JIMI HENDRIX - ARE YOU EXPERIENCED - EX+++ Vinyl LP

	£		26
	$		34

THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE

"ARE YOU EXPERIENCED" 

BACKTRACK 10 MID PRICE RELEASE

MONO 1971? RELEASE

 Vinyl LP

1967 original release vinyl LP on the TRACK record label Cat n#  2407 010   Made in ENGLAND

The album cover is in  VG+++ condition., there is rubbing and wear round the edges and corners, a scuff on the back, also some ring wear.it has the original inner sleeve.

The vinyl itself is in EX+++ condition. There are some papercuts/scuffs seen under 1500watt strong light which are very hard to see with the naked eye, these will give some low level clicks & pops when the LP is played, this is a very clean LP for it's age. and anyone who has a good cleaning machine will benefit with a great sound from this heavy still shiny LP.

If you are not fully satisfied you may return this album with  a full refund inc postage.

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Sorry if the shipping charges seem a bit high, the reason being i use heavy/strong packaging

THIS IS AS GOOD EXAMPLE OF WELL LOOKED AFTER OLD LP RECORD

Full track list

Side One

"Foxy Lady" – 3:22
"Manic Depression" – 3:46
"Red House" – 3:53
"Can You See Me" – 2:35
"Love or Confusion" – 3:17
"I Don't Live Today" – 3:58

Side Two

"May This Be Love" – 3:14
"Fire" – 2:47
"3rd Stone from the Sun" – 6:50
"Remember" – 2:53
"Are You Experienced?" – 4:17

The Band

Jimi Hendrix – lead vocals, guitar, backing vocals on track 1, handclaps on track 6, voice of "Star Fleet" on track 9, piano on track 11
Noel Redding – bass, backing vocals on tracks 1, 8 and 14
Mitch Mitchell – drums, tambourine on tracks 4, 7, 10 and 13, backing vocals on track 6, cowbell on track 13 

Production personnel
Chas Chandler - production, voice of "Scout Ship" on track 9
Dave Siddle – engineering on tracks 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16
Eddie Kramer – engineering on tracks 7, 11 and 17, additional engineering on tracks 5, 8, 9 and 14
Mike Ross – engineering on tracks 1, 3 and 9   .

Are You Experienced is the debut album by English/American rock band The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Released in 1967, it was the first LP for Track Records. The album highlighted Jimi Hendrix's R&B-based, psychedelic, distortion- and feedback-laden electric guitar playing, and launched him as a major new international star. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it #15 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

