Ref.: Polydor 1991 AAD
Date: 1991
Musicians: Jimi Hendrix (guitar, vocals) / Noel Redding (bass, vocals) / Mitch Mitchell (drums, vocals) / Mike Finnigan (organ) / Stevie Winwood (organ) / Al Kooper (piano) / Chris Wood (flute) / Freddie Smith (tenor sax) / Jack Casady (bass) / Larry Faucette (congas) / Buddy Miles (drums) 'Voodoo Chile', Steve Winwood & Jack Casady, 'All Along the Watchtower', Dave Mason on guitar
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Date: 1991
Musicians: Jimi Hendrix (guitar, vocals) / Noel Redding (bass, vocals) / Mitch Mitchell (drums, vocals) / Mike Finnigan (organ) / Stevie Winwood (organ) / Al Kooper (piano) / Chris Wood (flute) / Freddie Smith (tenor sax) / Jack Casady (bass) / Larry Faucette (congas) / Buddy Miles (drums) 'Voodoo Chile', Steve Winwood & Jack Casady, 'All Along the Watchtower', Dave Mason on guitar
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Tracks
01. ... and the Gods made Love info
02. Have you ever been (to Electric Ladyland) info
03. Crosstown Traffic info
04. Voodoo Child info
05. Little Miss Strange info
06. Long Hot Summer Night info
07. Come On (Let The Good Times Roll) info
08. Gypsy Eyes info
10. Rainy Day, Dream Away info
11. 1983 ... (A Merman I should turn to be) info
12. Moon, turn the Tides ... gently gently away info
13. Still Raining, Still Dreaming info
14. House Burning Down info
15. All Along The Watchtower info
16. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) info
Notes
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Electric Ladyland
Electric Ladyland is the third and final album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, released in October 1968 on Reprise Records, catalogue 2RS 6307, as a double album. It is the last Hendrix studio album professionally produced under his supervision. It topped the Billboard 200 album chart for two weeks in November 1968. The controversial original UK album cover photograph was of a group of nude women, which was soon replaced by a more modest fiery portrait of Hendrix singing.
Released: October 25, 1968
Recorded: Olympic Studios, London & Record Plant Studios, New York, July 1967, December 1967, January 1968, April–August 1968
Length: 75:47
RELEASES
Reprise Records, catalogue 2RS 6307, 1968, 2LP
Track
Barclay
Polydor, 1991, AAD
MUSICIANS
(Credits taken from the 1993 MCA compact disc booklet.)
* Jimi Hendrix – vocals, electric guitar, piano, percussion, comb and paper kazoo, electric harpsichord, bass on "Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)", "Long Hot Summer Night", "Gypsy Eyes", "1983", "House Burning Down", and "All Along the Watchtower"
* Noel Redding – backing vocals, bass on "Crosstown Traffic", "Little Miss Strange", "Come On (Let the Good Times Roll)", "Burning of the Midnight Lamp", "Rainy Day Dream Away", "Still Raining Still Dreaming", and "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)", acoustic guitar and lead vocals on "Little Miss Strange"
* Mitch Mitchell – backing vocals, drums except as below, percussion, lead vocals on "Little Miss Strange"
Additional musicians
* Jack Casady – bass on "Voodoo Chile"
* Larry Faucette – congas on "Rainy Day Dream Away" and "Still Raining Still Dreaming"
* Mike Finnigan – organ on "Rainy Day Dream Away" and "Still Raining Still Dreaming"
* Brian Jones - percussion on "All Along the Watchtower"
* Al Kooper – piano on "Long Hot Summer Night"
