Ozzy Osbourne: Bark At The Moon Rough Mix (FLAC_SB/Studio_1 CD)

I had a recent request for an Ozzy recording which featured the unreleased song "Spiders".  Even though I had gotten this song on a CD-R trade or three back in the 1990's, I found it faster and easier to just find it out there on the web rather than look through tons of CD cases and spindles.  The result is this superb sounding studio rough mixes copy I found.

This is from Ozzy's 1983 Bark At The Moon days and of course these rough mixes are from before the official studio release (which was in November of 1983) came out.  The sound is superb and has very good stereo separation too.

LINEAGE:
Unknown lineage (not given) > SB/Studio recorded > FLAC > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness and align sector boundaries) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Ozzy Osbourne
Date: 1983
Location: N/A
Venue: N/A
Title: Bark At The Moon Rough Mix
Label: Cannonball
Source: SB/Studio
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: Yes
Size: 309 MB
Length: 47:33:18

SETLIST:
01. Ozzy Osbourne introduction
02. Bark At The Moon
03. You're No Different
04. Now You See It (Now You Don't)
05. Rock And Roll Rebel
06. Center Of Eternity
07. So Tired
08. Slow Down
09. Waiting For Darkness
10. Spiders
11. One Up The "B" Side

LINK:
(1) Bark At The Moon Rough Mix (SB/Studio)

As I already said, the sound is superb.  It is the equivalent of a 1980's CD before remastering was being done.  There was some very light audio clipping in some tracks but it was not anything even worth redoing because it is not a factor.

The last track, "One Up The "B" Side", is also the title of a superb++ 2 CD set I have too.  It may have some of these songs on it?  I got a silver 2 CD set of "One Up The "B" Side" from an old rarities selling chain that no longer seems to be around when I lived in the town I went to college in.  If I locate the discs in the future, and of course I will eventually, I'll likely upload that item too since it has a lot of other songs on it and not just tracks from Bark At The Moon.

So, without further ado, here is the requested song along with many others from this rough mix of Ozzy tracks in the studio.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

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THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

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Feist: 2007-05-10 Santa Monica, CA (FLAC_SB/FM/Studio 1st Gen_1 CD)

I've been going way to long without my Feist fix!  As I've stated in each post I've made of her music probably, I love her voice and music too.  And this 2007 live FM studio broadcast recorded is a superb sounding and perfect mood setting example of what I wanted to hear this morning.

A special thanks goes out to "Nibbler" for recently sharing this lossless recording at my request.  I have got be honest when I say I don't remember when I even asked him to reseed his copy or if I did?  I've made some requests in posts and forums before and this is the second person who has helped in the last 9 years.  He may have seen my requests for Feist here or I may have PM'ed him on Dime or asked via the Dime Yahoo Group.  Wherever he saw I was asking about this show, he was kind enough to re-post the show again after coming across it and he even sent me a PM letting me know.  And he did a superb job of recording the audio too!

LINEAGE:
FM broadcast > Harman Kardon AVR30 > analog out > Sony RCD-W500C > Audio CD-R > WAV > Pioneer DVR-RW DVD-108 > EAC > CD Wave Editor (for tracking and encoding as FLAC.8) > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, Normalize audio, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Feist
Date: May 10th, 2007
Location: Santa Monica, California
Venue: KCRW Studio (Santa Monica College)
Title: Morning Becomes Eclectic
Label: Nibbler (taper)
Source: SB/FM/Studio (1st Gen)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: No
Size: 204 MB
Length: 34:06:24

SETLIST:
01. KCRW FM intro
02. So Sorry
03. band talk
04. The Park
05. Feist (switching instruments)
06. The Water
07. Feist (interview)
08. I Feel It All
09. Safety Bricks
10. Feist (telling band they're still on air live)
11. Sea Lion Woman
12. KCRW FM outtro

LIN K:
(1) 2007-05-10 Santa Monica, CA (SB/FM/Studio 1st Gen)

This recording really showcases Feist's beautiful voice and her talent as a singer.  This recording, being a studio live broadcast from the radio station, is more acoustic sounding than the actual songs in a live show would have been.  And it is a nice change too.

I made a small project out of this recording and fixed some errors in the track order.  After finding the live video of this performance and making sure the setlist was correctly oriented, I used Normalize in Audacity on the tracks and the outcome sounded like a nice improvement to me.  The original tracks sounded fine too.  But Normalize evened out the audio volume and made for a nice listening experience.  I also made a copy of the recording without any Normalize attributes too as a backup.

Feist was at the KCRW studios for the second time in this broadcast.  The first time, in 2005, was for the Let It Die album release and this time in 2007 was for her The Reminder album which she was starting her touring on the following week she says.  The Reminder is really the release that made he a much more well known name and a Canadian Grammy (Juno Awards I believe they are called) winner too.

I've been waiting since Feist finished up her 2012 touring for a new album or tour but so far I am only seeing hints she may be doing something now via Facebook.  I sure hope so because it was late 2011 the last time she released anything new and I really want to hear and see her in concert again.

The original date reported for this performance in the sharing of this audio was reported as 2007-05-11.  However, the official KCRW website shows this show was on 2007-05-10.  I'm guessing it may have been rebroadcast a day later or maybe the date could have been reported wrong by either "Nibbler" or KCRW FM?  I'm just going by when the radio station said the show was broadcasted live.

There have been a few new shows I have wanted to get uploaded here lately.  One is a show I recorded a week ago today and another is the Led Zeppelin 1975-03-03 newly surfaced Fort Worth, Texas soundboard!  Originally the party sharing the first Led Zeppelin copy I got had requested people wait until after this weekend to share it.  But the next day another person who had also gotten a copy as it was released by EVSD shared their copy on Dime.  So all is fine on uploading it now I'm sure but I just need to get the time and sit down and make the upload.  I'll get around to getting some music uploaded here as soon as I have some time.  Hopefully; this lack of uploads lately will soon be over and I'll be back in full swing.

I hope you enjoy the studio recordings...
 
Bootradr

SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL!!!

THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

ALWAYS REMEMBER TO SUPPORT THE ARTISTS BY BUYING THEIR OFFICIALLY RELEASED MATERIAL TOO.

KEEP IT FREE, KEEP IT AVAILABLE, AND MOST OF ALL; KEEP IT LEGAL!!!

Led Zeppelin: The Making Of Led Zeppelin II (FLAC_SB/Studio Multitrack_4 CD)

I'm uploading this EVSD set at the request of a friend over on my Facebook page that asked for it over a week ago.  This morning is the first time I've really had a chance to go ahead and prepare and upload the recording.

This is a superb 8 track multitrack set of four Led Zeppelin songs from the 1969 Led Zeppelin II LP studio recordings.  These are not all of the same songs that came together to form the officially released material.  The versions here are longer in most (maybe all) cases and this is a really awesome gem and something I've never seen from  any other Led Zeppelin studio recordings before.  I've meant to upload these recordings for a long time but just never have until now.

The four songs, each on their own disc, each contain eight individual tracks as you can see below in the setlist.  The songs are as follows.  Disc 1 contains the eight "Whole Lotta Love Tracks", Disc 2 contains the eight "What Is And What Should Never Be" tracks, Disc 3 contains the eight "Heartbreaker" tracks, and the final Disc 4 contains the eight "Ramble On" tracks.  All tracks on each disc are equal lengths and when put together form the 8 track recordings of each song.

I have made a CD with the multitrack recordings combined from each song's eight tracks recorded to make a complete recording of the four songs.  But that is not in this upload and I can upload it at a later time.  It sounds really awesome listening to a 6:13 "Whole Lotta Love" (the song is originally 5:34 on the LP and 3:10 on the single released).  There are a lot of combinations musicians can use to play their instruments to various mixes of the individual tracks here and play along with these songs as they practice.

I wish I had noticed this earlier because I would have uploaded this four disc set on the anniversary of the LP's release.  Led Zeppelin II was released on November 7th, 1969.  So we're 6 days past its 46th anniversary today.  There is no Led Zeppelin album I do not like.  But Led Zeppelin II is definitely one of my favorites of all time from the band.  It's hard to believe this LP was recorded while on the road touring on their Led Zeppelin debut album at the time too.  Two albums in the same year being released and the second LP also being recorded as the band was touring and recording in various studios at the same time amazing.

LINEAGE:
EVSD silvers > EAC > FLAC 8 > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: 1969
Location: Various
Venue: Various Studios
Title: The Making Of Led Zeppelin II
Label: EVSD
Source: SB/Studio (Multitrack)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 4
Artwork: Yes
Size: 639 MB
Length: 209:50:02

SETLIST:
CD 1 - Whole Lotta Love:
101. Whole Lotta Love (guitar #1)
102. Whole Lotta Love (guitar #2)
103. Whole Lotta Love (bass)
104. Whole Lotta Love (drum right)
105. Whole Lotta Love (drum left)
106. Whole Lotta Love (drum percussion)
107. Whole Lotta Love (vocals #1)
108. Whole Lotta Love (vocals #2)

CD 2 - What Is And What Should Never Be:
201. What Is And What Should Never Be (guitar #1)
202. What Is And What Should Never Be (bass)
203. What Is And What Should Never Be (drum right)
204. What Is And What Should Never Be (drum left)
205. What Is And What Should Never Be (vocals #1)
206. What Is And What Should Never Be (vocals #2)
207. What Is And What Should Never Be (vocals #3)
208. What Is And What Should Never Be (guitar & vocals)

CD 3 - Heartbreaker:
301. Heartbreaker (guitar #1)
302. Heartbreaker (guitar #2)
303. Heartbreaker (bass)
304. Heartbreaker (drum right)
305. Heartbreaker (drum left)
306. Heartbreaker (guitar, bass, & drum)
307. Heartbreaker (vocals)
308. Heartbreaker (vocals & guitar)

CD 4 - Ramble On:
401. Ramble On (guitar #1)
402. Ramble On (guitar #2)
403. Ramble On (guitar #3)
404. Ramble On (bass)
405. Ramble On (drum right)
406. Ramble On (drum left)
407. Ramble On (vocals)
408. Ramble On (vocals & guitar)

LIN K:
(1) The Making of Led Zeppelin II (SB/Studio Multitrack/EVSD)

The sound is superb on each of these tracks and the waveform is perfect as well being done in the studio where mistakes would be really rare.

