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Are You Experienced

Artist: Jimi Hendrix Experience
Label: Universal / Island
Category: Music

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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars

23 reviews
Sales Rank: 1251

Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.8 x 0.4

UPC: 008811160821
EAN: 0008811160821
ASIN: B000006U2T

Release Date: July 26, 1999
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Tracks:

•	Foxey Lady - Chas Chandler, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Mike Ross, Mitch Mitchell, Noel Redding
•	Manic Depression
•	Red House - Jimi Hendrix
•	Can You See Me
•	Love Or Confusion
•	I Don't Live Today
•	May This Be Love
•	Fire - Chas Chandler, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Dave Siddle, Eddie Kramer, Mitch Mitchell, Noel Redding
•	Third Stone From The Sun - Chas Chandler, Jimi Hendrix Experience
•	Remember
•	Are You Experienced?
•	Hey Joe - Chas Chandler, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Dave Siddle, Mitch Mitchell, Noel Redding, The Breakwaways
•	Stone Free
•	Purple Haze - Chas Chandler, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Dave Siddle, Eddie Kramer, Mitch Mitchell, Noel Redding
•	51st Anniversary
•	The Wind Cries Mary - Chas Chandler, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Dave Siddle, Eddie Kramer, Mitch Mitchell, Noel Redding
•	Highway Chile - Chas Chandler, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Eddie Kramer, Noel Redding, Mitch Mitchell

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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.co.uk Review
As emblematic of its time as of its sorcerer-like creator, 1967's iAre You Experienced?/i unleashed Jimi Hendrix onto a world in the midst of such cultural and musical shake-ups that it really didn't seem as "far out" as it actually was. It wasn't just Hendrix's virtuosic skill as a pure player that was so impressive; it was, even more, the range and scope of sheer sound that he coaxed, cajoled and ripped out of his instrument. "Purple Haze", "Manic Depression" and "I Don't Live Today" filled ears with indelible sonic images and songs like "Foxey Lady" and "Fire" pointed the way toward a new brand of rock-charged soul music. And how about a hand for drummer Mitch Mitchell? i--Billy Altman/i

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Ten Stars! October 26, 2006
Geoffrey Millar (Brunswick Australia)
18 out of 19 found this review helpful

A truly stunning album, easily one of the best first efforts by any group, any time. br / br /There's not much to be said apart from that, but the musicianship and songs are marvellous. Mitch's drumming is superb throughout and Noel's under-rated bass playing is solid but inventive. br / br /Hendrix never really surpassed this in terms of its freshness and general impact, although he steadily grew as a musician after its release. The variety on the album is unsurpassed, except by The Beatles: jazz (Third Stone from the Sun); blues (Red House); RB soul (Fire, Remember), even a hard rock waltz (Manic Depression) and a surf song (May This Be Love). br / br /There are two re-issues of this album around. The best has the original UK running order, starting with Foxy Lady, and the six bonus tracks (Hey Joe, Purple Haze, etc) at the end of the CD. It also has the original UK cover, which is a bit daggy. br / br /The other issue has the US running order, which has Purple Haze as its first track, and then the six bonus tracks (Red House, Can You See Me, etc) at the end. This has the 'fish eye' cover, which is more suited to the music. br / br /You get the same songs, but the UK issue has the running order as Hendrix intended. Both versions have the same sound, remastered by Eddie Kramer, Jimi's original engineer. br /

5 out of 5 stars

May This Be Love? September 20, 2003
15 out of 17 found this review helpful

With a debut album of this caliber, it blew to peices the first workings of the other great guitarists of the time. This album infact is so good, that its songs such as Foxy Lady, Purple Haze, Hey Joe, Fire, Red House, Are You Experienced and The Wind Crys Mary are some of the most commonly assosiated to Jimi Hendrix, despite his fairly large catalogue of guitar-excellence. The album as a whole has a love at first sight appeal which intensifies every listen. The album itself is mixed very well; each song flows perfectly to the next. Intrestingly, the album is full of mixed styles of music from the blues of Red House and his own style of blues, Manic Depression, to unique psychedelic experimentation of Are You Experienced and Third Stone From The Sun to funky rock with Purple Haze and Fire. Giving all this, one would expect the feel of the album to change drastically as it progressed. This is not the case, for the album feels as one perfect blend culminating to become one of the finest listening experiences you shall ever have. This perfectly crafted album shall not dissapoint and is an essential album to be placed in any collection.

