JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE Electric Ladyland VG/VG+ 1968 Reprise 6307 2LP 1ST PRESS

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Vinyl:  VG/VG+ Play Graded. Sounds Very Good!  Reprise Two-Tone Labels are Clean and Bright, with a name written lightly on each label.  The writing does not obscure any of the printing on the label, so it doesn't affect reading the label.  These Labels are only on True 1ST PRESSINGS!  This is the 1968 Reprise 6307 1ST PRESSING!  Arguably, Jimi Hendrix' Finest (Studio) hour!!!  At his most accomplished and at the height of the powers that brought him ont the International scene, Hendrix delivers the goods on Electric Ladyland.  Legendary sessions with help from Jack Casady of The Airplane, Steve Winwood, Buddy Miles, Al Kooper, Chris Wood...there are obvious hits like Crosstown Traffic, but for advanced play, the whole side for 1983 is worth the price of admission alone!  Throw in the Voodoo Chile diptych, Gipsy Eyes, Little Miss Strange...actually, there's not a bummer on this!  One of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time!!  allmusic gives it 5 stars!!

In the Dead Wax: Matrices, etched.  Complete Dead Wax information cheerfully provided upon request.

Cover: VG/VG+ (see photos)  Gatefold.  Dig the Liner Notes on the inner gatefold by Hendrix.  Epic stram of consciousness.  Front, gatefold and back of cover artwork and text are clear and bright, with some shelf and ring wear.  4 inches of clear plastic tape on the tops and bottoms of the seams (see photos).  Nicely done:  there are no apparent seam splits and the taped portions are intact.  Corners and spine are solid and clean, with some wear.  No splits.  Name written lightly and small on the bottom of rear cover.   No stickers.  Spine print is readable.   

Goldmine Standards.   I play grade every record that I sell on eBay as I have found you can't rate an LP accurately by just visually inspecting an album.  I wipe the dust off of every cover with clean, unscented baby wipes.  I professionally clean the vinyl.  (I also operate a Vinyl Record Cleaning business for your dusty/dirty records--if interested, send me a message).

Electric Ladyland Review

by Cub Koda

Jimi Hendrix's third and final album with the original Experience found him taking his funk and psychedelic sounds to the absolute limit. The result was not only one of the best rock albums of the era, but also Hendrix's original musical vision at its absolute apex. When revisionist rock critics refer to him as the maker of a generation's mightiest dope music, this is the album they're referring to. But Electric Ladyland is so much more than just background music for chemical intake. Kudos to engineer Eddie Kramer (who supervised the remastering of the original two-track stereo masters for this 1997 reissue on MCA) for taking Hendrix's visions of a soundscape behind his music and giving it all context, experimenting with odd mic techniques, echo, backward tape, flanging, and chorusing, all new techniques at the time, at least the way they're used here. What Hendrix sonically achieved on this record expanded the concept of what could be gotten out of a modern recording studio in much the same manner as Phil Spector had done a decade before with his Wall of Sound. As an album this influential (and as far as influencing a generation of players and beyond, this was his ultimate statement for many), the highlights speak for themselves: "Crosstown Traffic," his reinterpretation of Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower," "Burning of the Midnight Lamp," the spacy "1983...(A Merman I Should Turn to Be)," and "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)," a landmark in Hendrix's playing. With this double set (now on one compact disc), Hendrix once again pushed the concept album to new horizons.