This song is 57 years old and still sounds so fresh and amazing in 2024. I can't even imagine what it was like to hear this when it first came out in1967.
"Burning Of The Midnight Lamp" from "Electric Ladyland," "Still Rainin' Still Dreamin'" from the same album. "I Don't Live Today" from "Are You Experienced. Others may disagree, but Jimi IS the G.O.A. T. Yeah, do the studio version of Foxy Lady.
The benefit of a player composer who learned by ear and feel before the Era of unrelenting unchanging time signatures and metronome ear pieces. Nobody would ever come up with something like this today. A waltz in 3/4? Lol it's just genius. Jimi was also all over the place time wise between the intros and solos he switches it up a lot. Just genius. He wasn't held down by convention. He played what felt good. ❤
I was 16. Played this a thousand times on the living room 'good stereo'. My mother was O.K out in the Florida room with a drink doing crosswords. Jeez..she was very open to the whole 60's thing. Drove to West Palm to see Hendrix the next year.
LOL ! I have not heard the term "Florida Room" in MANY years. We had a Florida room too. I grew up in Sarasota. My mom was cool too, but she was more into pop like BeeGees. I was too young to ever see Jimi live, but my older sister turned me on to him. We are so fortunate to have come of age in that era. ✌
The first song I learned to play on guitar. 'Manic...' will always be one of my favorite tracks. Also, a shout out to Mitch Mitchell for that groovy drum beat. Mitch has always been an underrated drummer when compared to other drummers of the 60's and beyond. Yes, 'Red House' also kick's ass.
This is the thing with a true artist like Jimi, he would spend time in the darker emotions not needing or wanting to run from them but to ponder them instead. Those persons who can venture into and learn, in a sense, to study those more negative areas of the human psyche and then come back and express them through art can be a real help to those minds experiencing that part of themselves for the first time. As one who came to age in the seventies I can say Jimi played a fairly big part in helping me to form a sense of reality that doesn’t depend on seeing the world as a place where Im going to find all my dreams come true. But rather a place of spiritual transformation that I’m just passing through. So far so good, thank you Jesus.
Yeah his whole first album sounds like this. Best debut in rock history. I Don't Live Today is probably my favorite track due to the LSD inspired intensity. Third Stone From the Sun is right there. Red House is a fine next song to check out too. He dabbles in some more traditional sounding blues there, but can't help adding trippy echoes to his guitar parts. Other highlights for me are Stone Free, Love Or Confusion, and then all the others too.
OMG, Biz!!! RED HOUSE is one of my favs from the master!! Way too short - as most of his songs are, but a fucking bluesy banger that will melt your face!! And the drummer, Mitch Mitchell, was on fire during this song!! Just an incredible drummer. And no, an album review from Jimi would not be good. HIS ENTIRE CATALOGUE IS NEEDED.
There are only really three albums Jimi produced in his lifetime. Most of the stuff you see out there is posthumous. "Are You Experienced?", "Axis: Bold As Love" and "Electric Ladyland" are the three. Please play "If Six Was Nine" from "Axis". It was featured in the movie "Easy Rider", to very good effect, one of my favorite parts of the movie anyway.
The other thing about Jimi is his songwriting, lyrically and musically. Jimi gets plenty of credit for guitar, deservedly so, but this guy was an incredible songwriter too. Of course, Are You Experienced would be a great album to review as are all three studio albums, especially the tracks written by Jimi.
This! So true. He wrote the vast majority of his songs. He was an exceptional song writer, wrote a great number of rock's best songs ever. He should absolutely get more credit for that. For the music and lyrics.
Biz, I WAS that kid, losing my effing mind over Hendrix's insane but excellent guitar freak-out on this song!! Having just started the electric guitar, I completely flipped when I heard this!
Are You Experienced would be a great album to react to track by track. One thing though, the UK version has the superior version of "Red House". And if you do the debut album, don't forget the non-album singles (in the UK) and B-sides like "Stone Free", "Highway Chile", "Wind Cries Mary", "51st Anniversary", and of course "Hey Joe" and "Purple Haze".
