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RARE JIMI HENDRIX 45: 

RAINY DAY, DREAM AWAY/STILL RAINING, STILL DREAMING (Experience Hendrix 1007 #EH-17/18 limited edition 1st pressing with PICTURE SLEEVE, 1998): UNPLAYED MINT.

An unusual release, which essentially splits an album cut for the two sides of this single. When he issued Electric Ladyland in the summer of '68, Jimi was no longer interested in conforming to the dictates of the music business.  He was working in his own studio so he could produce the music he heard in his head, not prefab rock 'n' roll/top 40 hits.  Rainy Day (and several of his other jazz-influenced songs) illustrate his utter contempt for homogenous pop music...and it's a masterpiece.

People have speculated about what he would have done had he lived past 1970, but it's probably not what most critics would guess.  Band Of Gypsys was a radical departure from The Experience (and not well received at the time), and Jimi would have found new ground to break and old rules to smash.

This limited edition 45 was issued in the numbered Jimi Hendrix Classic Singles Collection in 1998, and is otherwise unavailable.  The ten singles weren't individually numbered on the labels; we take the numbers from the trail-out matrix.  These are small-hole 45s; the yellow "insert" you see in the center is, in reality, printed onto the label!  This record is fully authorized by Jimi's family; it's not a fake or repro, and is UNPLAYED MINT.  The box set that included this 45 has been out of print for 17 years...

One only...don't miss it!