
Allmusic
link
[1]
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.
133
Side one
No. Title
Length
8:51
2. "Foxy Lady"
6:41
4:38
Side two
No. Title
Length
7:06
2. "Stone Free"
4:13
3. "Ezy Ryder"
7:58
Length
8:16
4:25
6:18
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
See also
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References
[1] http:/ / allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:hnfwxqtgldhe
Live at Winterland
Live at Winterland
May 1987
Label
Rykodisc
Professional reviews
Allmusic
link
[1]
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.
Personnel
See also
Jimi Hendrix discography
References
[1] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:aifexq85ldje~T1
135
''Bleeding Heart''
136
Bleeding Heart
Bleeding Heart
1994
Recorded March 18, 1968 at The Scene, New York City, New York,
USA
Genre
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
3:30
5:11
6. "Uranus Rock"
3:11
8:03
2:16
Personnel
Length
''Woodstock''
138
Woodstock
Woodstock
Recorded August 18, 1969 at Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York, USA
Genre
Length
63:46
Label
Polydor
Producer
Alan Douglas
Jimi Hendrix chronology
Live at
Winterland
(1987)
Woodstock
(1994)
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
9:16
5. "Red House"
5:40
7:58
12:49
3:42
9. "Purple Haze"
3:25
4:59
''Woodstock''
139
11. "Villanova Junction"
3:04
12. "Farewell"
1:54
Personnel
See also
Jimi Hendrix discography
Live at Woodstock
140
Recorded December 31, 1969 and January 1, 1970 at the Fillmore East, New York City, New York, USA
Genre
Length
115:01
Label
MCA
Allmusic
link
[2]
Pitchfork Media (9.2/10) link
[3]
Rolling Stone
link
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.
141
Disc one
No. Title
Length
1. "Stone Free"
12:56
2. "Power of Soul"
6:19
9:02
4. "Izabella"
3:40
5. "Machine Gun"
11:36
6:01
9:55
Disc two
No. Title
Length
3:54
2. "Who Knows"
3:55
5:38
4. "Machine Gun"
13:35
5. "Stepping Stone"
5:20
5:43
7. "Earth Blues"
5:48
8. "Burning Desire"
8:22
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
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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
July 6, 1999
Recorded August 18, 1969 at Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York, USA
Genre
Length
96:38
Label
MCA
[1]
link
[2]
link
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
9:49
7:05
5. "Red House"
5:24
6. "Lover Man"
5:11
7. "Foxey Lady"
5:06
7:44
Disc two
No. Title
1. "Izabella"
6:42
2. "Fire"
3:42
13:40
3:43
5. "Purple Haze"
4:23
6. "Woodstock Improvisation"
3:59
7. "Villanova Junction"
4:28
5:52
Personnel
Length
''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
144
145
Recorded
August 31, 1970 at the Isle of Wight Festival, Isle of Wight, England
Genre
Length
1:59:02
Label
MCA
Producer
Allmusic
link
[2]
BBC Music (mixed) link
[3]
Rolling Stone
link
"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.
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.
Highlights CD
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
146
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
Recorded May 30, 1970 at the Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, California, USA
Genre
Length
67:47
Label
MCA
Producer
Abe Jacob
Professional reviews
[1]
Live at
Berkeley
(2003)
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
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
Recorded
Genre
Length
43:08
Label
Geffen, UMe
Producer
link
[1]
Live at
Monterey
(2007)
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)
Length
0:39
2. "Killing Floor"
Chester Burnett
3:14
3. "Foxey Lady"
Jimi Hendrix
3:28
Bob Dylan
7:06
5. "Rock Me Baby"
B. B. King, Joe
Josea
3:37
6. "Hey Joe"
Billy Roberts
5:11
Hendrix
2:37
Hendrix
3:53
9. "Purple Haze"
Hendrix
5:34
Chip Taylor
7:49
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
Length
44:31
Label
MCA
Allmusic
Rolling Stone
[1]
link
[2]
link
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.
