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Are You Experienced
United Kingdom cover
Studio album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Released	May 12, 1967 (UK) August 23, 1967 (US)
Recorded	October 26, 1966-April 3, 1967
Genre	Hard rock, acid rock, blues-rock, psychedelic rock
Length	40:12 (Original) 61:24 (Re-Release)
Label	MCA
Producer	Chas Chandler
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Rolling Stone link
The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology
Are You Experienced (1967) Axis: Bold as Love (1967)
Alternate cover
United States cover

Are You Experienced is the debut album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, released in 1967. The album highlighted Jimi Hendrix's psychedelic, feedback-laden electric guitar mastery, and launched him as a superstar.

The album is also generally known as Are You Experienced?. Although both covers of the album list the title without the question mark, some LPs of the album do list it as such. Also, some tracklists of the album display the title track with a question mark. [1]

After arriving in England in September 1966 and being taken under Chas Chandler's wing, they formed The Jimi Hendrix Experience with Mitch Mitchell on drums and Noel Redding on bass. The group signed with Track Records, newly formed by The Who's managers Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp. However the group's debut single appeared on Polydor Records, their distributor, because Track was not fully operational. The group released three classic Top 10 hit UK singles: "Hey Joe"/"Stone Free" (December 1966), "Purple Haze"/"51st Anniversary" (March 1967) and "The Wind Cries Mary"/"Highway Chile" (May 1967). During the making of these singles, The Jimi Hendrix Experience cut their debut album, with Chas Chandler producing. Released in England that May without the three singles - as was the custom in the UK at that time - Are You Experienced and The Jimi Hendrix Experience quickly became a sensation all across Europe, with the album reaching #2 in the UK, behind The Beatles' immovable Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

It was after the band's show-stealing performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in June of that year that his US label Reprise Records prepared the album for release, but with some significant changes. The UK cover, admittedly, was not sensational, so a more psychedelic design was devised by Jimi's photo designer Karl Ferris (whose group portraits appeared on all three 'Experience' US album covers). Secondly, and more crucially, "Red House", "Can You See Me" and "Remember" were all removed - in order to make way for the three UK hit singles, with the running order being shuffled in the process. This time the running order was selected by Hendrix himself, but "Red House" was excluded from the album against his wishes. He was told that "America does not like the blues". In August, the US version of Are You Experienced saw issue and became a strong and enduring seller. Indeed, Jimi's own follow-up, Axis: Bold As Love, out that December in the UK, had to be detained for six weeks due to his debut's stellar sales (and it still wouldn't reach its peak of #5 until October 1968).

In the CD era, the CD versions were originally identical to the LP versions. The 1993 re-release (MCA 10893) combined the two CD versions, preserving the track order of neither. After Jimi's father, Al Hendrix won back the rights to his son's musical catalogue, Are You Experienced was again re-issued in 1997 (MCA 11602), now under the Universal Music Group worldwide, preserving the UK and US versions in their respective territories and including the extra tracks missing from the respective editions.

Long considered by many to be perhaps the greatest debut album of the rock era, the TV channel VH1 named Are You Experienced? the fifth greatest album of all time in 2001. In 2003, the album was ranked number 15 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, having been ranked as number 5 in their twentieth anniversary listing The Best Albums of the Last Twenty Years published in 1987. In 2005 it was selected for permanent preservation in the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress. The album is also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 UK version 1.2 US version 2 Personnel 3 Production 4 Songbooks 5 Miscellanea 6 See also

All songs written by Jimi Hendrix, except where stated otherwise.

1. "Foxy Lady" – 3:22
2. "Manic Depression" – 3:46
3. "Red House" – 3:53
4. "Can You See Me" – 2:35
5. "Love or Confusion" – 3:17
6. "I Don't Live Today" – 3:58
7. "May This Be Love" – 3:14
8. "Fire" – 2:47
9. "Third Stone From the Sun" – 6:50
10. "Remember" – 2:53
11. "Are You Experienced?" – 4:17
    • Al Hendrix re-release CD Bonus tracks:
12. "Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts) – 3:34
13. "Stone Free" – 3:39
14. "Purple Haze" – 2:54
15. "51st Anniversary" – 3:18
16. "The Wind Cries Mary" – 3:24
17. "Highway Chile" – 3:35

1. "Purple Haze" – 2:46
2. "Manic Depression" – 3:30
3. "Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts) – 3:23
4. "Love or Confusion" – 3:15
5. "May This Be Love" – 2:55
6. "I Don't Live Today" – 3:55
7. "The Wind Cries Mary" – 3:21
8. "Fire" – 2:34
9. "Third Stone From the Sun" – 6:40
10. "Foxey Lady" [sic] – 3:15
11. "Are You Experienced?" – 3:55
    • Al Hendrix re-release CD Bonus tracks:
12. "Stone Free" – 3:41
13. "51st Anniversary" – 3:19
14. "Highway Chile" – 3:36
15. "Can You See Me" – 2:34
16. "Remember" – 2:51
17. "Red House" – 3:57

• Jimi Hendrix – guitar, vocals, piano, voice of "Star Fleet" on "Third Stone From The Sun"
• Noel Redding – bass, backing vocals
• Mitch Mitchell – drums
• Chas Chandler - voice of "Scout Ship" on "Third Stone From The Sun"

• Producer: Chas Chandler
• Engineers: Eddie Kramer, Mike Ross, Dave Siddle
• Remastering supervisor: Janie Hendrix, John McDermott, Jr.
• Remastering: Eddie Kramer, George Marino
• Photography: Karl Ferris,
• Cover design: Karl Ferris,
• Liner notes: Dave Marsh

• Instrumental parts for 17 songs: ISBN 0-7935-2694-9
• Drum parts for 17 songs: ISBN 0-634-00920-6

Trivia sections are discouraged under Wikipedia guidelines. The article could be improved by integrating relevant items and removing inappropriate ones.

