Jimi Hendrix - Midnight Lightning Oil Well RSC 122 CD

Jimi Hendrix - Midnight Lightning
Oil Well RSC 122 CD

1 Message From Nine To The Universe 8:43
2 Jimi / Jimmy Jam 7:58
3 Young / Hendrix 10:22
4 Easy Blues 4:17
5 Drone Blues 6:16
6 Midnight Lightning Jam 6:15
7 Highway Of Broken Dreams 14:13
8 Lonely Avenue Jam 9 2:48
9 Lover Man 3:54
10 Trying To Be 7:18
Play time; 78 mins.

Note:
All songs by Jimi Hendrix
Live in Atlanta, GA - February 8, 1969 - Vol.3 

Track 1: Record Plant Studios, New York City, New York, USA May 22, 1969
Track 2: Record Plant Studios, New York City, New York, USA March 25, 1969
Track 3: Record Plant Studios, New York City, New York, USA April 14, 1969
Track 4: The Hit Factory in New York City on August 28, 1969
Track 5: Record Plant Studios, New York City, New York, USA on April 24, 1969
Track 6: Record Plant Studios, New York City, New York, USA on April 17, 1969
Track 7: Record Plant, New York City, New York, USA on Friday 23 January 1970
Track 8: Record Plant Studios, New York City, New York, USA on November 10 1969
Track 9: The Hit Factory in New York City on September 6,1969.
Track 10: Record Plant Studios, New York City, New York, USA on September 15 1969

Lineup:
Jimi Hendrix – lead and rhythm guitar all tracks, lead vocals
Billy Cox – bass guitar on tracks 1,4,5,8,9,10
Dave Holland – bass on tracks 3,7
Roland Robinson – bass on track 2
Mitch Mitchell – drums on tracks 2, 4, 7, 5 (ref. Hear My Music credits - unedited version)
Buddy Miles – drums on tracks 1,3,9, 10 (ref. Message From Nine To The Universe credits)
Rocky Isaacs – drums on track 5 (ref. Nine To The Universe credits)
Al Marks – percussion on track 5
Juma Sultan - persuccion on tracks 4 and 10

Gerardo Velez – percussion on track 4 (mixed down)

Larry Young – organ on track 3

Larry Lee – rhythm and lead guitar on tracks 4, 10
Jim McCarty – lead & rhythm guitar on track 2
Devon Wilson – backing vocals on track 1 (wiped) and 6
Paul Caruso - harmonica on track 6
Don: harmonica on track 7

This album is a digital clone of the original disc Message From Nine To The Universe (1993)
Bootleg Vinyl-to-CD-transfer of "Nine to the Universe" with additional material.
This Oil Well version has a fine cover, fine quality. Limited to 200 copies only.
Due to its rarity and good quality, this disc is recommended.

This bootleg is a compilation of: Jams & Outtakes from The Record Plant & Hit Factory Studios recorded between 1969 and 1970 in different moments and with different lineups.
This album is made up of studio jams and it is an indication of where Hendrix was trying to head with his music. No longer happy with 3 and a half minute singles, Jimi wanted to explore the limits of what was possible. These tracks, show Jimi and various people just jamming, seeing where ideas went, exploring new ideas that came up, or just jamming for fun.
Originally put out as a 5 song official release (Nine to the Universe in 1980), this bootleg version from Oil Well is an ROIO, the first 5 tracks coming from the original release, along with 5 other tracks, including a couple from the Band Of Gypsy rehearsal sessions.
Tracks 6-10 are more improvisationally-oriented studio jams, also apparently from the original master tapes. Sound quality is very good, though the songs are rough. But that was exactly the point of this release, to try and show just how Jimi came up with his music.

"Message from Nine to the Universe" is the only track from the original album that has yet to be officially re-released in unedited form. However, a complete, almost 19-minute version of "Message from Nine to the Universe" featuring Devon Wilson on call and response vocals appears on the bootleg album The Electric Church.
Please note that this CD is one of the most rare from this italian bootleg label!

