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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Polygram Video
Salesrank: 81226
Released: February 13, 2001 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Color DVD Full Screen NTSC | |
Editorial Review:
Step inside the world of Jimi Hendrix via Experience, the acclaimed 1968 program which features a high speed mix of commentary, interviews with Jimi, Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding, and indelible live performances. Highlights include Jimi's unforgettable twelve-string acoustic rendition of "Hear My Train a-Comin'" as well as incendiary live performances of "Purple Haze" and "Wild Thing" filmed in Blackpool, England, and a soundtrack filled with Hendrix classics like "Voodoo Chile," "If Six Was Nine," "Castles Made of Sand," "May This Be Love," and "Foxey Lady."
Live performances of "The Wind Cries Mary" and "Purple Haze" from Swedish Television's Popside, May 24, 1967; Live performances of "Red House" and Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love" from Swedish Television's Number Nine, January 9, 1969, featuring Jimi playing a Gibson SG rather than his trademark Fender Stratocaster; "Wild Thing" live in Paris, October 9, 1967; Original promotional film for "Hey Joe" filmed at London's Saville Theatre in January 1967; 1997 music video for "Dolly Dagger" featuring Fawn Reed and James Hong.
Description of Experience:
The world was turned on to the Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1967 with the release of Are You Experienced? With a unique electric spin on R&B, rock, and soul, the Jimi Hendrix Experience would take the world by storm almost overnight and become the definitive voice of psychedelic music. By the end of that summer, Hendrix had become an international superstar.
The Experience DVD can be broken down into two sections. The first part is the half-hour documentary film Experience filmed in London 1967. The second half includes over 40 minutes of bonus material; live footage and music videos. Experience is more a collage of footage, including interviews and "videos," than a documentary. There are a lot better documentaries out there if historical accuracy is what you are looking for. However, if you want a glimpse of London in the late '60s and to see a young, optimistic, and happy Jimi Hendrix, Experience will deliver. The bonus material is what makes this DVD. The live footage is strong and the sound and visual reproduction is outstanding, particularly on the May 24, 1967, Stockholm performances of "Wind Cries Mary" and "Purple Haze." The highlight is the performance of "Red House" for SAT Swedish television on January 9, 1969; in spite of the obvious tension between the band members, the performance is perfect. The one low point: with these great extras and all the yet-to-be-released live footage that is still out there, one wonders why the DVD included an absurd "Dolly Dagger" video shot in 1997 and featuring Fawn Reed and James Hong. It's just awful. Fortunately it's at the end and doesn't take away from the overall strength of this title. -- Rob Bracco
Experience Reviews:
Good for historical purposes 
2009-10-31 - There are some good things in this collection. Live gems, the famous "Hear My Train a Coming" on acoutsic 12 string guitar, and some amusing interviews. But it is a bit disjointed at times.
Be forewarned: the "Dolly Dagger" video is revolting. Insipid. Pitiful. Why Hendrix Experience LLC authorized this is beyond my understanding.
a good Hendrix primer 
2007-05-20 - this dvd begins with the half-hour documentary "Experience" filmed in 1967 at the height of this new phenomenom everybody was talking about at the time, Jimi Hendrix and his band The Jimi Hendrix Experience. The film integrates live performances with interview segments and a promo clip for Foxy Lady(a foxy lady named Beth wrapped in a fox fur, a mini skirt and white go-go boots runs hither and thither...sort of like a fox being chased by the hounds, all to the tune of FOXY LADY)as well as Jimi by himself with just a 12-string acoustic guitar performing a very bluesy "hear my train a-comin". this last solo performance is also seen in the film "Jimi Hendrix".
it's great to hear Jimi reflect on what it was like as a paratrooper during his time in the service and his thoughts on native American indians. the two live performances from Blackpool England show just what a showman Jimi was as he plays his guitar behind his back, between his legs, rolling on the floor and playing his guitar with his teeth after which he teases the audience with "what are you looking at!!??".
