The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
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Free Music Review: Awesome!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a classic! If you want to "experience" an amazing guitarist listen to Hendrix!!! I highly recommend are you experienced!!! Some of my favorite tracks are:
-purple haze
-manic depression
-hey joe
-love or confusion
-I don't live today
-the wind cries Mary
-fire
-foxey lady
-are you experienced?
Go get it!!!
Free Music Review: Strange, beautiful
Hit: 5 Stars
Desert Wanderer we are of one mind on this, 3rd Stone is Hendrix's greatest compositon.
You accurately describe the music; it also tells me a story. Initially the Experience play no particular melody in no particular time signature, and create a sonic environment in which we hear the exchange: "Starfleet to scout ship, what is your position. Over." "I am over the 3rd stone from the sun. Over." Etc.
The Visitor investigates, swoops downward on a smooth spiral; all is easy and airy. The jangling "60's guitar" is the Visitor's interest peaking, when he discovers Earth is inhabited. Extreme siesmographic disturbances result; what he sees shocks him! The final time through the riff the Visitor absolutely destroys planet Earth, blows it into fragments.
So it is in three movements: the exuberant jazzy intro, the evolving process of discovery, and the explosive final destruction. Our point of view narrows as we see first the cosmic perspective, then a place with appealing geographic detail but whose people he does not understand, and finally we are with Jimi as he leaves it in the dust and returns to space.
But what is going on at the very end? Is it a pile driver? An elevated train?
Edit Sept 2007:
I recently obtained The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) on DVD from the library. The plot goes, a visitor comes to planet earth and does not like what he sees. He threatens to blow up the world unless we reform, then leaves.
The film opens with title shots of the cosmos, then narrows down to the solar system; earth appears from behind the moon. Brilliant clouds part revealing the sea, then mountains. The craft lands and the fun begins.
We can be sure Jimi saw this movie. It was very popular and spawned many imitators. This was an "A" movie with multiple sets and locations, first-rate cast, heavy promotion and original score. The music is eerie, with two theremins poised fluttering high above the basses and percussion. There is no rhythm. This, too, spawned a sort of genre of space-music but it is nothing at all like 3rd Stone.
On his next album, "Axis: Bold As Love, Jimi starts right out on side one with "EXP" and "Up From The Skies" which continue the theme of the visitor to our planet.
Crash Landing opens with the line..."Meanwhile I can imagine up in the clouds UFOs chuckle to themselves, laughing they're saying, 'Those people so uptight they sure know how to make a mess.'"
So now we see that 3rd Stone is just the beginning of Jimi's apparently life-long useage of this theme. It sure plays nicely over the opening to "Day..." It is almost a video of the song; they enrich one another.
Free Music Review: revolutionary
Hit: 5 Stars
I remember going to visit my cousin Don in Texas when I was in about the eighth grade. He said "You've got to listen to this new guy. I've never heard anything like it." The guy was Jimi Hendrix and the record was Are You Experienced. Over the next 3-4 years Jimi Hendrix would rewrite the vocabulary of the electric guitar. Yet IMHO he would never be as revolutionary as he was on this record. He is both iconoclastic, yet commercial.
This remastered and expanded version of the Hendrix debut album is a revelation. The sound is great and the bonus tracks flow seamlessly. Essential listening
Free Music Review: Many Thanks To MTV Supporter
Hit: 5 Stars
I think that I owe a thanks to the dumba** individual who goes by the name of "MTV Supporter". I needed a good laugh and your reviews (If you can call them that) had me laughing like there was no tomorrow. You'll notice that this guy has several accounts. It seems that his name for one of them is "You'll watch MTV if you know what is good for you. "I am a smart person... and you know it. Don't deny it. I know more than all of you. I watch MTV, which proves it."
- Holy f*** man, you have become a real sucker for the rubbish on MTV haven't you. I hate MTV all its doing to young people. This guy seems to think that all REAL music fans are dumb and fans of the commercialized crap they put on MTV are smart. Well MTV Supporter, I have to tell you that you are officially a complete idiot. You and all other MTV dumba**** outta be banned from watching MTV. You have paid out music legends like Jimi Hendrix, Tupac Shakur, Ray Charles and The Beatles and you are calling Jessica Simpson and Britney spears musical geniouses!!! That is just sad man, seriously. Your reviews are not appreciated. Look at all the hatemail and unhelpful votes you've got. Oh and yeah incase you didn't get my drift, the stuff on MTV isn't music, idiot.
This CD rocks. Real music will kick MTV's a** one day. Recommended for all real music fans. IF your an MTV fan than go listen to your unmusical garbage. If you have love for music than add this to your cart now!!!
Free Music Review: Strong American debut from Mr. Hendrix
Hit: 4 Stars
So what's next? A deluxe 3 disc edition in 24 bit mono, stereo and remixed surround sound stereo. Actually, that sounds good!
But, this disc is just the (typical stereo) American version of "Are You Experienced." Jimi Hendrix on guitar and vocals, Noel Redding on bass and Mitch Mitchell on the drums. The Americans created a pretty good 40 minute debut album, and this remastered disc gives you six bonus tracks which push the disc up to an hour long. You also get a 22 page booklet including lyrics and many photos, but none of the band playing on stage, that stinks, and the lyrics are so hard to read, it's almost pointless.
What strikes me about this album is the brilliant guitar work, good energy and ideas, but sometimes the songs are a bit weak. Besides that, this is one of the great debuts of all time. As a kid listening to this album, along with Deep Purple's In Rock, I felt like these were the two greatest rock albums ever; and I still do!
There are a lot of classics on this disc, including Manic Depression, Foxy Lady & Fire. Of course, there were the big three U.K. A-sides added to strengthen their American debut, Purple Haze, The Wind Cries Mary and Hey Joe. It's funny to think that the American record company added these three great songs, only to bump three gems (Can You See Me, Remember and Red House) that ended up on "Smash Hits." So perhaps, the American debut could have been ever stronger.
The sound quality is a little better than the last remasterd disc, but not so much better that you need to replace your old disc. Final note, the album cover doesn't say STEREO at the top for this remastered edition? Why? The older re-mastered CD cover did. Sure sounds like stereo to me, so why erase the stereo symbol on the album cover?
Are You Experienced
~ The Jimi Hendrix Experience: 4 1/2 stars
In Rock
~ Deep Purple: 5 stars