Recording details

All recording details are included in the Valleys of Neptune booklet, except for the Target tracks, which are listed on the inside of the Digipack behind the CD.

No.	Track	Date(s)	Studio(s)	Details	Ref(s).
1	"Stone Free"	April 7, 1969	Record Plant Studios Record Plant Studios The Record Plant was a series of three famous recording studios which were founded by Gary Kellgren and Chris Stone, beginning in New York City in 1968. The next year, Kellgren and Stone opened a second studio in Los Angeles. In 1972, the company expanded again with a third location in Sausalito,... , New York City, New York	Master recording
		April 9, 1969		Guitar and vocal overdubs
		April 14, 1969		Guitar and vocal overdubs
		May 17, 1969		Additional recording	—
2	"Valleys of Neptune"	September 23, 1969	Record Plant Studios, New York City, New York	Master recording
		May 15, 1970		Additional recording
3	"Bleeding Heart"	April 24, 1969	Record Plant Studios, New York City, New York	All recording
4	"Hear My Train a Comin'"	April 7, 1969	Record Plant Studios, New York City, New York	All recording
5	"Mr. Bad Luck"	May 5, 1967	Olympic Studios Olympic Studios Olympic Studios was a renowned independent commercial recording studio located at 117 Church Road, Barnes, South West London, England. The studio is best known for the huge number of famous rock and pop recordings made there from the late 1960s onward.... , London, England	All original recording	—
		June 5, 1987	Air Studios Associated Independent Recording Associated Independent Recording , an independent recording company, was founded in London in 1965 by Beatles producer George Martin and his partner John Burgess after their departure from EMI.... , London, England	Bass and drum overdubs
6	"Sunshine of Your Love"	February 16, 1969	Olympic Studios, London, England	All recording
7	"Lover Man"
8	"Ships Passing Through the Night"	April 14, 1969	Record Plant Studios, New York City, New York	All recording
9	"Fire"	February 17, 1969	Olympic Studios, London, England	All recording
10	"Red House"
11	"Lullaby for the Summer"	April 7, 1969	Record Plant Studios, New York City, New York	All recording
12	"Crying Blue Rain"	February 16, 1969	Olympic Studios, London, England	All recording
		June 5, 1987	Air Studios, London, England	Bass and drum overdubs	—

Target bonus tracks

No.	Track	Date	Studio	Details	Ref.
13	"Slow Version"	February 14, 1969	Olympic Studios, London, England	All recording	—
14	"Trash Man"	April 3, 1969	Olmstead Studios, New York City, New York	All recording	—

Album artwork

The album artwork is based on a painting by Hendrix himself in 1957. "He went through a phase doing watercolors at school and this was one of the 110 drawings of his that our father kept. When I saw this one he did in 1957, it screamed 'Valleys of Neptune' to me so we knew we'd use it for this project," said his step-sister, Janie. The album artwork is a mix of his painting and a Linda McCartney

Linda McCartney

Linda Louise McCartney, Lady McCartney was an American photographer, musician and animal rights activist. Her father and mother were Lee Eastman and Louise Sara Lindner Eastman....

 photograph of him with a blue tint.

Personnel

Primary musicians

• Jimi Hendrix
  Jimi Hendrix
  James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...
  
   – vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  , guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  s, production
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
   on all tracks except 5, front cover
  Album cover
  An album cover is the front of the packaging of a commercially released audio recording product, or album. The term can refer to either the printed cardboard covers typically used to package sets of 10" and 12" 78 rpm records, single and sets of 12" LPs, sets of 45 rpm records , or the front-facing...
  
   painting
  Painting
  Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
  
  
• Mitch Mitchell
  Mitch Mitchell
  John Ronald "Mitch" Mitchell was an English drummer, best known for his work in The Jimi Hendrix Experience.-Early life and the Jimi Hendrix Experience:...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
   on all tracks except 3
• Noel Redding
  Noel Redding
  Noel Redding was an English rock and roll guitarist best known as the bassist for The Jimi Hendrix Experience.-Biography:...
  
   – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
   on all tracks except 1, 2 and 3, backing vocals
  Backing vocalist
  A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
  
   on track 9
• Billy Cox
  Billy Cox
  William "Billy" Cox is an American bassist, best known for performing with Jimi Hendrix.-Early years:Born in Wheeling, West Virginia, Cox was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and attended Schenley High School. He first met Jimi Hendrix in the early 1960s, when they were both in the United States...
  
