Hendrix

This budget LP, which Accord put out in 1981, reminds us just how frustrating inadequate liner notes can be. The liner notes briefly discuss the rise of the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Hendrix's tremendous influence on rock, but they don't tell you anything at all about the material on the LP…

This is the album that Hendrix "owed" Capitol for releasing him over to Reprise Records and significantly, it isn't a studio effort, as his Reprise albums have been.

Posthumous reconstructions of unfinished works are inherently dangerous, principally because even the most capable scholar or producer can only make, at best, an educated guess as to how the work in question would have been completed. Indeed, in dealing with some such pieces, you're sometimes lucky to get the work of the artist claimed (the Mozart Symphony No. 37 is a case in point – it doesn't exist; the piece once labeled Symphony No. 37 and attributed to Mozart is now known to have been authored by Michael Haydn); and while there's no question that the songs on this CD were recorded by Jimi Hendrix, even the people who worked on the sides with him can't say which songs would have ended up on the finished version of First Rays of the New Rising Sun (assuming that he even ended up using that title for the album), or what embellishments he would have added to any of them in the course of completing them, or even if he might not have totally reconsidered such matters as tempo and approach to any of them…

This 125 minute DVD film. is a Mystical Voyage storyline built around a 1970 performance in Hawaii. Songs include Purple Haze, Foxy Lady, Star Spangled Banner, more . The video also includes Interviews. Original uncut film from only 16mm print in existance! Interviews w/ Jimi where, through a haze of drugs & alcohol, he talks about his life , beliefs, &, in what now seems prophetic, his death which would occur only 3 mos. later. Filmed atop Hawaii's Haleaka la Volcano…

Jimi Hendrix - Experience Hendrix: The Best Of Jimi Hendrix (1997) [SHM-CD 2008]
EAC Rip | FLAC+CUE+LOG > 537 MB | 73:33 minutes | Full Scans | MP3 CBR 320 Kbps > 194 MB

This collection represents the essential items of the Jimi Hendrix catalog. Each selection illustrates Hendrix's uniqueness as both guitarist and composer. In the '60s, he virtually defined rock guitar, remaking history in his own image. His mix of blues, psychedelia and Dylanesque folk-rock made him a rock & roll icon. It's in the surreal balladry of "The Wind Cries Mary". It's in the archetypal hard-rock cadences of "Purple Haze". It's in everything this electric guitar prodigy laid his talented hands on. Those unfamiliar with Hendrix's legacy are fortunate to have EXPERIENCE HENDRIX as a guide.