154
''Smash Hits''
155
Personnel
Jimi Hendrix guitar, vocals, bass, piano
Mitch Mitchell drums
Noel Redding bass, vocals
Chart positions
Year
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
156
1968
Recorded July 7, 1967August 23, 1968 at Mayfair Studios and Record Plant Studios, New York City, New York
Genre
Length
36:00
Label
Track
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
Jimi Hendrix
4:25
Hendrix
4:32
Bob Dylan
4:00
5:13
157
Side B
No. Title
Writer(s)
Length
Noel
Redding
2:52
Hendrix
3:27
Earl King
4:09
8. "Gypsy Eyes"
Hendrix
3:43
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
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."
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July 1973
Recorded
19671970
Genre
Rock
Label
Producer
Joe Boyd
Professional reviews
[1]
Allmusic
link
[2]
Robert Christgau (C+) link
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.
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.
Side 2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Side 3
1.
2.
3.
4.
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
159
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
1975
Recorded
19671970
Genre
Label
Barclay
Jimi Hendrix chronology
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.
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
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Re-Experienced
Re-Experienced
1975
Recorded
19661970
Genre
Label
Polydor
Professional reviews
Allmusic
link
[1]
Re-Experienced
(1975)
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.
''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
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164
July 1978
Recorded
1966-1970
Genre
Rock
Length
67:49
Label
[1]
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.
Track listing
Side one
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Side two
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
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.
Personnel
References
[1] http:/ / www. robertchristgau. com/ get_album. php?id=7003
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166
July 1979
Genre
Rock
Label
link
[1]
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.
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
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
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''Stone Free''
168
Stone Free
Stone Free
Compilation album by Jimi Hendrix
Released
1981
Recorded
19661970
Genre
Label
Professional reviews
Allmusic
link
[1]
Stone
Free
(1981)
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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170
1983
Genre
Length
89:56
Label
Polydor
Producer Chas Chandler, Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Kramer and John Jansen
Professional reviews
Allmusic
link
[1]
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.
8. "The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam's Dice" - 4:17 (Mono)
9. "All Along the Watchtower" (Bob Dylan) - 3:58
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
[1] http:/ / allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:axfuxq95ld0e~T1
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172
November 1984
Genre
Rock
Length
45:58
Label
Polydor, Reprise
Producer
[1]
Kiss the
Sky
(1984)
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"
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.
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174
Recorded
19661970
Genre
Label
Castle Communications
Professional reviews
Allmusic
link
[1]
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)
Disc two
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
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
1990
Recorded
Genre
Rock
Length
71:26
Label
Polydor
Producer
Various
Professional reviews
Allmusic
link
[1]
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.
''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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178
Recorded
19661970
Genre
Label
Professional reviews
Allmusic
link
[1]
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"
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.
179
See also
Jimi Hendrix discography
References
[1] http:/ / allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:3ifrxq85ldje~T1
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''Stages''
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Stages
Stages
14 November 1991
Recorded
Genre
Psychedelic rock
Length
197:15
Label
Producer
Unknown
Professional reviews
Allmusic
link
[1]
Stages
(1991)
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.
8. Purple Haze
''Stages''
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
Introduction
Fire
Hey Joe
Spanish Castle Magic/Sunshine of Your Love
Red House
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
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Recorded
Genre
Rock
Length
71:55
Label
MCA
Producer
Unknown
Professional reviews
Allmusic
link
[1]
The Ultimate
Experience
(1993)
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.
See also
Jimi Hendrix discography
Jimi Hendrix posthumous discography
References
[1] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:dd2vad4kt8wo
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''Blues''
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Blues
Blues
Recorded
19661970
Genre
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]
''Blues''
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
Jimi Hendrix
3:05
7:37
3. "Red House"
Hendrix
3:41
4. "Catfish Blues"
7:46
Hendrix
8:47
6. "Mannish Boy"
5:21
Hendrix
7:49
8. "Bleeding Heart"
3:26
Hendrix
6:25
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10. "Electric Church Red House"
Hendrix
6:12
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
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]
''Voodoo Soup''
188
Voodoo Soup
Voodoo Soup
Recorded
1968-1970
Genre
Length
56:57
Label
MCA
Producer
Alan Douglas
Professional reviews
Allmusic
link
[1]
Voodoo
Soup
(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.
Personnel
189
''Voodoo Soup''
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.
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Recorded March 13, 1968, November 17, 1969August 26, 1970, October 19, 1970, November 20, 1970
Genre
Length
69:25
Label
MCA
link
[1]
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]
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.
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
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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.
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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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
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References
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
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October 7, 1997
Recorded
19671970
Genre
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
Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
1.
