This is not your standard Jimi Hendrix collection as it contains many hard to find albums and singles released in Germany, France, the UK, the US and Japan that have been ripped to a perfect FLAC.. Enjoy!!
James Marshall Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most influential musicians of all time. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music".
Born in Seattle, Washington, Hendrix began playing guitar at the age of 15. In 1961, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and trained as a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division; he was granted an honorable discharge the following year. Soon afterward, he moved to Clarksville, Tennessee, and began playing gigs on the Chitlin' Circuit, earning a place in the Isley Brothers' backing band and later with Little Richard, with whom he continued to work through mid-1965. He then played with Curtis Knight and the Squires before moving to England in late 1966 after being discovered by Linda Keith, who in turn interested bassist Chas Chandler of the Animals in becoming his first manager. Within months, Hendrix had earned three UK top ten hits with the Jimi Hendrix Experience: "Hey Joe", "Purple Haze", and "The Wind Cries Mary". He achieved fame in the U.S. after his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, and in 1968 his third and final studio album, Electric Ladyland, reached number one in the U.S.; it was Hendrix's most commercially successful release and his first and only number one album. The world's highest-paid performer, he headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970, before his accidental death from barbiturate-related asphyxia on September 18, 1970, at the age of 27.
Hendrix was inspired musically by American rock and roll and electric blues. He favored overdriven amplifiers with high volume and gain, and was instrumental in popularizing the previously undesirable sounds caused by guitar amplifier feedback. He was also one of the first guitarists to make extensive use of tone-altering effects units, such as fuzz tone, Octavia, wah-wah, and Uni-Vibe in mainstream rock. He was the first artist to use stereophonic phasing effects in music recordings. Holly George-Warren of Rolling Stone commented: "Hendrix pioneered the use of the instrument as an electronic sound source. Players before him had experimented with feedback and distortion, but Hendrix turned those effects and others into a controlled, fluid vocabulary every bit as personal as the blues with which he began."
Hendrix was the recipient of several music awards during his lifetime and posthumously. In 1967, readers of Melody Maker voted him the Pop Musician of the Year, and in 1968, Rolling Stone declared him the Performer of the Year. Disc and Music Echo honored him with the World Top Musician of 1969 and in 1970, Guitar Player named him the Rock Guitarist of the Year. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Rolling Stone ranked the band's three studio albums, Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love, and Electric Ladyland, among the 100 greatest albums of all time, and they ranked Hendrix as the greatest guitarist and the sixth greatest artist of all time.
Albums Included:
1966 - Gloria [West German Polydor Vinyl 24-96 FLAC][VH]
1966 - Hey Joe [UK Polydor Mono 7 Inch Vinyl 24-48 ALAC][Best]
1967 - Are You Experienced [UK Polydor Mono Vinyl 24-96 FLAC][Prof. Stoned 2013]
1967 - Burning Of The Midnight Lamp [UK Track Mono 7 Inch Vinyl 24-48 ALAC][Best]
1967 - Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced [US Vinyl 24-96 FLAC][Best]
1967 - Purple Haze [UK Track 45 rpm Mono Vinyl 24-96 FLAC][Best]
1967 - The Singles [UK Mono Vinyl FLAC][Best]
1967 - Axis Bold As Love [UK Track Mono Vinyl 24-96 FLAC][Best]
1968 - Electric Ladyland [UK Track Vinyl FLAC][Best]
1968 - Electric Ladyland, Part 1 & 2 [Original UK Track Vinyl 24-96 FLAC][Crispi]
1968 - Cafe au Go Go, NYC (Blues at Midnight)
1969 - Band Of Gypsys [Japanese Puppet Cover Vinyl FLAC][Best]
1970 - Band Of Gypsys [West German Polydor Vinyl 24-96 FLAC][VH]
1970 - Stepping Stone [US Reprise 45rpm Vinyl 24-96 FLAC][Prof. Stoned]
1971 - Angel [UK Vinyl 24-96 FLAC][Best]
1971 - Hendrix In The West [West German Polydor Vinyl 24-96 FLAC][VH]
1971 - Isle Of Wight [West German Polydor Vinyl 24-96 FLAC][VH]
1971 - The Cry Of Love [US Vinyl 24-48 ALAC][Best]
1971 - Rainbow Bridge [US Vinyl 24-96 FLAC][Robert Ludwig][Prof.Stoned]
1972 - In The West [US Vinyl 24-96 FLAC][Robert Ludwig][Prof. Stoned]
1973 - Loose Ends [West German Polydor Vinyl 24-96 FLAC][VH]
1973 - War Heroes [Vinyl 24-96 FLAC][Best]
1975 - Crash Landing [West German Polydor Vinyl 24-96 FLAC][VH]
1975 - Jimi Plays Berkeley [France Barclay Vinyl 24-96 FLAC]
1975 - Midnight Lightning [West German Polydor Vinyl 24-96 FLAC][VH]
2011 - Fire & Touch You [Legacy RSD Vinyl FLAC][Galemark]
2013 - People, Hell and Angels [US Legacy Vinyl 24-96 FLAC]
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