Yes please continue with this album, red house is awesome!! You can definitely listen to the album version of foxy lady cause it’s very different than the live versions. Also wondering if you gave up on continuing with the Van Halen albums, diver down is a short album and 1984 is fire!!!! Only 2 left of original Dave besides the reunion
Just imagine in the 60s, no one had ever heard music like Jimi's. Not only the guitar playing, which changed guitar music forever, but also the songs themselves, which he wrote! He came on the scene & every other huge rocker, from the Beatles to the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd & Eric Clapton, they all went whoa....and some had a momentary existential crisis, like what am I supposed to do now, against that?! It sounds totally unique and mind blowing now, but world changing back then. Such a terrible loss that he was gone so young.
Is the guy just absolutely incredible or what!?! I had forgotten about this tune for a long time and hearing it again here I mean it reminded me it's one of his best!! Great reaction! and yes Are You Experienced is one of the all time great albums.
Eddie Kramer, Jimi's engineer from the first album to the last including all of the posthumous releases. A genius in his own right. During his sessions with Jimi they invented phasing and what would become surround sound speaker placement. There are a ton of great videos of Eddie going through the actual tapes and bringing out the isolated guitar, drum and bass tracks to talk about them in depth. Eddie also recorded Zeppelin, KISS, I think David Bowie as well, many other prominent artists. He is still around, really awesome guy.
Rock and roll at its finest. You got it man. Mitch and Jimi complemented each other perfectly. Please do Third Stone From the Sun. Acid jazz..something. Jimi just invented musical forms as he went along. It will wreck your mind. The first time I heard it I was 15. Haven't been the same since
Jimi Hendrix was a great lyricist as well as a phenomenal guitarist. I really wish there was a movie about him like their was about Freddy Mercury, David Bowie and Elvis.
Are You Experienced is a fantastic album. It contains a few pop hits, like Foxy Lady, but overall, the album was strange to the ears at first. Jimi was so different at the time. It took some getting used to. This was 1967 or thereabouts!
Classic! He tears that solo apart. The first three albums are pure fire. "Manic Depression" is from his debut. "Love or Confusion", "I Don't Live Today", and the title track "Are You Experienced" are a few more underrated bangers from that album.
I always like to paraphrase Frances Bacon from his classic book, The History of the Blues, that Hendrix evolved the Blues to its final resting place, Outer Space.
I was a kid when Jimi got famous. One thing allways made me wonder. How such a nice ,easy going guy,changed in a beautiful wild animal, the moment he got on the stage. HE WAS A FORCE OF NATURE. The things he did on his guitar were jaw dropping. Didn't here this one for a long time, so thanks man 👍 Loved it.😁💪👊
Absolutely. Such a perfect match, what are the odds that he would be so great from a random audition? One of the best ever, as improvisational and unique as jimi himself, inimitable.
I first heard Jimi´s music about 6 years after his death.I was about 16 then and yes,You´re right,it blew my teenage mind,although I was familiar with Deep Purple and rock music in the mid 70es.And then I saw the film about Jimi´s life with a bunch of his high level performances.Music seemed to flow out of his body.He didn´t look like a guy playing guitar but his Strat appeared to be a part of him.Never saw nobody like that.Stevie Ray has some of it though but Hendrix had it all.
This album (and rainbow bridge) is his masterpiece. You should really check out the whole thing in one listening. The gems are Purple Haze, Manic Depression, I don't live today, May this be love, Let me stand next to your fire, Third stone from the sun, Are you experienced, and my personal favorite, "Love or Confusion." I discovered this album when I was 15 or 16. It completely blew me away. With the exception of perhaps Alice Cooper's "Welcome to my Nightmare--which I also recommend you check out in its entirety, the "Are You Experienced Album," not only blew me away, but took me away. It changed me. And I've never heard anything like it since. Please listen to the whole album. It exploded on the scene when released more than any other album, in any genre, except for maybe "Thriller."
