The Making Of Are You Experienced
Disc 1: [72:15]
1. Foxy Lady (1) [mono, Track vinyl] 3:11
2. Foxy Lady (2) [stereo, Polydor CD] 3:14
3. Manic Depression (false start) [mono] 0:05
4. Manic Depression (11) [sim stereo, instrumental, sttp] 0:23
5. Manic Depression (12) [sim stereo, instrumental, sttp] 4:31
6. Manic Depression (10) [sim stereo, sttp] 3:36
7. Manic Depression (1) [mono, Track vinyl] 3:31
8. Manic Depression (2) [stereo, Polydor CD] 3:39
9. Red House [mono, pre-take chat]
10. Red House (1) [mono, Track vinyl] 3:45
11. Red House (2) [stereo] 1:26
12. Red House (3) [stereo] 1:42
13. Red House (4) [stereo] 3:02
14. Red House (5) [stereo] 3:50
15. Red House (6) [stereo, Smash Hits CD] 3:48
16. Can You See Me (7) [simulated stereo, instrumental,sttp] 1:37
17. Can You See Me (8) [simulated stereo, instrumental,sttp] 2:25
18. Can You See Me (9) [simulated stereo, instrumental,sttp] 1:33
19. Can You See Me (10) [simulated stereo, instrumental,sttp] 2:28
20. Can You See Me (11) [simulated stereo, sttp] 2:28
21. Can You See Me (1) [mono, Track vinyl] 2:30
22. Can You See Me (2) [stereo, Polydor CD] 2:29
23. Can You See Me (3) [simulated stereo, Legacy vinyl] 2:32
24. Love Or Confusion (1) [mono, Track vinyl] 3:06
25. Love Or Confusion (2) [stereo, Polydor CD] 3:10
26. I Don't Live Today (5) [stereo, instrumental, oots] 2:22
27. I Don't Live Today (6) [stereo, instrumental, oots] 1:09
Disc 2: [70:35]
1. I Don't Live Today (7) [stereo, instrumental, oots] 2:10
2. I Don't Live Today (4) [stereo, instrumental, oots] 4:18
3. I Don't Live Today (3) [stereo, oots] 4:19
4. I Don't Live Today (1) [mono, Track vinyl] 3:51
5. I Don't Live Today (2) [stereo, Polydor CD] 3:47
6. May This Be Love (1) [mono, Track vinyl] 2:56
7. May This Be Love (2) [mono, Barclay single] 3:10
8. May This Be Love (3) [stereo, Polydor CD] 3:07
9. Fire (86) [sim stereo, instrumental, sttp] 0:45
10. Fire (87) [sim stereo, instrumental, sttp] 0:09
11. Fire (88) [sim stereo, instrumental, sttp] 1:07
12. Fire (89) [sim stereo, instrumental, sttp] 1:48
13. Fire (90) [sim stereo, instrumental, sttp] 1:49+1:14
14. Fire (3) [mono, instrumental, oots] 2:34
15. Fire (1) [mono, Track vinyl] 2:32
16. Fire (2) [stereo, Polydor CD] 2:40
17. 3rd Stone From The Sun (4) [mono, double speed vocal, tape] 3:20
18. 3rd Stone From The Sun (1) [mono, Track vinyl] 6:31
19. 3rd Stone From The Sun (2) [stereo, Polydor CD] 6:38
20. Remember (3) [mono/sim stereo, instrumental, oots2/sttp] 0:30
(preceded by f.s. 0:04 and followed by false starts 0:07, 0:09)
21. Remember (4) [sim stereo, instrumental, sttp] 2:29
22. Remember (5) [sim stereo, instrumental, sttp] 0:46
(followed by false starts 0:07, 0:03)
23. Remember (6) [sim stereo, instrumental, sttp] 1:45
Disc 3: [72:03]
1. Remember (7) [sim stereo, instrumental, sttp] 2:54
(followed by false start 0:07)
2. Remember (8) [sim stereo, instrumental, sttp] 2:46
3. Remember (1) [mono, Track vinyl] 2:44
4. Remember (2) [stereo, Smash Hits CD] 2:47
5. Are You Experienced? (3) [mono, backward guitar, Track vinyl] 2:49
6. Are You Experienced? (1) [mono, Track vinyl] 4:00
7. Are You Expereinced? (2) [stereo, Polydor CD] 4:08
8. Purple Haze (4) [mono, overdub] 2:58
9. Purple Haze (4) [stereo, overdub] 2:39
10. Purple Haze (1) [mono, Track single] 2:45
11. Purple Haze (1) [mono, Reprise vinyl] 2:45
12. Purple Haze (2) [stereo, Polydor CD] 2:46
13. Purple Haze (3) [simulated stereo, Legacy vinyl] 2:42
14. Purple Haze (5) [simulated stereo, Symphony of Experience] 2:16
15. Manic Depression (1) [mono, Reprise vinyl] 3:32
16. Hey Joe (69) [stereo, sttp] 3:43
17. Hey Joe (70) [stereo, instrumental, sttp] 3:11
18. Hey Joe (71) [stereo, instrumental, sttp] 1:33
19. Hey Joe (72) [stereo, sttp] 3:29
20. Hey Joe (4) [mono, vocal slip up, Unsurpassed Masters] 3:04
21. Hey Joe (1) [mono, Polydor single] 3:19
