From alternate recordings to live versions never before offered to the public, The Jimi Hendrix Experience is truly what its title says it is - an experience that's as psychedelic and groovy as Hendrix ever got. Marking the influence of this phenomenal presence on the 1960's music scene is an essential event. Hendrix' influence has made an impression on musicians from Stevie Ray Vaughan to Miles Davis to Prince. The left-handed man who played a right-handed guitar upside down, summoning an experimental electric sound like no other, is captured here in several forms. From live recordings of the Experience's debut U.S. gig at the Monterey Pop Festival where he set his guitar on fire and became a star to several other uncompromising electrifying versions of his best-known songs, here is a true alchemy of evocative, immortal moments.
'South Saturn Delta' was the first disk of Hendrix rarities released by his sister and Eddie Kramer in their effort to restore the Hendrix catalog. Here are four more disks in a similar vein. While critics often scorned posthumous Hendrix releases after 'Cry of Love', most Hendrix fans could name tracks on those releases that were big favorites. I would consider "Like a Rolling Stone", "Star-Spangled Banner", and "Message of Love" essential Hendrix recordings. Tracks I hadn't heard that really knocked m..
4 c.d.s , 56 rare or unreleased recordings, an 80 page color booklet with great photos and liner notes. All wrapped in a purple velvet box fit for the King of the electric guitar. This is the Gem of the Hendrix posthumous releases. The early live cuts from only the 4th live appearance show that the chemistry was there from the start. The cuts from the long out of print In The West L.P. alone make this an essential purchase. Little Wing live from the Albert Hall tops the studio version. Red..
30 years almost to the week of the death of legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix, MCA & Experience Hendrix release the first 4 disc box set "The Jimi Hendrix Experience". Almost immediately after removing the set from it's wrappings and feeling the velvet textured purple box cover you can tell that this set was done with an exacting attention to detail. All of the four disc's jewel cases are loaded with rare photo's of Jimi and the band. The 79 page book that is provided with the set is filled once ag..
