JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE – LIVE AT WINTERLAND 2LP – Nr MINT UK 1987

Jimi Hendrix Experience – Live At Winterland
(Polydor Records  1987  8330041)
UK Pressing

Double Vinyl in Nr MINT condition

Sleeve in Nr MINT condition
– a little wear to edges – hype sticker on front
No Poster

James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as “arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music”.

Born in Seattle, Washington, Hendrix began playing guitar at the age of 15. In 1961, he enlisted in the US Army; he was granted an honorable discharge the following year. Soon afterward, he moved to Clarksville, Tennessee, and began playing gigs on the chitlin’ circuit, earning a place in the Isley Brothers’ backing band and later with Little Richard, with whom he continued to work through mid-1965. He then played with Curtis Knight and the Squires before moving to England in late 1966 after being discovered by Linda Keith, who in turn interested bassist Chas Chandler of the Animals in becoming his first manager. Within months, Hendrix had earned three UK top ten hits with the Jimi Hendrix Experience: “Hey Joe”, “Purple Haze”, and “The Wind Cries Mary”. He achieved fame in the US after his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, and in 1968 his third and final studio album, Electric Ladyland, reached number one in the US; it was Hendrix’s most commercially successful release and his first and only number one album. The world’s highest-paid performer, he headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 before his accidental death from barbiturate-related asphyxia on September 18, 1970, at the age of 27.

Hendrix was inspired musically by American rock and roll and electric blues. He favored overdriven amplifiers with high volume and gain, and was instrumental in utilizing the previously undesirable sounds caused by guitar amplifier feedback. He helped to popularize the use of a wah-wah pedal in mainstream rock, and was the first artist to use stereophonic phasing effects in music recordings. Holly George-Warren of Rolling Stone commented: “Hendrix pioneered the use of the instrument as an electronic sound source. Players before him had experimented with feedback and distortion, but Hendrix turned those effects and others into a controlled, fluid vocabulary every bit as personal as the blues with which he began.”

Hendrix was the recipient of several music awards during his lifetime and posthumously. In 1967, readers of Melody Maker voted him the Pop Musician of the Year, and in 1968, Billboard named him the Artist of the Year and Rolling Stone declared him the Performer of the Year. Disc and Music Echo honored him with the World Top Musician of 1969 and in 1970, Guitar Player named him the Rock Guitarist of the Year. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Rolling Stone ranked the band’s three studio albums, Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love, and Electric Ladyland, among the 100 greatest albums of all time, and they ranked Hendrix as the greatest guitarist and the sixth greatest artist of all time.

Live at Winterland is a live album by English-American rock band The Jimi Hendrix Experience. It compiles performances from the band’s three concerts at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, where they played two shows each night on October 10, 11 and 12, 1968. The album was released posthumously by Rykodisc in 1987 and was the first Hendrix release to be specifically conceived for the Compact Disc format.

Track listing

All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.

1. “Prologue” – 0:57
2. “Fire” (October 11, 1968, 2nd show) – 3:12
3. “Manic Depression” (October 12, 1968, 2nd show) – 4:46
4. “Sunshine of Your Love” (Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Pete Brown) (October 10, 1968, 2nd show) – 6:25
5. “Spanish Castle Magic” (October 12, 1968, 2nd show) – 5:32
6. “Red House” (October 11, 1968, 1st show) – 11:32
7. “Killing Floor” (Chester Arthur Burnett) (October 10, 1968, 2nd show) – 8:05
8. “Tax Free” (Bo Hansson, Janne Carlsson) (October 11, 1968, 2nd show) – 8:00
9. “Foxy Lady” (October 11, 1968, 2nd show) – 4:50
10. “Hey Joe” (Billy Roberts) (October 12, 1968, 1st show) – 6:44
11. “Purple Haze” (October 12, 1968, 1st show) – 4:34
12. “Wild Thing” (Chip Taylor) (October 12, 1968, 1st show) – 3:05
13. “Epilogue” – 0:30

Personnel

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

• Jimi Hendrix – guitar, vocals
• Mitch Mitchell – drums
• Noel Redding – bass guitar, backing vocals on track 2 & 11

Additional personnel

• Chip Branton – producer
• Jack Casady – bass guitar on track 7
• Alan Douglas – producer
• Mark Linett – engineer