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 © Official released material:
Tracks 1 to 5 have been released in 1980 on Nine To The Universe 
Tracks 2-5: The complete and remixed versions of "Jimi/Jimmy Jam"and "Drone Blues" were featured on the 2004 Dagger Records release Hear My Music.
Track 3: A complete, almost 21-minute version of "Young/Hendrix" was released on the 2010 box set West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology,
Track 4:"Easy Blues" was issued on the 2013 album People, Hell and Angels
Track 8 Lonely Avenue Jam is also known as Cat Talking to me and has been released officially on: the 2010 box set West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology.

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Nine to the Universe
Nine to the Universe is an album of studio jams by American guitarist Jimi Hendrix with a variety of musicians. It was released in March 1980 in the US and in June 1980 in the UK. It was the third album of Hendrix recordings to be produced by Alan Douglas. The album contains five jam sessions, edited by Douglas. Various versions of the jams on the LP had previously circulated on bootlegs. Alan Douglas had previously wiped almost all of the backing musicians from the original recordings and replaced them with session musicians on Crash Landing and Midnight Lightning and heavily edited (even significantly changing the tempo in some cases), overdubbing extended rhythm guitar, female backing singers, etc. on occasion.

It was recorded during a later part of the session on March 25, that also featured Dave Holland (an English jazz musician who was then mostly known as Miles Davis' regular acoustic and electric bass player and his contribution to Davis' seminal post-bop/fusion albums between 1968 and 1970, such as Filles de Kilimanjaro, In a Silent Way and Bitches' Brew) and Buddy Miles on drums. Instead, Douglas heavily edited, and released a number of disparate jam sessions recorded between March and August 1969 (mostly) retaining the original backing tracks and musicians.[4] Douglas removed over 50% from each jam, apart from "Drone Blues" – which only lost a third – one of Hendrix' very first new recordings with Billy Cox, who hadn't played with Jimi in three years and some young "pop" musicians recruited from a club.

Musicians on this album besides Hendrix include: Jim McCarty from Buddy Miles Express on guitar, Larry Lee on guitar (his solo was edited out by Douglas. He was one of Hendrix' close early friends in Nashville and member of two of Hendrix' early R&B groups - the 'King Kasuals' and 'The Bonevilles', latterly Al Green's guitarist and musical director), Larry Young on organ (famous R&B & jazz organist, early contributor to "crossover" "jazz fusion"). Billy Cox (Jimi's early army buddy, musical partner and co-founder of their Nashville band the 'King Kasuals' - the band continued after Jimi left. Cox played many R&B sessions in Nashville and was a songwriter as well as the bassist in the house band of the pioneering R&B TV show (in colour) The!!! Beat), Dave Holland (famous jazz bassist, who played with Miles Davis amongst others), and Roland Robinson (not so well known, he played on several of Buddy Miles' later projects ) on bass, Hendrix regular Mitch Mitchell, Buddy Miles from Buddy Miles Express, and Rocky Isaacs, of the pop group the Cherry People (as was Al Marks - percussion), on drums, backing vocals by Devon Wilson on "Message from Nine to the Universe" were wiped from the original recordings. Percussionists Juma Sultan and Gerrardo Velez are featured on "Easy Blues" but have been turned down in the mix until almost inaudible and an unknown tambourine player was dubbed on. Verified guitar effects include the Octavia pedal and Univibe.

These jams were recorded at a time when Hendrix had become acquainted with Miles Davis (Hendrix' girlfriend Devon Wilson had a close friendship with Miles' wife Betty Davis a funk, rock and soul artist), who had begun to cross over to jazz fusion with In A Silent Way (recorded February 18, 1969), which featured the English electric jazz guitar player John McLaughlin as well as bassist Dave Holland.  Hendrix and Davis had discussed music and, it is claimed by Alan Douglas that he, eventually, attempted arranging recording sessions with Davis and Tony Williams, with a view to a possible album. But this came to naught, again according to Douglas, through exorbitant demands for upfront cash from both Davis and Williams. Davis, from 1969, hired John McLaughlin, and latterly others who have been described as "sharing Hendrix's fascination with noise."

