Talk:Are You Experienced? (song)

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Move?[edit]

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The result of the move request was: moved per no opposition. Wikidata updated. —Darkwind (talk) 01:47, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

– The original title was published without the question mark (click), and this was only added in for the later American release (click). Andre666 (talk) 21:15, 5 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - no opinion, but note that Noël Redding - 1990, Rotimi Ogunjobi - 2008 Richard Kostelanetz, H. R. Brittain - 2000 all use ? for the album Are You Experienced. In ictu oculi (talk) 08:22, 14 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
There is a lot of confusion out there, but the official title of both the album and the song don't have the question mark. It is on the original LP sleeves and in advertising. There are numerous sources which don't use it also. Andre666 (talk) 09:54, 14 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

What is "official" in this context? In ictu oculi (talk) 07:35, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

What was officially released originally, i.e. the original LP and advertising of the album by 'official' sources (record label, management, artist). The question mark was added by Reprise for the American release, and has been kept on some releases since then. Andre666 (talk) 07:49, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment only. Whether WP uses a question mark or not, not all releases of the song will be correct. I am also surprised that there is no reference to the use of the question mark in the article. --Richhoncho (talk) 08:56, 17 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
But surely, based on that, it should be the original release which is taken as correct? As for the mention in the article, I doubt there's a reference out there for it, although I will search for one. Andre666 (talk) 10:33, 17 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Or perhaps the most notable, i.e. highest selling version? I don't know, I really can't get my head around the need to move, equally I don't see any reason to oppose. Cheers. --Richhoncho (talk) 07:59, 19 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Bass or no bass?[edit]

Hendrix biographer Keith Shadwick writes:

[T]he entire sound of the track is deeply affected by an absence that, to put it crudely, you only notice when you notice it. There is no bass playing on the track. This creates a gap between the very congested mid-range occupied by the guitar and the steady boom of the bass drum. Perhaps Hendrix wanted the song to be more like a disembodied marching band coming out of the mist and retreating back towards the end. Perhaps he was aiming for the rather ethereal feeling that the fininshed track possesses, rather than the warmth that a bass holding down the pedal tones would have supplied. Perhaps the absense of a bass in Indian music has an influence. Perhaps Noel had gone for a pint. But there is no bass. [Jimi Hendrix Musician (2003), p. 106.]

Some may be hearing the bass drum combined with a guitar track as if it were a bass. In any event, an inline citation to a reliable source is needed for a claim that there is bass playing on the song (see Wikipedia:Verifiability). —Ojorojo (talk) 15:38, 21 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The liner notes for Are You Experienced don't mention it, but Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix Collection, which includes the original "Are You Experienced" track, include: "Bass: Noel Redding", so I've added it. West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology contains an earlier instrumental take of the song. Redding can be heard very easily, unlike the original released version (especially on the original LP). Eddie Kramer notes: "The structure of the [earlier take of the] song was recorded first with Jimi's rhythm guitar, Mitch's drums and Noel's bass recorded forward" (also included in McDermott, Kramer, and Cox's Ultimate Hendrix book). A little research for a reliable source could have saved us from this little edit war (see WP:PROVEIT). —Ojorojo (talk) 16:44, 23 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]