Oil Well – RSC 014 CD
2 Hey Baby 4:35
3 In From The Storm 5:01
4 Message To Love 4:50
5 Foxy Lady 4:44
6 Hear My Train A-Comin' 9:08
7 Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) 7:16
8 Fire 3:51
9 Purple Haze 4:25
Note
All songs by Jimi Hendrix
Live at Haleakala Crater, Maui, Hawaii, July 30, 1970
Lineup:
Bass – Billy Cox
Drums – Mitch Mitchell
Vocals, Guitar – Jimi Hendrix
This is a reissue of "Last American Concert Vol.1" - The Swingin' Pig - TSP 062.
This album contains part of the live concert at Haleakala Crater, Maui, Hawaii, July 30, 1970, this is the first show of the two. At the moment we don't know if Oil Well label released also a copy of "Last American Concert Vol.2" Anyway this Oil Well version has a fine cover, fine quality. Limited to 200 copies only. During "Fire" solo Hendrix played part of "Sunshine of your love" by Cream.
Due to its rarity and good quality, this disc is recommended. This bootleg has been released also with an alternate front cover.
Please note that:
Track 2 is: Jam + Hey Babe - the jam part (first 20 seconds) has been omissed from the new 2020 release Music, Money, Madness ... Jimi Hendrix In Maui.
Track 3 is: Hey Babe (last 20 seconds) + In From the Storm
This legendary performance from Jimi Hendrix was recorded and filmed for inclusion in the 1971 hippie documentary Rainbow Bridge Vibratory Colour-Sound Experiment that Jimi’s manager, Michael Jeffrey, was involved with. The concert took place on a grassy meadow near the Haleakala Crater in Maui where the people actually had to hike to the site. The film reportedly only contained 17 minutes of Hendrix’s set in the middle of the movie and has been released on VHS a few times throughout the years. There was a problem with the recording of the drums and Mitch Mitchell had to go into Electric Lady Studios and overdub his parts at a later date so at times it looks as though Mitch’s parts don’t line up correctly due to the overdubbing but Jimi’s parts are very well in synch.
That is an amazing set list. Jimi played great that day. It was an outdoor show and the wind detracts from the quality of the recording, but who cares, its Jimi playing his ass off. Mitchell redid the drums for the songs used in the movie, so those sound much clearer. Overall its a decent recording of an excellent show. Pure synesthetic voodoo magic. Jimi channels the ancient forces of nature around him to create his most beautifully-flowing performance ever. His guitar tone as effortlessly liquid as ocean water, with a newfound melodic elegance that soars, blows all the minds gathered there into pieces as he picks a new color out of the wind-whipped air for each song and proceeds to sketch it into novel shapes and sounds while the band keep the trance in perfect time. An otherworldly recording.
This legendary performance from Jimi Hendrix was recorded and filmed for inclusion in the 1971 hippie documentary Rainbow Bridge Vibratory Colour-Sound Experiment that Jimi’s manager, Michael Jeffrey, was involved with. The concert took place on a grassy meadow near the Haleakala Crater in Maui where the people actually had to hike to the site. The film reportedly only contained 17 minutes of Hendrix’s set in the middle of the movie and has been released on VHS a few times throughout the years. There was a problem with the recording of the drums and Mitch Mitchell had to go into Electric Lady Studios and overdub his parts at a later date so at times it looks as though Mitch’s parts don’t line up correctly due to the overdubbing but Jimi’s parts are very well in synch.
That is an amazing set list. Jimi played great that day. It was an outdoor show and the wind detracts from the quality of the recording, but who cares, its Jimi playing his ass off. Mitchell redid the drums for the songs used in the movie, so those sound much clearer. Overall its a decent recording of an excellent show. Pure synesthetic voodoo magic. Jimi channels the ancient forces of nature around him to create his most beautifully-flowing performance ever. His guitar tone as effortlessly liquid as ocean water, with a newfound melodic elegance that soars, blows all the minds gathered there into pieces as he picks a new color out of the wind-whipped air for each song and proceeds to sketch it into novel shapes and sounds while the band keep the trance in perfect time. An otherworldly recording.
