After death Jimi Hendrix´manager: Michael Jeffery in a
mid-air collision over Nantes, France on March 5.1973; the producers Alan
Douglas & Tony Bongiovi were hired to evaluate hundreds of hours of
remaining material that was not used on earlier posthumous albums.
The material
used on Crash Landing consisted of recordings Hendrix originally made with
Billy Cox on bass and either Mitch Mitchell or Buddy Miles on drums and on one
occasion by Rocky Isaacs, except: "Peace in Mississippi,"
"Somewhere," & "Stone Free" were recorded with the
original Jimi Hendrix Experience line up, with Noel Redding on bass.
How the songs were works in progress or demos, they
used several session musicians, none of whom had ever even met Hendrix, to
re-record or overdub guitar, bass, drums, percussion and female backing vocals,
erasing the contributions of the original musicians, only Hendrix' vocals and
guitar contributions were retained, something that was very criticized. However
the album, it became one of the most successful since “The Cry of love” Lp: #5
in the U.S.and #35 in the UK.
There was two versions of the album: the released in
March and August 1975 in the United States and the United Kingdom respectively
with this order:
Side A: 1.Message to love.- 2.Somewhere over the
rainbow.(Somewhere)- 3.Crash landing.- 4.Come down hard on me.
Side B: 1.Peace in Mississipi.- 2.With the power.
(Power of soul)- 3.Stone free again. - 4.Captain coconut.(MLK).
And one another with different line-up and no
overdubs, but unknown and unissued:
1.Crash landing (Record Plant - 24/4/69) - 2.Somewhere
(a.k.a “Somewhere over the rainbow) (3/68) - 3.Anything is possible (a.k.a
“With the power” or “Power of soul“ or “Power to love“) (Record Plant -
21/1/70) - 4.New rising sun (TTG - 22/10/68) - 5.Message to love (a.k.a “Nine
to the universe” or “Message to the universe” or “Message of love”) (Record
Plant - 20/1/70) - 6.Scat vocal-Lead 1 Scat vocal 2-Lead 2 (Hit Factory -
28/8/69) - 7.Stone Free (alternate) (a.k.a “Stone free again” (Record Plant -
7/4/69) - 8.Peace in Mississipi (TTG- 24/10/68) - 9.Here comes your lover man
(a.k.a “Here he comes (lover man)” (TTG - 29/10/68).
This album is a reconstruction of the “master reel”
with the original order of the tracks, Bit.ly/75JHcl with some small
change so that all the selected songs appear, but without retouching of any
kind, as recorded in his day by Jimi Hendrix.
01. Crash Landing.(4:15).
02. Somewhere.(4:06).
03. Power Of Soul.(5:20).
04. New Rising Sun.(7:24).
05. Message To The Universe.(6:19).
06. Come Down Hard On Me.(3:18).
07. Stone Free Again.(3:43).
08. Peace In Mississippi.(5:26)
09. Here He Comes (Lover Man).(6:33).
10. Ezy Rider/MLK Jam.(20:00).
Enjoy it.
