Jimi Hendrix & The Jimi Hendrix Experience - 6x Japanese CDs Collestion (Digital Remaster '2010) RE-UPLOADED

One of the most stunning debuts in rock history, and one of the definitive albums of the psychedelic era. On Are You Experienced?, Jimi Hendrix synthesized various elements of the cutting edge of 1967 rock into music that sounded both futuristic and rooted in the best traditions of rock, blues, pop, and soul. It was his mind-boggling guitar work, of course, that got most of the ink, building upon the experiments of British innovators like Jeff Beck and Pete Townshend to chart new sonic territories in feedback, distortion, and sheer volume. It wouldn't have meant much, however, without his excellent material, whether psychedelic frenzy ("Foxey Lady," "Manic Depression," "Purple Haze"), instrumental freak-out jams ("Third Stone From the Sun"), blues ("Red House," "Hey Joe"), or tender, poetic compositions ("The Wind Cries Mary") that demonstrated the breadth of his songwriting talents. Not to be underestimated were the contributions of drummer Mitch Mitchell and bassist Noel Redding, who gave the music a rhythmic pulse that fused parts of rock and improvised jazz. Many of these songs are among Hendrix's very finest; it may be true that he would continue to develop at a rapid pace throughout the rest of his brief career, but he would never surpass his first LP in terms of consistently high quality. The British and American versions of the album differed substantially when they were initially released in 1967; MCA's 17-song CD reissue does everyone a favor by gathering all of the material from the two records in one place, adding a few B-sides from early singles, as well.

~ www.allmusic.com

Musicians:

Guitar, Vocals : Jimi Hendrix
Bass : Noel Redding
Drums : Mitch Mitchell

Produced by Chas Chandler.
Album originally released in 1967. Remastered at Sterling Sound, N.Y.
Remastered from the original 2-track mixdown master tapes by Eddie Kramer & George Marino.

Track List:

01. Foxy Lady [3:19]
02. Manic Depression [3:42]
03. Red House [3:44]
04. Can You See Me [2:33]
05. Love Or Confusion [3:13]
06. I Don't Live Today [3:55]
07. May This Be Love [3:11]
08. Fire [2:45]
09. 3rd Stone From The Sun [6:44]
10. Remember [2:49]
11. Are You Experienced [4:14]
12. Hey Joe [3:30]
13. Stone Free [3:36]
14. Purple Haze [2:52]
15. 51st Anniversary [3:16]
16. The Wind Cries Mary [3:21]
17. Highway Chile [3:34]

Jimi Hendrix's second album followed up his groundbreaking debut effort with a solid collection of great tunes and great interactive playing between himself, Noel Redding, Mitch Mitchell, and the recording studio itself. Wisely retaining manager Chas Chandler to produce the album and Eddie Kramer as engineer, Hendrix stretched further musically than the first album, but even more so as a songwriter. He was still quite capable of coming up with spacy rockers like "You Got Me Floating," "Up from the Skies," and "Little Miss Lover," radio-ready to follow on the commercial heels of "Foxey Lady" and "Purple Haze." But the beautiful, wistful ballads "Little Wing," "Castles Made of Sand," "One Rainy Wish," and the title track set closer show remarkable growth and depth as a tunesmith, harnessing Curtis Mayfield soul guitar to Dylanesque lyrical imagery and Fuzz Face hyperactivity to produce yet another side to his grand psychedelic musical vision. These are tempered with Jimi's most avant-garde tracks yet, "EXP" and the proto-fusion jazz blowout of "If 6 Was 9."

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Musicians:

Guitar, Vocals : Jimi Hendrix
Bass : Noel Redding
Drums : Mitch Mitchell

Produced by Chas Chandler.

Track List:

01. EXP [1:55]
02. Up From The Skies [2:58]
03. Spanish Castle Magic [3:06]
04. Wait Until Tomorrow [3:03]
05. Ain't No Telling [1:50]
06. Little Wing [2:27]
07. If 6 Was 9 [5:35]
08. You Got Me Floatin' [2:48]
09. Castles Made Of Sand [2:49]
10. She's So Fine [2:40]
11. One Rainy Wish [3:43]
12. Little Miss Lover [2:24]
13. Bold As Love [4:11]