"Jimi loved adventure and didn't fail to show it to us during his stay in Hawaii, a place he loved too," said Janie Hendrix. “The story of the Rainbow Bridge movie and these recordings give us a picture of Jimi's extraordinary ability to transform the ordinary into something extraordinary! We are thrilled with this release because it gives the world a closer look at Jimi's genius ”. This concert (first and second set) have been released on Nov. 20 2002 on "Music, Money, Madness ... Jimi Hendrix In Maui". A new documentary and accompanying live album about Jimi Hendrix’s famous 1970 visit to Hawaii.
Audio quality: 
Quality content:
© Official released material:
Tracks 1-9 have been released officially on Music, Money, Madness ... Jimi Hendrix In Maui
Tracks 2,3 have been released officially in "The Jimi Hendrix Experience Box CD4"
Track 6 has been released officially on Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix Collection
Rainbow Bridge
Rainbow Bridge is a 1971 film directed by Chuck Wein about different countercultural figures interacting on the Hawaiian island of Maui. He described it as "a kind of space-age Candid Camera. We're going to place Pat [New York model Pat Hartley, the protagonist] in all kinds of real-life situtations, and film what happens. We're going to shoot a lot of film and just see what comes out of it."Harry Shapiro adds, "the idea was to shoot an antidote to Easy Rider, showing the positive side of the youth movement."
Filmed with non-professional actors and without a script, it features improvised scenes with a variety of characters. When it became apparent that it was floundering, producer Michael Jeffery brought in his client Jimi Hendrix to film an outdoor concert (July 30, 1970). Hendrix's heavily edited (no complete songs) performance appears near the end of the film. Rainbow Bridge was a critical failure and has been re-released on video tape and DVD formats. Although it only contains 17 minutes of Hendrix performing, it continues to attract attention as his second-to-last American concert and the last one filmed.
Faced with a serious cash flow problem, Jeffery approached Reprise Records parent Warner Bros. with an idea for a youth film. He was able to secure a $450,000 advance with the promise of a soundtrack by Hendrix. While in Maui, Jeffery met Mike Hynson, star of The Endless Summer surf epic, and wanted to develop a film. With the proposed title Wave, it would be centered on the Maui countercultural community. Jeffery enlisted Chuck Wein, who had produced three Andy Warhol Factory films.Wein brought in Pat Hartley as the star, who had appeared in some of his films. Wein and art director Melinda Merryweather "invited outrageous people to portray themselves in Rainbow Bridge. They included dope smugglers, priests and nuns, acidheads, gays, groupies,environmentalists, and a group who claimed to be from Venus", according to Hendrix biographer Steven Roby. Before long, Warner's advance was used up with little to show for it. Although there was no plan for a Hendrix concert, Jeffery decided that a filmed performance was needed to rescue his investment. Later record producer John Jansen recalled, "Jeffery had to talk Hendrix into performing. Up to that point, he had refused to write a note of music for the film."
Music, Money, Madness . . . Jimi Hendrix In Maui (2020)
Jimi Hendrix’s participation in the 1971 box office flop Rainbow Bridge — which included an outdoor Hawaiian concert with the Jimi Hendrix Hendrix on July 30th, 1970 — will be chronicled in the new documentary Music, Money, Madness . . . Jimi Hendrix In Maui. It will come out on November 20th along with the accompanying album Live in Maui. The Blu-ray edition of the movie will include all of the available concert footage from the film shoot. Check out a preview of “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)” from the show.
Rainbow Bridge was an Easy Rider-inspired film produced by Hendrix’s manager Michael Jeffery and filmed on the Hawaiian island of Maui. But director Chuck Wein, a close associate of Andy Warhol, had little experience and the film, which centers around a New York model that travels to Hawaii, was dismissed as a pompous, impenetrable mess by most critics.
