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I was 12 years old when I bought this in 1967. Hendrix was like a god to me. The day he died, I laid in my bed and looked at my Hendrix posters and cried. I still love him today. He directly led me to Coltrane.

"Third Stone From the Sun" -- Jimi Hendrix gives us a psychedelic tour of Earth's primordial history -- our planet's formation to dinosaurs fanging and clawing each other in primal combat. The distortion, electric whines and screams -- it's all in there. As most of us know, Jimi was into Sci-Fi.

Best debut album ever. Third Stone From the Sun is one of those lightning in a bottle moments that never gets captured in a recording studio and it's a miracle the whole album (including Love or Confusion) was captured at all. The U.S. version missed Red House but it's a better track listing, and cover. Mary is Kathy Mary Etchingham, Jimi's English girlfriend with whom he often fought, resulting in The Wind Cries Mary- "Somewhere, a queen is weeping, somewhere, a king has no wife". Great series, Abby- your taste is impeccable and your knowledge about this stuff shows how much you love it. Vinyl Monday rules.

So what you are saying is: first time you reacted to this album, you were in fact NOT experienced…

The most influential guitar album of all time. There was pre-Jimi and post-Jimi and music jumped ahead by leaps and bounds after this album. ‘67 was such a pivotal year for music: Jimi’s first 2 albums, The Doors first 2 albums and The Beatles with Sgt. Pepper’s and Magical Mystery Tour. Wow!

Now that you have paid proper attention to my favorite album of all time, it's now time to review Disraeli Gears, my other favorite album of all time. As a guitar player who started playing in 1960, those two albums were a watershed moment for me and the entire world. Thanks for what you do, you are the best thing on KZfaq. Love ya.😎

i wish the hendrix estate would release this album in mono/stereo the way capitol did with the beatles and beach boys catalogue .

I bought this album on the merits of the cover alone. A friend and I were browsing the record section of a store named Truk, a few blocks from Harvard Square, when we came across the album. We had never heard of Hendrix before, but at the sight of this cover our eyes popped out! We HAD to buy it. Took it home, put it on the record player (right?) and then our jaws dropped and our ears fell off. Can somebody draw a picture of that--eyes popped, jaws dropped, ears resting on shoulders? You really had to be there in 1967 to completely understand just how much this record changed the sound of rock and roll. Like taking acid, the "experience" of listening to this album changed your mind forever. And I never did listen to surf music again. "Third Stone From the Sun" was my favorite. Still is.

When Jimi sings "will it burn me if I touch the sun, "I don't live today," or "watch the sun rise from the bottom of the sea" and backs them with the sounds he does, I'm in awe of his imagination and vision. The power of these songs shines through the crude quality of the recordings.

Love the fish-eye lens picture, so fascinating how we got to that image in the first place and just as much so to see it inspires even more cover ideas later on, even gets parodied to this day

When I was a kid growing up in Detroit, Motown was in the air. One day, a friend and I decided to go buy some records. He picked up "David Ruffin Sings Top Ten", and I took a chance on "Are You Experienced" by Jimi Hendrix. We spun the Ruffin record on my parents' Curtis Mathes console, and it pleasantly met our expectations. Then I pulled out the Hendrix album, with the art-damaged fish-eye freaks adorning its convex cover, put it on and cranked it up. It had a stunningly new and raw energy that was almost frightening to behold. While we were absorbing the sonic explosion, a stranger walked off the street, slid open the back door-wall and stuck his head inside to listen. Hendrix was blasting a new frontier.

I have to say Abigail .. I ❤️ the Blue Dress 👗 ! Its solid 👍 👌

This series measurably improves my mental health ❤❤❤

I've been "experienced" since summer 1970, and have kept my hand in, so to speak, ever since. We had the best drugs, the best music and the most freedom. And you remind me of many of my favorite hippie chicks from those halcyon days. So stay cool and resist the bullshit!❤🎼

O.K. now I'm really convinced. This Hendrix guy is incredibly good. He has that certain something...

