God we deserve 

When the Stereo pan effect was a novelty...

2 Live Crew has ruined the beginning of this song for me...

Well,if you've got a guitar and an amp, you might as well piss the neighbors off.

The Maestro... I just listened to Steve Earle talk about "Are You Experienced" and "Axis Bold As Love" coming out in the same year, 1967. Unreal...

If you're ever in Seattle, do yourself a favor and go see Paul Allen's gift to the world, The Experience Music Project. They've got a Hendrix exhibit there that is unbelievable.

It's funny how the electric guitar has been around for the 42 years since Hendrix died, and about that long before. There is not now, never has been, and never will be his equal. Here's to the best axe man who ever lived.

-16 at the time and it gets a 10 anyway

Groovy 10 plus

 2cats wrote: 
I think being 16 at the time and real acid helped make it a 10.

Really, this is more like a 15 or a 20 for me...

 Kokoloco53 wrote: 
Come to think of it, I didn't know that e=fþ. But I see your point. It really is a shame. I may be slow but I eventually know sarcasm when I see it.

 derekd wrote: 
yeah, well I was -3, and it still gets a 10!

Wonder where he would have gone with his music had he lived to a ripe old age of 50.

 Kokoloco53 wrote: 
Everybody has a right to there opinion - why should we ever assume that someone else hears the meaning we do (or doesn't hear what we do not)? I could care less what someone else thinks - if a song moves me to shake and scream like a madman or reduces me to naked emotion and stirs me as deeply as I can imagine anything ever would (as this song always does no matter how many times I hear it) - or both, I like it no less if someone else doesn't feel any of that. It doesn't change a thing for me. I'm going to react the very same way the next time I hear it.

The closest thing to distilled genius from a man recognised and revered by his musical peers for his transformational impact on the future direction of rock music.

 bluedot wrote: 
Don't attack the critic. They get their opinion, too.

Personally, I think this is a 10+ 

Isn't it sad to read of someone's dislike for this giant of a guitarist. I pity them. They probably also don't even know that e=fþ as well as mc2.

 scrubbrush wrote: 
lololol, although the spread is wide: a few folks really don't like it but not many, and most of us REALLY like it. 

Any day with Jimi is a better day. Rockin out and smilin'.

great song. amazing that my '9' could actually lower the average...

 lowelltr wrote: 
You're effing clueless...you probably don't get Beethoven either...

Not his best by far, but still a 10..

To whomever rated this a 1, I think YOU'RE sucko-barfo.

 derekd wrote:  For a youngun, you have good taste in music.

...pheeeeewwww!  Man that was fun!

I was 2 at the time and voted it a 10.

 2cats wrote: 

 oldsinger wrote: 

            I think being 19 at the time this hit helps make it a 10.

 lowelltr wrote: 
What's that? I can't hear you. I've got the volume turned way up...

I am currently turning the office into a not-very-quiet environment >8^)