Jimi Hendrix's Sister Releasing 'Amazing Amount' of Unheard Material
- Posted on Sep 22nd 2009 10:00AM by John D. Luerssen
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It looks like Tupac Shakur might not be the king of posthumous releases anymore. Jimi Hendrix fans will be pleased to learn that there is still plenty of unreleased music and video to come from the guitarist's short recording career. Hendrix's sister Janie announced Monday that she plans to release new material every 12 to 18 months for the next 10 years.Janie, who is the President and CEO of Experience Hendrix and Authentic Hendrix -- the two companies that oversee the legendary rocker's legacy -- broke the news to instrument manufacturer Gibson in an interview announcing plans for a new line of Hendrix guitars. "We probably have another decade of music, including video. Every 12 to 18 months we'll continue to have new releases and Dagger [Experience Hendrix's label for live recordings] official bootlegs," she said.
"Jimi was a workaholic," she explained. "After Electric Lady Studios was built he was able to record constantly for as many hours as he wanted to. It's almost as if he knew he had only four years to accomplish everything that he did. We have an amazing amount of original masters, including a lot of material that hasn't been previously released."
Hendrix says that tapes containing the unreleased material are currently being preserved in two separate locations in the "We keep them in a temperature-controlled vault," Janie added. "We have a s et of everything in Los Angeles and a set in New York in the event of something catastrophic happening. We have duplicates of everything."
Despite Jimi's affinity for and association with Fender Stratocasters, Janie promises "a whole line of Jimi-inspired instruments" coming from Gibson.





Reader Comments(1 of 2)
Garyat 9-22-2009
HOW ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL!!! What more can anyone possibly say?
Tina Elswickat 9-22-2009
Thank you Janie....Thank you soooo much...Weve waited so long.
Terryat 9-22-2009
I can only imagine the enormous price gibson will attach to those guitars.ouch!
Chimaat 9-22-2009
I never tire of Jimi. I think I'l put my Jimi playlist on the iPod on loop for a while. Will be interesting to see what Gibson comes up with. I've only seen one photo of Jimi playing a Gibson...a psychedelic Flying "V" if I recall.
michael raifaisenat 1-22-2010
Chima, check out the DVD from Isle of Wight and Rainbow Bridge, he plays that guitar in both of these movies.
Really great stuff, Red House & First Rays of the New Rising Sun
hello marcat 9-22-2009
Interested to see the Gibson line of instruments! ought to be pretty cool
Pepelaputrat 9-22-2009
Hours and hours of Hendrix just noodling around on his guitar doesn't constitute finished product. Wasn't one of his last "albums" just a lot of basic tracks where someone else came in and added other instrumentation? It's too late to get his old backing group together for authenticity.
Garyat 9-22-2009
Pepelaputr: You're quite right it's too late, they're all gone now. Noel Redding died in 2003. Mitch Mitchell in 2008. R.I.P. to all of them!
GuitarMaxat 9-22-2009
Great news!! Most of the music today SUCKS!! There never was and never will be another of Jimi's caliber.
Please get out as much as you can before we're gone too!
MoJoat 9-22-2009
If she handles this anything like the 'Jimi Hendrix' tribute concerts she produced a few years back . WATCH OUT don't get ripped off . While these concerts had stellar talent at them , they were so BADLY produced ; they sucked . I was amazed how bad these were .
jamdamat 9-22-2009
Janie is a piece of crap. She's his step sister and obtained the rights when his dad was dying and she forced him to sign them over. She does not give a crap about Jimi, she's all about the benjamins!!!!!
Kelly Perkinsat 9-22-2009
Neil Young once said in an interview..."There isn't anyone even in the same building as Jimi..."
M. Kruegerat 9-22-2009
Hendrix made the Stratocaster famous. Now, 40 years after his death, Gibson is going introduce a whole line of Hendrix inspired instruments? Sure, he owned a few Flying V's during his lifetime, but this is a trivial footnote in his story.
What will be next, a Jimi Hendrix line of Wurlitzer pianos? Why not? There is s photo of him playing the piano on the inside cover of "Electric Ladyland", isn't there?
endsngat 9-22-2009
jimi gave us rainbows, janis took a piece of our heart. if there's a rock and roll Heaven, you know there's gonna be one heck of a band - with sid on bass.
Duaneat 9-22-2009
Don't get too excited. I've heard pretty much everything released to date and the bottom line is that the "good stuff" was all released years ago. All that is left are countless live shows with all of the same songs that have been released in countless "live" recordings already... and as a previous poster said, hours and hours of unfinished studio jams and "guitar noodling" without a full band or any vocals. There simply aren't going to be ANY finished songs that would be worth a flip still in the vaults.
John Barleycornat 9-22-2009
Hey endsng,
Sid on bass? Sid who? Should be John E. Of The Who. Best there ever was or will be.
jdat 9-22-2009
wonder how good the unreleased recordings are. Mosty live, I would guess? There were alot of Hendrix posthumous releases in the 70s. I would have thought they long ago cleaned out the vault.
Janeat 9-22-2009
anything by Jimi will be of interest to me to listen to. as good as his old stuff was? doubt it; don't think she knows jack about production value nor is going to learn anytime soon... as someone else on the board previously noted the last one wasn't that special. still; can listen to his old stuff and be moved to tears with someof it. loved him, always will. and yeah, will ike as not buy the stuff... sad though -blasphemous really!- that the 'real' loc of Electric Lady on 8th St in NYC was trurned after being empty for a long time into a damn coffee shop. was SHE the one who allowed that?
mark goscilaat 9-22-2009
I hear Jimi once rode in a Volkswagon. Does that mean Volkswagon is going to come out with a Jimi-Bug? C'mon! He played Strats almost exclusively. At least get Fender in on the deal.
durdwoodat 9-24-2009
even if she makes money even if it is crap what if it inspires someone enough to take us to the next level in music