Jimi Hendrix Foxy Lady Live Royal Albert Hall 02/24/69 (Remastered)

[walrus]

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walrus

 

[wileypickett]

He was an alien who fell, briefly, to planet Earth.

There's a lot of stuff I listened to as a teenager that I don't care about at all now, but Hendrix -- still love the guy. (Ssw him live twice.)

Is this the footage that has been in litigation practically from the day it was shot? Is it about to be issued officially?

Thanks for posting.

 

[LeFinPepere]

Wow! You never told me he was THAT good!

 

[walrus]

Is this the footage that has been in litigation practically from the day it was shot? Is it about to be issued officially?

I believe so.

https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/h...f-lost-films-documenting-final-uk-performance

walrus

 

[Canard]

Sweet! Thanks for posting.

 

[Teleguy61]

He was an alien who fell, briefly, to planet Earth.

There's a lot of stuff I listened to as a teenager that I don't care about at all now, but Hendrix -- still love the guy. (Ssw him live twice.)

Is this the footage that has been in litigation practically from the day it was shot? Is it about to be issued officially?

Thanks for posting.

The one, the only, never anyone like him before or since.
His natural ability is incredible.
He could just do stuff that no one had ever done.
Blew my mind when he came out, still does.
Whenever I hear Purple Haze intro, I get chills.

 

[Bernie]

He is very elegant in the way he moves and holds the guitar. Very natural and adroit too (never watch his fingers or guitar frets)...

 

[Canard]

What is all the more amazing is that he was apparently a very shy, quiet, gentle person, not an extrovert at all ... well at least not until on stage.

There was an interview with John McLaughlin in which McLaughlin relates a story about discussing Hendrix with Miles Davis. Davis was aware of Hendrix because his wife had introduced him to the music (I believe she was later to introduce him in person), but Davis had never seen him perform, so McLaughlin took Davis out to see a screening of the Monterrey Pop Festival documentary which featured Hendrix's over-the-top version of Wild Thing. McLaughlin said that throughout Hendrix's performance Davis just kept muttering in his husky whisper, "Damn, Jimi! Damn!" My sentiments exactly. You can see why Clapton went off to seek solace in tobacco after seeing Hendrix perform for the first time - the shaking of his hands while trying to light the cigarette might be an exaggeration.

There is another story, probably apocryphal, which I love. Later after Hendrix met Davis, they were both at Davis's apartment, probably totally kazooed, when somebody came up with the odd and most impractical idea that they should form a group with Paul McCartney. Hendrix apparently spent some time unsuccessfully trying to contact McCartney on the phone.

 

[walrus]

What is all the more amazing is that he was apparently a very shy, quiet, gentle person, not an extrovert at all ... well at least not until on stage.

There was an interview with John McLaughlin in which McLaughlin relates a story about discussing Hendrix with Miles Davis. Davis was aware of Hendrix because his wife had introduced him to the music (I believe she was later to introduce him in person), but Davis had never seen him perform, so McLaughlin took Davis out to see a screening of the Monterrey Pop Festival documentary which featured Hendrix's over-the-top version of Wild Thing. McLaughlin said that throughout Hendrix's performance Davis just kept muttering in his husky whisper, "Damn, Jimi! Damn!" My sentiments exactly. You can see why Clapton went off to seek solace in tobacco after seeing Hendrix perform for the first time - the shaking of his hands while trying to light the cigarette might be an exaggeration.

There is another story, probably apocryphal, which I love. Later after Hendrix met Davis, they were both at Davis's apartment, probably totally kazooed, when somebody came up with the odd and most impractical idea that they should form a group with Paul McCartney. Hendrix apparently spent some time unsuccessfully trying to contact McCartney on the phone.

That is a true story.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/...artney-for-supergroup-with-miles-davis-65515/

walrus

 

[Canard]

That is a true story.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/...artney-for-supergroup-with-miles-davis-65515/

walrus

Hmmm... my version, with me as a grape vine recipient further from the source, seems somewhat less true.

 

[Midnight Toker]

I always love the little Hendrix stories that you'd never hear about in any biography, but only hear from those that were fortunate enough to share his private space from time to time. The things that bring this man back to earth and make him one of us! Graham Nash once shared a story about Jimi that did just such a thing. He said he got to hang w/ Jimi in intimate gatherings on numerous occasions, including some after show hotel room gatherings w/ just 4-5 people. When Jimi was on the road, he brought 2 things for his hotel stay that he would simply not do without. One was a portable record player and a suitcase full of all the latest releases to catch up on. Predictable, and actually quite the norm for touring bands of the era. The second however, was....the board game Risk!! Turns out the man was a bigtime obsessive Risk player and would try and get anyone in the room to start up a game, which if you know the game...could last into the wee hours of the morning!! (being a longtime player myself, I found that story one of the coolest I'd ever heard! )

 

[LeFinPepere]

I wonder who here at LTG has actually seen Hendrix live?Please , tell us about your experience, Jack Crabb!! (Though you probably were a toddler at the time!)
I was 12 when a friend told me that he had just died, and that was the first time I heard about him.

