We're so lucky to have these recorded live documents of Jimi. As long as they keep digging these tapes out and cleaning them up, I'll buy them. Thanks for the cool show, Pete and Rick.
Yup - thus the 'burnout factor' that caused Jimi to reportedly say "They are killing me" (Mike Jeffries who kept insisting that Jimi tour non-stop to keep the almighty $'s rolling in)
The earliest known live Hendrix recording is a 1965 show with a group he was in called Curtis Knight & the Squires, released as the live album Live At George's Club 20. Not the greatest audio quality, but SO cool to hear Jimi live before he was discovered. ❤️🤘
I've heard it - pretty rough (but does have an early "Killing Floor" & "Drivin' South", as well as "Come On (Let The Good Times Roll)")...I have a Curtis Knight album from 1965 called Jimi Hendrix & Curtis Knight & The Squires - Knock Yourself Out with Hendrix in the band (check out the cover pic) - sounds pretty good considering. Tracks like "Knock Yourself Out", "You Don't Want Me", "Strange Things" & "Hornet's Nest" already show signs of what's to come. Unlike others Jimi played with early on Knight let him 'stretch out' instrumentally, at least occasionally. Also the 1965/66 compilation called Jimi Hendrix & Curtis Knight & The Squires - You Can't Use My Name: The RSVP/ PPX Sessions (includes 4 Hendrix instrumentals). Again pretty good sound. Get That Feeling is another Curtis/Hendrix collection (from '67 - check out the wah work on "Hush Now") plus Flashing: Jimi Hendrix Plays, Curtis Knight Sings ("Love, Love" almost sounds like an Electric Ladyland outtake)... The earliest Hendrix recording of any kind that I know of is "Testify" with the Isley Brothers (March 1964), with Oct 23 1966 as the first day of Jimi recording with The Experience. And the earliest live Hendrix/Experience on film (with sound) = Chelmsford Corn Exchange in February 1967 (3 months prior to the debut release)
Yup, also got the 2 estate released compilations of the studio material he did with Curtis Knight. The earliest known footage of Jimi is from the local Nashville show, "Night Train" from 1965 where he's playing guitar for Ned & Stacey on the classic "Shotgun". That clip can be seen here on UA-cam.
Mustn't forget another strong attribute about the master is that he wrote actual great "songs". Not just a shit songs with masterful wank fests like so many others. Jimi hated his voice, I liked it, it fit the material perfectly and he could emote.
@@GalaxyRover1020 IMO a pretty good singer - but a world-class songwriter. He also knew his way around a bass - it's debated just how much bass he actually played on the studio records...
@@wolf1977 Agreed, he wasn't spectacular as a singer, that was probably his weakest point. But damn he made up for it with his playing, composing, imagination in the studio etc. The guy was a quadruple threat. Something too that isn't often mentioned is that Hendrix was supposedly as an accomplished guitarist playing right handed. Billy Cox ( for those newcomers was one of of his oldest friends, a former band mate) has stated that in print.
@@GalaxyRover1020 Interesting topic (at least to me): Lefties who play guitar right-handed (some all time greats too). Gary Moore, Mark Knopfler, Joe Perry, Johnny Winter, Duane Allman, Paul McCartney...I remember reading somewhere about Hendrix playing righty - supposedly stemming from his father forcing him to (because being lefty to him was a sign of the devil - don't know if that story's true). Ronnie Wood has said he saw Jimi play righty. I've seen pics of Jimi writing with his right hand...
@@wolf1977 Interesting to me as well. The thing with Hendrix was he didn't just flip it upside down, he strung it backwards. I believe Albert King did as well. Pretty hard to play that way. I don't recall seeing him play righty either, but I figure Cox, the gentleman he is was exposed to so much stuff like that.
...and after all of different releases of The Fillmore East Concerts (4 shows over 2 days) even the Songs for Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts 5 CD's Box Set, IT'S STILL NOT COMPLETE !☹ (there are still missing 5 tracks from the second show, Dec. 31)
Live at Berkeley 2nd show is great but apparently the first show was even better. I've heard a couple of tracks from the first show and their amazing. The Jimi Hendrix Blues cd contains what might be my favorite live version of Hear My Train A Comin from the first show at Berkeley. Check it out.
Somewhat inaccurate in that it actually lasted 4 days (August 15-18, 1969) - Richie Havens kicked it off on Friday night & Jimi played in the early morning hours (9-11am) of Monday/Day 4. After BS&T, CSN&Y, Paul Butterfield & Sha Na Na. Supposedly of the initial hundreds of thousands only about 40,000 were left to actually hear Hendrix play. It's somewhat of a joke now when someone claims they were at Woodstock - if all of those people were actually there it would've been millions - but if someone also claims they saw Jimi perform...
Jimi paired with The Monkees (who were big Hendrix fans after seeing him at Monterey) on tour in July 1967 has to be one of the oddest musical pairings ever (Mike Jeffery's idea-of course). Apparently Jimi was not a Monkees fan - he called their music "dishwater". Only 7 performances actually happened before Hendrix quit the tour after getting booed every time (that whole Daughters of the American Revolution thing to explain it was not true - as Jimi himself later said in an interview: "We decided it was just the wrong audience")
Jimi was moving so fast musically that's its sad not so many songs from Axis and Ladyland have been covered live. Especially Axis where everything is faded out on the album.