You are absolutely correct about stereo albums from that era! The panning on mixing boards we have today wasn't really available then. It was a 3-way switch. Left, Center, or Right were your only choices.

Abby ! Love or Confusion is my favorite Hendrix song ! Just listen to the emotion in his voice ! He's so into it his voice almost cracks, and those swoops and dives that he does on the guitar at the end of the song leave me speechless every time I hear this masterpiece. JIMI invented the swoops and dives by the way, and that break and time change during the solo, Fuckin unbelievable ! Now the surf music comment - JIMI had just heard that Dick Dale the king of surf guitar 🎸 had just passed away, so that statement was a tip of the hat from JIMI to Dick. Now on the song ARE YOU EXPERIENCED JIMI says DAMN MAN as he's listening to the freak out section while recording his vocal. I hope I have cleared up a couple of things for you. Cuz I was there when JIMI hit the scene. My drummers mom made him guit my band cuz I fell out of my mind for Hendrix and had to be the first one to play his music in my band. My girlfriends mother made her break up with me cuz I use to bring ARE YOU EXPERIENCED over to her house and play it for her with my jaw dropping to the floor and telling everyone that would listen what a genius HENDRIX was. But no one I knew had a clue, then JIMI was gone............................................

This was a fun one Abby...so glad you decided to give it another go with this album. You're right about it needing a good solid remaster/remix. I think there may be gold to be mined there. I had no idea you may be such a big fan of King Crimson. They are my favorite band of all from any era of rock. Wondering if you've ever heard their live stuff from 1973 and 1974. Mind-blowing stuff. Especially their 1974 Mainz concert. Unfortunately only available on CD, as far as I know. As far as debut albums go, we've got KC's, Jimi's, The Doors', Boston's, Van Halen's and The Cars'. BTW, hoping some day you cover the last 2 albums I just listed.😊

Speaking personally, I'm an old now! And a Grandfather! We should all be a little bit Experienced! C'mon now people, just one little Tab?!!!.....

Soft Machine gave Jimi a shout out on their second album with the lyric "Thank you Jim for our exposure to the crowd." He selected them to open for the Experience for a stint and is probably responsible for their rise in popularity.

Good show as usual, I love Hendrix so much I have him on cassette, CD and album. He was constantly making music and too nice a guy. Too many hangers on and people who took advantage of his Kindness. If I was there around Jimi I could have protected him and got a better deal with his share percentage. The man should have lived a long life and kept growing as an artist. I could only imagine what he would achieve if he recorded way past 27. He is one person I would have loved to meet along with Muhammad Ali. Jimi changed music sure he was based in the blues but what he was doing was never done before. A musical genius that has influenced so many players and Eddie Kramer and him were pushing the limitations of technology. I would love to go back in time and help him Jimi never learned how to say no.Chaz Chandler I think cared about him but I would have sent the big record boss and get him a better deal. He was established and another company can get him out of his contract and give him a year at least to make the best record they could make. Jimi had a good eye and he should have the final say on the artwork of his albums.his albums had nice covers but why the cover in the UK has to be boring. They ran the man into the ground and they are despicable in my opinion.

RE: Mitch Mitchell. I think Mitch was Jimmy's 'pulse" so to speak. The perfect compliment to whatever Jimmy was doing, all done telepathically. They formed a hand and glove difficult to put into words. Personally, I like his drumming WAY better than Ginger Baker's who so many are gaga about. Eddie Kraemer was simply a maestro, a studio genius. The KZfaqs of him talking about mixing the Hendrix material is fascinating. I was coming home from high school one afternoon, and stopped at a friend's who was in an adjacent garage band (weren't we all). He says, he got this album and it could have it, because it was a POS. I took it home, and by the time I got to Third Stone, I'm going, "My god -- this is devil music! Bring it on!!!" There's a story about all the musicians in heaven being summoned to stand before God. In front of the assemblage is a single chair. A newbie asks Brahms, "Who's that for?" He replies, "For Mozart." After Jimmy's departure, they installed a second chair. Be well, keep on doing.

