Product: Classic Albums: Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland (1997)
Rating: 4.0
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Electric Ladyland has and always will be a classic album.This DVD not only deals with the making of the album, but it shows what was going on with the band and Jimi Hendrix at the time.The movie points out the hellish schedule they would have. It pointed out that they would be on one coast one night and the other coast the next night. At the same time Hendrix would try to make time to record while trying to put together his own recording studio in New York City.It shows how Hendrix would for instance make recordings of guitar music at one speed and play it back at another for special effects.It tells you how he used a comb with wax paper to simulate a kazoo sound for another track.It interviews Michael Finnigan, who played on Rainy day, dream away.Finnigan talks about how Hendrix instructed him to play the music they way he wanted it.It indicates that Hendrix played a harpsichord on Burning of the Midnight Lamp. Hendrix was apparentley a good keyboard player.Hendrix also uses Jack Casady to play bass guitar on some songs, and plays bass himself in Noel Reddings abscence.This is in my mind a very good documentary.....I would recommend it to any Hendrix fan or any serious fan of the Rock of the 60's.