Yay, Jimi!! He's the best, period. The title song, 'Are You Experienced?" is sooo good. 'Red House' is amazing, too. I would absolutely be down for an entire Are You Experienced album review. Studio versions for all songs first is better. Live is amazing but you don't get the 'song' in its real form, as a basis for the live version. Honestly, he only has 3 studio albums, you should just go through all 3 at some point. I did that last year and really, there wasn't a bad song in the bunch. I'm here for your reactions, keeping great music alive!
Jimi said in an interview Manic Depression is a "modern day blues". Maybe not in the traditional sense of 12 bar blues with it's lyrics of messed up inter relationships, be that with another person or a location. Here Jimi alludes to the messed up state of mind frustration of an individual. And, like traditional blues, Manic Depression is autobiographical.
I don't even have to talk too much with you because you are definitely experienced when it comes to Hendrix music.😂 I wish you could do the live version of Red House because he really goes OFF on his live versions. It's way better than the studio, in my opinion. Even though the studios is great, them live versions is special! If you ever get to do the live version, check out the 1968 at Fillmore East Red House in New York. That shit is a movie!
One big problem is and not your problem, i had a turntable and very good speakers. Aint no tablet or phone gonna ever gonna bring back how it sounded. Dolby atmos and headphones? Nope. Need a room and speakers.
I didn't really like this joint TBH. Some of his stuff doesn't hit for me. But I do like some deep cuts off Blues and South Saturn Delta... so its not like I'm all "radio hits" only with his catalog.
the genius of mitch mitchell on drums
3 man band for sure
Mitch Mitchell Hanwell W7!!!! Jimi lived there when he first came to London Jim Marshall had he's Shop in Hanwell
3 man band sounds so amazing
Hendrix band member Mitch Mitchell, was named the eighth-greatest drummer of all time by Rolling Stone magazine in 2016
Outstanding drums...
Stone cold classic
This song is 57 years old and still sounds so fresh and amazing in 2024. I can't even imagine what it was like to hear this when it first came out in1967.
@Mike-kv5pl That one was pretty cool when I bought my copy in 1968. But the one that really affected me was "Third Stone From The Sun."
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I had just started guitar, and was age 15, right when this came out. It sounded so d_mn good, & Jimi immediately became my guitar God!
Yes!! 🙌🏻 I have been waiting for someone to do this! Mitch Mitchell on the kit! Killing it!!
“If six were nine” next Bizzz
He was a master R.I.P. Jimi , thank you Biz
"Burning Of The Midnight Lamp" from "Electric Ladyland," "Still Rainin' Still Dreamin'" from the same album. "I Don't Live Today" from "Are You Experienced. Others may disagree, but Jimi IS the G.O.A. T. Yeah, do the studio version of Foxy Lady.
Yes, do Red House next, it's now a classic blues track, he wrote it to go on that first album.
I like Winds Cry Mary by Jimi.
1967. Still hard AF. Incomparable.
its a waltz lmao Jimi makes a waltz into a headbanging experience of pure primal emotional energy
"House Burning Down" is Jimi at the peak of his extraordinary powers.
Yea do the whole album!
Dolly Dagger. It's otherworldly.
Any Hendrix is worth a listen & like
Highway chile, listened to it as teenager fitted so well at my age, stone free, amazing, try to put me in plastic cage! Freedom ✌️
Great interplay between Jimi and Mitch in a seldom used time signature
The benefit of a player composer who learned by ear and feel before the Era of unrelenting unchanging time signatures and metronome ear pieces. Nobody would ever come up with something like this today. A waltz in 3/4? Lol it's just genius. Jimi was also all over the place time wise between the intros and solos he switches it up a lot. Just genius. He wasn't held down by convention. He played what felt good. ❤
Yes on Red House and Foxy Lady and all the rest! This album got me through high school.
I was 16. Played this a thousand times on the living room 'good stereo'. My mother was O.K out in the Florida room with a drink doing crosswords.