On my personal mixdown of the tracks (not in this download/upload), as I was putting "Whole Lotta Love" together with all eight individual tracks, I wanted to raise up the amplitude of Jimmy Page's famous guitar solo on my copy as I made the personal preference copy for myself.  It was fun taking the various tracks for the various instruments and vocals and making adjustments to them as I saw fit just to change up the sound of the songs a little.  I also raised up John Paul Jones' bass in "Ramble On" to a higher audible level too just for fun and I really made a few different versions of each song with different mixes as I did my own mixdowns of each of the four tracks.

One thing makes me laugh every time I hear it.  One of the vocal tracks, I believe it is the #1 vocal track, has Robert Plant singing the "ahh, ahh ohh, etc" sounds in the song "Whole Lotta Love".  We all are familiar with this psychedelic part of the song.  But in this extended length version of the song, all of the sudden Plant belts out "Timber" as if a tree were falling in the studio.  This never made the officially released material of course and was obviously  cut before the song hit the album or airwaves (or any live shows for that matter).  But it really is just one of those "out of nowhere" kind of ad-lib type of cool moments you'll likely only find in the studio recording of this one vocal track and it mixes perfect with the song when all eight tracks are laid down to create the longer version of "Whole Lotta Love" too.

I've made no alterations to the sound in this 4 disc EVSD set I am uploading.  What I've been talking about in the past few paragraphs are changes I made to my own copies I was having some fun with and not what is in this upload (at least in the various mixes I made).

I did not realize this until I was getting this EVSD CD set ready to upload last night.  But a huge thank you goes to"Amduscia" for getting this one out there for us!  It seem he was the source that got this show circulating and I had not known that before.  But it is no real surprise either because a ton of great music and releases of Led Zeppelin material seem to get circulated by him too.

I hope you enjoy the studio recordings...
 
Bootradr

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THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

ALWAYS REMEMBER TO SUPPORT THE ARTISTS BY BUYING THEIR OFFICIALLY RELEASED MATERIAL TOO.

KEEP IT FREE, KEEP IT AVAILABLE, AND MOST OF ALL; KEEP IT LEGAL!!!

Journey: 1978-09-02 San Mateo, CA (FLAC_SB/FM/Studio_2 Source Mix_Bootradr Remaster_1 CD)

This is a great recording of Journey and one of the rarer ones to circulate too.  For many years, I never uploaded this show because all of the earlier copies I had obtained over the years were not that great.  But about two years ago, and I believe it was thanks to a Dime member but I can't confirm that at the time, I was able to get this upgrade.

I tagged this post as "Bootradr Remaster" but it is not a real remastering job.  I just did this because of the work I did do in adding the second source mix as you'll see below.  No audio altering was done to this project.

This was not the complete show though.  However, I took the four missing tracks not in this upgraded copy from the Gypsy Eye label's Look Into The Future bootleg, and in a decent quality recording too, and added them to the end of the show where they belonged.  Gypsy Eye's bootleg release doesn't have the high notes like this Allied Production copy does.  It has a little bit of a "muted" sound in the high frequencies.  But I went ahead and merged them and did not alter anything in the audio.  But the show could use a remastering or EQ job to make it even better sounding.  But it still sounds excellent I think and especially when it is compared to earlier versions circulating.

LINEAGE:
Guitars and Amps LP > Pioneer PL-260 turntable > Edirol R-09 > 44/16 WAV > ClickRepair (remove pops and crackles) > DeNoise (remove noise) > Adobe Soundbooth (manually remove other ticks, clunks, etc that ClickRepair didn’t detect) > TLH >  FLAC 8 > me > added last four tracks from Gypsy Eye recording > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Journey
Date: September 2nd, 1978
Location: San Mateo, California
Venue: Monitro Studios
Title: Guitars And Amps (plus Look Into The Future's last four tracks)
Label: Allied Productions (Gypsy Eye on last four tracks)
Source: SB/FM BX (in studio)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: Yes
Size: 468 MB
Length: 77:17:06

SETLIST:
01. Of A Lifetime
02. I Would Find You
03. Feeling That Way
04. Anytime
05. La Do Da
06. Can Do
07. Winds Of March
08. On A Saturday Night
09. Wheel In The Sky
10. Next
11. You're On Your Own
12. Look Into The Future
13. She Makes Me (Feel Alright)
14. Lights

LINK:
(1) 1973-05-28 San Mateo, CA (SB/FM BX/Studio)

This concert was a benefit concert Journey did for a high school.  It was the Burrell Junior High School Benefit show and Journey raised $6,000 for uniforms for the school.  Ha!  $6,000 back then probably equates to $60,000 nowadays (just kidding...I have no idea).

I created some artwork for the show back in 2000, but this copy already had the LP artwork too that it came with.  Since the LP artwork isn't really CD artwork comparable for the rear of a CD case I'll include the back cover artwork I created and it is ready to print and add to the back case of any regular size CD case.  The only issue is neither artwork creations are for the full show and the LP artwork is way off on the setlist too.

I have heard that Monitro Studio had studios in San Francisco and San Mateo, California.  I even looked it up in the past and confirmed it via the web at some point.  This is suppose to be a show that occurred in San Mateo, California from all the research others and myself have done in past years.  My back artwork does have San Francisco on it however because in 2000 that's where "we" thought the show was performed.

This show has some really cool and more rare Journey tracks too that you do not usually hear very often live.  Songs like "I Would Find You" and "Can Do" are on this copy, and on the full show, which is the Gypsy Eye label's four additional songs, "Look Into The Future" is on it also now.

The date for this show has been in question also for some time.  Most have settled on September 2, 1978. The setlist is not in any concert played type of order either..  When Steve Perry was new in Journey (he joined in 1977 and started performing live around March of 1978), they would start their shows off with a few songs without him singing.  This show is arranged in that same manner.  I believe he comes in on the third song.  It is a different order and I'm not sure how the band decided on what was going to be played in this live FM radio show.  But it's a great variety of songs and a mix of the new at the time Infinity LP songs as well as songs from the pre Perry era of Journey.  Of course Perry, like in the live 1978 concerts, sings with Gregg Rolie on most of the tracks he was never on in the studio released LP's before he was in the band.  It really gives them a completely new life too.

As far as information goes, don't be fooled by the song titles on the album (surely a bootleg sold) listed artwork.  It lists songs like "Next" as "Midnight Dreamer" and we know that is not the right title.  It also shows "Of A Lifetime" as being named "Kohoutek" which is a completely different Journey song altogether.  Maybe somebody who isn't blind like me can actually read the text on the back of the artwork.  It looks like newspaper clippings added to the album art and they may have some details of help and interest.  I just cannot read it myself.

Well, maybe I can read it.  The artwork is in a high enough resolution I have been able to zoom in and see the text.  Ironically, and four years before "Separate Ways" (1982) was ever created as a song by the band, the back artwork from the LP talks of Aynsley Dunbar leaving the band as Journey and Aynsley "...have gone their separate ways..." it states.  In fact, I just recalled this was suppose to be Dunbar's last performance with Journey.

I hope you enjoy the show...
 
Bootradr

SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL!!!

THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

ALWAYS REMEMBER TO SUPPORT THE ARTISTS BY BUYING THEIR OFFICIALLY RELEASED MATERIAL TOO.

KEEP IT FREE, KEEP IT AVAILABLE, AND MOST OF ALL; KEEP IT LEGAL!!!

Journey: 1974-05-XX Sausalito, CA (FLAC_SB/Studio/FM BX_1 CD)

This is an excellent copy of a show with a few dates that have been passed around through the years.  For a long time, 1974-05-27 was the date given for this studio recorded with a small audience and soon after FM broadcasted show.  But then that date became the date the program was actually aired on reportedly and then 1974-05-12 was introduced as the actual date of the recording in the studio.  But again, that was reported as the (or maybe "an") air date too.  The show was likely aired a few times and I have a low resolution newspaper ad of air dates included in the upload and at the bottom of this post.  I cannot read it with my vision but maybe you can? 

So the actual date is not really known for this studio recording but it is believed to be in May of 1974 when the actual small audience studio recording was made.  All thanks goes to Jerry for this copy of the show he got and worked on and I am uploading now!

LINEAGE:
? > Maxell XLII-S cassette > Nak BX300 > Sony RCD-W1 > Roxio Creator Classic (PCM 44.100 kHz/16 Bit stereo) > Wave Corrector (8db Hiss Reduction, -1 db Normalization, Channel Balance & Track Splitting) > dBpowerAMP Music Converter > FLAC 5 > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > CD Wave Editor (to split single track 3 into two tracks/two songs were in one track) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Journey
Date: May, 1973
Location: Sausalito, California
Venue: Record Plant
Title: None
Label: None
Source: SB/Studio/FM BX
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: No
Size: 262 MB
Length: 44:39:00

SETLIST:
01. Mystery Mountain
02. Topaz
03. It's All Too Much
04. In My Lonely Feeling/Conversations
05. Kohoutek
06. To Play Some Music
07. Of A Lifetime
08. In The Morning Day

BAND:
Neal Schon  -  guitar/vocals
Gregg Rolie  -  keyboards/vocals
Aynsley Dunbar  -  drums
George Tickner  -  guitar/rhythm guitar
Ross Valory  -  bass guitar

LINK:
(1) 1974-05-XX Sausalito, CA (SB/Studio FM BX)

I've had a few copies of this recording over the years.  The first is my silver CD Gypsy Eye label copy titled Original Cut that I got from Japan around 1998.  I may do a little comparing later and see if it sounds any better.