Check out Axis Outtakes for a fuller picture of that record (it's a boot on 2 disks). Lots of outtakes/alternate versions - some significantly different. Not live but...Some pretty rare tracks too: "Takin' Care Of No Business", "Cat Talkin' To Me", "The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam's Dice", "Dream", "Dance" (those last two are Redding tunes). Some of these are also in the In The Studio box & in the Moonbeams & Fairytales collection (sometimes with better sound quality)
Quite agree. The Hendrix/Cox/Mitchell line-up was the best. If I had to choose just the one live show, it would have to be Woodstock. If nothing else because the versions of Purple Haze, Voodoo Child and Foxey Lady, are my favourites. I live a few minutes away from where Jimi passed. I often go past there just to pay my respects. Fifty-four years later and we are still talking about him with the same sense of awe and admiration. Peerless.🎸🎸🎸
I may be wrong but I think Eric Burdon has something to do with the rights to the Royal Albert Hall concerts both the soundtrack and film.Burdon and Expierenced Hendrix(Janie) can’t come to some agreement.I read it somewhere ,it could be wrong.I have the two original soundtrack vinyls on the budget Astor label from the 70s as well cd and bootleg vhs.Would love an official cleaned up release.
Great show Rick & Pete ! I have the box Winterland from 2011. It has 4 discs. The first three are 10/10/1968, 10/11/1968 & 10/12/1968 The fourth was a few songs left from all the shows. The box I had came with a bonus cd from Fillmore West on Feb 4, 1968. There are parts one and two of Dear Mr Fantasy by Traffic that are really cool. My only kick with the mastering is that when played with other Hendrix albums, the volume is lower. But the sound is technically great. As a matter of fact the entire Cream catalog is also remastered at a lower volume which is a real drag. Also my favorite live Hendrix was the first one we got after Band of Gypsys titled Hendrix in the West released in 1972. There was a mixture of tunes from The Isle of Wight 1970, Royal Albert Hall 1969, San Diego Sports Arena 1969 & Betkley Community Center 1970. The Albert hall songs from 2/24/69 Little Wing and Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) are definitive performances. Unfortunately they were replaced on the new version of Hendrix in the West because of a legal problem with the Albert Hall songs. Johnny B Goode, Blue Suede Shoes, Lover Man, and Hear My Train a Comin’ from the Berkeley shows on May 30, ‘70 are also magnificent recordings. The first 3 you can get on the Jimi Hendrix Experience deluxe box set from 2013. Hear My Train you can get from the album Blues from 1994. 🎸
A few great live compilations worth mention : the Jimi Hendrix concerts cd and the original Hendrix in the west LP (not a fan of the remastered cd as they removed / replaced / substituted some of the songs) the concerts cd has one of the few live performances of the song are you experienced. On the stages (out of print) box set you have Stockholm 67 Paris 68 and the gem San Diego 69. Loved the video guys. I’m a Hendrix nut and I have just about every live performance available officially and on boot. If I were to offer a must have top 5 live sets for the burgeoning Hendrix fan I would say Band of Gypsy’s (box set groovy children) Woodstock Berkeley Monterey Winterland (box set)
Great point Brian. It was the Feb 24, 1969 at the Royal Albert Hall Show that they removed from Hendrix in the West. The original Hendrix in the West had the definitive live versions of Little Wing and Voodoo Chile(Slight Return) from the Albert Hall. I played the hell out of that album. The Berkeley Community stuff from May 1970 like Johnny B Goode & Blue Suede Shoes is great too.
"I’m a Hendrix nut and I have just about every live performance available officially and on boot" - not doubting you but there exist SO MANY! My (Hendrix fanatic) friend owns well over 500 Hendrix albums (I'd say most are live) & he's constantly talking about the ones he doesn't have. Granted many are probably repackages/containing material previously released on other albums but beside The Dead Jimi has to be the most bootlegged artist ever (especially considering his ultra-short career & only a handful of releases in his lifetime)...BTW the new box Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision is due out today! Includes 38 Previously Unreleased Jimi Hendrix Tracks From 1970
@@wolf1977 Hi Wolf--- over 500 and still talks about the ones he doesn't have? That knocks the wind out of my sails. Why am I even trying to catch up?...lol. Thanks for the heads-up on the Jimi box set coming out today. Will definitely check into it.