• The Get Fuzzy book, The Get Fuzzy Experience (ISBN 0-7407-3300-1) is a spoof of the album cover.
• The title track was covered by Devo in 1984 for their album Shout, and was released as a single.
• The song "Manic Depression" was covered by Carnivore in 1987 for their second album "Retaliation."
• Composer David Lang authored a piece titled "Are You Experienced?" for amplified tuba, orchestra, and narrator. The title is a tribute to Hendrix's album.
• The album was named the greatest "Guitar" album of all time by the DigitalDreamDoor website.

• The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
• NPR special on the selection of the album to the 2005 National Recording Registry

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Bands The Jimi Hendrix Experience • Gypsy Sun and Rainbows • Band of Gypsys • The Cry of Love Related bands: The Dirty Mac • The Noel Redding Band • Ramatam • The Gypsy Sun Experience Personnel Noel Redding • Mitch Mitchell • Billy Cox • Buddy Miles • Larry Lee • Juma Sultan • Jerry Velez Discography Original releases Studio albums: Are You Experienced (1967) • Axis: Bold as Love (1967) • Electric Ladyland (1968) Live albums: Band of Gypsys (1970) Compilations: Smash Hits (1969) Posthumous releases Studio albums: The Cry of Love (1971) • Rainbow Bridge (1971) • War Heroes (1972) • Loose Ends (1973) • Crash Landing (1975) • Midnight Lightning (1975) • Nine to the Universe (1980) Live albums: Monterey International Pop Festival (1970) • "Experience": Original Soundtrack from the Feature Length Motion Picture (1971) • Isle of Wight (1971) • Hendrix in the West (1972) • More "Experience" (1972) • Soundtrack Recordings from the Film "Jimi Hendrix" (1973) • The Jimi Hendrix Concerts (1982) • Jimi Plays Monterey (1986) • Live at Winterland (1987) • Jimi Hendrix: Woodstock (1994) • Live in Denmark (1995) • Live at the Oakland Coliseum (1998) • Woke up this Morning and Found Myself Dead (1998) • Live at the Fillmore East (1999) • Live at Clark University (1999) • Live at Woodstock (1999) • Live in Ottawa (2001) • Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight (2002) • Jimi Hendrix: Live at Berkeley (2003) • Stockholm Concert (2004) • Live at the Isle of Fehmarn (2005) • Live at Monterey (2007) Compilations and box sets: Jimi Hendrix (1972) • The Essential Jimi Hendrix (Vol. 1) (1978) • The Essential Jimi Hendrix (Vol. 2) (1979) • The Singles Album (1983) • Kiss the Sky (1984) • Johnny B. Goode (1986) • Band of Gypsys 2 (1986) • Radio One (1988) • Lifelines: The Jimi Hendrix Story (1990) • Sessions (1991) • Footlights (1991) • Stages (1991) • Stages (1992) • The Ultimate Experience (1993) • Bleeding Heart (1994) • Blues (1994) • Voodoo Soup (1995) • First Rays of the New Rising Sun (1997) • South Saturn Delta (1997) • BBC Sessions (1998) • Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix (1998) • The Jimi Hendrix Experience (2000) • Morning Symphony Ideas (2000) • Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix Collection (2001) • The Summer of Love Sessions (2001) • The Baggy's Rehearsal Sessions (2002) • Astro Man (2003) • Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Jimi Hendrix (2003) • Axis Outtakes (2003) • Live in Copenhagen (2004) • Hear My Music (2004) • 20th Century Masters Millenium Collection: Best of Jimi Hendrix (2005) • Rainy Day Dream Away (2006) • Burning Desire (2006) • Jimi Hendrix His Greatest Hits (2006) Anticipated releases Jimi Hendrix (1973 film) • The Royal Albert Hall film • Jimi and Noel's 8mm films • Black Gold Songs "All Along the Watchtower" • "Angel" • "Astroman" • "Bold as Love" • "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" • "Castles Made of Sand" • "Come On (Let the Good Times Roll)" • "Fire" • "Foxy Lady" • "Freedom" • "Gypsy Eyes" • "Hey Joe" • "I Don't Live Today" • "If 6 Was 9" • "Little Wing" • "Machine Gun" • "Manic Depression" • "My Friend" • "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)" • "Purple Haze" • "Red House" • "Spanish Castle Magic" • "The Star-Spangled Banner" • "Stone Free" • "Third Stone from the Sun" • "Up from the Skies" • "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" • "Voodoo Chile" • "Wild Thing" • "The Wind Cries Mary" Related articles Early life of Jimi Hendrix • Electric Lady Studios • Jimi Hendrix's musical equipment • Monika Dannemann • Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix