Kiss the Sky Review

brilliant, ephemeral collection true to the bloated alcohol-addled corpse of jimi hendrix's spirit at it's best. The tracks are clean, crisply remastered, but the real brilliance lays in hendrix's masterful guitar work. This is not entirely surprising, Hendrix was a legend in his own time, and is still legendary today. His solo work moves smoothly, as Hendrix masterfully manipulates the guitar in that legendary way that only he could. But enough of those cheap thesarus jokes...

seriously, a great cd from a great artist, buy it for the music and the benefit of whoever owns Hendrix's royalties, but if you truly want to experience the guitar master's work you should buy his original cds, better yet LPs, not just a cheap compilation.

Listen to me! I'm better than the other reviewer.

This is an interesting album. It's a assortment of studio and live tracks compiled to pretty much no one's benefit. Tracks, Are you Experienced? and I don't live Today come from a concert at San Diego, March 24, 1969. Also, tracks, Stepping Stone, Voodoo Child (Slight Return) and Killing Floor comes from the Monterey Pop festival, June 18, 1967 and the rest are studio recordings. I think that it's worth getting because of the material and the insight that it gives into some of Jimi's more obscure songs. Also, don't listen to anyone who calls jimi a bloated alcohol-addled corpse because he probably is one.

now listen to ME, i know what im talking about!

First of all Id like to say i could never give a hendrix album below 4 stars simply because it is hendrix, no matter how basic or crappy a compilation it is. Hey, this stuff isnt bad, however its silly what that other review said about it being obscure, this is basically smash hits number two. Its not a bad buy for a new hendrix fan, but you can do better, because compilations could never do hendrix justice. Hendrix's later music andconcerts are what showed the world what he could have done, and that stuff will just blow you away.

Another thing is that other reviewer had his facts completly wrong and acted like he knew about jimi hendrix. Voodoo child slight return was not played at montery pop, it wasnt written for another three years and the same with stepping stone. Get experienced fool.