The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland

I know it's exciting to have this I have a copy and it's great to look at the cover the blue text the dead wax and all but truth be told the sound is not good very tinny most of the bass is none existent except for voodoo chile where Jack Cassidy comes through. lots of surface noise but it's a wonderful collectors item to have

Saw this as an unofficial picture disc relese, still sealed. Anyone know about this?

Can somebody help me identify my version? It is gatefold 2RS6307 with tan labels and memorial inner sleeves (Big picture of Hendrix with birth and death dates). Printed in USA. Looks like it's from early 70s but I can't find a match in these listings.

Can someone please help me work out which version of the album I have?

The matrix numbers are:

61300##8 A//1 1E5
613008 BV2 420 123
613009 AV2 420 11 6
613009 B//2 420 116

The trailing numbers are a bit hard to read, but did my best to get them right.

The cover has the white text.

Thanks, Robert

There seems to be a few different etching variations between the hand-corrected matrix numbers for this release. Does anyone know if these can be used to calculate a records pressing history? Or are they just pretty random? I'm guessing it's the later but any info would be great.Thanks
PS Another strange thing about the correcting of matrix numbers on this is why the 'A' side was corrected..? There was no need, as the matrix would remain the same even when auto-coupled- yet I've seen variations of these etchings too- signifying that it must of been done several times..odd.

on Ebay right now is a strictly limited 6 album box set version of this great lp. the albums are multi-coloured, gold etcetera, there is a 1 out of 10 sticker on the box, a poster and a 7inch ep-I think- with it. current price is 111, it ends this Friday, don't know anything about it........could be pure gold, or just another box set, either way, if interested, have a looksee........

Update ...I decided to go through all my stuff,looking for correct inners,lyrics etc..just going through them all,methodically.
So... I found the 109 inner,hiding inside a Moody Bllues album[DOFP]..
Only another couple of hundred to go then...
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Original message..
I have the version with all blue text,including the Track logo..and,Jimi on the left,.It has exactly the same details as shown,except for the inside cover..Is there a separate entry for this version?...RE. THIS..Something else,I have one 098 inner,but the other has the same patent numbers,but uses a darker blue print colour,and typeface..and is marked 44 109...so not correct(108),but pretty close..I'm surprised that even one of them is correct..yet the photo shows a variation from the release note..
"Discs in poly-lined white paper punch-hole sleeves. "Patent no 800513 & 973939" "Made in England 108"

I've been thinking about the blue text,and the fact that it's not solid..On further inspection, with the aid of a magnifier,it's clear that there is lettering underneath,that has been overprinted..please also consider that white,in the context of litho-printing,is not actually printed..it is,if you like, the base layer,the other colours added,and combined,with varying transparency,to produce the final,correct colours..so,a mystery?..If it had been intended for that area to be blue,it would have been..I can't believe they would have added another layer (print run)of the cyan..with random lettering on..and the small areas that it is possible to make out bits of letters(through the final text),there seems to be a similarity in both typefaces..hmm?..This could be something to do with labelling being changed, after the decision to decouple/alter the tracklisting..the cyan would have been printed,leaving white lettering,as per the lighter areas,including the track logo..then subsequent printing has added a further layer of cyan(blue),but only one layer over the paler sections through the main text..so it suggests to me,that Jimi would have been on the left..as obviously,"both" sets of text are on the right...all a bit of a theory..if you have copy,blue,mottled text..check it out..one more thing,referring to the track-listing changes...Side A.is a single colour..not mottled..it would have been the only side that would have been unaffected by the changes?While all the other text is mottled on the subsequent listing...where the text had been altered?...Nah..thinking about it,the tracklisting is the same..it's just the order on the discs etc...and peering at it again,I'm now not at all sure about the typefaces etc..again....the paler lines aren't always straight,whereas text usually is?..I think its overprinted the cyan part of a picture...

After posting the above,I have found this article which..explains, far better than my rather convoluted guesswork..a great deal, regarding the "myths" etc...

http://recordmecca.com/news/jimi-hendrixs-electric-ladyland-exposing-the-blue-type-hype/

great record

My favourite album of all time, easily the best from Hendrix, this album is a beautifully constructed masterpiece. Whilst credited to the Experience, there are some other important collaborators, notably Stevie Winwood and Jack Cassidy (Jefferson Airplane) playing on "Voodoo Chile", the amazing climax to the A-Side, which is one of Jimi's greatest works. The B-Side is a more familiar format, with five shorter tunes that would not have been out of place on either of the first two albums; the production is amazing, there are no filler tunes (He even turns Noel Redding's psychedelic poptune, Little Miss Strange, into a classic). Again, you can't pigeon hole Hendrix; there's elements of psychedelia, soul, blues, funk, rock and roll, and jazz. Side C was his most experimental work. I spent many an hour in my friend's, parent's, dark, smoky basement listening to this - what a trip. How can you categorise this? This side of vinyl is far more beautiful than any other experimental, psychedelic music and way before it's time (Parts of this would appeal to modern fans of contemporary down-tempo electronica). The final side opens with a reprise of "Rainy Day" before returning to the more familiar format of "House Burning Down" and ending with two of his most powerful, enduring tunes. Hendrix was a genius, not just for what he could do with a guitar, but for the music in his mind. Who knows what he would have gone on to achieve in the studio, had his life not been so tragically cut short.

Description of the history of UK covers is wrong, according to Jeff Gold http://recordmecca.com/news/jimi-hendrixs-electric-ladyland-final-word-first-pressings-blue-type-hype/
His evidence includes Hendrix's own copy, which Gold possesses, and the original proofs owned by the sleeve designer... Pretty compelling. The small photos and white print came first ("version 4" here), then large with blue text, then back to white text.
For what it's worth, my copy of "version 4" comes in 108 inner sleeves