22. Hey Joe (1) [mono, Reprise vinyl] 3:21
23. Hey Joe (2) [stereo, Polydor CD] 3:22
Disc 4: [66:03]
1. Hey Joe (3) [simulated stereo, Legacy vinyl] 3:20
2. Love Or Confusion (1) [mono, Reprise vinyl] 3:08
3. May This Be Love (1) [mono, Reprise vinyl] 2:59
4. I Don't Live Today (1) [mono, Reprise vinyl] 3:53
5. The Wind Cries Mary (3) [stereo, instrumental, oots] 3:29
6. The Wind Cries Mary (1) [mono, Track single] 3:23
7. The Wind Cries Mary (1) [mono, Reprise vinyl] 3:20
8. The Wind Cries Mary (2) [stereo, Polydor CD] 3:18
9. Fire (1) [mono, Reprise vinyl] 2:33
10. 3rd Stone From The Sun (1) [mono, Reprise vinyl] 6:32
11. Foxy Lady (1) [mono, Reprise vinyl] 3:16
12. Are You Experienced ? (1) [mono, Reprise vinyl] 4:09
13. Stone Free (1) [mono, Polydor Swedish single] 3:30
14. 51st Anniversary (2) [simulated stereo, instrumental, sttp] 0:36
15. 51st Anniversary (3) [simulated stereo, instrumental, sttp] 0:36
16. 51st Anniversary (4) [simulated stereo, instrumental, sttp] 3:14
17. 51st Anniversary (5) [stereo] 3:14
18. 51st Anniversary (1) [mono, MCA CD] 3:15
19. Highway Chile (1) [mono, War Heroes CD] 3:30
20. La Pouppee Qui Fait Non [stereo, instrumental] 3:40
This four-disc set has nearly every mix and take (recorded prior to 5/67) of the tracks that appeared on "Are You Experienced" (Europe and US) and the frst 3 European singles.
Vinyl, CD, and tape were used as sources.
Ben Franklin numbers are given for each track.
Outtake material from Out of the Studio, Out of the Studio 2, Olympic Gold, and Are You Experienced The Sessions was examined, and the best version of each take was used. This means stereo where available. In the case of Purple Haze (4), there are 2 unique mixes, so both were included.
This set contains the complete AYE monos released on Track and Reprise.
Although the mixes are the same on both releases, you may hear differences in the overall sound.
Both of these are hard enough to find in good condition that it seemed better to include both. Which you prefer will be a matter of opinion.
The vinyl tracks were manually declicked, and then subjected to a light automated de-crackle.
There is still noise in places, but some types of vinyl noise are nearly impossible to remove completely. These tracks still sound pretty good, though.
Besides channel averaging on the mono cuts, no other processing was done to the vinyl tracks.
The chat intro to Red House (Disc 1 tr 9) was not edited onto tr 10.
This was in case people wanted to easily extract the Track mono cuts to generate a Track mono CD.
Also, the Track vinyl was used for Remember (1) and Red House (1), even though both of these have appeared on official CD.
This was so that the complete Track release would be included. They sound pretty good despite their checkered past :-)
Timings given are for the songs, not for the time between CD indexes.
Sources:
"Are You Experienced?" mono LP, (Track 612-001)
"Are You Experienced?" mono LP, (Reprise R-6261)
"Legacy" LP (Polydor Japan MP-9357/9358)
"Are You Experienced?" CD (Polydor Germany 825-416-2)
"Smash Hits" CD (Reprise 2276-2)
"Are You Experienced?" CD (MCA MCAD-10893)
"War Heroes" CD (Polydor Germany 813-573-2)
"The Jimi Hendrix Story Vol. 7: Waterfall / 51st Anniversary" single (Barclay France 061.389)
"Purple Haze / 51st Anniversary" single (Track 604-001)
"The Wind Cries Mary / Highway Chile" single (Track 604-004)
"Hey Joe / Stone Free" single (Polydor England 56139)
"Hey Joe / Stone Free" single (Polydor Sweden 59061)
Out Of The Studio
Out Of The Studio 2
Are You Experienced The Sessions - Vols. 1 and 2 (Shout to the Top)
Symphony of Experience
Unsurpassed Masters
Various tapes
All relevant informations on ATM series and Hendrix bootlegs, including detailed tracklists, on Hans-Peter Johnsen's In From The Storm site:
http://home.online.no/~hpjohnse/hendrix.html