Jimi Hendrix's third and final album with the original Experience found him taking his funk and psychedelic sounds to the absolute limit. The result was not only one of the best rock albums of the era, but also Hendrix's original musical vision at its absolute apex. When revisionist rock critics refer to him as the maker of a generation's mightiest dope music, this is the album they're referring to. But Electric Ladyland is so much more than just background music for chemical intake. Kudos to engineer Eddie Kramer (who supervised the remastering of the original two-track stereo masters for this 1997 reissue on MCA) for taking Hendrix's visions of a soundscape behind his music and giving it all context, experimenting with odd mic techniques, echo, backward tape, flanging, and chorusing, all new techniques at the time, at least the way they're used here. What Hendrix sonically achieved on this record expanded the concept of what could be gotten out of a modern recording studio in much the same manner as Phil Spector had done a decade before with his Wall of Sound. As an album this influential (and as far as influencing a generation of players and beyond, this was his ultimate statement for many), the highlights speak for themselves: "Crosstown Traffic," his reinterpretation of Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower," "Burning of the Midnight Lamp," the spacy "1983…(A Merman I Should Turn to Be)," and "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)," a landmark in Hendrix's playing. With this double set (now on one compact disc), Hendrix once again pushed the concept album to new horizons.

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Musicians:

Guitar, Vocals : Jimi Hendrix
Bass : Noel Redding
Drums : Mitch Mitchell

Produced by Jimi Hendrix
Engineered by Eddie Kramer and Gary Kellgren.
Mixed by Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Kramer, and Gary Kellgren

Track List:

01. …And The Gods Made Love [1:23]
02. Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland) [2:10]
03. Crosstown Traffic [2:27]
04. Voodoo Chile [15:00]
05. Little Miss Strange [2:52]
06. Long Hot Summer Night [3:28]
07. Come On (Let The Good Times Roll) [4:09]
08. Gypsy Eyes [3:44]
09. Burning Of The Midnight Lamp [3:40]
10. Rainy Day, Dream Away [3:42]
11. 1983…(A Merman I Should Turn To Be) [13:40]
12. Moon, Turn The Tides… gently gently away [1:02]
13. Still Raining, Still Dreaming [4:26]
14. House Burning Down [4:33]
15. All Along The Watchtower [4:01]
16. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) [5:13]

In August 1994, MCA Records released Jimi Hendrix: Woodstock, a single-disc collection of highlights from Hendrix's legendary closing set at Woodstock. Less than a year later, Al Hendrix won the rights to his son's recordings, and his company, Experience Hendrix, began reissuing definitive masters of Jimi's catalog. In the summer of 1999, Experience Hendrix rolled out Live at Woodstock, which features the entire set over the course of two discs. Hearing Hendrix's complete concert isn't as revelatory as you'd think, since it just emphasizes that he overcompensated for his under-rehearsed band by jamming. And does he ever jam – almost everything clocks in at over five minutes, with a couple weighing in at over ten minutes. Naturally, this will hardly be seen as a detriment by legions of Hendrix fans, and that's who this set is for. Listening to all of Live at Woodstock takes dedication and an active interest in the subtleties of Jimi's playing. He had disbanded the Experience only eight weeks before and was teamed with players who wanted to follow him, no matter where he went. Unfortunately, the lack of rehearsal meant that they were often striving to keep up with him; in turn, Hendrix runs wild, spinning off dizzying solos that are as fascinating as they are frustrating. Taken individually, these performances are usually enthralling, but Live at Woodstock will exhaust the average listener. Which is not to say it isn't a worthwhile experience. As a historical document, it is interesting and revealing, and Hendrix historians undoubtedly will find several of these performances necessary. But this not an essential addition to the average fan's library, simply because Hendrix blew minds at Woodstock through excess, not focus.

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Musicians:

Guitar, Vocals : Jimi Hendrix
Bass : Billy Cox
Drums : Mitch Mitchell
Percussion : Juma Sultan, Jerry Velez
Guitar : Larry Lee

Produced by Janie Hendrix, Eddie Kramer and John McDermott
for Expirience Hendrix, L.L.C.

Track List CD1:

01. Introduction [2:21]
02. Message To Love [7:21]
03. Hear My Train A Comin' [9:49]
04. Spanish Castle Magic [7:06]
05. Red House [5:24]
06. Lover Man [5:12]
07. Foxey Lady [5:07]
08. Jam Back At The House [7:45]


Track List CD2:

01. Izabella [6:42]
02. Fire [3:42]
03. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) [13:40]
04. Star Spangled Banner [3:43]
05. Purple Haze [4:24]
06. Woodstock Improvisation [4:00]
07. Villanova Junction [4:28]
08. Hey Joe [5:53]

