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The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 
 enlarge | Artist: Jimi Hendrix
Label: Mca
Category: Music
List Price: $79.98
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Rating:  110 reviews
Sales Rank: 148712
Format: Box Set, Limited Edition
Media: LP Record
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 8
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6.3
Dimensions (in): 13 x 12.9 x 1.7
UPC: 008811231613
EAN: 0008811231613
ASIN: B00004WFAB
Release Date: September 12, 2000
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Purple Haze [#] | | • | Killing Floor [#] | | • | Hey Joe [#] | | • | Foxey Lady [#] | | • | Highway Chile [#] | | • | Hey Joe [#] | | • | Title #3 [#] | | • | Third Stone from the Sun [#] | | • | Takin' Care of No Business [#] | | • | Here He Comes (Lover Man) [#] | | • | Burning of the Midnight Lamp [#] | | • | If 6 Was 9 [#] | | • | Rock Me Baby | | • | Like a Rolling Stone |
Disc 2
| • | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | | • | Burning of the Midnight Lamp | | • | Little Wing [#] | | • | Little Miss Lover [#] | | • | Wind Cries Mary [#] | | • | Catfish Blues [#] | | • | Bold as Love [#] | | • | Sweet Angel [#] | | • | Fire [#] | | • | Somewhere [#] | | • | Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland) [#] | | • | Gypsy Eyes [#] | | • | Room Full of Mirrors [#] | | • | Gloria [#] | | • | It's Too Bad [#] | | • | Star Spangled Banner |
Disc 3
| • | Stone Free [#] | | • | Spanish Castle Magic [#] | | • | Hear My Train a Comin' [#] | | • | Room Full of Mirrors [#] | | • | I Don't Live Today [#] | | • | Little Wing | | • | Red House | | • | Purple Haze [#] | | • | Voodoo Child (Slight Return) | | • | Izabella [#] |
Disc 4
| • | Message to Love [#] | | • | Earth Blues [#] | | • | Astro Man [#] | | • | Country Blues [#] | | • | Freedom [#] | | • | Johnny B. Goode | | • | Lover Man [#] | | • | Blue Suede Shoes | | • | Cherokee Mist [#] | | • | Come Down Hard on Me [#] | | • | Hey Baby/In from the Storm | | • | Ezy Ryder [#] | | • | Night Bird Flying [#] | | • | All Along the Watchtower | | • | In from the Storm | | • | Slow Blues [#] |
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Amazon.com's Best of 2000
The arc of Jimi Hendrix's cometlike career is captured on the four-disc Jimi Hendrix Experience box set, which showcases the musician's mercurial brilliance and offers new angles from which to appraise his artistry. That the great guitarist's unreleased musings have been explored since his death three decades ago wouldn't seem to bode well for a multidisc collection such as this. But this retrospective boggles the mind merely by presenting how much Hendrix accomplished in a few short years and, in doing so, questioning what he would have achieved had he lived. --Steven Stolder
Amazon.com
"Man, we don't fish or go bowling like other people do," Jimi Hendrix would say to bassist Billy Cox. "We make music, and this is fun." This remark explains how a man with three official studio albums could have produced so many compelling outtakes and oddities in a mere four years. To be sure, some of the alternate versions of the classic cuts across these four CDs are simply historical curiosities included to illustrate the development of a song. But the collection is also packed full of revelations. Two 1966 live recordings from Paris--from the Experience's fourth performance--show just how early on the magic was evident, while two previously unreleased instrumentals from the Are You Experienced sessions of April 1967 show just how aware Hendrix, bassist Noel Redding, and drummer Mitch Mitchell were of their chemistry. Two songs from the landmark June Monterey Pop performance--including his unique take on Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," round out disc 1. Disc 2 finds Hendrix warming to the possibilities of the recording studio, especially once he took over for Chas Chandler at the production helm. Among the highlights are a deeply grooving demo of "Somewhere" from spring 1968, with some particularly supple guitar leads, and the haunting slow blues "It's Too Bad" spurred by jazz organist Larry Young and drummer Buddy Miles (eight months before the creation of the Band of Gypsies). Disc 3 begins with an updated and more dynamic 1969 version of "Stone Free," his first composition, but mostly displays Hendrix's guitar work at its most ferocious and freewheeling. Standouts include unreleased studio takes of "Hear My Train A-Comin'" and "Room Full of Mirrors" (the latter from Billy Cox's first session with Hendrix, heard here in take number 31), plus incredible concert forays into "Red House" and "Voodoo Chile" that were originally released on the posthumous (but powerful) Hendrix in the West. The final disc is in many ways the most interesting, as Hendrix's fusion of rock, jazz, blues, and funk was becoming increasingly luminous. Whereas Hendrix used to use the studio to put finishing touches on mostly formed compositions, by 1970 he was using his free-form studio jams as a wellspring for material. Heard here for the first time, "Cherokee Mist" (with Cox and Mitchell behind him) is a mesmerizing spontaneous creation and "Come Down Hard on Me" is a funky monster. Disc 4 also adds two more cuts from Hendrix in the West, including his spirited run through "Johnny B. Goode." Thanks to his insatiable appetite for playing music, Hendrix crammed a career's worth of development into a few short years, moving from fiery psychedelic blues-rocker to soulful and brilliant musical synthesizer. Still, judging by the arc that's deftly traced across these discs, Hendrix's best music was still to come. At times, all this "extra" Hendrix material seems like a small consolation for all the music he did not get to make. But boy, we'll take 'em. Thankfully, he didn't fish or bowl like other people do. --Marc Greilsamer
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| Customer Reviews: Read 105 more reviews...
 Wow! June 2, 2008
The first song Purple Haze was the same arrangement Jimi Hendrix did when I saw him in 1967. What an incredible compilation. Exceptional for any Jimi Hendrix collector!
 Alternate cuts April 24, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this boxed set after my old Hendrix CD's mysteriously disappeared. I thought the set would replace the classic albums, but every track is an alternate version. With the exception of a "Star Spangled Banner" (which bears NO resemblence to the awesome Woodstock version) the cuts make acceptable -- and occasionally superior -- substitutes for the classic Hendrix hits.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience November 25, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a must have it you like Jimi Hendrix. This set includes studio songs and several unreleased live songs, which I have never heard before. Included is a 79 page book loaded with pictures and information on the band. This is one of the best CD sets that I have ever purchased and added to my collection. Enjoy.
musica grandiosa respirando en un utero purpura ..... September 25, 2006
6 out of 12 found this review helpful
este es un gran ejemplo de como realizar un box set..... excelente compilacion, temas ineditos, booklet grandioso, sonido atronador, y encima estamos hablando de un conjunto de composiciones maravillosas, que aun pueden elevarnos muy por encima de la alarmante mediocridad a la que nuestros oidos se estan acostumbrando hoy en dia....si no tenes nada de jimi, COMPRALO..si tenes algo, COMPRALO.. si tenes todo..COMPRALO IGUAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the late great jimi hendrix August 18, 2006
1 out of 11 found this review helpful
you are a timeless legend jimi!!! you are the god of the electric guitar!!! and furthermore you will always rock!!!
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