@@gadgettheratboy9051 Yeah puts my 85 or so Hendrix album collection to shame. I have to go over there with an A/D converter one day & make some copies. The toughest part is sorting through everything to cull out the stuff I really want...
and also The Winterland Concerts from Oct. 10-11-12, 1968, (2 shows / day, 6 shows in total ) even the Winterland 4 CD Box Set, it's far from being complete ☹
Some of the (longer) Hendrix studio jams are great: the 8+ minute "Room Full Of Mirrors" (from the expanded Experience/Original Soundtrack) "Drone Blues"/"Drivin' South" (from Hear My Music) "Message From Nine To The Universe" (from Nine To The Universe) "Jungle" (from Morning Symphony Ideas) "Unknown Jam" (from Talent & Feeling Vol. 2) "Burning Desire" (from The Baggy's Rehearsal Sessions) "Ezy Rider/Star Spangled Banner" (from Hear My Music) "Lord I Sing The Blues For You And Me" (from Am I Blue) "Jimi/Jimmy Jam" (from Nine To The Universe) the 11+ minute "Blue Suede Shoes" (from In The Studio Volume 4) the 12 minute "Jazz Jimi Jazz" (from Naked Ladyland - great set of Electric Ladyland studio stuff) the 12+minute version of "3 Little Bears" (from Axis Outtakes) "Highway Of Desire (Pt. 2)" (from Talent & Feeling Vol. 2) "Midnight, Valleys Of Neptune Arising" (from In The Studio Vol 7) "Hear My Freedom" (from In The Studio Volume 8) "Traffic Jam" (from Drone Blues) "Jam Thing" (from A Session With Traffic) "Ezy Ryder/Mlk Jam (Captain Coconut)" (from People, Hell & Angels) "Young/Hendrix" (from West Coast Seattle Boy Vol. 3) "Scorpio Woman" & "Keep On Groovin'" (from Morning Symphony Ideas) ...and the granddaddy the 35 minute "Session Thing" (from A Session With Traffic) The musical ideas were seemingly never-ending. Eddie Kramer said that he often just let the tape roll in studio to capture everything Jimi was doing
@@wolf1977 thanks for this, very useful. Yes I have the 8 vinyl anthology which as you say has some great studio improvisations. Also Valleys of Neptune has some good studio tracks as well. Apparently ( so I've read somewhere ) Hendrix always took a tape recorder with him and that's why we are blessed with so much additional material. Interesting personal trivia, I remember JH's death being announced over the radio back in 1970. I was 10 and was sitting at the kitchen table while my mother was preparing the evening meal Strange how these things stick in your mind.
@@risingstar7161 We're the same age - but honestly I was oblivious of Hendrix back then. Mostly remember listening to The Beatles (because of my aunt) & T Rex (they were on the radio in Germany back then)...One of my major vivid moments around that time is the moon landing (summer '69) - everyone was glued to the tv
@@wolf1977 The moon landings, yes i remember. I can recall being in junior school and moaning that it made the tv channels cancel the kids' early evening programmes. Shame on me! How uncultured! No appreciation for 'one small step for man but a giant leap for mankind'.
I had a late friend who saw Hendrix four times notably Royal Albert Hall and Isle of Wight.He was involved with Hawkwind somehow (he lived with the drummer) as they played a free gig outside the main concert stage.He said Hendrix was brilliant at the other gigs but he was really tired and tedious at IOW.In fact Jethro Tull were on before him and blew him away.I tend to agree with him but there are flashes of brilliance but the full versions of Machine Gun and New Rising Sun are terrible.
Great show gentlemen! Live Hendrix is the best. A couple of comments: 1) Rykodisc actually released both the Winterland and Radio One CD's individually (I bought them both and wasn't a box set for me) 2) "The Hendrix Concerts" was a Reprise release and is a compilation but is worth hunting down (out of print) for Blues in C (People, People, People) sharp alone...great blues tune, as well as Stone Free. 3) "In the West" is worth hunting down as well. Another compilation on the Reprise label. 4) Atlanta Pop was July 1970, not 1969. Great stuff.
Great show fellas I love this live show you’ve covered three of my favorite bands, Purple Hendrix, and Allmans . Interesting details #1 Interesting details the Oakland show the Jefferson Airplane opened up for Hendrix somewhere at the encore or the end of the show Noel Reding took over guitar and Jack Cassidy played bass. #2 Far as Winterland 5000 seat venue, they didn’t do matinee and evening shows. It was just one big long show and sometimes Hendrix would play two sets. Bill Graham would just funnel more people in and out of the building if they left early then he’d resell tickets for the second half of the night. The only times they did a matinee at Winterland was when the Rolling Stones played Exile on Main Street tour. #3 As far as the Fillmore East show, Band of Gypsies only played four sets two night the first night two sets and then the second night two sets and on the disk it says second night set discs 3-4 and 5 so it was probably they did a long encore not a complete third set or show on discs 5. #4 They did a Fillmore East style two shows afternoon show clear the house then a evening show New York theater style. #5 I have a Woodstock special edition DVD, which has the color complete Hendrix show multi camera but it also has a college student black-and-white camera second DVD which in some ways is better than the multi camera shoot you should pick that up Pete definitely worth getting. #6 The Isle of Wight. I was told by a producer friend of mine who was backstage that there was very little hash or weed at Isle of Wight and a lot of people were taking downers. I don’t know if Jimmy was on them, but that was kind of what was going around backstage. #7 The final German isle of Freeman show Billy Cocks got dosed on LSD sometime and he was ODing. That’s why they canceled the tour and brought him back to London and put him in a hospital. #8 Hendrix left the stage, and the Hells Angels burnt the stage to the ground. Great show Thanks. Show notes Pete decent lighting on your CD covers thanks. Rick always love your commentary. If you could actually put the CD you’re talking about on a little stand in front of the screen so we could see it. You’re constantly waving it around and there’s all this glare. I can see that you have a round white light and probably 30% of the time it is glare on the CD cover, I could see that light clearing in my face as you frantically move the CD in your hand . Love the fact that you love Hendrix and your enthusiastic about the music you do a good job. Don’t git me wrong. thanks again for both you doing. Live shows that is totally my thing I work in the live entertainment business providing visuals that’s why I comment about the visuals on the screen during your podcast.
