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Jimi Hendrix: Experience Hendrix - The Best of Jimi Hendrix

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Label: Sony Music
Released: 1997.09.16
Time:
 73:32
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Chas Chandler, Jimi Hendrix
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Media type: CD
Web address: www.jimihendrix.com
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Purple Haze (J.Hendrix) - 2:52
[2] Fire (J.Hendrix) - 2:43
[3] The Wind Cries Mary (J.Hendrix) - 3:20
[4] Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts) – 3:30
[5] All Along the Watchtower (B.Dylan) – 3:59
[6] Stone Free (J.Hendrix) - 3:36
[7] Crosstown Traffic (J.Hendrix) - 2:19
[8] Manic Depression (J.Hendrix) - 3:42
[9] Little Wing (J.Hendrix) - 2:25
[10] If 6 Was 9 (J.Hendrix) - 5:34
[11] Foxy Lady (J.Hendrix) - 3:19
[12] Bold as Love (J.Hendrix) - 4:11
[13] Castles Made of Sand (J.Hendrix) - 2:47
[14] Red House (J.Hendrix) - 3:50
[15] Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (J.Hendrix) - 5:12
[16] Freedom (J.Hendrix) - 3:25
[17] Night Bird Flying (J.Hendrix) - 3:50
[18] Angel (J.Hendrix) - 4:22
[19] Dolly Dagger (J.Hendrix) - 4:45
[20] The Star Spangled Banner (J.Stafford Smith) – 3:46

Tracks [1–15] are performed by The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
Tracks [1,2,3,4,6,8,11] and 14 are from the album Are You Experienced?.
Tracks [9,10,12,13] are from the album Axis: Bold as Love.
Tracks [5,7,15] are from the album Electric Ladyland.
Tracks [16,17,18,19] are from the posthumous album First Rays of the New Rising Sun.
Track [20] is from the album Woodstock.

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Jimi Hendrix – Guitar, Vocals, Bass Guitar, Piano, Flute, Glockenspiel, Harpsichord, Kazoo, Producer

The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Mitch Mitchell – Drums
Noel Redding – Bass Guitar, Vocals

Billy Cox – Bass Guitar, Vocals
Buddy Miles – Drums
Larry Lee - Rhythm Guitar
Dave Mason - Acoustic Guitar, Background Vocals
Juma Sultan - Percussion
Jerry Velez - Percussion
Albert Allen - Background Vocals
Arthur Allen - Background Vocals
Gloria George - Background Vocals
Barbara Moore - Background Vocals
Maggie Stredder - Background Vocals

Chas Chandler - Producer
John Jansen - Producer
Eddie Kramer - Engineer, Producer, Remastering
Janie Hendrix - Compilation Producer
Dave Siddle - Engineer
George Marino - Remastering
David Montgomery - Photograph of Front Cover
Jean-Pierre Leloir - Cover Photo
Jan Blom - Photography
Chuck Boyd - Photography
Ed Caraeff - Photography
Douglas Kent Hall - Photography
Eliott Landy - Photography
Linda McCartney - Photography

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This compilation just misses being the perfect single-CD Jimi Hendrix anthology, and it's a crying shame because it comes so close. Its main virtue is that, in contrast to Smash Hits - the only compilation of Hendrix's work approved by the artist - it extends its reach past 1968. The last of the tracks come from the abortive First Rays of the New Rising Sun album, left unfinished at the time of his death, and show off a more R&B and soul-oriented sound than Hendrix was generally known for - and are worth the price of the disc by themselves. In fact, some of these cuts recall Hendrix's history with the Isley Brothers, but done his way, with the range of sounds that he was generating in 1970. The disc concludes with the obligatory live version of "The Star Spangled Banner" from Woodstock, which is of massive historical and cultural importance. Where it falls short is by leaving out "Can You See Me" and "Remember," which are on Smash Hits -- it's a pity because the presence of two of those cuts (which, in fairness, can be found on Are You Experienced?) would make this compilation perfect in most respects.

Bruce Eder - All Music Guide



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 - Amazon.com



Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix is a greatest hits career-spanning compilation of Jimi Hendrix's best known music from 1966 to 1970 released on September 16, 1997, in the United Kingdom and on November 3, 1998, in the United States. It reached #10 in the UK and #133 in the US. It was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on January 13, 2006.

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Normalerweise ist so ein Scheibchen allemal die CD des Monats wert. Weil der Klang aber exakt den Remaster-Versionen der jüngsten, ausführlich gewürdigten Hendrix-Wiederveröffentlichungswelle (7/97) entspricht, soll hier der Hinweis auf das Repertoire genügen: 20 Titel inklusive aller Hits und des live zerfetzten "Star Spangled Banner" geben einen idealen Überblick über die populären Seiten des Gitarren-Guru, soundmäßig auf bislang bestem CD-Stand, auch der "Ultimate Experience" (ebenfalls 20 Titel, Polydor) überlegen. ** M: 8-10 ** K: 5-7

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Wer partout auf die remasterten Original-Alben von Jimi Hendrix verzichten will, kann nun die superb überarbeitete Kompakt-Lösung kaufen: "Experience Hendrix - The Best Of Jimi Hendrix". Gegenüber der älteren Best Of- Kopplung "The Ultimate Experience" (Polydor/PV) wurden sechs Titel ausgetauscht. So findet man außer den Klassikern des Gitarren-Gotts ("Hey Joe", "Foxy Lady") nun auch "Stone Free", "Freedom" sowie "Dolly Dagger". ** Klang.: 03-04

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