 

[Teleguy61]

I wonder who here at LTG has actually seen Hendrix live?Please , tell us about your experience, Jack Crabb!! (Though you probably were a toddler at the time!)
I was 12 when a friend told me that he had just died, and that was the first time I heard about him.

I saw Jimi at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia on either Feb 21 or 22, 1968.
I may have been a bit...um, impaired...so my memory is not clear, but it was a good show, and pretty
amazing to see him in person.

 

[Midnight Toker]

I saw Jimi at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia on either Feb 21 or 22, 1968.
I may have been a bit...um, impaired...so my memory is not clear, but it was a good show, and pretty
amazing to see him in person.

 

[wileypickett]

Madison Square Garden, May 18, 1969. So-so show. Revolving stage, and people we're going nuts with their flash cameras. (Old style flashes with bulbs that exploded when you shot. There was column of smoke rising up to the stories's-high ceiling from spent bulbs.) Hendrix kept begging people to "Knock it off with the flashes," and finally walked off in the middle of the set. He came back 20 minutes later and did whatever amount of time he was obliged to to fulfill his contract, but the rest of the set seemed perfunctory -- though to my 16-year-old mind (blown), he was awesome!

Second set, Fillmore East, New Years Day, 1970. Band of Gypsys. Reckoned by many to be one of the best shows Hendrix ever played. He was onstage nearly three hours. I was in the 12th row. I still have my ticket -- and a two-hour cassette that I surreptitiously made. The nearly complete four shows (two on New Years Eve 1969 / two more on New Years Day 1970) were recently issued officially as a box set, though it isn't quite complete. I know for instance (from my tape) that two songs are missing from that set. Perhaps the mobile recording unit was changing reels?

An unforgettable night for me. Little did anyone dream that 1970 would be Hendrix's last year on the planet.

 

[Midnight Toker]

^Hopefully you've had your precious tapes properly digitized! Even if pro recordings were made, there is still a big interest for audience recordings just for that "being there" perspective.

Oh, and Jimi passed in Sept of 70.

 

[wileypickett]

Never did -- Hendrix was SO loud, the tape was pretty lo-fi. Whatever its difficiencies though, I still played it dozens and dozens of times over the years (the 10-minute version of "Stone Free" that he opened with that night gives me goosebumps). Through an equalizer, it's slightly more listenable.

 

[Midnight Toker]

Never did -- Hendrix was SO loud, the tape was pretty lo-fi. Whatever its difficiencies though, I still played it dozens and dozens of times over the years (the 10-minute version of "Stone Free" that he opened with that night gives me goosebumps). Through an equalizer, it's slightly more listenable.

You'd be amazed what can be done w/ these old audience tapes w/ today's digital processing. I've been a hardcore live Zep collector for decades, have over 400 recordings from pristine soundboard to barely listenable very distant sounding. Nevertheless, there are completists like me in the Hendrix world that would be frothing at the mouth over a newly unearthed recording, no matter the quality. Just saying. Just from a historical standpoint, I'd definitely digitize it just for preservation's sake.

(I have a 12 channel mixer, high end tape deck/cd deck w/ pitch control, racks of outboard eq's, fx processors, compressors, spacial expanders, spectrum analyzer, etc that is ALL just for tinkering w/ my Zep boots. . I basically split the source audio into 6-8 separate tracks, isolate blocks of frequencies, and work on each separately (as bass/drums require completely different treatment than voc/guitar) then mix them back on top of the original source. Bringing up the processed channels juuust until you audibly notice them, then backing off a hair. It really puts some life into otherwise lifeless old bootleg recordings. )

 

[wileypickett]

Oh, and Jimi passed in Sept of 70.

Jeesum Crow! Of course, it was the last show of '69 and the first show of '70 -- only a year off!

I amended my post.

Thanks for the correction MT!

 

[LeFinPepere]

Jeesum Crow! Of course, it was the last show of '69 and the first show of '70 -- only a year off!

I amended my post.

Thanks for the correction MT!

So, Wileypickett,was it tomorrow,or just the end of time?