* Dave Mason – twelve string guitar on "All Along the Watchtower", backing vocals on "Crosstown Traffic"
* Buddy Miles – drums on "Rainy Day Dream Away" and "Still Raining Still Dreaming"
* Freddie Smith – tenor saxophone on "Rainy Day Dream Away" and "Still Raining Still Dreaming"
* The Sweet Inspirations – backing vocals on "Burning of the Midnight Lamp"
* Steve Winwood – organ on "Voodoo Chile"
* Chris Wood – flute on "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)"
Production
* Producer - Jimi Hendrix
* Engineers - Eddie Kramer and Gary Kellgren
* Mixed by - Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Kramer, and Gary Kellgren
* Arranged by Jimi Hendrix
* US cover liner note by Jimi Hendrix
* US cover design - Karl Ferris
* US cover inside photos - Linda Eastman and David Sygall
* US art direction - Ed Thrasher
* UK cover design - David King, Rob O'Connor
* UK cover inside photos - David Montgomery
First CD remaster by Lee Herschberg (Reprise 6307-2)
Second CD remaster by Alan Douglas - Remastering by Joe Gastwirt, Liner notes by Michael Fairchild
Third CD remaster by Experience Hendrix - Remastering by Eddie Kramer and George Marino, Art direction by Vartan, Liner notes by Jeff Leve, Essay by Derek Taylor
Original Track release cover
Original Reprise release cover (front)
Original Reprise release cover (back)
Original Track release cover (darker)
UK CD release (front +back)
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E14 ELECTRIC LADYLAND
Recorded: 7/67 - 8/68 A304,91 529,531,624 Released: 10/68
1. ...And the Gods Made Love (1) 1:19 2. Little Miss Strange (2) 2:49
(Have You Ever Been To) Electric Long Hot Summer Night (1) 3:26
Ladyland (4) 2:11 Come On (Pt. 1) (4) 4:07
Crosstown Traffic (1) 2:25 Gypsy Eyes (1) 3:43
Voodoo Chile (6) 15:09 Burning of the Midnight Lamp (2) 3:37
3. Rainy Day, Dream Away (1) / 3:42 4. Still Raining, Still Dreaming (1) 4:23
1983 (2) / 4:19 House Burning Down (1) 4:32
Moon, Turn the Tides...Gently, Gently All along the Watchtower (3) 3:59
Away 10:24 Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (22) 5:11
Released by: Reprise (USA, Canada) 2RS-6307; Reprise/Capitol (USA) STBO-91568 (Capitol Record Club); Track (Eng) 613-008/9; Polydor (Australia, N.Z.) 613-008/9, 2679-029 / 2488-206/7 (1976); Polydor (S. Africa) 2488-206/7 (1976); Polydor (N.Z., India) 2612-002 / 184-183/4; Polydor/World Record Club (Australia) WRC-R90156/7; Polydor (U.K.) 2657-012 (discs numbered 2310-269/70), SPDLP-3, 287-847-233-1 (1991); Polydor (Ger) 184-183/4, 2335-203, 2612-037, 2612-002; Polydor (Fra) 2612-002 / 2488-206/7; Polydor (Hol, Fra) 2488-206/7, 2679-029; Barclay (Fra) 0920-060/1, 80-583/4; Polydor (Jap) SMP-9301/2 (4/69), MP-9301/2 (1969), MPZ-8111/2 (German cover, 1977), MPU-9705/6 (1979), MPX-9955/6 (1980), 28MM-0604/5; MCA (US, EEC) MCA2-11600 (4/15/97); Polydor (Uruguay) 184-183/4 (1980); Polydor (Peru) 613-008/9; Polydor (Mex) 220100/01 (with "Axis" cover); Polydor (Yugoslavia) RTB-5536/7; Sony/Legacy (US, Eu) 88697-62164-29 (3/8/10); Reprise/CD 6307-2(1991); Polydor/CD (U.K., Ger) 823-359-2 (1989); Polydor/CD (U.K., Ger) 847-233-2 (1991, 1993); Polydor/CD (Jap) P58P-25001/2 (1986), P36P-22004/5 (1989), POCP-2021 (1991); MCA/CD (USA) MCAD-10895 (9/28/93); MCA/CD (USA, EEC) MCAD-11600 (4/22/97); MCA/CD (Jap) UICY-9008; Sony/Legacy/CD (US, Eu) 88697-62163-2 (3/8/10)
