Jimi Hendrix
10th May 1968
It´s Only A Papermoon
Fillmore East
LUNA Rec. (LU 9420)
Fillmore East, New York, 10th May 1968 (date
10th March 1968 on artwork is wrong)
1) Lover Man
2) Fire
3) Foxy Lady
4) Red House
5) Hey Joe
6) Sunshine Of Your
Love ~ Hear My Train A-Comin´(a.k.a. "Getting My Heart Back Together
Again")
7) Can You Please
Crawl Out Your Window
8) Purple Haze
Length 1-8: 53:17min
additional tracks:
Col Ballrom,
Davenport, IA, 11th August 1968
9) Are You
Experienced
Length: 8:52min
San José Pop
Festival, Santa Clara, CA, 25th May 1969
10) I Don´t Live
Today
Length: 7:05min
Length tracks 1-10:
69:14min
Personal:
James Marshall
"Jimi" Hendrix: Vocals, Guitar
Noel Redding: Bass
Mitch Mitchell: Drums
This concert features
excellent performances by Jimi and the boys, including (AFAIK) the first live
J.H.E. performance of Hear My Train A'Comin (a.k.a. Getting My Heart Back
Together). (It starts out with a Sunshine of Your Love teaser, less than 30
seconds long.)
This is a great
concert. The playing rocks, and the band is in a great mood. They're joking and
having a lot of fun. (After the Sunshine of Your Love teaser, Jimi jokes that
he should do a song by the Monkees to balance it out.) Fire ends with a brief
Beach Boys Surfin' USA quote. The up-tempo version of Crawl Out Your Window has
a funny ending that sounds so intentional you'll swear it was rehearsed. And,
of course, there are all the great solos (guitar and drum), jams, and freaky
sounds that you'd expect from the period. This was the band's first show back
after more than a month of vacation from touring. During the hiatus Jimi jammed
with friends and spent some time in the studio working on Electric Ladyland
tracks like Voodoo Child and 1983... (see Plug Your Ears). You can tell the
rest did them some good. They've definitely come back energized here at the
Fillmore.
The bonus tracks are
fabulous. There may be better live versions of Are You Experience out there,
but there aren't many! The sound quality on I Don't Live Today could be better,
but it's an amazing performance of an amazing song.
Most Hendrix fans
know of his performances with the Band Of Gypsys at the Filmore East, on Dec.
31/69 and Jan. 1/70. This CD however comes from a time earlier, featuring the
JHE at the Filmore, May 10, 1968. The band at this point was solid, and
performances often featured extended jams on songs, especially the blues
numbers such as Red House. This CD is no exception. A 15+ minute Red House kicks
some serious ass here. As does an extended Hey Joe, and Sunshine Of Your
Love/Getting My Heart Back Together Again medley. Bob Dylan's Can You Please
Crawl Out Your Window makes a rare appearance, and the concert closes with the
always great Purple Haze. Apparently after Purple Haze, there was a opening
chord played of Wild Thing, but it's not here. Jimi didn't play the song, but
it would have made for a nice complete package for it to be included. But
that's nit-picking :) It's a good release that can be picked at for it's minor
points only. Two tracks from other concerts have been included with this disc
to fill it out. Are You Experienced comes from Davenport 68, and I Don't Live
Today from the San Jose Pop Festival. Don't really belong here, but again, when
all you have is little things like that to pick on, you must have a good
release. And with this one, you do. Besides, what the hell am I doing
complaining about too much Hendrix? :) I only have one other Luna release in my
collection (Broadcasts), but based on these 2 releases, they sure seem to have
a grasp on what makes for a good release.
Album Mp3: http://www.mediafire.com/?hk6l1il97bcnr8q
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