I believe that Oakland/Airplane show was April 27, 1969. It was intitally a Dagger Records boot (a single-mic reel-to-reel amateur recording - eg poor sound). I know Casady joins The Experience onstage for the finale “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)”...The 4 Fillmore East shows are all available on Songs for Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts (43 total tracks on 5 disks). I believe there are 5 tracks left off. I bought Live at the Fillmore East to supplement my earlier Band Of Gypsys...There's also the 'complete' Hendrix Woodstock set on the 12 disk The Complete Bootleg Woodstock (18 total Hendrix tracks) - this set even includes the in-between PA announcements & all music is sequenced in the same order as at the actual festival (so Jimi is on the last disk)
"Most Bootlegged"? After The Dead - probably. There are MANY HUNDREDS. Jimi played a little over 600 total live shows between 1966-70 (one reason he felt so burned out) & this goes back to 1966 (London/Munich/Paris). There's some stuff out there of Jimi live with Curtis Knight from '65 (and already playing with his teeth). Someone posted a list of all live JH concerts that were ever filmed - there are 42 (can't personally vouch for the completeness though). As a rule I don't stockpile multiple live versions of the same song (unless significantly different) but if I did it would be Hendrix's, he was ever inventive in front of an audience...Some live album faves: BBC Session Live At The Hollywood Bowl Radio One Stages East And West Live At The Café Au Go Go Winterland The Complete Bootleg Woodstock LA Forum Live In Maui (my current favorite live Hendrix set) Live At Woodstock Live In Cologne Woodstock - Back To The Garden: The Definitive 50Th Anniversary Archive 2 Nights At The Fillmore Band Of Gypsys Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live At The Isle Of Wight Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival Hendrix In The West Live At Berkeley 1970 The Rainbow Bridge Concert Jimi Plays Monterey Live At The Isle Of Fehmarn Soundtrack Recordings from the Film Jimi Hendrix ...and the numerous live tracks added to various expanded rereleases of studio albums...Wiki lists 45 live Hendrix albums - there are MANY more (especially boots - note that many are 'repackages' of live material available on other albums - I tend to stay away from many as they're sonically inferior). A (Hendrix fanatic) friend of mine has at least 50 or 60 live Jimi records pressed in Germany alone...My fave all time live Jimi track is "Villanova Junction" from Woodstock - the longer version from Live In Maui is also very cool
everything you said about woodstock is rue - and we have video - especially star spangled banner closeups - of how he was producing some of the amazing sounds...
Atlanta ('70) was not such a great gig in my opinion. Not great tone and Jimi's quite subdued. My favourite by far is The Jimi Hendrix Concerts. The Royal Albert Hall is my favourite Hendrix performance (still waiting for the Blu-ray) BBC sessions is great Berkeley, Woodstock
Correction…it was the LA Forum show that was originally only available as part of a box set, not Winterland.
Also, correction WINTERLAND box set- Four disc with 3 shows!!
@@ricklabonte6790 Correction 4 shows
@@justingunkle4252 No, it is only 3 shows October 10, 11, 12 1968. The four disc has extra songs that did not fit on other three disc.
@@ricklabonte6790 Actually 6 SHOWS over 3 days ( 2 shows / day )
awesome job guys
Greetings from Rio de Janeiro Hendrix fan🎸🎶
The Jimi Hendrix concerts album is great!
My favorite !
We're so lucky to have these recorded live documents of Jimi. As long as they keep digging these tapes out and cleaning them up, I'll buy them. Thanks for the cool show, Pete and Rick.
Same here...
Pat Travers - Live Go for What you Know. Best live album of all time
Stages Stockholm 67
Jimi played over 600 shows.
Yup - thus the 'burnout factor' that caused Jimi to reportedly say "They are killing me" (Mike Jeffries who kept insisting that Jimi tour non-stop to keep the almighty $'s rolling in)
Jimi Hendrix played according to Setlist FM
1966- 23 shows
1967- 256 shows
1968,- 156 shows
1969- 64 shows
1970- 50 shows total 549
The earliest known live Hendrix recording is a 1965 show with a group he was in called Curtis Knight & the Squires, released as the live album Live At George's Club 20.