5 out of 5 stars

Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced - Genius October 3, 2006
Ian Mayes (UK)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful

Here is Jimi. If you buy no other music of Jimi Hendrix, buy this album. Before his untimely death, Jimi made many statements. One was, 'When I die, just keep playing the records!' Today, over thirty six years on from his death, The Experience's music is still beautiful, wonderful, and revolutionary. Emulated by many, but never reproduced. ONLY The Experience could produce the true sound. Having been with them at The Albert Hall in '69, you can take it from me, this was one of the greatest trio's I have ever had the priveledge to see and hear. The word is magical, simply magical! br / br /Rightly, Jimi was and still is regarded as a true musical genius. Some riffs borrowed, some riffs new, but never forget the man who in such a short time gave us creative music like a religion. Music was Jimi's religion. He was one of the first great experimenters with electronic guitar effects, which in those days were relatively new. Let's not forget Mitch Mitchell on drums, and Noel Redding too on bass. Both superb. Without these two wonderful musicians in support, the true sound of The Experience would never have been realised. Just listen to the tracks, Purple Haze, Hey Joe, Foxey Lady, Fire etc and you will know it. Just feel the vibe from these tracks. You can feel it. Just feel it. Truly superb! br / br /Forget owning the Hendrix guitar.....own something much more important.....the legacy that The Experience left us.....Jimi, Mitch, and Noel left this for us all to enjoy for all time. Here's your chance to find out what The Experience was. Want to become 'Experienced?'

5 out of 5 stars

What a difference Digital Remastering makes : ) October 3, 2005
11 out of 13 found this review helpful

I first heard this Album (without the bonus tracks) within a few weeks of its original release when the lad resident in a holiday boarding house I was staying at played it for me...Repeatedly. brMostly I was more puzzled than impressed. Well, I gradually got used to this very new sound, the whole Hendrix thing grew on me and before long I had my own vinyl copy as the first of what was to become a moderately respectable collection of Hendrix Experience stuff. pFast forward Eeek years and what's happened to it? pFirst impression was 'What've they done to it'! - The vocal track seems maybe 20% to 30% more dominant now than on the original. But then, that could be down to better player media. If its not that then it's the vagarities of a fading memory - hard to be sure. pWhat has benefited from the better production options now available is the detail and the general balance of the sound. Again its not *quite* the same (to my ears) as the original. There's a shade more engineering, more pronounced shifting between channels which I don't remember hearing on the original - More reminiscent of techniques which I suspect might not have been available to the Experience and their mixers 'til Electric Ladyland. The 'depth' of the sound stage is greater too.brBut its not intrusive, its an enhancement. pAnd the detail ..... Oh yes the detail. There are small sections which can be clearly made out for the first time. pSo is it the same as the original? No, not quite. Its very close, very faithful to it but its sharper. Very grudgingly I have to admit its actually better ...... Once you've re-tuned your ears to balance the vocal track. But like the original album, it helps to hear it a couple of times to appreciate the changes of these very slightly new sounds as benefits. pWould I have bought it knowing how it sounds? No hesitation, I should have got it sooner. Did I mention the bonus tracks on it? - Aghh see for yourself

5 out of 5 stars

Fortieth anniversary of an immensely influential musical milestone... too bad that some of the tracks only offer sub-par sound March 22, 2007
jayhikkss
44 out of 57 found this review helpful