2.
3.
4.
References
[1] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:qng9kext0q7b
[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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Recorded
Genre
Length
73:32
Language
English
Label
MCA
Producer
link
[2]
link
[1]
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.
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.
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.
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
[1] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:2ojweae34xk7
[2] http:/ / www. cduniverse. com/ productinfo. asp?pid=1104045
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''BBC Sessions''
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BBC Sessions
BBC Sessions
June 2, 1998
Recorded
1967, 1969
Genre
Length
107:20
Label
MCA
Professional reviews
[1]
Allmusic
link
[2]
Robert Christgau (B+) link
[3]
Rolling Stone
link
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.
''BBC Sessions''
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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
0:27
3:31
0:12
Willie Dixon
5:31
0:22
7. "Driving South"
Curtis Knight
5:30
8. "Fire"
Hendrix
2:43
Hendrix
2:57
0:51
Hendrix
3:43
Robert Petway
5:28
Hendrix
3:25
Hendrix
2:54
Billy Roberts
4:01
2:42
Knight
4:49
Hendrix
5:00
Disc two
No. Title
Writer(s)
Length
1. "Purple Haze"
Hendrix
3:17
2. "Killing Floor"
2:29
3. "Radio One"
Hendrix
1:34
Hendrix
2:57
5. "Day Tripper"
Lennon/McCartney
3:24
Hendrix
3:07
7. "Jammin'"
Hendrix
3:20
3:04
9. "Foxy Lady"
Hendrix
2:43
0:54
Roberts
2:57
Hendrix
3:10
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Knight
5:02
0:19
Hendrix
Roberts
2:43
1:17
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]
4:08
0:22
Recording details
3:21
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Recorded
1966 - 1970
Genre
Rock
Length
4:19:55
Label
MCA Records
Professional reviews
Allmusic
Rolling Stone
[1]
link
[2]
link
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.
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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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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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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May 8, 2001
Recorded
Genre
Rock
Length
2:25:30
Label
MCA Records
Professional reviews
Allmusic
Robert Christgau
[1]
link
link
[4]
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.
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
References
[1] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:z0djvwrla92k
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2003
Recorded
19661970
Genre
Label
MCA
Jimi Hendrix chronology
The Singles
Collection
(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"
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.
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
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September 9, 2003
Recorded
Genre
Length
1:15:02
Label
MCA
Producer
Allmusic
PopMatters
[1]
link
[2]
link
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.
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
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?
2007
Genre
Length
26:06
Label
MK-ULTRA RECORDS
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
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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
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"
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.
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
Length
84:28
Label
Dagger
The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology
Radio
One
(1988)
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]
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
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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July 6, 1999
69:31
Label
Dagger
The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology
BBC
Sessions
(1998)
Live at Clark
University
(1999)
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.
Track listing
All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Personnel
Jimi Hendrix guitar, lead vocals
Mitch Mitchell drums
Noel Redding bass, backing vocals
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Recorded
19691970
Genre
Length
Label
Dagger
Jimi Hendrix chronology
Live at
Woodstock
(1999)
Morning Symphony
Ideas
(2000)
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.
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
Recorded
Genre
Length
58:55
Label
Dagger
The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology
The Jimi Hendrix
Experience
(2000)
Live in
Ottawa
(2001)
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.
Personnel
Jimi Hendrix guitar, lead vocals
Mitch Mitchell drums
Noel Redding bass, backing vocals
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225
Recorded
December 18 and 19, 1969 at Baggy's Studio in New York City, New York,
USA
Genre
Length
67:39
Label
Dagger
Jimi Hendrix chronology
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
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
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Recorded October 9, 1967 at the Olympia Theatre in Paris, France and February 4, 1968 at Winterland in San Francisco, California,
USA
Genre
Label
Dagger
The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology
Live in
Ottawa
(2001)
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
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Personnel
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''Hear My Music''
229
Hear My Music
Hear My Music
Recorded
FebruaryApril 1969
Genre
Label
Dagger
Jimi Hendrix chronology
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
230
231
Recorded September 6, 1970 at the Open Air Love & Peace Festival in Fehmarn, Germany
Genre
Length
72:11
Label
Dagger
The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology
Live at
Berkeley
(2003)
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]
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.
