Jimi Hendrix是摇滚乐史上最伟大的吉它手，也许还有很多人对此有异议，但可以肯定地说，只是少数，其它传奇性摇滚吉它手可能在技术上更娴熟，但在jimi之前，电吉它不过是吉它原声的电声化，正是Jimi用他的吉它创造了前人从未曾想到的奇迹，在他短暂却辉煌的音乐生涯里，jimi重塑了吉它，赋予它生命。
Jimi于1942年11月27日出生于华盛顿西雅图，印第安黑人血统，他小时候就整天泡在父亲A1收藏的Jazz和Blues唱片中，并通过收音机收听R&B，Rock Nroll等新音乐风格。A1看出儿子对音乐的强烈兴趣，给他买了一把吉它，Jimi不放过任何练习的机会，很快就能跟当地几个乐队演出了。
中专毕业后Jimi曾在军营中呆过一段短暂时间，之后他选择了做一名“吟游吉它手”，在当时一些较有名的黑人R&B乐队作替补，过了几年吉普赛人式的流浪生活后，Jimi来到纽约定居在格林威治村，那里是许多豪放不羁的艺术家的聚居之所，Jimi因而接触到不同风格的艺术，文学，尢其是音乐。
1966年Jimi来到了伦敦，在Zoot Money的一场演出使Jimi在此迅速走红。Jimi的演出给经纪人Chas Chanoller留下了深刻的印象，并把其介绍给鼓手Mitch Mitchell和贝司手Noel Redding，三人开始聚在一起排练，1960年10月6日，组成The Jimi Hendrix Experience 乐队，很快便引起轰动。观看了乐队在某俱乐部的一场演出之后，Kit Lamber深受吸引，并试图劝说乐队签入其新开设的Trach厂牌旗下，但是由于Trach处于创业时期，经常并不顺利，于是乐队的第一支单曲“Hey Joe”由Polydor公司推出发行，于是成了排行榜的大热门。
12月, 乐队推出第二曲“Purpls Haze”，由Jimi创作并打入排行榜第三名，随着新歌的不断创作和录制，唱片《Are You Experienced》于1967年5月推出，并位居英国唱片排行榜第二名，仅居于Beatles的《Sergeant Pepper》之后，仅赁这张唱片，The Jimi Hendrix Experience成为英国摇滚乐坛的传奇，但此时Jimi并不为其国人所识。
1967年夏天，乐队应邀去加利福尼亚的Monterey流行音乐节演出，这庞大的露天音乐会是“旧金山爱之夏”的音乐象征，许多英美的一流摇滚乐队来此演出，Jimi在这次演出中将一把吉它玩尽了花样，或高举过头顶，或置于双腿间，或在背后弹拨，甚至用牙齿来抚动琴弦，在结束时Jimi将引燃液浇在心爱的吉他上点燃，作为对信仰的一种祭奠，然后把它摔得粉碎，将燃烧的碎片抛向观众席，而插头此时仍没有拨掉，Jimi这一举动无疑使人群为之疯狂，而Jimi亦奠定了他在美国摇滚乐坛上的巨星地位。音乐节过后，他又马不停蹄地推出单曲《Purple Haze》和大碟《Are You Experienced》在美国销量超过一百万张，随后的《Axis：Bold As Love》于1967年12月推出， 这张唱片更具实验性， 尽管打入美国榜TOP20，商业上却没有第一张唱片成功，在此期间，Jimi于英美各地巡回演出，推销他的两张唱片，几乎每场演唱会门票一售而空。
1969年来Jimi的创作更接近他的种族与音乐之源，而远离使他成名的Acld Rock，其风格的改变体现于纯黑人乐队Gypsys的组建。由Jimi的军营的老友Billy Cox任贝斯手，R&B巨星Buddy Miles任鼓手，于1970年元旦之夜这支三人乐队在纽约Fillmore East Theater演出，并于同年4月推出这场演出的录音唱片《Band Of Gypsys》。
同年Jimi和“The Cry Of Love”乐队同游欧洲，并与之灌制了他最后一张唱片。欧洲之旅途中，Jimi于伦敦暂停。Jimi服食迷幻药是尽人皆知的，而药物所致的迷幻状态曾诱发JIMI创作许多歌的灵感。1970年9月17日晚他却意外药过量，次晨他的女友发现他昏睡不醒，救护车到来时他已窒息而死，Jimi当时才27岁，而在前一天晚上他还在创作一首新歌，歌名叫“The Story Lf Life”。
Jimi是一个毫无争议的吉它天才，他将传统的12小节布鲁斯演绎成超乎他人想象的新形式，而他那集流行艺术，暴力于一体的舞台吸引力也他人无可比拟的。Jimi是第一位将所有电声设备，不只是吉它，当作乐器演奏的摇滚音乐家，这标志着思维的一个转变。许多音乐学者谈到摇滚都有些不屑，但却一致认为Jimi不管选择从事何种音乐都会成功，虽然Jimi去世后，音乐在技术方面日新月异，但Jimi所创造出的许多声音却从来未能被其它人复制。他的音乐是没有时间界限的，甚至在他死时还未出世的音乐家也受之启发。Jimi有生之年只录制5张唱片，但却永远改变了摇滚乐的足迹。

