Purple Haze / 51st Anniversary

by The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Purple Haze / 51st Anniversary cover art
  • Type: Single
  • Released: 17 March 1967
  • Label: Track
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 5:59
  • Community rating: 4.41/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: The Breakaways, Eddie Kramer, Mitch Mitchell, Jack Casady, Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Opening with the famously dissonant 'Devil's interval' tritone chord, 'Purple Haze' essentially rewrote the rules of electric guitar playing. Producer Chas Chandler heavily utilized an Octavia effects pedal, developed by Roger Mayer, to double the guitar frequency into upper octaves. The song's mind-bending solo and hallucinogenic lyrical imagery cemented Hendrix as the absolute vanguard of the psychedelic rock movement.

Genres

Descriptors: drugs

Tracklist

  1. Purple Haze (2:44)
  2. 51st Anniversary (3:15)

Credits

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