The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
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Free Music Review: Raw Tri-power Classic Rock... Brilliant!
Hit: 5 Stars
NEVER, either before or since, have three guys conveyed a more astonishing, all-encompassing, Classic Rock sound.... NEVER!
Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding, and Mitch Mitchell sort of got 'thrown together' in a big hurry when Hendrix's brilliance and popularity in England first became an epiphany for his lucky manager. And never, anywhere, any time, has a more superlative Psychedelic Classic Rock team been assembled. The lack of a rhythm guitarist affected this group not one whit -- in fact, given Jimi's style, such an inclusion would have detracted from this great band's unique tri-power sound. And it's all right here on this great album.
When "Are You Experienced?" first came out all my pals and I were knocked out. We played it constantly (on 8-track tape-players mostly -- yikes!!!). Only God knows how many times I have heard "The Wind Cries Mary," one of the top hits on the album. This CD and "Electric Ladyland" are the two best albums that Hendrix ever produced and both are far superior to his later associations/productions with 'The Band of Gypsies' which was a more 'polished' sound, the brainchild of managerial morons.
I really don't need to say more -- this one was, and still is, the goods. Get it and savour it.
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Free Music Review: "...NOT NECESSARILY STONED, BUT BEAUTIFUL !" (Jimi Hendrix's debut is in a class by itself)
Hit: 5 Stars
Powerful, innovative, stimulating, phenomenal, unbelievable, genius. Whatever word you use to describe Are You Experienced (1967), one thing will always be the same. There has never been anything else like it, and there never will be. The sensual, psychedelic, feedback-drenched masterwork is an untouchable tempest of furious guitar elegance and vocal passion.
Purple Haze, Foxy Lady, Fire, Hey Joe, The Wind Cries Mary, Manic Depression, and Are You Experienced? are all rock music classics. They're unmistakably Hendrix, and in a distinguished class of their own.The guitar-fueled blues of Red House, the instrumental psychedelia of Third Stone From The Sun, and the acid-rock swagger of Stone Free and I Don't Live Today are also very, very good. The hitchhiking loner saga, Highway Chile, is an underrated gem that definitely shouldn't be overlooked, either.
As intense as the blues on 10,000 hits of acid, the guitar work on this album is astonishing in it's magnitude, and other-worldly in it's passion. Fortunately, ultra-talented drummer Mitch Mitchell was able to provide a thunderous backdrop to complement Jimi's genius. Let the hypnotic and psychedelic feedback-blues-symphony of Are You Experienced? take you there.
Are you experienced?
Have you ever been experienced?
Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful.
Free Music Review: Now there's an entrance!
Hit: 5 Stars
Jimi Hendrix's debut brought the 60s to its chaotic apex, arriving on the scene in 1967 with a seismic bang that can still be felt to this very day. The sound- a hallucinogenic mixture of psychedelia, soul, folk, blues, funk, and rock- was both timely and completely out of time, a creative whirlwind that united American and British, black and white, experimental and accessible, Bob Dylan and James Brown, all of it under the otherworldly bellow of the Jimi Hendrix Experience's phenomenal skill. I mean, seriously, how many bands are this great? I mean, everybody knows that Hendrix can play his guitar like it's nobody's f***king business, but there's more to it than that: Mitch Mitchell is an amazing drummer, an understated virtuoso who can generate anything from a hypnotic pulse to an oceanic wash to pure free-jazz expressionism and beyond. Like his contemporary Keith Moon, Mitchell's unique style fits the songs like a glove, and reminds us that drummers are not nearly as expendable as a certain "documentary" revolving around a certain fictional hard rock band named after a certain medical procedure would have us believe. Meanwhile, Noel Redding's nimble bass lines hold the whole thing in place, preventing the other two from spiraling off into another dimension while still giving them plenty of room to move around. Oh, and Jimi's also a phenomenal songwriter, capable of constructing freeform psychedelic explorations and tightly crafted freak-funk jams with equal skill.
Which leaves us with a great debut. As was customary in those days, the versions of Are You Experienced released in the U.K. and the U.S. featured some substantial differences. The British version dumped "Hey Joe," "Purple Haze," and "The Wind Cries Mary" (as per the common practice of leaving singles off of U.K. albums) in favor of "Red House," "Remember," and "Can You See Me." The two albums were also sequenced differently. Thankfully, this disc includes all of the songs from each version, as well as "Stone Free," "51st Anniversary" and "Highway Chile," so you can enjoy each version in its complete glory. And really, with songs like these, enjoyment I pretty much a given- I mean, how can anybody resist the acid-rock anthem that is "Purple Haze," or the strange and unsettling beauty of "The Wind Cries Mary?" "Hey Joe" is a quiet masterpiece that sees the band slowly and steadily building tension, letting it come to a graceful and cathartic climax. "Foxey Lady" is raw, lopsided psychedelic funk, with a two-chord sledgehammer riff pounding out a hurricane haze of feedback. "Red House" is nerve-rattling blues with a great solo and damn fine lyrics, while "Can You See Me" is pure rocking soul. "Manic Depression" features some tsunami drumming and a howling melody, and the title track is a scorching freak anthem. "Third Stone From The Sun" is a comic burst of psych-jazz with a dreamy guitar line, and "Love Or Confusion" is hypnotic and soulful. Basically, it's one of rock's flat out masterpieces, and if you don't own it, get it right now.
Free Music Review: This is where the legend begins
Hit: 5 Stars
Just for fun I clicked the 1 star reviews and read them...I laughed out loud when one of them compared Jimi to avril lavine, another to skid row and (gasp) great white! Hilarious! Another said they could'nt hear the lyrics to The wind cries Mary? wow! Get a new stereo! Quick! Seriously now, this is where the Legend of Hendrix begins. Every song, EVERY SONG is great. This is NOT heavy metal. This is not blues. This is not commercial. This is a music master piece that will not give you instant gratification. This is music that will grow on you and make you more selective in your musical choices. After this you will not like avril lavine, skid row or great white! HahahahahahahahahFree Music Review: Are You Kidding? It's Jimi Man!
Hit: 5 Stars
The time was 1967 and there was no equal to Jimi Hendrix. He played guitar like the devil made him do it to save his very soul. No one could squeeze the sounds out of an axe like Jimi and not many tried. The music is hard to describe if you are not familiar with "acid rock" for lack of a better phrase. While the music was based heavily in the blues the structure sometimes took a serious left hand turn into the blissful unknown and Jimi was driving. You need to set the mood for listening to this rare piece of Americana by setting the lights down low, prepare an adult beverage and relax. Let Jimi take you for a ride. Believe me, it's worth it. This belongs in a time capsule. When the aliens find it, the ones with ears and a CD player are going to S*&^T. - Ciao