The Jimi Hendrix Experience "LIve At The Monterey" LP

$

26

Item specifics

Condition:

New: A brand-new, unused, unopened, undamaged item.

Artist:

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Record Label:

Experience Hendrix, Legacy

Format:

Vinyl

UPC:

888430420311

Release Date:

April 19, 2014

Detailed item info

Album Features

UPC:

888430420311

Artist:

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Format:

Vinyl

Release Year:

2014

Record Label:

Experience Hendrix, Legacy

Genre:

Psychedelic Rock, Blues Rock, Hard Rock

Track Listing
1. Killing Floor

2. Foxey Lady

3. Like A Rolling Stone

4. Rock Me Baby

5. Hey Joe

6. Can You See Me

7. The Wind Cries Mary

8. Purple Haze

9. Wild Thing

Details

Producer:

• Producer [For Experience Hendrix, L.L.C.] – Eddie Kramer, Janie Hendrix, John McDermott
• Producer [Original Recordings] – John Phillips, Lou Adler

Distributor:

Recording Type:

Studio

Recording Mode:

Stereo

SPAR Code:

n/a

Album Notes

The recording was mastered using an all-analogue technique by renowned audio engineer Bernie Grundman and pressed by Quality Record Pressings (QRP), the plant responsible for last year's People, Hell & Angels, among many other titles in the Hendrix canon. Each copy is individually numbered, and includes an essay written in 2007 by Jimi Hendrix Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell. He passed away the next year after completing the 2008 edition of the Experience Hendrix all-star tribute tour.

Live At Monterey captures The Jimi Hendrix Experience's mythic U.S. debut performance on June 18, 1967 at the Monterey Pop Festival. A captivated California audience witnessed the original band line up of Hendrix, Mitchell and bassist Noel Redding blaze through soon-to-be-classic originals such as "Foxey Lady," "The Wind Cries Mary," and "Purple Haze," as well as transformative versions of Bob Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone," and The Troggs' "Wild Thing" before Hendrix set his guitar ablaze. This show is credited as having launched The Jimi Hendrix Experience into superstardom; they would go on to become the highest grossing touring act in the U.S. soon thereafter.

Reviews

The Jimi Hendrix Experience's breakthrough appearance at the Monterey International Pop Festival on June 18, 1967, has been committed to disc, in whole or in part, before, starting with the split LP Monterey International Pop Festival, which featured four tracks by Hendrix on one side and performances by Otis Redding on the other. That album was released scant weeks before Hendrix's death in September 1970. In 1986, Jimi Plays Monterey, containing the full ten-song set, appeared. Both those albums were released on Hendrix's original U.S. label, the Reprise imprint of Warner Bros. Records. Experience Hendrix, the company formed to reissue the guitarist's work after his recordings were acquired by his family, has put out its own versions of many of his discs, and Live at Monterey is its take on the Monterey show. The tapes have been remixed by Eddie Kramer, but the album conforms at least to the CD version of Jimi Plays Monterey. (The LP version edited much of the dialogue.) The context of the show is notable. Although Hendrix had become a star in the U.K., he was largely unknown in his home country. He had, however, already been signed to Reprise, which had issued his debut American single, "Hey Joe," on May 1, 1967. That's why he says, "It's 'Hey Joe' that really brought us here" in introducing the song. A Top 40 hit for the Leaves in 1966, it had not, however, become a hit for Hendrix as it had in the U.K. Of course, his version was a distinct reinterpretation. He also played his next American single, "Purple Haze," due for release the next day. It would become his first 45 to chart in the U.S. And he oriented his set somewhat for American ears, including such familiar songs as "Like a Rolling Stone" and "Wild Thing," as well as the blues standards "Killing Floor" (by Howlin' Wolf) and "Rock Me Baby" (by B.B. King). His most recent U.K. hit, "The Wind Cries Mary," was included, as was "Foxey Lady," which would follow "Purple Haze" into the U.S. charts. So, the set was well chosen to introduce him to an American audience, even if that audience reacted in understandable amazement encountering a style of guitar playing hitherto unimagined and a flamboyant performance that culminated in a guitar doused in lighter fluid and going up in flames. Those aspects of the show are better appreciated on the DVD released in conjunction with this audio version, but even after 40 years Hendrix's playing still has the power to astonish the listener.

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 Grading Scale

We use Goldmine® visual grading and do our best to accurately grade, although one persons EX could be another persons VG+. Please contact us if you have any issues at all. 

M (mint) Record is new, shiny, never played.

 NM (near mint) Record is like new, probably played a few times, but it doesn't effects on the quality of a sound.

 EX (excellent) Record in great shape, may have light marks, played more than a few times but low in surface noise or no surface noise.

 VG+ (very good plus) Record has been played more times, it has more marks and surface noise, it doesn't skip.

VG (very good) Record has been played many times, may be more surface noise, but it shouldn't skip while playing.

G (good) Record is in bad condition, this is worth only for archive items - just to have until you find better

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