In 2005 Are You Experienced was selected for permanent preservation in the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress in the United States.
History
After being taken under Chas Chandler's wing and arriving in England in September 1966, The Jimi Hendrix Experience was formed with Mitch Mitchell on drums and Noel Redding on bass. The group signed with Track Records, newly formed by The Who's managers Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp. However the group's debut single appeared on Polydor Records, because Track was not yet operational. This group released three classic Top 10 hit UK singles produced by Chas Chandler : "Hey Joe"/"Stone Free" (December 1966), "Purple Haze"/"51st Anniversary" (March 1967, the 1st release by the new Track Records label, on a special white label) and "The Wind Cries Mary"/"Highway Chile" (May 1967). During the making of these singles, The Jimi Hendrix Experience also cut the tracks that became their debut album, which Chandler also produced with the Olympic Studios Engineer Eddie Kramer (some tracks were recorded with engineers Dave Siddle at De Lane Lea and Mike Ross at CBS studios). Released in England that May without the three singles—as was the custom in the UK at that time—Are You Experienced and The Jimi Hendrix Experience quickly became a sensation all across Europe, with the album reaching number two in the UK, behind The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Reception
Are You Experienced has been cited as one of the greatest debut albums of the rock era. The TV channel VH1 named it the fifth greatest album of all time in 2001. In 2003, the US version of the album was ranked number 15 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, having been ranked as number 5 in their twentieth anniversary listing The Best Albums of the Last Twenty Years published in 1987. Guitarist magazine named the album number one on their list of "the most influential guitar albums of all time".[3] Creem magazine named the album number six on the Top Ten Metal Albums Of The 60s.[4] Vibe (12/99, p. 156) - Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century. NME (10/2/93, p. 29) - Ranked #29 in NME's list of the "Greatest Albums Of All Time".
All Music Guide
The third of the Backtrack series' exhumations of classic LPs of the recent past, Backtrack 10's treatment of Jimi Hendrix's Are You Experienced debut raised considerable eyebrows at the time, by virtue of appearing in oldfashioned mono, as opposed to the super stereo that was coming into fashion everywhere else. Of course, the impecunious modern collector has much to thank Track Records for copies of Backtrack 10 are by no means easy to find, but they are certainly more plentiful than mono pressings of the original album and, while stereo was undoubtedly Hendrix's natural stomping ground, still the mono Are You Experienced has much to recommend it.Recalling the original recording sessions, engineer Eddie Kramer reflected, "The first album is primitive, no question. We were experimenting, it was so new, and I can still hear myself doing all this nutty stuff, panning and moving stuff around, and Jimi going 'yeah, I like that, that's cool, that's great'." The mono mix was the first they... completed, and the one they expended the most effort on. As sundry Beatles have since made clear, stereo was very much an afterthought, put together for a new slice of the market that nobody truly expected to take off and, while the corresponding Are You Experienced mix does have much to recommend it; is, in fact, one of the finest stereo albums of the era; still there is so much emphasis on sonic gimmickry that, occasionally, the true strength of the songs gets overlooked. In mono, they stand bare and unmolested, and Are You Experienced kicks harder butt than you would ever expect.The highlights are too manifold to detail, but "Third Stone From The Sun", with its signature riff cranked high into orbit, while Hendrix's ruminations on a forthcoming invasion by alien chickens murmurs and burbles in the back of your mind. "Foxy Lady" and "Are You Experienced" itself, too, leap out at you with new, sharp teeth and, though the end result may not be quite so dramatic as the corresponding switch between mono and stereo versions of The Who Sell Out/Backtrack 9, still Backtrack 10 is an aural experience that you really do need to feel. - Dave Thompson, All Music Guide

REVIEW
It’s hard to imagine an album like Are You Experienced? getting made these days. Even harder to imagine is a major label picking up this expansive combination of pop, rock, soul, jazz, funk and stoned experimentation. The marketing people would have a fit trying to figure out how to sell it to the kids as they A&Red the life out of it.

When recording on this album began in 1966 (finishing in 1967) there were only a handful of people tinkering with the format of the three minute song. Hendrix’s arrival on the scene (the archetypal stranger in a strange land scenario) upped the ante and didn’t so much nudge things along as give them an almighty shove after which rock music would never be the same. Even ignoring the likes of “Hey Joe” and “Purple Haze” (as singles they were not included on the original album) tracks as “Fire” stretch out the baton that bands such as Deep Purple would so willingly grasp. Similarly, the faintly ludicrous cock-rock antics of “Foxy Lady” graphically joined the dots on the whole sex and music shebang in a way that a nation weaned on Hank Marvin heroics could barely guess at.

Whilst some of the licks shot-blasted across the disc ape the twangy pop tones of the day, his solo on “Manic Depression” sounds like its being beamed in from another dimension altogether. “Red House” remains a dazzling blues exhibition that rightly made the jaws of London’s musical elite drop. It’s a sobering thought that when this originally came out in May 1967, the only other serious contender for the crown of guitar godhood, Cream’s Disraeli Gears, was still six months from being released.

The psychedelic flummeries added to an already rich recipe (the title track and “Third Stone From The Sun”) occasionally results in a kind of multi-coloured indigestion. Whilst such embroidery indelibly watermarks the album, it rarely detracts from the stand-out, casual brilliance that is so abundant. This is the sound of the future arriving; tacky, awkward, inspirational, exciting, perplexing and sometimes contradictory for sure, but the future nonetheless  .

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