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Experience Hendrix [VINYL] [Import]

Jimi Hendrix | Format: Vinyl

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In his brief four-year reign as a superstar, Jimi Hendrix expanded the vocabulary of the electric rock guitar more than anyone before or since. Hendrix was a master at coaxing all manner of unforeseen sonics from his instrument, often with innovative amplification experiments that produced astral-quality feedback and roaring distortion. His… Read more in Amazon's Jimi Hendrix Store

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Vinyl (7 Dec 1998)
Number of Discs: 2
Format: Import
Label: Unknown Label
ASIN: B00000GEIZ
Other Editions: Audio CD | Vinyl | MP3 Download

Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (47 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 596,775 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Experience Hendrix brings together the major singles with a stack of majestic album tracks and the career-defining live Woodstock version of "The Star Spangled Banner" on a fat 20-tracker. While best used as a sampler to direct new listeners to the immortal Are You Experienced, Electric Ladyland, and so on, the CD (which supplants the short-lived Ultimate Experience collection) does hang together as a listen. Its blend of Hendrix the rocker and Hendrix the underrated soul man is suggestive, painting a picture of a multifaceted genius and transcending its plainly mercenary origins. In the end, its effect--like that of all Hendrix's best records--is to remind us of a Jimi very, very much alive. --Rickey Wright

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44 of 46 people found the following review helpful

Best....Hendrix Compilation....Ever.......Period. 11 April 2005

By "axmurderer"

Format:Audio CD

I actually own all the hendrix studio recordings, but sometimes (guilty admission) have to skip the odd track or two (little miss strange from Ladyland being a case in point)to get to the real cream, and often found myself wishing I had the ultimate collection of hendrix's songs, back to back, on one CD.

Well not any more, baby! As soon as I saw the track list for this bad boy I was amazed. It was just like the compilers of this record had asked me which tracks I wanted them to include! Wish granted! Problem solved! Nothing new obviously (this guy's back catalogue has been raped and pillaged since the 70's)but this package has all the 24carat classics. If you're new to Hendrix, on a tight budget etc, etc, get this beastie while it's still in stock!!

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

The best guitarist of all time lives on through his music. 28 May 2009

By Dragonlord TOP 500 REVIEWER

Format:Audio CD

When Jimi Hendrix first came along you had people like Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck thinking that they would have to something different for a living because, he was that much more better then them at playing the guitar. Voodoo Child is Hendrix best song and shows you how great he was at playing the guitar. There is a great version of the Bob Dylan song All Along The Watchtower. Here are some other stand-out songs for me Purple Haze, The Wind Cries Mary, Hey Joe, Crosstown Traffic, Foxy Lady and the wonderful Star Spangled Banner which is the American Anthem being done by guitar. All the tracks are great and It would have been really interesting to see what type of music, Hendrix would be doing now if he were still alive. All rock fans should have at least one Hendrix cd in their collection.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

another compilation? 7 Jan 2005

By nils

Format:Audio CD

5 stars, for sure - after all, this is jimi. but still, just another compilation of jimi's work ... no wonder there is hardly anything from 'Electric Ladyland' on this record. the records published in his life time in their eintirety and some performances - say band of gypsys/ life at the fillmore or the winterland or the berkeley or the san diego or the l.a. forum concerts - that's what really counts.

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great

If you like hendrix get this album. It has all hits on it and its cheap. Its a goid deal love it

Published 1 month ago by ben

Foxy

Not the biggest Hendrix fan but liked him enough to buy a greatest hits album, not dissapointed with this one, all the ones I liked plus a few I'd never heard before. Read more

Published 9 months ago by K. Wellman

Hendrix - what else?

Nice recordings, I bought this because it was one of the few compilations that had my favourite 'All Along the Watchtower'.

Published 12 months ago by M. P. Campbell

Great first buy

I'm not a huge Hendrix fan, But when the mood takes me I really enjoy his music, I don't have an in depth knowledge of his work but enjoy his hits. Read more

Published 22 months ago by happychappy

Essential

Almost everything Jimi did just dripped with gold (and silver and purple and green...) so one has to have it all. Read more

Published on 28 April 2010 by Alister King

Does what it says on the tin

This CD is ideal for people like me.
In a nutshell, I have no wish to own the complete Hendrix calalogue. Read more

Published on 30 Mar 2010 by Alan Berry

Experience Hendrix

As you have probably gathered this is a very good compilation of Hendrix music. Most, if not all the popular songs are included with a few lesser known tracks (unless you are a... Read more

Published on 22 Nov 2009 by Duncan McDonald

A rich seam of Hendrix

I find some of Hendrix's stuff to be somewhat self-indulgent. Brilliant I'm sure, technical masterpieces, but it grates on my ear. Read more

Published on 20 Nov 2009 by Head4Heights

NOT the best of hendrix

best of ? a long way off, where are the following masterpeices, third stone from the sun, are you experienced, i dont live today, half the tracks off electric ladyland,the first... Read more

Published on 20 Aug 2009 by casio smith

Oldie

Being older than the normal buyer I can remember Hendrix before and at the height of his popularity, so this CD brought back memories.

Published on 12 Jun 2009 by George Hackett

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