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Well recorded Hendrix?

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mikesnowdon

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I love Jimi but find most of the recordings I have heard to be really poor sound quality. Recently I was given an MP3 of 'Little Wing (acoustic version)' and its superb, really good recording.

Wat are the best recorded albums etc I should be looking for (including band of gypsies)?
 
The Classic Records Band Of Gypsies is damn good too, but again vinyl only. I really wish they'd done Are You Experienced as I'm missing a copy of that one.

Tony.
 
OK. I looked up that track on youtube and got John Mayer! I thought I had heard it before :D

My Dad has an old tape of Band of Gypsies and I remember thinking how great it sounded. Surprisingly good in fact (apart from the tape hiss). I wonder if the CD version is as good or if it has been re-mastered? (Often re-mastering can ruin the sound of a classic album in my opinion).
 
As a big Hendrix fan , i have been through the usual remastered/remixed "better versions" and i have found them all to be worse than the original cd releases on Polydor[West German] issues.

So much so that i have hunted out s/h copies that i missed on cd. Trouble is you may have to pay over the odds , but still worth it in my mind. Cry of Love is just so much better than the equivilent Experience Hendrix version [First Rays....]. Also most later versions mess with the tracks/add tracks that do not fit in with the overall feel of the album. The lastest Sony ones are even worse. As for Valleys of Neptune , mostly its just a collection of different takes/ early versions of songs with different names that should have been left on the cutting room floor.

Michael.
 
I think the first remastered cd I ever heard was a Hendrix family issue - it remains the worst cd sound I ever heard in my life and was why I didnt get into cd's until about 1995 - even now I have way more albums than cd's - I will draw a veil over the cassettes

Luckily I have all of Hendrix's vinyl from new but this thread seems to say that these are the best apart from the special cuts which are beyond my reach anyway -Great question in the OP and Im grateful for this summary of the situation.
 
The Jimi Hendrix - Ultimate Experience with HDCD was OK. Nowhere near as good as the two Classic Records vinyl reissues mentioned elsewhere here - both of which are now deleted, so if you considering buying them, now is the time.
 
both of which are now deleted
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I think Classic Records itself may be deleted, unfortunately. At least that's what some vendors are saying.

OT of Hendrix:
There are a handful of really fine Classic Records jazz reissues titles that are not available on any other quality reissue series that I know of but are still available new. E.g.: Horace Silver and The Jazz Messengers (BN 1518), Johnny Griffin A Blowing Session (BN 1559), Lee Morgan Sextet (BN 1541), Hank Mobley Hank (BN 1560), Red Rodney 1957 (a great record!). If Classic Records is gone this is probably a last chance on these, unless someone else does them later.

I've scooped up all these, and the Hendrix monos.
 
mikesnowdon said:
Is that vinyl only? I'm looking for CD.
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I like the SHM CD releases of Are You Experienced?, Electric Ladyland & Axis: Bold As Love.
IIHUC they were Japan only releases. I believe they are deleted so not easy to find.
However they have been reissued a couple of times, so might be again.
 
Folkman said:
As a big Hendrix fan , i have been through the usual remastered/remixed "better versions" and i have found them all to be worse than the original cd releases on Polydor[West German] issues.

So much so that i have hunted out s/h copies that i missed on cd. Trouble is you may have to pay over the odds , but still worth it in my mind. Cry of Love is just so much better than the equivilent Experience Hendrix version [First Rays....]. Also most later versions mess with the tracks/add tracks that do not fit in with the overall feel of the album. The lastest Sony ones are even worse. As for Valleys of Neptune , mostly its just a collection of different takes/ early versions of songs with different names that should have been left on the cutting room floor.

Michael.
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What he said.
 
I got a complete set of Russian pressed Hendrix CD's from a seller called feofan a few years back for about 30 Quid

Sound quality is excellent
 
lordsummit said:
The original Polydors are where it's at with CD, they sound pretty good.
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Though bizarrely the first fat jewel case 2xCD issue of Electric Ladyland follows the original vinyl autochanger-compatible track sequence where disk one has sides 1 & 3 and disc two sides 2 & 4!

Tony.
 
lordsummit said:
The original Polydors are where it's at with CD, they sound pretty good.
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I have this, but prefer my SHM CD.

Tony L said:
Though bizarrely the first fat jewel case 2xCD issue of Electric Ladyland follows the original vinyl autochanger-compatible track sequence where disk one has sides 1 & 3 and disc two sides 2 & 4!

Tony.
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Confused the hell out of me when I got my SHM CD!
 
Mercifully I had lost the autochanger by the time I got my vinyl Electric Ladyland - but I was young enough to be shocked by the inner cover - the days before photoshop - ahem!
 
The W.German Polydor 2-disc fatboy edition of Electric Ladyland has the best sound. Consequently I have used it to compile a single disc CDR (with the tracks in the correct sequence). This version wipes the floor with the later remasters.
 
I have most of his work .... the best recorded/produced is 'Are You Experienced?'

second to that is Band of Gypsies which is a very close 2nd and sounds awesome on a decent hifi ... soundstage is very good
 
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