It's been a long time since I've listened to the Original Cut copy and I'd need to rip it with EAC to my hard drive and run some TLH tests on it since I have come across a few Gypsy Eye label releases in the last couple of years that were lossy.  In fact, they took a lossy Journey show (all that has surfaced so far of the 1978 Texxas Jam soundboard) I'd worked on and uploaded here.  I shared it on one other site besides my own and within a week or two it was released and being sold by Gypsy Eye and being shared on lossless sites too!  And it was my copy I had remastered without any doubt.  Gypsy Eye knew it was a lossy copy when they downloaded it and put it to silver disc, but they did what they did anyhow.  So my respect for them has deminished somewhat.  But I'll check the copy I got in 1998 titled "Original Cut" because I know it has a more comlete introduction than this copy I am uploading now.  No big deal, but it's worth looking into later and comparing copies.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL!!!

THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

ALWAYS REMEMBER TO SUPPORT THE ARTISTS BY BUYING THEIR OFFICIALLY RELEASED MATERIAL TOO.

KEEP IT FREE, KEEP IT AVAILABLE, AND MOST OF ALL; KEEP IT LEGAL!!!

Jimi Hendrix: "Black Gold" Volumes 1 - 3 (FLAC_SB/Studio_5 CD)

This is an excellent 5 CD Jimi Hendrix studio outtakes and rehearsals set of unreleased material broken up into three volumes.  But this upload I am making is all three volumes (5 CD's) and is titled "Black Gold".

I would have left the file set intact and I would have just uploaded this one "as is" because the work done to create this file set originally was done right. The tracks were even embedded with metadata showing the song titles and other pertinent information.  But there was one problem unfortunately.  There were sector boundary errors on each disc and I had to fix those.  And once an edit or repair like that is made, all of the other work (such as embedding the metadata, creating ffp and md5 files, etc) has to be redone because the information is stripped and changed up and the checksums will not match up to the original file set anymore once the repairs are made.  What a bummer!  It sure would have saved me a lot of time not having to do all of that stuff. 

And what a shame it is for the person who originally did all  of thi work too.  They must have spent a lot of time preparing the files.  I'm not sure why they didn't catch the sector boundary errors (SBE's) that rendered their extra work and effort useless.  I've made mistakes and forgotten steps just as everyone else who takes time to do things right has too.  And I imagine with the work the person did, they knew better too and likely just overlooked it by accident.  But I still thank them for their attempt and hard work!  Besides, the most important part of the file set (aka the lossless music files) were all there and without those nothing would have been possible!  So kudos and thank you to the party that made these available for fans like us :-)

LINEAGE:
Midnight Beat silver CD's > CD-R > ? > CD-R (trade) > EAC pb0.95 (secure mode, read offset) > FLAC > me > WAV (to test for lossiness and align sectors on boundaries) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info into files, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to double check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Jimi Hendrix
Date: Various
Location: Various
Venue: Various
Title: Black Gold
Label: Midnight Beat
Source: SB/Studio
Format: FLAC
CD's: 5
Artwork: Yes
Size: 1.83 GB
Length: 351:08:10

SETLIST:
CD 1:
Volume 1 Disc 1:
101. I Was Made To Love Her  Ain't Too Proud To Beg (Part 1 & 2)
102. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) [The Session takes 1-15]
103. Long Hot Summer Night (Part 1 & 2)
104. 1983...
105. Moon Turn The Tides...
106. Angel
107. Cherokee Mist
108. Getting My Heart Back Together Again
109. Voodoo Chile
110. Gypsy Eyes
112 Gypsy Eyes

CD 2:
Volume 1 Disc 2
201. South Saturn Delta
202. Rainy Day, Dream Away [overdub session take 1]
203. Rainy Day, Dream Away [take 2]
204. Rainy Day, Dream Away [take 3]
205. Third Stone From The Sun, Villanova Junction Blues
206. Jam Back At The House
207. Bleeding Heart
208. Pride Of Man [take 1]
209. Pride Of Man [take 2]
210. Midnight, Valleys Of Neptune Arising  [takes 1-7]
211. Sending My Heart To Linda [takes 1-2]

CD 3:
Volume 2 Disc 1:
301. Had To Cry Today
302. Paper Airplanes [rehearsals]
303. Blue Suede Shoes [jam]
304. Izabella [overdub session take 2]
305. Izabella
306. Honey Bed [takes 1-5]

CD 4:
Volume 2 Disc 2:
401: Mannish Boy [rehearsals takes 1-7]
402: Closer To The Truth [Room Full Of Mirrors]

CD 5:
Volume 3:
501. Voodoo Chile [Blues Session takes 1-5]
502. Instrumental Jam
503. 3 Little Bears
504. Gypsy Eyes
505. 1983...
506. Untitled Instrumental

LINK:
(1) Black Gold Volumes 1-3 (Studio)
(2) Black Gold Volumes 1-3 (Studio)
(3) Black Gold Volumes 1-3 (Studio)

The artwork for this show has a 10 page booklet reportedly.  But it wasn't in the file set I have.  In this upload, just the the artwork for each volume is included.  That is pretty much the front and back covers.  I'm just adding the Volume One art to the sample image in this post and the other two volumes are in the download.  If I had the 10 page booklet from the 5 CD set I'd add it too.  But I don't.

This is a very enjoyable set of CD's to listen to and I have been listening the past 3 hours to them today and still am only a little over halfway done.

I hope you enjoy the unreleased Hendrix studio recordings...

Bootradr

SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL!!

THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

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Jimmy Hendrix: Raw Blues (1968-1970) (FLAC_SB/Studio_2 CD)

This is an awesome 2 CD set of Hendrix and band in the studio making tracks that would many years later be used for consideration in  a release of an album, "Blues", long after Hendrix was dead

I love this one!  Studio recorded songs and jams, some lasting about 30 minutes, but never released is what I like!  And each disc is almost a full disc too.  You cannot beat it.  I don't know much more about this 2 CD set other than what little info was in a text file.  I got it from a defunct Spanish (language) site that I could not read.  Even translating it made no sense in English.  Plus it looked like there was not really any additional information on the recordings anyhow being shared on the site.

LINEAGE:
No lineage given > FLAC > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Jimi Hendrix
Date: 1968 to 1970
Location: Unknown
Venue: Unknown studio(s)
Title: Raw Blues
Label: None
Source: SB/Studio
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 893 MB
Length: 142:30:73

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Red House
102. Born Under A Bad Sign
103. Once I Had A Woman
104. Easy Blues
105. Mannish Boy
106. Villanova Junction ~ Jam ~ Country Blues ~ Jam (long version)
107. Georgia Blues

CD 2:
201. Jam 292
202. Voodoo Chile Blues
203. Strato Strut
204. Country Blues ~ Astro Man
205. Things I Used To Do
206. Bleeding Heart
207. Hear My Train A Comin'
208. Belly Button Window
209. It’s Too Bad
210. Villanova Junction ~ Jam ~ Country Blues ~ Jam (edited version)

LINK:
(1) 1967-1970 "Raw Blues" (Studio/SB)

This really is one of the best Hendrix recordings I have heard in a long time.  The sounds is excellent, but even better is the musical jamming.  This is like a concert in the studio really.  I do not detect any studio overdubs or things like that.  This sounds like the band just recording their jam sessions in the studio.  I cannot say for sure this is the case, but I think that it is.

For those who may not know, "Blues" was a release in 1994 of Hendrix songs spanning between 1966 and 1970.  According to Wikipedia, there were 11 tracks on it and six were never released before.  This unreleased recording being shared here today contains tracks and takes  that were being considered for the official 1994 "Blues" release but were not used.

I hope you enjoy the recordings...

Bootradr

 SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL!!

THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

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Coverdale/Page: 1993-XX-XX "Rehearsals 1993" (FLAC_SB/Studio_2 CD)

This is an interesting CD set I've had for a long time but have not even seen in over a decade.  I didn't do an EAC rip of my discs because I came across this EAC rip already done earlier tonight and decided to upload it.  And even though it isn't high resolution artwork, it beats having just the back artwork like I had with my CD set and it should work fine for printing I'm sure.

This is an interesting set of studio recordings in 1993 from various session with David Coverdale and Jimmy Page.  They do some Led Zeppelin, Whitesnake, and Coverdale/Page tracks and it's fun listening to them.

LINEAGE:
Live Storm silver CD's > EAC > WAV > FLAC > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Coverdale/Page
Date: 1993
Location: Unknown
Venue: Unknown studio
Title: Rehearsals 1993
Label: Live Storm
Source: SB/Studio
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 491 MB
Length: 97:26:67

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Absolution Blues
102. Slide It In
103. Rock And Roll
104. Over Now
105. Kashmir
106. Pride And Joy
107. Take A Look At Yourself
108. Take Me For A Little While
109. In My Time Of Dying

CD 2:
201. Here I Go Again
202. Don't Leave Me This Way
203. Feelin' Hot
204. Still Of The Night
205. Whisper A Prayer
206. Black Dog
207. Shake My Tree

LINK:
(1) Rehearsals 1993 (SB/Studio)

The waveform looks fine and there is no clipping in the audio.  Of course coming from a studio, you'd hope and expect that to be the case too.

