JIMI HENDRIX PURPLE HAZE RARE ORIG '67 FRENCH 4-TRACK MONO EP w/PIC SLEEVE MINT

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·       JIMI HENDRIX - THE WIND CRIES MARY & FIRE c/w PURPLE HAZE & HIGHWAY CHILE (MISCORRECTED AS 'HIGHWAY CHILD')   - VERY RARE ORIGINAL 1968 FRENCH PRESSING) - ORIGINAL  BARCLAY (FRANCE) MONO 4-TRACK EP 071.157.M WITH PICTURE SLEEVE

·       ORIGINAL FRENCH PRESSING

·       ORIGINAL WHITE, YELLOW AND BROWN "BLUR" BARCLAY LABEL WITH ABSTRACT PAINTING MOTIF.

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST FRENCH PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       ORIGINAL LAMINATED SLEEVE

·       MACHINE-STAMPED MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) OF THE RECORD

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"Purple Haze" was an early signature song for Jimi Hendrix and remains his best-known composition. After years as a journeyman musician, the 23-year-old Hendrix was taken to England in September 1966 by his new manager, Chas Chandler, who helped him put together Jimi Hendrix Experience, a power trio. The group released its first British single, Dino Valenti's "Hey Joe," on December 16, and it became a Top Ten hit. According to Chandler, he heard Hendrix playing the riff that became the basis of the music for "Purple Haze" that month and encouraged him to finish writing it for the Experience's second single. Hendrix is said to have completed the composition at a club on December 26. Originally, the lyrics were a long poem headed "Purple Haze -- Jesus Saves", from which Hendrix extracted the three verses used in the song. Some accounts have said that he was on LSD when he wrote the lyrics, but Chandler disputed that. Nevertheless, the words, while nominally referring to a mental disorder caused by a spell put on the narrator by a girl, are easily interpretable as being about a drug experience. Whatever the cause, the narrator is disoriented and upset. But the lyrics are less important than the relentlessly driving, if relatively slow-paced underlying music, which provides a good platform for some of Hendrix's inventive guitar playing. Jimi Hendrix Experience recorded "Purple Haze" on January 11, 1967, and it was released by the newly formed Track Records on March 17, after "Hey Joe" had run its course. It entered the British charts a week later, to peak in the Top Five. Having consolidated their U.K. success, Jimi Hendrix Experience signed to the Reprise subsidiary of Warner Bros. Records in the U.S. Hendrix returned to his native country in June and appeared at the Monterey Pop Festival on June 18; the following day, Reprise released "Purple Haze" as the Experience's debut single in America. The record's unusual sound made it a tough sell, but in late August it finally reached the charts, though it failed to enter the Top 40. In August, Reprise released a revised version of the Experience's debut LP, Are You Experienced?, which, in Britain, had not contained "Purple Haze." The Reprise version put "Purple Haze" on as side one, track one. The album reached the Top Five, eventually selling over two million copies. Jimi Hendrix Experience performed "Purple Haze" in its concerts regularly, resulting in numerous live recordings, most of them issued after Hendrix's early death. But his performance of the song at the Woodstock Festival in August 1969 was featured in the Woodstock movie and on its accompanying LP in 1970, shortly before he died. In addition, according to Harry Shapiro and Caesar Glebbeek in Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990), "Purple Haze" has had more cover recordings than any other Jimi Hendrix composition, 40 by their count (and many more since their book was published). These include one by Dion that was released as a single and made the charts in 1969 and another by the Cure, included on Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix, that earned considerable airplay in 1993, plus versions by Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush, Winger, Doug Sahm, Frank Zappa, Melanie, Tangerine Dream, Paul Rodgers, and Ozzy Osbourne. It has also been surprisingly popular with classical performers, frequently used as an encore by the Kronos Quartet and also attracting recordings by Meridian Arts Ensemble, Hampton String Quartet, and Nigel Kennedy.

