- THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE ELECTRIC LADYLAND YOUTUBE HOW TO
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I never listened to any Jimi Hendrix LP stoned except 1969’s Smash Hits, which I liked because whomever it was that cherry-picked its tunes made certain they were both (1) catchy and (2) short. Let the critics, all 20 million of them, fawn and gush! Let one Peter Doggett proclaim Electric Ladyland the greatest rock album of all time! Me, I’ve always found the guitar legend’s 1968 double LP to be less a rewarding experience than an overlong and sometimes grueling, listen. But otherwise? The two of us are all by our lonesome on this one. The famously eccentric rock critic Chuck Eddy agrees with me, I think. Is it me? I repeat, is it me? Am I the only person on the planet who thinks the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Electric Ladyland is grossly overrated? Well, almost. Unfortunately this was to be his last completed studio effort before both business and pleasure took their toll, but Electric Ladyland remains his crowning achievement.Remembering Mitch Mitchell, born on this day in 1946.
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Even the inclusion of a previous b-side, "Burning Of The Midnight Lamp" showed that at this point Hendrix knew exactly how to sequence an album. On top of these you get the sumptuous Dylan interpretation of "All Along The Watchtower", the hard rock wah-wah fest of "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)". Meanwhile "1983.(A Merman I Should Turn To Be)" is a stoned classic, utilising washes of backwards tape, jazzy timeshifts and far out fish-friendly lyrics to tell the tale of future apocalypse and return to the oceans. Its late night looseness never gets in the way of Hendrix's astoundingly inventive soloing. "Voodo Chile" is a 15-minute superstar jam (with Traffic's Dave Mason and Steve Winwood, and Jefferson Airplane's Jack Cassidy standing in for an increasingly alienated Noel Redding on bass). Two epic tracks demonstrate the two sides to Hendrix: the bluesman and the cosmic gipsy. The results were both spectacular and, to this day, just about as cosmic as anything ever placed on magnetic tape. His restless search for new sounds had both his guitar techs and studio engineers running to catch up with his vision of 'Earth Space music'. His relocation to the States meant that tracks like "Long Hot Summer Night" and "Crosstown Traffic" and "Come On" retained their sense of technicolour pop while drawing more heavily on the soul and blues music of his homeland. Ladyland into as close as a perfect album as was possible. Luckily Hendrix, on a creative peak, was still focused enough to turn.
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Early into the recording of Electric Ladyland at New York's Record Plant he walked out, leaving Jimi creatively free but shackled to a dubious manager and with no one to rein in his more self-indulgent tendencies. To make matters worse, his manager/producer, Chas Chandler – the man who had rescued Jimi from obscurity in New York and brought him to London - was, himself, getting sick of the entourage surrounding the guitarist's every studio session and the call for endless takes which accompanied the Herculean intake of chemicals. Hendrix was growing sick of the endless tours (along with the endless calls for party tricks like playing the axe behind his head/with his teeth etc.) along with the constant requests for new material. By 1968, however, things had started to turn sour. Two albums of pshort psharp psychedelic class had alerted the public not only to his Strat-mangling prowess, but also his innate grasp of great songwriting. Within two hectic years James Marshall Hendrix had gone from playing Greenwich Village nightclubs for food money to unofficial head freak of the Underground. Jimi Hendrix by Jimi Hendrix The Experience Collection by Jimi HendrixĪbsolute Radio's The 100 Collection (number: 5) (order: 5) Huffington Post: Sexiest Album Covers: From the 50’s to Now (number: 20) (order: 20) The Guardian 100 Best Albums Ever (number: 29) (order: 29) Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: 2020 edition (number: 53) (order: 53) Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: 2003 edition (number: 54) (order: 54) Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: 2012 edition (number: 55) (order: 55)ĬritiqueBrainz ReviewsThere’s 1 review on CritiqueBrainz.