Yes we do indeed love to see you lookin' that good on camera, Abi. You do make an excellent 1960's (sometimes 1970's) 'bird' and you obviously know your stuff well as far as those vintage fashions are concerned. On top of that you have impeccable taste in music. And you are funny. All the necessary ingredients for a genuine dream girl!

I remember hearing this for the first time at our kitchen table in early 1967. It was a mind-boggling experience.

YEEEESS, Ive been waiting for this episode for MONTHS, you made my day

Jimi Hendrix and Vernon Reid inspired me to play electric guitar. Both guitarist guitar solos send me in music bliss. Thanks for being you. You rock

Linda Keith not only discovered Jimi at Cafe Wha and introduced him to Chas Chandler, she also gave him the guitar she was holding for her boyfriend. Yes, Keith Richard’s white Stratocaster. (“Mary” is Kathleen Mary Etchingham, his main UK squeeze.)

May This Be Love actually may be my favorite Hendrix solo. It is one of the few authentic examples of transcendence in popular music. He’s connecting with a beauty intangible. The solo weeps tears of joy. What flower clip?

Jimi Hendrix one of the first”underground“ bands that thrust me into music. I have a promo 45 of hey joe that was given to me by a local DJ. As always love your vids.

I was in high school between my freshman and sophomore year when this came out and most of us that heard it right away knew that this was as important as any Beatle album.

ABBY -Its really very simple there was life before ARE YOU EXPERIENCED then there's life after ARE YOU EXPERIENCED ! This album was and still is ground breaking.Leave it alone !!!! Just be thankful that JIMI shared this masterpiece with us ! Don't suck the life out of it !!!!!!! As PAUL said LET IT BE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's Fuckin HENDRIX MAN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Your clothing is AMAZING and so perfect for your channel : ) Hey Joe, to me, epitomizes the sound of the late 60's - the bass line, the amazing lead riffs, etc. - it created the "background energy" of that era - one of my favorite quotes - "It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember." - Unknown Keep up the great work

I been a fan of this so long my first copy was on 8 track. Just recently heard of the Frank Sanatra conection. Of course Reprise is Franks label, he told his guy Mo Ostin to find a hippie band for his label. Mo heard the Experience in a small club and told Frank of this band of three guys that sounded like fifty. The rest is history. ❤

I am really enjoying your videos. Despite being a rock fan for 60 years, I always learn something new. Keep up the great work!

i adore this series its always so fun :) thank you

I love Prog Rock. I came across Your channel, and I gotta say: You're doing a great job, from having the records, doing the research, doing the makeup and outfits, creating the thumbnails and all. Good Job ❤ keep it up. Also: do You have some King Crimson, Yes, Genesis...? 😊

Great review, Abby! Just by coincidence, I found myself in Jimi's old neighborhood in Seattle just last weekend and saw a bunch of great murals and other street art dedicated to him!

HI Abby.Another brilliant album review.Your enthusiasm for the music is very infectious.

This lady is a hoot.

Twink also got a perm because of Jimi. That's why they called him, Twink! Jimi started out as one of The Upsetters, Little Richard's band. My friend Carla, decided to compile every version of "Hey Joe" she could get her hands on and put them all onto a CD she made. When I heard about her doing this, I gave her 3 that she'd never heard of!! One by Johnny Rivers, although he changed a lot of the words, one by The Bevis Frond who also changed a lot of the words and one by The Kasenetz Katz singing Orchestral Circus, I'm not even sure it had lyrics! I think I've found a couple more since then but, alas, Carla died at least 5 yea4rs ago!! Cancer!! I'd been out of contact with her for a couple years otherwise, had I known she had cancer, I could've cured her!! Looks like you have at least the 2nd pressing, the two tone label. The original was a three colour label. I'm not sure of the colours but they were more pastel shades of, I think, yellow, green and pink and the riverboat on the label was MUCH bigger! Also, yours is a Warner/Reprise, the original was just Reprise. I think those started showing up in `68 or `69. Reprise started in the late `50's. It was Frank Sinatra's label. I think Warner bought them out in the early `60's and has had them ever since, unless they changed hands at some point after the mid `90's that I don''t know about. Well, The Monkees put out 3 albums in one year during their peak. Jimi didn't wanna sing, he knew he didn't have the voice or ear for it, he only did it because nobody else would.

