Jimi Hendrix : Crash Landing

Crash Landing

 is a

 posthumous 

compilation album

 by American

 guitarist

 Jimi Hendrix

It was released in 

March and

 August 1975 in

 the United States 

and the 

United Kingdom

 respectively. 

It was the first

Hendrix album

to be produced

 by Alan Douglas

Before Hendrix

 died in 1970,

 he was in the

 final stages of

 preparing what he

 intended to be a

 double studio LP,

 which was given

 various titles such as

 'First Rays of the New Rising Sun',

 'People, Hell & Angels', 

and

 'Strate Ahead' . 

Most of the tracks

 intended for this LP

 were spread out 

over three

 posthumous 

single LP releases: 

The Cry of Love (1971), 

Rainbow Bridge (1971), 

and

 War Heroes (1972). 

In the case of the

 last two of these LPs, 

a demo track, 

a live track, 

and

 unreleased

 studio tracks

 were used to

 fill out the releases. 

In late 1973,

 his international label

 prepared to issue an LP

 titled

 Loose Ends 

which contained 

eight tracks,

 six of which

 were generally

 regarded as incomplete 

or

 substandard 

the only two

 "finished" tracks 

on this release were

 "The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice", 

a heavily re-mixed 

stereo version of

 the B-side 

which had been

 released in the

 original mono mix 

on the 1968 

European and Japanese 

versions of

 the Smash Hits,

 and a cover of

 Bob Dylan's

 "The Drifter's Escape", 

both of which would 

ultimately be

 re-released

 on the 

South Saturn Delta CD

 in 1997

Loose Ends

 was not released

 in the USA

 by Reprise 

because they 

considered the quality 

of the tracks to

 be subpar.

Hendrix

 had amassed a 

great deal of time

 in the studio in

 1969 and 1970,

 resulting in a 

substantial amount

 of songs, 

some close to completion, 

that were available 

for potential release. 

After the death 

of Hendrix' manager

 in 1973, 

Alan Douglas 

was hired to 

evaluate hundreds 

of hours of remaining material

 that was not used 

on earlier 

posthumous albums.

 "Peace in Mississippi,"

 "Somewhere,"

 and

 "Stone Free" 

were recorded with

 the original

 Jimi Hendrix Experience

 line up, 

while the rest of

 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originally made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.

Crash Landing

 was the first release 

produced by Douglas, 

and immediately

 caused controversy.

 The liner notes

 of the album indicated

 that Douglas used 

several session musicians,

 none of whom had ever

 even met Hendrix,

  to re-record 

or overdub guitar, 

bass, 

drums, 

and percussion

 on the album,

 erasing the contributions 

of the original 

musicians

 and changing

 the feel of the songs

Hendrix' vocals 

and guitar 

contributions 

were retained

 This was evidently done

 to give a finish

 to songs that were

 works in progress

or may have been

 recorded as demos. 

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