Jimi Hendrix- Tinker Street Cinema, Woodstock, NY 8/10/69

YouTube ^ | February 8, 2018 | carlygtr

[DoodleBob]

1. The Dance
2. Sundance
3. JL 13 (Earth Blues)
4. Star Spangled Banner

[DoodleBob]

Jimi Hendrix jams with several musicians, including, Ali Kaboi (drums), Juma Sultan (bass), Jerry Velez (percussion), Earl Cross (trumpet) & others).

Per the Bethel Woods website, the stress of constant activity and personal tensions blew the group apart after an appearance at the Denver Pop Festival in June 1969. Now on his own, Hendrix moved to Shokan, New York (a small village near the town of Woodstock in the Catskills) to plot his next move. While there, his management negotiated an $18,000 ($122,000 in 2019 dollars) offer to play at the Woodstock festival in August, with Hendrix receiving the highest payment of any artist booked for the festival.

By August of 1969, Hendrix’s career was in a major state of flux. Holed up at his rented house in Shokan, he assembled a new group to play at Woodstock, which he named Gypsy Sun and Rainbows.

This featured Jimi Hendrix Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell alongside two local Woodstock percussionists, Juma Sultan and Jerry Velez. The lineup was rounded off with two of Hendrix’s buddies from his days in the U.S. military, guitarist Larry Lee and rock-solid bassist Billy Cox. They convened for a brief but intense series of rehearsals in Woodstock before heading out to White Lake for Hendrix’s headlining gig.

I love the raw, and unvarnished performance. No producer, no industry jackwagons, just Jimi and others working out.

[cdcdawg]

“I love the raw, and unvarnished performance. No producer, no industry jackwagons, just Jimi and others working out.”

Yes. Actual musicians playing! Love it! My current favorite performance is Billy Strings playing in a back room at a party. An all-time favorite is Keith Whitley playing a Graham Parsons song in someone’s backyard in the early 80s. The raw stuff is just the best.

[plain talk]

I have listened to lots of Hendrix bootlegs. I was around during that period and well know what live cassette recordings of the period sound like. One has to get past the bad recording to pick up on the performance etc.

Having said that — that was the worst steaming pile of garbage I have ever heard. :-)

But thanks for posting!

[DAC21]

“Having said that — that was the worst steaming pile of garbage I have ever heard. :-)”

No argument from me.

[mountainlion]

Jimmy Hendrix was in the 101st Airborne. There HQ was Ft. Campbell Ky. There are pictures of him at the barracks. When 101st went to Viet Nam the 53 Engineers took over the barracks. I stayed in those barracks about 9 months. I had no idea who he was at the time.

[fretzer]

>that was the worst steaming pile of garbage I have ever heard. :-)

Good acid, they didn’t care.

[plain talk]

“Good acid, they didn’t care.”

... and there’s that.

[norwaypinesavage]

That’s not music, that’s NOISE. A tree falling in the woods would be better than that, particularly if there was no one around to hear it.