Not the greatest audio quality, but SO cool to hear Jimi live before he was discovered. ❤️🤘
I've heard it - pretty rough (but does have an early "Killing Floor" & "Drivin' South", as well as "Come On (Let The Good Times Roll)")...I have a Curtis Knight album from 1965 called Jimi Hendrix & Curtis Knight & The Squires - Knock Yourself Out with Hendrix in the band (check out the cover pic) - sounds pretty good considering. Tracks like "Knock Yourself Out", "You Don't Want Me", "Strange Things" & "Hornet's Nest" already show signs of what's to come. Unlike others Jimi played with early on Knight let him 'stretch out' instrumentally, at least occasionally. Also the 1965/66 compilation called Jimi Hendrix & Curtis Knight & The Squires - You Can't Use My Name: The RSVP/ PPX Sessions (includes 4 Hendrix instrumentals). Again pretty good sound. Get That Feeling is another Curtis/Hendrix collection (from '67 - check out the wah work on "Hush Now") plus Flashing: Jimi Hendrix Plays, Curtis Knight Sings ("Love, Love" almost sounds like an Electric Ladyland outtake)...
The earliest Hendrix recording of any kind that I know of is "Testify" with the Isley Brothers (March 1964), with Oct 23 1966 as the first day of Jimi recording with The Experience. And the earliest live Hendrix/Experience on film (with sound) = Chelmsford Corn Exchange in February 1967 (3 months prior to the debut release)
Yup, also got the 2 estate released compilations of the studio material he did with Curtis Knight.
The earliest known footage of Jimi is from the local Nashville show, "Night Train" from 1965 where he's playing guitar for Ned & Stacey on the classic "Shotgun". That clip can be seen here on UA-cam.
There is a 1967 Stockholm show you can buy on CD.
I like Rick`s point about Hendrix being such a phenomenon that everyone wanted to document in some way his performances.
Hendrix was the Greatist guitar player IMO. He was also a great innovatior.
Mustn't forget another strong attribute about the master is that he wrote actual great "songs". Not just a shit songs with masterful wank fests like so many others. Jimi hated his voice, I liked it, it fit the material perfectly and he could emote.
@@GalaxyRover1020 IMO a pretty good singer - but a world-class songwriter. He also knew his way around a bass - it's debated just how much bass he actually played on the studio records...
@@wolf1977 Agreed, he wasn't spectacular as a singer, that was probably his weakest point. But damn he made up for it with his playing, composing, imagination in the studio etc. The guy was a quadruple threat. Something too that isn't often mentioned is that Hendrix was supposedly as an accomplished guitarist playing right handed. Billy Cox ( for those newcomers was one of of his oldest friends, a former band mate) has stated that in print.
@@GalaxyRover1020 Interesting topic (at least to me): Lefties who play guitar right-handed (some all time greats too). Gary Moore, Mark Knopfler, Joe Perry, Johnny Winter, Duane Allman, Paul McCartney...I remember reading somewhere about Hendrix playing righty - supposedly stemming from his father forcing him to (because being lefty to him was a sign of the devil - don't know if that story's true). Ronnie Wood has said he saw Jimi play righty. I've seen pics of Jimi writing with his right hand...
@@wolf1977 Interesting to me as well. The thing with Hendrix was he didn't just flip it upside down, he strung it backwards. I believe Albert King did as well. Pretty hard to play that way. I don't recall seeing him play righty either, but I figure Cox, the gentleman he is was exposed to so much stuff like that.
...and after all of different releases of The Fillmore East Concerts (4 shows over 2 days) even the Songs for Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts 5 CD's Box Set, IT'S STILL NOT COMPLETE !☹ (there are still missing 5 tracks from the second show, Dec. 31)
Live at Berkeley 2nd show is great but apparently the first show was even better. I've heard a couple of tracks from the first show and their amazing. The Jimi Hendrix Blues cd contains what might be my favorite live version of Hear My Train A Comin from the first show at Berkeley. Check it out.
Three days of peace and love ☮️✌️🎸🎶
Somewhat inaccurate in that it actually lasted 4 days (August 15-18, 1969) - Richie Havens kicked it off on Friday night & Jimi played in the early morning hours (9-11am) of Monday/Day 4. After BS&T, CSN&Y, Paul Butterfield & Sha Na Na. Supposedly of the initial hundreds of thousands only about 40,000 were left to actually hear Hendrix play. It's somewhat of a joke now when someone claims they were at Woodstock - if all of those people were actually there it would've been millions - but if someone also claims they saw Jimi perform...
Hendrix on the movie flaming guitar🎸🔥🔥🔥🔥
Absolutely loved the two of you on Jimi. Thanks Rick L. / Pete. = crushed it 👍💯
A shame nobody taped his jam with Cream October 1 , 1966 at the London Polytechnic...
When Clapton supposedly walked off stage in shock/reacting to Hendrix's "Killing Floor"?
@@wolf1977 Exactly.
Need to correct you Pete on the one disc Winterland show, that was for sale separately at the time, I bought mine new that way back when it came out.
I might have confused that with the LA Forum show…I think that was the one originally only available in the box set. My bad.
Yes that cd was available in Australia separately.I had it on double vinyl as well.
