Jimi Hendrix – Last Rays Of The Setting Sun (24/96 vinyl rips)
Original US 1971-1972 "Sterling RL" pressings (Reprise Records MS 2034, MS 2040 & MS 2103)
(Tracks from "The Cry Of Love", "Rainbow Bridge" & "War Heroes" were used to create this compilation)
Vinyl condition - NM
This is something I've been wanting to put together for a long while, just for fun and personal use. I always enjoy a good compilation and create quite a few for myself when I find the time. This is a little different since it's basically my version of Jimi's last album, as opposed to what his family put out as "First Rays Of The New Rising Sun". It took me a while to do it, since I had to replace all my original copies of the LPs that I bought as they came out. I pretty well wore them out and subsequently disposed of them through the years, one way or another. Nobody really knows exactly what would have been on that last album, so I just used songs that I really like that are pretty well fleshed-out. In other words, close to being finished or at least sounding that way to me. After the first 3 posthumous LPs, they had pretty well scraped the barrel dry AFAIC, so that's all I used for my selections. It took a little time to find 3 decent "Sterling RL" pressings that I was happy with, but I finally did. There were some other good songs, but I tried to keep it to the equivalent of a double album with my favorites on it and as far as the sequencing goes, I could have gone about that in any mumber of ways. I won't go into detail about that. This order is OK, but I didn't obsess over it. Feel free to sequence them as you like and share with anyone you'd care to. I just put this here because I personally think it sounds really good and if you're a Hendrix fan you should give it a listen...
Disc 1
01. Ezy Ryder
02. Room Full Of Mirrors
03. Earth Blues
04. Straight Ahead
05. Freedom
06. Stepping Stone
07. Izabella
08. Astro Man
09. Angel
10. Night Bird Flying
Disc 2
01. Dolly Dagger
02. Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)
03. Drifting
04. In From The Storm
05. Look Over Yonder
06. Bleeding Heart
07. Midnight
08. Beginnings
09. Tax Free
10. Belly Button Window
Turntable – Technics SL-Q3 (quartz-phase-locked direct drive)
Cartridge/Stylus – Shure M97xE/Jico N97xE SAS stylus
Phono Preamp/Line Level Booster – Technolink TC-760LC/TC-780LC
Sound Card - M-Audio Delta Audiophile 192
Interconnects - Custom built NY Pro Audio (Mogami 2528)
Record Cleaner – Spin-Clean Mk II and/Vintage Discwasher on/SoundGuard Record Care WorkPad
Recording/Cleanup – Audacity/ClickRepair(when necessary/set at 5)/Audition and/or iZotope(manual repairs)/iZotope(resampling)
Captured at 32-bit float/192