Electric Ladyland - Voodoo Child(slight return) - versions?

[lfm]

Hi

I got a CD recently of this Hendrix album.

But discovered that last Voodoo Child(slight return) was not the version/mix I remember.
On this CD it was the same as released single, at the time(that I owned as well) - which is very different sound too it. Much more middy.

The one I remember had the same softer more mellow sound, as early track Voodoo Chile - the blues.

The single version is very good, but not as good as the original one on album.

I bought a Cd, 75 minutes long which hold both vinyls otherwise.

Do anybody know what I talk about, and know a release that is the original Ladyland version?

Some 2 CD version maybe, or is vinyl still as original?

Thanks.

[BertKoor]

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Ladyland and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_Ch ... _Return%29
Compare the track lengths and draw your own conclusions.

Me thinks remastering is what makes the difference

[jancivil]

I don't remember the single. I recall my general impression that Slight Return was different sonically than its predecessor, edgy vs round guitar tone. The track Voodoo Chile had Jack Casady on bass which is a different sonic result as well, Winwood on organ... I've never had the CD which may feature mastering peculiarities vs the vinyl, I don't know.

[lfm]

Thanks.

I think the very max you can do to single CD is 80 minutes, and think the version I remember might be longer than what was on a single and would not fit on a single CD.

Mine is 5:13, and so says a single song download on amazon, and wiki says 5:12.

Would be interesting to know the length of those 8 takes done according to wiki.

The sound on this CD is according to vinyl about the rest of the songs. Last track is what was released on single originally, but that might vary as well as both songs and version could be different for us and europe etc.

So remastering would do the same to all of them, one would think.

I will look at releases with two CD-discs and see if I find something.

[lfm]

I don't remember the single. I recall my general impression that Slight Return was different sonically than its predecessor, edgy vs round guitar tone. The track Voodoo Chile had Jack Casady on bass which is a different sonic result as well, Winwood on organ... I've never had the CD which may feature mastering peculiarities vs the vinyl, I don't know.

Thanks.

You could be right, and I remember wrong.
But at the time, that I liked the playing better on single version- but now miss the smoother sounding as with Voodoo Chile and Rainy day etc.

It was a friend that had EL vinyl album back then, nude women cover, and listened not as often as if I had owned it.

Many singles were cut differently. I remember LP with Paint it black, stones and single were very much less dynamic on LP. Honky tonk women as well.

LP always had to save on dynamics, kind of.

[jancivil]

this is one of those albums I wore the grooves off of, badly

My mother bought it for me for Xmas 1969.

[cturner]

this is one of those albums I wore the grooves off of, badly. My mother bought it for me for Xmas 1969.

Nice to hear of other mothers who bought music at that time. I remember getting the first Cream album because my mom had read about them in Time magazine.

[jancivil]

I've told this too many times, but my mother went with me earlier that year to Hendrix's concert. She and I read the liner notes to EL together once I'd opened the present, with the poem that went ''Law and order', said the border guard...' and she was hipping me to metaphor so this is a very fond moment for me. Also, too she drove this kid I knew from 8th grade homeroom and me to see Easy Rider, an R picture. I mean we were in the 8th grade, 13 years old. But she must've read something 'redeeming social value' and as an oldschool liberal she was ok with this movie with teh sex and violence because of the message. Weird. She will have turned 100 this year.

[cturner]

Great stuff. Again, thanks for sharing.

My mom drive me and a couple of friends to Baltimore to see Hendrix in ‘68-69. Stopped for gas on the way back and pulled up next to their limo. Hendrix and Noel Redding were leaned against their trunk, having a smoke. I still marvel at how approachable musicians were in those days.

[PatchAdamz]

this is one of those albums I wore the grooves off of, badly

My mother bought it for me for Xmas 1969.

Nice Xmas gift!