Are You Experienced? , the first album by Hendrix, was released in the year of great creative outburst in the history of music. The year was 1967 that saw major shifts in the ways people witnessed the move of rock revolution. The first LP on the Track Records label, etched out Hendrix’s career in gold. And it was never to be the same again for the eras to come either! Hendrix’s classic style and his development of a new configuration of music production among the psychedelic lot brought him his legendary position then and there. Even now the album is one of those rare contributions that change the lifetime experience with music for most people.

2005 saw the nomination of the album for being one of those permanent reservations in the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress. Jimi Hendrix’s experience has been carried with Mitch Michell on drums along with Noel Redding on the bass. The trio worked on with the former The Who’s manager and soon after release hit two Top Ten UK chart blasters ” Hey Joe” and “Stone Free” were previously produced as singles in 1966. The all-time classics, “Purple Haze” and “51st Anniversary” were released earlier in 1967 and had phenomenal response even while being fully loaded on to the album. The tracks “The Wind Cries Mary” and “Highway Chile” have all been there on release later in 1967 under a special white label record.

The album has been a thorough sensation all through the world and came only behind The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in a rating of mass popularity of classic rock albums all across Europe. Thus there have been different covers of the band displayed all through Europe with their own versions of the psychedelic experience.

The trio which made the album had made a great appearance in the Monterey Pop Festival, leading to the release of a reprise album all throughout USA and Canada. In this version however, the songs like, “Red House”, “Can You See Me” and “Remember” were all put aside. Even without these tracks on load there have been stellar sales to the debut Hendrix album creating and recreating new records.