The Jimi Hendrix Experience-Are You Experienced (1967)


 

Artist:  The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Title: Are You Experienced

Label: Reprise

Format: LP

Cat #: RS 6261

Year of Release: 1967

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1968 second pressing, without the question mark in the title

Listed Condition: VG/VG+ 1968 manufactured by Warner/Seven Arts, a couple scratches

Sell Date: 2/6/21

Sell Price: $17.99

Discogs Last Sold: $12/21/20 $30.00 VG+/VG 

Low: $6.77 VG/VG+

Median: $7.91

High:  $133.60 NM/VG

Current low price: $10.25 G/G, $14.99 VG/G,  $15.00 VG/VG

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 12

Have/Want: 1107/747

Where Sold:  Silver Spring, MD

Time it took to sell: 4 years

Where and When Bought: Worcester early 80's either Al Bums or That's Entertainment $2.99 or $3.99

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A+

Sad To See It Go:  No

I've got to get a tooth yanked due to root canal gone awry tomorrow, so I'm writing this at the midpoint of 2 consecutive 5:30am alarms.  Thus I picked the easiest thing in the last couple weeks of sales to write about.

The big argument is whether the US or UK version is preferred.  I like "Remember" fine and "Red House" also, but they give a different feel for the overall album.  They also give the previously reviewed Smash Hits a reason to exist in the US.  Those two are traded for "Purple Haze" opening the album and "Hey Joe."   It's hard for a Yank to imagine Are You Experienced not only not opening with "Purple Haze" but not having it at all.

There is very little to talk about it terms of analysis.  This is off the charts, ahead of it's time for 1967.  There is nothing else like it.  Cream were "heavy," The Beatles and Dylan were contemporaries Hendrix clearly looked to emulate in live covers and influence.  But coming out of the Army, the Isley Brothers, Little Richard and establishing himself as a solo act in Swinging London under Chas Chandler made the man multi-faceted, multi-layered and one-of-a-kind.   What person could telepathically show us how to take off from the third stone from the sun?  And where would he go to?  How would he get us there with him?  He'll show ya.

He perforated all the roots.  

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