* * JIMI HENDRIX: RAINY DAY, DREAM AWAY UNPLAYED MINT GREEN VINYL 45/PIC SLEEVE
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ONLY 1000! JIMI HENDRIX colored vinyl 45!
RAINY DAY, DREAM AWAY/STILL RAINING, STILL DREAMING (Experience Hendrix 1007 #EH-17/18 limited edition 1st pressing GREEN vinyl with PICTURE SLEEVE, 2005): UNPLAYED MINT.
An unusual release, which essentially splits an album cut for the two sides of this single. When he issued Electric Ladyland in the summer of '68, Jimi was no longer interested in conforming to the structure of the music business. He was working in his own studio, so that he could produce the music he heard in his head, not some prefab rock 'n' roll or R&B/blues sound conforming to industry "standards". Rainy Day (and several of his other jazz-influenced songs) illustrate his utter contempt for the dictates of pop music. And it's a masterpiece.
So when people speculate about what he would have done had he lived past 1970, it's probably not what anybody thinks. Band Of Gypsys was a radical departure from The Experience (and not well received at the time), and Jimi would have found new ground to break and old rules to smash.
This special edition 45 was issued in the Jimi Hendrix Classic Singles Collection in 2005, and is otherwise unavailable. The black vinyl series of ten was a limited pressing in '98, but the colored vinyls, like this one, are insanely scarce; there were only 1000 sets produced. The ten singles weren't individually numbered on the labels; we take the numbers from the trail-out matrix. These are small-hole 45s; the yellow "insert" you see in the center is, in reality, printed onto the label. This record is fully authorized by Jimi's family; it's not a fake or repro, and is UNPLAYED MINT. These singles are seldom offered for individual sale. Only 1000 collectors can ever hope to own these rarest-of-the-rare Jimi Hendrix colored vinyl 45s; good luck finding anybody else offering them outside the box set...One only...don't miss it!
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