Its saving grace was footage near the end of the Jimi Hendrix Experience playing on a makeshift stage on the lower slope of the dormant Haleakala volcano. The original drum track wasn’t properly recorded at the time, so Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell overdubbed a new one at Electric Lady Studios. “Mitch did a tremendous amount of work on the overdubs,” producer Eddie Kramer said in a statement. “If he didn’t get it in one take, he certainly did in the second one and I was so blown away by his ability to duplicate the parts he had already played! He was determined to fix what suffered on the recordings due to the 50-mile-an-hour winds because they were playing on the side of a bloody volcano!” Hendrix died before Rainbow Bridge reached theaters and the soundtrack doesn’t feature any music recorded at the Maui shows. The two sets he played that day have never been released prior to this and much of the footage has never been seen.
Music, Money, Madness . . . Jimi Hendrix In Maui was directed by Hendrix archivist/author John McDermott and weaves together new interviews with the surviving Rainbow Bridge players along with never-before-seen archival footage from the shoot. “Jimi loved adventure and there was certainly no shortage of it during his time in Hawaii, a place he also loved,” said Janie Hendrix, the CEO of Experience Hendrix. “The back story of Rainbow Bridge and these recordings paint a picture of Jimi’s uncanny ability to turn the bizarre into something amazing! We’re excited about this release because it gives the world a closer look at Jimi’s genius.”
Jimi Hendrix – Maui 1970
In the summer of 1970 Jimi Hendrix played his final American concert on the beautiful island of Maui, Hawaii as part of the Chuck Wein’s movie about the Hawaiian Islands counterculture entitled Rainbow Bridge Vibratory Color/Sound Experiment. There was a small crowd of approximately 500 hippies present supposedly all by invitation only. Of course the site picked for filming was not at the actual Haleakala Volcano, the volcano is 10,000 feet above see level, it is sparse of vegetation, rocky and quite chilly as well, hardly a place for hippies to congregate and enjoy music. The final movie would feature only 17 minutes of actual footage of Jimi mostly due to issues with the recordings, it was extremely windy and Mitch Mitchell’s drums were not properly mic’d. Curiously, the posthumously released RainbowBridge album did not feature any material from the movie, but studio outtakes cultivated by Michael Jeffries and Eddie Kramer.
The Hendrix Maui recordings have long been in circulation on the bootleg market, vinyl releases were Incident at Rainbow Bridge Maui Hawaii (UDP 1310701), Hendrix Live In Hawaii (Hen Records 37-WCF), Last American Concert (Jupiter 444), Last American Concert (21465), Last British Concert / Last American Concert (Postage Records), Maui, Hawaii (TMOQ 71018), Rainbow Bridge (CBM 3213), and You Can’t Use My Name (Q9020). It also made a splash on the CD market as Last American Concert Vol. 1 (The Swingin’ Pig TSP CD 062), Last American Concert Vol. 2 (The Swingin’ Pig TSP CD 072), Voodoo Chile (Oil Well RSC 014 CD), The Rainbow Bridge Concert (Purple Haze Records HAZE001), Maui Hawaii (Scorpio JH-07010), and most recently Rainbow Bridge Colour-Sound Experiment (No Label). I do not have any version of this concert so was pleased to see this title released as it is basically a pressed CD version of a fan made project referred to as “Maui Wowee – Bob Terry Tapes”. Some enterprising fan took the most complete version of the soundboard recording and patched the missing parts with an audience recording making for the most complete version to date.
The main two soundboard sources are excellent, albeit with overdubbed drums, it’s easy to tell them apart as one is just a bit sharper and brighter. There are occasional low vocals due to Jimi’s proximity to his vocal mike and the high winds. There is also a very small bit of hiss but nothing distracting and a wonderful range of frequencies making it easy to turn up and enjoy at loud volumes as well. The audience source is good at best, clear with all instruments discernible yet very lo-fi, the fact that someone recorded the concert is amazing. It also sounds like the version of Hey Baby / In From The Storm from the 2013 Jimi Hendrix Experiment box set was used, the sound of the two songs is more crisp and clean that the rest of the soundboard. The patches are well handled, seamless and well done, not jarring making for a nice sounding transition.
