what’s your favorite song on electric ladyland? comment below!

As a black guitarist all I can say is thank you for everything Hendrix . You went through so much trauma and loneliness just to do what you love just like me .

Of course this is Jimi's undisputed masterpiece. Proof? Hendrix thought so highly of this epic, he christened his studio in NYC: Electric Lady!! Nuff said....

I absolutely love this album!! My personal favorite song is "1983 ... (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)"!

I just listened to Voodoo Chile last night. I almost always listen to music while I’m working, but when Voodoo Chile comes on, I always find myself just sitting there in awe, totally immersed in it. Just so unbelievably heavy and intricate and dark and deep. Jimi’s early death is such a profound tragedy and loss for music.

And the gods made love... fabulous album, and Hendrix clearly at his peak.

This album is perfection. Every second. Even Little Miss Strange in its pop way.

Thanks again for stopping by the pod, Abby! It was great speaking with you!

This album always seemed to me to be a pioneering work a few years ahead of its time. Jimi shows some genuine vision here with tracks like 1983, with that slow, monolithic guitar riff. There's a huge sense of space Jimi creates in this song---wide open territory that guitarists like David Gilmour would later become a master at exploring.

The cover we had on this side of the pond was certainly an eye opener for young impressionable me when I encountered it in my dad's record collection. I didn't know quite what to make of it. To me, it had a witches' coven sort of vibe. "1983" is a masterpiece. The intro always reminds me of Iron Maiden's "Children if the Damned" which I had heard before getting into Hendrix.

Man, this was some LIFE CHANGING stuff here! Jimi really seemed to let it all go on Ladyland, and had the freedom that commercial success brings to do so. I'd really like to give heavenly thanks to my Dad, who bravely took 4 "too young to drive" kids to Tuscaloosa Alabama on May 7, 1969 to see the spectacle that was Jimi live! Noel's "Fat Mattress" opened too! The things parents do!! While I loved it at time of release, especially the "predictable Jimi", if there is such a thing, like "Crosstown Traffic" "All Along the Watchtower" "Gypsy Eyes" etc. it was not until years later that I came to fully appreciate this album as a whole. It takes it's place among the all timers now, for me!

I was fortunate enough to have seen Jimi Hendrix play live in concert in Kansas City 1968.

Fun fact, the long version of Voodoo Chile, was an after- after party with Jack Cassidy and Steve Winwood...being convinced to come back and jam...by the way you are very well rounded on your content, and your a Doll ....thanku

I love how you understand these old records. You've given me new insights into these recordings after fifty years, thanks.

Great review! This one is a behemoth. When I first encountered it, it seemed unfocused, and messay, but the more I listened to it, I came to see that it's an album that blasts through the confines of standard rock format and sequencing, into something wide-screen, and technicolor. Hendrix's genius is in full bloom here.

OK, wardrobe was particularly impressive in this one. One of my favorite records. Voodoo Chile is easily my favorite track.

Agree. Voodoo Chile is unreal. My fav Hendrix song. Period. I wouldn’t call it a fake live tho.. wasn’t it recorded live, in front of people. Sort of makes me think the studio was a small intimate setting for that masterpiece. Anyways. Absolutely superb video. Great research. Thanks so much!

As great as the review is, you wearing a hat in that weather is the real MVP moment

This album is a total masterpiece. I love the songs "Voodoo Child" and "Crosstown Traffic".

I still remember that rainy Saturday, when I was in 7th grade, over at my buddy's house. We were smoking pot playing Atari 2600 and his dad wanted me to hear Electric Ladyland. It literally changed my life while melting my friggin' mind. I just couldn't believe what I was hearing from his guitar. This album will always be a huge monolith that informed my musical sensibilities. This album is what made me pick up the guitar two years later. I'm so glad you reviewed this gem, Abi!!

Great take on this genius album. Maybe my favorite of all time. I saw Hendrix live twice. Nothing like it. He was from a totally other level of musical experience. So sad when he departed this world. Now I have to buy a turntable to play my original pressing of this album. Thanks!