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''Running Desire''
233
Running Desire
Burning Desire
Recorded November 7, 1969, January 7 and 23, 1970 at Record Plant Studios in New York City, New York
Genre
Length
65:30
Label
Dagger
Jimi Hendrix chronology
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
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235
September 5, 2008
Recorded 29 January 1968 at the Olympia Theatre, Paris, France; March 19, 1968 at the Capitol Theatre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Genre
Label
Dagger
The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology
Live at
Monterey
(2007)
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.
Live at the Capitol Theatre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, March 19, 1968
Personnel
Jimi Hendrix guitar, vocals
Mitch Mitchell drums
Noel Redding bass
236
''Live at Woburn''
237
Live at Woburn
Live at Woburn
Recorded
Genre
Length
48:01
Label
Dagger Records
The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology
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
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Tributes
Electric Chubbyland: Popa Chubby Plays Jimi
Hendrix
Electric Chubbyland: Popa Chubby
Plays Jimi Hendrix
Studio album by Popa Chubby
Released
Recorded
Genre
blues-rock
Length
144:23
Label
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
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.
The Band
Popa Chubby: vocals, Guitar;
A.J. Pappas: Bass Guitar;
Chris Reddan: drums.
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241
EP by Paul Rodgers
Released
1993
Recorded
Genre
Rock
Length
22:06
Label
Producer
[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"
Personnel
References
[1] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:0jfwxq9gldse
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243
1996
Recorded Recorded live during October, 1995 at the Robin Hood, Brierley Hill West Midlands, UK
Genre
Blues Rock
Length
118:00
Label
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.
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
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245
May 4, 2004
Genre
Rock
Label
Image Entertainment
Producer
Various
Professional reviews
Allmusic
link
[1]
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
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References
[1] http:/ / allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=10:wnfuxqyaldhe
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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).
No. Title
247
Length
1. "Purple Haze" (performed by The Cure, produced by Robert Smith and Bryan "Chuck" New)
5:19
4:25
3. "Spanish Castle Magic" (performed by the Spin Doctors, produced by Eddie Kramer)
4:06
3:48
4:28
6. "Manic Depression" (performed by Seal and Jeff Beck, produced by Jeff Beck, Eddie Kramer and Seal)
5:11
4:39
3:23
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
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Singles
"Hey Joe"
"Hey Joe"
Released
November 1965
1966 (re-releases)
Format
7" single
Genre
Garage rock
Length
2:52
Label
Mira
Writer(s)
Billy Roberts
Producer
"Love Minus
Zero"
(1965)
"Hey Joe"
249
"Hey
Joe"
(1966)
"Hey
Joe"
(1966)
"Too Many
People"
(1965)
Recorded
Genre
Rock
Length
2:17
Label
Columbia
Writer
Billy Roberts
Producer
Allen Stanton
"Hey Joe"
Released
Format
7" single
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
Recorded
Genre
Length
7:33
Label
Tetragrammaton (US)
Parlophone (UK)
Writer
Billy Roberts
Producer
Derek Lawrence
"Hey Joe"
"Piss Factory"
Released
1974
Format
7" single
Protopunk, Blues-rock
Length
5:05
Label
Mer
"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]
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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]
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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.
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)
"Hey Joe"
Otis Taylor (1996) on the album Blue Eyed Monster. This version has slightly different lyrics, though.
The Make-Up (1999)
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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]
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"Purple Haze"
"51st Anniversary"
Released
Format
7"
Recorded January 11 and February 3, 1967 at De Lane Lea and Olympic Studios in London, England
Genre
Length
2:50
Label
Track
"Purple
Haze"
(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.
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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.
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[18] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=33:tn7uak3ksmhx
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"Highway Chile"
Released
May 5, 1967
Format
7"
Recorded
Genre
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" 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
Released
Format
7"
Recorded
Genre
Psychedelic rock
Length
3:39
Label
Track
Writer(s)
Jimi Hendrix
Producer
Chas Chandler
The Jimi Hendrix Experience singles chronology
"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.
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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
Recorded
Genre
Length
3:22
Label
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.