Also released as: part of a 4-LP box set SUNS AND RAINBOW (Barclay (Fra) 930016/17/18/19 (1979?)); part of 4-CD box set SESSIONS (Polydor/CD (Ger) 847-232-2 (2/91)); part of THE EXPERIENCE COLLECTION, a 4-CD box set (MCA/CD MCAD4-10936 (1993))
Sides 1 and 4 also released as ELECTRIC LADYLAND (Polydor (Israel) 184-183/4; Polydor (Peru) 613-008; Polydor (Italy) D-184-183 / SLPHM)
Sides 3 and 4 also released as ELECTRIC LADYLAND PART 1 (Track 613-010, Polydor 2310-271 Super (late 1968); Polydor (South Africa) SLPHM-184719)
Sides 1 and 2 also released as ELECTRIC LADYLAND PART 2 (Track 613-017, Polydor 2310-272 Super (late 1968); Polydor (South Africa) SLPHM-184720)
Sides 2 and 4 also released as ELECTRIC JIMI HENDRIX (Track 2856 002 (late 1968))
Sides 1 and 4 also released as JIMI HENDRIX (Zani (Malaysia) ZI-514-666)
1|1: [S035] Record Plant, 6/29?/68, with Jimi (b), Jimi? (timpani, g)
1|2: [S036] Record Plant, 4/68, 5/68 or 6/68, with Jimi (b), Mitch Mitchell (d), and Jimi or Mitch Mitchell (ta)
1|3: [S037] Olympic Sound Studios, 12/20/67-12/21/67, with Jimi (p, kazoo), Noel Redding (b, hv), Mitch Mitchell (d, hv), and Dave Mason (hv); Record Plant, 4/68 or 5/68 (additional recordings)
1|4: [S038] Record Plant, 5/1/68 or 5/2/68, with Jack Casady (b), Mitch Mitchell (d), and Steve Winwood (or); Record Plant, 6/10?/68 (final mix)
2|1: [S039] Record Plant, 4/22/68, with Noel Redding (g, b, lv) and Mitch Mitchell (d, hv); Record Plant, 4/25/68 (additional recordings); Record Plant, 4/28/68 (mixing); Record Plant, 5/5/68 (new bass take)
2|2: [S040] Record Plant, 4/18/68, with Jimi (b, hv), Mitch Mitchell (d), Al Kooper (p), and unknown (hv); Record Plant, 7/26/68 (final mix)
2|3: [S041] Record Plant, 8/27/68 (take 14), with Noel Redding (b) and Mitch Mitchell (d)
2|4: [S042] Record Plant, last week 4/68 or first week 5/68, with Jimi (b) and Mitch Mitchell (d)
2|5: [S019] Mayfair Studios, 7/6/67 and 7/7/67, with Jimi (harpsichord, mellotron), Noel Redding (b), Mitch Mitchell (d), and unknown (ta); Mayfair Studios, 7/20/67 (additional recordings and final mix)
3|1: [S043] Record Plant, 6/10/68, with Jimi? (b), Buddy Miles (d), Mike Finnegan (or), Freddie Smith (sax) and Larry Faucette (congas)
3|2: [S044] Record Plant, 4/23?/68, with Jimi (b, pe), Mitch Mitchell (d), and Chris Wood (flute)
3|3: [S045] Record Plant, 4/23?/68
4|1: [S046] Record Plant, 6/10/68, with Jimi? (b), Buddy Miles (d), Mike Finnegan (or)
4|2: [S047] Record Plant, 5/1/68, with Jimi (b) and Mitch Mitchell (d); Record Plant, 8/68 (additional recordings); Record Plant, 8/23/68 (final mix)
4|3: [S034] Olympic Sound Studios, 1/21/68, with Jimi (b), Mitch Mitchell (d), Dave Mason (acoustic g), Mitch Mitchell? (temple block), and unknown (ta); Record Plant, 4/68 or 5/68 (additional recordings)
4|4: [S048] Record Plant, 5/3/68, with Noel Redding (b), Mitch Mitchell (d), and Jimi or Mitch Mitchell (maracas); Record Plant, 5/68 (maracas overdub)
Electric Ladyland
Electric Ladyland is the third and final album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, released in October 1968 on Reprise Records, catalogue 2RS 6307, as a double album. It is the last Hendrix studio album professionally produced under his supervision. It topped the Billboard 200 album chart for two weeks in November 1968. The controversial original UK album cover photograph was of a group of nude women, which was soon replaced by a more modest fiery portrait of Hendrix singing.
