QUESTION:

Has Experience Hendrix ever thought about releasing the definitive "original" version of Electric Ladyland? Since the original Hendrix/Kramer mixes were snubbed by Reprise Records, Experience Hendrix could release a special limited edition collection that features both the released and unreleased mixes of the album both on CD and Vinyl.

ANSWER:

This is not true. No mixes of Electric Ladyland were ever rejected by Reprise Records. Jimi expressed his dissatisfaction with the 'cutting' [a term for mastering] of the album. He felt that the mastering done by Reprise limited many of the unique audio textures he had labored extensively to create and the resulting sound was 'cloudy'.

As a result, Electric Ladyland would be the last album in which Jimi did not supervise the mastering. In February 1970, he and Eddie Kramer mastered Band Of Gypsys with famed engineer Bob Ludwig at Sterling Sound in New York.

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