Vinyl Spins - Jimi

Vinyl Spins: Electric Ladyland - The Jimi Hendrix Experience, 1968

I'm cleaning up my third floor music room and it's going to take some time so it's a good opportunity to play some old records. 

I bought this album was released in the fall of 1968. I had been working my first job in a machine shop for a few months and I was spending a significant amount of my pay on records every week. This double album was one of my favorites at the time and still is. I've played it countless times and it still sounds... perfect.

This was always my favorite Hendrix album top to bottom. I especially loved some of the less radio played songs such as Gypsy Eyes, Burning Of The Midnight Lamp, Come On, Have You Ever Been, and Rainy Day, Dream Away. Of course the hits were amazing; Purple Haze, All Along The Watchtower, Crosstown Traffic, etc. Everything on that album was great. It was also a 2 LP set which meant getting up and putting it on the turntable four times. We've become spoiled now with our CDs and even more so with iPod playlists playing entire albums and more.

In the late 1980’s this was the first album I replaced on CD. I thought it might sound better. It didn’t. Spinning it on the turntable now is a treat.