Jimi Hendrix - a posthumous discography "redo"

How about posting it here one 'album' at a time?

 

Ok. I just want to keep things organized. But hey, if you guys are fine with it ill post em up.

Screw it - here's the whole batch. Refer to the original post for more info - Any tracks labelled with dates are tracks that I couldn't remember which release they were from, but using the dates, one can pinpoint which release said tracks are from.

I'll start the tracklisting right here by album -

Custom Album #1 - "Astro Man's Earthly Blues"

1. Izabella (8/26/69)
2. Earth Blues (12/19/69)
3. Message To Love (12/19/69)
4. Cherokee Mist (6/24/70)
5. Freedom (Demo, Purple Box)
6. Freedom (12/16/70)
7. All God's Children (June, 1970)
8. Room Full Of Mirrors (4/21/69)
9. Ezy Rider (12/18/69)
10. Midnight Lightning (Demo, 1970)
11. In From The Storm (Alternate Version, West Coast Seattle Boy)
12. Lover Man (7/20/70)
13. Burning Desire (1/16/70)
14. Astro Man (1/12/70)


Custom Album #2 - "The Jimi Hendrix Experience"

All Tracks Sourced From the Purple Box Set (I believe)

1.Highway Chile (4/13/67)
2.Title #3 (4/3/67)
3.Angel (Demo, 1967)
4.If 6 Was 9 (6/9/67)
5.Lover Man (Outtake, 4/4/67)
6.Little Miss Lover (10/1/67)
7.Little Wing (10/25/67)
8.Third Stone (1/11/67)
9.Bold As Love (10/5/67)
10.The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice (B-side, Loose Ends, etc.)
11.Taking Care Of Business (5/4/67)
12.Sweet Angel (11/13/67)



Custom Album #3 - "Soulful Devil Of The South Saturn Delta"

1.Hear My Freedom (10/29/68)
2.Messenger (October 1968)
3.Lover Man (Outtake, 1968)
4.Tax Free (Outtake, 1968)
5.South Saturn Delta
6.Message To Love (Outtake, 6 imute version)
7.Gypsy Eyes (4/22/68)
8.Room Full Of Mirrors (8/12/68)
9.Hound Dog Blues
10.Shame Shame Shame
11.Everlasting First
12.Untitled Basic Track (October 1968)
13.Electric Ladyland (6/14/68)
14.Calling All Devil's Children



Custom Album #4 - "West Coast Seattle Boy"
(A Collection of home demos, but I like that title )

1.1983, A Mermaid I Should Turn To Be (Demo)
2.Little One (Instrumental)
3.Hear My Train a Comin' (Home Demo)
4.Tears Of Rage (Home Demo)
5.My Friend (Acoustic Demo)
6.Cat Talking To Me (Original Version)
7.Angel (Hotel Room demo, NYC, 1968)
8.Room Full Of Mirrors (Demo)
9.Long Hot Summer Night (Acoustic Demo)
10.Suddenly November Morning (Acoustic Demo)



Valleys Of Neptune - "Redux"

All Tracks From Official Release except where noted

1.Valleys Of Neptune
2.Bleeding Heart
3.Stepping Stone (Take 2, 9/15/69)
4.Midnight (Outtake, 1969)
5.Mr. Bad Luck
6.Sunshine Of Your Love
7.Lover Man
8.Ships Passing Through...
9.Lullaby For The Summer
10.Crying Blue Rain



People, Hell and Angels - "Redux"

All Tracks from official release except where noted

1.Earth Blues
2.Somewhere
3.Hear My Train a Comin
4.Bleeding Heart
5.Let Me Move You
6.Izabella
7.Easy Blues
8.Mastermind (Outtake, 1969)
9.Inside Out
10.Lonely Avenue Jam (November, 1969)
11.Mojo Man
12.Villanova Junction Blues



Blues - "Redux"