Released: October 25, 1968
Recorded: Olympic Studios, London & Record Plant Studios, New York, July 1967, December 1967, January 1968, April–August 1968
Length: 75:47
RELEASES
Reprise Records, catalogue 2RS 6307, 1968, 2LP
Track
Barclay
Polydor, 1991, AAD
MUSICIANS
(Credits taken from the 1993 MCA compact disc booklet.)
* Jimi Hendrix – vocals, electric guitar, piano, percussion, comb and paper kazoo, electric harpsichord, bass on "Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)", "Long Hot Summer Night", "Gypsy Eyes", "1983", "House Burning Down", and "All Along the Watchtower"
* Noel Redding – backing vocals, bass on "Crosstown Traffic", "Little Miss Strange", "Come On (Let the Good Times Roll)", "Burning of the Midnight Lamp", "Rainy Day Dream Away", "Still Raining Still Dreaming", and "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)", acoustic guitar and lead vocals on "Little Miss Strange"
* Mitch Mitchell – backing vocals, drums except as below, percussion, lead vocals on "Little Miss Strange"
Additional musicians
* Jack Casady – bass on "Voodoo Chile"
* Larry Faucette – congas on "Rainy Day Dream Away" and "Still Raining Still Dreaming"
* Mike Finnigan – organ on "Rainy Day Dream Away" and "Still Raining Still Dreaming"
* Brian Jones - percussion on "All Along the Watchtower"
* Al Kooper – piano on "Long Hot Summer Night"
* Dave Mason – twelve string guitar on "All Along the Watchtower", backing vocals on "Crosstown Traffic"
* Buddy Miles – drums on "Rainy Day Dream Away" and "Still Raining Still Dreaming"
* Freddie Smith – tenor saxophone on "Rainy Day Dream Away" and "Still Raining Still Dreaming"
* The Sweet Inspirations – backing vocals on "Burning of the Midnight Lamp"
* Steve Winwood – organ on "Voodoo Chile"
* Chris Wood – flute on "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)"
Production
* Producer - Jimi Hendrix
* Engineers - Eddie Kramer and Gary Kellgren
* Mixed by - Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Kramer, and Gary Kellgren
* Arranged by Jimi Hendrix
* US cover liner note by Jimi Hendrix
* US cover design - Karl Ferris
* US cover inside photos - Linda Eastman and David Sygall
* US art direction - Ed Thrasher
* UK cover design - David King, Rob O'Connor
* UK cover inside photos - David Montgomery
First CD remaster by Lee Herschberg (Reprise 6307-2)
Second CD remaster by Alan Douglas - Remastering by Joe Gastwirt, Liner notes by Michael Fairchild
Third CD remaster by Experience Hendrix - Remastering by Eddie Kramer and George Marino, Art direction by Vartan, Liner notes by Jeff Leve, Essay by Derek Taylor
Original Track release cover
Original Reprise release cover (front)
Original Reprise release cover (back)
Original Track release cover (darker)
UK CD release (front +back)
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E14 ELECTRIC LADYLAND
Recorded: 7/67 - 8/68 A304,91 529,531,624 Released: 10/68
1. ...And the Gods Made Love (1) 1:19 2. Little Miss Strange (2) 2:49