"Foxy Lady"
Singleby The Jimi Hendrix Experience
from the album Are You Experienced
B-side
"Hey Joe"
Released
Format
7" 45rpm
Genre
Length
3:19
Label
Reprise Records
The Jimi Hendrix Experience singles chronology
"Foxy Lady"
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"Foxy
Lady"
(1967)
"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]
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Released
26 February 1968
Format
7" vinyl
Recorded
Genre
Length
2:55
Label
Reprise, Barclay
Writer(s)
Jimi Hendrix
Producer
Chas Chandler
The Jimi Hendrix Experience US singles chronology
"Foxy
Lady"
(1967)
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"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.
"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]
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]
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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Released
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)
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.
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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]
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]
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Released
Recorded Olympic Studios, London, January 1968; Record Plant Studios, New York, JuneAugust 1968
Genre
Length
4:20
Label
"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]
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.
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]
Others
The song has been covered by many other artists[33] , including:
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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"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
Format
Recorded Record Plant Studios, New York, July 1967, December 1967, January 1968, AprilAugust 1968
Genre
Length
2:26
Label
"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
Recorded
November 2, 1966
Genre
Length
3:35
Label
Track
Writer
Jimi Hendrix
Producer
Chas Chandler
"Stone Free"
Singleby The Jimi Hendrix Experience
B-side
Released
Format
7"
Length
3:35
Label
Reprise
"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]
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
B-side
Genre
Length
2:47
Label
"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.
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"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
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)
"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
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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Released
Format
7" single
Length
5:12
Label
Track, Polydor
"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".
Personnel
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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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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Experience Hendrix: The Best Of Jimi Hendrix (Liner notes), Experience Hendrix, 1997.
"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
"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.
"Angel"
290
"Angel"
"Angel"
Singleby Jimi Hendrix
from the album The Cry Of Love
B-side
US Freedom
UK Night Bird Flying
Released
April 1971
Recorded
Genre
Psychedelic rock
Label
Writer(s)
Jimi Hendrix
Producer
Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix singles chronology
"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
Recorded
Genre
Length
3:47
Label
MCA
Writer
Jimi Hendrix
Producer
Jimi Hendrix
Electric Ladyland track listing
(US) Side 1
1.
2.
3.
4.
(US) Side 2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
(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"
"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"
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"Dolly Dagger"
"Dolly Dagger"
Singleby Jimi Hendrix
from the album Rainbow Bridge
B-side
Released
Format
7" vinyl
Recorded July 1, 1970 at Electric Lady Studios, New York City, New York, USA
Genre
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"
Released
Format
45 rpm, 78 rpm
Length
2:30
Label
Chess 1691
Writer(s)
Chuck Berry
Producer
"Sweet Little
Sixteen"
(1958)
"Johnny B.
Goode"
(1958)
"Johnny B. Goode"
1988
"Beautiful
Delilah"
(1958)
"Johnny B. Goode"
295
Recorded 1987
Genre
Heavy Metal
Label
Columbia
"Johnny B.
Goode"
(1988)
"Painkiller"
(1990)
"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
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"
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
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"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"
Released
February 9, 2010
Format
Recorded September 23, 1969 and May 15, 1970 at Record Plant Studios, New York City, New York
Genre
Length
4:02
Label
Legacy
Writer(s)
Jimi Hendrix
Producer
Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix singles chronology
"Valleys of
Neptune"
(2010)
"Bleeding
Heart"
(2010)
"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"
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
300
"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
Format
Recorded April 24, 1969 at Record Plant Studios, New York City, New York
Genre
Blues-rock
Length
6:20
Label
Legacy
Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix singles chronology
"Valleys of
Neptune"
(2010)
"Bleeding
Heart"
(2010)
"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]
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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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
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.
(US) Side 2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
(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"
"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
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
306
Recorded
Genre
Length
4:17
Label
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.
"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".
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
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"Bold as Love"
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"Bold as Love"
"Bold as Love (song)"
Song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience from the album Axis: Bold as Love
Released
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.
"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.
"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.
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Genre
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.
"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.
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
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"Come On"
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"Come On"
"Come On (Part I)"
Singleby Earl King
from the album Come On: The Complete Imperial Recordings
B-side
Released
1960
Format
7" single
Recorded
Genre
Label
Writer(s)
Earl King
Producer
Dave Bartholomew
Earl King singles chronology
"Come
On"
(1960)
Genre
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.
