South Saturn Delta - Jimi Hendrix

Advantages: A compilation of great songs from a great musician
Disadvantages: Disadvantages?!

..., as well as "Like A Rolling Stone" and "Drifter's Escape", but this one is easily most remembered by many, specifically due to it's commersial success. After this, "Stone Free" follows - a very upbeat track with yet another solo - well, I think they go without saying now, so I'll try and limit the mentioning of them!! "Crosstown Traffic" follows this track and personally I feel it upstages the previous track. The first may have been upbeat, but the rythym and tempo of CT is one of Hendrix's best, simple as. Other classics delivered on this disc include "If 6 was 9" - very much a jamming session kind of track - very little structure, sure pure adrenaline. "Foxy Lady" - This jazzy song is, according to the booklet, "About the only happy song I have written" - obviously not my words, Jimi's words to be precise! Listening to this, you'd have... Read review

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Advantages: Great music by a guitar maestro
Disadvantages: Jimi left us way too soon

...In 1967, I was an aspiring, and very impressionable, teenaged musican who was avidly trying to learn the licks of all the great guitarists who were on the scene. There were a lot of great ones around, too--Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, and George Harrison were all busy creating styles that guitarists today are still trying to emulate. It's fair to say that my whole musical philosophy and playing style changed when I first heard the debut album of Jimi Hendrix in 1967--Are You Experienced? really taught me how music is irrevocably linked to the human mind. "Mind over matter" is a pretty old saw that few of us really take literally, but Jimi Hendrix showed all musicians, especially guitarists, that wringing hot licks out of a guitar is an emotional, as well as physical, thing. Jimi Hendrix could get sounds out of his guitar... Read review

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Advantages: Quite Simply Genius
Disadvantages: None at all

...1967 England. A blues explosion is taking place with guitar heroes such as Eric Clapton and Pete Townshend soaring high. Then Jimi Hendrix with bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell arrive on the scene. The guitar and music would never be the same again. Are You Experienced is the Experience's explosive, groundbreaking debut and stands in music history as one of the all time classic albums, a milestone in the road of rock guitar. The impact of this sublime album cannot be overrated - its impact on music is extreme and far spread. Welcome to 17 Tracks of Jimi's fretboard acrobatics, soulful lyrical content and a Music 101 course. When you listen to this CD you're instantly taken on an intense ride of thought-provoking lyrical intensity, raunchy rock and roll guitar and pychadlic... Read review

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