Jimi Hendrix - The Ultimate Experience (FLAC) - 1992

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, 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. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music".

Born in Seattle, Washington, Hendrix began playing guitar at the age of 15. In 1961, he enlisted in the US Army and trained as a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division; he was granted an honorable discharge the following year. Soon afterward, he moved to Clarksville, Tennessee, and began playing gigs on the chitlin' circuit, earning a place in the Isley Brothers' backing band and later with Little Richard, with whom he continued to work through mid-1965. He then played with Curtis Knight and the Squires before moving to England in late 1966 after being discovered by Linda Keith, who in turn interested bassist Chas Chandler of the Animals in becoming his first manager. Within months, Hendrix had earned three UK top ten hits with the Jimi Hendrix Experience: "Hey Joe", "Purple Haze", and "The Wind Cries Mary". He achieved fame in the US after his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, and in 1968 his third and final studio album, Electric Ladyland, reached number one in the US; it was Hendrix's most commercially successful release and his first and only number one album. The world's highest-paid performer, he headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 before his accidental death from barbiturate-related asphyxia on September 18, 1970, at the age of 27.

Hendrix was inspired musically by American rock and roll and electric blues. He favored overdriven amplifiers with high volume and gain, and was instrumental in utilizing the previously undesirable sounds caused by guitar amplifier feedback. He helped to popularize the use of a wah-wah pedal in mainstream rock, and was the first artist to use stereophonic phasing effects in music recordings. Holly George-Warren of Rolling Stone commented: "Hendrix pioneered the use of the instrument as an electronic sound source. Players before him had experimented with feedback and distortion, but Hendrix turned those effects and others into a controlled, fluid vocabulary every bit as personal as the blues with which he began."

Hendrix was the recipient of several music awards during his lifetime and posthumously. In 1967, readers of Melody Maker voted him the Pop Musician of the Year, and in 1968, Rolling Stone declared him the Performer of the Year. Disc and Music Echo honored him with the World Top Musician of 1969 and in 1970, Guitar Player named him the Rock Guitarist of the Year. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Rolling Stone ranked the band's three studio albums, Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love, and Electric Ladyland, among the 100 greatest albums of all time, and they ranked Hendrix as the greatest guitarist and the sixth greatest artist of all time.

The Ultimate Experience is a 1992 compilation album of songs by songwriter and guitarist Jimi Hendrix. It features 20 of his greatest hits, most of them recorded with The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and live renditions of "The Star Spangled Banner" and "Wild Thing". It was released in the U.K. in November 1992, and later on April 27, 1993 in the U.S.A.. The album reached No. 25 in the UK Albums Chart and No. 72 in the Billboard 200. An HDCD remastered special edition UK picture disc version limited to 2500 copies was released in 1995. The track listing was compiled from a poll citing his most popular recordings for the European market. All songs were recorded between October 23, 1966 and July 23, 1970.


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Track listing

01. "All Along the Watchtower" (Bob Dylan) – 4:07 (Electric Ladyland)
02. "Purple Haze" – 2:44 (Are You Experienced)
03. "Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts) – 3:26 (Are You Experienced)
04. "The Wind Cries Mary" – 3:18 (Are You Experienced)
05. "Angel" – 4:17 (The Cry of Love)
06. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" – 5:13 (Electric Ladyland)
07. "Foxy Lady" – 3:15 (Are You Experienced)
08. "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" – 3:35 (Electric Ladyland)
09. "Highway Chile" – 3:30 (Are You Experienced)
10. "Crosstown Traffic" – 2:14 (Electric Ladyland)
11. "Castles Made of Sand" – 2:45 (Axis: Bold as Love)
12. "Long Hot Summer Night" – 3:27 (Electric Ladyland)
13."Red House" – 3:54 (Are You Experienced)
14. "Manic Depression" – 3:37 (Are You Experienced)
15. "Gypsy Eyes" – 3:42 (Electric Ladyland)
16. "Little Wing" – 2:24 (Axis: Bold as Love)
17. "Fire" – 2:38 (Are You Experienced)
18. "Wait Until Tomorrow" – 3:00 (Axis: Bold as Love)
19. "Star Spangled Banner (Live)" (John Stafford Smith) – 4:05 (Live at Woodstock)
20. "Wild Thing (Live)" (Chip Taylor) – 6:54 (Jimi Plays Monterey)

All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.