There is an album with Arthur Lee of Love that’s cool. Also Hendrix played with the Last Poets. He also played with McLaughlin that’s ok.
Hendrix also played bass on a Robert Wyatt song.
I've got some shopping to do Lucy...
“They can boo as long as they did it in key”.Hendrix made such an ironic statement on stage
I just dicovered this anecdote a few weeks ago and it made me love Jimi even more, that's such a cool response to hecklers.
Jimi paired with The Monkees (who were big Hendrix fans after seeing him at Monterey) on tour in July 1967 has to be one of the oddest musical pairings ever (Mike Jeffery's idea-of course). Apparently Jimi was not a Monkees fan - he called their music "dishwater". Only 7 performances actually happened before Hendrix quit the tour after getting booed every time (that whole Daughters of the American Revolution thing to explain it was not true - as Jimi himself later said in an interview: "We decided it was just the wrong audience")
Jimi was moving so fast musically that's its sad not so many songs from Axis and Ladyland have been covered live. Especially Axis where everything is faded out on the album.
Check out Axis Outtakes for a fuller picture of that record (it's a boot on 2 disks). Lots of outtakes/alternate versions - some significantly different. Not live but...Some pretty rare tracks too: "Takin' Care Of No Business", "Cat Talkin' To Me", "The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam's Dice", "Dream", "Dance" (those last two are Redding tunes). Some of these are also in the In The Studio box & in the Moonbeams & Fairytales collection (sometimes with better sound quality)
Quite agree. The Hendrix/Cox/Mitchell line-up was the best.
If I had to choose just the one live show, it would have to be Woodstock. If nothing else because the versions of Purple Haze, Voodoo Child and Foxey Lady, are my favourites.
I live a few minutes away from where Jimi passed. I often go past there just to pay my respects.
Fifty-four years later and we are still talking about him with the same sense of awe and admiration. Peerless.🎸🎸🎸
Which is The best version of Like a Roling Stone (Dylan)?
Good job, guys. You've inspired me to pick up the Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival record, which I was unaware of before watching this video. Cheers!
I may be wrong but I think Eric Burdon has something to do with the rights to the Royal Albert Hall concerts both the soundtrack and film.Burdon and Expierenced Hendrix(Janie) can’t come to some agreement.I read it somewhere ,it could be wrong.I have the two original soundtrack vinyls on the budget Astor label from the 70s as well cd and bootleg vhs.Would love an official cleaned up release.
Great show Rick & Pete !
I have the box Winterland from 2011. It has 4 discs. The first three are 10/10/1968, 10/11/1968 & 10/12/1968
The fourth was a few songs left from all the shows. The box I had came with a bonus cd from Fillmore West on Feb 4, 1968. There are parts one and two of Dear Mr Fantasy by Traffic that are really cool.
My only kick with the mastering is that when played with other Hendrix albums, the volume is lower. But the sound is technically great. As a matter of fact the entire Cream catalog is also remastered at a lower volume which is a real drag.
Also my favorite live Hendrix was the first one we got after Band of Gypsys titled Hendrix in the West released in 1972. There was a mixture of tunes from The Isle of Wight 1970, Royal Albert Hall 1969, San Diego Sports Arena 1969 & Betkley Community Center 1970.
The Albert hall songs from 2/24/69 Little Wing and Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) are definitive performances. Unfortunately they were replaced on the new version of Hendrix in the West because of a legal problem with the Albert Hall songs.
Johnny B Goode, Blue Suede Shoes, Lover Man, and Hear My Train a Comin’ from the Berkeley shows on May 30, ‘70 are also magnificent recordings. The first 3 you can get on the Jimi Hendrix Experience deluxe box set from 2013. Hear My Train you can get from the album Blues from 1994. 🎸
Outstanding episode Pete and Rick! I have most of the sets you discussed here, but you've made me aware of a few others. The curse continues...
Tks for your comments
Johnny winter , Rory Gallagher
Live in Maui to me is epic Hendrix; so many unique song arrangements comparatively to his Cry of Love tour set.
A few great live compilations worth mention : the Jimi Hendrix concerts cd and the original Hendrix in the west LP (not a fan of the remastered cd as they removed / replaced / substituted some of the songs) the concerts cd has one of the few live performances of the song are you experienced.
On the stages (out of print) box set you have Stockholm 67 Paris 68 and the gem San Diego 69. Loved the video guys. I’m a Hendrix nut and I have just about every live performance available officially and on boot.
If I were to offer a must have top 5 live sets for the burgeoning Hendrix fan I would say
Band of Gypsy’s (box set groovy children)
Woodstock
Berkeley
Monterey
Winterland (box set)
Great point Brian. It was the Feb 24, 1969 at the Royal Albert Hall Show that they removed from Hendrix in the West. The original Hendrix in the West had the definitive live versions of Little Wing and Voodoo Chile(Slight Return) from the Albert Hall. I played the hell out of that album. The Berkeley Community stuff from May 1970 like Johnny B Goode & Blue Suede Shoes is great too.
