Stone Free: Tribute to Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix, Various Artists - Rock | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 9, 1993)
• Original Release Date: November 9, 1993
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Reprise / Wea
• ASIN: B000002MNC
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #77,360 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Purple Haze

2. Stone Free

3. Spanish Castle Magic

4. Red House

5. Hey Joe

6. Manic Depression

7. Fire

8. Bold as Love

9. You Got Me Floatin'

10. I Don't Live Today

11. Are You Experienced?

12. Crosstown Traffic

13. Third Stone from the Sun

14. Hey Baby (Land of the New Rising Sun)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Clear a space in your CD case for this one!, May 9, 2000

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[e-mail] (Bear Valley, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stone Free: Tribute to Jimi Hendrix (Audio CD)

Move on over, let P.M. Dawn, Beck/Seal, the Cure, Body Count, Buddy Guy et al., take over. An eclectic tribute album of Hendrix's greatest tunes featuring rockers, rappers and R&B artists. The Cure's cover of "Purple Haze" or Body Count's "Hey Joe" or P.M. Dawn's "You Got me Floatin' is worth the purchase price alone. Even if you didn't grow up with Henrix as a staple diet for your rock n roll body, this offering is a fourteen course meal of his musical buffet. One is left with the feeling that this collaborative group of muscians, aside from their own creative interpretative presentations, have given great reverence to a man and his music that has enormous staying power. Two thumbs and eight fingers up!

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Its a Hendrix Tribute, not a Hendrix record., November 10, 2005

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xodiaq "opinionated." (Ashburn, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stone Free: Tribute to Jimi Hendrix (Audio CD)

There are more Hendrix fans buying this almost expecting Jimi to be channelling his spirit from the other side through these musicians. This is not a seance, its a tribute album. If you're looking to hear Hendrix play, put in an Experience disc, or Band of Gypsies, or one of the hundreds of bootlegs that have been released by now..

If you are in the mood to hear Hendrix's work show why it was so good, and how it lives up to different interpretations, 12 years later, this disc is still one of the best you can put in, and in my opinion, it stands up to Hendrix's own work itself.

There are two tracks that surpass the originals by leaps and bounds. PM Dawn's "Got me Floatin'" takes a filler track and makes it completely unique and soulful, and MACC (Really just Temple of the Dog) covering "Hey Baby (Land of The New Rising Sun)". These two tracks make this disc worth buying if nothing else.

The Cure revitalize "Purple Haze" giving a trippy, Gothed-out rendition that shows how versatile a song Hendrix really wrote, Living Colour give "Crosstown Traffic" a genuine feel without just carbon copying the original, and Pat Metheney's "Third Stone From The Sun" and Nigel Kennedy's "Fire" give a pretty good idea of areas Hendrix may have gone himself with his music had he not died so young.

There are some surprising deadweight songs, such as Buddy Guy's version of "Red House" and Clapton's dry version of "Stone Free" almost make you wonder if Hendrix wrote those songs FOR those guys to play, because theres nowhere for them to go inside those songs, except where Jimi had already been. Personally, I found the Spin Doctors "Spanish Castle Magic" and Jeff Beck and Seal's "Manic Depression" to be Hendrix impressions more than innovative covers, but are enjoyable tracks nonetheless, and while on any other day of the week I loathe Chrissy Hynde and the Pretenders for their absolutely charisma-less style of Rock, their version of "Bold as Love" is actually more visual and evocative than the original, although not better, I would call that track a tie.

Overall, the reviews here give this album a bum rap. If you can find it in you to skip two legends like Guy and Clapton, and you aren't looking to hear Jimi playing these songs, but would like to hear some damn good tracks, buy this disc. It holds up, just like Hendrix.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Jimi's Tribute CD, August 31, 2002

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El Basso (Lincoln, NE USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stone Free: Tribute to Jimi Hendrix (Audio CD)

Stone Free is as good of a tribute recording as you will find. You can take any style of music and change it's genre to make a new sound but this CD was able to keep the vibe and make it fresh. All the performers were able to put their mark into the heart of each song. When I first heard The Cure doing Purple Haze, I thought "this won't work" but now I find it has all the colors and textures that Jimi was famous for. Jimi was always the first to explore new ways to get the "Love" into his music so it would be appropriate to let these artist do the same. Buddy Guy just belts out Red House, Clapton nails Stone Free just as the rest give their all to create a total package. I can listen to this entire CD and not want to stop. Jimi would play music with everyone he could so he could keep creating new ideas and in many ways that is what he has done here. I can imagine all these great musicians working with him and coming up with this experience. Jaco, Beck, Chrissie, Buddy and Jimi all jam'n up good times sure works for me.