New Jimi Hendrix Song, 'Valleys of Neptune,' to Premiere on Spinner

At one time I had Cry of Love on CD. For some reason the CD skipped really bad. I mistaked the skipping for a damaged CD as opposed to a damaged player. So I returned the disc. Too bad! The original songs were great and the recordings were evidence of Jimi's new direction. First Rays of the New Rising Sun contains all those songs and a few more. The newly released songs will surely be of the same caliber. Wouldn't it be wonderful if some unreleased Beatles recordings could pop up every so often as these Hendrix ones do!

Looking for a little Hendrix info. My understanding has always been that Band Of Gypsies existed primarily as a means for Hendrix to fulfill a contractual obligation he had made prior to signing with Chas Chandler, which is why he was fine releasing an album that was half Buddy Miles. That he had no real intention of carrying on with that group (which only existed less than a month, while Mitchel and Redding were on holiday in Britain) and that he preferred playing with a drummer like Mitch Mitchel who was capable of "challenging" him to some degree-- or at least keeping up with him. Redding, on the other hand, clearly didn't get along with Hendrix and was on his way out. Admittedly, I've only read one Hendrix biography and may not have all the facts. Any info anyone could supply would be most appreciated.

I really hope that there will be some new footage of the great man this year. Cos im crying out for it as is every other Hendrix fan.

Great to hear about the "new" Hendrix cd but like some of the others have said I thought I heard it all when I bought Rainbow Bridge, War Heroes, In the West, Crash Landing, Voodoo Soup, etc. in the 70s and 80s. Hope it'll surprise me. rock on

[...]The first of these tracks, 'Valley of Neptune,' will be initially released on Jan. 28 exclusively on Spinner, to be followed by a worldwide release on Feb. 2.[...]

So where on Spinner do we find this track?
It really is the 28th of January today....

Hendrix is a ""master" in esential,your new release is a treasure for the new decade!!!!

i have to dig into my collection. somewhere i have a cd with valleys of neptune, sending my love to linda, cherokee mist on it.some of the extended jams actually turned into songs from band of gypsys LP live at the filmore east.so i dont believe that this is unreleased material, as some are sayin. will verify tommorrow with facts!!! keep on pushin, straight ahead!!!

If Eddie Kramer's name is on this, I believe it will be worhwhile. As he is an individual with artistic integrity.

Oh what he would've been if he had lived to be an old man. We were really robbed and will never know.

Well Jeff you may or may not remember, but are aware that the last time an actual full "album" now available on CD, came out was the in the 70's with Crash Landing. Which was great. Supposedly it was some of the tracks he was working on before he passed, and some that he had just skipped over in favor of other songs. The opening song "Message to Love" makes sense to me now that I have the full set performance from Woodstock on Blu-Ray, as he opened Woodstock with "Message to Love". Then there was an alternate recording of "Stone Free", and a great ending song "Captain Coconut" which reminds me of the song "Are You Experienced" although it's an instrumental, you forget that as you listen to all the backwards echo and over phase shifted guitar. I believe Eddie Kramer and Mitch Mitchell helped transfer and mix it from the original board recording to a tangible album. It sounds like that's what we got here. They may have been sitting on it, or it may have been a 7 inch reel hiding amongst others in his estate collection which his sister and Eddie Kramer have dutifully kept alive, and in turn kept Jimi's Music alive. After that whopper of a box set, they may have come across it and said, lets put this aside for another project, and here we are. Awaiting it's release. I'm psyched. I know it's hard to believe all this material came from a 4-5 year period, but in interviews on these Blu Rays they talk about how he constantly was writing songs, and on tour buses or planes or layovers at hotels, there he was with his composition book scribbling away. What with construction of Ladyland finished, he spent hours and overnights sometimes recording like he knew he didn't have much time. Who knows? I know what you mean by over the years there have been some crappy releases out there, but I think the family estate, put an end to that probably through lawsuits. This past year I acquired 3 quality DVD's 2 of them Blu Ray, which is just primo. I think whatever they got, we won't be disappointed.