Jimi was in fine shape and good mood for the two performances on Maui, four days prior he played his hometown of Seattle, Washington and had a chance to spend a few days with his family. This rest and relaxation certainly helped Jimi and for the two concerts on Maui, plays very well, inspired psychedelic improvised Blues Rock at its best. The first disc has two patches, first being 1:38 to 1:45 during Lover Man then as that song ends at the 2:35 mark the audience recording is used for the subsequent applause and the first 1:35 minutes of Hey Baby. There is also a small 10 second patch between Fire and Purple Haze, the audience patches between songs is quite illuminating as you can hear comments from the audience and how much they are digging the concert.
The first set is well played and features more of Jimi’s existing hits, from the blistering opener Spanish Castle Magic and the unique paring of Hey Baby and In From The Storm to an electric version of Voodoo Child, Hendrix bristles with creativity in his playing. Only the usually incredible Hear My Train A Comin’ falls into the average category, being the only slow blues in the set I would have expected Hendrix to soar rather than sound a bit bored.
The second set features Jimi playing a set of mostly newer material he was working on and were currently included in his 1970 concerts. Jimi’s playing on the five minute instrumental Villanova Junction is ethereal followed by the band exploding on Ezy Rider, the band is ripping and Hendrix has an aggressive tone in his voice. While Hear My Train of the first show failed to deliver, Red House during the second makes up for it, far more inspired and with Jimi’s love of the blues coming through. A 10 second patch between Red House and Freedom is present giving us Jimi playing a snippet of Freedom’s main riff, the next patch is the first 35 seconds of Beginnings. It is from here that the next several songs become a long jam session done in front of a live audience and they end the concert with a unique version of Stone Free and at the 3:41 mark Jimi breaks into Hey Joe then after 15 seconds abruptly goes into a frenzied riff without skipping a beat.
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Quality content:
© Official released material:
Tracks 1-9 have been released officially on Music, Money, Madness ... Jimi Hendrix In Maui
Tracks 2,3 have been released officially in "The Jimi Hendrix Experience Box CD4"
Track 6 has been released officially on Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix Collection
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Live at Haleakala Crater, Maui, Hawaii, July 30, 1970
After flying to the Island of Maui for a special filmed project by Manager, Michael Jeffrey, Hendrix, Cox, and Mitchell perform for an invitiation-only crowd of 500 people for the Rainbow Bridge Vibratory Color Sound Experiment on the Haleakala Crater on the Island of Maui. Portions of the performance are included on the posthumously released motion picture Rainbow Bridge.
(First set) “Spanish Castle Magic,” “Lover Man,” “Hey Baby (New Rising Sun),” “In From The Storm,” “Message To Love,” “Foxey Lady,” “Hear My Train A Comin,” “Voodoo Child (Slight Return),” “Fire,” and “Purple Haze.”
(Second set) “Dolly Dagger, ” “Instrumental,” “Ezy Rider,” “Red House,” “Freedom,” “Beginnings,” “Straight Ahead,” “Hey Baby (New Rising Sun),” “Stone Free,” and “Hey Joe.”