Another fine celebration of a classic and another record that took decades for me to broach. Hendrix's name was uttered with reverence among my elder siblings as though he was something you could only get to after passing arcane rites and coming of age the way you have to get used to (and then attacked by) alcohol when younger. I and the rest of the guitar playing teens around me at school just adopted the same solemnity with the name and let it pass in conversation like "the Bermuda Triangle" or "Nuclear Warfare" before moving on to whichever more current and forgettable figure on the pop charts. When I did hear Hendrix it was hard to relate to with the vocals that never seemed to break out of talking and guitar that always seemed to wail uncontrollably. Through punk and post punk the name or sound or brand felt too distant to retrieve. Then, in the early '00s as I was deliberately reaching back to records I'd never fully heard from before my teen record buying I got into the Hendrix remasters and got almost the opposite reaction from the younger one: Hendrix was a composer, not just a guitar god or virtuoso or rock star; all of those screeches, wails, grunts and roars coming through his Marshall stack were emotionally clear arrangements, demanding, certainly, but clear. And EL was the one that brought this further forward than the others. You're right to suggest that all of its sounds are intended and meaningful. You can put this one on to absorb it in the dark or party to it, cherry pick favourites or concentrate on sides. One last memory that this sparked was when I was in grade three and one of the girls in class got up when it was her turn to deliver the news of Hendrix's death. There was some pitter patter chat after it with his reputed astronomical performances brought up. Now I remember how young our teacher was and how she would have social as well as musical associations with the music. She issued a murmuring warning about drugs (we were 8!) and moved on to some bland buffering topic to get the school day started. I remember that more than my siblings' reaction. Thanks again, for an inspiring vid (listening to EL as I type)

Somewhere I read that while recording Electric Ladyland Hendrix parked a car behind the studio and ran cable and hooked up the speakers so he could hear how a take sounded on the auto sound system. Not sure if that's true, but I always thought that was how 'Crosstown Traffic' became the coolest single in the world.

Good detailed stories on a great album. Thanks! 1983 is the best!

DJs in the old days used to play this album on air once in awhile. Think KMET 94.7 FM LA...Yeah...I'm an old Cali boy. They'd call the talking at the end Jimi raps. Think Jim Ladd and classic DJs like that. Thanks for making me remember this old album. I posted Still Rainin', Still Dreamin'...the mix is cool...goes back and forth!

Smart, beautiful, your podcast is a great because you take the time to look into what happened in that era.

Hey hey snappy. I got the revolver super deluxe. I love Electric Ladyland. A kid at school had a t-shirt that said, "Take a trip to Electric Ladyland. Fly LSD." Noel was getting rather cross with all the guests because it was supposed to be an Experience album. I didn't go for his track on this album. I much prefered 'She's So Fine.' My favorite track is Voodoo Chile. Heavy American blues played by a British group. The finest hybrid black and white blues performance ever. And the track is extra heavy because Hendrix was using extra heavy strings and his guitar was tuned down to D. Heavy. Slight Return is a great track too but not a great album closer. Rainy Day and Still Raining are supposed to be split in half because the rainy daydream was 1983. It was the dream and the Still dreaming section is like the snap back to reality. It's so sad that he never finished 'First Rays of the New Rising Sun'. It was supposed to be a double and as you can hear, the music was unlike anything he had done before. He was a truly progressive musical visionary. Side two sounds a bit muddy and over saturated in places like Lamp, etc.. Anyhow,,,, Voodoo Chile! What else can I say?

A recent comment to my friends about your content!! As for myself I LOVE it!! Yopu are fantastic and Ive been a Punk Rocker since 1977!! As far as Abigail goes, she can be silly sometimes but I have massive respect for her! It's obvious she is well-educated and was probably TOP in her class at Dale Carnegie University...but she does some really awesome research that is well beyond the norm. It is making me go back and look at these records with a different less biased lens...As a kid, I owned every single one of the records she reviewed but IMHO, she is a top-class storyteller... not to mention the obvious heart she has for it!! I like that!! She knows EXACTLY what she is doing and she knows she's good at it!!😁👍❤

I like your insights, history, humor, and reflections. Yes, what would a jazz influenced album of Jimi's sound like. JH was my first and still ultimate musical idol after all these years. 😊 I enjoy your playfulness.

Agree 100% about Voodoo Chile. His best recording. Turnout the lights and listen to it in the dark, loud. Breathtaking. And I like the studio chatter. Great channel, btw.