The Miss Pamela dress works for you! I have seen the legendary Pamela around L.A. clubs from time to time, she is still beautiful. Anyway this is an all time great album…pretty much a live in the studio affair…it is hard to beat as a GUITAR album you can hear the amps humming literally! Purple Haze encapsulates the late 60’s….this may be JIMI’s best and most cohesive album. Mitch Mitchell is right up there with JIMI as an instrumentalist. One nit pick , WIND CRIES MARY is not a ACOUSTIC song it’s all on electric guitar just with the distortion toned down…it is close to my favorite Song on the album…which is full of classic songs still to this day. Thanks great job!

Hey Abby another great video about one of the greatest debuts of all time also love the flower child outfit your wearing you look so groovvy

I love Jimi Hendrix's music both with the Experience and his post-1968 solo projects. Love both versions of this wonderful album, the US and UK. Also love Hendrix posthumous albums with lots of stuff he recorded during that period with Funk and Jazz bands, you can find on First Rays of the New Rising Sun and South Saturn Delta both released in 1997, they have better mixes of a few previous rarities songs released from 1971 to 1995. Mitch Mitchell is one of my favorite drummers, his technique with hints of Jazz, Funk, Blues, and improvisation were very refreshing at the time. Noel Redding was also a very good bass/guitar player and composer, his bass lines were very creative, and with some difficulty, and also with Jazz overtones. Hendrix is ​​the guy who inspired me to learn the guitar in the early 90's, as well as collecting guitar magazines, which have been my teachers, and fundamental sources of music education ever since. I still enjoy listening to him, reading interviews, seeing the appreciation and admiration that other guitarists and fans have for Jimi. The same happens to me with artists who deserve more attention like Jeff Beck, John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola, Wes Montgomery, Frank Zappa, The Small Faces, The Pretty Things, The Zombies, The Velvet Underground, MC5, The Stooges, Rory Gallagher, Johnny Winter, Albert King, Freddie King, King Crimson, Gong, Curved Air, etc, etc, etc.

On Axis, Eddie Kramer was able to record Mitch's drums in stereo. Also, Roger Mayer was working closely with Jimi, developing sounds by building custom-stomp boxes for different colors and effects. "Zero-through" flanging was utilized by Eddie Kramer for the reprise of "Axis: Bold as Love."

Another absorbing video. All I can add is opinion. US jacket easily the superior but the UK track listing has “Red House” so checkmate. I think the boutique you referenced was probably Granny Takes A Trip. Once again wonderful understanding of British society and appreciation and knowledge of swinging London. As for what you wear if only you could see what I’m planning for next weeks episode!

This was great, Abby. Thank you for taking the time to make it.

The # 1 album of 1967 in my opinion. The mono pressing is amazing as well

Absolutely top notch presentation and interpretation! You made my day with this episode :)

Beautiful Abigail! Love it! This album is so trippy and powerful.

I love this album.Thank you for reviewing it Abigail.

I heard this album on a radio station from Chicago called CD94.7. It was a classic rock station that played classic rock. On Sunday Nights, they would have someone play the whole album without interuption. It was on the air around the late 90's to the early 2000's. They even had this show that was popular in the 70's called The King Biscut Flower Hour. When I heard Are You Expirience, my mind was blown literaly. The last track was insane. The backward geitars made the whole song trippy. I can imagine the young crowd in the 60's listening to this album on LSD. Geez, that would have been wild. You have mentioned Fleewood Mac, I read that Stevie tripped on acid while listening to Court and Sparrow. That Joni Mitchall album from 1975, if I remember corretly. It made a different listening expirence for her.

Another great album review, you’re the best!

Great job! In addition to the artists and the music, I like that you continue to touch on the production, the studio sound, the mix, the recording, etc. It really shows your listening maturity.

