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  1. 1. Your favorite album by Jimi Hendrix Experience?

    • Are You Experienced
    • Axis: Bold as Love
    • Electric Ladyland


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I think...

 

Are You Experienced is the best.

 

Axis: Bold as Love is my favorite.

 

Electric Ladyland is overrated.

 

All are essential.

 

...Some part of me shares all these feelings, though I still love Electric Ladyland.

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After more thought though, I'd have to rank my favorites like this:

 

Axis: Bold As Love

Electric Ladyland

Are You Experienced?

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Are you experienced for me. EL close behind. They are all so wonderful. Might have voted for Band Of Gypsys had it been included
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I really like Are You Experienced, since it has lots of Hendrix classics on there, such as Foxy lady, I Don't Live Today, Manic Depression, Red House, and of course Are You Experienced. Axis Bold Of Love is probably a close second since I really like Spanish Castle Magic, Castles Made Of Sand, Little Wing, and if 6 was 9.
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Don't forget Smash Hits by The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

 

Track Records first issued the compilation album on April 12, 1968, in the UK and included all four of the group's singles (eight "sides") released up to that time, plus four additional songs from the UK edition of Are You Experienced.

 

Reprise Records did not issue the album in the US until July 30, 1969, and it included some different tracks. It included two songs from Electric Ladyland and a stereo version of "Red House" from a different session than the original mono take found on the UK version of Are You Experienced.

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Cannot go wrong with any of the three.

 

Are You Experienced is just so raw and it defined rock guitar for many years. It demands a vote if one must be made.

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Cannot go wrong with any of the three.

 

Are You Experienced is just so raw and it defined rock guitar for many years. It demands a vote if one must be made.

 

That it did, long before Jimmy Page.

 

Learning/playing Hendrix's songs, note for note, is still a coming of age exercise for any budding, serious guitarist. That's probably why I've only learned a few parts over the years, and none of the harder sections. lol

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Cannot go wrong with any of the three.

 

Are You Experienced is just so raw and it defined rock guitar for many years. It demands a vote if one must be made.

 

That it did, long before Jimmy Page.

 

Learning/playing Hendrix's songs, note for note, is still a coming of age exercise for any budding, serious guitarist. That's probably why I've only learned a few parts over the years, and none of the harder sections. lol

 

Put it another way -- if a guitarist can play a Hendrix song like Purple Haze from start to finish, and play it well, they immediately have cred with any other guitarist. As much as I like Page, his rhythm compositions are much easier to learn [they're both great lead players, in their own ways]. Hendrix would use lead guitar parts as riffs (rhythm/melody parts), which raises the difficulty bar on many of his songs higher than most casual players can reach (again, myself included).

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Cannot go wrong with any of the three.

 

Are You Experienced is just so raw and it defined rock guitar for many years. It demands a vote if one must be made.

 

That it did, long before Jimmy Page.

 

Learning/playing Hendrix's songs, note for note, is still a coming of age exercise for any budding, serious guitarist. That's probably why I've only learned a few parts over the years, and none of the harder sections. lol

 

Put it another way -- if a guitarist can play a Hendrix song like Purple Haze from start to finish, and play it well, they immediately have cred with any other guitarist. As much as I like Page, his rhythm compositions are much easier to learn [they're both great lead players, in their own ways]. Hendrix would use lead guitar parts as riffs (rhythm/melody parts), which raises the difficulty bar on many of his songs higher than most casual players can reach (again, myself included).

Only a musician would know what you know. In many ways, I envy you and others who can decipher such things.

 

I just listen. :)

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