Jimi Hendrix Experience – Magic Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Experience Live At Berkley, First Show (CD)
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Hendrix played two shows at Berkeley Community Theater on May 30, 1970, just months before his death in September of that year, making these performances some of the last documented evidence of him pushing his live sound into new territory. Hearing "Ezy Ryder" and "Freedom" take shape on stage before the studio versions were finalized puts you inside the creative process at one of rock history's most compressed and consequential moments.
Magic Boy presents Jimi Hendrix's legendary first show at the Berkeley Community Theater in May 1970.
Hendrix fans first became aware of his Berkeley performance when two early posthumous releases featured a stunning "Hear My Train A Comin'" [1971's Rainbow Bridge] and his electrifying rendition of "Johnny B. Goode," [1972's Hendrix: In The West]. The shambolic 1971 film Jimi Plays Berkeley stoked the fires further by way of its inclusion of extracts of Purple Haze" and "Star Banner".
Magic Boy includes those two classics and finally assembles the performance in its running order for the first time. The album provides fans with the opportunity to hear new songs 'Ezy Ryder" and "Freedom" in development before they had been completed in the studio by guitarist, "Message To Love" and Machine Gun" from his recent Band Of Gypsys album and high intensity renditions of Experience favorites such as "Fire" and Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"--all newly remixed by Eddie Kramer from the original multi-track tapes.
Tracklist:
- Fire
- Johnny B. Goode
- Hear My Train a Comin'
- Machine Gun
- Freedom
- Red House
- Message to Love
- Ezy Ryder
- Star Spangled Banner
- Purple Haze
- Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
UPC: 199584540825
Label: Sony Legacy
Release Date: 10.16.26
Format: CD