Hi, time flies, it's monday again, i must watch the video now, never put it off, it wouldn't be a proper monday vinyl watching it on repeat tomorrow! Enjoy the sunshine in New England. My favourite song is Burning of the midnight lamp

The guitar solo on Voodoo Chile has the 2nd best guitar solo ever recorded. The First is MACHINE GUN from the LIVE AT THE FILLMORE NEW YEARS EVE SHOW ! No one has ever done a solo that reflected the feelings of a whole generation like this masterpiece ! The guitar players of today can tap and run scales till their fingers bleed, but no one will EVER top this totally gut wrenching performance from the greatest electric guitar player that ever lived !!!!!! Period !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great Album all the way through! BTW, thanks for suggesting " Almost Famous", very enjoyable. I was 16 in 1973, so kind of a blast from the past. Fun!

First time I ever heard Electric Ladyland I was at a friend's house and did a lot of mushroom tea. THAT was serendipitous!

I have been listening to this album since the 70s ." 1983" is a go song to for me lately ( the last couple decades give or take a day or year) . My dogs and cats also react to the high pitch sound part.

I love those vids of yours, a collector after my own heart, and tastes. You know your stuff and put it across really well - and with fun. Perfect!

I love how your favorite track lists often verge on the entire album 🤣

Another magnificent video Abby, love the clothes! This is a great double album, we all know how brilliant Hendrix was, but Mitch Mitchell was, in my view, up there with Keith Moon and Noel's bass work is equally busy and melodic...and his fab song Little Miss Strange. But the highlight for me (apart from Crosstown Traffic, Watchtower and Slight Return), is Come On, imo one of Jimi's best solos, just wish it went on longer.

One of the most important things a musician can do is listen to a lot of music. You’d probably be a very good musician 👍🏻

Inherited this album from my late older brother. This was one of his favourite albums. Thanks for covering this, it bought back some good…and sad memories.

Abby, you did a great job, as usual. I have always felt that each side of this record has its own unique groove or vibe. I have this album on both vinyl, which I bought in 1980, and the remastered CD. I much prefer listening to it on vinyl. Turning over each side and switching the records gives you a bit of a break before experiencing the next side. It's my favorite of his three original studio recordings.

" Damn you Gump!! I was suppose to die in the field!!"

Thank you for showing love for Buddy Miles as a drummer, I really like Buddy's drumming and his singing is my favorite part when he performed some of his songs with Jimi and Billy Cox. The album cover that Jimi wanted would've been perfect if it was released during his lifetime as a big fan myself (in my 20's). FAVORITE SONG: Voodoo Chile, Rainy Day Dream Away (I did the extended version because it rocks), 1983, All Along the Watchtower and Voodoo Child (live versions are WAY better). * That was Buddy Miles on the drums on "Still Raining, Still Dreaming".

Real History: New Year's Eve, 1969-1970, the Fillmore (East?) - Bill Graham, owner and manager of the finest medium rock venues on Earth (old ballrooms from the 1920s) - Bill has exposed literally hundreds of the greatest Terran bands to the world. He transited a couple of decades ago. Maybe 4, I forget. So anywho the Band of Gypsys (their spelling) with Buddy Miles on drums and singing (!) and army bud on bass, Billy Cox. Jimi and the band played two shows that night. The 1969 show (pre-midnite) ended and Jimi went for refreshments. Bill stepped up to Jimi and said - I paraphrase - "Good show, Jimi, now do it without the tricks, y' know, real music" and Jimi staggered where he stood. The midnite show - 1970 - began and The Band of Gypsys played the set on the album, Band of Gypsys. When I meet a new non-Terran representative and they might ask, "seriously, and we're not being condescending, what makes humans special?" and I click on Machine Gun and I watch as they sway to the heartbreak that is Jimi. Machine Gun, Crossroads and...A Love Supreme? True story.

Wonderful overview f a great album that's been blowing me away since it was released. Was lucky enough to hear Hendrix twice, Oakland Coliseum and San Jose fairgrounds. I agree that Voodoo Child is a masterpiece. It is how I discovered the blues. He played Slight Return many times and was more covered so that awesome 15 minutes is unfairly overlooked.

Another brilliant album review Abby.Your videos make Mondays a little bit better!

