Jimi Hendrix- JIMI PLAYS BERKELEY

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Jimi Hendrix- JIMI PLAYS BERKELEY- DVD- 2003/2007-
- Experience Hendrix, LLC/MCA Records, Inc./UMG Recordings Services, Inc./Ukrainian Records-
- 602498611272- 100 grn
Seeing as how little exists in the way of Jimi Hendrix archival material on film, it’s easy to get excited over the release or improved reissue of even the most questionable artifacts. JIMI PLAYS BERKELEY is an excellent case in point — seemingly doomed from the very beginning, this most frustrating of Hendrix films has survived its controversial origins into the 21st century and now reaps the benefits of technology’s latest dressings. DVD was reeased on 16th September 2003 by Experience Hendrix. Jimi Hendrix played two shows at Berkeley on 30th May 1970, which have long been both legendary and unreleased. Some legendary recordings maintain their fascination only by being unavailable. Many live Hendrix releases, particularly before Experience Hendrix took over his estate, have suffered bizarre editing and re-ordering. The pace of the show is great, with every song is presented complete and in sequence. The sound quality is as good as any live Hendrix. The only disappointment of this release is that only one of the two Berkeley shows has been released. The first set is arguably as strong, and was the source for the prior releases of Hear My Train A Comin' and Johnny B Goode. None the less, this is the strongest newly-released Hendrix material in a long time.
PERSONNEL: Jimi Hendrix – guitar, vocals; Billy Cox – bass guitar; Mitch Mitchell – drums.
An early death is, of course, generally “good” (if you will) for your artistic reputation unless, like Elvis, say, you were on the downside early enough in your career as for his bloated final performances chops to a bewildered audience. Elvis didn’t die too soon. He died too late. In November of 2022 year, Jimi Hendrix, had he not vanished so soon, would be 80 years old, a fact that invites, if nothing else, pause. Eighty, really? Hendrix, if you think about it, could never be 80. You wouldn’t, you couldn’t, accept him at 80. Janis, perhaps. Maybe even Morrison, an aged lizard king whose “poetry” had finally devolved to the banal rant it was rapidly headed toward - but not Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix was wired to be the guitar virtuoso of our lifetime, and he had to die young to make it so. He was too gifted, too singularly brilliant to live a long life. Godlike, Hendrix had to die early in order to save us and achieve divinity - and he did. Made from a new, digitally-restored transfer from the original sixteen mm negative, JIMI PLAYS BERKELEY premieres more than fifteen minutes of previously unseen documentary and performance footage of Hendrix classics, not featured in the original film release. Other than the fact that Hendrix would die four months later, it presents one of the surest, most confident of Hendrix’s performances - his playing was both loose and extraordinarily dialed in. He was confident, easy going, and intense when he needed it to be. Hendrix, certainly here, could take a song and spin it numerous ways without losing the overall sense of the piece. His improvisation always had a larger point to it. To watch Hendrix playing is to understand that the man played the guitar quite unlike anyone else. Many musicians have suggested that when they’d heard Hendrix they considered giving up the instrument all together. Hendrix was 28 when the Berkeley concert took place, and would be dead in a few months. What a fine way to celebrate one of his finest concerts and sustain the memory of our guitar-playing savior.
Filmed And Recorded Live At Berkeley Community Theatre On 30th May 1970.
Comes In A Standard Plastic DVD Case With Black Tray And Includes 12-Page Booklet.
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