JIMI HENDRIX LIVE AT WOODSTOCK
Definitive 2 DVD Collection
Jimi Hendrix
Live at Woodstock, Jimi Hendrix's headlining appearance at the most famous festival in rock music history, is rivaled only by his set at Monterey Pop for sheer legendary status. But the two are very different. The rock guitarist was a virtual unknown in America when he delivered his literally incendiary performance at Monterey in 1967. A little more than two years later he was an established star, picked to close this mammoth three-day show (he was slated to appear on Sunday night, but weather and various snafus pushed that to Monday morning).
Introduced as the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Hendrix quickly corrects that to Gypsy Sun and Rainbows, with original drummer Mitch Mitchell and new bassist Billy Cox augmented by two percussionists and a second guitarist (all three are for the most part inaudible, subsumed in the great sonic wash of Hendrix's wailing guitar and Mitchell's thrashing drums). The music had changed, too. Hendrix had started moving away from the format of short, poppy songs with the Electric Ladyland album, and while he still plays "Purple Haze," "Foxey Lady," and "Fire," much of the emphasis in this lengthy set is on extended jamming.
Not all of it works, but when it does--as on "Spanish Castle Magic" and a sped-up "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)," which leads into the feedback-drenched re-imagining of "The Star-Spangled Banner"--the performance takes off. Little more than a year later, Jimi Hendrix, still regarded as the greatest rock guitarist ever, would be dead. --Sam Graham
Special features include:
--Soundtrack mixed by Eddie Kramer, Jimi's original studio engineer
--Documentary: The Road to Woodstock
--Featurette: Jimi Hendrix Live at Woodstock - A Second Look. Features never before seen video footage of "Hear My Train A Comin'
--Press Conference
--Nashville Roots
--Recording Woodstock
--Rare artifacts and memorabilia
Contents
DISC ONE: Jimi Hendrix: Live At Woodstock
- Message To Love
- Spanish Castle Magic
- Red House
- Lover Man
- Foxey Lady
- Jam Back At The House
- Izabella
- Fire
- Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
- Star Spangled Banner
- Purple Haze
- Woodstock Improvisation
- Villanova Junction
- Hey Joe
- The Road To Woodstock: New documentary directed by Bob Smeaton featuring new interviews with Hendrix band members Mitch Mitchell, Billy Cox, Juma Sultan, and Larry Lee, engineer Eddie Kramer, and Woodstock promoter Michael Lang among others.
DISC TWO: Jimi Hendrix: Live At Woodstock: A Second Look
- Message To Love
- Hear My Train A Comin
- Spanish Castle Magic
- Red House
- Lover Man
- Foxey Lady
- Jam Back At The House
- Izabella
- Fire
- Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
- Star Spangled Banner
- Purple Haze
- Woodstock Improvisation
- Villanova Junction
- Hey Joe
- Jimi Hendrix Press Conference: Color film footage of never before seen Jimi Hendrix press conference held September 3, 1969 at Franks Restaurant in Harlem. Hendrix answers questions about his Woodstock festival performance, his rendition of the "Star Spangled Banner" and the festivals cultural impact.
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Product Details: 2 DVD Set (NTSC/REGION 1)
Product Code: 886976491796
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