![]() ![]() “You think of a song that complex, and Jimi’s cutting it without a bass player, it’s almost unfathomable,” says McDermott. Finally, there’s Take 1 of the song, when the sessions moved to the Record Plant in April ’68, with just Hendrix and drummer Mitch Mitchell. Then there’s a second, shorter version from a March ’68 session at Sound Center Studios, featuring Jimi, bassist Noel Redding, and drummer Buddy Miles (who would later join Hendrix in his post-Experience group, Band of Gypsys). The second disc endeavors to, in co-producer John McDermott’s words, “show the process of how they got to making the record.” By way of example, he points to the song “1983.” You hear it in a very early form when he records a simple seven-minute version in his hotel room in March 1968. The remastering gives the album a greater clarity and punch. This is the record that opens with the sounds of what’s supposed to be a flyer saucer landing, includes such epics as “Voodoo Chile” and “1983 (A Merman I Should Turn to Be),” and has what’s surely the definitive recording of Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower” (which Dylan himself rated higher than his own version). By the time he recorded Electric Ladyland, he was further excited by the possibilities recording on 12-track would bring him - not to mention expanding to a double album. ![]() Hendrix was unable to work on his own ideas in the studio when he was a backing musician, so once he became a recording artist in his own right, he spent as much time in the studio as he could. Now comes a reissue with a newly remastered version of the album and plenty of previously unreleased extras. ![]() Since acquiring Jimi Hendrix’s music catalog in the mid-1990s, Experience Hendrix has never released an expanded edition of his three core albums (though CD/DVD sets were issued in 2010, the DVD featuring short films on the album tracks). Experience Hendrix/Legacy (3 CDs/1 Blu-ray) ![]()
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