(Have You Ever Been To) Electric Long Hot Summer Night (1) 3:26
Ladyland (4) 2:11 Come On (Pt. 1) (4) 4:07
Crosstown Traffic (1) 2:25 Gypsy Eyes (1) 3:43
Voodoo Chile (6) 15:09 Burning of the Midnight Lamp (2) 3:37
3. Rainy Day, Dream Away (1) / 3:42 4. Still Raining, Still Dreaming (1) 4:23
1983 (2) / 4:19 House Burning Down (1) 4:32
Moon, Turn the Tides...Gently, Gently All along the Watchtower (3) 3:59
Away 10:24 Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (22) 5:11
Released by: Reprise (USA, Canada) 2RS-6307; Reprise/Capitol (USA) STBO-91568 (Capitol Record Club); Track (Eng) 613-008/9; Polydor (Australia, N.Z.) 613-008/9, 2679-029 / 2488-206/7 (1976); Polydor (S. Africa) 2488-206/7 (1976); Polydor (N.Z., India) 2612-002 / 184-183/4; Polydor/World Record Club (Australia) WRC-R90156/7; Polydor (U.K.) 2657-012 (discs numbered 2310-269/70), SPDLP-3, 287-847-233-1 (1991); Polydor (Ger) 184-183/4, 2335-203, 2612-037, 2612-002; Polydor (Fra) 2612-002 / 2488-206/7; Polydor (Hol, Fra) 2488-206/7, 2679-029; Barclay (Fra) 0920-060/1, 80-583/4; Polydor (Jap) SMP-9301/2 (4/69), MP-9301/2 (1969), MPZ-8111/2 (German cover, 1977), MPU-9705/6 (1979), MPX-9955/6 (1980), 28MM-0604/5; MCA (US, EEC) MCA2-11600 (4/15/97); Polydor (Uruguay) 184-183/4 (1980); Polydor (Peru) 613-008/9; Polydor (Mex) 220100/01 (with "Axis" cover); Polydor (Yugoslavia) RTB-5536/7; Sony/Legacy (US, Eu) 88697-62164-29 (3/8/10); Reprise/CD 6307-2(1991); Polydor/CD (U.K., Ger) 823-359-2 (1989); Polydor/CD (U.K., Ger) 847-233-2 (1991, 1993); Polydor/CD (Jap) P58P-25001/2 (1986), P36P-22004/5 (1989), POCP-2021 (1991); MCA/CD (USA) MCAD-10895 (9/28/93); MCA/CD (USA, EEC) MCAD-11600 (4/22/97); MCA/CD (Jap) UICY-9008; Sony/Legacy/CD (US, Eu) 88697-62163-2 (3/8/10)
Also released as: part of a 4-LP box set SUNS AND RAINBOW (Barclay (Fra) 930016/17/18/19 (1979?)); part of 4-CD box set SESSIONS (Polydor/CD (Ger) 847-232-2 (2/91)); part of THE EXPERIENCE COLLECTION, a 4-CD box set (MCA/CD MCAD4-10936 (1993))
Sides 1 and 4 also released as ELECTRIC LADYLAND (Polydor (Israel) 184-183/4; Polydor (Peru) 613-008; Polydor (Italy) D-184-183 / SLPHM)
Sides 3 and 4 also released as ELECTRIC LADYLAND PART 1 (Track 613-010, Polydor 2310-271 Super (late 1968); Polydor (South Africa) SLPHM-184719)
Sides 1 and 2 also released as ELECTRIC LADYLAND PART 2 (Track 613-017, Polydor 2310-272 Super (late 1968); Polydor (South Africa) SLPHM-184720)
Sides 2 and 4 also released as ELECTRIC JIMI HENDRIX (Track 2856 002 (late 1968))
Sides 1 and 4 also released as JIMI HENDRIX (Zani (Malaysia) ZI-514-666)
1|1: [S035] Record Plant, 6/29?/68, with Jimi (b), Jimi? (timpani, g)
1|2: [S036] Record Plant, 4/68, 5/68 or 6/68, with Jimi (b), Mitch Mitchell (d), and Jimi or Mitch Mitchell (ta)
1|3: [S037] Olympic Sound Studios, 12/20/67-12/21/67, with Jimi (p, kazoo), Noel Redding (b, hv), Mitch Mitchell (d, hv), and Dave Mason (hv); Record Plant, 4/68 or 5/68 (additional recordings)
