Jimi Hendrix : The Jimi Hendrix Experience (Box Set)

 

REMEMBERING
THE GREAT

JIMI HENDRIX TODAY ....

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix

 (born Johnny Allen Hendrix)

 (November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) 

was an 

American 

singer-songwriter and musician. 

He is widely regarded as

 one of the greatest 

and most influential guitarists 

of all time. 

Inducted into the

 Rock and Roll 

Hall of Fame 

in 1992

 as a part of his band, 

the Jimi Hendrix Experience,

 the institution describes him as

 "arguably the greatest instrumentalist

 in the history of rock music".

Hendrix began playing guitar 

at age 15.

 In 1961,

 he enlisted in the

 US Army, 

but was discharged 

the following year. 

Soon afterward, 

he moved to Clarksville,

 then Nashville, Tennessee, 

and began playing gigs on 

the Chitlin' Circuit, 

earning a place in

 the Isley Brothers' 

backing band 

and later with

 Little Richard,

 with whom he continued 

to work through mid-1965. 

He then played with

 Curtis Knight and the Squires.

Hendrix moved to England

 in late 1966,

 after bassist 

Chas Chandler

of the Animals

 became his manager. 

Within months, 

he had formed his band,

 the Jimi Hendrix Experience

 with its rhythm section 

consisting of bassist

 Noel Redding 

and drummer 

Mitch Mitchell, 

and achieved three

 UK top ten hits: 

"Hey Joe", 

"Purple Haze", 

and 

"The Wind Cries Mary". 

He achieved fame

 in the US

 after his performance

 at the

 Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. 

His third and final 

studio album, 

Electric Ladyland

 (1968), 

became his most 

commercially 

successful release 

and his only 

number one album 

on the US

 Billboard 200 chart. 

The world's highest-paid 

rock musician,

 Hendrix headlined the 

Woodstock Festival in 1969 

and the 

Isle of Wight Festival

 in 1970.

 He died in London 

from barbiturate-related 

asphyxia

 in 

September 1970, 

at the age of 

only 27.

Hendrix was inspired by

 American rock and roll

 and electric blues.

 He favored overdriven

 amplifiers with

 high volume and gain, 

and was instrumental in 

popularizing the previously

 undesirable sounds

 caused by 

guitar amplifier feedback.

 He was also one 

of the first guitarists

 to make extensive use 

of tone-altering 

effects units

 in mainstream rock, 

such as

 fuzz distortion, 

Octavia,

 wah-wah, 

and Uni-Vibe. 

He was the first musician

 to use 

stereophonic phasing effects

 in recordings. 

Holly George-Warren 

of Rolling Stone

 commented: 

"Hendrix pioneered the use 

of the instrument as an

 electronic sound source. 

Players before him had 

experimented with feedback 

and distortion,

 but Hendrix turned

 those effects 

and others into a 

controlled, 

fluid vocabulary 

every bit as personal

 as the blues 

with which he began

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

(Click Name Above For Tracklists)

is a box set

 by the 

British-American 

rock band

 The Jimi Hendrix Experience

released in 2000

 by MCA.

 The material includes

 alternative 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,

 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

BONUS CD 

Rock Me Baby

 (Monterey International Pop Festival, June 18, 1967)

Like A Rolling Stone 

(Monterey International Pop Festival, June 18, 1967)

Burning of the Midnight Lamp

 (BBC 1967)

The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam's Dice

 (Original Mono Mix)

Peace in Mississippi

Like A Rolling Stone 

(Winterland, San Francisco, California, October 11, 1968)

Red House 

(Winterland, San Francisco, California, October 11, 1968)

Voodoo Child (Slight Return) 

(Maui, Hawaii, July 30, 1970)

Hey Joe 

(Isle of Wight, England, August 30, 1970)

Machine Gun

 (Isle of Wight, England, August 30, 1970)

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