(US) Side 2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
(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"
"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"
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"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
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"
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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
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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Recorded
April 1968 at Record Plant Studios, New York City, New York, USA
Genre
Length
2:11
Label
Reprise
Writer
Jimi Hendrix
Producer
Jimi Hendrix
Electric Ladyland track listing
(US) Side 1
1.
2.
3.
4.
(US) Side 2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
(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"
"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]
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
Genre
Length
3:19
Label
Track
Writer
Jimi Hendrix
Producer
Chas Chandler
Smash Hits (international version) track listing
"Manic
Depression"
(9)
"Highway
Chile"
(10)
Are You Experienced (1997 reissue North American version) track listing
"51st
Anniversary"
(13)
"Highway
Chile"
(14)
"Highway
Chile"
(17)
"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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Recorded
26 October 1966 3 April 1967 in London, at De Lane Lea, CBS & Olympic Studios.
Genre
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
Axis: Bold as
Love
(1967)
US Cover
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.
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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.
Side two:
2.
3.
4.
5.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Side one:
Personnel
All track numbers are according to the United Kingdom and international editions track listing.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Production personnel
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
References
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
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Genre
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.
"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.
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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".
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.
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"
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"Little Wing"
"Little Wing"
Song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience from the album Axis: Bold as Love
Released
Genre
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.
"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.
"Machine Gun"
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"Machine Gun"
"Machine Gun"
Recorded January 1, 1970 at the Fillmore East, New York City, New York
Genre
Length
12:36
Label
Capitol
Writer(s)
Jimi Hendrix
"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'.
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
Recorded
Genre
Length
3:30
Label
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.
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).
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December 1, 1967
Recorded
Genre
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.
"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]
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
References
Shapiro, Harry; Glebbeek, Caesar (1995). Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy. New York: St. Martin's Griffin.
ISBN0312130627.
References
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
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78rpm record
Blues
Length
2:59
Label
Paramount Records
"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
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".
References
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
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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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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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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]
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&
scp=3& sq=Stravinsky+ Boston+ Star-Spangled+ Banner& st=p). New York Times. 1944-01-16. . Retrieved 2010-05-23.
[2] "Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 249, 9" (http:/ / www. mass. gov/ legis/ laws/ mgl/ 264-9. htm). .
[3] Michael Steinberg. "Liner notes to Stravinsky in America, RCA 09026-68865-2" (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=31d5lYCsKsUC&
pg=PA50& lpg=PA50& dq=Musician+ as+ Interpreter+ boston& source=bl& ots=Ks6S9EoyO7&
sig=NHgTZFuSef6R_iGO6gdXKRGFVYA& hl=en& ei=vpP5S8ewDoH7lweV4-XkCg& sa=X& oi=book_result& ct=result& resnum=2&
ved=0CCEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage& q& f=false). .as cited by Paul Thom in The Musician as Interpreter, Penn State Press 2007, p.50
[4] Stephen Walsh (2008). "Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971" (http:/ / books. google. com/
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
[7] "John Amirante on Performing the National Anthem at Rangers Games and Being Wooed by the Devils" (http:/ / nymag. com/ daily/ sports/
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.
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"Red House"
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"Red House"
"Red House"
Song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience from the album Are You Experienced
Released
Recorded
Genre
Length
3:44
Label
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.
"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
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348
December 1, 1967
Recorded
Genre
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.
"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
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]
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Recorded
Genre
Length
4:20
Label
Track
Writer
Jimi Hendrix
Producer
Chas Chandler
Smash Hits track listing
"Stone
Free"
(7)
"Manic
Depression"
(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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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
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]
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Singleby Cream
from the album Disraeli Gears
B-side
"SWLABR"
Released
December, 1967
Format
Vinyl Single
[1]
[2]
Length
Label
"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.
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]
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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]
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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.
[5] http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=11:gifixqw5ldte~T51
[6] http:/ / www. everyhit. com/ type in "Cream" under Name of Artist to get all Cream Singles
[7] "spreadit.org music" (http:/ / music. spreadit. org/ vh1-top-100-hard-rock-songs/ ). . Retrieved February 7, 2009.
[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
External links
Lyrics (http://www.eric-clapton.co.uk/ecla/lyrics/sunshine-of-your-love.html)
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Recorded
1966
Genre
Length
6:52
Label
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.
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.
