Jimi Hendrix and the Making of Are You Experienced ↑

Jimi Hendrix Experience recording style

By now, the Experience were settling into an individual recording style. Chandler, nervous of studio costs, had booked them into a rehearsal room… but it quickly became apparent that the Experience didn’t need hours of prior rehearsal: they were more than capable of improvising entire arrangements as they went along. Even so, it was not far short of astonishing that the songs that eventually appeared on Are You Experienced — with the exception of “Hey Joe” on the US release — were never played by the band either live or in a rehearsal situation before they were recorded.