This unique performance by Jimi was reviewed by Ken Rosene, a reporter for The Honolulu Advertiser with a write up in its August 10, 1970 edition: “The Jimi Hendrix Experience came on next and we were really ready. Joints were being passed all around us. Hendrix seemed ready too. He was in a much better mood than last year’s Waikiki Shell performance. Unfortunately the sound system wasn’t. From where I was sitting (middle front) all you could hear when Jimi was powering his guitar was just his guitar. Maybe Hendrix plans it that way, but if he does – it’s sure a big waste of talent in Mitch Mitchell and bassman Billy Cox. I was hoping it was only the first song but it lasted through the whole show, hearing Mitch only when Hendrix was playing soft (a rarity) and during his solo (fantastic – wasn’t it?). We had a little better luck hearing Billy Cox. He was only silenced when Hendrix was on a heavy power riff. Well, you may say, “His guitar was the only thing I came for,” then I’m sure you really enjoyed the concert because his guitar was right on. But we feel Jimi’s voice adds a lot to the sound and that too was only heard when he wasn’t on one of his power trips. All ’n’ all it was still a fine concert with Hendrix really getting it together for the standing ovation.”
Live at Haleakala Crater, Maui, Hawaii, July 30, 1970After flying to the Island of Maui for a special filmed project by Manager, Michael Jeffrey, Hendrix, Cox, and Mitchell perform for an invitiation-only crowd of 500 people for the Rainbow Bridge Vibratory Color Sound Experiment on the Haleakala Crater on the Island of Maui. Portions of the performance are included on the posthumously released motion picture Rainbow Bridge.
(First set) “Spanish Castle Magic,” “Lover Man,” “Hey Baby (New Rising Sun),” “In From The Storm,” “Message To Love,” “Foxey Lady,” “Hear My Train A Comin,” “Voodoo Child (Slight Return),” “Fire,” and “Purple Haze.”
(Second set) “Dolly Dagger, ” “Instrumental,” “Ezy Rider,” “Red House,” “Freedom,” “Beginnings,” “Straight Ahead,” “Hey Baby (New Rising Sun),” “Stone Free,” and “Hey Joe.”
This unique performance by Jimi was reviewed by Ken Rosene, a reporter for The Honolulu Advertiser with a write up in its August 10, 1970 edition: “The Jimi Hendrix Experience came on next and we were really ready. Joints were being passed all around us. Hendrix seemed ready too. He was in a much better mood than last year’s Waikiki Shell performance. Unfortunately the sound system wasn’t. From where I was sitting (middle front) all you could hear when Jimi was powering his guitar was just his guitar. Maybe Hendrix plans it that way, but if he does – it’s sure a big waste of talent in Mitch Mitchell and bassman Billy Cox. I was hoping it was only the first song but it lasted through the whole show, hearing Mitch only when Hendrix was playing soft (a rarity) and during his solo (fantastic – wasn’t it?). We had a little better luck hearing Billy Cox. He was only silenced when Hendrix was on a heavy power riff. Well, you may say, “His guitar was the only thing I came for,” then I’m sure you really enjoyed the concert because his guitar was right on. But we feel Jimi’s voice adds a lot to the sound and that too was only heard when he wasn’t on one of his power trips. All ’n’ all it was still a fine concert with Hendrix really getting it together for the standing ovation.”
Rainbow Bridge Rainbow Bridge is a 1971 film directed by Chuck Wein about different countercultural figures interacting on the Hawaiian island of Maui. He described it as "a kind of space-age Candid Camera. We're going to place Pat [New York model Pat Hartley, the protagonist] in all kinds of real-life situtations, and film what happens. We're going to shoot a lot of film and just see what comes out of it."Harry Shapiro adds, "the idea was to shoot an antidote to Easy Rider, showing the positive side of the youth movement."
Filmed with non-professional actors and without a script, it features improvised scenes with a variety of characters. When it became apparent that it was floundering, producer Michael Jeffery brought in his client Jimi Hendrix to film an outdoor concert (July 30, 1970). Hendrix's heavily edited (no complete songs) performance appears near the end of the film. Rainbow Bridge was a critical failure and has been re-released on video tape and DVD formats. Although it only contains 17 minutes of Hendrix performing, it continues to attract attention as his second-to-last American concert and the last one filmed.
