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...Experience" CDs take the listener out on the road, into the studio and almost into the head of Hendrix: There's an early version of "Hey Joe" in which we hear him tell his producer to turn down the backing vocals; there's an instrumental called "Slow Blues," which is billed as the last multitrack recording he ever made. The song cuts off suddenly and too soon, like Hendrix's life. It's fascinating to compare early versions of songs like "Foxey Lady" with the takes that became famous. Hendrix was a wild spirit onstage - sometimes playing guitar with...
...Whereas the boxed set offers more of Hendrix, Showtime's movie serves up less. It doesn't use any music that Hendrix wrote, leaving the filmmakers free of his family's creative control. Instead we hear Hendrix-sorta-soundalikes playing his most famous covers, including a couple of Bob Dylan songs. But the problem with the movie isn't the fact that it's missing Hendrix's original songs; it's the fact that it's missing his original originality. Harris is onto something with his voodoo-chile spaciness, but the scriptwriters give him little...
...Janie Hendrix, the guitarist's half sister and president and CEO of Experience Hendrix, says the family hopes to do its own movie at some point and that a proper film can't be done without his music: "Jimi's music...
...Hendrix was a terrific vocalist, with a gift for phrasing and interpolation. But he was above all a guitarist who created a new vocabulary of noise. Hendrix in his day was sometimes criticized for making music that was too "white" (i.e., too rock- infused), when in reality he was reaching past the pop-soul styles of his time and drawing on African-American blues traditions. The new boxed set features a blues rocker called "It's Too Bad" that touches on the subject. "They say until you come back completely black," Hendrix sings, "go back where you came from...
...Hendrix's triumph over artistic typecasting has struck a chord with some of today's cutting-edge soul and hip-hop acts such as Erykah Badu, D'Angelo and Common, who are, with increasing frequency, booking time at Electric Lady Studios in New York City, Hendrix's recording facility, hoping to conjure his spirit. Hendrix once told a reporter, "If I'm free, it's because I'm always running." He's still running. And he's still free...