’68 Flashback: Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland

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Jimi Hendrix secured his throne in psychedelic rock’s Olympus with the completion of Electric Ladyland. The double album was the final and brightest jewel in the acid-and-paisley-era trilogy he’d begun in 1967 with his debut full-length Are You Experienced and the next year’s Axis: Bold As Love.

For Hendrix, it was a triumph over considerable obstacles. His band, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, was falling apart, and the studio he envisioned, where he intended to record the album, was plagued with construction and cost troubles. (His Electric Lady Studios was finally completed several months before his death in 1970.) The Experience’s hectic concert schedule made the Electric Ladyland sessions at New York City’s Record Plant sporadic. And then, there was Hendrix’s drug intake, which by .................................................. .......................

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