Posted on 12/07/2017 2:36:13 AM PST by markomalley
Unreleased songs recorded by Jimi Hendrix between 1968 and 1970 will be released next year.
Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings announced Wednesday that they will release Hendrix’s “Both Sides of the Sky” on March 9, 2018. The 13-track album includes 10 songs that have never been released.
Hendrix died in 1970 at age 27. The new album is the third volume in a trilogy from the guitar hero’s archive. “Valleys of Neptune” was released in 2010, followed by “People, Hell and Angels,” released in 2013.
Eddie Kramer, who worked as recording engineer on every Hendrix album made during the artist’s life, said in an interview that 1969 was “a very experimental year” for Hendrix, and that he was blown away as he worked on the new album.
“The first thing is you put the tape on and you listen to it and the hairs just stand up right on the back of your neck and you go, ’Oh my God. This is too (expletive) incredible,” said Kramer. “It’s an incredible thing. Forty, 50 years later here we are and I’m listening to these tapes going, ‘Oh my God, that’s an amazing performance.’”
Many of the album’s tracks were recorded by Band of Gypsys, Hendrix’s trio with Buddy Miles and Billy Cox. Stephen Stills appears on two songs: “$20 Fine” and “Woodstock.”
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Also, Acoustic Sounds has sent to me their Winter 2017 catalog. Jimi Hendrix on the cover and on the reverse of the cover page inside is the announcement that coming soon are “Are You Experienced” and “Axis Bold As Love” in SACD format with pure DSD mastering. Man, this is going to sound awesome. !! Finally get to hear Mitch Mitchell’s drums in this amazing format.
I’d love to see some great unheard material released but I’m guessing this is the dregs of the dregs. Hopefully Eddie Kramer and the Hendrix estate will prove me wrong.
At the same time, when was the last time a really good contemporary rock band had a platinum album? Check out the October 2017 Gold and Platinum awards.. The only rock winners were Foo Fighters, Imagine Dragons and Joan Jett...not exactly spring chickens (except for Imagine Dragons).
On the surface, there isn't a plethora of really strong contemporary acts nowadays. Or are there - How many of us listen exclusively to Classic Rewind or Classic Vinyl on XM but won't take a chance on Underground Garage or Octane or any other new music channel? When was the last time people got out to clubs and soaked in 5 or 6 unsigned bands for a $10 cover charge? Yea, most of them will suck but there WILL BE one or two that are good enough to compel people to maybe part with $5 for their self-recorded/totally DIY CD or other merchandise.
I love my Who and Hendrix, but I believe if I don't try to listen to, and buy some new band's music then rock will go the way of blues, jazz, and classical and become a marginal art form. Indeed, had we not been willing to take a chance on Trump, we'd have President Clinton beating Jeb! in the last election.
I would submit that there IS a supply of good, young (and maybe middle age) bands out there...our job is to find them otherwise all we're going to get is corporate, spoon-fed globalist dreck like Arianna Grande, Lady Gaga, Ed Sheehan et al.
Hendrix could never make it today - he couldn’t sing Rap.
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Psst. When rock and roll first came about ASCAP would not publish hillbilly or race records and they weren’t about to publish their offspring, rock and roll. BMI did and when BMI suddenly had all of the hits on the radio, ASCAP cried “payola” (which had always existed).
Rock and roll wasn’t found on the big labels (and Columbia was the last to release it). Sun, Imperial, Chess, and other labels had the hits.
The last time big labels were genuinely interested in buying up new rock acts was the early 1990s (with another stab around 2000, importing album from bands overseas and releasing them as ‘new’). Independent label acts were again taking to the charts and Warner Entertainment was buying into many small labels with the hopes that if something hit at least they’d own a stake in it.
After the death of Kurt Cobain, independents were shown the door and we got an ever changing stage show of former Disney kid singers with choreographed dancers. Same thing happened in the 1950s when Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Big Bopper, Richie Valens, Eddie Cochran either died, were jailed, cast out, or conformed and suddenly replaced with poster idol crooners (a number of which were gay) and a lot of singers named “Bobby”. As Jerry Lee Lewis says, the Beatles changed their racket and rock and roll came back.
The Beatles didn’t get signed easily in America either. 5 labels (Decca and MGM passed, they worked their way their Swan, VeeJay, and Tollie was a label made for them). Performers from America who’d seen them in Europe in the 50s and 60s tried to impress their managers but were told that the guitar group sound was “out”.
There is no interest in putting rock and roll in the culture and yes it is already marginalized.
With Hendrix’s premature passing, we were spared his disco album or dabbling with drum synths in the 80s.
Mmmm, analog.
I didn't click on the linked article, (I'm in work) but are these being pressed into vinyl, too? Prefer it to digitized (my ears only hear analog).
Hey there, fellow audiophile!
Even back then he was slurred and second-guessed...he had enlisted in the Army and served with the 101st Airborne until an injury forced him out.
He openly supported the troops in Vietnam, and saw China as the looming danger to the West.
Dying young always helps to solidify your status as a legend.
He also would be in trouble today, coming to a concert wearing a confederate battle flag as he once did.
Jimi Hendrix mega-dittos!
“coming soon are “Are You Experienced” and “Axis Bold As Love” in SACD format with pure DSD mastering. Man, this is going to sound awesome. !! “
I love Jimmy but his recordings are not great. I think you will be let down by the “remastered” “hi-def” releases. You need to have quality original recordings for remastering to make it worth while. The beginning of Voodoo Child will sound awesome but once the band starts the quality falls apart. I hope I am wrong because I would love to have his music cranking at 110 decibels and be able to enjoy it.
These unreleased recordings will sound like they were recorded in a garage. I have bought some newer (last couple decades) compilations that claim “unreleased” versions and they sound awful, some good jams though.
BINGO!!!!!
47 years after the man died, how on earth is there anything left to release?
Yeah, doubt he had the lip synch skills necessary today, not to mention he actually can play an instrument and he could write songs. Couldn’t be a musical ‘artist’ today.
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Yet I would argue that back in the 1970s a band was given time (maybe because the suits weren't busInessmen) to develop. Queen's first few albums aren't all that great. The Who didn't hit it big until 4 years after My Generation. Metallica literally had no airplay until their fourth album. And so on.
While the shortened ROI timeframe certainly facilitates the growth in the horrible pop we get today, I believe there is little interest in mingling culture with rock because rock is a masculine form of entertainment...in fact Joan Jett or Heart could probably thrash Coldplay or Ed Sheeran within an inch of their milquetoast lives. I bet that your average hard rock or metal or punk fan is a Deplorable...I've been to the shows in bars and met the fans; they're not wearing pink hats or demanding safe spaces.
Mark my words: with Trump's ascent, we will see a revival in good hard rock. But us geezers must stop listening to The Last Waltz on our iPhones and get to the clubs and patronize good, new bands.
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