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JIMI HENDRIX and CURTIS KNIGHT

 The greatest rock guitarist of all time, with a raw, blues-influenced style that brought fire and emotion to rock music unseen before or sinceIn his brief four-year reign as a superstar, Jimi Hendrix expanded the vocabulary of the electric rock guitar more than anyone before or since. Hendrix was a master at coaxing all manner of unforeseen sonics from his instrument, often with innovative amplification experiments that produced astral-quality feedback and roaring distortion. His frequent hurricane blasts of noise and dazzling showmanship -- he could and would play behind his back and with his teeth and set his guitar on fire -- has sometimes obscured his considerable gifts as a songwriter, singer, and master of a gamut of blues, R&B, and rock styles.

If he is known at all, the Harlem-based '60s soul singer Curtis Knight is remembered for his connection to a pre-fame Jimi Hendrix. Knight met a down-on-his-luck Hendrix living in a New York City hotel. The singer gave the guitarist a spare axe and hired him to play with the Squires, Knight's band. A native of Kansas, Knight had previously spent time in California -- he appears in the film Pop Girl -- before relocating to New York, where he worked the circuit with the Squires, a workaday party R&B band. It's quite possible Knight saw something in Hendrix. Not long after Jimi joined the Squires, Knight whisked him into the studio to record "How Would You Feel" -- a shameless rip of Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" -- and soon started writing with Hendrix. More consequentially, Knight helped encouraged Hendrix to sign a deal with record man Ed Chalpin. Jimi later claimed he thought he was signing on to a role as a sideman, but the contract bound him to Chalpin's PPX Records. This became a big deal once Chas Chandler signed Hendrix to a contract in 1969. Chalpin claimed he owned Jimi, so Chandler owed him money. This legal dispute became protracted, complicated by the fact that Hendrix inexplicably kept returning to the studio to cut sessions with Knight while he was in the thick of proceedings.

"GET THAT FEELING"

Produced by Ed Chalpin, at Studio 76

1968    LP       LONDON  RECORDS       HA 8349   MONO

MADE IN ENGLAND     ORIGINAL PRESSING

LAMINATED (on front) SINGLE COVER

Barcode and Other Identifiers

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LABEL: LONDON - BLACK LABEL - SILVER TEXT

Catalog on cover: HA 8349 

Catalog on labels: HA 8349 (ACL 3066) / HA 8349 (ACL 3067)

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): ACL-3066-2B  C   JT  1

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): ACL-3067-1B  H  JT  1

On labels: top rim text reads "American Recording"

bottom rim text reads "All rights....prohibited"

Recorded by PPX New York

Made in England  The Decca Record Co. Ltd.

mono(boxed)

Produced by Ed Chalpin

℗ 1967

(Side A only): PPX Publishing

Rights Society / Publishing: J/T, PPX Publishing

On back cover: Produced by Ed Chalpin, at Studio 76

© 1968, PPX Records, New York. London Records, The Decca Record Company Limited, Decca House...........England. Printed in England by Robert Stace Laminated with 'Clarifoil' made by British Celanese Limited
tracklisting

Side A: BALLAD OF JIMI - NO BUSINESS - FUTURE TRIP

GOTTA HAVE A NEW DRESS - HORNETS NEST - DON'T ACCUSE ME

Side B: FLASHING - HUSH NOW - KNOCK YOURSELF OUT - HAPPY BIRTHDAY

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RECORD EX but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)

Before Jimi Hendrix went to London to become a solo recording star, he had recorded some material with journeyman soul singer Curtis Knight and signed a contract with record executive Ed Chalpin. When Hendrix became an international superstar in 1967, this contract backfired on him badly, as Chalpin leased recordings of the Knight sessions to Capitol Records that did not in any way reflect what Hendrix had evolved into as a solo artist. 10 of these tracks were issued at the end of 1967 on Get That Feeling, which -- despite featuring only a picture of Hendrix, in all his 1967 glory, on the cover -- only features him as a guitarist session man, with Knight actually handling the vocals. It was not clear exactly when this material was recorded (there are no liner notes), but likely it dated from mid-'60s sessions shortly before Hendrix went solo, and/or jam sessions never intended for release. It was the beginning of contractual headaches for Hendrix and his managers vs. Chalpin that would last for the rest of Hendrix's life. Its controversy also helped ensure that in Hendrix histories, the music on the album itself is overlooked and rarely discussed in depth. It's actually listenable, although generic, 1960s soul/R&B/rock, with Hendrix playing well but much more conventionally than he did on his own recordings. You can hear hints of his full-blown psychedelic style, as on the wah-wah effects on "Hush Now"...(AllMusic)