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MisterJunior
Only problem for me here, and it's basically a nitpick, is the album art, which looks more fitting for something on the front of a crummy, questionably sourced bootleg on eBay than Hendrix's fourth studio LP. Valleys of Neptune, South Saturn Delta, Both Sides of the Sky, etc., all have much cooler album covers.
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clintbeed6793
This is such an incredible album. They did a good job putting this package together imho. It's just too bad Jimi died before he was able to get it finished and see it released the way he wanted. I honestly don't think Jimi hit his peak by the time of his death, judging by some of these later tunes. A terrible loss to the music world when he passed.
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MisterJunior
It is magnificent, as is so much of the archival stuff to be issued under his name. Even the cash-in stuff tends to be worthwhile. A segment of the music intelligentsia has made it fashionable to call Hendrix "overrated" in more recent years, but it's absurd -- he was an absolutely unfathomable talent who died before (or perhaps just as he was entering) his prime. The live recordings from toward the end of his life as well as the unreleased/unfinished studio recordings are all the evidence needed to show that he was only getting better as a player, in terms of his improvisational skills in particular, and as a songwriter. I have no doubt he would be even more widely hailed as perhaps the greatest to ever pick up the guitar had he lived even another couple of years.
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WildRhubarb
Very good comment, as per usual. And I think this release is probably indeed the closest we have to what the fourth album would've been like. The songwriting direction he was going in with 'Drifting', in particular, and the other glimpses we see of this in 'Suddenly November Morning ' make me pine for what never was.
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DavidSmith98
he has the 3 original albums, and band of gypsys, and then this. so 5 albums, two of which are double albums. all amazing.
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arrowe1969
The thinking persons Hendrix album. Just overflowing with great songs. Brilliant!!!
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