The laminated sleeve has a few heavy corner creases and there is some ring wear but there are no bad rips or tears. Featuring "Crosstown Traffic" / "Voodoo Chile" / "All Along The Watchtower" and other classics! Photo of Jimi on the LEFT of the inner gatefold. “1983 … (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)”Ģ0.VERY RARE 1972 UK STEREO Track records reissue pressing of the classic 1968 LP, in laminated E.J. Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland Deluxe Edition Tracklistĭisc Two: Electric Ladyland: The Early Takesġ. You can watch a video of Kramer explaining the background of the monumental album in the video below, via Rolling Stone:Įngineer Eddie Kramer Talks The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Electric Ladyland The accompanying 48-page book includes essays by Rolling Stone’s David Fricke and producer John McDermott along with photos Eddie Kramer captured during that time, Hendrix’s handwritten lyrics and notes to his record label, and more. Instead, it will feature the original album with tracks recorded during the sessions that appeared on Hendrix’s posthumous albums. In addition, it will feature a live selection, Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live at the Hollywood Bowl 9/14/68, culled from a recently discovered two-track soundboard recording of the Experience’s gig and the famous band shell that included material from each of their albums as well as a cover of Cream‘s “Sunshine of Your Love”. The streaming version of the release will not feature either The Early Takes or Live at the Hollywood Bowl. The set will also include a volume of outtakes from the sessions, Electric Ladyland: The Early Takes, originally captured by Hendrix himself in a New York hotel room in 1968. A pared-down version will be available on streaming services.” The accompanying 48-page book includes essays by Rolling Stone’s David Fricke and producer John McDermott along with photos Eddie Kramer captured during that time, Hendrix’s handwritten lyrics and notes to his record label, and more. In addition to the documentary, titled At Last … the Beginning: The Making of Electric Ladyland, the Blu-rays contain the 5.1 surround sound mix and the original stereo mixes in 24-bit, 96 kHz sound. As Rolling Stone notes, “Famed engineer Bernie Grundman remastered the album from the original analog tapes and carried out an all-analog, direct-to-disc transfer for the vinyl edition. The Electric Ladyland 50th-anniversary deluxe edition will be available as both a 3-CD/1-Blu-ray set and as a 6 vinyl LP/1 Blu-ray set. When I first started working with him, Chas Chandler told me, “The rules are, ‘There are no rules.'” We could just kick down the doors to convention and experiment with wild things and Jimi’s sound. Jimi was very much in the realm of experimentation. The Electric Ladyland deluxe addition will feature outtakes, live concert recordings, a documentary on the making of the album, photo inserts, a book, and more, and is set to be released on November 9th.Īs one of Electric Ladyland‘s engineers, Eddie Kramer, explained to Rolling Stone, Now, fans can revisit Electric Ladyland and that creatively fruitful period in Jimi’s brief life from every angle with an upcoming 50th-anniversary deluxe edition package. The album has been lauded as one of the greatest of all time, largely because of the famously inspired, experimental state of mind that Hendrix maintained while working on the record. The sprawling double-LP opus proved to be the last studio album Hendrix would release before his death in 1970. On October 16, 1968, The Jimi Hendrix Experience released their final album, Electric Ladyland.