I know this thing was discussed ad nauseam when it came out last year but I just got around to listening to the whole thing.

Musiq/Are You Experienced - Would have been great interpretation but for the grunts and the unghs.

Carlos Santana/Spanish Castle Magic - Great. Cory Glover was a good pick for lead vocals on this.

Prince/Purple House - More of a re-make than a tribute to me. If he were doing this version in concert it would be cool. But seems out of place on this set.


Sting/The Wind Cries Mary - Ok. But started to drag on a little too long near the end.


Earth Wind & Fire/Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - some parts of the arrangement are great; others sound really awkward. Guitarist was cool.

Bootsy Collins/Power Of Soul - cool arrangement, but too much of the P-funk chatter sprinkled through out.

Eric Clapton/Burnig of the Midnight Lamp - I expected to like this more. oh well.


Lenny Kravitz/Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland) - I thought I would like this. This sucks. Mofo is singing off key and in falsetto.


George Duke/Who Knows - it's ok, could have been better.

Robert Randolph & the Family Band - Music is great. But, way too much chatter through out the song about "rest in peace Jimi", "this is a tribute to Jimi" and such. Just sing the damn song.

Chaka Khan/Little Wing - Chaka is my girl but she was a little screechy on this. I still like it though. It's Chaka.

Sound of Blackness/Castles Made of Sand - Sheldon Reynolds is great on guitar, otherwise this sucks. I was hoping I would like it because it's one of my favorite Jimi songs.


Eric Gales/May This Be Love - Music was great. But, Mr. Gales sounds like he was about to swallow his tongue. What's with the Elmer Fudd voice?


Cee-Lo/Foxey Lady - I was prepared to hate this. One of the better covers from this set.

John Lee Hooker/Red House - what is there to say... it's John freakin' Lee Hooker. Superb.


Stevie Ray Vaughn/Little Wing/3rd Stone From The Sun - Not much to say about this cut. Stevie was a white Jimi clone anyway. He kept enough of Jimi's original arrangements and put just enough of his own twist to them. Great cover.

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I've avoided this release because usually when i've heard Hendrix covers I end up wanting to go on a killing spree afterwards.

There have been two exceptions recently.
Jean-Paul Bourelly's version of Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland) is one.
The other, Musiq's Are You Experienced?, I heard on a PBS station without initially knowing who it was.

However some of the musical groupings have been intriguing...

Spanish Castle Magic
Carlos Santana
Stanley Clarke
Tony Williams
Corey Glover

The Wind Cries Mary
Sting
John McLaughlin

Power of Soul
George Duke
Larry Dunn
Ricky Lawson

Btw, the guitar on the EW&F/Voodoo Child cut was Sheldon Reynolds.

I'm surprised they let get away with the warped version of Red House.

*Grammar edit

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The "Purple House" he did live in concert is vastly superior, it's more free, has better guitar work, more improvised...but you know Prince, he can't leave well enough alone.

Prince cannot and i mean "cannot" handle doin Jimi..he just isnt that kind of cat.the closest cat ive seen was Stevie Ray Vaughn, which i believe in my soul that Jimi lived through that brotha's fingers.

Supernova said:

I was thinking the live version's I've heard him do were better also.