Jimi Hendrix - "Electric Ladyland" (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition with new 5.1 mix)

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Electric Ladyland Deluxe Edition includes a full color, 48-page book containing Jimi’s handwritten lyrics, poem and instructions to his record label, as well as never before published photos from the recording sessions that were shot by Eddie Kramer himself. All contained in a deluxe casemade book with new cover art which is true to Hendrix’s original vision of the album’s cover: a Linda (McCartney) Eastman photograph of the band and children at the statue of Alice In Wonderland in New York’s Central Park.

CD1: the original album, now newly remastered by Bernie Grundman from the original analog tapes.
CD2: Electric Ladyland: The Early Takes, which presents 20 never before heard demos and studio outtakes from this period in Hendrix’s career.
CD3: Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live At the Hollywood Bowl 9/14/68, part of Experience Hendrix’s Dagger Records official bootleg series. The never before released recording captures the band and the mounting excitement that took place just weeks before the release of Electric Ladyland.
Blu-ray: includes the acclaimed full-length documentary At Last… The Beginning: The Making of Electric Ladyland plus a new 5.1 surround sound mix of the entire original album by Hendrix’s original engineer Eddie Kramer plus the original stereo mixes in uncompressed 24 bit/96 kz high resolution audio.

Tracklist
[CD1 - Electric Ladyland: The Original Album (Newly Remastered)]
1. … And the Gods Made Love
2. Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)
3. Crosstown Traffic
4. Voodoo Chile
5. Little Miss Strange
6. Long Hot Summer Night
7. Come On (Part I)
8. Gypsy Eyes
9. Burning of the Midnight Lamp
10. Rainy Day, Dream Away
11. 1983….(A Merman I Should Turn To Be)
12. Moon, Turn the Tides….Gently Gently Away
13. Still Raining, Still Dreaming
14. House Burning Down
15. All Along the Watchtower
16. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

[CD2 - Electric Ladyland: The Early Takes]
1. 1983…(A Merman I Should Turn To Be)
2. Voodoo Chile
3. Cherokee Mist
4. Hear My Train A Comin’
5. Angel
6. Gypsy Eyes
7. Somewhere
8. Long Hot Summer Night [Demo 1]
9. Long Hot Summer Night [Demo 3]
10. Long Hot Summer Night [Demo 4]
11. Snowballs At My Window
12. My Friend
13. At Last…The Beginning
14. Angel Caterina (1983)
15. Little Miss Strange
16. Long Hot Summer Night [Take 1]
17. Long Hot Summer Night [Take 14]
18. Rainy Day, Dream Away
19. Rainy Day Shuffle
20. 1983...(A Merman I Should Turn To Be)

[CD3 - Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live At The Hollywood Bowl 9/14/68]
1. Introduction
2. Are You Experienced
3. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
4. Red House
5. Foxey Lady
6. Fire
7. Hey Joe
8. Sunshine of Your Love
9. I Won’t Live Today
10. Little Wing
11. Star Spangled Banner
12. Purple Haze

[Blu-ray]
1. At Last… The Beginning: The Making of Electric Ladyland documentary
2. Electric Ladyland Uncompressed LPCM Stereo 24b/96k
3. Electric Ladyland Uncompressed LPCM 5.1 Surround 24b/96k
4. Electric Ladyland DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Surround 24b/96k


Due 11/8/2018

Amazon USA
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GGPT67F/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon Canada
Available for pre-order soon:
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07GGPT67F/?tag=imwanca-20

Amazon UK
Available for pre-order soon:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07GGPT67F/?tag=imwan-21

[alucard]

Sounds interesting,
even so I get a bit fed up of buying again and again the same records for a couple of unreleased tracks and a "definitive" analog remaster.

[Steve F.]

Nice cover art - as shown on Amazon

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[Scrotum Scissor]

I initially got this album back in the summer of '85, while on a lengthy roadtrip in West-Germany with my dad. I was 14 and really wanted the breasty cover, but seeing as I was travelling with the grump I had to get the other one with no breasts. Not because that asshole disliked breasts, rather quite the opposite; I sort of pretended to be ignorant of breasts as part of my rebellion against him.

Later on, when I turned 19 to start studies and moved into my own tiny place downtown in Bergen, I instantly sold my non-breast rendition and bought the one with breasts on it.

Fantastic, freaky, groovy and still celestial stuff. Nowadays I can even dig the 14-minute dark blues of "Voodoo Chile".

[calyx]

Nice cover art - as shown on Amazon

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Impressive ! Influenced by the White Album ?

Funny, I have used the Linda McCartney photo as cover for the album on my iTunes for a while.

[JJ88]

Will the versions of certain things on that bonus disc be in their original state, or the Frankenstein versions used for those (ahem) 'new albums' of recent years? I didn't hear it but I remember the version of 'Somewhere' on one of those was poorly received.

This album was barely touched live. Notice the setlist of this show features a grand total of one song from the album!

A pity there wasn't a similar set for the debut with the mono mix included.

[Trane]

I initially got this album back in the summer of '85, while on a lengthy roadtrip in West-Germany with my dad. I was 14 and really wanted the breasty cover, but seeing as I was travelling with the grump I had to get the other one with no breasts. Not because that asshole disliked breasts, rather quite the opposite; I sort of pretended to be ignorant of breasts as part of my rebellion against him.

Later on, when I turned 19 to start studies and moved into my own tiny place downtown in Bergen, I instantly sold my non-breast rendition and bought the one with breasts on it.

Fantastic, freaky, groovy and still celestial stuff. Nowadays I can even dig the 14-minute dark blues of "Voodoo Chile".

