{"id":477,"date":"2008-01-28T23:58:27","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T03:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=477"},"modified":"2008-01-28T23:58:27","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T03:58:27","slug":"jimi-hendrix-experience-smash-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2008\/jimi-hendrix-experience-smash-hits\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimi Hendrix Experience &#8212; Smash Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/hendrixjimismashhits.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-670\" title=\"Jimi Hendrix Experience -- Smash Hits\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/hendrixjimismashhits.jpg\" alt=\"Jimi Hendrix Experience -- Smash Hits\" width=\"500\" height=\"1500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Jimi Hendrix<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Smash Hits<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1979<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 10<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 1979<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s one cool dude on the cover. And speaking of cool dudes, this album was a birthday present from my Dad, a\/k\/a &#8220;Mr. Cool.&#8221; Just ask my Mom. I had some singles, you know, vinyl seven inches, that I had accumulated, but this was my <em>very first<\/em> full length album. That&#8217;s right, the first of thousands of records. And I can&#8217;t think of a better album or artist to start a record collection. I&#8217;m eternally grateful for my father pointing me in the right music direction. I liked Hendrix from what I heard on the radio, but this record was not something I asked for. It was his idea.<\/p>\n<p>For me, Hendrix brings together everything I love most about music. Art, innovation, guitar mastery, blues, funk, acid rock, and the moments of cathartic heaviness that I just need to survive. <em>Smash Hits<\/em> by the Jimi Hendrix Experience is one of the most played records I  own, and the vinyl shows the wear and tear. But it still sounds great. I did a decent job maintaining it for a 13 year old.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite from this collection is a song I think was less of a hit than the others, &#8220;Stone Free.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=je9O-VdrZ0E\">something different<\/a> from Jimi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Jimi Hendrix Title: Smash Hits Year: 1979 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 10 Owner: Tracy Acquired: 1979 Keeper: Yes That&#8217;s one cool dude on the cover. And speaking of cool dudes, this album was a birthday present from my Dad, a\/k\/a &#8220;Mr. Cool.&#8221; Just ask my Mom. I had some singles, you know, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[470,452,453],"tags":[502,542,587,724,766,46,911,1033],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-h","category-music","category-record-collection","tag-502","tag-acid-rock","tag-blues-rock","tag-hard-rock","tag-jimi-hendrix","tag-music","tag-psychedelic","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}