Hendrix and Larry Young

Hendrix recorded only once with Davis' sidemen Dave Holland and McLaughlin, and Larry Young, who was playing in Lifetime (as had McLaughlin, recently), but this was just an informal jam session on 25 March. Young was soon to record one track with Davis for 1970's Bitches Brew and four years later played with Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin on Love Devotion Surrender.These three are the only artists involved in the recordings that are recognized as jazz artists, and only two of them are featured here, on one jam "Young/Hendrix". Buddy Miles along with ex-Buddy Miles Express bassist Billy Rich and Larry Young, later played on John McLaughlin's 1970 fusion LP Devotion produced by Alan Douglas and Stephan Bright.

Alan Douglas and Bright were attempting to produce Hendrix' Band of Gypsies from early October until November 28 when Douglas (and therefore his employee Bright) resigned as producer, "citing his own busy schedule, constant pressure from Jimi's manager Michael Jeffery and Hendrix' own indifference." During his & Bright's month and half as Hendrix' producers, the only thing Hendrix considered "finished" was the basic backing track of "Room Full of Mirrors", Billy Cox had voted with his feet, walking out of the sessions and going back to Nashville after a furious row with Bright, he was only coaxed back two weeks later. He said: "We were just goofing around during those sessions at Juggy, the atmosphere at Juggy's didn't allow Jimi to create. It was a lousy deal with a lot of bad vibes around. I had words with Alan's partner, Stephan Bright. I hated that guy with a passion. Jimi sensed it and nothing we did there ever worked out. I didn't think they were necessary. I didn't think they were on Jimi's level. They weren't needed for the production, Jimi was well equipped to do that."

Hendrix recorded many jam sessions over his career which were only loosely organized, often started late and even went on into the late morning. He also recorded several jams in clubs on his portable Teac deck, a notable one being with a very "out of it" Jim Morrison ranting obscenities, Jimi encouraging him to "sing" into the correct mic'. The jams that ended up on Nine to the Universe were not written, played, or recorded as individually named songs; with the exception of "Message ['from Nine' - there is no record of this part in the original title] to the Universe" (an early version of what would become "Message of Love," and which also contains the seeds of "Earth Blues",both songs he would record later that year with the same line-up, who had by then become the Band of Gypsys). All song titles were made up during the production of the final album.

"Easy Blues" was recorded during the aborted August sessions at the Hit Factory with his short lived band that played at Woodstock (variously titled: Gypsy Sun & Rainbows, Band of Gypsies, and Sky Church) and originally featured a guitar solo by Larry Lee. McLaughlin's recollection of the session, many years later (he only played for a short part of the session due to his semi-acoustic guitar's faulty pick up, which made a loud distorted buzzing and the volume of Jimi's guitar which almost drowned him out anyway): "We played one night, just a jam session. And we [the various other musicians that played] played from 2 until 8, in the morning. I thought it was a wonderful experience! I was playing an acoustic guitar with a pick-up. Um, flat-top guitar, and Jimi was playing an electric. Yeah, what a lovely time! Had he lived today, you'd find that he would be employing everything he could get his hands on, and I mean acoustic guitar, synthesizers, orchestras, voices, anything he could get his hands on he'd use! ... The music wasn't all that great, I'm sorry to say. I love Jimi, but the music wasn't that great. We played some good things. Just because it was my name and Jimi Hendrix' name is no excuse. Only since Mahavishinu came out was it transformed into something other."

Larry Young on the session: "I'm not quite sure why I was called, but I was real happy to do it. It was a lot of fun and very informal. Nothing was really planned. It was real loose" Jim McCarty's comment on the LP: "None of that stuff was ever intended to be released. To me it was embarrassing. I'm sure that Jimi would have said, "You're out of your f...ing mind and never let it happen [i.e., the recordings being released, not the actual jams happening]. It was all about people trying to make a buck out of Hendrix." (i.e., Douglas and Warners who employed him and released the LP.)