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century.

Third installment of Purple Haze Records' Hendrix extensive reissue series. This 2004 compilation features two complete shows, recorded in Stockholm in 1969, featuring the classic Experience line up of Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell, & Noel Redding. First show features eight tracks, & the second show features ten tracks.

This brand-new, completely unreleased studio album features 12 previously unreleased studio recordings totalling over 60 minutes of unheard Jimi Hendrix. Ten of these recordings were made between February and May, 1969, as the Jimi Hendrix Experience set out to create the sequel to their groundbreaking 1968 double-album <em>Electric Ladyland</em>. The album features “Valleys Of Neptune,” one of the most sought after of all of Hendrix’s commercially unavailable recordings, and includes exciting 1969 arrangements of the classic signature songs “Red House,” “Fire,” and “Stone Free.” Also includes unheard studio versions of Hendrix’s inspired interpretations of “Bleeding Heart” (Elmore James) and Cream’s “Sunshine Of Your Love.” Mixed by Eddie Kramer, the engineer for all of Hendrix’s albums throughout the guitarist’s lifetime. Produced by Janie Hendrix, Eddie Kramer, and John McDermott, the team behind all of the acclaimed Jimi Hendrix CD and DVD releases since 1996.<br /><br /><strong><em>VALLEYS OF NEPTUNE</em>: Track by Track</strong><br />All of the 12 recordings featured on the album have never before been released on a CD/LP. The songs document the pivotal time period after <em>Electric Ladyland </em>and before Electric Lady Studios and the recordings made there that would later take form as <em>Cry of Love </em>and <em>First Rays</em>. <br /><br /><em>Valleys of Neptune </em>documents both the final studio recordings Jimi made in 1969 with the original Jimi Hendrix Experience and the first efforts with new bassist Billy Cox. As a number of the song titles will be familiar to fans and buyers alike, the following details the key characteristics of each of the tracks on <em>Valleys of Neptune</em>.<br /><br /><strong>"Stone Free"</strong>: The original 1966 recording by the original Jimi Hendrix Experience is best known as one of Jimi’s signature songs. The <em>Jimi Hendrix Experience</em> box set (2000) featured a new remake by the original group. Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell, and Billy Cox recorded this version in May 1969. It is a different recording entirely.<br /><br /><strong>"Valleys of Neptune"</strong>: This track was recorded in September, 1969, and May, 1970. This full-band version has never been released. An extract of a demo Hendrix made of this song -- featuring just Mitchell on drums and percussionist Juma Sultan -- was part of the short-lived Reprise/Polydor album <em>Lifelines</em>,<em> </em>which was in the marketplace between 1990 to 1992.<br /><br /><strong>"Bleeding Heart"</strong>: This cover of the classic blues song by Elmore James is different entirely from the versions featured on <em>South Saturn Delta</em> and (originally) on <em>War Heroes</em>. This recording has never been issued and features Jimi, Billy Cox, and drummer Rocky Isaac. It was recorded in April, 1969.<br /><br /><strong>"Hear My Train A Comin’"</strong>: This electric, full-band version is different from the famous 12-string acoustic version that was featured in the 1973 documentary <em>Jimi Hendrix</em> and subsequently on the album <em>Jimi Hendrix: Blues</em>.<br /><br /><strong>"Mr. Bad Luck"</strong>: Like “Valleys of Neptune”, a different version of this song was part of <em>Lifelines </em>in (1990). Jimi would later develop this song as “Look Over Yonder,” issued as part of <em>South Saturn Delta</em>.<br /><br /><strong>"Sunshine of Your Love"</strong>: A stage favorite for the group during the 1969 period which has never been released.<br /><br /><strong>"Lover Man"</strong>: Jimi recorded many different arrangements of this song, including the versions on both the <em>Jimi Hendrix Experience</em> box set (2000) and <em>South Saturn Delta</em>. This is an entirely different recording made in February, 1969.<br /><br /><strong>"Ships Passing Through the Night"</strong>: A never-before-released track taken from the last recording session by the original Jimi Hendrix Experience on 4/14/69.<br /><br /><strong>"Fire/Red House"</strong>: Both of these songs by the original Jimi Hendrix Experience were recorded at the same February, 1969, session. They feature the expanded stage arrangements Jimi had developed and are not alternate takes of the original 1967 recordings.<br /><br /><strong>"Lullaby for the Summer/Crying Blue Rain"</strong>: These April, 1969, recordings by the original Jimi Hendrix Experience have never been released.
Hendrix's 'Valleys of Neptune' is due out 8th March and isn't a lost album or a greatest hits, but more a documentation of the missing period between 1968's 'Electric Ladyland' and his appearance at Woodstock in '69. The album will include a number of previously unreleased songs, as well as reworkings of classic Hendrix songs.
Nearly 40 years after it was recorded at Jimi Hendrix’s final recording sessions, an unearthed song called “Valleys of Neptune” will feature on a compilation of the same name on March 9th. Valleys of Neptune will include 12 tracks recorded at various studios during Jimi’s final recording sessions while working on his posthumously completed First Rays of the Rising Sun. “Valleys of Neptune,” which was never released commercially but did appear on 1990’s Lifelines: The Jimi Hendrix Story four-disc set, will also be released as a single on February 2nd.
Valleys of Neptune will also feature studio versions of Hendrix’s covers of “Bleeding Heart” and Cream’s “Sunshine of Your Love,” plus rerecorded versions of previous Are You Experienced? hits “Fire,” “Red House” and “Stone Free.” Other tracks making their first official appearance are “Lullaby for the Summer,” “Crying Blue Rain” and “Ships Passing Through the Night,” plus an Axis: Bold as Love-era track called “Mr. Bad Luck.” Some of the Valleys‘ songs, like a studio rendition of “Hear My Train A Comin’” and “Stone Free” — then “Stone Free Again” — appeared on the handful of posthumous Hendrix releases that followed the guitarist’s death in 1970.