While Coverdale is definitely no Robert Plant, he does a decent enough job imitating him and would sound a lot better if he had better timing with his Plant lyrics in songs like "Black Dog".

If nothing else, this is an entertaining CD set to throw in and check out ever so often.  The sounds is great.  It's not superb but it does sound very good too.  It falls (in my ratings) between a great-to-excellent recording.  And it could easily be EQ'ed and made to sound a lot more vibrant too.  It'd be a lot more enjoyable if it was a superb recording I can definitely say (as would every single recording we collect).  But there is really nothing wrong with it and it's a cool piece of 21 year old history now.

I hope you enjoy the recordings...

Bootradr

SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL!!

THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

ALWAYS REMEMBER TO SUPPORT THE ARTISTS BY BUYING THEIR OFFICIALLY RELEASED MATERIAL TOO.

KEEP IT FREE, KEEP IT AVAILABLE, AND MOST OF ALL; KEEP IT LEGAL!!!

Jimi Hendrix: In The Studio Volumes 1 - 10 (FLAC_SB/Studio_10 CD)

I finally got this 10 CD set yesterday after seeing it over on G101 again.  I'd put off getting it because a few of the CD's I had from it tested lossy.  And sure enough, they still test lossy in the whole 10 set.  But some are lossless too.  If these are in both forms, then Reclamation, the boot label, surely is not basing their material off of the master recordings (made before lossy audio existed).

This is a great set to listen to.  I'm going to copy and paste the information here today (in italics) to save time.  I've already got the file set uploading this morning because I forgot to start it overnight so it would be ready when I woke up!. 

I did do the tedious naming and embedding of the meta data (song titles, tracks, etc info) into each of the 110 FLAC files last night.  For those not sure what this means, doing this not only shows details if you look at the file's embedded metadata with programs that show the information (like Audacity and many, many others), but it also displays on the screen of modern day players that show the text information streaming.or visible on the screen (as in a home theater setup or car CD player in just two examples).  While I don't recommend converting any music to mp3 lossy audio unless it is solely to put on a player that is portable (and even then I have my reservations), the metadata transfers as you re-encode the file to the other audio formats and still displays as long as someone doesn't erase it or totally reconstruct a file in the wrong manner.  Simple re-encoding to another format usually doesn't strip this data.  If you re-encode with Trader's Little;e Helper (TLH), be sure to check the box label "keep foreign metadata" if you see it.  I believe most simple re-encoding or converting format changes within TLH automatically keep this data.  But keep an eye out for the text I mentioned if you reach an area in the program with it and you don't want to strip the files of it.  I think it is a helpful and great tool to have especially when you have a lot of music (like this upload) that you may not know the information on such as a song title.

LINEAGE:
No lineage given > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Jimi Hendrix
Date: Various
Location: Various
Title: Jimi Hendrix - In The Studio Volumes 1 - 10
Label: Reclamation
Source: SB
Format: FLAC
CD's: 10
Artwork: Yes (full high resolution artwork & booklet scans in download)
Size: 3.64 GB
Length: 650:07:50 (almost 11 hours of studio audio!)

SETLIST (copy & paste):
CD 1:
1. Wait Until Tomorrow (Hendrix) 3:26
2. Spanish Castle Magic (Hendrix) 2:42
3. Golden Rose (One Rainy Wish) (Hendrix) 3:55
4. Ain’t No Telling #1 (Hendrix) 1:52
5. South Saturn Delta (Hendrix) 4:52
6. Little One #1 (Hendrix) 1:52
7. Little One #2 (Hendrix) 3:34
8. Castles Made Of Sand (Hendrix) 2:48
9. Ain’t No Telling #2 (Hendrix) 1:51
10. She’s So Fine (Redding) (2:38)
11. Up From The Skies (Hendrix) 2:56
12. Bold As Love (Hendrix) 3:27
13. Little Miss Lover (Hendrix) 2:14
14. Waterfall (May This Be Love) (Hendrix) 3:11
15. Have You Ever Heard (Hendrix) 3:45
16. Dream (Hendrix) 2:06
17. Dance (Hendrix) 1:57

CD 2:
1. Valleys Of Neptune (Hendrix) 5:37
2. Lover Man (Hendrix) 4:12
3. Machine Gun (Hendrix) 12:51
4. Trying To Be (Stepping Stone)/Earth Blues (Hendrix) 7:16
5. Stepping Stone (Hendrix) 4:15
6. Untitled Guitar Improvisation (Hendrix) 5:22
7. Keep On Grooving (Midnight Lightning) (Hendrix) 11:57
8. Come Down Hard On Me Baby (Hendrix) 3:31
9. Drifters Escape (Hendrix) 3:07
10. Belly Button Window (Hendrix) 5:29
11. Bolero (Hendrix) 5:48

CD 3:
1. Drifting (try out) (Hendrix) 3:52
2. Keep On Groovin’ Drifting (try out) (Hendrix) 0:57
3. Midnight Lightnin’ (try out) (Hendrix) 0:24
4. Freedom (alternate take) (Hendrix) 4:04
5. Cherokee Mist/In From The Storm (Hendrix) 6:31
6. Valleys Of Neptune (instrumental) (Hendrix) 4:37
7. Lil Dog Of Mine/Heaven Has No Sorrow (session) (Hendrix)12:50
8. Valleys Of Neptune (session) (Hendrix) 21:21
9. Improvisation/Drifting(try Out) (Hendrix) 3:34
10. Had To Cry Today (Hendrix)1:27
11. Angel (intro instrumental #1) (Hendrix) 0:27
12. Angel (complete instrumental) (Hendrix) 4:45
13. Angel (intro instrumental #2) Hendrix) 0:35
14. Drifting (alternate take) (Hendrix) 3:41
15. Angel (alternate version complete with vocals) (Hendrix) 4:21
16. Belly Button Window (instrumental) (Hendrix) 5:11

CD 4:
1. Lover Man (Hendrix) 2:51
2. Message To Love (Hendrix) 3:34
3. Izabella (take 2) (Hendrix) 3:51
4. Bleeding Heart (blues in C sharp) (Hendrix) 3:26
5. Izabella (take 1) (Hendrix) 4:41
6. Blue Suede Shoes (Hendrix)11:36
7. Power of Soul (takes nos. 1 to 16) (Hendrix) 26:41

CD 5:
1. Bleeding Heart (Hendrix) 3:49
2. Rainy Day Dream Away (false start) (Hendrix) 0:54
3. Rainy Day Dream Away (practice session) (Hendrix) 2:19
4. Rainy Day Dream Away/Still Raining, Still Dreaming (Hendrix) 10:23
5. Send My Love To Linda/Live And Let Live (Hendrix) 11:04
6. Mannish Boy/I’m A Man (Waters/Diddley) 39:55

CD 6:
1. Cherokee Mist (Hendrix) 7:08
2. Jam H290 (Hendrix) 1:31
3. Voodoo Chile (Hendrix) 36:44
4. Ships Passing In The Night (Hendrix) 2:54
5. Calling All Devil’s Children Jam (Hendrix) 14:05

CD 7:
1. Jam including: Stepping Stone, Sending My Love To Linda, Freedom, Here Comes The Sun, Cherokee Mist, All Devils Children (Hendrix) 23:48
2. Closer To The Truth (Room Full Of Mirrors recital) (Hendrix) 22:04
3. Jam Back At The House (Hendrix) 5:45
4. Midnight, Valleys Of Neptune Arising (Hendrix) 14:53
5. Pride Of Man (Bolero) (Hendrix) 1:26
6. Pride Of Man (Bolero) (Hendrix) 2:18

CD 8:
1. Electric Church (Hendrix) 7:27
2. Hear My Freedom (Hendrix) 16:30
3. Honey Bed (Hendrix) 7:50
4. Room Full Of Mirrors (Hendrix) 2:31
5. All Along The Watchtower (Hendrix) 4:01
6. Ezy Rider (Hendrix) 4:21
7. Dolly Dagger (Hendrix) 4:02
8. South Saturn Delta (Hendrix) 5:49
9. Shame Shame Shame (Hendrix) 1:52
10. Gypsy Blood (Crying Blue Rain) (Hendrix) 2:36
11. Sunshine Of Your Love (Bruce/Brown/Clapton) 5:27

CD 9:
1. Angel (Hendrix) 3:18
2. 1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be) (Hendrix) 8:10
3. Astro Man/Valleys Of Neptune (Hendrix) 3:20
4. Gypsy Eyes (Hendrix) 2:38
5. Cherokee Mist (Hendrix) 3:12
6. Cherokee Mist/Gypsy Eyes (Hendrix) 12:12
7. Power Of Soul (Hendrix) 7:10
8. Long Hot Summer (Hendrix) 2:13
9. Long Hot Summer (Hendrix) 1:50
10. Hear My Train A Comin’ (Hendrix) 1:14
11. Hear My Train A Comin’ (Hendrix) 1:08
12. Gypsy Eyes (3rd take) (Hendrix) 3:28
13. Gypsy Eyes (riff) (Hendrix) 0:44
14. South Saturn Delta (Hendrix) 3:39
15. 3 Little Bears (Hendrix) 2:15
16. 1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be - instrumental) (Hendrix) 4:27
17. Acoustic Jam (Hendrix) 3:09

CD 10:
1. Hey Joe (Roberts) 3:08
2. Purple Haze (Hendrix) 3:02
3. Red House (Hendrix) 10:59
4. Crosstown Traffic (Hendrix) 2:29
5. Takin’ Care Of Business (Hendrix) 3:27
6. I Don’t Live Today (Hendrix)
7. Wind Cries Mary (Hendrix)
8. One Rainy Wish (alternate mix) (Hendrix) 3:56
9. La Poupee Qui Fait Non (Polnareff/Gerald) 3:31
10. 51st Anniversary (Hendrix) 3:22
11. 51st Anniversary (Hendrix) 5:14
12. Can You See Me (Hendrix) 8:47
13. Can You See Me (Hendrix) 2:38
14. Fire (Hendrix) 2:36
15. Fire (Hendrix) 7:38

LINKS:
(1) Jimi Hendrix In The Studio Vol. 1-10
(2) Jimi Hendrix In The Studio Vol. 1-10
(3) Jimi Hendrix In The Studio Vol. 1-10
(4) Jimi Hendrix In The Studio Vol. 1-10
(5) Jimi Hendrix In The Studio Vol. 1-10

And here is a copy & paste of the more detailed information for each volume (a volume equals a CD).  I did all of my normal file integrity checks and checked them with TLH creating the test results files too.  Look at the TLH CDDA Test file to see which CD's contain lossy material (like CD 10) and which are lossless (like CD 1).  Hopefully, the following information in the original and enclosed text file will assist anyone wanting more details on what is included here.