1. Hear My Train A Comin (Acoustic, 12/19/67)
2. Born Under A Bad Sign (12/15/69)
3. Red House (12/13/66)
4. Catfish Blues (11/10/67)
5. Voodoo Chile Blues (5/2/68)
6. Mannish Boy (4/22/69)
7. Bleeding Heart (3/18/69)
8. Jelly (5/14/69)
9. Electric Church Red House (10/29/68)
10. Hear My Train a Comin (Berkeley, 5/20/70)



Crash Landing - Restored

1.Message To Love (West Coast Seattle Boy)
2.Somewhere (Purple Box Set)
3.Crash Landing (People Hell Angels)
4.Come Down Hard On Me (Purple Box Set)
5.Peace In Mississippi (Complete, Unedited. B-side 2010)
6.Power Of Soul (B-side 2013)
7.Stone Free (Purple Box Set)
8.Hey Baby New Rising Sun (West Coast Seattle Boy)
9.Star Spangled Banner (Studio Version)



The Cry Of Love -

ALL TRACKS TAKEN FROM "FIRST RAYS"



Rainbow Bridge - "Redux"

1.Dolly Dagger (First Rays)
2.Stepping Stone (First Rays)
3.Earth Blues (First Rays)
4.Pali Gap (South Saturn Delta)
5.New Rising Sun (Home demo)
6.Room Full Of Mirrors (First Rays)
7.Look Over Yonder (South Saturn Delta)
8.Beginnings (First Rays)
10.Bleeding Heart (South Saturn Delta)
11.Bolero (West Coast Seattle Boy)
12.Hey Baby (New Rising Sun) (First Rays)




Loose Ends - "Redux"

Some "Douglified" Tracks I kept intact for personal/availability reasons

1.Come Down Hard On Me Baby
2.Blue suede Shoes
3.Jam 292
4.Three Little Bears
5.Drifters Escape (South Saturn Delta)
6.Peter Gunn Catastrophie
7.Burning Desire (Baggie's Rehearsal Sessions)
8.Born a Hoochie Coochie Man (Baggie's Rehearsal Sessions)
9.Electric Ladyland (Purple Box Set)



Midnight Lightning - "Redux"

1.Trashman (Valleys Of Neptune)
2.Midnight Lightning
3.Hear My train A comin (Valleys Of Neptune)
4.Gypsy Boy (People, Hell and Angels)
5.Gloria (One-off single)
6.Machine Gun
7. Once I Had a Woman (Blues)
8. Beginnings



Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues - "Redux"

1.Slow Blues (Outtake, 8/20/70)
2.Georgia Blues (3/19/69)
3.Country Blues (1/23/70)
4.Hear My Train a Comin (2/17/69)
5.Its Too Bad (2/11/69)
6.My Friend (3/13/68)
7.Blue Window (3/15/69)

*My Friend is repeated from TCOL, but it fits so good anyway....

 

Bring it on! Like many around here, I'm a big fan of this later phase of Jimi's career, but I'm still looking for the most satisfying way to compile it all.

 

He had so much quality material after the three Experience albums - its a shame most people have no clue

 

Somewhere at home I have a revamped track listing for the Blues album. I recompiled it with my favorites including tracks that were not yet commercially released when it was originally released.

 

In the early 90s, by the time I'd amassed a sizeable Hendrix collection I listed all the different versions of songs that Hendrix recorded and performed and counted them up. I had tons of official albums and a number of boots too... It took me some time to write them all down - I'm sure it'd be a lot quicker on a computer now.

Red House came way out on top with 16 different versions! I wonder how many I have now (?)

 

I don't have it in my collection yet, but there is an ROIO/Promo disc of additional tracks under consideration for Blues

I know discussion of bootlegs is not allowed so I will leave it that

 

I did a similar thing after PH&A had been released. My version had the SSD version of 'Power Of Soul' though, and I made a long composite for 'Captain Coconut' by using the 'MLK' jam and then crossfading it into 'New Rising Sun' (using the CL track as a template for the exact crossfade point). No SSB on mine either.

