The Jimi Hendrix Experience (album)

Infobox Album | Name = The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Type = Box Set
Artist = The Jimi Hendrix Experience


Released = September 12, 2000
Recorded = 1966 / 1970
Genre = Rock
Length = 4:19:55
Label = MCA Records
Cover photo = Copyright Karl Ferris

Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:81adqj2lojka link]
*"Rolling Stone" rating|4|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/jimihendrix/albums/album/92634/review/5945835/the_jimi_hendrix_experience link]
Last album = "Live at Clark University"
(1999)
This album = "The Jimi Hendrix Experience (MCA Box)"
(2000)
Next album = "Live in Ottawa"
(2001)
MCA continued the series of definitive masters of the Jimi Hendrix catalogue in 2000, releasing the self - titled box set The Jimi Hendrix Experience, a boxed set consisting of four discs. The material includes alternate 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, even 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.

Another edition of this boxed set was released on 28th November 2005, which, under the Universal music group label, included an exclusive bonus DVD featuring a 30 minute documentary called "Hendrix And The Blues", originally created as part of the " series. As well as this, this bonus DVD also includes several Live tracks, including "Johnny B. Goode" which was recorded live at Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, California on May 30th 1970, "Red House" and "In From The Storm", both of which were recorded live at Isle Of Wight, England on August 30th 1970.

Album Cover,The cover shot is from Karl Ferris Jimi's chosen photo/designer for all three US/International "Experience" original albums.

Track listing

Disc one

#"Purple Haze" (Hendrix) – 3:26
#"Killing Floor" (Burnett) – 3:05
#"Hey Joe" (Roberts) – 2:52
#"Foxy Lady" (Hendrix) – 3:27
#"Highway Chile" (Hendrix) – 3:40
#"Hey Joe" (Roberts) – 3:06
#"Title #3" (Hendrix) – 2:12
#"Third Stone from the Sun" (Hendrix) – 9:18
#"Taking Care of No Business" (Hendrix) – 3:42
#"Here He Comes (Lover Man)" (Hendrix) – 3:02
#"Burning of the Midnight Lamp" (Hendrix) – 1:30
#"If 6 Was 9" (Hendrix) – 5:57
#"Rock Me Baby" (Josea, King) – 3:20
#"Like a Rolling Stone" (Dylan) – 6:52

*Tracks 7, 9 and 10 are previously unreleased recordings.
*Tracks 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11 and 12 are previously unreleased alternate recordings.
*Tracks 2 and 3 recorded live at Olympia Theatre, Paris, France, October 18 1966.
*Tracks 13 and 14 recorded live at the Monterey International Pop Festival, June 18 1967.

Disc two

#"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (Lennon/McCartney) – 1:51
#"Burning of the Midnight Lamp" (Hendrix) – 4:06
#"Little Wing" (Hendrix) – 3:23
#"Little Miss Lover" (Hendrix) – 2:21
#"The Wind Cries Mary" (Hendrix) – 4:11
#"Catfish Blues" (Petway) – 5:26
#"Bold as Love" (Hendrix) – 7:09
#"Sweet Angel" (Hendrix) – 4:12
#"Fire" (Hendrix) – 2:43
#"Somewhere" (Hendrix) – 3:48
#"Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)" (Hendrix) – 1:28
#"Gypsy Eyes" (Hendrix) – 3:43
#"Room Full of Mirrors" (Hendrix) – 1:26
#"Gloria (Morrison, Hendrix) – 8:53
#"It’s Too Bad" (Hendrix) – 8:52
#"The Star Spangled Banner" (Key, Smith) – 4:12

*Track 15 is a previously unreleased recording.
*Tracks 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 are previously unreleased alternate recordings.
*Track 16 is a studio recording.
*Tracks 1 and 2 recorded live at Stockholm, Sweden, September 5 1967.
*Tracks 5 and 6 recorded live at Olympia Theatre, Paris, France, October 9 1967.
*Track 9 recorded live at Clark University, Worcester, MA, March 15 1968.

Disc three

#"Stone Free" (Hendrix) – 3:43
#"Spanish Castle Magic" (Hendrix) – 5:50
#"Hear My Train a Comin’" (Hendrix) – 6:58
#"Room Full of Mirrors" (Hendrix) – 7:56
#"I Don’t Live Today" (Hendrix) – 6:33
#"Little Wing" (Hendrix) – 3:16
#"Red House" (Hendrix) – 13:07
#"Purple Haze" (Hendrix) – 4:03
#"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" (Hendrix) – 7:53
#"Izabella" (Hendrix) – 3:40

*Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4 and 10 are previously unreleased alternate recordings.
*Track 5 recorded live at Los Angeles Forum, CA, April 26 1969.
*Tracks 6 and 9 recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall, London, February 24 1969.
*Tracks 7 and 8 recorded live at San Diego Sports Arena, CA, May 24 1969.

Disc four

#"Message to Love" (Hendrix) – 3:35
#"Earth Blues" (Hendrix) – 4:08
#"Astro Man" (Hendrix) – 4:11
#"Country Blues" (Hendrix) – 8:27
#"Freedom" (Hendrix) – 3:52
#"Johnny B. Goode" (Berry) – 4:46
#"Lover Man" (Hendrix) – 2:57
#"Blue Suede Shoes" (Perkins) – 4:28
#"Cherokee Mist" (Hendrix) – 6:02
#"Come Down Hard on Me" (Hendrix) – 3:18
#"Hey Baby/In from the Storm" (Hendrix) – 8:56
#"Ezy Ryder" (Hendrix) – 3:43
#"Night Bird Flying" (Hendrix) – 4:24
#"All Along the Watchtower" (Bob Dylan) – 4:22
#"In from the Storm" (Hendrix) – 4:21
#"Slow Blues" (Hendrix) – 1:46

*Tracks 4, 7, 9 and 16 are previously unreleased recordings.
*Tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 12 and 13 are previously unreleased alternate recordings.
*Tracks 6 and 8 recorded live at Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, CA, May 30 1970. (First Show)
*Track 11 recorded live at Maui, Hawaii, July 30 1970.
*Tracks 14 and 15 recorded live at the Isle of Wight, England, August 30 1970.