Band of Gypsys was the only live recording authorized by Jimi Hendrix before his death. It was recorded and released in order to get Hendrix out from under a contractual obligation that had been hanging over his head for a couple years. Helping him out were longtime friends Billy Cox on bass and Buddy Miles on the drums because the Experience had broken up in June of 1969, following a show in Denver. This rhythm section was vastly different from the Experience. Buddy Miles was an earthy, funky drummer in direct contrast to the busy, jazzy leanings of Mitch Mitchell. Noel Redding was not really a bass player at all but a converted guitar player who was hired in large part because Hendrix liked his hair! These new surroundings pushed Hendrix to new creative heights. Along with this new rhythm section, Hendrix took these shows as an opportunity to showcase much of the new material he had been working on. The music was a seamless melding of rock, funk, and R&B, and tunes like "Message to Love" and "Power to Love" showed a new lyrical direction as well. Although he could be an erratic live performer, for these shows, Hendrix was on – perhaps his finest performances. His playing was focused and precise. In fact, for most of the set, Hendrix stood motionless, a far cry from the stage antics that helped establish his reputation as a performer. Equipment problems had plagued him in past live shows as well, but everything was perfect for the Fillmore shows. His absolute mastery of his guitar and effects is even more amazing considering that this was the first time he used the Fuzz Face, wah-wah pedal, Univibe, and Octavia pedals on-stage together. The guitar tones he gets on "Who Knows" and "Power to Love" are powerful and intense, but nowhere is his absolute control more evident than on "Machine Gun," where Hendrix conjures bombs, guns, and other sounds of war from his guitar, all within the context of a coherent musical statement. The solo on "Machine Gun" totally rewrote the book on what a man could do with an electric guitar and is arguably the most groundbreaking and devastating guitar solo ever. These live versions of "Message to Love" and "Power to Love" are far better than the jigsaw puzzle studio versions that were released posthumously. Two Buddy Miles compositions are also included, but the show belongs to Jimi all the way. Band of Gypsys is not only an important part of the Hendrix legacy, but one of the greatest live albums ever.

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Musicians:

Guitar, Vocals : Jimi Hendrix
Bass : Billy Cox
Drums : Buddy Miles

Produced by Heaven Research
Recorded Live by Wally Heider
Remixinf and engineering supevision by Eddie Kramer

Track List:

01. Who Knows [9:39]
02. Machine Gun [12:41]
03. Changes [5:14]
04. Power To Love [6:58]
05. Message To Love [5:26]
06. We Gotta Live Together [5:50]

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, i.e. "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.

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.

~ www.allmusic.com

Musicians:

Guitar, Vocals : Jimi Hendrix
Bass : Noel Redding
Drums : Mitch Mitchell
Drums : Stevie Wonder (tracks 25-26)

Tracks 1, 13-15 and 27-29 recorded February 13, 1967.
Tracks 8, 19 and 20 recorded March 28, 1967.
Track 30 recorded April 17, 1967.
Tracks 9-12, 16-17, 25-26 and 31 recorded October 6, 1967
Tracks 2-7 recorded October 17, 1967.
Tracks 18, 21-24 and 32 recorded December 15, 1967.
Tracks 33-37 recorded January 4, 1969.
Track 38 (bonus track) recorded August 24, 1967

Produced by Janie Hendrix, Eddi Kramer and John McDermot

Track List CD1:

01. Foxey Lady [3:00]
02. Alexis Korner Introduction [0:27]
03. Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? [3:32]
04. Rhythm And Blues World Service [0:13]
05. (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man [5:30]
06. Traveling With The Experience [0:22]
07. Driving South [5:31]
08. Fire [2:42]
09. Little Miss Lover [2:58]
10. Introducing The Experience [0:51]
11. The Burning Of The Midnight Lamp [3:43]
12. Catfish Blues [5:29]
13. Stone Free [3:26]
14. Love Or Confusion [2:54]
15. Hey Joe [4:02]
16. Hound Dog [2:43]
17. Driving South [4:49]
18. Hear My Train a Comin' [5:01]


Track List CD2:

19. Purple Haze [3:17]
20. Killing Floor [2:28]
21. Radio One [1:34]
22. Wait Until Tomorrow [2:56]
23. Day Tripper [3:25]
24. Spanish Castle Magic [3:08]
25. Jammin` [3:24]
26. I Was Made To Love Her [3:06]
27. Foxey Lady [2:44]
28. A Brand New Sound [0:54]
29. Hey Joe [2:58]
30. Manic Depression [3:11]
31. Driving South [3:22]
32. Hear My Train A Comin` [5:03]
33. A Happening For Lulu [0:20]
34. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) [4:09]
35. Lulu Introduction [0:23]
36. Hey Joe [2:44]
37. Sunshine Of Your Love [1:18]
38. Burning Of The Midnight Lamp (Bonus Track) [4:32]