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY WILLIAM RUHLMANN, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

Many of Jimi Hendrix's songs were loud, hard-rocking, even ear-busting affairs. He did, however, write some tunes that were delicate and even a little sentimental. Of these, the best was "The Wind Cries Mary," a #6 hit single for him in Britain in 1967, and a highlight of the American configuration of his first LP, Are You Experienced. Hendrix wrote "The Wind Cries Mary" in honor of his British girlfriend Kathy Etchingham, though actually it was penned after a flaming fight between the two lovers. The big hook of "The Wind Cries Mary" is its opening guitar phrase, three slow and dramatically ascending chords, which cast a tender state of uncertainty over the whole song. Those three chords are repeated often throughout the song, though the verse is tuneful folk-rock with a hint of blues, much like some of the material Bob Dylan was doing in his early electric years, though more accessible to pop listeners than most such Dylan attempts. The lyrics are rather Dylanesque too in their march of strange and unrelated imagery, though there are allusions to Hendrix's private romantic turbulence with the line about the broom sweeping up pieces of yesterday's life, and a queen weeping while a king has no wife. The most insinuating aspect of the song is the repeated haunting refrain of the title phrase, indicating that no matter what the insane barrage of images and stresses of modern life, the singer can't escape his longing for his woman. Although Hendrix's guitar virtuosity is more subdued here than it is in much of his work, at times less is more, and he wanders around quite nicely and affectionately in the gentle instrumental break. Mitch Mitchell punctuates the song's uneasy romanticism with nicely varied yet forceful drum patterns, and Hendrix delivers the song with the right balance of vocal wistfulness and grit. It's also good the way the song's instrumental coda returns to the three-chord hook, but varies it with little twists and embellishments in the subsidiary guitar riffs that bridge the repetitions of the three-chord pattern.

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY RICHIE UNTERBERGER, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

One of Jimi Hendrix's most defining songs, "Fire" is an exercise in soul, psychedelic rock, and polyrhythmic jazz-inspired drumming. One of the standouts on the debut Are You Experienced? album, the song and recording showcased the truly raw energy that the band was capable of. Set in an up-tempo soul base, the song's bass and guitar riffs are mighty and played at breakneck speed. Lyrically, the song is based around Jimi Hendrix's great rock & roll swagger, and the sexual threat in the song shines through loud and clear. Several live versions are in existence, but the March 1968 version on The Jimi Hendrix Experience box set is positively devastating.

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY MATTHEW GREENWALD, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

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·       CONDITION:

·       45-RPM SINGLE RECORD:

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted below, ALL records are graded visually, NOT play-graded!)

(a)          WE GRADE THE VINYL  AS  NEAR MINT. Some VERY LIGHT AND SUPERFICIAL abrasions – mostly sleeve scuffs -  are (barely) visible, but are probably inaudible,  and do not affect visual integrity or beauty of the vinyl. The original luster is very much intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

(b)          Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·       SLEEVE  (THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, LAMINATED, GLOSSY SLEEVE):

THE SLEEVE IS  (WEAK) NEAR MINT !

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-         Sleeve has some light ring wear (nothing significant); On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 3    (VISIBLE ON BACK SIDE ONLY)

-         Cover shows some light yellowing on back side, apparently from aging.

-         Cover has a light "wrinkle" (crease)  in one of the corners   (VISIBLE ON FRONT SIDE ONLY)

NO OTHER IMPERFECTIONS ON THE SLEEVE:

-        No split seams

-        No cut-out (drill) holes.

-        No cut-out corners

-        No saw-marks or indents

-        No dirt/dust rubbing stains (friction marks caused by rubbing against other covers)

-        No writing

-        No stamps

-        No tearing: no chips, dents or nicks on the seams

-        No peel-off marks

-        No stains

-        No mold or mildew spots

-        No stickers or labels

-        No water damage

-        No razor marks, scratches, pressure marks, lines, streaks, or  cuts.

-        No warping

-        No wax, glue, paint or liquid drops on the cover

-        No glue traces or wax residue.

-        No bar codes

-        No RIAA stamps or stickers. 

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