The Jimi Hendrix Experience - The Jimi Hendrix Experience FLAC download

The sound of this pressing is absolutely fabulous. The artwork is top notch. Someone here made an effort.

3rd Stone is CLASSIC !!Quite stoned id say ,best un-re / alt box set ever ...Hands down !!

There is no 0 (zero) in front of the barcode of this release.

The European 8LP box Set is missing in the list.

Although a lot of the material is available on earlier releases/bootlegs, there is some rare early live material, you get to hear the band developing tunes, there's interesting mixing on alternate takes of familiar tracks, and some material that is totally new. The set runs chronologically. Highlights on disk one are the previously unheard "Title #3" and "Taking Care of No Business", an early instrumental studio version of "Lover Man", the freaky mix of "If 6 was 9", and the excellent upbeat live version of "Rock Me Baby" that has previously been released on the Monterey album. The best of Disk two are the great instrumental studio versions of "Little Wing" and "Bold as Love", along with the live version of "Catfish Blues" (this is a year earlier than the set found on the Stages Box Set). Disk three has decent live material that is available on "The Last Experience" and on the "Stages" Box Set, the highlight of these being "Red House", it also has a great alternative version of "Spanish Castle Magic". Disk Four, is all material from the "Cry of Love" era, the highlight is the amazing version of "Johnny Be Goode" from the fantastic Berkeley set, which is available on the release of the concert, and on "Hendrix in the West" (I would highly recommend you get a copy of the whole concert). It includes the instrumental "Country Blues", and "Slow Blues", the rest are just alternative takes, or live material available elsewhere. This isn't a place to start your Hendrix journey, but there's enough here that Hendrixphiles will find enjoyable, not sure it's worth the price tag, but maybe that's because I already have a lot of the material.

If you have a velvet box, then your version is definitely First Pressing.The card box is indented (3D) on the top of the box, but it misses the textile/velvet "brush" feel of fabric

so my version has silver lettering (= second press), but a velvet box finish, at least on the top lid of the box. So what does that make this???

maybe second press has same velvet cloth finish as first press, but the defining difference is gold lettering (first press) vs silver lettering (second press) on box set cover

No DVD with my copy of this.