JIMI HENDRIX: Previously Unreleased Version Of 'Love Or Confusion' Available

September 16, 2010

A previously unreleased version of "Love Or Confusion" — which is featured on Jimi Hendrix's new multimedia set, "West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology" — is available for streaming on the AOL Radio's Adult Rock station.

Remixed by engineer Eddie Kramer, the electric trill-infused track was originally featured on the EXPERIENCE's 1967 debut classic album, "Are You Experienced".

Due on November 16, "West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology" features over four hours of rare and previously unreleased Hendrix music spread across four CD's and one newly-produced documentary. The set features extensive outtakes and alternate versions of songs from "Are You Experienced", "Axis: Bold As Love", and "Electric Ladyland".

"West Coast Seattle Boy" includes Hendrix's never-before-heard version of "Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes" classic "Tears Of Rage", solo acoustic recordings of "Electric Ladyland" favorites like "Long Hot Summer Night" and "1983 (A Merman I Shall Turn To Be)" — as well as never-before-heard live performances from Berkeley, California and the legendary BAND OF GYPSYS' Fillmore East concert in New York City on New Year's Eve 1969 — as well as such "new" Hendrix songs: "Hear My Freedom", "Hound Dog Blues", "Lonely Avenue", and more.

Also featured are Hendrix's pre-EXPERIENCE R&B performances — including his early performances on singles the ISLEY BROTHERS, Little Richard, Don Covay, King Curtis, and others.

The new 90-minute documentary in the set, called "Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child", was directed by Bob Smeaton — best known for his work on "The Beatles Anthology". The film is an "autobiographical journey told in the legendary musician's own words as read by PARLIAMENT-FUNKADELIC's Bootsy Collins."

The documentary mixes interviews with Hendrix — while showing with his letters, writings and recordings, personal drawings, postcards, early song drafts, sketches, and lyrics.

Hendrix's bassist Billy Cox from his post-EXPERIENCE group, BAND OF GYPSYS, says that unlike most acts of the day, Hendrix enjoyed complete freedom during his live shows: "He could do what he wanted to do onstage, and people loved that and accepted him, because at that time, and at that moment, he was unique — in every way, shape, or form. Therefore, he could get away with doing things that the average musician could not get away with."

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