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century.

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century.

In addition to the September 13th release of the four-CD, deluxe box set of Jimi Hendrix Experience: Winterland, Experience Hendrix LLC and Legacy Recordings will also be releasing Hendrix in the West Expanded. Unavailable in the States since 1974, the album originally issued by Polydor and Reprise in 1972 was a posthumous collection of live performances at the Royal Albert Hall (February 24, 1969), the San Diego Sports Arena (May 24, 1969), Berkeley Community Theate (May 30, 1970) and the Isle of Wight Festival (August 30, 1970).

许多人认为Jimi Hendrix死的时候，灵感已枯竭。摇滚歌星们应该知道在这种职业生涯中该如何保护自己，可惜一个人在青云直上时不会明白，而等他明白时，已经太晚了。亨德里斯从来不知道如何筑起保护墙。我们不能说他在70年代的作品缺乏创造力，不幸的是Jimi Hendrix的音乐深奥重要之处已被营利目的搞的面目全非??《First Rays of the New Rising Sun》这张未完成专辑中的大部分歌曲被收录在Jimi Hendrix死后最初出版的两张专辑《Cry of Love》和《Rainbow Bridge》。随后，突然之间到处都出版了Jimi Hendrix拼凑歌曲的专辑，直到1974年制作人Alan Douglas开始接管他的遗作时，情况才消失，Alan Douglas最初出版的两张“新”专辑《Crash Landing》和《Midnight Lightning》全都是把Jimi Hendrix从1969年到1970年的录音室原声经过Alan Douglas把吉他以外的噪音抹去，再重新加上乐手的伴奏而编辑的，如果说这些专辑毫无生机的话。那么Alan Douglas制作的另一张“新”专辑《Nine to the Universe》倒并不太坏，的确是当时Jimi Hendrix和当时的乐手一起演奏的。现场演出版本的一些专辑，像《Concerts》、《Live at Winterland》以及4CD装的《Stages》倒是一些很具历史价值的东西，就像《Radio One》(是Jimi Hendrix Experience 1967年在BBC电台做的)，一样都是尽收全文未经改动的真实演唱会版本。

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century.

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century.