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JIMI HENDRIX

The greatest rock guitarist of all time, with a raw, blues-influenced style that brought fire and emotion to rock music unseen before or sinceIn his brief four-year reign as a superstar, Jimi Hendrix expanded the vocabulary of the electric rock guitar more than anyone before or since. Hendrix was a master at coaxing all manner of unforeseen sonics from his instrument, oftenwith innovative amplification experiments that produced astral-quality feedback and roaring distortion. His frequent hurricane blasts of noise and dazzling showmanship, he could and would play behind his back and with his teeth and set his guitar on fire, has sometimes obscured his considerable gifts as a songwriter, singer, and master of a gamut of blues, R&B, and rock styles.

"FIRST RAYS OF THE NEW RISING SUN"

1997    2 x LP     EXPERIENCE HENDRIX RECORDS     MCA2-11599   

PRINTED IN U.S.A.   ORIGINAL PRESSING

GATEFOLD COVER  + 8 PAGE BOOKLET

NOTES: Sticker on shrinkwrap says: "The Authorised Hendrix Family Edition

Jimi Hendrix's Final Studio Recordings

17 Songs, 70 Minutes of Music - Compiled As Album For First Time Ever....."

The first 5000 copies are individually numbered on the rear sleeve up the bardcode number. THIS ONE UN-NUMBERED.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: 0 08811 15991 7

LABEL: EXPERIENCE HENDRIX/MCA - MULTICOLOR LABEL w/PHOTO ARTWORK - MULTICOLOR TEXT

Catalog on cover: (spine, rear, sticker on shrink) MCA2-11599

Catalog on labels: DISC ONE: MCA2-11599  MCA12775 / MCA2-11599  MCA12778

DISC TWO: MCA2-11599  MCA12777 / MCA2-11599  MCA12778

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): MCA 12775  gm  EK  EXPERIENCE HENDRIX  MCA-11599-A2   (Stamped): STERLING

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): MCA-11599-B  MCA-12776  EXPERIENCE HENDRIX  gm  EK   (Stamped): STERLING

Matrix / Runout (Side C, Etched): MCA-11599-C  MCA-12777  EXPERIENCE HENDRIX  gm  EK   (Stamped): STERLING

Matrix / Runout (Side D, Etched): MCA-11599-D  MCA 12778  gm  EK  EXPERIENCE HENDRIX   (Stamped): STERLING

On labels: rim text reads "? © 1997 Experience Hendrix, LLC under exclusive......Universal City, CA 91608"

On inside right panel: Notes by John McDermott

On back cover: Produced by Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Kramer, & Mitch Mitchell Except*...........

? © 1997 Experience Hendrix, LLC under exclusive license to MCA Records.......

..........Distributed by Universal Music...........

tracklisting

Side A: FREEDOM - IZABELLA - NIGHT BIRD FLYING - ANGEL - ROOM FULL OF MIRRORS

Side B: DOLLY DAGGER - EZY RIDER - DRIFTING - BEGINNINGS

Side C: STEPPING STONE - MY FRIEND - STRAIGHT AHEAD - HEY BABY (NEW RISING SUN)

Side D: EMPTY BLUES - ASTRO MAN - IN FROM THE STORM - BELLY BUTTON WINDOW

  grading

RECORDS EX but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)

This is a superb album, and a worthy if very different, earthier successor to Electric Ladyland's psychedelic excursions -- the later tracks, ironically enough, cut at that album's long promised and long-delayed studio namesake -- and also show him working in some genuinely new directions. For starters, Hendrix's voice emerges here as a genuinely powerful instrument in its own right -- his voice was never as exposed in the mix of his songs as it is here; partly this is because Hendrix and engineer Eddie Kramer never finished embellishing the songs, or completed the final mixes. But whatever the reasons, the change is refreshing -- Hendrix's voice is not only powerful and expressive throughout, but a more melodic instrument than it seemed on his earlier releases; indeed, hearing these sides is a bit like listening to those middle-years Muddy Waters recordings when Chess Records had the Chicago blues legend abandon his guitar playing in favor of concentrating on his singing; the results might not be what all fans expected, but it sure sounds good, because it turns out that Hendrix had an expressive voice and was also moving his music into new areas that were stimulating him. A lot of the material here shows Hendrix, for the first time, moving his songs specifically into a black music idiom, embracing R&B and funk elements in his singing, playing, and overall sound; some of it could qualify as Hendrix's extension of his years playing with the Isley Brothers. Songs here such as "Freedom," "Izabella," "Angel," and "Dolly Dagger" show him finally acknowledging that musical world that he had largely by-passed, and the closer, "Belly Button Window," is one of his most successful traditional bluesy outings. The psychedelic workouts are more jam-like and experimental, and the ballads are prettier and even more dreamlike in their background soundscapes. "Astro Man" also captures a light moment for the artist, as he opens the guitar workout with a quote from the Mighty Mouse theme song, sotto voce beneath the guitar. And speaking of the guitar, despite the prominence of Hendrix's vocals on a lot of this album, the guitar playing is pretty much up to the standard that one would expect, if not necessarily the final versions of some of the songs. Most of the material on First Rays of the New Rising Sun surfaced among the various posthumous Hendrix LPs issued from the 1970s through the early 1990s, but a lot of it was tampered with, mostly in the form of posthumous overdubbed embellishments supervised by producer Alan Douglas -- all of that has been stripped off and the multi-track masters retrieved and restored. What he would have eventually come up with and released as his next musical statement is anyone's guess, but this gets you as close to that answer -- and that vision -- as you're ever likely to get. It is the best representation of where the songs were at the point that he died, and it's fully competitive, in terms of merits and surprises, with his trio of completed studio albums...(AllMusic)