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Well I listened and compared with trepidation!Using the track 'Rainy Day,Dream Away' from the Side Three Suite I was off...
I listened to the MOV version first and the sumptuous bass was the first 'improvement' I noticed followed by a fantastic dynamic (no compression, you see!) sound picture. I then got called away (argh!) for a few minutes and when I came back I stuck on the all digital master (the first one issued by the Hendrix estate) and it sounded exactly the same! I was so disappointed to say the least :-( But,wait, I suddenly realised I had played the same Lp again! When the mistake was corrected I sat down and listened some more and.......the MOV version was far superior in every way :) I was so thrilled I took all the other versions I had and went to dump them in one of the bins; I couldn't figure out which one so decided to keep them :) Seriously though, thanks to Dave for alerting me on it's sonic merits and hopefully that's the end of all this remastering programme! I mean I've waited nearly 42 years for this version! Even Jimi himself wasn't happy with the original mix.



The new Analogue Master from Music on Vinyl - Freebird seem to sell the cheapest version (€33.00)

Excerpted from HFW.
'Electric Ladyland' has been pressed in MOV's own pressing plant.The result is a beautifully quiet playback featuring a highly creditable lack of compression. Hence, this is a supremely dynamic recording. Hendrix connoisseurs will be delighted that, on a decent hi-fi,at high gain,you will be able to hear the whole recording played,piece by edited and gummed together piece. In effect, with this release,you can almost follow the Hendrix creative process while the quiet pressing enhances the dynamics further making this edition the best I've ever heard. - Paul Rigby

Listening to this and trying not to drool too much over this unbelievable,exquisitely presented vinyl artifact.Words just fail me!Definitely my best buy of the year so far and the music's fantastic too :)

cybot wrote:Well I listened and compared with trepidation!Using the track 'Rainy Day,Dream Away' from the Side Three Suite I was off...
I listened to the MOV version first and the sumptuous bass was the first 'improvement' I noticed followed by a fantastic dynamic (no compression, you see!) sound picture. I then got called away (argh!) for a few minutes and when I came back I stuck on the all digital master (the first one issued by the Hendrix estate) and it sounded exactly the same! I was so disappointed to say the least :-( But,wait, I suddenly realised I had played the same Lp again! When the mistake was corrected I sat down and listened some more and.......the MOV version was far superior in every way :) I was so thrilled I took all the other versions I had and went to dump them in one of the bins; I couldn't figure out which one so decided to keep them :) Seriously though, thanks to Dave for alerting me on it's sonic merits and hopefully that's the end of all this remastering programme! I mean I've waited nearly 42 years for this version! Even Jimi himself wasn't happy with the original mix.

Excerpted from HFW.
'Electric Ladyland' has been pressed in MOV's own pressing plant.The result is a beautifully quiet playback featuring a highly creditable lack of compression. Hence, this is a supremely dynamic recording. Hendrix connoisseurs will be delighted that, on a decent hi-fi,at high gain,you will be able to hear the whole recording played,piece by edited and gummed together piece. In effect, with this release,you can almost follow the Hendrix creative process while the quiet pressing enhances the dynamics further making this edition the best I've ever heard. - Paul Rigby

Hope you enjoy this one cybot. Thanks for your thoughts.

[quote="DaveFHope you enjoy this one cybot. Thanks for your thoughts.[/quote]

You are very welcome Dave! I sincerely hope you enjoy Jimi at the Winterland too. Oh, how I wish I was starting over again :)

I also read somewhere that the Hendrix Estate are very interested in doing a 'proper' makeover of the Winterland gigs; So expect a triple LP set sometime soon, maybe 2050 :)

Read review below and weep... As fine a document of Jimi Live here, there and everywhere as you'll ever get :)
Contains only official live version of Are You Experienced among many,many highlights,includes a beautiful
Little Wing and an equally beautiful Bleeding Heart, one of Jimi's most tenderest Blues performances and a
particular favourite of mine....

A Review,Slight Return....
As a guitarist who has played blues/rock for over twenty five years I have to advocate the version of Red House on here as one of Jimi's finest moments, and simply one of the greatest ever guitar solos full stop.

I got the Concerts album when it was released in the UK in 1982 and was then, as I am now, in awe of this truly magnificent performance. There are some great moments elsewhere on the double LP. But this is simply stunning.

The radicals - Black Panthers as well as Yippies - had broken down the gates of the Randall's Island Pop festival and fences, insisting all proceeds go to their organisations and that no-one else should pay to get in as punishment to the organisers. Violence and chaos ensued. You can clearly hear them heckling Jimi just before he begins Red House, and his terse response, recorded here is "F*ck off man - let me talk". Well he does more than that.

A fine vocal performance and some impassioned guitar responses to his own vocal give little indication to the sheer ferocity and unparalleled virtuosity to follow in the extended solo - a 36 bar work out.

The first 12 bars begin with the authority of any great bluesman of the 20th Century, an instant declaration that you are listening to something indisputable, something bigger than you, and you'd best just shut up and take it on. It builds beautifully to launch into the second 12 bars, where he ratchets up the tension even more with the most fluid stellar blues wailing, almost inventing metal as he goes along for the sheer why the f@ck not-ness of it, until, yeah here comes the third chorus of 12 bars of the finest 20th Century Blues.

It's astonishing in its affirmation and sheer unbridled passion, the man lives for the blues, and the f@ckwitted @ssholes who were heckling the master, this genius, four short minutes earlier should by now be stood there stunned into cosmic silence, if not atomised by the sheer musical energy he was channelling right back at them...

And then to cap it all, he finishes the 36-bars perfectly with a few licks over the dominant turnaround with a declamation and finality heard on Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters records, and then trail blazed by the late truly great Freddie King and Buddy Guy.

In a moment of pure genius he winds the whole thing down from what sounds like about eight assorted effects pedals burning white hot and screaming into the cosmos down into a sweet, woody effects-free neck pickup blues tone, a perfect denouement, and off he goes, singing verse four, like nothing had happened. Like it was child's play. Because it was child's play, because he was a God.

Do yourself a favour, just buy the album, keep it and play it to your kids.

A couple of footnotes - this performance was about eight weeks before his lacklustre performance at the Isle of White. What a tragedy that the film crews were not at this chaotic New York festival instead. Although it was nearly aborted in scenes of abject anarchy, we witnessed one of the truly great performances of all time, by any musician.

cybot wrote:

Jimi á la Renoir/Van Gogh....cool!!

fergus wrote:

Wonder was he inspired by Krapps Last Tape :-)

fergus wrote:

cybot wrote:

Jimi á la Renoir/Van Gogh....cool!!

Yeah, Fergus it's a really cool homage to Jimi :-) Bleeding Heart indeed...

Got this a loooong time ago when it was nigh on impossible to get their vinyl albums in any form. A sumptious, and I mean sumptious, 5 Lp set from Castle Communications (remember them?). Even though CC were resonsible for some horrible issues, this one ranks with the very best they ever did. Stunning, stunning, stunning :)