Jeez..she was very open to the whole 60's thing. Drove to West Palm to see Hendrix the next year.
LOL ! I have not heard the term "Florida Room" in MANY years. We had a Florida room too. I grew up in Sarasota. My mom was cool too, but she was more into pop like BeeGees. I was too young to ever see Jimi live, but my older sister turned me on to him. We are so fortunate to have come of age in that era. ✌
The first song I learned to play on guitar. 'Manic...' will always be one of my favorite tracks. Also, a shout out to Mitch Mitchell for that groovy drum beat. Mitch has always been an underrated drummer when compared to other drummers of the 60's and beyond. Yes, 'Red House' also kick's ass.
Wow, is right. Incredible song. Drums off the charts good.
Love that one. Check out "Crosstown Traffic" by them.
One of Jimis Best tunes.
Anybody who plays Jimi has a gold star in my book.
Great reaction! My favorite on the album- The Wind Cried Mary!!
This is the thing with a true artist like Jimi, he would spend time in the darker emotions not needing or wanting to run from them but to ponder them instead. Those persons who can venture into and learn, in a sense, to study those more negative areas of the human psyche and then come back and express them through art can be a real help to those minds experiencing that part of themselves for the first time. As one who came to age in the seventies I can say Jimi played a fairly big part in helping me to form a sense of reality that doesn’t depend on seeing the world as a place where Im going to find all my dreams come true. But rather a place of spiritual transformation that I’m just passing through. So far so good, thank you Jesus.
You should review the whole album 👍
One of my Faves yo, This Album is Awesome
Love it! Definitely continue. The album is a masterpiece
Masterpiece
I was 16 when I bought this LP when it first came out - incredible times indeed.
Yeah his whole first album sounds like this. Best debut in rock history. I Don't Live Today is probably my favorite track due to the LSD inspired intensity. Third Stone From the Sun is right there. Red House is a fine next song to check out too. He dabbles in some more traditional sounding blues there, but can't help adding trippy echoes to his guitar parts.
Other highlights for me are Stone Free, Love Or Confusion, and then all the others too.
Foxey Lady studio version is lit and red house is awesome!
OMG, Biz!!! RED HOUSE is one of my favs from the master!! Way too short - as most of his songs are, but a fucking bluesy banger that will melt your face!! And the drummer, Mitch Mitchell, was on fire during this song!! Just an incredible drummer.
And no, an album review from Jimi would not be good. HIS ENTIRE CATALOGUE IS NEEDED.
♥ Jimi!
More Jimi!!!!
There are only really three albums Jimi produced in his lifetime. Most of the stuff you see out there is posthumous. "Are You Experienced?", "Axis: Bold As Love" and "Electric Ladyland" are the three. Please play "If Six Was Nine" from "Axis". It was featured in the movie "Easy Rider", to very good effect, one of my favorite parts of the movie anyway.
We had the best music.
Badass!!! Always when it comes to Jimi!!!!
Red house is Epic especially the Live version you definitely need to check it out Live in Sweden 1969
@lancerx1759 The album "Hendrix In The West" are all live tracks from different concerts...Red House is on there...a long jam.
My favorite waltz of all time ( "1 2 3, 1 2 3, 1 2 3...")
Yeah I get it but I think it's 6/8
The other thing about Jimi is his songwriting, lyrically and musically. Jimi gets plenty of credit for guitar, deservedly so, but this guy was an incredible songwriter too.
Of course, Are You Experienced would be a great album to review as are all three studio albums, especially the tracks written by Jimi.
This! So true. He wrote the vast majority of his songs. He was an exceptional song writer, wrote a great number of rock's best songs ever. He should absolutely get more credit for that. For the music and lyrics.
Biz, I WAS that kid, losing my effing mind over Hendrix's insane but excellent guitar freak-out on this song!! Having just started the electric guitar, I completely flipped when I heard this!
