Your favorite Hendrix album?

[Duff]

Thanks

Tonight I picked up a CD of "Are You Experinced" and forgot how great it sounds. Also loaded my "Electric Ladyland" CD into my windows media library collection. I'm groovin'.

Thanks for the great input guys. Maybe I'll get a B of G one, one of these days.

Duffy

 

[Squireman131]

i always feel ashamed for my lack of knowledge of jimi hendrix. ive never listened to his music own no albums. What are some must have hendrix albums?

 

[Blaze]

Are You Experienced , Electric Ladyland,Band of Gypsys ,Jimi Plays at Monterey,Live at the Fillmore East · Live at Woodstock

 

[LagrangeCalvert]

Late to the party but mine is Axis: Bold As Love.

+1 to this..... J H EXP and Cream are my fav. bands. and I as I was driving home with my father in law and my woman from the grand folks house we listened to Electric Ladyland..... I love all of Their work as a band but Axis followed by ELL then South Saturn Delta are my favs. in that order. I love his live performances as well. I could honestly throw away all my music (I wouldn't want to) and have Axis and Creams Desrali Gears (hope I spelled that right) as my desert island music if you had to pick two cd. I guess I'm stuck in the past and I'm only 27........:thwap:

 

[Andy]

i always feel ashamed for my lack of knowledge of jimi hendrix. ive never listened to his music own no albums. What are some must have hendrix albums?

All his albums are essential
Don't forget- first rays of the new rising sun.
His final year was highly prolific in the studio and turning in a new direction.
It's 100% hendrix and sorely disregarded on this forum.

It chronicles his recording output following woodstock untill his untimely passing.I easily consider it some of his best work.

originally this material was spread out between 4 postumous albums and was stuffed with terrable filler in order to milk the legacy.
'first rays...' gathers it into one package as it should have been to begin with.
the only thing added after his death was the vibraphone on 'Drifting' because he had intentions to add them also Mitchell finished cleaning up some of his drum tracks.

 

[Squireman131]

Thanks for the info. If i get any $ i'll have to get at least one album.

 

[msteeln]

Just go to youtube to get your fill of the 'regular' stuff, and a host of rare footage. Not all in the best A/V quality, but a fun way to spend a few hours and get a Jimi-sized edumacation.

There's no way I could pick just one album or tune, as they all have much to offer, but Machine Gun usually is the one # that runs thru my head while boppin' down the road. He always got into this song and it's pure Jimi, pure music. Even at the terrible Isle of Wight gig, he pulled it together for this and very a few other tunes. Give the 5.1 remaster of this show a listen (w/headphones) to hear what it was like being inside Jimi's guitars.
The Monterey gig was his Strat straight into his Marshall, providing some of the best guitar tone known to man.
Long said to have been his first show in America, I tend to think he did a very few small appearences just prior. Anybody got the full skinny on this?
I was half way to Monterey that Friday afternoon, but got ditched in Bakersfield (at 12 years old...), and blew all my other shots at seeing him play. Those were THE hot ticket shows of the time. There simply was nobody like Jimi before or since.

 

[Robert]

There simply was nobody like Jimi before or since.

+1000 on that. :AOK: :master:

 

[Andy]

Just go to youtube to get your fill of the 'regular' stuff, and a host of rare footage. Not all in the best A/V quality, but a fun way to spend a few hours and get a Jimi-sized edumacation.

There's no way I could pick just one album or tune, as they all have much to offer, but Machine Gun usually is the one # that runs thru my head while boppin' down the road. He always got into this song and it's pure Jimi, pure music. Even at the terrible Isle of Wight gig, he pulled it together for this and very a few other tunes. Give the 5.1 remaster of this show a listen (w/headphones) to hear what it was like being inside Jimi's guitars.
The Monterey gig was his Strat straight into his Marshall, providing some of the best guitar tone known to man.
Long said to have been his first show in America, I tend to think he did a very few small appearences just prior. Anybody got the full skinny on this?
I was half way to Monterey that Friday afternoon, but got ditched in Bakersfield (at 12 years old...), and blew all my other shots at seeing him play. Those were THE hot ticket shows of the time. There simply was nobody like Jimi before or since.

Jimi's return to the states was Monterey,, No doubt whatsoever, Brian Jones insisted on showing him off and did Jimi a big favor in the process ...as it turned out

 

[Hardass blues]

KIss the Sky

bought it at a record store when I was around 12 years old on 150 grain vinyl. The last Hendrix "album" I ever bought. Great music as is all of his. I just liked that the best. went home and copied it to tape for my older brother.