Moon, turn the tides…. gently gently away. My favourite…

Thanks for this - really enjoy these!! Haven't played it in a long while and now you've inspired me to dig it out!

Great episode on a remarkable album, Abbey! I agree completely that this album leaves you hoping for a Jimi jazz album. The first time I heard the album I knew that Rainy Day and Merman were pointing the path for Jimi to go in a jazz direction. This was also the time when Mles Davis (the most important musician outside of rock 'n roll) left Bop behind and embraced jazz fusion. Davis' album In a Silent Way was released in 1969. A jazz band with Buddy Miles, Jimi, maybe Billy Preston on keyboards, or let Wiwood push himself... Just dreaming, but I am sure that would have been a sublime record.

So great; totally dig that you are in to Robin Trower! 🤪🤘🏼

the masterpiece of jimi hendrix 🥰😍😇

The photograph of Jimi on the inside of the UK's gatefold 'naked ladies' cover us surely the finest of the many ever taken (not on stage)

Abby! Another slam dunk. Love your posts, and that a few of you youngsters appreciate the work of the artists that remade music in the sixties. So, again, an old guy's perspective. I think this was the first album I bought with totally false expectations. Hey! Another Hendrix album, like Experienced only better. My first listening was all WTF. By my third it was whoa, this is four sides of perfection. Right? The sixties artists were always a year or two ahead of cultural expectations, and thereby shaped culture. Referencing your comments about Hendrix' jazz component, in his last interview I remember reading back in the day, he was talking about how he felt he had done all he could in the rock and blues bailiwick, and was thinking about talking some lessons from a jazz cat. Thinking Wes, but whomever. Being psyched, like this could get interesting. Next issue of Rolling Stone he was on the cover, having died. To bad. Too fucking bad. Keep up the good work.

Finally a reason to look forward to Monday 😄

You keep topping yourself. I have a wonderful history with this record. It was the first Hendrix album I ever heard, at 15 or 16. I went from The Beach Boys to The Beatles, Stones, and then went absolutely crazy for Jimi. I did a lot of Jimi artwork, including a psych portrait on a friend’s skateboard. Thanks for clearing up a misconception of mine: I’d thought it was recorded at Electric Lady. Unlike other sprawling double albums (The White Album,Tusk) which I think are perfect the way they are, I would cut this to a single disc. The album in its entirety wears me out, and I’m usually not a big fan of impromptu jam recordings. VC(SR) always sets off an image in my head of T-Rexes fighting to the death. Dylan has gone on record as saying that “All Along The Watchtower” now belongs to Jimi, as he felt that the cover version topped the original. Is The Live at the Fillmore East album the same as the old Band of Gypsies album.? The latter’s version of “Machine Gun” (my favorite Hendrix song) kills me every time. I think it “answers” his sublime “Star Spangled Banner” beautifully. Miles Davis was reportedly blown away by MG. Jimi was remarkably restrained in the studio. He could have absolutely shown off on every song but he kept most of his lead work short and tasteful. I’m glad he didn’t do that for MG and VC(SR). Jimi is the only guitarist I can handle extended solos from, because A. The guitar was part of his nervous system, with virtually no filter and B. It comes from outer space via inner space. You really did this album justice, but that’s no surprise. Thanks again! P.S. I highly recommend the documentary “A Film About Jimi Hendrix,” which was made just a few years after his death. it includes amazing concert footage, plus interviews with folks who knew Jimi well before he got famous. Great interviews of contemporary musicians like Jagger and Townshend. Highlight is Little Richard’s interview.

In a joint interview, Stewart Copland and Nick Mason (Floyd) both claimed that Mitch Mitchell was their favorite drummer. Mitch had been the drummer for the UK's "National Youth Jazz Orchestra" which played big band jazz.

Jimi Hendrix is the quintessential musician of 60’s underground music.

Another great video essay on such a powerful and important album. Thank you Abby, for writing, performing, producing and sharing this.

Great rundown. I love Hendrix, though I haven't listened to him in a while. I played/listened to heaps of Hendrix and Cream when I was in my late teens and twenties.

hey thank you for this one Abby. one of my very favorite albums. we got pretty damn hot down in maryland too. looking foward to more of your fun n games

Jimmy would find clothes his grandmother had stored in the attic maybe inside a Cedar chest? That's how he created his style. I drive be the beauty shop where he lived upstairs on Jefferson Street sometimes. Billy lives here and was a patron at the new life record shop on Charlotte til covid shut it down.

