"Are You Experienced?" (Jimi Hendrix) [4:14]

Recorded at Olympic Sound Studios, London, 3 April 1967.

UK release 12 May 1967 on the album Are You Experienced? (Track Records).

Jimi Hendrix Experience: Jimi Hendrix (vocal & guitar), Noel Redding (piano), and Mitch Mitchell (drums).

Produced by Chas Chandler with George Chkiantz

The Jimi Hendrix Experience. 1967. Are You Experienced? London: Reprise. [6261-2] [Track 613 001]

Notes and Quotes

Section	Meas.	Description	Text
Introduction	16+	Backwards guitar fades into the recording. Piano provides ostinato drone. Additional (forward) guitars is underpinned by a military drum pattern.	—
Verse	4+4	Hendix sings over the ostinato	a
Refrain	4+2	bVII chord against the drone	b
Verse	4+4	As in verse above	c
Refrain	4+2	As in refrain above	b
Soli	26	Backwards guitar solo against ostinato. Begins with a bVII	d
Verse	4+4	As in verses above	e
Refrain	4	Abbreviated refrain	b
Coda	15	fade out over ostinato with return fade in at end	f

Text
If you can just get your mind together then come across to me. We'll hold hands an' then we'll watch the sun rise from the bottom of the sea.	a
But first/So/Ah, Are You Experienced? Ah! Have you ever been experienced? Well, I have...	b
I know, I know, you'll probably scream 'n' cry that your little world won't let go. But who in your measly little world are trying to prove that you're made out of gold and can't be sold.	c
Ah, let me prove it to you...	d
Trumpets and violins I can hear in the distance; I think they're calling our names. Maybe now you can't hear them, but you will if you just take hold of my hand.	e
Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful . . . .	f

Hendrix Experience	Schedule	Transatlantic Psychedelic Blues
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