8/2/09

Jimi Hendrix Live - At Woodstock '69 - The greatest guitarist concert


Jimi Hendrix Live - At Woodstock '69 - The greatest guitarist concert
56.39 minutes
The entire concert of Jimi Hendrix performing at the Woodstock festival in 1969.
Live at Woodstock is a posthumous live album by Jimi Hendrix released on July 6, 1999. The album documents Hendrix's performance with his band Gypsy Sun and Rainbows at Woodstock Festival on August 18, 1969. Many of the tracks on this album were released in 1994 on Woodstock. Apart from the cover of "Gypsy Woman" (The Impressions) an "Mastermind", both of which were sung by rhythm guitarist Larry Lee, Live at Woodstock contains the full set played by the band.

Jimi Hendrix Live - At Woodstock '69 - The greatest guitarist concert

Track Listing
Message To Love
Fire
Izabella
Red House
Jam Back At The House
Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
Star Spangled Banner
Purple Haze
Woodstock Improvisation
Villanova Junction
Hear My Train A' Comin'

Personnel
Jimi Hendrix – guitar, vocals
Mitch Mitchell – drums
Billy Cox – bass guitar
Larry Lee – rhythm guitar
Juma Sultan – percussion
Jerry Velez - percussion

The recording, sound mix and the 1999 remix were completed by Eddie Kramer, who has pointed out that the conditions were primitive; in view of that, the result has been acclaimed, though the radical editing results in the group sound being reduced to a three piece of Hendrix, Cox and Mitchell. Lee, as noted above, and the two percussionists are essentially edited out of the mix. The original recording of the complete performance can be heard on several bootleg releases and the full group is clearly audible, notably on "Jam Back At The House" (aka "Beginnings"), where the volume of the two percussionists and Lee's guitar are noticeably a part of the whole.

Jimi Hendrix Live - At Woodstock '69 - The greatest guitarist concert

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