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1967

with short introduction by Pete Townshend of The Who

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1968

Electric Ladyland was Jimi's last studio album. It was also his only double-LP, which gave him plenty of space to stretch out into. The longest track on the album was the 15-minute blues jam called Voodoo Chile.

Al Kooper (the same Al Kooper who laid the famous organ part down on Bob Dylan's famous recording of "Like a Rolling Stone") replaced bass player Noel Redding in the studio, bringing closer to the soulful funk of Jimi Smith as opposed to the harder funk of Sly & The Family Stone.

This track is also notable because the audience noise was created by Hendrix in the studio, after the band had already recorded it.

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1969

Machine Gun was Hendrix's most blatant statement against the War in Vietnam. He uses foot-pedals to make his guitar immitate the sound of a machine gun firing, and creates feedback as an abrasive element to capture the intensity of war.

"Evil man make me kill you. Evil man make you kill me."

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1970

Sly and the Family Stone broke out in 1968 and made a huge impact on African-American culture and musicians in particular. Listen to Hendrix borrowing a riff in E minor pentatonic and then going into a far out soul jam with bassist Billy Cox and.drummer Buddy Miles singing..

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