Customer Reviews
A masterpiece in guitar playing. - By: T. Glover, 21 Jul 2008 
The definitive Hendirx cd, brilliantly produced it ranges from low beat blues records such as 'voodoo chile' to upbeat rock recordsin 'crosstown traffic' to great coversin the form of 'all along the watchtower'.
The 'wah-wah' effect on 'voodoo child slight return' is ledgendary & will be remembered until the end of man.
The guitar playing on '1983...(A Merman I Should Turn To Be)' is brilliant & really suits the pysecdelic theme of the song.
what a legend the best guitarist ever!! - By: Mr. S. L. Smith, 20 Jul 2008 he is amazing this album is one of the best ever!! its fantasticin my opinion he is the best ever guitarist ever!! & this album i love it phycadelic 60s rock buy it you wont regret it!!
If he's looking down on us.... - By: fatsovonchubby, 06 Jun 2008 ... I reckon Jimi would be saying "no no guys - the stuff I was working on before I left was even better than this stuff!!!".
I do feel that the direction Jimi was takingin the first light of the 70s would have solidified him as THE pre-eminent recording artist of his time. As it stands - we are only left with tantalising glimpses of his future, unrealised, creations (i.e. "first rays of the new rising sun").
I won't bother repeating all of the superlatives that others have bestowedin these review. Suffice to say - he was inventive, imaginative (wildly so), fabulously talented, charismatic, & peerless. As a recording artist - I think his is the greatest loss of all the 'legends' of yore - as he probably hadn't nearly peakedin terms of his writing skills. Almost everything you hear on this album belonged to Jimi's production & direction, including the fabulous basslinein "All Along The Watchtower", played by Jimi upside down on Noel Redding's Fender Bass.
My number 1 album of all time, enough said.
This album changes lives . . . - By: Mr. C. Jones, 01 Feb 2008 Well, it did mine. Totally blew my mind when I first heard it over thirty years ago, & it still makes it for me now. Definitely one for Desert Island Discs. Buy it & be transported to a million different landscapes of the mind.
his master piece - By: Msp Khan, 08 Nov 2007 
what makes this album really different from the first two is that jimi had more time to spend on recordings.on are you experience there is penny pinching & the sound is rubbish.the tunes are not allowed beyond a certain lenght. i personally think it is unlistenable. the difference is best shown on all along the watchtower. compare the version that he did with dave mason on bass that is on the albums that came out after his death & the same basic track he took with him to america & put on those over dubs for electric ladyland version. the difference is enormous. the chas chandler produced version is a just good song but the hendric version is a contendor for the greatest song ever.I wish he had done same for spanish castle magic & put some overdubs & the result would have the same for spanish castle.the whole lady album is fused with a soulfull soundin the playing & works beautifully all the way through the album until the last track. voodoo chile slight return. this track just destroys anything before it , not just on this album but all the music before that has gone. when it is finished you know music will never be the same. i heard it on the radio at work recently & it was so shocking sonically. how many records can you say that about nearly 40 years later.