FULL INFO (copy & paste and long):

In The Studio – Volume 1:

The recordings featured in the first of the In The Studio series cover the time period May 1967 through to early 1968. Hendrix had blazed a trail across Europe performing at many concerts where his brand of musicianship, allied to a strong sense of showmanship drew acclaim and respect in equally large amounts.
More importantly Jimi had played at the Monterey Festival in the summer of 1967 where he was an unqualified success, stealing the show from bigger and more established performers.
During this period The Experience recorded two exceptional albums in Are You Experienced and Axis Bold As Love. In early 1968 he would begin work on the monumental double album that would become Electric Ladyland.
This album would be the final album from the original Experience but at this point in time Hendrix had also collaborated with many other musicians and Jack Cassidy of Jefferson Airplane, Dave Mason and Steve Winwood of Traffic and Al Kooper were just some of the people who guested on this landmark album.

*Wait Until Tomorrow
Recorded 26th October 1967 at Olympic Studios alternate mix using automatic double tracking on the vocal part.

*Spanish Castle Magic
Recorded 27th October 1967 at Olympic Studios.

*Golden Rose (One Rainy Wish)
Recorded 3rd October 1967 at Olympic Studios with overdubs on 29th October. This is a slightly longer alternate mix.

*Ain’t No Telling #1
Recorded 26th October 1967 at Olympic Studios this version includes rhythm guitar in a more central mix as opposed to at the side.

*South Saturn Delta
Recorded December 1967 at Olympic Studios with Dave Mason and an unknown drummer.

*Little One #1
Recorded 30th December 1967 at Olympic Studios with Brian Jones, Dave Mason and Mitch Mitchell.

*Little One #2
Recorded 30th December 1967 at Olympic Studios with Brian Jones, Dave Mason and Mitch Mitchell. This version has different bass parts and Dave Mason plays slide guitar on this version.

*Castles Made Of Sand
Recorded 29th October 1967 at Olympic Studios this is an alternate mix.

*Ain’t No Telling #2
The second take of this song, which runs pretty much as the first version although with this take is slightly longer.

*Shea's So Fine
Recorded 4th May 1967 at Olympic Studios 1967 with overdubs laid down on 30th October of that year. This is an alternate mix with different vocals by Noel Redding who wrote the song.

*Up From The Skies
*Recorded 29th October 1967 at Olympic Studios, this is an alternate mix with the vocals on one channel.

*Bold As Love
Recorded 29th October 1967 at Olympic Studios, this version has a totally different vocal take and an early fade out and does not have the phasing effect at the end.

*Little Miss Lover
Recorded 1st October 1967 at Olympic Studios this is an alternate take with a wolf-whistle at the beginning of the track.

*Waterfall (May This Be Love)
Recorded 3rd April 1967 at Olympic Studios, this is an alternate mix.

*Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)
Recorded in January 1968 at Olympic studios, this track features Jimi with an unknown musician (rumored to be Dave Mason of Traffic) on bass. Although the song would go on to appear on the Electric Ladyland album this session took place before the real sessions for Electric Ladyland began in New York in early April.

*Dream
Noel Redding penned track and featuring him on vocals. Recorded 20th December 1967 at Olympic Studios, was cut as an acetate with a single in mind but was never issued.

*Dance
Recorded 20th December 1967 at Olympic Studios featuring Mitch Mitchell on vocals.

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In The Studio Volume 2:

The recordings featured on Volume 2 of the In The Studio series cover the time period April 1969 through to July 1970 less than two months before Jimi's death in September of the same year. During this period The Jimi Hendrix Experience had split at the end of one last tour following the final concert in Denver.
Jimi retained Mitch Mitchell but called on former army buddy Billy Cox to play bass. These two musicians along, with guitarist Larry Lee and percussionists Jerry Velez and Juma Sultan played the legendary Woodstock festival in August 1969. Shortly after that Jimi began a new project called The Band Of Gypsys.
This band featured Jimi alongside Billy Cox and drummer Buddy Miles. The band made its live debut in December 1969 at the Fillmore East, which resulted in a live self-titled album. The band however would last barely a handful of dates before falling apart in front of a large audience mid gig at Madison Square Garden.
As was Jimi's practice however The Band Of Gypsys recorded much material including a track featured on this album Machine Gun. Machine Gun had been a highlight of the live Band Of Gypsys's show and the studio version is no less of a highlight here with its extended solo and “Machine Gun” like drumming from Buddy Miles.
Much of the material featured on this album was recorded in New York's Record Plant or Hit Factory although with his eye on the studio clock and the old adage of “time is money” Jimi began work on his own recording studio where he would not be bound by the constraints of either. Electric Lady Studios opened with much fanfare in August 1970.
In fact the party continued until Jimi had to leave America to play what would be his final British concert date at the Isle Of Wight Festival.
One of the key tracks featured on Volume 2 of the In The Studio series is possibly one of the earliest recordings by The Band Of Gypsys. Machine Gun was recorded less than two weeks after Jimi's appearance at the Woodstock Festival. This recording also features Juma Sultan who had played with Hendrix at Woodstock.

*Valleys Of Neptune
23rd September 1969 at the Record Plant which was recorded while The Band Of Gypsys were rehearsing and putting material together. This take is without any noticeable bass.

*Lover Man
Recorded 6th September 1969. This is another recording to feature the Band of Gypsys. This version was recorded at the Hit Factory and was an instrumental take with Jimi's intro.

*Machine Gun
29th August 1969 Hit Factory. Another Band Of Gypsys recording. This is the first take of one of the most famous Jimi Hendrix songs which was seen as a comment on the situation taking place in Vietnam.

*Trying To Be (Stepping Stone)/Earth Blues
15th September 1969 at the Record Plant. Once again another recording with the Band of Gypsys This take also includes Juma Sultan on percussion. The end of this recording segues into Earth Blues.

*Stepping Stone
The basic track was laid down 3rd -7th January 1970 at the Record Plant and after much overdubbing and mixing was completed 15th February although Jimi was not satisfied and further work was undertaken right up to August 20th. This version has wah wah guitar effect coming through one speaker as opposed to the panning effect.

*Untitled Guitar Improvisation
Hendrix recorded many pieces like this improvisation perhaps for work on at a later date perhaps merely for the joy of playing. The exact date of this improvisation is unknown although it is thought to have been recorded in 1970 at the Electric Lady studios, which places it sometime in late summer.

*Keep On Grooving (Midnight Lightning)
17th April 1969 at the Record Plant this is a rough play through with Paul Caruso adding harmonica and Devon Wilson, Jimi's sometime girlfriend, on backing vocals. The relaxed nature of this recording would suggest that it was never considered as a final take.

*Come Down Hard On Me Baby
Recorded at Electric Lady Studios in July 1970 with Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox and subsequently remixed by Alan Douglas after Hendrix's death.

*Drifters Escape
Recorded at Electric Lady Studios on 17th June 1970 with overdubbing done 22nd August with Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox. This version has only one lead guitar part rather than the layered effect Jimi sometimes favored in the recording studio.

*Belly Button Window
Recorded on 23rd July 1970 at Electric Ladyland Studio with Billy Cox and Mitch Mitchell, this is an unused alternate instrumental version of the song that would eventually form part of the first posthumous Hendrix release, The Cry Of Love.

*Bolero
Recorded 1st July 1970 with Billy Cox, Mitch Mitchell and Juma Sultan at Electric Lady Studios. This track was also known as Here Comes The Sun.

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In The Studio Volume 3:

All the tracks contained in this volume of the In The Studio series were recorded at the new Electric Lady studio complex Hendrix had built in New York. Part of the money used to finance the building of the studio had been advanced by Warners on condition that the guitarist would appear in a film entitled Rainbow Bridge which was the brainchild of Jimi's manager Mike Jeffery.
This he agreed to do and Warners no doubt expected to receive a soundtrack album featuring Jimi's performance captured on film in Hawaii (to date no official release of the two sets Jimi that the band played has appeared).The Electric Lady studios were intended as a solid business proposition, as, although the studios would hired out for other recording sessions, it would in theory cut down on the considerable expenses Jimi was chalking up at his favourite New York studio, The Record Plant.
It was also thought that in his own studio there would be no time constraints and this would ultimately make Jimi more relaxed and creative. Whilst still not officially opened for business Jimi was regularly using the studio as soon as the equipment was installed, thus much of the studio material recorded in the final months of his life comes from sessions recorded there.
Of the many sessions that took place at Electric Lady in the summer of 1970 some of the tracks featured here such as Belly Button Window, Freedom, Angel and Drifting would eventually become key tracks on The Cry Of Love , instantly familiar to the many people who own the album. The versions presented here are of course works in progress, but the evolution of the songs (particularly Angel) can be heard in detail over the course of the three versions featured in this volume.
The session that took place on the 26th of June is interesting as Valleys Of Neptune was certainly a song Jimi wanted to include on the First Rays Of The New Rising Sun. The work that took place on this night in common with the night before, featured just Mitch Mitchell on drums and Jimi on guitar and later overdubbing bass. Subsequently however the song did not appear on any of the three albums (The Cry of Love, Voodoo Soup and The First Rays Of The New Rising Sun) that purported to represent the album Jimi was working on at the time of his death.
During the time that these sessions were recorded Jimi, Mitch and Billy were also performing regularly and while the studio didn't receive an official opening until the 26 August, Electric Lady almost became a second home for Jimi and his creative needs with sessions usually lasting well into the night. As befits the original idea of a double album, a great deal of material was recorded and some of it would undoubtedly have been included in the final running order of the First Rays Of The New Rising Sun although it is safe to assume that some of it would simply have been discarded or reworked later for other projects.
We will of course never know for sure. What is fascinating is the glimpse we do get of Jimi's recording methods on this album of sessions which in addition to the music also includes chat between and during the various takes between Jimi and the engineers and other musicians.