Faced with a serious cash flow problem, Jeffery approached Reprise Records parent Warner Bros. with an idea for a youth film. He was able to secure a $450,000 advance with the promise of a soundtrack by Hendrix. While in Maui, Jeffery met Mike Hynson, star of The Endless Summer surf epic, and wanted to develop a film. With the proposed title Wave, it would be centered on the Maui countercultural community. Jeffery enlisted Chuck Wein, who had produced three Andy Warhol Factory films.Wein brought in Pat Hartley as the star, who had appeared in some of his films. Wein and art director Melinda Merryweather "invited outrageous people to portray themselves in Rainbow Bridge. They included dope smugglers, priests and nuns, acidheads, gays, groupies,environmentalists, and a group who claimed to be from Venus", according to Hendrix biographer Steven Roby. Before long, Warner's advance was used up with little to show for it. Although there was no plan for a Hendrix concert, Jeffery decided that a filmed performance was needed to rescue his investment. Later record producer John Jansen recalled, "Jeffery had to talk Hendrix into performing. Up to that point, he had refused to write a note of music for the film."
Music, Money, Madness . . . Jimi Hendrix In Maui (2020) Jimi Hendrix’s participation in the 1971 box office flop Rainbow Bridge — which included an outdoor Hawaiian concert with the Jimi Hendrix Hendrix on July 30th, 1970 — will be chronicled in the new documentary Music, Money, Madness . . . Jimi Hendrix In Maui. It will come out on November 20th along with the accompanying album Live in Maui. The Blu-ray edition of the movie will include all of the available concert footage from the film shoot. Check out a preview of “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)” from the show.
Rainbow Bridge was an Easy Rider-inspired film produced by Hendrix’s manager Michael Jeffery and filmed on the Hawaiian island of Maui. But director Chuck Wein, a close associate of Andy Warhol, had little experience and the film, which centers around a New York model that travels to Hawaii, was dismissed as a pompous, impenetrable mess by most critics.
Its saving grace was footage near the end of the Jimi Hendrix Experience playing on a makeshift stage on the lower slope of the dormant Haleakala volcano. The original drum track wasn’t properly recorded at the time, so Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell overdubbed a new one at Electric Lady Studios. “Mitch did a tremendous amount of work on the overdubs,” producer Eddie Kramer said in a statement. “If he didn’t get it in one take, he certainly did in the second one and I was so blown away by his ability to duplicate the parts he had already played! He was determined to fix what suffered on the recordings due to the 50-mile-an-hour winds because they were playing on the side of a bloody volcano!” Hendrix died before Rainbow Bridge reached theaters and the soundtrack doesn’t feature any music recorded at the Maui shows. The two sets he played that day have never been released prior to this and much of the footage has never been seen.
Music, Money, Madness . . . Jimi Hendrix In Maui was directed by Hendrix archivist/author John McDermott and weaves together new interviews with the surviving Rainbow Bridge players along with never-before-seen archival footage from the shoot. “Jimi loved adventure and there was certainly no shortage of it during his time in Hawaii, a place he also loved,” said Janie Hendrix, the CEO of Experience Hendrix. “The back story of Rainbow Bridge and these recordings paint a picture of Jimi’s uncanny ability to turn the bizarre into something amazing! We’re excited about this release because it gives the world a closer look at Jimi’s genius.”
In the summer of 1970 Jimi Hendrix played his final American concert on the beautiful island of Maui, Hawaii as part of the Chuck Wein’s movie about the Hawaiian Islands counterculture entitled Rainbow Bridge Vibratory Color/Sound Experiment. There was a small crowd of approximately 500 hippies present supposedly all by invitation only. Of course the site picked for filming was not at the actual Haleakala Volcano, the volcano is 10,000 feet above see level, it is sparse of vegetation, rocky and quite chilly as well, hardly a place for hippies to congregate and enjoy music. The final movie would feature only 17 minutes of actual footage of Jimi mostly due to issues with the recordings, it was extremely windy and Mitch Mitchell’s drums were not properly mic’d. Curiously, the posthumously released RainbowBridge album did not feature any material from the movie, but studio outtakes cultivated by Michael Jeffries and Eddie Kramer.