br /The other evening, I listened to this CD and, as the music flew out of the speakers, I felt that the sound quality of the first track ("Foxey Lady") was definitely not... right. Similar problems appeared on other - though not all - of the tracks. br / br /Now, do not get me wrong. As a fan of older musical styles, I can immerse myself in the music extracted from the oft-damaged grooves of vintage 78 rpm pressed before 1930. br / br /Consequently, I am still both moved and amazed at Hendrix' genius on this monumental recording, which I originally bought in 1967. What bugs me is that it should sound so much better... and that it does not. Moreover, I have read lots of professional and fan reviews of this CD. I agree wholeheartedly with most of the praise afforded to its intrinsic artistic value but I find it strange that almost nothing is ever said about the actual sound quality, or sometimes lack thereof. br / br /Hendrix' first album was recorded about 40 years ago. The recordings took place - approximately - between October 1966 and March 1967, mostly at the state-of-the-art Olympic studios. The original engineer was the very gifted Eddie Kramer whilst producer Chas Chandler had lots of studio expertise. All the right ingredients were there to have very good sonics. br / br /After listening through the speakers, I turned them off and listened through a pair of Sennheiser headphones. br / br /At this point, I feel that I should remind the reader that the second part of the sixties saw the appearance of affordable stereo listening equipment. The increased interest in stereo records among the pop and rock public led the record companies - which owned huge back catalogues of older, mono recordings - to devise a process to electronic "re-channel" these mono takes into something mimicking stereo. br /To this effect, a simple, low-cost process was set up; it only implied to separate the two tracks of the master tape so as to spread the sound across the stereo field by directing higher-frequency sound into one channel and lower-frequency sound into the other. br /This perversion of the original stereo concept gave awful results (just think about those "fake stereo" releases - both on LP's and CD's - of the Rolling Stones Decca/London material released prior to "Aftermath" (1966). It was not until the release of the 2002 Abkco "DSD" remasters that it was possible to have again access to this music the way it was originally designed to sound. br / br /"Foxey Lady", on the Hendrix CD under review is, definitely, a "fake stereo" (or "re-channeled mono) recording; the "stereo content" relies essentially on Jimi's vocals being panned to the left and the background "foxy" vocal interjections being panned to the right. This effect is highly unnatural. The bass guitar is not well defined and the drums lack real punch. The overall sound is muffled. br / br /The very same problem is already apparent on the first US CD reissue (Reprise 6261-2 in "long box" presentation). Noted engineer Joe Gastwirt takes credit for the digital remastering. br /Joe Gastwirt stated, in 1997, that "I don't wish to get into a major controversy, but I know the tapes that I worked from had edits and splices all over them. And it is very, very unlikely that a copy of a master tape would have splices on it." br / br /On the "The Jimi Hendrix Experience" 4-CD box set (MCA 112316), Kramer remastered an early, alternate version of "Foxey Lady." The actual musical performance on this alternate take is artistically inferior to the standard version. However, the alternate take comes in true mono and exhibits a much-improved sound quality. Consequently, the track sounds much more as if a real power trio was performing on it. This is true for Hendrix' vocals and guitar as well as for Noel Redding's and Mitch Mitchell's contributions. br / br /Extending the analytic process to the whole CD under review, I came to the conclusion that ten tracks from the latest MCA remaster appear either in true mono or true stereo, without any obvious post-recording trickery involved. They are: "Red House" (mono), "May This Be Love" (stereo), "Fire" (stereo), "Third Stone From The Sun" (stereo), "Remember" (stereo), "Are You Experienced" (stereo), "Hey Joe" (stereo!), "51st Anniversary" (mono), "The Wind Cries Mary" (stereo) and "Highway Chile" (mono.) br / br /Conversely, the seven remaining tracks feature inferior, "fake stereo" sound quality. They are: "Foxey Lady", "Manic Depression", "Can You See Me", "Love or Confusion", "I Don't Live Today", "Stone Free" and "Purple Haze." br / br /As both Kramer and Gastwirt are definitely skilled "good guys", the evoked problems are linked to the recording tapes that they had to use to do the CD remastering. br / br /At the time of the latest MCA remasters, the company claimed that: "For the first time, the [ORIGINAL] two-track master tapes were used to remaster [...] "Are You Experienced?" [...] [This album], released on MCA's Experience Hendrix label, mark[s] the recovery of the original master tapes after some two decades in limbo." Well, I think that this assertion is very... bold (just like the axis!) It is also misleading. br / br /True, the overall sound on Kramer's latest MCA remasters is noticeably cleaner than on earlier CD's. This is because the quality of the analog-to-digital converters has improved a lot since Gastwirt's earlier work. Aural evidence reported above clearly shows that Eddie Kramer could NOT fix any of the "fake stereo" problems already encountered by Gastwirt. br / br /In my opinion, it is obvious that some of the original master tapes have disappeared. Such an occurence is not exceptional in the case of vintage recording masters. Actually, in an interview, Eddie Kramer declared that the case of the missing masters was no mystery: "We [Kramer and members of the Hendrix family] went on a long search and found 85 percent of the masters [from all the studio sessions.] We found tapes in studios and buried in record company libraries. Some tapes [had even to be] bought from collectors." br / br /For this reason, the only way to listen to the original, superior sounding mono mixes of the seven inferior tracks mentioned above is to listen to good copies of the "Are You Experienced" and "Smash Hits" mono Track LP's (no mean feat nowadays.) br / br /It is also quite possible that a remastering based on original vinyl sources (or repressings based on good condition metal parts) could yield better sonic results. This process has already been used for fairly recent material. I do not know if it could be used here. br / br /One last advice: the easiest way to discriminate between "true stereo" tracks and "fake stereo" tracks is to switch the sound from stereo to mono. If the sound, especially on the vocals, appears to "collapse" (the vocals are heard at a much lower volume level) when switching to mono, then the track is definitely mastered from a "fake stereo" source. When the mastering is from a true stereo source, the balance between the vocal and instrumental sounds will stay fairly constant when switching to mono. This effect is more perceptible still on headphones. br /

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