S007-S017 (1st album)

S007 Foxy Lady

Jimi (gs, lv, hv), Mitch (dr), Noel (ba, hv). Special effect: Jimi ('pick ream' at end - forcefully buzzing down the lower wound strings with the edge of the pick).
CBS, 13/12/66.
Engineered by Mike Ross.
Produced by Chas.

NOTE: It is said that this song was inspired by Heather Taylor (who later married Roger Daltrey).

S008 Manic Depression

Jimi (gs, vo, faint throat-clearing sounds), Mitch (dr), Noel (ba).
DLL, 29?/03/67.
Engineered by Dave.
Produced by Chas.

NOTE: 'The fastest raw-nerves waltz on record!' <2> The idea for this song was conceived during a press reception, when Chas told Jimi he sounded like a manic depressive. While Jimi was answering the questions, he wrote the lyrics down.

S009 Red House

Jimi (gi, vo, voice), Mitch (dr), Noel (bass strings of a normal 6-string gi, probably owned by Alexis Korner), Chas (voice from control-room).
CBS, 13/12/66.
Engineered by Mike Ross.
Produced by Chas.

S010 Can You See Me?

Jimi (gs, vo), Mitch (dr, ta), Noel (ba).
DLL or REG, 11/66 or 12/66.
Produced by Chas.

S011 Love Or Confusion

Jimi (gs, vo, voice), Mitch (dr), Noel (ba).
DLL or REG or OLY, 11/66 (basic track); OLY, 03/04/67 (possible additional recordings).
Engineered by Dave.
Produced by Chas.

NOTE: This song was originally selected to be the second Jimi Hendrix Experience single, however 'Purple Haze' was chosen instead.

S012 I Don't Live Today

Jimi (gs, hand wah-wah, vo, voice), Jimi? (hand claps), Mitch (dr), Noel (ba, voice).
DLL, 02/67.
Produced by Chas.

NOTE: This is Jimi's first recording with a wah-wah effect. <2> When performing this song during live concerts Jimi frequently dedicated this song to 'the American Indians'.

S013 May This Be Love

Jimi (gs, vo, turning a page with lyrics), Mitch (dr), Mitch? (ta), Noel (ba).
OLY, 03/04/67.
Produced by Chas.

NOTE: Song a.k.a: Waterfall.

S014 Fire

Jimi (gs, lv), Mitch (dr, hv), Noel (ba, hv). Special effect: Jimi (octavia).
DLL, 11/01/67 (basic track); OLY, 03/02/67 (overdubs including the one with octavia).
Engineered by Dave (DLL).
Produced by Chas.

NOTE: Song a.k.a.: Let Me Stand Next To Your Fire. <2> The basic idea for this song stems, in part, from a party held on 31/12/66 in Folkestone, Kent, England. Jimi asked Noel's mother, Margaret Redding, 'is it all right if I stand next to your fireplace?'

S015 3rd Stone From the Sun

Jimi (gs, vo, voices, voice of 'Star Fleet'), Mitch (dr), Noel (ba), unknown male person (voice of 'Scout Ship').
CBS, 13/12/66 (basic track); OLY, likely 03/04/67 (additional recordings, including the 'Star Fleet' and 'Scout Ship' overdub).
Engineered by Mike Ross (CBS); unknown (OLY).
Produced by Chas.

NOTE: Jimi wrote this song in the Hyde Park Towers hotel, London, which was Jimi's residence between 24/09/66 and 06/12/66. <2> When playing this song at 66^2/3 r.p.m. you will hear an exchange of messages between a 'Star Fleet' and a 'Scout Ship'. Refer to page 177(on Electric Gypsy) for the text of the 'transmission'. This transmission sparked off a Donald Duck story titled 'Officer For A Day' by script writer Carl Barks in late 1968 (first published in the Donald Duck comic issue 126, 07/69, in the USA). In the story Donald is playing a substitute policeman and is being faced with, among other problems, visitors from a flying saucer who believe chickens are the only inhabitants of the Earth worth talking to . . .

S016 Remember

Jimi (gs, vo, tongue-clicks), Mitch (dr. ta). Noel (ba).
DLL, 02/67.
Engineered by Dave.
Produced by Chas.

S017 Are You Experienced?

Jimi (gs, pi, vo), Mitch (dr), Noel (ba). Special effects: Jimi (backward gi); Mitch (backward dr); Noel (backward ba).
OLY, 03/04/67.
Produced by Chas.

NOTE: George Chkiantz on the backward guitar parts: The original idea was to do a loop, but that gave a problem . . . we tried looping it and then we couldn't get it to loop . . . in the end Jimi got so impatient doing this, he said "look, it's quite easy, we're just gonna play" and played it in.' <2> It is possible that Jimi did some of the backward drums.