The Private Lives of Liza Minnelli (The Rainbow Ends Here) The final studio album ever recorded by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and their only one to top the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, Electric Ladyland saw Hendrix moving light years beyond his two previous works, Are You Experienced? and Axis: Bold as Love, both of which had been released in 1967. No one knew it at the time, but the new tracks Hendrix was referring to - which he, bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell had been working on intermittently since the previous summer - would form the nucleus of Electric Ladyland, the sprawling double album that would finally see the light of day October 16th, 1968. You want to hurry up and get back to the things you were doing in the studio, because that’s the way you gear your mind….We wanted to play, quite naturally, but you’re thinking about all these tracks, which is completely different from what you’re doing now.” “We’ve been doing new tracks that are really fantastic and we’ve just been getting into them,” Jimi Hendrix told Rolling Stone in February 1968, right after he and the Experience had played San Francisco’s Fillmore West.