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- CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE
WEEK
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience "Are You Experienced?" 1967 (USA/UK)
- Ever
since I first heard this album at age 14 it has been one of my all-time
favorite records. Nobody ever came out with a more earth-shaking
debut album, and even aside from the revolutionary guitar playing, this
is a perfect collection of rocknroll songs. Some may claim the UK
version of this album was better, but that's nonsense; the US
version (released a few months later) replaces three non-essential
tracks with single sides (the classics "Purple Haze", "The Wind Cries
Mary" and "Hey Joe" -- I mean, how could this album NOT start with
"Purple Haze"??) -- and furthermore, the album art on the US version is
far groovier. Jimi would have been 64 years old this week.
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