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In The Studio Volume 4:

The music contained on this, the fourth volume of the In The Studio series comes from the period 7th November 1969 through to May 1970. During this period Jimi became involved in what would turn out to be the short-lived Band Of Gypsies project that featured drummer Buddy Miles and bassist Billy Cox. Billy had been playing with Jimi since the break up of the original Experience following a concert in Denver in June 1969.
Many people have since claimed that The Band Of Gypsies were never meant to be a long term project but merely an opportunity to fulfill a contractual obligation. Whatever the reason halfway through an appearance at Madison Square garden in early 1970 the Band Of Gypsies broke up rather spectacularly and Jimi once again began working with Billy Cox and Mitch Mitchell.
Some of the key tracks recorded during this period would go on to appear in different forms on albums released following Jimi's death in September 1970 such as Rainbow Bridge, The Cry Of Love and Loose Ends.

*Lover Man
Recorded on the15th May 1970 this recording features Billy Cox on bass and Mitch Mitchell on drums. The engineer was Eddie Kramer assisted by Tom Flye.

*Message To Love
Recorded on the 19th December 1969. The band was Billy Cox on bass and Buddy Miles on drums The engineer was Bob Cotto and the 2nd engineer R. Beekman. This song was originally entitled Message To The Universe.

*Izabella (reel 4 take 2)
Recorded on the 7th November 1969 and engineered by Jack Adams and Dave Ragno. With no bass player, Hendrix and Buddy Miles ran through many takes of this track which ended with technical problems. A young Tony Bongiovi was ultimately sent for to sort out the problems

*Bleeding Heart (blues in C sharp)
This alternate mix comes from the session that too place on 24th March 1970. The band, which was the one to remain in place until Jimi's death in September of 1970, consisted of Billy Cox on bass and Mitch Mitchell on drums. The engineer was Jack Adams and the 2nd Engineer Dave Ragno. Only four versions of this song were ever recorded with the 4th take appearing on the Rainbow Bridge album. Originally recorded with an unknown drummer and no bassist, Billy Cox later joined the session but Mitch Mitchell's drums were recorded later at Electric Lady studios.

*Izabella (take 1)
Another take from the session listed above and featuring the same line up which lends the song a different feel from the version recorded with the Band Of Gypsies some four months previously.

*Blue Suede Shoes
This is the most complete version of the old Carl Perkins song. Another, shorter version of this song would eventually surface on the Loose Ends album. This version was recorded during the final days of the Band Of Gypsies on the 23rd January 1970 under the stewardship of engineer Bob Hughes and 2nd engineer Dave Ragno. The band here is Billy Cox on bass and Buddy Miles on Drums

*Power of Soul (takes 1 - 16)
This work I progress was recorded on the 21st November 1969. The Band Of Gypsies were deep into recordings and rehearsals for what would turn out to be their only major appearance at the Fillmore East at the end of the year Billy Cox. The engineer was Tony Bongiovi assisted by Tom Erdelyi. The song was originally called Paper Airplanes and has appeared listed on some bootlegs under this title. Interestingly, both Tommy Erdelyi and Tony Bongiovi would work together in the ‘70s when Tony produced the Ramones with Tommy, now known as Tommy Ramone, the Ramones drummer.

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In The Studio Volume 5:

The only place Jimi seemed to be able to relax was in the recording studio and his studio of choice certainly in New York was The Record Plant. It was at this particular studio that Jimi jammed with many artists including Stephen Stills, John McLaughlin and many others. McLaughlin's Devotion album was also recorded at The Record Plant by producer Alan Douglas a character destined to feature prominently in the guitarist's posthumous musical legacy.
The sessions featured on this particular volume of the In The Studio series are drawn from recordings made at The Record Plant. It was here that Jimi would spend not merely hours but sometimes days just playing and finding out just what the recording studio offered, and it could be said that Jimi regarded the studio as somewhat of a sound laboratory. The recordings contained in this volume cover the period between June 1968 when Jimi was recording material that would eventually be heard on the double album Electric Ladyland and April 1970 which was post Band Of Gypsys.
Throughout the performances you can hear a musician who is relaxed and enjoying the creation of music for the sake of it although, the burgeoning cost of studio time was certainly one of the considerations when Hendrix decided he wanted a studio of his own. No doubt manager Mike Jeffrey would have drawn attention pointed out the fiscal need for his own studio and also a place where he could record and play day and night of he so desired.
Starting with the opening track Bleeding Heart. This Elmore James song would eventually see a release almost two years after Jimi's death on the War Heroes album although certainly recorded at around the same time that material was being recorded for his next studio album a popular live song for the Experience who performed it live at The Albert Hall in 1969. This take was recorded on the 24th of March 1970 by Hendrix, supported by Cox, Mitchell and Juma Sultan on percussion, this version is a different mix from the master with the wah wah and vocals mixed low at the start and at the end.
There is a small drum break and some snippets of Jimi just messing around on guitar.
The next three tracks on this disc are versions of Rainy Day Dream Away and Rainy Day Dream Away/Still Raining Still Dreaming. All three come from an earlier session recorded on the 10th of June 1968 and eventually appeared on the Electric Ladyland album. Here we have the original run through with a false start and then the practice session. On the original Electric Ladyland album both the tracks Rainy Day Dream Away and Still Raining Still Dreaming were separate tracks but here the two tunes run together to make an extended version.
A dry alternate mix of Rainy Day Dream Away/Still Raining Still Dreaming recorded 10th June 68 featuring Jimi on guitar, Mike Finnegan on organ, Buddy Miles on drums, Freddie Smith on sax and Larry Faucette on percussion.
Stephen Stills and Hendrix crossed paths on a regular basis and Stills has subsequently expressed his love for both the man and his music. There was also the story that Jimi wanted Stephen Stills to play bass in his band following his return from Germany in the autumn of 1970. Although unfortunately it wasn't to be, this jam session is a small glimpse into what they could have achieved together.
Recorded around mid May 1969 we have takes 4 and 5 of Send My Love To Linda/ Live And Let Live Here Jimi is joined by Stills and Dallas Taylor who had both played on the soon to be massively popular debut from Crosby Stills and Nash. Both acts would subsequently make history when they appeared at the legendary Woodstock festival some three months later
The final track featured of this volume finds Jimi going back to his blues roots and covering Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley. Both artists held a massive influence over rock music in the late sixties and early seventies and Jimi Hendrix was equipped better than most to put a new spin on an old standard. Mannish Boy/ I ‘m A Man was recorded on the 22nd April 1970 with Billy Cox on bass and Devon Wilson and unknown guests on percussion and drums.
This is a peculiar session as three sections of the tape have been found but the whole session is still incomplete, this has been deduced by some composites that have been discovered that include parts that are missing from the original tapes.
This latest volume of the In The Studio series finds Jimi relaxed and in good form which is slightly surprising as during this period he was in high demand and the pressure on him, both in terms of what the public wanted but also his own personal creative aspirations, must have been a difficult road to walk.

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In The Studio Volume 6:

The sessions featured on Volume 6 of the In The Studio series are drawn from recordings made at The Record Plant in New York and were made between April 1968 when Jimi was recording material that would eventually be heard on the double album Electric Ladyland and May 1969 which was around the time of the break up of the original Experience and prior to Jimi's landmark appearance at the legendary Woodstock Festival in August 1969 Throughout the performances here you can hear a musician who is relaxed and enjoying the creation of music for the sheer sake of it.
The opening track on this album comes from the sessions that spawned the Electric Ladyland album although Cherokee Mist had first surfaced during sessions for the previous album Axis Bold As Love.
Recorded on 2nd May 1968 with Jimi playing the Sitar as well as guitar and featuring Mitch Mitchell on drums. This version is a different take and almost a minute longer than the version contained on the box set.
The next track entitled Jam H290 comes from the same session that produced Send My Love to Linda/Live And Let Live which features on Volume V of the In The Studio series. This rare jam was recorded in mid May 1969 with Stephen Stills on bass and Dallas Taylor on Drums.
Another song from the Electric Ladyland sessions was Voodoo Chile. The official version released on Electric Ladyland in 1968 ran to just over fifteen minutes. Here is a version in which, although more than double the length of the original, do the musicians become complacent or the energy dips The session started in the evening of 2nd May 1968 and features Jefferson Airplane bassist Jack Casady on bass Mitch Mitchell on drums and Traffic's Steve Winwood on keyboards.
The following two tracks have been drawn from sessions that have received scant appreciation from musicologists and Hendrix experts alike which is surprising when you consider the amount of recordings Jimi Hendrix made and how well these sessions were usually documented.
The first of these is Ships Passing In The Night. This was recorded on the 14th April 1969 Jimi with unknown musicians although the track is often accredited to the Band of Gypsys augmented by an a trumpeter and a pianist. The version featured here is an alternate mix. Whilst many believe this to be a Band of Gypsys number by this time the band had split following a disastrous performance at Madison Square Garden and the drummer is possibly Mitch Mitchell rather than Buddy Miles although this cannot be confirmed.
The final track featured in this volume of the In The Studio series is Calling all Devil's Children Jam Almost no information concerning this track exists save for the brief that Jimi Hendrix plays bass on this track and that it was more than probably recorded at The Record Plant at some point in 1968, possibly the same time as Look Over Yonder. As Noel Redding receives a co-credit it would seem natural to assume that he also took part in the recording although this cannot be confirmed.

