Jimi Hendrix Jimmy James and the Blue Flames, Keith recommended him to Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham and producer Seymour Stein. They failed to see Hendrix's musical potential, and rejected him. She then referred him to Chas Chandler, who was leaving the Animals and interested in managing and producing artists. Chandler saw the then-unknown Jimi Hendrix play in Cafe Wha?, a Greenwich Village, New York City nightclub. Chandler liked the Billy Roberts song "Hey Joe", and was convinced he could create a hit single with the right artist. Impressed with Hendrix's version of the song, he brought him to London on September
Smash Hits (The Jimi Hendrix Experience album) found on the UK version of "Are You Experienced". "Smash Hits" has been reissued several times on CD, including one paring in 1999 with the "Live at Woodstock" DVD by MCA Records. "Smash Hits" peaked at numbers four and six in the UK and US respectively. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified it as 5× Multi Platinum and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) ceritifed it as Gold. Smash Hits (The Jimi Hendrix Experience album) Smash Hits is a compilation album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Track Records first issued it on April 12, 1968, in the UK and