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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Purple Haze | |||
| 2. Killing Floor | |||
| 3. Hey Joe | |||
| 4. Foxy Lady | |||
| 5. Highway Chile | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | |||
| 2. Burning Of The Midnight Lamp | |||
| 3. Little Wing | |||
| 4. Little Miss Lover | |||
| 5. Wind Cries Mary | |||
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| Disc: 3 | |||
| 1. Stone Free | |||
| 2. Spanish Castle Magic | |||
| 3. Hear My Train A Comin' | |||
| 4. Room Full Of Mirrors | |||
| 5. I Don't Live Today | |||
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| Disc: 4 | |||
| 1. Message To Love | |||
| 2. Earth Blues | |||
| 3. Astro Man | |||
| 4. Country Blues | |||
| 5. Freedom | |||
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
"Man, we don't fish or go bowling like other people do", Jimi Hendrix would say to bassist Billy Cox. "We make music, and this is fun". This remark explains how a man with three official studio albums could have produced so many compelling outtakes and oddities in a mere four years. To be sure, some of the alternative versions of the classic cuts across these four CDs are simply historical curiosities included to illustrate the development of a song. But the collection is also packed full of revelations.
Two 1966 live recordings from Paris--from the Experience's fourth performance--show just how early on the magic was evident, while two previously unreleased instrumentals from the Are You Experienced sessions of April 1967 show just how aware Hendrix, bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell were of their chemistry. Two songs from the landmark June Monterey Pop performance--including his unique take on Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone", round out disc one. Disc two finds Hendrix warming to the possibilities of the recording studio, especially once he took over for Chas Chandler at the production helm. Among the highlights are a deeply grooving demo of "Somewhere" from spring 1968, with some particularly supple guitar leads, and the haunting slow blues "It's Too Bad" spurred by jazz organist Larry Young and drummer Buddy Miles (eight months before the creation of the Band of Gypsies). Disc three begins with an updated and more dynamic 1969 version of "Stone Free", his first composition, but mostly displays Hendrix's guitar work at its most ferocious and freewheeling. Standouts include unreleased studio takes of "Hear My Train A-Comin'" and "Room Full of Mirrors" (the latter from Billy Cox's first session with Hendrix, heard here in take number 31), plus incredible concert forays into "Red House" and "Voodoo Chile" that were originally released on the posthumous (but powerful) Hendrix In The West. The final disc is in many ways the most interesting, as Hendrix's fusion of rock, jazz, blues and funk was becoming increasingly luminous. Whereas Hendrix used to use the studio to put finishing touches on mostly formed compositions, by 1970 he was using his free-form studio jams as a wellspring for material. Heard here for the first time, "Cherokee Mist" (with Cox and Mitchell behind him) is a mesmerising spontaneous creation and "Come Down Hard on Me" is a funky monster. Disc four also adds two more cuts from Hendrix In The West, including his spirited run through "Johnny B. Goode".
Thanks to his insatiable appetite for playing music, Hendrix crammed a career's worth of development into a few short years, moving from fiery psychedelic blues-rocker to soulful and brilliant musical synthesizer. Still, judging by the arc that's deftly traced across these discs, Hendrix's best music was still to come. At times, all this "extra" Hendrix material seems like a small consolation for all the music he did not get to make. But we'll take 'em. Thankfully, he didn't fish or bowl like other people do. --Marc Greilsamer
CD Description
The Jimi Hendrix catalogue has been diced and sliced so many ways over the years that only the most cynical record executives could possibly envision another box set of the same old material. Thankfully, this four-disc box entirely avoids the pre-existing body of work that's been presented to Hendrix fans innumerable times in the past. Instead, JIMI HENDRIXEXPERIENCE consists exclusively of previously unreleased material, alternate takes, demos, live tracks, and the like. Every moment of it is designed to illuminate a different sideof the many-faceted artist, and will undoubtedly make any hardcore Hendrixite's mouth water.
It's obviously a kick to hear the alternate takes of classic tracks such as "Foxey Lady" and "Purple Haze", which bear a slightly rawer edge than the versions we're used to. But the real joy of this box comes in the more unexpected selections, particularly the live cuts. We get a look at Hendrix's blues roots, in turbo-charged takes on Muddy Waters ("Catfish Blues") and Howlin' Wolf ("Killing Floor"), but we also learn about where the guitarist's head was at during his late-'60s heyday in covers ofthe Beatles ("Sgt. Pepper") and Dylan ("Like a Rolling Stone"). Ranging from Hendrix's rootsiest endeavors to his most free-form explorations, this box set offers an alternative-yet-comprehensive view of this complex performer.
It's obviously a kick to hear the alternate takes of classic tracks such as "Foxey Lady" and "Purple Haze", which bear a slightly rawer edge than the versions we're used to. But the real joy of this box comes in the more unexpected selections, particularly the live cuts. We get a look at Hendrix's blues roots, in turbo-charged takes on Muddy Waters ("Catfish Blues") and Howlin' Wolf ("Killing Floor"), but we also learn about where the guitarist's head was at during his late-'60s heyday in covers ofthe Beatles ("Sgt. Pepper") and Dylan ("Like a Rolling Stone"). Ranging from Hendrix's rootsiest endeavors to his most free-form explorations, this box set offers an alternative-yet-comprehensive view of this complex performer.
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