Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix

Artist: Various Artists
Label: Reprise / Wea
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 093624543824
EAN: 0093624543824
ASIN: B000002MNC

Release Date: 1993-11-09

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Tracks:

Purple Haze - The Cure
Stone Free - Eric Clapton
Spanish Castle Magic - Spin Doctors
Red House - Buddy Guy
Hey Joe - Body Count
Manic Depression - Seal & Jeff Beck
Fire - Nigel Kennedy
Bold As Love - Pretenders
You Got Me Floatin' - P.M. Dawn
I Don't Live Today - Slash & Paul Rodgers With The Band Of Gypsys
Are You Experienced? - Belly
Crosstown Traffic - Living Colour
Third Stone From The Sun - Pat Metheny
Hey Baby (Land Of The New Rising Sun) - M.A.C.C

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Customer Reviews:

STONEFREE: A TRIBUTE TO JIMI HENDRIX.......2007-02-24

AWESOME! THIS IS A MUST HAVE FOR ANY HENDRIX FAN AND A MUST FOR ANY MUSIC LOVER.

Homage to Hendrix.......2007-02-12

The impressive array of musicians on this tribute album deliver the goods, although some interpretations are a bit bizarre, like Nigel Kennedy's violin dance on Fire. Robert Smith and The Cure's synth-driven version of Purple Haze is another strange one. These two tracks are certainly innovative but there's nothing of the master guitarist's spirit in them.

I Don't Live Today by Band of Gypsys, Paul Rodgers and Slash sound very authentic, and Chrissie Hynde's rendition of (Axis) Bold As Love is spectacular. I also like Eric Clapton's powerful interpretation of Stone Free. Another highlight is Third Stone From The Sun by Pat Metheny, an enjoyable jazz-funk take on the classic.

Some of Hendrix's more obscure songs are ably covered by PM Dawn, Spin Doctors and Buddy Guy, whilst Manic Depression as done by Seal and Jeff Beck is quite memorable, as is Hey Joe by Ice T and Bodycount. MACC's awesome version of Hey Baby (Land Of The New Rising Sun) and Living Colour's Crosstown Traffic are gems. Hendrix would have been proud.

Very Nice Collection.......2006-05-19

Nobody's a bigger Hendrix fan than I am, and I still think this is an excellent collection of updated arrangements. Purple Haze by the Cure and Bold as Love by the Pretenders are superb. In fact, the numbers that are closest to sounding like the original--Stone Free and Manic Depression--are the least interesting. The musicians did a great job on this recording, and I'd recommend it to anybody.

Some good, some bad, some generic.......2006-03-12

I agree with a lot of what has been written about this album. At 43 cents you are getting a bargain. Clapton does sound mailed in; Nigel Kennedy, well lets not get too personal; Buddy Guys, great guitar work but I have never been a fan of his vocals (that is just a personal feeling, if you like his vocals then you will like this song). With that being said, there are some versions which I love and for that go out and buy the album. Chrissie Hynde's version of Axis is fabulous, MACC adds soul to an already great song, Belly has taken a throwaway and has created something special. Overall it is 3 out of 5. The highs are great but the lows (EC you know you could have done better) are generic, which is probably the worst thing you can ever say about a classic artist - especially one that you revere.

Its a Hendrix Tribute, not a Hendrix record........2005-11-11

There are more Hendrix fans buying this almost expecting Jimi to be channelling his spirit from the other side through these musicians. This is not a seance, its a tribute album. If you're looking to hear Hendrix play, put in an Experience disc, or Band of Gypsies, or one of the hundreds of bootlegs that have been released by now..

If you are in the mood to hear Hendrix's work show why it was so good, and how it lives up to different interpretations, 12 years later, this disc is still one of the best you can put in, and in my opinion, it stands up to Hendrix's own work itself.

There are two tracks that surpass the originals by leaps and bounds. PM Dawn's "Got me Floatin'" takes a filler track and makes it completely unique and soulful, and MACC (Really just Temple of the Dog) covering "Hey Baby (Land of The New Rising Sun)". These two tracks make this disc worth buying if nothing else.

The Cure revitalize "Purple Haze" giving a trippy, Gothed-out rendition that shows how versatile a song Hendrix really wrote, Living Colour give "Crosstown Traffic" a genuine feel without just carbon copying the original, and Pat Metheney's "Third Stone From The Sun" and Nigel Kennedy's "Fire" give a pretty good idea of areas Hendrix may have gone himself with his music had he not died so young.

There are some surprising deadweight songs, such as Buddy Guy's version of "Red House" and Clapton's dry version of "Stone Free" almost make you wonder if Hendrix wrote those songs FOR those guys to play, because theres nowhere for them to go inside those songs, except where Jimi had already been. Personally, I found the Spin Doctors "Spanish Castle Magic" and Jeff Beck and Seal's "Manic Depression" to be Hendrix impressions more than innovative covers, but are enjoyable tracks nonetheless, and while on any other day of the week I loathe Chrissy Hynde and the Pretenders for their absolutely charisma-less style of Rock, their version of "Bold as Love" is actually more visual and evocative than the original, although not better, I would call that track a tie.

Overall, the reviews here give this album a bum rap. If you can find it in you to skip two legends like Guy and Clapton, and you aren't looking to hear Jimi playing these songs, but would like to hear some damn good tracks, buy this disc. It holds up, just like Hendrix.

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