 

Alan Douglas originally had planned a compilation called Multicolored Blues that was never released. Some of the tracks were altered and ended up on Midnight Lighting, some on other later releases and some still have not been released officially.

 

I'd've done the same thing myself with the Captain Coconut deal but I didn't feel like editing anything, lol

 

I have an album called The Genius of Jimi Hendrix (on the budget line Trip label) consisting of vintage pre-experience material. On some of the tracks, he's playing guitar backing for other singers (like Lonnie Johnson on "She's a Fox") and not everything here is prime Hendrix, but there are some really good tracks like an 8-minute uptempo take of "Red House", a 7-minute slow blues called "Peoples Peoples", and 2 psychedelic freakouts ("Whoa Ech" and "Lime Lime"). The cover doesn't provide any info. Is this one of the Alan Douglas releases?

 

With the rewrite of Hendrix's discography, following the core albums(Are You Experienced thru Band Of Gypsies) is this the new order?(excluding live albums)
New Rays
South Saturn Delta
People, Hell and Angels
Then I add
Blues

 

Not certain of your question, but here is how I would put it for myself (if using my "redux" listings)

Mine is -

The Cry Of Love
Rainbow Bridge
Loose Ends
Crash Landing
Midnight Lightning
Nine To The Universe
Blues
Scorsese
Burning Desire
Valleys Of Neptune
People Hell and Angels

Custom Albums -

1. Astro Man's Earthly Blues
2. Soulful Devil Of The South Saturn Delta
3. The Jimi Hendrix Experience
4. West Coast Seattle Boy (home demos)

 

That is certainly not an Alan Douglas release. It's just the sort of garbage that has been damaging Jimi's reputation for decades. There are some pre-Experience Lonnie Youngblood tracks and a lot of FAKE Hendrix tracks. I think "Lime Lime" and "Whoa Ech" are fakes (unless they are other pre-Exp tracks with alternate titles). "Red House" and "Peoples, Peoples, Peoples" are from the 1968 Scene Club jam (released on bootleg initially as "Sky High" and later as "Woke Up This Morning And Found Myself Dead").

 

I had a lot of that stuff and even though I was so fanatical, it was not a pleasure at all for me to listen to the majority of it. One listen would be all some of it got.

When I started to get JH books as Christmas presents (and I ended up with dozens) I started to discover which was fake and when I was hunting for his stuff and found more and more fake 'recordings' sold even in places like Woolworths - it would upset* me.



* Putting it very mildly!

 

Yes, Lonnie Youngblood. I had the wrong Lonnie. I kinda like "Fox", though. I actually wondered if "Lime,Lime" and "Whoa Ech" were the real deal. If so, Clapton took the guitar lick in Cream's cover of "Outside Woman Blues" from it. If it's a fake, it was probably stolen from Cream. "Red House" and "Peoples" are worth having, but perhaps may be found in better company elsewhere. Thanks for the info. (Vintage material is good to have, but it must be approached with caution. I have the 2 Alan Douglas-released Richie Havens albums that consist of acoustic demos with studio overdubs. Richie had them pulled from the market since they were conflicting with his official releases at the time. I can't blame him for that, but they're interesting, especially for completists.)

 

Jimpress also did an interview with Alan prior to the release of :Blues and he showed them a cassette of the tracks under consideration. "The Things That I Used To Do" was definitely on that cassette but didn't make the final cut. Also, alternate versions (made from composites) of "Belly Button Window" and "Hear My Train 'A Comin'" circulated around the time of the :Blues release too. I suspect BBW wasn't included on any release as only a small portion of it is from an alternate take. The bulk of the composite was the released version from Cry Of Love. The composite of "Hear My Train..." included nearly all of the version recently included on "People Hell and Angels" (it's faded just before the track breaks down) but also included part of a version recorded with the experience that has not been officially released to date.