Hi Abby-missed vinyl Monday today live. I will watch ya now -Love that album Brian Birch

A few days ago I bought that record and I must admit that it's wonderful in LP format, I love Jimi Hendrix and Are you Experienced is one of the best albums I've heard followed by Axis Bold as Love

Hi Abigail! I love your pick for Vinyl Monday 🔥🔥👑

Had a poster of that cover on my bedroom wall at college. It was huge!

The Wind Cries Mary was one of the ones written for Katherine Mary Etchingham. Kathy was there when Jimi landed in London, and in my estimation she's one of the reliable ones. May this be Love is inspired by Jimi's time parachuting with, I believe, U.S. Army 51st Airborne "Screaming Eagles." It's in part of the lyrics as well as the music.

I heard about this album but never own the album yet but after hearing you speak about it I might get one and Abby you called your self a dumb American lol 😂 as a American my self you’re not dumb you very smart it what makes you keep your head up high and keep making great videos I respect you Abby

I was 13 when this came out and was blown away. Nothing like it had ever been heard and I loved every track. As a young drummer I was in awe of Mitch Mitchel. As a trio these guys all had to take an active roll in making the sound as full as it was; much like Cream, another band with a very busy drummer. While Electric Ladyland had some monster cuts, my younger self still enjoys listening to Are You Experienced and Axis: Bold as Love as full albums more than Electric Ladyland. Love your story telling. What a great time for inventive music.

I agree the solo in Manic Depression is totally awesome. After just now going back to hear it I came to think the solo is a pieced together solo from a few goes at it. Like `I want to save this part but not that part so punch me in at this point and I`ll finish the riff. A punch in is start recording at some point while the tape is running the last cut they just recorded. Eddy Van Halen would do this. He would put all his best bits together, listen to it, then learn the whole thing like it was done all at once. Little inside baseball about the recording process.

Outfit is great.

Yes we Def love to see you looking good on camera! Wait, we love seeing you any time on camera! You could never be anything but beautiful! Js☺️! This album as with the first Van Halen album the reason I play guitar!

I saw Jimi Hendrix experience in 1969 at the Denver pop festival and Jimi with band of gypsys in Albuquerque NM. Best concert of my life. You are not stupid your cool.

Another excellent review, thanks for posting.

Nice work Abby and I agree about Manic Depression - that song just rocks, Jimi's solo on that song is a lesson in how to shred for everyone that came after.

One of the best albums ever made!

The Wind Cries Mary is not acoustic. By the time of Monterey, Hendrix had already been signed to Reprise, which is why during Wild Thing he quotes Strangers In The Night by Frank Sinatra, who owned the label. The Experience and Chas Chandler had been working straight through and much of what appeared on Axis: Bold As Love had already been recorded, which is why that album came out so quickly.

One of my first albums. Bought it as soon as it came out. Blew me and my guitar playing buddies away. Hendrix broke new ground. He was such an amazing creative genius.

Another comment because my other was lame. My first JHE experience was on the end of side two of a cassette tape when I was 15. I asked my friend to make me a copy of Genesis Invisible Touch, which he did, and on the end of the tape he gave me the finale of Jimi at Monterey. That moment reoriented my music appreciation. I went on a 10-year Jimi binge and have forever been obsessed with the edge of noise and sound. Thanks Abigail for taking me (us) back every week. I thought your first review of AYE was great and I'm looking forward to the next three. I too love producers and stan for Eddie Kramer, but I do not love Noel Redding ever since I heard Billy Cox.

Thanks for sharing Abby. I had a copy of the North American version of this decades ago in college on cassette. Favorite tracks from it: "The Wind Cries Mary," "Third Stone From the Sun" and the title track. Love the trippy backward stuff on the title track. Love the groove on "Third Stone From the Sun"; however, I still listen to "surf music," despite Jimi's "prediction" that I would never listen to it again (ha ha). A phenomenal artist. Shawn R., Mo-Mutt Music/Sacred & Secular

Man! I love your take on this album. The track list portion was really articulated in a way I’d never thought of and it just makes me want to run this record and get lost in it. Thanks Lady

Great work as always Abby!!!! I looooove 'Are You Experience' album!!!!! This album is one of my favorite.... I' m not sure, but I watched 'Foxey Lady' video with Pam des Barres, running and dancing in the forest??? I have seen it in KZfaq back in 2014.... If anyone remembered it, please let me know if it is true or not.... I can't wait for Lou Reed album.... Have a nice week Abby!!!!!

