Comments for Hendrix, Jimi, First Rays Of The New Rising Sun

Rainbow Bridge was my favorite Hendrix album. Although Band of Gypsy’s is really Jimi’s first FUNK album, it really was just a taping of a live concert. Rainbow Bridge was an album produced after his death which provides the strongest evidence of where Jimi was going with his music.

It has always been thought that Rainbow Bridge & Cry of Love together would have comprised the double album that Jimi was working on at the time of his death.

First Rays Of The New Rising Sun is that album and with a few minor complaints, in my opinion it is a masterpiece. It’s the album I have been waiting for since 1972 !!

The liner notes are 20 pages or so and well written. For the first time we see documented on a Jimi Hendrix album that he was in fact a FUNK artist, something that was never acknowleged beforeon any of his albums. This is most likely due to the fact that Jimi’s family is now in control for the first time of his music, thus he will now be presented as the universal “fusion” artist that he was, not just as a “Drugged out SUPER SPADE” !!

My recommendation is to buy this album. Especially for those of you who can’t get past the psychedelic image that has been perpetrated about Jimi.. On this album you will hear an artist who is right smack at the beginnings of raw FUNK !!

For me personally, this album represents the clarification of a vison that Jimi Hendrix had for a better world....the "Land Of The New Rising Sun" This vision was later picked up on by other artists such as George Clintin & AFKAP, but Jimi was the originator of that vision.. His premature death had for nearly 30 years obscured that vision & with the release of this album, now that vision has been clarified.

This is the newly released cd under the supervision of the Hendrix family.It consist of all the songs from "Cry Of Love"and 4 from "Rainbow Bridge" and 3 from "War Heroes".Excellent sound with a very nice inner sleeve make this a great package.