The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced US Version Mono (2 LP)

180g Audiophile Vinyl Pressings!
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 30/500!
Are You Experienced is the debut studio album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, released in May 1967. The album was an immediate critical and commercial success, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest albums of all time. It features Jimi Hendrix's innovative approach to songwriting and electric guitar playing, which soon established a new direction in psychedelic and rock music as a whole.
After struggling to earn a living on the R&B circuit as a backing guitarist, Hendrix signed a management and production contract in 1966 with former Animals bassist Chas Chandler and ex-Animals manager Michael Jeffery. Chandler brought Hendrix to London and recruited members for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, a band designed to showcase the guitarist's talents. In late October, after having been rejected by Decca Records, the Experience signed with Track, a new label formed by the Who's managers Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp. Are You Experienced and its preceding singles were recorded over a five-month period from late October 1966 through early April 1967. The album was completed in 16 recording sessions at three London locations: De Lane Lea Studios, CBS Studios, and Olympic Studios.
Released in the UK on May 12, 1967, Are You Experienced spent 33 weeks on the British charts, peaking at number two. The album was issued in the US on August 23 by Reprise Records, where it reached number five on the US Billboard Top LPs chart, remaining on the chart for 106 weeks, 76 of those in the Top 40. The album also spent 70 weeks on the US Billboard Hot R&B LPs chart, where it peaked at number 10. The US version contained some of Hendrix's best known songs, including the Experience's first three singles, which, though omitted from the British edition of the LP, were top ten hits in the UK: "Purple Haze", "Hey Joe", and "The Wind Cries Mary". Hendrix was unhappy with the cover artwork for the UK edition, and solicited photographer Karl Ferris to create a more "psychedelic" cover for the US release.
In the decades since its release, Are You Experienced has continued to receive acclaim. It was voted number 63 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums in 2000. Rolling Stone ranked Are You Experienced 30th on its 2020 list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". In 2010, the magazine placed four songs from the US version of the album on their list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time": "Purple Haze" (17), "Foxy Lady" (153), "Hey Joe" (201), and "The Wind Cries Mary" (379). In 2005, the album was one of 50 recordings chosen by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Writer and archivist Reuben Jackson of the Smithsonian Institution wrote: "it's still a landmark recording because it is of the rock, R&B, blues ... musical tradition. It altered the syntax of the music ... in a way I compare to James Joyce's Ulysses."
Chas Chandler, ex-member of The Animals and the entrepreneur, brought Hendrix to the UK and introduced him to drummer Mitch Mitchell and bassist Noel Redding. The recording of "Are You Experienced" had begun in October 1966 and spawned a series of singles that served as appetizers for the world-famous guitarist's first album. During the recordings, the foundation was laid for the future working relationship between sound engineer Eddie Kramer and Hendrix. The debut album of the Jimi Hendrix Experience was originally released mono and only on the later pressings as "enhanced stereo". The cover photo of the British version was by Bruce Flemming.
The American and Canadian versions of "Are You Experienced" were only released after the band - together with The Who! - had performed at the Monterey Pop Festival. The Artwort originated under the aegis of Ed Thrasher with an infrared fisheye camera. The tracks on the albums, as well as the order, differ in places from the UK version: some do not appear at all and have been replaced by later singles. The spelling "Foxey Lady" appears on some of these versions and was also used for this Music On Vinyl version of the classic.

Features: 

• 180g Vinyl
• Mono US Version
• Made in EU

Selections: 

Side A
1. Purple Haze
2. Manic Depression
3. Hey Joe
4. Love Or Confusion
5. May This Be Love
6. I Don't Live Today
Side B
1. The Wind Cries Mary
2. Fire
3. Third Stone From The Sun
4. Foxey Lady
5. Are You Experienced