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
Length
14:59
Label
MCA
Electric Ladyland track listing
(US) Side 1
1.
2.
3.
4.
(US) Side 2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
(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"
"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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December 1, 1967
Recorded
Genre
Length
3:00
Label
Track, Reprise
Writer
Jimi Hendrix
Producer
Chas Chandler
Cover versions
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.
"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]
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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
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.
"Wild Thing"
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"Wild Thing"
"Wild Thing"
Singleby The Troggs
B-side
Released
1966
Format
7" single
Genre
Rock
Length
2:30
Label
Writer(s)
Chip Taylor
Producer
Larry Page
The Troggs singles chronology
"Lost
Girl"
(1965)
"Wild
Thing"
(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.
B-side
"Aphrodisiac"
Released
1987
Format
7"
Recorded
1986
Genre
Length
3:26
Label
Carrere Records
Writer(s)
Chip Taylor
Producer
"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
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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"Wild Thing"
[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/
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
End date
September 6, 1970
Legs
Shows
41 (6 festivals)
Jimi Hendrix tour chronology
Electric Ladyland
Tour
(19681969)
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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"Fire"
"Lover Man"
"Hear My Train A Comin'"
"Foxy Lady"
"Room Full of Mirrors"
"Red House"
"Freedom"
"Ezy Ryder"
"Machine Gun"
Tour dates
Number
Date
City
Country
Venue
United States I
Support
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Los Angeles
United
States
The Forum
Sacramento
Cal Expo
May 1, 1970
Milwaukee
Milwaukee Arena
Oz
May 2, 1970
Dane County
May 3, 1970
Saint Paul
Savage Grace
Oz
May 4, 1970
May 8, 1970
Norman
Bloodrock
May 9, 1970
Fort Worth
10
San Antonio
11
(Festival)
Philadelphia
Grateful Dead
Steve Miller Band
Cactus
12
Berkeley
Tower of Power
14
June 5, 1970
Dallas
15
June 6, 1970
Houston
16
June 7, 1970
Tulsa
17
June 9, 1970
Memphis
Mid-South Coliseum
18
Evansville
19
Baltimore
20
Albuquerque
22
San Bernardino
Swing Auditorium
23
Ventura
24
Denver
Mammoth Gardens
25
Boston
Boston Garden
The Illusion
Cactus
26
(Festival)
July 4, 1970
Byron
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
13
Ballin' Jack
Ballin' Jack
Cactus
21
28
United States II
Ballin' Jack
Grin
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29
(Festival)
Randall's Island
30
31
32
United
States
Downing Stadium
(New York Pop Festival)
John Sebastian
Grand Funk Railroad
Steppenwolf
Jethro Tull
San Diego
Seattle
Sick's Stadium
Cactus
Rube Tuben and the Rhondonnas
Maui
Haleakala Crater
August 1, 1970
Honolulu
33
34
Europe
35
(Festival)
Isle of Wight
England
36
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
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
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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France
Start date
End date
Legs
Shows
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
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Number
Date
City
Venue
October 13,
1966
vreux
Novelty
October 14,
1966
Nancy
Unknown
October 15,
1966
October 18,
1966
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.
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
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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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.
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
Born
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.
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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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
References
[1] http:/ / www. revolutiondocumentary. com
[2] http:/ / video. google. com/ videoplay?docid=-656216843663463249#
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Born
Died
Occupation
Writer, photographer
Language
English
Nationality
American
Education
Period
1955-2008
Spouse(s)
Children
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.
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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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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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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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
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
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Photography
Public collections
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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
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
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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
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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Mark Strand, Vogue Magazine, "People Are Talking About," March 1985.
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.
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http:/ / www. rivayaresgallery. com/
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http:/ / www. collectorsguide. com/
http:/ / www. devonhallmusic. com/
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Leon Hendrix
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Leon Hendrix
Leon Hendrix
Birth name
Born
Genres
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]
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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Michael Jeffrey
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]
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
Strange Things
Gloomy Monday
Welcome Home
Happy Birthday
Hornets Nest
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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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''
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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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404
1972
Recorded
Genre
Length
34:55
Label
Ala Records
Little Richard chronology
Southern
Child
(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)
Two unknown drummers and unknown female vocal group - 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
406
References
[1] White, Charles. (2003). The Life and Times of Little Richard: The Authorised Biography. Omnibus Press.
Author
Janie Hendrix
John McDermott
Cover artist
Kasey Free
Country
United States
Language
English
Subject(s)
Jimi Hendrix
Publisher
Publication date
October 9, 2007
Media type
Print (Hardcover)
Pages
64
ISBN
9780743297691
OCLC Number
144525031
LC
Classification
[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
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
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
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Chas Chandler
Chas Chandler
Birth name
Born
Died
Genres
Occupations
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/ )
Dagger Records
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Dagger Records
Dagger Records
Parent company
Experience Hendrix
Founder
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
Dagger Records
See also
List of record labels
External links
Official site [1]
Authentic Hendrix [6]
Experience Hendrix [142]
References
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
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Hendrix chord
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.
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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.
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.
''Jimi Hendrix''
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Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix
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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February 1983
Recorded 19681970
Genre
Length
35:20
Label
Pickwick
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.
Side two
1. "Burning Desire"
2. "Born a Hootchie Kootchie Man" (Willie Dixon)
3. "Electric Ladyland"
Personnel
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
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Origin
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
[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.
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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.
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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]
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Year
Single
Chart positions
US UK US
Pop Pop R&B
12
30
14
63
10
63
50
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]
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
[1] http:/ / www. defjam. com/ site/ artist_home. php?artist_id=598
[2] "allmusic ((( The Isley Brothers > Biography )))" (http:/ / allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg& sql=11:fifyxqe5ldae~T1). allmusic.com. .
Retrieved 2010-07-18.
[3] ""Bolton Loses "Love" Appeal"" (http:/ / www. rollingstone. com/ artists/ michaelbolton/ articles/ story/ 5932026/
bolton_loses_love_appeal). Rolling Stone. January 23, 2001. . Retrieved 2007-09-23.
[4] "Jet - Google Books" (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=R74DAAAAMBAJ& pg=PA58& dq=Rudolph+ + Isley& hl=en&
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.
[5] "Ronald Isley gets 3 years for tax evasion - USATODAY.com" (http:/ / www. usatoday. com/ life/ people/ 2006-09-03-isley-tax-evasion_x.
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.
[7] "Gold City Records, Inc." (http:/ / www. goldcitymusic. com/ ). www.goldcitymusic.com. . Retrieved 2010-07-18.
[8] "The Isley Brothers - Charts - UK Album and Singles Database on chartstats.com" (http:/ / www. chartstats. com/ artistinfo. php?id=1638).
chartstats.com. .
[9] "The Isley Brothers - Charts - Billboard Singles on allmusic.com" (http:/ / www. allmusic. com/ cg/ amg. dll?p=amg&
sql=11:fifyxqe5ldae~T51). allmusic.com. .
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sql=11:fifyxqe5ldae~T50). allmusic.com. .
[11] http:/ / www. rockhall. com/ inductee/ the-isley-brothers
[12] http:/ / www. vocalhalloffame. com/ inductees/ the_isley_brothers. html
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Radio One
Radio One
Studio album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Released
Recorded FebruaryDecember 1967 at the BBC Broadcasting House and Playhouse Theatre, London
Genre
Length
50:12
Label
Rykodisc
The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology
Live at
Winterland
(1987)
Radio
One
(1988)
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
Lennon/McCartney
3:18
4. "Killing Floor"
2:27
5. "Love or Confusion"
Hendrix
2:52
6. "Drivin' South"
Hendrix
4:49
7. "Catfish Blues"
Robert Petway
5:28
Hendrix
2:55
Hendrix
4:52
2:44
11. "Fire"
Hendrix
2:39
Willie Dixon
5:30
Hendrix
3:02
Hendrix
3:06
Billy Roberts
4:01
Hendrix
2:57
Hendrix
3:42
''Radio One''
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Total length:
50:12
Personnel
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''
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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
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/
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Charles R. Cross
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre(s)
Biography
Publisher
Sceptre
384
ISBN
ISBN 0-3408-2683-5
Preceded by
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
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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
Nine to the
Universe
(1980)
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.
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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
References
[1] http:/ / upload. wikimedia. org/ wikipedia/ en/ e/ e4/ Sky_high_jh. jpg
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License
License
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
http:/ / creativecommons. org/ licenses/ by-sa/ 3. 0/
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