The Hendrix Maui recordings have long been in circulation on the bootleg market, vinyl releases were Incident at Rainbow Bridge Maui Hawaii (UDP 1310701), Hendrix Live In Hawaii (Hen Records 37-WCF), Last American Concert (Jupiter 444), Last American Concert (21465), Last British Concert / Last American Concert (Postage Records), Maui, Hawaii (TMOQ 71018), Rainbow Bridge (CBM 3213), and You Can’t Use My Name (Q9020). It also made a splash on the CD market as Last American Concert Vol. 1 (The Swingin’ Pig TSP CD 062), Last American Concert Vol. 2 (The Swingin’ Pig TSP CD 072), Voodoo Chile (Oil Well RSC 014 CD), The Rainbow Bridge Concert (Purple Haze Records HAZE001), Maui Hawaii (Scorpio JH-07010), and most recently Rainbow Bridge Colour-Sound Experiment (No Label). I do not have any version of this concert so was pleased to see this title released as it is basically a pressed CD version of a fan made project referred to as “Maui Wowee – Bob Terry Tapes”. Some enterprising fan took the most complete version of the soundboard recording and patched the missing parts with an audience recording making for the most complete version to date.
The main two soundboard sources are excellent, albeit with overdubbed drums, it’s easy to tell them apart as one is just a bit sharper and brighter. There are occasional low vocals due to Jimi’s proximity to his vocal mike and the high winds. There is also a very small bit of hiss but nothing distracting and a wonderful range of frequencies making it easy to turn up and enjoy at loud volumes as well. The audience source is good at best, clear with all instruments discernible yet very lo-fi, the fact that someone recorded the concert is amazing. It also sounds like the version of Hey Baby / In From The Storm from the 2013 Jimi Hendrix Experiment box set was used, the sound of the two songs is more crisp and clean that the rest of the soundboard. The patches are well handled, seamless and well done, not jarring making for a nice sounding transition.
Jimi was in fine shape and good mood for the two performances on Maui, four days prior he played his hometown of Seattle, Washington and had a chance to spend a few days with his family. This rest and relaxation certainly helped Jimi and for the two concerts on Maui, plays very well, inspired psychedelic improvised Blues Rock at its best. The first disc has two patches, first being 1:38 to 1:45 during Lover Man then as that song ends at the 2:35 mark the audience recording is used for the subsequent applause and the first 1:35 minutes of Hey Baby. There is also a small 10 second patch between Fire and Purple Haze, the audience patches between songs is quite illuminating as you can hear comments from the audience and how much they are digging the concert.
The first set is well played and features more of Jimi’s existing hits, from the blistering opener Spanish Castle Magic and the unique paring of Hey Baby and In From The Storm to an electric version of Voodoo Child, Hendrix bristles with creativity in his playing. Only the usually incredible Hear My Train A Comin’ falls into the average category, being the only slow blues in the set I would have expected Hendrix to soar rather than sound a bit bored.
The second set features Jimi playing a set of mostly newer material he was working on and were currently included in his 1970 concerts. Jimi’s playing on the five minute instrumental Villanova Junction is ethereal followed by the band exploding on Ezy Rider, the band is ripping and Hendrix has an aggressive tone in his voice. While Hear My Train of the first show failed to deliver, Red House during the second makes up for it, far more inspired and with Jimi’s love of the blues coming through. A 10 second patch between Red House and Freedom is present giving us Jimi playing a snippet of Freedom’s main riff, the next patch is the first 35 seconds of Beginnings. It is from here that the next several songs become a long jam session done in front of a live audience and they end the concert with a unique version of Stone Free and at the 3:41 mark Jimi breaks into Hey Joe then after 15 seconds abruptly goes into a frenzied riff without skipping a beat.
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