"I’m a Hendrix nut and I have just about every live performance available officially and on boot" - not doubting you but there exist SO MANY! My (Hendrix fanatic) friend owns well over 500 Hendrix albums (I'd say most are live) & he's constantly talking about the ones he doesn't have. Granted many are probably repackages/containing material previously released on other albums but beside The Dead Jimi has to be the most bootlegged artist ever (especially considering his ultra-short career & only a handful of releases in his lifetime)...BTW the new box Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision is due out today! Includes 38 Previously Unreleased Jimi Hendrix Tracks From 1970
@@wolf1977 Hi Wolf--- over 500 and still talks about the ones he doesn't have? That knocks the wind out of my sails. Why am I even trying to catch up?...lol. Thanks for the heads-up on the Jimi box set coming out today. Will definitely check into it.
@@gadgettheratboy9051 Yeah puts my 85 or so Hendrix album collection to shame. I have to go over there with an A/D converter one day & make some copies. The toughest part is sorting through everything to cull out the stuff I really want...
U need channel memberships emoji's!!! Lol
and also The Winterland Concerts from Oct. 10-11-12, 1968, (2 shows / day, 6 shows in total ) even the Winterland 4 CD Box Set, it's far from being complete ☹
Strange thing but I prefer JH's live stuff more than the studio albums. I think its because there is more improvisation.
Some of the (longer) Hendrix studio jams are great:
the 8+ minute "Room Full Of Mirrors" (from the expanded Experience/Original Soundtrack)
"Drone Blues"/"Drivin' South" (from Hear My Music)
"Message From Nine To The Universe" (from Nine To The Universe)
"Jungle" (from Morning Symphony Ideas)
"Unknown Jam" (from Talent & Feeling Vol. 2)
"Burning Desire" (from The Baggy's Rehearsal Sessions)
"Ezy Rider/Star Spangled Banner" (from Hear My Music)
"Lord I Sing The Blues For You And Me" (from Am I Blue)
"Jimi/Jimmy Jam" (from Nine To The Universe)
the 11+ minute "Blue Suede Shoes" (from In The Studio Volume 4)
the 12 minute "Jazz Jimi Jazz" (from Naked Ladyland - great set of Electric Ladyland studio stuff)
the 12+minute version of "3 Little Bears" (from Axis Outtakes)
"Highway Of Desire (Pt. 2)" (from Talent & Feeling Vol. 2)
"Midnight, Valleys Of Neptune Arising" (from In The Studio Vol 7)
"Hear My Freedom" (from In The Studio Volume 8)
"Traffic Jam" (from Drone Blues)
"Jam Thing" (from A Session With Traffic)
"Ezy Ryder/Mlk Jam (Captain Coconut)" (from People, Hell & Angels)
"Young/Hendrix" (from West Coast Seattle Boy Vol. 3)
"Scorpio Woman" & "Keep On Groovin'" (from Morning Symphony Ideas)
...and the granddaddy the 35 minute "Session Thing" (from A Session With Traffic)
The musical ideas were seemingly never-ending. Eddie Kramer said that he often just let the tape roll in studio to capture everything Jimi was doing
@@wolf1977 thanks for this, very useful. Yes I have the 8 vinyl anthology which as you say has some great studio improvisations. Also Valleys of Neptune has some good studio tracks as well. Apparently ( so I've read somewhere ) Hendrix always took a tape recorder with him and that's why we are blessed with so much additional material.
Interesting personal trivia, I remember JH's death being announced over the radio back in 1970. I was 10 and was sitting at the kitchen table while my mother was preparing the evening meal
Strange how these things stick in your mind.
@@risingstar7161 We're the same age - but honestly I was oblivious of Hendrix back then. Mostly remember listening to The Beatles (because of my aunt) & T Rex (they were on the radio in Germany back then)...One of my major vivid moments around that time is the moon landing (summer '69) - everyone was glued to the tv
@@wolf1977 The moon landings, yes i remember. I can recall being in junior school and moaning that it made the tv channels cancel the kids' early evening programmes. Shame on me! How uncultured! No appreciation for 'one small step for man but a giant leap for mankind'.
Rick and Pete fuckin rule!
I had a late friend who saw Hendrix four times notably Royal Albert Hall and Isle of Wight.He was involved with Hawkwind somehow (he lived with the drummer) as they played a free gig outside the main concert stage.He said Hendrix was brilliant at the other gigs but he was really tired and tedious at IOW.In fact Jethro Tull were on before him and blew him away.I tend to agree with him but there are flashes of brilliance but the full versions of Machine Gun and New Rising Sun are terrible.
Great show gentlemen! Live Hendrix is the best.
A couple of comments:
1) Rykodisc actually released both the Winterland and Radio One CD's individually (I bought them both and wasn't a box set for me)
2) "The Hendrix Concerts" was a Reprise release and is a compilation but is worth hunting down (out of print) for Blues in C (People, People, People) sharp alone...great blues tune, as well as Stone Free.
3) "In the West" is worth hunting down as well. Another compilation on the Reprise label.
4) Atlanta Pop was July 1970, not 1969.
Great stuff.