What a seminal review and album! Thank you. You’re brilliant!

i love you’re videos! makes Monday so much more exciting

The 8-track of Ladyland was the soundtrack to many nights riding around with friends all night to 2,3,4 in the morning. Ah, those hot nights.

Great video electric lady land is my all time favorite hendrix album right next to the band of Gypsy's lice album it blew me away as a guitar player and the songs on lady land are great felt like I was going through a adventure of acid great video Abby keep it up

Hard to choose the best song. It's my favorite album of all times. But Steve Winwoods visit is surely a highlight.

It’s interesting that in 1968 the Beatles,Cream and the Experience all put out double albums!

Oh! That feather boa was in the background during your interview! :D

great video Abby, loved it. Electric Ladyland is my #1 Hendrix album. I have a vinyl copy with the naked ladies, i bought it some time in the late 1980's i think. Songs, well, Long Hot Summer Night, both Voodoo's and both Rainy days, and 1983 really grew on me, particularly after i heard Gov't Mule cover it

What a coincidence - I have just watched "Ex Machina", and now you and Hendrix invite me to Electric Ladyland? OK, Jimi's electric women are more friendly, so I've revisited this country for some relief. Though I had discovered Jimi's music up in high school (thanks to early 70s documentary rerun on TV), "Electric Ladyland" I have heard for the 1st time as a student and from Reprise's CD (which I still have and it sounds nice in this format, maybe because it is not remaster, BTW I've never heard it on vinyl). When I think of "Are You Experienced?", I can mention my favourites, but this album I perceive as entity. You have mentioned "Cheap Thrills", but "audience in studio" there was heard earlier on "Sgt. Pepper"! And, yes, this album might be Jimi's "Sgt. Pepper". It's one long music travel from beginning to the end. And couldn't "Still Raining" be deliberate reprise as well, to attenuate monolithic structure of this album? Jimi really invites us for the travel and his music is a vehicle. His guitar, with its distortions and vibratos and long and short sounds takes you miles away and you even need no drugs, the music is a drug itself, and quite harmless one. One more funny thing: "1983" with its meditative (oceanic or of outer space, or of inner one) mood immediately makes me think of another song, released 15 years later. On Black Sabbath LP "Born Again" there's the title song with very similiar rhythm and pace, and to some degree even guitar work. And this LP was released in 1983! Was it a tribute or what? Yeah, if I really nad to mention the songs I remember when I think of "EL", it'd be "1983", "Crosstown Traffic", "Voodoo Chile" (both parts) and Dylan's song. And maybe title track... Well, "Midnight Lamp"? Everything? His guitar sings, talks, screams, it's a pity he never made any instrumental album.

Hi Abby I have been watching you since August “2023” and had to go out and get the whole jimmi experience studio album discography….also got 2 “bootlegs”? One of Jimi in maui, Hawaii and the other was fourth July freedom music festival and also finished my Led Zeppelin studio discography you rock keep up the great content

This is one of my favorite records. I listened to it every day when I was in college and I saw Hendrix in concert in 1968

Love it when Cross Town Traffic pops up on the radio...but All Along The Watchtower is #1. ✌️🍺

🌠✡🐻 ABBY BEAR ! aah Electric Ladyland...I've been 2 electric lady studio in nyc..(Jimi's studio)

Thanks Abi for reviewing such an innovative record like any of the mighty Jimi Hendrix Experience official trilogy albums. I love all three albums and most of the other posthumous records as well. The first time I saw Hendrix was on some old images from some Rolling Stone, Circus, Creem, Hit Parader and Guitar World magazines from my parents record collection, and then finally watch the Woodstock 1969 movie (yes, on VHS) when I was 12 years old and completely became a fan, that was back in the early 90's. I immediately started digging into the Experience studio albums and any official live bootlegs I could get my hands on. He inspired me to learn to play guitar, I owe that to him since. Also love how good Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding were on their instruments, they were such great musicians.

I love the Experience and I love Electric Ladyland. Crosstown Traffic always gets me into a good mood.

Very well done, thank you so much.

Love what you’re doing, Abby. You gotta get some prog in there. It’s vital.

