The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Are You Experienced?

THE REVIEW

I continue my work as a reviewer (clever play on words, huh)... and this time I delve a bit into Hendrix.

The Seattle guitarist entered and left music like a cyclone, leaving behind a hotel room in turmoil and a pool of vomited wine. Listening to this manifesto of his, the first thing that comes to mind is: GIVE ME BACK CHUCK BERRY AND CHARLIE CHRISTIAN!!!!!!!!

Giving a guitar to a child and inviting them to dance on the distortion pedal would yield a result very similar to what the long-haired Jimi achieves. Even a fool who burns a guitar deserves to be burned in return!!! I get that they give them to you... but seeing such a violation cannot excite a true musician, can it!

I don’t even know where to start.. maybe with: "Hey Joe", that is, how to violate something that already exists... as if it were a retard at karaoke!

"Purple Haze", which starts with a phrase articulated on an augmented fourth interval and explodes with a decent drum (let's admit it.. the only thing blacks are capable of playing are drums!!) a song in which Hendrix's fetish, namely the minor seventh chord with the diminished third, is indulged to near obsession. And after so much wildness like a madman given a dose of valium, comes finally "The wind cries Mary". If you manage to stay awake after this piece, you’re hit violently like a punch to the nose, with all the psychedelic Hendrixian orgasm in "Manic depression", the opening on a chromatic scale interspersed with a pause (the stumble of a drunkard tripping on stairs) and a 9/8 time, sounds like a sort of waltz from a criminal asylum, followed by a solo that’s angry and repressed,

The famous "Foxy Lady", a nice copy of "Purple Haze", I think is one of Hendrix's most overrated tracks, the only note to save is that initial feedback (logically if you are a fan of this technique.. which I personally do not appreciate).

"Are you experienced?" features another musical atrocity: the reverse guitar, on which I will not comment to avoid swearing in Sanskrit.

Almost listenable on the other hand is "Remember", but probably not for the beauty of the piece itself, rather for the listener's desperate search for something decent amidst that steaming pile of noisy crap.