Too Cool 🎉 Thanks

personal favourites Are You Experienced, Third Stone From The Sun, I Don't Live Today and Love & Confusion 🙂🙂

Thanks for the re-review....i think I mentioned before i was extremely lucky to have seen Hendrix live in concert November 1968 Kansas City

My first Jimi album and probably still my favorite

I first heard Jimi Hendrix on the car radio in May 1967. It was the song, "Manic Depression" and it hit me like bolt from above! My friend and I went to the Cafe Wha? in 1968 to visit the place where it all started. Great memory of the 60s!

Wow! Your favorite debut album is King Crimson? YES!! Do you know the story of how Robert Fripp met Hendrix? Fantastic! BTW, I like how the cover took on an orange hue at the end of the video due to the lighting. Keep 'em coming!

The way she just rattles off this super deep trivia knowledge in such a conversational tone just completely blows my mind. There’s no way this can be memorized and there’s no way it’s being read off of anything, so on top of that for it all to be about 60s-70s music just really makes Abby without question the most intelligent, clever, most stereotype destroying representative of Generation Z in existence. Fuck I mean unless she writes these, records it and then repeats it after hearing it through AirPods hidden by her hair (which wouldn’t bother me at all as long as she wrote it) I just cannot understand how some of these intricate vocab descriptions can just be rattled off so conversationally by a 24 year old. Intelligent and brilliant and funny way beyond her years and definitely now up there equal to Noble Records as far as YT people that get you excited about vinyl. And for God sakes that AirPod thing is not a way to be some weird conspiracy person that starts stuff on the internet, it’s my brain trying to understand how it’s possible that someone can be so intricately descriptive and detailed at an essay thesis level but it’s delivered so conversationally. I in no way believe she’s “cheating,” some people are just complete prodigies and she is one.

I saw Hendrix in concert in 1969 at Devonshire Downs Northridge Ca. Love your videos, keep up the fine work.

yep, the vocal on Foxey Lady is fabulous; the guitar solo on Manic Depression, yes, also fabulous ✌✌

Took my head off as a 13yo - music got real. Had the UK pressing - opens with Foxy Lady and had the ultimate 12 bar blues Red House. Life changed forever.

Abigail and Jimi get me soo hiigh😊

How do you figure the Axis cover was a disaster? You want psych, you got it right there! I was in a band for 25 years and the hardest thing to find is a bass player!! We had at least 13 bass players! In the beginning, I played SOME of the bass on my Synare and Beefheart played most of the bass on his guitar! For a while, even my singer tried playing bass!! He figured, "What the fuck? If Sting can do it....!" and, during `82, we had a keyboardist that played bass on his keys. For a very short time after that, we had 3 keyboard players and one (probably the same guy) took the bass part. We also had at least 3 bass players sit in with us! That takes it up to 16! For a very short time, even I played bass but, that was only during a rehearsal when I had no drums to play. You make due with what's available. By the way, I just heard, "The Fool" a few hours ago and, nothing special there. It ain't bad but, it's not exactly psych! Try these: The McCoys / "Human Ball" & "Infinity". Spanky & Our Gang / Anything You want b/w Without Rhyme Or Reason H. P. Lovecraft / II The first two Ultimate Spinach albums The Pretty Things / S. F. Sorrow At least the first 4 albums by The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band (Careful with this one, the album called, "I" is actually their 2nd, etc..) The first 3 Klaatu albums. Vibrasonic (I haven't heard the second album but I'm pretty sure it's all surf.) US 68 / Yesterday's Folks The United States Of America The White Noise / An Electric Storm (Their 2nd & 3rd albums are mostly electronic) Fifty Foot Hose / Cauldron (I don''t recall the name of their second album but, both of these bands are psych AND weird!) Ya want weird, try The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Roto Rooter Good Time Christmas Band, Captain Beefheart, The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band, R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders, Soul Coughing, Squirrel Nut Zippers. I could rattle off more of either kind.

i first heard this album when i found it along with a bunch of other classic rock albums in a abandoned house in the early 80's. it was completely different from anything i had heard up to that time and it has been my fave ever since. fast forward to when i met noel redding while i was working the namm show in the mid 90's. too cool.