I am very happy to discover your channel with your review of this beautiful album. I'm excited to watch more of your videos. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) and All Along the Watchtower have always been my faves, but I am a huge fan of 1983 and Voodoo Chile, and like you I noticed Mitch's drumming is incredible on those songs. A note on wanting to hear what the Miles / Jimi collaboration might've sounded like, I highly recommend listening to Miles Davis' live album "Agharta," if you haven't heard it already.

great interview enjoyable also binged watched every u tube vid this weekend and how u you have grown from the beginning is impressive this one voodoo child my fav i know u didnt say much about it but his take on all along the watchtower to me is still gold

Fantastic video for an amazing album, that I just bought a week before! Also next weeks vid is going to be phenomenal, I love next weeks album, and it ranks in my top 10 favorites ever!

This is Hendrix at his (possibly) best and he knew it, hence the 40+ takes of Gypsy Eyes!. I loved the original Experience and I'm a big Noel Redding fan myself, I have a replica Noel Fender jazz bass. Fav tracks Midnight Lamp and Crosstown Traffic.... God I love that song. Excellent review Abi!

Rainy day dream away

Best guitar solo of all time: Along the Watch Tower. Tells the history of guitar up to that point in three segments. Dylan adapts his version to this. Album is a sound monument!

Love your hat, that definitely makes you an electric lady. ❤

Hey love your videos. Voodoo Chile is pretty cool to hear whilst driving down the highway late at night. Buddy miles is one of my favourite drummers! Whenever one of his songs comes on whilst listening to a Jimi album volume has to go to 11. ✌️😊

Burning of the Midnight Lamp is my fave. There used to be a vid on KZfaq featuring this song with Hendrix and the band on a lofty stage with women in very large brimmed hats, mod graphics, etc…hard to recall details and the vid has since been pulled sadly.

Mitch has always been my fav drummer. Glad to see him get some love. Also Hendrix did get to use Electric Lady Studios before he died. See "The Cry of Love" album or "First Rays of the New Rising Sun" collection

The year is 1968 I’m listening to this record through headphones on my back stoned to the bone and I’m in heaven. Steve Miller’s Sailor record did the same for me. That said I want to hear you cover Nick Lowe’s “Jesus of Cool”

House Burning Down is so great. True greatness.

Magnificent work Abigail!!!!!! I love "Electric Ladyland" album!!!!! My favorites songs are: "Crosstown Traffic", "All Along the Watchtower"(I die for this song...-the sound of guitar solo is amazing), "Voodoo Child"(the long version of course!!), but all the songs of this album are amazing...... Nice choice to have the "Revolver"album next Vinyl Monday..... Have a nice week Abby!!!!!!😄😄😄😄

Hi!!! What a great album, and what a great video!!! I think I have the same copy too!!! Peace and happiness…..😊😊😊😊

Hi Abby! You were thoughtful enough to reply to me recently, thank you! I want to acknowledge your living in New England and last week’s “too much too soon” 90+ heat! I’m from Connecticut and I spent my time installing air conditioners a month too early! Great job today, thanks!

I have the same pressing,even used to have a Radio Shack/Realistic Lab 36 drop arm turntable, miss having a four speed turntable but definitely not ideal because of the drop arm;thankfully I switched it out with one of the mismatched DJ in a Box Numarks I bought around 03. Won’t give tmi but…I thought I was being all cool and obscure in putting on “Little Miss Strange” for a girl I was dating at the time and before I get back on the bed, her eyes lit up, “Yes, how did you know I love this song?” and started singing to it as a eased my way onto my…kid you not…waterbed…Folks and I had waterbeds into the early 2010’s, moving em always sucks so we finally gave em up,lol.

I think the closest you can get to a Jimi jazz album is Nine To The Universe, a collection of instrumental jams from the vault released in 1980

I never realized Linda McCartney née Eastman took the inside-the-fold photos! Man, what a life!!

At last, my dream girl come true, gorgeous and loves Jimi Hendrix music 💕😘😘😘💕💕💕🎶🎶🎶

Bought this on my birthday Nov.5 1968. Saw Jimi Nov 30 1968. What a month!

can't wait for the *hint* *hint* Beatles review next monday! this one is one hell of an album to listen to once you actually pay attention to everything.

favorite intro yet!!!