1|4: [S038] Record Plant, 5/1/68 or 5/2/68, with Jack Casady (b), Mitch Mitchell (d), and Steve Winwood (or); Record Plant, 6/10?/68 (final mix)
2|1: [S039] Record Plant, 4/22/68, with Noel Redding (g, b, lv) and Mitch Mitchell (d, hv); Record Plant, 4/25/68 (additional recordings); Record Plant, 4/28/68 (mixing); Record Plant, 5/5/68 (new bass take)
2|2: [S040] Record Plant, 4/18/68, with Jimi (b, hv), Mitch Mitchell (d), Al Kooper (p), and unknown (hv); Record Plant, 7/26/68 (final mix)
2|3: [S041] Record Plant, 8/27/68 (take 14), with Noel Redding (b) and Mitch Mitchell (d)
2|4: [S042] Record Plant, last week 4/68 or first week 5/68, with Jimi (b) and Mitch Mitchell (d)
2|5: [S019] Mayfair Studios, 7/6/67 and 7/7/67, with Jimi (harpsichord, mellotron), Noel Redding (b), Mitch Mitchell (d), and unknown (ta); Mayfair Studios, 7/20/67 (additional recordings and final mix)
3|1: [S043] Record Plant, 6/10/68, with Jimi? (b), Buddy Miles (d), Mike Finnegan (or), Freddie Smith (sax) and Larry Faucette (congas)
3|2: [S044] Record Plant, 4/23?/68, with Jimi (b, pe), Mitch Mitchell (d), and Chris Wood (flute)
3|3: [S045] Record Plant, 4/23?/68
4|1: [S046] Record Plant, 6/10/68, with Jimi? (b), Buddy Miles (d), Mike Finnegan (or)
4|2: [S047] Record Plant, 5/1/68, with Jimi (b) and Mitch Mitchell (d); Record Plant, 8/68 (additional recordings); Record Plant, 8/23/68 (final mix)
4|3: [S034] Olympic Sound Studios, 1/21/68, with Jimi (b), Mitch Mitchell (d), Dave Mason (acoustic g), Mitch Mitchell? (temple block), and unknown (ta); Record Plant, 4/68 or 5/68 (additional recordings)
4|4: [S048] Record Plant, 5/3/68, with Noel Redding (b), Mitch Mitchell (d), and Jimi or Mitch Mitchell (maracas); Record Plant, 5/68 (maracas overdub)
Reviews
Electric Ladyland (1968)- You might make the mistake of listening to this before the first two records. Don't. You have to get an appreciation for Hendrix's incredible technique and musical vision before you can sit through the longer tracks, which nonetheless are staggeringly brilliant - especially "Voodoo Chile" (the long blues jam featuring Steve Winwood and Jack Casady), and the electronic sound collage/sci fi jam "1983." The usual heavy rock masterpieces are clustered towards the end and equal or exceed their predecessors on earlier records, including Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" (rewritten and featuring Dave Mason on guitar); "House Burning Down"; and "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)." Some of the lighter pieces are also among Hendrix's finest work: the soulful title track; the irresistable "Crosstown Traffic," with a great kazoo part; and "Rainy Day/Still Raining," a single track split in two that features an amazing wah-wah'ed lead. I consider this not only Hendrix's masterpiece, but among the five most important rock records of all time. (JA)
- Personally, I could've lived without the "Voodoo Chile" jam, but this is a consistently terrific record anyway, and as the only record completely under Hendrix's control it merits careful study. (DBW)