Another great one Axis !!!!!!! Brian Birch

The real power of this album is that when Chaz brought Jimi to England he had none of his own material, nada. To think he wrote this album from scratch in a matter of months is amazing. I wouldn't change one thing about it, it's the raw seed they would grow from, including Eddie Kramer, & shows the character arc & maturity of the Experience. Some notable mentions: Chaz was the bass player from the Animals, not the manager. He wanted to get into producing, & he wanted to record a new artist to play Hey Joe. First thing he heard Jimi play when he went to see him at Cafe Wha was that exact tune. Talk about fate. One of the biggest reasons why Noel got the job is that Jimi dug his hair, & the fact that he didn't have any experience on bass, saved the butting of heads, at least in the beginning. Mitch got the job from a coin toss, can't remember the name of the other drummer off top of my head. The Wind Cries Mary is about Kathy Etchingham, Jimi's first London love. Her middle name was Mary & they quarreled quite a bit. So much to the story of this album, still learning to this day. P..S. I also love the solo to Manic Depression, if you haven't already, check out the version from Live at Winterland, he nails it with a fury.

I LUV Are You Experienced!! I got so into this when I heard them play the whole of Side 2 once on FM radio in the early 80s, and I was forever changed after hearing 3rd Stone the first time, mind blown. I got the CD later on when the CDs were issued in '87-'88-ish. Yes, I never got what his message was about surf music except that it might have been a low-key response to Pet Sounds

I was 15 years old when "Are You Experienced" was released and had owned my first guitar for eight or nine months. Needless to say, I was still struggling...and struggling. My older college-aged sister was dating a college guy who was in the field of psychology and was studying some form of hypnosis in his university courses. In my idiotic 15 year old brain I retained the American TV concept of what hypnosis was -"You are getting very sleepy...when I snap my fingers, you will awake and be able to speak fluent French", so I asked my sister if her boyfriend could hypnotize me to be able to play guitar like Jimi Hendrix. Never tried it. And I'm still a mediocre guitar player. A very nice replay, Ms. Abby. Not every girl could wear that dress as well.

IMHO the absolute best debut album is the s/t Crosby, Stills and Nash album. ♡

I agree about the stereo panning, sometimes it bugs me too. Normally when I spin the vinyl, I grab my mono copy. Sounds incredible, very punchy, and the mix is a bit different, too. Great episode!

Wow, your copy really is in stunningly good condition for an album from 1968.

I seem to recall a few tracks on Axis where the drums are all stuffed into the right channel. Billy Cox remembers Jimi having the Foxy Lady riff as early as 64/65. It was based on a blues instrumental "Baby let me be your Stomp Driver". Subtle huh? I too ADORE Third Stone from the Sun. Madness, beauty Insanity, but a Whole Lotta Love Too. Bless You Abigail 🥰

23:32 it was thought Dick Dale was dying. "Never hear surf music again was a honorific reference to never hearing the King Of Surf Guitar again". It was an amazing irony because Jimi would pass away & Dick Dale would live on and play Third Stone From The Sun

once again, huge respect for your research abilities and it's hard to express how much I am looking forward to next week already. Why do you place hints in your community tab regarding next week? Don't people simply hang out for that certain time in your presentations each week?

ABBA SOS is a great song - I love Jimi too it stands the test of time

I like your daiseys Abbey 😍 🌼

A good mono mix somehow separates the instruments organically - and it sounds the same everywhere in the room. Also sounds great in headphones