Uh....questionable is right in one case. One of the discs "Rock Guitar" is a fake, with no Hendrix involvement whatsoever.
As for the rest, it is mostly recordings made when Hendrix was living in New York, playing as a sideman. This material (mostly with 60s R & B artist Curtis Knight) includes lotsa covers, and the original material (in my opinion) is pretty much standard R & B from the early 60s.
Even so, for those of you who want to hear Jimi when he was just one of many starving nobody guitarists in the New York area in the early 60s, here is your chance to hear the really early guitar stylings of the greatest rock guitarist who ever lived.
Here is the dirt on this set, from the Hendrix Bootleg site "In From The Storm":
Jimi Hendrix: 10 LP Kasette (Music Distributor Q10-50 082 / NA / W.Ger / 10LP Box)
(Curtis Knight material 1965-67 / Lonnie Youngblood material, Abtone Studios, New York City, NY 1966 [incl. Fake tracks with No Hendrix involvement] / Scene Club, New York City, NY 18.03.68 [Jam with
Jim Morrison a.o.])
notes:
- Box-set Reissue of 10 previously individually released albums: "Last Night" (Astan 201 016), "My Best Friend" (Astan 201 017), "Second time around" (Astan 201 018), "Mr.Pitiful" (Astan 201 019), "Welcome Home" (Astan 201 020), "Hush Now" (Astan 201 021), "Roots of Hendrix" (Musidisc 30 CV 1315), "The Genius of Jimi Hendrix" (Musidisc 30 CV 1331), "Rock Guitar" [Fake tracks with no Hendrix involvement] (Musidisc 30 CV 1337) and "Collection - or: Super Hendrix" (Musidisc 30 CO 1354).
http://home.online.no/~hpjohnse/hendrixoff.html
Nice post! I am a collector of Hendrix stuff, so even though I truly do not care much for his early stuff, I think it is still worth having.