Track Listing

1. Look Over Yonder
2. Little Wing
3. Here He Comes (Lover Man)
4. South Saturn Delta
5. Power Of Soul
6. Message To The Universe (Message To Love)
7. Tax Free
8. All Along The Watchtower
9. The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam's Dice - Jimi Hendrix Experience
10. Midnight
11. Sweet Angel (Angel)
12. Bleeding Heart
13. Pali Gap
14. Drifter's Escape
15. Midnight Lightning

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11244 in Music
• Released on: 1999-07-26
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .24 pounds
• Running time: 66 minutes

CD Description
Although a slew of posthumous scrapings from the Hendrix catalogue have cluttered the market in the past, SOUTH SATURN DELTA is a thoroughly researched collection that is anythingbut slap-dash. The detailed liner notes document the fascinating creative processes this virtuoso went through in his native element: the studio. Enlightening moments abound, suchas an early instrumental version of "Little Wing" that has the basic rhythmic structure of "Angel", which is also represented as a demo entitled "Sweet Angel" featuring Hendrix onall instruments.
This disc also provides insight into the different musical roads Hendrix's muse led him down. John Lee Hooker and Lightnin' Hopkins's influences can be felt inHendrix's solo take on "Midnight Lightning". The title track demonstrates an attempt to integrate horns into his sound,reflecting an unrealised desire to eventually head in more of a jazz direction.

Customer Reviews

Very Good, But Not a Proper Album
Provided you accept this as a collection of bits instead of a proper, Hendrix-approved album, it's a very good CD.

The album features tracks from all of Jimi's bands, even the short-lived `Gypsy Sun and Rainbows' group which played Woodstock and included Larry Lee on second guitar and two percussionists.

Despite this, and the fact that the tracks span over three years, the collection hangs together well and is a good listen. Most of the tracks are officially unreleased on CD and this album is worthwhile for that factor alone.

Look over Yonder and Pali Gap are from the 1971 Rainbow Bridge LP. Pali Gap is a beautiful instrumental which was a highlight of that LP and the deleted Voodoo Soup
collection, while Look Over Yonder is a nice 1967 outtake which would have fitted in well on Axis Bold as Love..

Midnight, Tax Free and South Saturn Delta are instrumentals which illustrate Jimi's love of jamming/improvising. STP with LSD is the stereo mix at last, but I've never liked the song that much.

The other unreleased gems here are a newly discovered demo of Angel and the solo version of Midnight Lightning, which sounds rather like a young John Lee Hooker. All Along the Watchtower has Noel rather than Jimi on bass (I think) and a different mix, while Drifter's Escape, rescued from the poor Loose Ends LP, is a nice inclusion, even if it doesn't scale the heights of the other Dylan covers - how could it?

As with other Experience Hendrix releases, Eddie Kramer has the tapes sounding better than ever and the packaging is excellent, except that `Little Wing' is actually an instrumental demo of Angel.

Highly recommended, but don't start your Hendrix collection here.

Excellent collection showing all wonderful sides of Hendrix
This album deserves a place on any Hendrix fan's shelf as a testament to one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century. Yer blues are all here with 'Midnight Lightning' and 'Pali Gap' and the psychedelic ecstasy of 'The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam's Dice' and 'Power Of Soul' are too good to miss out on. But the real catches here are the examples of Hendrix's unsurpassable quality on guitar - for the true connoisseur the instrumental or mainly instrumental tracks 'Here He Comes' and 'Little Wing' and the freaky 'Drifter's Escape' (that exceeds Hendrix's more famous Dylan cover 'All Along The Watchtower') are the instant classics. Most importantly, this album's elegant and unseen beauty could lay to rest any claims that the man was simply hiding beneath his extravagant stage persona and convert any Hendrix agnostic into a dribbling Hendrix fanatic like the rest of us normal people.

Not this one!
I have loved the music of Jimi for 15 years now and firmly believe him to be the best guitarist who ever lived, and one of the best makers of music generally. Maybe this album would have been fair had it been called "demos, ideas and curiosites" but to pass it off as a proper album is pretty sick and surely would make the great man roll in his grave. Real fans may find this interesting, but that is all, and the only tune I would want to play more than a couple of times is the beautiful Pali Gap.