Are You Experienced?, the album, was released on Track Records on May 12, 1967. It spent 33 weeks on the British Top 40 (Music Week).It peaked at Number 2. AYE? could not budge The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper from the #1 spot.

“I’ve been working with myself and my ideas for 21 years. Now I want to find out from everyone else if they are any good.” (interview in New Music Express, January 28, 1967) [he was really 24.]

“Haha. Now I’m not stupid Jimi anymore but Mr. Hendrix.”-  (interview, Munich, May 16 1967) 

Are You Experienced? was recorded in sixteen sessions over a period of five months between October 23, 1966 and April 4, 1967.

Original track listings-

Foxy Lady- Recorded December 12, 1966
a straightforward (for Jimi) sexual rocker. "Here I come baby... comin' ta GITCHA!" 

Manic Depression- Recorded March 1967
a song of confusion and searching- “I know what I want, but I just don’t know how to go about getting it. It's also the hardest-rocking song ever written in waltz time.

Red House- Recorded December 13, 1966
Hendrix's own blues classic, he takes the basic 12-bar blues structure to the limit.

Can You See Me? - Recorded November or December 1966

Love or Confusion- Basic tracks recorded Nov. 1966

I Don’t Live Today- Recorded February 1967
This was Jimi’s first recording with a wah-wah effect.

May This Be Love- Recorded April 3, 1967
“…album filler…”, Mitch Mitchell

Fire- Recorded Feb. 3, 1967

3rd Stone From The Sun- Basic tracks recorded December 13, 1966

Remember- Recorded February 1967

Are You Experienced? - Recorded February 1967
Are You Experienced? features backward and forward drums and guitars. 

Released in the USA August 23, 1967, Are You Experienced? spent one hundred six weeks on the Billboard album charts, including seventy-seven weeks in the Top Forty. In America, Are You Experienced? peaked at Number 5.