The Jimi Hendrix Experience I went to see him play, I thought that was it, the game was up for all of us, we may as well pack it in." The group came to prominence in the US after the June 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, one of the first major rock music festivals. The band's performance ended with Hendrix famously setting his psychedelically painted Fender Stratocaster on fire. After the festival they toured with the Monkees, but left the tour two weeks later, reportedly due to lack of audience response. With the Experience, Hendrix recorded several hit singles, such as "Hey Joe", "Purple Haze",
Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix Collection performances." In a three-star review, AllMusic's Lindsay Planer wrote that considering the difficulty in curating a compilation of Hendrix's music, "Voodoo Child"s exceptional song selection and sound quality made it successful as "a thumbnail sketch of Hendrix in both a studio and concert environment ... a great touchstone for anyone wishing to begin their Jimi Hendrix experience". "Rolling Stone" journalists Paul Evans and Nathan Brackett gave the album four out of five stars in "The Rolling Stone Album Guide" (2004), as did Colin Larkin in "The Encyclopedia of Popular Music" (2011). All songs written and composed by Jimi Hendrix, except