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
Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix Gypsy Suns and Rainbows and the Cry of Love touring band. No songs from the "Band of Gypsys" lineup with Buddy Miles are included. In a review for AllMusic, Bruce Eder calls it the near "perfect single-CD Jimi Hendrix anthology". He notes that includes some of Hendrix's noteworthy later work, but lacks a couple of songs from his earlier "Smash Hits" compilation. The album reached number 18 in the UK and number 133 in the US. In 2006, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified it as "gold" for selling over 500,000 copies. The titles and running times are