Bought the album (North Am cover) around 76 and it was instantly my fave Hendrix (and still is today), but I'd only had RUXp before

I instantly loved Voodo Chile.... but had the hardest time with the C-side §1983 and Tide), but nowadays, it's definitely that side that I play more. I actually reach for EL (CD format) for those two tracks alone.

If I'm going to buy this another time, I'd like to at least have the nude cover... Not that it would give me a boner or get me turgid, but because of the statement it made for 1968.

[JJ88]

I'm reading that the live show may be an audience recording.

[ronmac]

I'm reading that the live show may be an audience recording.

It is. I've had it for many years and it is a great performance. Give it a listen. I assume it's the same source, but this is low bit rate.

http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/j...1968-09-14.asx

This is very tempting.

I expect the outtakes to be relatively undoctored. I've had many of those for years, too and they need no work.

[mogrooves]

In addition to the "naked" cover, it was released in the UK as two single LPs with different covers.

[MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER]

9. I Won’t Live Today

isn't that supposed to be "I Don't Live Today"?

[ronmac]

The remaster will be interesting to hear. Eddie Kramer took some flak for his remasters.

I can't wait to hear the outtakes.

[ronmac]

9. I Won’t Live Today

isn't that supposed to be "I Don't Live Today"?

yep.

[ronmac]

It is. I've had it for many years and it is a great performance. Give it a listen. I assume it's the same source, but this is low bit rate.

http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/j...1968-09-14.asx

This is very tempting.

I expect the outtakes to be relatively undoctored. I've had many of those for years, too and they need no work.

I just realized I used the wrong link. Here are the WMA and MP3 links:

http://www.archive.org/serve/jimihen...1968-09-14.wma

http://www.archive.org/serve/jimihen...1968-09-14.mp3

[Vic333]

Was a favorite of mine when I was younger. Definitelty my favorite Hendrix. Would have jumped on a box like this 10 years (or so) ago. Shame there's not more live recordings of the album material.

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[ronmac]

Was a favorite of mine when I was younger. Definitelty my favorite Hendrix. Would have jumped on a box like this 10 years (or so) ago. Shame there's not more live recordings of the album material.

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The only songs I know of him performing live from Electric Ladyland are:

"Come On (Part I)"
"Burning of the Midnight Lamp"
"All Along the Watchtower"
"Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)"

[Mythos]

In 1976, I had "Voodoo Chile" spelled out in big "Prism" letters under the bumper of my 71 Pinto, and people would constantly ask me what Voodoo Chile (I guess they thought it was like Hormel Chile) was...

[Mister Triscuits]

people would constantly ask me what Voodoo Chile (I guess they thought it was like Hormel Chile) was...

Anything like Voodoo Soup?

[JJ88]

"Burning of the Midnight Lamp"

I don't count that one because it was a single even before Axis: Bold As Love was released, and also appeared on the UK Smash Hits before Electric Ladyland was released.

A fair amount of the album would have been difficult to do live because Hendrix was heavily into studio experimentation at this point. But it's surprising that things like 'Gypsy Eyes' and 'Crosstown Traffic' were never played in concert.

[Halmyre]

I bought 'Electric Ladyland' back in the late 1980s; it was the last piece of vinyl I ever purchased.

[Trane]

I see the original album and the remaster are still on only one disc, which was too small by a couple minutes for the full album's contents, so previous copies were missing parts of one song (possibly on the C-side >> I can see corporate twats axing away some of what they'd see as "noise".
Has this been remedied to, or do we still lave an amputated version is the later CD version?

I expect the outtakes to be relatively undoctored. I've had many of those for years, too and they need no work.

Since when has that stopped anyone butchering the sonics when dealing with Hendrix stuff?

In addition to the "naked" cover, it was released in the UK as two single LPs with different covers.

I suppose you mean a double disc affair with the nudie artwork and an abridged single-disc affair called Electric Jimi H as below
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/al...-jimi-hendrix/

or these two
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/al...dyland-part-1/
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/al...dyland-part-2/

I bought 'Electric Ladyland' back in the late 1980s; it was the last piece of vinyl I ever purchased.

could've done much worse, I guess...

Interestingly enough, though a relatively late convert to CD around 91 (I did when I had no choice with Anglagard's Hybris and Anekdoten's Vemod), I can't remember which vinyl I bought last in those medium-conversion days. It would've probably been Let Love Rule. Sex Blood Sugar Magik (the grunge stuff I bought as CD)

[JJ88]

I can't say as I've ever heard about an edited-down version of the album on CD. The first CD release in the UK, when the catalogue was still on Polydor, was a double. And it fitted on 80 minute discs when they came along.

I quite like the 90s CDs for the first three albums. I think things get messier with the material which was released posthumously (Cry Of Love etc.). IMHO there still hasn't been a particularly satisfactory collection of all that material.

[Fracktured]

For sure a great album but I can’t see me spending $60 for another version of it.


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[Zappathustra]

A good album but not in the least perfect. Jimmy's guitar is too noisy, and his playing a bit sloppy at places. The 2 minutes of Have You Ever Been are too mainstream and destroy the final result, despite 78 minutes of great music. Possibly this would be a masterpiece, if it wasn't for this stupid song that ruins all. The production is ok, but mellotrons are low in the mix.

Overall it's an ok effort but I prefer 90125. Or Hold Your Fire. Jimmy died young and didn't reach maturity.

[Mister Triscuits]

The 2 minutes of Have You Ever Been are too mainstream and destroy the final result

A gorgeous, soulful intro (following the curtain-raiser of "And the Gods Made Love") to one of the greatest albums of the sixties. I love the story that after recording the vocal, Hendrix emerged from the booth in tears, saying "I can sing, man, I can sing!"