 

That must be the Scene Club jam on the "Outside Woman Blues" riff.

Never heard of that. Could you post the cover and track details please?

 

I'm not quite tech-savvy enough to post the covers, but here's some info on them. The one called Richie Havens' Record (on the Douglas label SD 779) has these liner notes: "These vocal recordings were made by Richie Havens with acoustic guitar in 1963-1964. The electric instrumentation was added by Douglas in 1968. As Richie no longer performs the material in this album, Richie Havens' Record has become a collector's item."
Track listing:
I'm On My Way
Babe I'm Leaving
Down in the Valley
Nora's Dove
I'm Gonna Make You Glad
Chain Gang
Drown in My Own Tears
Daddy Roll 'Em
It Hurts Me
That's the Bag I'm In
Electric Havens (Douglas SD 780) is apparently from the same demo sessions, similarly overdubbed.
Track listing:
Oxford Town
900 Miles from Home
I'm a Stranger Here
My Own Way
Boots of Spanish Leather
C.C. Rider
3:10 to Yuma
Shadow Town
Would be interesting to hear the acoustic demos without the overdubs.

 

I'm wondering if 'Peoples' is actually Bleeding Heart (from the Albert Hall - aka 'Peoples, Peoples, Peoples' - WELL worth having IMO and also appears on the 1982 'Concerts' album) and the lyrics go...

Peoples, peoples, peoples
You know what it means to be left alone?
Peoples, peoples, people
You know what it means to be left alone?

Yeah Lord, it happened today
Lord, not even a call on my telephone
Understandin', Lord, a little love in the world
Is all I need...

This is a slow blues and the studio version - much faster and funky first appeared on War Heroes. I say this because I'm fairly sure that this version of Red House was on a cassette I had with live tracks on one side and some fake (? - can't remember if all or some were) tracks. I thought the version of Red House was good and didn't have it elsewhere. I can't find Lime Lime or Whoa Ech on You Tube to see if I recognise them but I have seen the titles before, most likely in a book.

I had a picture disc of Woke Up This Morning And Found Myself Dead (the one where Jim Morrison is with Jimi in The Scene Club) and I remember the riff to OWB being part of it somewhere along the line (*ahem* just before I posted this, I noticed that it's stated below too, coincidentally! That VERY nearly slipped by me.. )

This is the tracklisting.

1. Red House
2. Woke Up This Morning & Found Myself Dead
3. Bleeding Heart
4. Morrison's Lament
5. Tomorrow Never Knows
6. Uranus Rock
7. Outside Woman Blues
8. Sunshine Of your Love

But as we know with a lot of these boots (especially regarding Jimi) some tracks can get called almost anything and end up with other unrelated tracks.

 

Would love to hear his take of "Tomorrow Never Knows."

 

The title of the jam is a little exaggerated.

 

Ah, I see. Some RAH tracks have also turned up on many rip-off, mix-up albums over the years.

 

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Beat me to it! Not to worry though.

I don't think it'd change your world.

It's just like the rest of the session really - get an idea and run with it, see what happens... and I think that it's a good thing that it appears somebody switched JM's mic off for a time (he's distant on most of this) I say that as someone who loves The Doors (it made me very happy that I got The Doors Absolutely Live on CD, yesterday) and thinks Jim was fantastic!

I took the link off now, but I first played this through to check it doesn't contain the same use of expletives as some other parts of this 'album' (as it would offend some and it's a family forum as we know.)

 

Here is the proposed track listing for the cancelled Multicolored Blues. It is from one of the Hendrix books but I can't remember which one as I am not at home now.

Seven Dollars In My Pocket
Hootchie Cootchie Man
Midnight Lightning
Lee Blues
Izabella Blues
Blue Suede Shoes
Farther On Down The Road
Winter Blues
Slow Time Blues
Blues For Me And You
Last Thursday Morning
Comin' Down Hard On Me Baby