The Making Of Jimi Hendrix's Are You Experienced?

By January 1967, when we started work on Are You Experienced?, Jimi Hendrix had already had a run of successful singles in the UK with "Hey Joe," "Purple Haze" and "The Wind Cries Mary." A lot of that work, as well as some other tracks, had been recorded at De Lane Lea Studios in London, but Jimi and the Experience had to get out of there because there was a bank above the studio and they couldn't play loud. But they'd heard about Olympic Studios, where I was then a staff engineer. It had just opened up and the Jimi Hendrix Experience were really one of Olympic's first clients. It was brand-new and it was the hippest recording studio in the UK...

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