Jimi Hendrix's third and final album with the original Experience found him taking his funk and psychedelic sounds to the absolute limit. The result was not only one of the best ock albums of the era, but also Hendrix's original musical vision at its absolute apex. When revisionist ock critics refer to him as the maker of a generation's mightiest dope music, this is the album they're referring to. But Electric Ladyland is so much more than just background music for chemical intake. Kudos to engineer Eddie Kramer (who supervised the remastering of the original two-track stereo masters for this 1997 reissue on MCA) for taking Hendrix's visions of a soundscape behind his music and giving it all context, experimenting with odd mic techniques, echo, backward tape, flanging, and chorusing, all new techniques at the time, at least the way they're used here. What Hendrix sonically achieved on this record expanded the concept of what could be gotten out of a modern recording studio in much the same manner as Phil Spector had done a decade before with his Wall of Sound. As an album this influential (and as far as influencing a generation of players and beyond, this was his ultimate statement for many), the highlights speak for themselves: "Crosstown Traffic," his reinterpretation of Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower," "Burning of the Midnight Lamp," the spacy "1983...(A Merman I Should Turn to Be)," and "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)," a landmark in Hendrix's playing. With this double set (now on one compact disc), Hendrix once again pushed the concept album to new horizons.
This is from the last Jimi Hendrix concert performance. Not sure if Jimi knew this was his last show or not. Don't know when he cancelled the rest of the tour. But all the crap he was dealing with needed attention. I'm thinking he wasn't wanting to continue as he started the show bc not only were they booing him (not his fans, but the German motorcycle gang) when came onstage "I don't give a fu...
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Excerpt from allmusic.comBiographyby Richie Unterberger & Sean Westergaard In his brief four-year reign as a superstar, Jimi Hendrix expanded the vocabulary of the electric rock guitar more than anyone before or since. Hendrix was a master at coaxing all manner of unforeseen sonics from his instrument, often with innovative amplification experiments that produced astral-quality feedback and ro...
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This is from the last Jimi Hendrix concert performance. Not sure if Jimi knew this was his last show or not. Don't know when he cancelled the rest of the tour. But all the crap he was dealing with needed attention. I'm thinking he wasn't wanting to continue as he started the show bc not only were they booing him (not his fans, but the German motorcycle gang) when came onstage "I don't give a fu...
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Have Fun.20 Greatest Guitar Solos Ever, With Videos:http://cityrag.blogs.com/main/2007/01/100_greatest_gu.html#more
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I love nearly every track on Hendrix's most experimental album but one has set its roots deep in my soul. The rhythm is out of this world! The feel is so hot! I wonder what these eyes must have looked like to inspire such a song...
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2a.m. and I should be dreaming in my bed now. But I'm not.
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