Great show fellas I love this live show you’ve covered three of my favorite bands, Purple Hendrix, and Allmans . Interesting details
#1 Interesting details the Oakland show the Jefferson Airplane opened up for Hendrix somewhere at the encore or the end of the show Noel Reding took over guitar and Jack Cassidy played bass.
#2 Far as Winterland 5000 seat venue, they didn’t do matinee and evening shows. It was just one big long show and sometimes Hendrix would play two sets. Bill Graham would just funnel more people in and out of the building if they left early then he’d resell tickets for the second half of the night. The only times they did a matinee at Winterland was when the Rolling Stones played Exile on Main Street tour.
#3 As far as the Fillmore East show, Band of Gypsies only played four sets two night the first night two sets and then the second night two sets and on the disk it says second night set discs 3-4 and 5 so it was probably they did a long encore not a complete third set or show on discs 5.
#4 They did a Fillmore East style two shows afternoon show clear the house then a evening show New York theater style.
#5 I have a Woodstock special edition DVD, which has the color complete Hendrix show multi camera but it also has a college student black-and-white camera second DVD which in some ways is better than the multi camera shoot you should pick that up Pete definitely worth getting.
#6 The Isle of Wight. I was told by a producer friend of mine who was backstage that there was very little hash or weed at Isle of Wight and a lot of people were taking downers. I don’t know if Jimmy was on them, but that was kind of what was going around backstage.
#7 The final German isle of Freeman show Billy Cocks got dosed on LSD sometime and he was ODing. That’s why they canceled the tour and brought him back to London and put him in a hospital.
#8 Hendrix left the stage, and the Hells Angels burnt the stage to the ground.
Great show Thanks.
Show notes Pete decent lighting on your CD covers thanks.
Rick always love your commentary. If you could actually put the CD you’re talking about on a little stand in front of the screen so we could see it. You’re constantly waving it around and there’s all this glare. I can see that you have a round white light and probably 30% of the time it is glare on the CD cover, I could see that light clearing in my face as you frantically move the CD in your hand . Love the fact that you love Hendrix and your enthusiastic about the music you do a good job. Don’t git me wrong. thanks again for both you doing. Live shows that is totally my thing I work in the live entertainment business providing visuals that’s why I comment about the visuals on the screen during your podcast.
I believe that Oakland/Airplane show was April 27, 1969. It was intitally a Dagger Records boot (a single-mic reel-to-reel amateur recording - eg poor sound). I know Casady joins The Experience onstage for the finale “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)”...The 4 Fillmore East shows are all available on Songs for Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts (43 total tracks on 5 disks). I believe there are 5 tracks left off. I bought Live at the Fillmore East to supplement my earlier Band Of Gypsys...There's also the 'complete' Hendrix Woodstock set on the 12 disk The Complete Bootleg Woodstock (18 total Hendrix tracks) - this set even includes the in-between PA announcements & all music is sequenced in the same order as at the actual festival (so Jimi is on the last disk)
Tommy Bolin
"Most Bootlegged"? After The Dead - probably. There are MANY HUNDREDS. Jimi played a little over 600 total live shows between 1966-70 (one reason he felt so burned out) & this goes back to 1966 (London/Munich/Paris). There's some stuff out there of Jimi live with Curtis Knight from '65 (and already playing with his teeth). Someone posted a list of all live JH concerts that were ever filmed - there are 42 (can't personally vouch for the completeness though). As a rule I don't stockpile multiple live versions of the same song (unless significantly different) but if I did it would be Hendrix's, he was ever inventive in front of an audience...Some live album faves:
BBC Session
Live At The Hollywood Bowl
Radio One
Stages
East And West
Live At The Café Au Go Go
Winterland
The Complete Bootleg Woodstock
LA Forum
Live In Maui (my current favorite live Hendrix set)
Live At Woodstock
Live In Cologne
Woodstock - Back To The Garden: The Definitive 50Th Anniversary Archive
2 Nights At The Fillmore
Band Of Gypsys
Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live At The Isle Of Wight
Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival
Hendrix In The West
Live At Berkeley 1970
The Rainbow Bridge Concert
Jimi Plays Monterey
Live At The Isle Of Fehmarn
Soundtrack Recordings from the Film Jimi Hendrix
...and the numerous live tracks added to various expanded rereleases of studio albums...Wiki lists 45 live Hendrix albums - there are MANY more (especially boots - note that many are 'repackages' of live material available on other albums - I tend to stay away from many as they're sonically inferior). A (Hendrix fanatic) friend of mine has at least 50 or 60 live Jimi records pressed in Germany alone...My fave all time live Jimi track is "Villanova Junction" from Woodstock - the longer version from Live In Maui is also very cool
everything you said about woodstock is rue - and we have video - especially star spangled banner closeups - of how he was producing some of the amazing sounds...
Atlanta ('70) was not such a great gig in my opinion. Not great tone and Jimi's quite subdued.
My favourite by far is The Jimi Hendrix Concerts.
The Royal Albert Hall is my favourite Hendrix performance (still waiting for the Blu-ray)
BBC sessions is great
Berkeley, Woodstock