Are You Experienced would be a great album to react to track by track. One thing though, the UK version has the superior version of "Red House". And if you do the debut album, don't forget the non-album singles (in the UK) and B-sides like "Stone Free", "Highway Chile", "Wind Cries Mary", "51st Anniversary", and of course "Hey Joe" and "Purple Haze".
always been one of my favourite Hendrix tracks
Yes please continue with this album, red house is awesome!! You can definitely listen to the album version of foxy lady cause it’s very different than the live versions. Also wondering if you gave up on continuing with the Van Halen albums, diver down is a short album and 1984 is fire!!!! Only 2 left of original Dave besides the reunion
Just imagine in the 60s, no one had ever heard music like Jimi's. Not only the guitar playing, which changed guitar music forever, but also the songs themselves, which he wrote! He came on the scene & every other huge rocker, from the Beatles to the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd & Eric Clapton, they all went whoa....and some had a momentary existential crisis, like what am I supposed to do now, against that?! It sounds totally unique and mind blowing now, but world changing back then. Such a terrible loss that he was gone so young.
Is the guy just absolutely incredible or what!?! I had forgotten about this tune for a long time and hearing it again here I mean it reminded me it's one of his best!! Great reaction! and yes Are You Experienced is one of the all time great albums.
Yes being a music mad teen listening to this really did blow your mind!
Go Jimi Go
Only these guys could make manic depression so darn enjoyable!
Eddie Kramer, Jimi's engineer from the first album to the last including all of the posthumous releases. A genius in his own right. During his sessions with Jimi they invented phasing and what would become surround sound speaker placement. There are a ton of great videos of Eddie going through the actual tapes and bringing out the isolated guitar, drum and bass tracks to talk about them in depth. Eddie also recorded Zeppelin, KISS, I think David Bowie as well, many other prominent artists. He is still around, really awesome guy.
Rock and roll at its finest. You got it man. Mitch and Jimi complemented each other perfectly. Please do Third Stone From the Sun. Acid jazz..something. Jimi just invented musical forms as he went along. It will wreck your mind. The first time I heard it I was 15. Haven't been the same since
Great job. Always loved this song.
Jimi Hendrix was a great lyricist as well as a phenomenal guitarist. I really wish there was a movie about him like their was about Freddy Mercury, David Bowie and Elvis.
Are You Experienced is a fantastic album. It contains a few pop hits, like Foxy Lady, but overall, the album was strange to the ears at first. Jimi was so different at the time. It took some getting used to. This was 1967 or thereabouts!
Classic! He tears that solo apart. The first three albums are pure fire. "Manic Depression" is from his debut. "Love or Confusion", "I Don't Live Today", and the title track "Are You Experienced" are a few more underrated bangers from that album.
You can never go wrong with Jimi Hendrix. You should check out “Red House” as your next Jimi Hendrix reaction.
I always like to paraphrase Frances Bacon from his classic book, The History of the Blues, that Hendrix evolved the Blues to its final resting place, Outer Space.
........WOW!
Yeah, you were speechless for a couple seconds. Jimi does that.....
By all means, listen to this album. Even the bad songs are good.
I was a kid when Jimi got famous.
One thing allways made me wonder.
How such a nice ,easy going guy,changed in a beautiful wild animal, the moment he got on the stage.
HE WAS A FORCE OF NATURE.
The things he did on his guitar were jaw dropping.
Didn't here this one for a long time, so thanks man 👍
Loved it.😁💪👊
fantastic choice Brother. Mitch Mitchel is one highly underrated drummer
The Winterland 1968 live version is a must listen as is the version of Are You Experienced? Genius.
Ahhh, Jimi the Great. Loved this. I was young, but I clearly remember listening to this on my little record player. ✌
I've been listening to the Hendrix song up from the skies, it's really good as well
Definitely one of my faves by him. Also check out the cut " FIRE" 🔥🔥🔥 It's FIRE ❗
No other drummer but Mitch could properly articulate and compliment Jimi's guitar. ❤
Absolutely. Such a perfect match, what are the odds that he would be so great from a random audition? One of the best ever, as improvisational and unique as jimi himself, inimitable.
