JIMI HENDRIX – LOOSE ENDS LP – Nr MINT A1/B1 UK 1974

Jimi Hendrix – Loose Ends
(Polydor Records  1974  2310301)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1 – UK Pressing

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition

Sleeve in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition
– a little wear to edges and opening edge has some sellotape marking

James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as “arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music”.

Born in Seattle, Washington, Hendrix began playing guitar at the age of 15. In 1961, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and trained as a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division; he was granted an honorable discharge the following year. Soon afterward, he moved to Clarksville, Tennessee, and began playing gigs on the Chitlin’ Circuit, earning a place in the Isley Brothers’ backing band and later with Little Richard, with whom he continued to work through mid-1965. He then played with Curtis Knight and the Squires before moving to England in late 1966 after being discovered by Linda Keith, who in turn interested bassist Chas Chandler of the Animals in becoming his first manager. Within months, Hendrix had earned three UK top ten hits with the Jimi Hendrix Experience: “Hey Joe”, “Purple Haze”, and “The Wind Cries Mary”. He achieved fame in the U.S. after his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, and in 1968 his third and final studio album, Electric Ladyland, reached number one in the U.S.; it was Hendrix’s most commercially successful release and his first and only number one album. The world’s highest-paid performer, he headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 before his accidental death from barbiturate-related asphyxia on September 18, 1970, at the age of 27.

Hendrix was inspired musically by American rock and roll and electric blues. He favored overdriven amplifiers with high volume and gain, and was instrumental in utilizing the previously undesirable sounds caused by guitar amplifier feedback. He helped to popularize the use of a wah-wah pedal in mainstream rock, and was the first artist to use stereophonic phasing effects in music recordings. Holly George-Warren of Rolling Stone commented: “Hendrix pioneered the use of the instrument as an electronic sound source. Players before him had experimented with feedback and distortion, but Hendrix turned those effects and others into a controlled, fluid vocabulary every bit as personal as the blues with which he began.”

Hendrix was the recipient of several music awards during his lifetime and posthumously. In 1967, readers of Melody Maker voted him the Pop Musician of the Year, and in 1968, Rolling Stone declared him the Performer of the Year. Disc and Music Echo honored him with the World Top Musician of 1969 and in 1970, Guitar Player named him the Rock Guitarist of the Year. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Rolling Stone ranked the band’s three studio albums, Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love, and Electric Ladyland, among the 100 greatest albums of all time, and they ranked Hendrix as the greatest guitarist and the sixth greatest artist of all time.

Loose Ends is a posthumous compilation album by American guitarist Jimi Hendrix, released in February 1974 in the UK. It was the fourth and last Hendrix studio album released posthumously by manager Michael Jeffery. The album features a collection of outtakes and jams, with the exception of “The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam’s Dice” which is the sole authorized track by Hendrix, in a new stereo mix by Eddie Kramer.

All tracks written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted. 

• Jimi Hendrix – guitars, lead vocals
• Billy Cox – bass guitar, backing vocals on “Burning Desire”
• Mitch Mitchell – drums on “Come Down Hard on Me Baby”, “Jam 292”, “The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam’s Dice”, “The Drifter’s Escape”
• Buddy Miles – drums on “Blue Suede Shoes”, “Burning Desire”, “I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man”; backing vocals on “Burning Desire”, “I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man”
• Sharon Layne – piano on “Jam 292”
• Noel Redding – bass guitar on “The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam’s Dice”

• “Come Down Hard on Me Baby” recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York City on July 15, 1970
• “Blue Suede Shoes” recorded at Record Plant studios in New York City on January 23, 1970
• “Jam 292” recorded at Record Plant Studios on May 14, 1969
• “The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam’s Dice” recorded at Mayfair Studios, New York City on July 18 and 29, 1967
• “The Drifter’s Escape” recorded at Electric Lady Studios on June 17, 1970
• “Burning Desire” and “I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man” recorded at Baggys in New York City on December 18 or 19, 1969
• “Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)” recorded at Record Plant Studios on June 14, 1968