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The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are You Experienced | Extended Play Lounge Ep. 93 (Patreon)

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2025-06-17 15:33:48
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After a very close poll, I'm pleased to present my first-time listen and reaction to Are You Experienced, the debut album from The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Of course, I had heard a handful of these songs before, but many were new to me...and this was my first opportunity to hear the entire album!

We've got 17 songs over (basically) 3 album sides, and they're all great and historic. Come along for a fun ride!

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are You Experienced | Extended Play Lounge Ep. 93

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Bill Coonley

Hard to believe that Jimi was only 24 years old when this LP was released upon an inexperienced world! Way ahead of its time.

Rodney Griffin

The things that that guy could do with a guitar should be illegal.😂

Margaret Barnes

It’s ironic that you would do EPLs for both these albums back to back, given their history. Jimi Hendrix bought SPLHCB the day it came out, and loved it so much that 3 days later, when he played the Saville Theater in London (owned at the time by Beatles manager Brian Epstein), he covered the title track live, not knowing that Paul McCartney and George Harrison were in the audience!

Peter Tutak

It was SO much fun to see someone experience this for the first time. The darker lighting made for a great atmosphere, and the I think the 'blazed' state of being was important. It put you in a bit of a state of 'wonder', much the same as many of us had upon hearing this album for the first time, when it came out. I always thought that to appreciate this work, one has to be in that frame of mind, one way or another. And thanks for including the extra tracks. To this day, I think that Hendrix's playing on "Red House" is the finest 12-bar blues work I have ever heard. It still sends chills down my back 58 years later. Thanks for doing this, Doug. Nice work, and a great listen.

Steven Nemeth

Hell, at one concert Jimi said "scuse me while I kiss this guy", pointed to Noel Redding (who sported a righteous afro) and referred to him as Bob Dylan's grandmother.

Bill Brinkmoeller

I'm in your parents' generation, and yes indeed, it was a very exciting time to be alive and listening to music. I was 13 (and too young to be getting high yet) when all this was happening, so you can imagine the impression it made. Jimi was the reason that a lot of people decided that a Fender Stratocaster was THE only guitar that they wanted to play. As for me, Mitch Mitchell became one of my early drum heroes. Mitch was Jimi's drummer. They were made for each other.

Hetfield Ninno Davide

It's amazing how much Jimi was able to accomplish in such a small frame of time. He was incredibly prolific and some of his best work didn't even get to be released on official albums (check out the song "Freedom" from the "Cry of Love" posthumous album as an example). Many songs and many live performances in only 3/4 years of activity were enough to make Jimi Hendrix a legend. Nobody will ever achieve anything like this again.

Octavio Stenberg

Cassandra's band Crucial Taunt also plays a cover of Fire in Wayne's World as well.

Hogan71

Thanks Doug really enjoyed it. i agree he is the progenitor of so many styles of music. i’m glad you emphasised how important his voice is along with the incredible guitar playing

Ross Pollack

Another fantastic episode, as always. I was too young to "experience" Hendrix until the classic rock revival of the early 1990s, but from what I have read, people who heard him at that time highlighted the otherworldly sonic nature of his recordings. Hendrix took things like distortion, feedback, tremolo, and vibrato, which were used occasionally but more like novelty ingredients, and made them essential elements of his sound.

BRIAN MILLER

I enjoyed the Hendrix EPL episode. Thanks!

Sid Levy

I enjoyed the back story and the rich history of this album. I came for the reaction and walked away with a bit of knowledge I didn't have before.

FallingLeaf

I started listening to Hendrix in the mid 70s, at first it was his guitar work that I liked, then his wordsmithery, and the more sensitive playing that he was most capable of. Also Mitch's drumming. I really liked the second incarnation of The experience, with Mitch and Billy Cox on Bass, Hendrix seemed to be going in a funkier soulful phase. Just what could have been had he not inadvertently overdosed. One thing that puzzled me about the re-released extended version of AYE, was the amount of echo on the vocal for Love Or Confusion, I didn't remember that from the 70s vinyl I had. To my ears it spoilt the track. Apparently the original UK AYE was a mono recording. The later US vinyl was remixed for Stereo, and I believe that's where the echo/reverb comes in. Also I have the intl./UK version of the extended CD with the original UK track listing. The version of Red House on that release is how I remembered it, the original UK mono mix, the version on the US release sounds so different, and reading into this it was recorded later in the US in 67 and in Stereo. It sounds so different, different guitar and all that vocal echo/reverb.

Greg Goddu

Jimi doesn't read music, silly. No chafing there. It's just sound for him.

Greg Goddu

Interestingly, Jimi didn't like the sound of his voice. He just didn't trust anyone else to sing his songs.