Bit of a random one but was just curious on people’s opinions, to what extent do people think acid had an impact on his music/albums?

Obviously Jimi dabbled with psychedelics but how much do we think this shaped his music? I’ve listened to EL many times, and the times where I have whilst tripping it seems like he designed it to be listened to in that sort of mindset.

He had the technical ability to create almost whatever he wanted, but he chose those certain themes etc.

The tracklist is amazing and contains the most blues and funk influenced I’ve heard him play especially with the guitar, and the drums were insane and really made me appreciate Mitch more than I did before. The sound and mixing is phenomenal which I’ve always felt was lacking in his live albums, and overall it’s just a fantastic batch of tracks with some of the experience’s best playing and put together in a way that makes it good to go back to and re listen.

Anyone think this is an absolutely fantastic track that for some reason has flown under the radar?

The Woodstock version is phenomenal and the Crash Landing studio version (original or Douglas'd) is excellent

Was this ever a contender for the fourth album? Obviously it was played with Band of Gypsys, but it always feels like an outlier that doesnt belong anywhere or something. Was he considering it at some point and then just abandoned it?

I'm not up on all the studio dates. It's really hard to keep track of everything, haha

Would love any info on the song. It was a gateway track into him for me early on and I'm surprised it's not talked about more.

Check out that killer smile, pure joy.