Customer Review(s)
Customer Rating: 
Summary: his best album , so how come only 3 stars?
Comment: I could never give this more than 3 stars because it is digital. If you want to hear this, listen to vinyl with a tube amplifier.
Hendrix's tendency towards unfocused noodling is held in check here by his producer, Mr. Chandler.
The songs here are a case of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts.
If you are wondering if you want to buy Hendrix - get the vinyl record, play it through a tube guitar amp. This is his best album. All of his ideas start and end here.
Customer Rating: Summary: A Band and an Album for Eternity
Comment: If you own only one Jimi Hendrix album/CD, this is it. When I first heard the opening bars of "Purple Haze" in the Fall of 1967, I got goose bumps and promptly threw a brand new Tommy James album in the trash. Jimi Hendrix was an avatar. Like a comet blazing out of London, there had never been anything like the Hendrix band in the history of Rock 'n' Roll. "Are You Experienced" was more than a milestone, more than ground-breaking, more than revolutionary -- it was a total dimensional/paradigm shift in the way people listened to and forever after played music and redefined the electric guitar - and it remains a monumental achievement by any standard. Under the direction of Chas Chandler, bassist for the Animals, Hendrix took two skilled English no-name studio musicians (Noel Redding on bass and Mitch Mitchell on drums) and created a trio that set the gold standard for "tight." Every cut on this album is a winner and sounds just as powerful today as when the album was first issued. "Manic Depression," "Foxy Lady," the trippy "Third Stone from the Sun," and the definitive power ballad "The Wind Cries Mary" - to name but a few others - reflect genius of musicianship and poetry in lyric writing. This CD contains tunes that were not originally released on the original American release of the album, including the legendary track "Red House." This album deserves 10 stars.
Customer Rating: Summary: Intro to Gutiar 101. For people with less than 6 months experience.
Comment: Jimi Hendrix has to be the most over rated guitarist ever! Not only does his songs make no sense, but he can't solo to save his life! I'm sick and tired of these retro wannabes saying how fabulous he is!
For good guitaring check out Limp Bizkit, Nickelback, Disturbed, Korn, Kid Rock, Staind, Creed, and Metallica's St Anger Album.
Oh, and Lenny Kravitz is GOD compared to this rip off!
