Editing Jimi Hendrix (section)

== Unauthorized and posthumous releases ==
By 1967, as Hendrix was gaining in popularity, many of his pre-Experience recordings were marketed to an unsuspecting public as Jimi Hendrix albums, sometimes with misleading later images of Hendrix.{{sfn|McDermott|2009|p=80}} The recordings, which came under the control of producer Ed Chalpin of [[PPX Enterprises|PPX]], with whom Hendrix had signed a recording contract in 1965, were often re-mixed between their repeated reissues, and licensed to record companies such as [[Decca Records|Decca]] and Capitol.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/a-shoddy-jimi-hendrix-record-199216/|title=A Shoddy Jimi Hendrix Record?|last=Lydon|first=Michael|date=January 20, 1968|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200216053645/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/a-shoddy-jimi-hendrix-record-199216/|archive-date=February 16, 2020|access-date=February 16, 2020}}</ref>{{sfn|Shadwick|2003|pp=65–71}} Hendrix publicly denounced the releases, describing them as "malicious" and "greatly inferior", stating: "At PPX, we spent on average about one hour recording a song. Today I spend at least twelve hours on each song."<ref>{{harvnb|McDermott|2009|p=80}}: "malicious" and "greatly inferior"; {{harvnb|Shapiro|Glebbeek|1995|p=291}}.</ref> These unauthorized releases have long constituted a substantial part of his recording catalogue, amounting to hundreds of albums.<ref>{{harvnb|McDermott|2009|p=17}}; {{harvnb|Shapiro|Glebbeek|1995|pp=567–583}}.</ref>

Some of Hendrix's [[Jimi Hendrix's unfinished fourth studio album|unfinished fourth studio album]] was released as the 1971 title ''The Cry of Love''.{{sfn|Moskowitz|2010|pp=86–90}} Although the album reached number three in the US and number two in the UK, producers Mitchell and Kramer later complained that they were unable to make use of all the available songs because some tracks were used for 1971's ''[[Rainbow Bridge (album)|Rainbow Bridge]]''; still others were issued on 1972's ''[[War Heroes]]''.<ref>{{harvnb|Heatley|2009|pp=142–143}}; {{harvnb|Moskowitz|2010|pp=86–90}}.</ref> Material from ''The Cry of Love'' was re-released in 1997 as ''[[First Rays of the New Rising Sun]]'', along with the other tracks that Mitchell and Kramer had wanted to include.{{sfn|Moskowitz|2010|pp=116–117}}{{refn|group=nb|Two of Hendrix's final recordings included the lead guitar parts on "Old Times Good Times" from [[Stephen Stills]]' [[Stephen Stills (album)|eponymous album]] (1970) and on "The Everlasting First" from [[Arthur Lee (musician)|Arthur Lee]]'s new incarnation of [[Love (band)|Love]]. Both tracks were recorded during a brief visit to London in March 1970, following Kathy Etchingham's marriage.<ref>{{harvnb|Doggett|2004|p=156}}: Working with Lee on "The Everlasting First"; {{harvnb|Doggett|2004|p=159}}: Working with Stills on "Old Times Good Times"; {{harvnb|Shapiro|Glebbeek|1995|p=420}}: General detail.</ref>}} Four years after Hendrix's death, producer [[Alan Douglas (record producer)|Alan Douglas]] acquired the rights to produce unreleased music by Hendrix; he attracted criticism for using studio musicians to replace or add tracks.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-alan-douglas-20140613-story.html|title=Alan Douglas, associated with Jimi Hendrix's later success, dies at 82|last=Chawkins|first=Steve|newspaper=LA Times|date=June 15, 2014|access-date=February 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200222131432/https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-alan-douglas-20140613-story.html|archive-date=February 22, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1993, [[MCA Records]] delayed a multimillion-dollar sale of Hendrix's publishing copyrights because Al Hendrix was unhappy about the arrangement.<ref name="Sale of MCA catalogue" /> He acknowledged that he had sold distribution rights to a foreign corporation in 1974, but stated that it did not include copyrights and argued that he had retained veto power of the sale of the catalogue.<ref name="Sale of MCA catalogue">{{cite news|last=Philips|first=Chuck|title=Hendrix Sale: A Hazy Experience : Contracts: MCA Music Entertainment Group delays a multimillion-dollar purchase of guitarist's recording and publishing copyrights after the late rock star's father protests the sale. 'I think it's a total rip-off.'|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-04-08-ca-20656-story.html|access-date=September 14, 2013|newspaper=LA Times|date=April 8, 1993|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029213409/http://articles.latimes.com/1993-04-08/entertainment/ca-20656_1_jimi-hendrix|archive-date=October 29, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> Under a settlement reached in July 1995, Al Hendrix regained control of his son's song and image rights.<ref name="Al Hendrix prevails in copyright struggle">{{cite news|last=Philips|first=Chuck|title=Father to Get Hendrix Song, Image Rights|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-07-26-ca-27887-story.html|access-date=September 14, 2013|newspaper=LA times|date=July 26, 1995|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131024090541/http://articles.latimes.com/1995-07-26/entertainment/ca-27887_1_jimi-hendrix|archive-date=October 24, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> He subsequently licensed the recordings to MCA through the family-run company Experience Hendrix LLC, formed in 1995.{{sfn|Moskowitz|2010|pp=128–130}} In August 2009, Experience Hendrix announced that it had entered a new licensing agreement with [[Sony Music Entertainment]]'s [[Legacy Recordings]] division, to take effect in 2010.{{sfn|Moskowitz|2010|p=127}} Legacy and Experience Hendrix launched the 2010 Jimi Hendrix Catalog Project starting with the release of ''[[Valleys of Neptune]]'' in March of that year.{{sfn|Moskowitz|2010|pp=120–124}} In the months before his death, Hendrix recorded demos for a concept album tentatively titled ''[[Black Gold (Jimi Hendrix recordings)|Black Gold]]'', now in the possession of Experience Hendrix LLC, but it has not been released.{{sfn|Shadwick|2003|p=222}}{{refn|group=nb|Many of Hendrix's personal items, tapes, and many pages of lyrics and poems are now in the hands of private collectors and have attracted considerable sums at occasional auctions. These materials surfaced after two employees, under the instructions of Mike Jeffery, removed items from Hendrix's Greenwich Village apartment following his death.{{sfn|Shapiro|Glebbeek|1995|p=477}}}}