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In The Studio Volume 7:

Between March 1969 and June 1970 Jimi Hendrix's life was frenetic on every level. During this period the original line up of The Experience split up following a concert in Denver in June 1969, a new band (Band Of Gypsys) was formed and disbanded and split the same band all within a few months (Band Of Gypsys). He was involved in a film (Rainbow Bridge) building his own studio (Electric Lady Studios), and as if all that wasn't enough, was trying to record a new studio album.
The recordings featured on this album are all drawn from one of the busiest and perhaps most stressful periods of Hendrix's life.

*Jam including: Stepping Stone, Sending My Love To Linda, Freedom, Here Comes The Sun, Cherokee Mist, Call All The Devil's Children.
This recording was made at Jimi's apartment at West 12th Street in Greenwich Village on 1st February 1970. In truth home recording sessions like this were common place with Jimi working out alternative arrangements and ideas for new songs. This session is an acoustic one, although both Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox would drop in to add their contributions to the recordings. On this occasion it is Mitch Mitchell who underpins Jimi's acoustic jamming and can be heard clapping along and providing percussion throughout.
The jam is a light-hearted affair with Jimi and Mitch singing a snatch of Be Bop A Lula at the start of the tape when they are setting up the echo for Mitcha's clapping and percussive effects.

*Closer To The Truth (Room Full Of Mirrors recital).
This is another home recording although this time recorded at his British base in Brook Street, London on 10th March 1969. Earlier in the day Jimi had given an interview to the magazine International Times. The recording is a basic overdubbed recording hence Jimi's recital is panned over to the right hand side of the stereo divide. Whilst some of the words seem scripted, parts are obviously off the cuff bringing an air of spontaneity. The musical backing also drops out and comes back in again around the twelve minute mark giving the whole recording an experimental sound collage feel.

*Jam Back At the House
Recorded at Electric Lady studios on the 16th of June 1970. This was Jimi's first opportunity to record at his own studio Electric Lady studios. During a 3-day session, Hendrix laid down tracks (including this song) which had originally be rehearsed in the weeks leading up to the Woodstock performance in August 1969. Other musicians that had dropped by in the previous days were Traffic's Chris Wood and Steve Winwood although they don't appear on this session alongside Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox.

*Midnight, Valleys Of Neptune Arising
Recorded at Olmstead studios New York on the 3rd of April 1969 This session features the song Midnight which had started life in Olympic Studios on the 14th of February under the title Midnight Lightning. The shortened version entitled just Midnight would eventually appear on the South Saturn Delta album.

The last two recordings on this album are short takes of Pride Of Man (Bolero) with the second take being almost one minute longer than this first. Having moved back to New York from Woodstock Jimi was recording at the Record Plant with the Gypsy Sons and Rainbows band. Feeling the band was played out despite only two gigs (Woodstock on the 18th of August and a benefit gig in Harlem on the 5th of September) he disbanded the group following a series of sessions including the one that produced this track recorded on the 24th September 1969. A projected tour was also cancelled as Jimi felt unable physically and mentally to perform. Shortly after, however, Jimi would start to play with Billy Cox and Buddy Miles in what would become the Band Of Gypsys.

*Pride of Man (Bolero)
Recorded 24th September 1969

Second slightly longer version of the above song recorded at the same session featuring Juma Sultan on percussion who featured on both takes alongside Jimi and Billy Cox.
Despite being drawn from the busiest period of Jimi's life bearing in mind that Jimi was also beginning to have doubts concerning his managerial contract with Mike Jeffery, the recordings here prove that artistically at least Jimi was still able to create music. In fact it is probably is desire and his ability to do this that kept Jimi on a (somewhat) even keel during this turbulent period of his life.

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In The Studio Volume 8:

The sessions featured in this volume date from between January 1968 and the sessions for what would turn out to be Electric Ladyland, the groundbreaking double album released in October ‘68 through to some of the last recordings Jimi would make in the summer of 1970 in his own Electric Lady studios.

*Electric Church
Jimi spent much of October 1968 in Los Angeles in the midst of a hectic touring schedule, recording or producing the Eire Apparent album and invariably playing one-off gigs. This song was recorded at TTG Hollywood studios 29th October 1968 with Buddy Miles & Lee Michaels on keyboards alongside Jimi, Noel and Mitch. The track is basically a jam although the Red House dies put in an appearance.

*Hear My Freedom
Recorded at TTG studios Hollywood 21st October 1968 with Buddy Miles & Lee Michaels on keyboards. Jimi had hooked up with Lee Michaels earlier in the month when he dropped in to catch a Michaels performance at the Whiskey A Go Go. This track was cut during a session which was also taken up with twenty seven versions of another song, Call All The Devil's Children

*Honey Bed
Recorded at the Record Plant on 23rd December 1969 with Billy Cox & Buddy Miles for possible inclusion on the proposed Band Of Gypsys studio album which ultimately failed to materialize. The song was a full attempt at recording and features elements of another song, Bleeding Heart.

Room Full Of Mirrors Recorded at Olympic studios 26th February 1969. This is an early version of the song featuring Mitch Mitchell & Noel Redding. Further attempts were made to nail this track in April and November of the same year. The released version was recorded in Nov ‘69 with the Band of Gypsies and the Ghetto Fighters line-ups at the Record Plant.

*All Along The Watchtower
Recorded at Olympic studios on 21 January 1968, this song would go on to be a huge worldwide hit and even Bob Dylan approved of the cover of one of his most successful songs. This is a basic early mix by Chas Chandler and includes contributions from Rolling Stone Brian Jones on percussion. Jimi plays bass and guitar with Mitch Mitchell on drums and Dave Mason of Traffic playing twelve string acoustic.

*Ezy Rider
This is an alternative mix of a song that would eventually find release on Jimi's first posthumous release, The Cry Of Love, with this recording dating from December the 18th 1969. This particular version however features the Band Of Gypsys line up of Jimi alongside Billy Cox and Buddy Miles. Recorded at The Record Plant this take features an alternative mix with different lyrics and extra guitar although extra guitar overdubs and vocals were recorded at Electric Lady studios during the summer of 1970

*Dolly Dagger
Another alternate mix. The basic track was recorded on the 1st of July 1970 at Electric Lady studios. The track was then overdubbed in mid July and again in mid August in what was possibly one of Jimi's last studio sessions before he died in September. The session featured Jimi Mitch and Billy with the Ghetto Fighters (Albert & Arthur Allen) on backing vocals. Juma Sultan also features on percussion.

*South Saturn Delta
Recorded Olympic Studios January 1968 during the Axis Bold As Love sessions. The horns were added by Larry Fallon at the Record Plant in June 1969

*Shame Shame Shame
Recorded 16th February 1969 at Olympic studios where a number of other songs were recorded including a prototype version of Ezy Ryder which was at the time entitled Slow. Overdubs were possibly added by Mitch and Noel in the ‘80s

*Gypsy Blood (Crying Blue Rain)
Recorded on the 16th of February 1969 at Olympic studios with Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding making this one of the last sessions to feature the original line up of The Experience. The session also featured an unknown percussionist although it may well have been Rocky Dijon who had guested with the band at the Royal Albert Hall the previous month. This song was recorded during the same session that Shame Shame Shame and Sunshine Of Your Love were recorded.

*Sunshine Of Your Love
A long-time favourite of Jimi's who had also been a great admirer of Cream. Jimi decided to dedicate a spontaneous rendition of this song to Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton on a live version of the Lulu television show in January following Cream's disbanding the previous November. Perhaps it was this version of the song that made him decide to tape his own studio version of the song recording this version at Olympic Studios on the 16th February 1969.

This album once again proves that the recording studio really was the place where Jimi felt at ease and capable of creating music. The majority of the music featured here will be new to some more recent fans of the music of Jimi Hendrix but there is plenty here for the long time fan and the newcomer to savour and appreciate.

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In The Studio Volume 9:

It has often been said that Jimi Hendrix used to sleep with his guitar and although it is well known that he often enjoyed the company of more nubile bedfellows, it is fair to say that Hendrix was one of the most prolific artists of his generation. Many home recordings have come to light in the thirty five-plus years since his death in September 1970. Most of the recordings featured in this volume come from early 1968 when Jimi was in the process of working on the follow up to Axis Bold As Love.
The third album, which was released in October 1968, was the massively successful Electric Ladyland.
The double album was packed with Jimi's best material at the time and almost half the tracks included in this volume of In The Studio would go on to be more fully realised on what is now considered one of the best rock records of the era and an album that is often cited as being Hendrix's best work.
Whilst in New York Jimi would sometimes stay at the Drake hotel and of course would occasionally write material while staying there. Generally however he used his own apartment and the majority of the material featured here comes from recordings made at that location.

*The first track here is an early run through of Angel.
Despite being written in late 1967 and demoed here at the beginning of the following year in Jimi's New York apartment the song would not form part of the Electric Ladyland line up. Instead it would feature on Jimi's posthumous album The Cry Of Love. This version is a straight run through on electric guitar and Jimi's solo vocal.
The performance here finds the song already arranged and whilst missing the multi tracking that it would obviously benefit from in the studio the song is complete and is considered one of his best although quite why it was not considered for inclusion on Electric Ladyland is not clear.

