Talent & Feeling Volume 2


Well after listening to Vol.1 of this set, you'd better turn your treble back down. Talent & Feeling Vol.2 is much brighter than Vol.1, and features more tracks that appeared in heavily butchered form on the Crash Landing album. More studio jams and outtakes, like the first volume in this set. Trying To Be Jam, actually starts out with the intro from Machine Gun, before going into what would evolve over time into Stepping Stone. Crash Landing sounds like the original take, before editing and inclusion on the album of the same name. Drifters Escape, the Bob Dylan track, is an alternate mix from previous official releases, with the guitar mixed more up front. A great rocker, but the bass on the stereo needs to be turned up a bit for it. Power Of Soul is another unedited Crash Landing original I beleive. Highway Of Desire, is an early Ezy Rider, and appeared on the Message From Nine To The Universe ROIO. More original Crash Landing takes follow, and listening to them you realize how much soul can be lost in a song when it's assembled and edited by a producer by the name of Alan Douglas, who doesn't have a clue what Jimi's music meant. Damn, I gotta quit bitching on Alan Douglas in these reviews, or start an I Hate Alan Douglas web page :)

Quality on this is very good, and the treble problem that affected Vol.1 is fixed here. My copy is a CD-R, and is missing one track that appears on the original. Cherokee Mist appears as track 11 on the original, but has been removed to make it fit on a regular CD-R. This track is available on other releases, on the Electric Anniversary Jimi CD if I'm not mistaken.

Catalog #: GEMA EXR-22