Alan Douglas

Who is Alan Douglas?

Alan Douglas is an American record producer who has worked with Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, John McLaughlin, Lenny Bruce and the Last Poets. He runs his own record label, Douglas Records.

Douglas's production work on a few of Hendrix's posthumous releases is controversial. This is primarily due to tracks on the Crash Landing and Midnight Lightning LP releases. On these releases Douglas replaced the original drum and bass tracks and added guitar overdubs newly recorded by session musicians, and additional added female backing singers to one track, and so altered these tracks that he claimed co-composer credit on several. On the much later Voodoo Soup compilation album Douglas is known to have wiped original drum tracks on two songs and replaced them with Bruce Gary. Second, on the 1993 CD releases of Hendrix’s three studio albums, the original album artwork and packaging were scrapped in favor of new renderings of the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

However, Douglas's supporters credit him with maintaining, if not reviving, Hendrix’s musical legacy during the 1980s and 1990s and note that many younger fans appreciated the access to the then out-of-print material included on many of Douglas’ releases. But others point out that Douglas was responsible for the material having been previously out-of-print.