Albums · Skopia

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Are You Experienced?

1967

Hendrix cut it on four tracks in stolen studio hours between gigs, and nobody had heard a guitar do any of it before.

★ 9.3

1968

Hendrix produced it himself, and spent so long in the studio that his manager walked out. One track is thirteen minutes of imagined underwater life.

★ 8.9

1968

Hendrix left the finished master of side one in a taxi and had to mix the whole thing again overnight.

★ 7.1

1967

Light My Fire was mostly written by guitarist Robby Krieger, who had been in the band a matter of months and had never written a song.

★ 6.7

1966

Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker had already been throwing things at each other in a previous band. Baker's drum solo takes up five minutes.

★ 4.0