*The next track, 1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be) eventually found its way on to the Electric Ladyland album.
This is the first of two versions featured here and another song originally recorded as a demo at the Drake Hotel in New York. This take was possibly recorded in the days before the second version (recorded on the 1st of February 1968) and while clocking in at around five minutes shorter than the version on Electric Ladyland the arrangements are all in place.
The start of the songs finds Hendrix strumming the chords on an un-amplified electric guitar although as the song progresses the guitar switches to an amplified guitar although still being played softly.


*Astro Man/Valleys Of Neptune
were recorded at Jimi's apartment in late August and early September ‘69 although neither song would be released in Jimi's lifetime. Astro Man would be recorded in spring of 1970 and eventually see the light on the posthumous The Cry Of Love album released in early 1971. The version Valleys Of Neptune here is just a short instrumental snippet although a more fully realised version would be recorded in May 1970.
However even then Jimi was to admit at the end of that particular recording that the song wasn't finished. This version then would appear to be the first attempt at the basic structure of the song.

*Gypsy Eyes
was another song that would go on to be included in the running order of Electric Ladyland. This volume features three versions of the song and four if you count a medley of it alongside Cherokee Mist. The versions collected here are the very rough home demos of the song although in the first version it is merely an instrumental take in order no doubt to get down the basic structure of the song.

*Cherokee Mist
is another previously unreleased Jimi Hendrix song although there is a version included in the Jimi Hendrix box which was captured at the Electric Lady studios in 1970 in between takes for Astro Man. The version featured here is the rough sketch of the song which is more of a rhythmic run through than the more finished song that was recorded more than two years later. It is from some of these rough sketches that Hendrix used to build other complete songs.
Cherokee Mist/Gypsy Eyes would be a case in point building on the previous version this version recorded in April is a more complete version complete with lyrics that would form part of the song Voodoo Chile. The song segues into Gypsy Eyes now complete with rough vocal lines towards the end of the song.

*Power Of Soul
was included in rehearsals for the Band Of Gypsys only full concert appearances at the Fillmore East over the New Year 1969-70 suggesting the song must have been written and demoed in late 1969. The song is very much in the style of the material the Band Of Gypsys would perform live and may have been considered a contender for a hoped for but never realised Band Of Gypsys studio album. Whilst an instrumental version this version musically has all the elements and arrangement in place of the familiar live version performed by the Band Of Gypsys.

*The next two tracks are versions of the song Long Hot Summer.
The song which formed a part of the Electric Ladyland album is featured here played on an acoustic twelve string with the song literally being written while Jimi plays it and works out the guitar parts and sings the occasional lyric. The second version stops abruptly after just under two minutes.

*Hear My Train A Comin'
was a song that Hendrix returned to time and again. He can be seen in the Experience movie performing the song on an acoustic guitar. The Experience also worked up an extended version of the song in Olympic Studios in early 1969. The two versions featured here date from April 1968 and are but short snippets of the song with both versions reaching just over one minute in length.
The lyrics in the second version are the ones that would eventually feature on the song Voodoo Chile.

*The next two tracks are two further versions of Gypsy Eyes and whilst the versions are similar Jimi was obviously working on something and was not happy to rest until he achieved what he heard in his head with the second version being a refinement of the riff that would feature in the finished song.

*South Saturn Delta
was another song written and recorded in early ‘68 although a more polished version does exist with a full band and brass arrangement, this try out is the basic song structure.

*Three Little Bears
was considered a throw-away track although surfacing on many bootlegs as part of various jams and also the B side of the Christmas single Little Drummer Boy.

*The second version of 1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)
is half the length of the first version featured on this volume. Like the earlier version this was taped at the Drake Hotel in early 1968. This version suffers a false start before beginning again with more focus, featuring just Hendrix and his electric guitar.

*The final piece of music featured in this volume is an Acoustic Jam taped by Jimi at his apartment in Greenwich Village on 1st February 1970.
The jam features Jimi on an acoustic guitar and he is accompanied by Mitch Mitchell who is adding percussion by what seems to be slapping his thighs in accompaniment to Jimi's acoustic playing. The tape cuts out abruptly as Jimi stops playing for whatever reason.

Whilst Jimi would spend hours in the recording studio jamming and recording or refining ideas it would seem that he was just as active as a home taper and many of his best material started off from basic home recordings some of which are featured here.
What they do show is that Jimi Hendrix was an extremely prolific artist and also an artist one capable of turning even the most basic idea or riff into something rather special.

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In The Studio Volume 10:

As far as Jimi Hendrix was concerned England was his oyster in 1967. Transplanted from New York where he had been playing club dates to make ends meet in late 1966 Jimi was discovered by Chas Chandler and brought over to the UK in order to develop his career.
What many probably didn't realise (including Hendrix himself) was that Jimi's career would become one of the most influential careers of almost anyone in the rock business. Starting with the single Hey Joe in the previous year, 1967 looked like being the year that Jimi Hendrix became a huge star the world over.
Hard as it is to believe these days but Jimi Hendrix would record a string of singles and two massively selling studio albums in 1967 as well as playing countless concerts throughout the year including his career-altering appearance at the Monterey Festival.
The music featured on this album consists of previously unreleased and in some cases unheard of alternate takes of some of Jimi's music recorded and released in England during 1967.

*Hey Joe
was of course the debut single recorded at De Lane Lea studios in late ‘66 although, it would appear on the American version of Jimi's debut album Are You Experienced in 1967. This version is obviously a vocal tracking take with Jimi ad-libbing throughout and asking early on for more of his voice to be put into his headphones and the band lowered.
A different take from the single musically the intro being a little hesitant and the backing vocals by the Breakaways well to the fore on this mix.

*Purple Haze
was another hit single and the follow up to Hey Joe. Released early in 1967 the version we have here is an alternate take with Jimi laying down the vocals and the musical backing dropping in and out isolating his vocals which are again ad-libbed at times and somewhat more forceful during this session. Towards the end of the song you can hear a vocal overdub of Jimi repeating the phrase Purple Haze which was dropped from the eventual single release.

*Red House
was a popular blues song from the Are You Experienced album. This extended and relaxed version was more like the lengthy workout the Experience performed during live concerts rather than the three minutes plus version included on Are You Experienced. The song breaks down twice and Jimi can be heard talking back to Chas Chandler in the control room. Despite this breakdown of the song the band still manage to lengthen this particular take to almost twice the length of the version that originally appeared on Are You Experienced.

*Crosstown Traffic featured on Electric Ladyland and the B side of the single drawn from that album All Along The Watchtower.
This version is a different mix with the vocals more to the fore than on the final released mix. The backing vocals feature Mitch and Noel.

Takin' Care Of Business
is decidedly old time and quite at odds with the material Hendrix and the Experience were recording at the time and they certainly do seem to be enjoying themselves. Recorded at Olympic Studios on 4 May 1967 with Mitch Mitchell & Noel Redding. The sax was recorded at the same session and although not confirmed could even be Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones. The tuba, however, was added in the ‘80s for no apparent reason.

*I Don't Live Today
was recorded at De Lane Lea Studios 20th February 1967. These are three takes, two instrumental and one with two lead vocal tracks with the versions here being longer than the released version on Are You Experienced. With Jimi, Mitch Mitchell & Noel Redding having recorded the basic track it was decided to add more to the finished master and overdubs were done at Olympic studios.

*Wind Cries Mary
was the third single to come from The Experience. This was again recorded at the studio the band favoured in the early days, De Lane Lea, in January 1967 and featured the now established line up of Hendrix, Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell who were well on the way to rock stardom after just their second single and a series of high profile club performances. This is an instrumental backing track although not the final single version.

*One Rainy Wish featured on the bands second album Axis Bold As Love.
Recorded by The Experience at Olympic on 3 October ‘67, this version is an alternate mix from the released album and features wider stereo panning which is particularly noticeable on the guitar overdubs.

*La Poupee Qui Fait Non
is a cover of a song written by French song writer and performer Michel Polnareff. Jimi and the Experience had supported French Rock star Johnny Halliday as one of their first live jaunts in October 1966. This cover was recorded in March 1967 possibly at De Lane Lea and was presumably earmarked for inclusion on Are You Experienced. This instrumental was as far as it went however and subsequently this recording has never been officially released. As an aside, Ronnie Wood's ‘60s band The Birds did manage to cover the tune before The Experience.

*51st Anniversary came from the sessions that produced the Are You Experienced album.
The two versions here feature an almost finished take but different from the released version. The second take is an instrumental version that breaks down a number of times while the band is trying to refine the arrangement.

*Can You See Me
is another track from Are You Experienced. However the first version featured here is an almost nine minute instrumental version. The original version is a mere two minutes thirty three seconds. The second version is a different take and whilst it sounds like a finished take is again just slightly longer than the released version. The vocal take, however, sounds like a finished take despite Jimi's request to do it one more time.

*The final tracks featured in this volume are more out-takes from Are You Experienced sessions.
In this instance the first alternate instrumental take of Fire remains true to the original released version. The second take however is an extended instrumental version which suffers a number of breakdowns before the band kick back in and Jimi lets fly with some literally incendiary soloing.

Jimi Hendrix exploded onto the scene in 1967 and through sheer hard work and an amazing run of singles and two breakthrough albums not to mention a serious amount of live work ensured that his career sped off on an elevation that was to prove both exciting and full of highs and lows. This trajectory would ultimately end with Jimi's premature death in September 1970 but 1967 in England was where the journey really began.

I hope you enjoy the studio recordings...

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