Live Albums By Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix released three classic studio albums during his lifetime – Are You Experienced? Axis Bold As Love and Electric Ladyland with the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
He then released a live album, Band Of Gypsys with a new band before he died on September 18th, 1970.
Since then there have been numerous posthumous releases and many live albums.
Hendrix was a very exciting live performer and if you want to understand his music, you probably need several live albums.
It does get confusing but below I have tried to keep things simple by including the dates of the live performances.
Jimi Hendrix Live Albums From 1967
Jimi Plays Monterey & Live at Monterey (June 18, 1967)
Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival (Jimi Hendrix & Otis Redding) (June 18, 1967)
BBC Sessions & Radio One (most tracks recorded for radio sessions in 1967)
Jimi Hendrix Live Albums From 1968
Live in Paris & Ottawa 1968 (29 January 1968 and March 19, 1968)
Live at Clark University (March 15, 1968)
Bleeding Heart / Woke Up This Morning and Found Myself Dead (March 18, 1968 jam session including Jim Morrison)
Live in Ottawa (March 19, 1968)
Live at Woburn (July 6, 1968)
Winterland / Live at Winterland (October 10, 11 and 12, 1968)
Jimi Hendrix Live Albums from 1969
Experience / More Experience / Live At the Royal Albert Hall (February 24, 1969)
Live at the Oakland Coliseum (April 27, 1969)
Live at Woodstock / Woodstock (August 18, 1969)
Jimi Hendrix Live Albums from 1970
Live at the Fillmore East (December 31 1969 and January 1, 1970 – see Band Of Gypsys)
Band of Gypsys (January 1, 1970 – see Live at the Fillmore East)
Live at Berkeley (May 30, 1970)
Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight (August 31, 1970)
Live at the Isle of Fehmarn (September 6, 1970)
Jimi Hendrix Live Compilations
The Jimi Hendrix Concerts (various 1968 – 1970)
Hendrix in the West (various performances 1969 and 1970)
Jimi Plays Berkeley (some studio recordings, some live from 1969 and 1970)
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Live At Winterland is a live album by Jimi Hendrix recorded over three nights in October 1968 at Winterland, San Francisco.
The first time Live At Winterland was issued, there were eleven tracks plus a prologue and epilogue. In the 1992 edition, three more songs were added.
In 2011 a much larger Winterland box set was issued which will be reviewed separately.
What are the best Jimi Hendrix live albums? Only Monterey and Band Of Gypsys were released during his lifetime but there are plenty to choose from that have been released after his death.
To put the dates of the live recordings into context of the studio albums:
The Jimi Hendrix Experience broke up in June 1969 and then reformed for a few months before his death on September 18, 1970.
Live At Woodstock is the most comprehensive recording of Jimi Hendrix performance at the Woodstock festival on August 18, 1969.
A previous album, simply called Woodstock was released five years earlier with fewer of the songs. Radical editing means that three of the musicians in the Gypsy Sun and Rainbows group were mixed out on the Live At Woodstock version.
Band of Gypsys catches Jimi Hendrix playing live on 31st December 1969 and 1st January 1970 at the Fillmore East in New York. A new decade starts with a big bang.
Hendrix had broken up the Jimi Hendrix Experience and is now backed by Billy Cox and Buddy Miles.
Band of Gypsys was the last album to be released in his lifetime and well before the many live albums that have since come out in his name.
Hendrix played four sets over two days which have been the basis for two Jimi Hendrix live albums – Band Of Gypsys and Live At The Fillmore.
Continue reading Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys Live At The Fillmore East 1970
Blue Wild Angel Live at the Isle of Wight captures the last UK live performance by Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight Festival on August 31, 1970. He died a few weeks later.
This concert is available in different forms – as a DVD and either a highlights CD or the full concert so be careful that you buy the one that you want.
Live At Monterey is a reworking of the Jimi Plays Monterey recording of Jimi Hendrix live at the Monterey festival in June 1967 with the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
It’s the same set but with different mixing.
This concert is famous for the time during the last track – Wild Thing – Hendrix sets his guitar on fire and then smashes it. That explains the album covers.
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Jimi Hendrix Live At The Royal Albert Hall is a ten track CD given away by The Sunday Times recorded on February 24, 1969.
It features Hendrix playing with the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
This concert has been featured in earlier Jimi Hendrix live albums called Experience and More Experience.
The Sunday Times was sued by the company handling Jimi Hendrix estate because it caused a film version of the Royal Albert Hall concert to be delayed – Sunday Times avoids punitive damages.
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