   – bass on tracks 1, 2 and 3

Additional musicians

• Rocki Dzidzornu – percussion on tracks 6 and 12
• Roger Chapman
  Roger Chapman
  Roger Chapman , also known as Roger "Chappo" Chapman and Chappo, is an English rock vocalist. He is best known as a member of the Progressive rock band Family, which he joined along with Charlie Whitney, in 1967 and also the rock, R&B band Streetwalkers formed in 1974...
  
   – backing vocals on track 1
• Andy Fairweather Low – backing vocals on track 1
• Juma Sultan
  Juma Sultan
  Juma Sultan is an American percussionist best known for his brief stint playing with rock legend Jimi Hendrix....
  
   – percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
   on track 2
• Rocky Isaac – drums on track 3
• Chris Grimes – tambourine
  Tambourine
  The tambourine or marine is a musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head at all....
  
   on track 3
• Al Marks – maracas on track 3

Original production personnel

• Eddie Kramer
  Eddie Kramer
  Edwin H. Kramer is an audio engineer and producer who has worked with, among others, Led Zeppelin, Triumph, Kiss , Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Spooky Tooth, Peter Frampton, Curtis Mayfield, Santana, Anthrax, Carly Simon, Loudness, and Robin Trower.-1960s:Eddie...
  
   – posthumous production, mixing
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
  In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...
  
  , engineering
  Audio engineering
  An audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...
  
   on tracks 1, 2, 5 and 14
• Chas Chandler
  Chas Chandler
  Bryan James "Chas" Chandler was an English musician, record producer and manager of several successful music acts....
  
   – production on track 5
• George Chkiantz
  George Chkiantz
  George Chkiantz is a recording engineer based in London who has been responsible for the engineering on a number of well-known albums, many of which are considered classics, owing in part to the high quality of the recordings....
  
   – engineering on tracks 6, 7, 9, 10, 12 and 13
• Gary Kellgren
  Gary Kellgren
  Gary Kellgren was an American audio engineer and co-founder of The Record Plant recording studios, along with businessman Chris Stone.-Engineering:...
  
   – engineering on tracks 1, 3 and 8
• Jack Adams – engineering on track 2

Posthumous production personnel

• Janie Hendrix – production
• John McDermott – production, essay
  Essay
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• Chandler Harrod – engineering assistance
• Rick Kwan – additional engineering
• Derik Lee – additional engineering
• Charlie Stavish – additional engineering
• Aaron Walk – additional engineering
• George Marino – mastering
  Audio mastering
  Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...
  
  

Graphic personnel

• Phil Yarnall – graphic design
  Graphic design
  Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...
  
  
• Linda McCartney
  Linda McCartney
  Linda Louise McCartney, Lady McCartney was an American photographer, musician and animal rights activist. Her father and mother were Lee Eastman and Louise Sara Lindner Eastman....
  
   – front cover photography
  Photography
  Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
  
  
• James Davenport – back cover photography, booklet photography
• Jerry Schatzberg – booklet photography
• Jonathan Stathakis – booklet photography
• Graham F. Page – booklet photography
• John Sullivan – booklet photography
• Ulvis Alberts – booklet photography
• Willis Hogan Jr. – booklet photography
• Peter Riches – booklet photography

Release details

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog	Ref.
Benelux Benelux The Benelux is an economic union in Western Europe comprising three neighbouring countries, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. These countries are located in northwestern Europe between France and Germany...	March 5, 2010	Sony Music Sony Music Entertainment Sony Music Entertainment ' is the second-largest global recorded music company of the "big four" record companies and is controlled by Sony Corporation of America, the United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation....	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...	886976405625
Germany
United Kingdom	March 8, 2010	Sony Music	CD	88697640562
France	March 8, 2010	Strategic Marketing	CD	—
United States	March 9, 2010	Legacy Recordings Legacy Recordings Legacy Recordings is Sony Music Entertainment's catalog division. It was founded in 1990 by CBS Records under the leadership of Jerry Shulman, Richard Bauer, Gary Pacheco and Amy Herot to handle reissues of recordings from the vast catalogues of Columbia Records, Epic Records and associated...	CD	8869764056
			Double Double album A double album is an audio album which spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically records and compact discs....  LP album LP album The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...	88697640591
Japan	March 10, 2010	Sony Music	CD	SICP2662

Chart performance

Chart	Peak position
Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	4
US Rock Albums	2
UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	21
Argentine Albums Chart	7
Australian Albums Chart	8
Swedish Albums Chart	7
Polish Albums Chart	23
Hungarian Albums Chart	11

Year-end charts

Chart (2010)	Position
US Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	124

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