JIMI HENDRIX – THE JIMI HENDRIX CONCERTS LP – Nr MINT A1 UK

Jimi Hendrix – The Jimi Hendrix Concerts
(CBS Records   1982  88592)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1/C1/D1 – UK Pressing

Double Vinyl in Nr MINT condition

Gatefold Sleeve in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition
– some light rippling on bottom right corner & some ringwear rubbing at top on back cover

James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. Despite a relatively brief mainstream career spanning four years, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest and 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, eventually earning a place in the Isley Brothers’ backing band and later finding work with Little Richard, with whom he continued to play through mid-1965. He then joined Curtis Knight and the Squires before moving to England in late 1966 after having been discovered by bassist Chas Chandler of the Animals. 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. The double LP was Hendrix’s most commercially successful release and his first and only number one album. He headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 as the world’s highest-paid performer before dying 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 developing the previously undesirable technique of 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 their 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.

The Jimi Hendrix Concerts is a posthumous live album by Jimi Hendrix released in August 1982. The album contains eleven songs from six different concerts between 1968 and 1970. The album spent eleven weeks in the UK Albums Chart peaking at No. 16. In the U.S. it was less successful, reaching only No. 79 in the Billboard 200. The album was re-released on CD in 1989.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.

Recording details

• Tracks 1 and 10 recorded at the Winterland Arena, San Francisco, California, USA on October 12, 1968 (1st show)
• Track 6 recorded at the Winterland Arena, San Francisco, California, USA on October 12, 1968 (2nd show)
• Track 2 recorded at San Diego Sports Arena, San Diego, California, USA on May 24, 1969
• Track 3 recorded at New York Pop, Downing Stadium, Randall’s Island, New York, USA on July 17, 1970
• Tracks 4 and 8 recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London, England on February 24, 1969
• Tracks 5 and 7 recorded at the Winterland Arena, San Francisco, California, USA on October 10, 1968 (1st show)
• Track 11 recorded at the Winterland Arena, San Francisco, California, USA on October 10, 1968 (2nd show)
• Track 9 recorded at Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, California, USA on May 30, 1970 (2nd show)
• Track 12 recorded at The Forum, Los Angeles, California, USA on April 26, 1969

Personnel

• Jimi Hendrix – Guitar, Vocals
• Mitch Mitchell – Drums
• Noel Redding – Bass
• Billy Cox – bass on tracks 3 and 9