I first heard Jimi´s music about 6 years after his death.I was about 16 then and yes,You´re right,it blew my teenage mind,although I was familiar with Deep Purple and rock music in the mid 70es.And then I saw the film about Jimi´s life with a bunch of his high level performances.Music seemed to flow out of his body.He didn´t look like a guy playing guitar but his Strat appeared to be a part of him.Never saw nobody like that.Stevie Ray has some of it though but Hendrix had it all.
This album (and rainbow bridge) is his masterpiece. You should really check out the whole thing in one listening. The gems are Purple Haze, Manic Depression, I don't live today, May this be love, Let me stand next to your fire, Third stone from the sun, Are you experienced, and my personal favorite, "Love or Confusion."
I discovered this album when I was 15 or 16. It completely blew me away. With the exception of perhaps Alice Cooper's "Welcome to my Nightmare--which I also recommend you check out in its entirety, the "Are You Experienced Album," not only blew me away, but took me away. It changed me. And I've never heard anything like it since. Please listen to the whole album. It exploded on the scene when released more than any other album, in any genre, except for maybe "Thriller."
Yay, Jimi!! He's the best, period. The title song, 'Are You Experienced?" is sooo good. 'Red House' is amazing, too. I would absolutely be down for an entire Are You Experienced album review. Studio versions for all songs first is better. Live is amazing but you don't get the 'song' in its real form, as a basis for the live version. Honestly, he only has 3 studio albums, you should just go through all 3 at some point. I did that last year and really, there wasn't a bad song in the bunch. I'm here for your reactions, keeping great music alive!
Great song , Hear my train coming 🔥 guitar
Wind cries Mary my favorite
Red House? Yes please!
Great track.
Mitch is one of the greatest swing/rock drummers along with Deep Purple’s Ian Paice. Growing up with these two was an “Experience”………
👍 Jimi!
That album and song were the balls on the beast.
yes red house is s MUST
Jimi was the best! RIP to my little brother Jade-o Hendrix. 🖖🏼
Biz you gotta do the whole album, . Jimi was great times infinity. Rip
Back here ghost watching the ghost watchers
Jimi said in an interview Manic Depression is a "modern day blues". Maybe not in the traditional sense of 12 bar blues with it's lyrics of messed up inter relationships, be that with another person or a location. Here Jimi alludes to the messed up state of mind frustration of an individual. And, like traditional blues, Manic Depression is autobiographical.
Mitchell is going off
Game recognize Game
Drummer Mitch Mitchell was the perfect sparring partner to Jimi
heavy jam
manic depression (bi-polar) man do the tune Fire on the are you experience l.p. you'll luv that one !
Bold as love? Ill have to check.
I don't even have to talk too much with you because you are definitely experienced when it comes to Hendrix music.😂 I wish you could do the live version of Red House because he really goes OFF on his live versions. It's way better than the studio, in my opinion. Even though the studios is great, them live versions is special! If you ever get to do the live version, check out the 1968 at Fillmore East Red House in New York. That shit is a movie!
Title song Are you Experienced
Mitch Mitchell was a madman. I don't think he or Noel Redding ever got the credit they deserved for their contributions to Jimi's early sound.
Oh yeah so much drugs and drink when i was a teen. Nobody hurt no hate, we just party and down at the river.
One big problem is and not your problem, i had a turntable and very good speakers. Aint no tablet or phone gonna ever gonna bring back how it sounded. Dolby atmos and headphones? Nope. Need a room and speakers.
It would be rude not to do Foxy Lady studio version, then the rest of the album.
You can't miss out Are You Experienced... It'll blow you away
What age was Mitch, barely 21 years old!!? Good grief.
but First, Are You Experienced???
I am always down for Jimi, but those drums are far out here.
I didn't really like this joint TBH. Some of his stuff doesn't hit for me. But I do like some deep cuts off Blues and South Saturn Delta... so its not like I'm all "radio hits" only with his catalog.