Lineup
Nine To The Universe : Jimi Hendrix – lead and rhythm guitar, lead vocals; Devon Wilson – backing vocals (wiped), Buddy Miles – drums , Billy Cox – bass guitar Jimi-Jimmy Jam: Roland Robinson – bass , Jim McCarty – lead & rhythm guitar, Mitch Mitchell – drums - Jimi Hendrix – lead and rhythm guitar, lead vocals Young-Hendrix Jam: Larry Young – organ, Buddy Miles – drums , Dave Holland - bass guitar, Jimi Hendrix – lead and rhythm guitar, lead vocals; Easy blues: Larry Lee – rhythm and lead guitar , Juma Sultan – percussion (mixed down),Gerardo Velez – percussion (mixed down), Mitch Mitchell – drums, Billy Cox – bass guitar, Jimi Hendrix – lead and rhythm guitar, lead vocals 

Drone blues: Billy Cox – bass guitar, Mitch Mitchell – drums (ref. Hear My Music credits), Jimi Hendrix – lead and rhythm guitar, lead vocals, Rocky Isaacs – drums (?), Al Marks – percussion Midnight Lightning Jam: Jimi Hendrix - guitars and vocals, Paul Caruso - harmonica, Devon Wilson - vocals  Highway Of Desire / Seven Dollars In My Pocket Dreams :Mitch Mitchell – drums. Dave Holland – bass, Jimi Hendrix – lead and rhythm guitar, lead vocals, Don - harmonica Lonely Avenue Jam : Buddy Miles – drums, Billy Cox - bass Lover Man: Buddy Miles – drums, Billy Cox - bass, Jimi Hendrix – lead and rhythm guitar, lead vocals Trying to be: Larry Lee – rhythm and lead guitar, Juma Sultan – percussion (mixed down), Buddy Miles - drums (?), Billy Cox - bass, Juma Sultan – percussion (ref. Nine To The Universe credits), Jimi Hendrix – lead and rhythm guitar, lead vocals.

On 22 May at Record Plant, NY  Jimi Hendrix with Cox and Miles played Message From Nine To The Universe with Devon Wilson rap (here released) on 25 Mar at  Record Plant, NY Hendrix jams with Mitchell, Jim McCarty, John McLaughlin, Dave Holland, Buddy Miles; from this sessions we have Jimi-Jimmy Jam here released. on 28 Aug at Hit Factory, NY Hendrix played Message To The Universe, Lover Man, Izabella, Jam Back At The House and Easy blues (here released) on 24 Apr - Record Plant, NY - jam with Cox and The Cherry People - Bleeding Heart, Hey Country Boy, Message To Love, Crash Landing Jam, Drone Blues (here released), Night Messenger (Ships Passing Through The Night); on 17 Apr - Record Plant, NY - Lullaby For The Summer, Jam with harmonica b Keep On Groovin' (with Devon Wilson and Paul Caruso) On Friday, January 23, 1970 at Record Plant, NY 1st engineer Bob Hughes 2nd engineer Dave Ragno.

Ezy Rider/MLK Jam - Villanova Junction  - Record Plant 2X  - Slow Time Blues - Burning Desire - Blue Suede Shoes - Highways of Desire - Seven Dollars In My Pocket - Midnight Lightning (Keep On Groovin') - Freedom - Once I Had A Woman - Country Blues - Astro Man (From “Ultimate Hendrix” book by John McDermott) on 10 Nov at Record Plant, NY Hendrix and Miles only played Lonely Avenue (here released) on 15 Sep at Record Plant, NY Jimi Hendrix played Sky Blues Today, Villanova Junction, Burning Desire (Larry Lee quits) and Trying to be (here released)

http://hendrix.guide.pagesperso-orange.fr/timeline.htm

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