This is Jimi just having a great time showing exactly what he can do with his guitar to stunned audiences. He introduces the song Wild Thing by asking everyone to all sing along and if they don't "we're gonna put a curse on you and all your children that they be born completely naked".
Following the "Experience" film are 2 black and white clips from Swedish television with jimi and band lipsynching(i think) to Wind Cries Mary and Purple Haze. very nice.
Next up is the main course of this disc. After seeing this i went out and bought this DVD. It is a live performance from early 1969 with the Experience performing in Stockholm Sweden. Introducing the band, the emcee informs the audience that the band will be performing what they like to call 'electric church music'....and out they come. After a smattering of applause the room becomes very quiet as Jimi plugs in and begins a long exploratory improvisation on the song Red House. You can see instantly that this is no longer the flashy entertainer who a few years earlier would stun the audience with teeth picking and speaker cabinet humping. Instead, we see a Hendrix who looks like he just go out of bed and is all business as he acquaints himself with the Gibson SG he's using this night instead of his trademark Fender Strat. This is the most interesting performance i've seen of the man....watching him trawl through this set as if he were a scientist in his laboratory, first with Red House and then a long jam to a vocal-less Sunshine of your Love that includes a very unexpected Noel Redding bass solo. Buy this DVD for this live footage alone. Well, that's what i'm doing. but after the red house performance there is also the promo clip for the song Hey Joe and another live performance from Paris, 1967, with the band doing another take on Wild Thing. the program concludes with a posthumous video of the song Dolly Dagger that i notice a lot of reviewers seem to shun. I guess i can see why. it comes off as a marketing ploy but i got past that and enjoy the song and the choreography set to it. and the gal in the video, Fawn Reed ain't half bad either!
overall, i recommend this nice lil' disc. it's a really good sampler of a shooting star-Jimi Hendrix
Worth it for the extras... 
2005-05-21 - The Experience film is none too impressive, but certainly worth viewing for its live performances and amusing commentary. The sound is just weak and the image unclear. The extras featuring Jimi are marvelous--Stockholm, "Hey Joe" promo, "Wild Thing", and Popside are all worth your money and time. But the film that the DVD is really selling isn't nearly as good as the longer and better looking bonus features. Hendrix was probably the best guitar player in the world at this time, but it may take WOODSTOCK or JIMI HENDRIX to prove that to you.
Step Inside...............................
2004-09-11 - Step Inside to a journey of well organized live performences, as well as rare interview footage. This DVD would be more appreciated by a hendrix collector since this is all rare footage, and interviews. This only runs forty minutes long of rare and previously unreleased bonus material. I was disapointed that the hendrix family coperation released this film in such poor manor expesically the Hey Joe(promotional film), and the music video featuring Fawn Reed, and James Hong's Dolly Dagger. Those two sections of the DVD are really bad just to mention. The good footage includes never before seen live performences including Popside, Stockholm's Wind Cries Mary, and Purple Haze.
Also the Stockholm, Sweden 1969 performence including a very long Red House, and Sunshine Of Your Love. Their is also a performence at Olympia, Paris titled Wild Thing. I think this is an average take your money DVD expesically from the company Experience Hendrix im sure many hendrix fans have this one but all the first time hendrix listner's probaley would never think about buying such a short DVD of unreleased material. I really had to push myself to buy this one since I thought it really was not worth buying. But since I love hendrix's music I had no problem with this Experience Hendrix DVD. If you really want a good Hendrix DVD look elsewhere!!!!
Buy this only if you are a serious Hendrix fan! 
2004-06-01 - This is only worth while to the real hard core Jimi fan. If you want to see who the "Experiance" really was, then you might like this. You can also see some mistakes Jimi made during "Sunshine of your love". He seems to have gotten lost somewhere in the song's solo. But this is a good example of the bands nature. There is also a live perfomance of Purple Haze which is pretty good considering it was from a filming. There is not a lot of high tech used here.
