Live at Berkeley

Live at Berkeley
Live album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Released September 16, 2003
Recorded May 30, 1970
Venue Berkeley Community Theatre in Berkeley, California
Length 67:47
Label MCA
Producer Abe Jacob
The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology
Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Jimi Hendrix
(2003)		 Live at Berkeley
(2003)		 The Singles Collection
(2003)

Live at Berkeley is a posthumous live album by English-American rock band The Jimi Hendrix Experience. It documents the band's second performance at the Berkeley Community Theatre on May 30, 1970, and was released by MCA Records on September 16, 2003.

Background

After the Band of Gypsys split up, Jimi's manager, Michael Jeffery, wanted to reunite the original Experience. He announced the re-formation of the Experience, and set up an interview with Rolling Stone magazine (with interviewer John Burks) on March 19, 1970. Two weeks later, Jimi decided, stating that he did not want to work with bassist Noel Redding anymore. So with drummer Mitch Mitchell and bassist Billy Cox, the trio formed the new Jimi Hendrix Experience, also known as The Cry of Love, and at this particular concert pushed the boundaries with works-in-progress including embryonic versions of what would become "Straight Ahead" and "Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)". Hendrix didn't tune his guitar down a half step as he usually did at all other shows and on most of his albums. Instead, he stayed in standard tuning.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
About.com[1]
All About Jazz[2]
AllMusic[3]
Blender[4]
Q[5]
Uncut[6]

Rob Fawcett of BBC Music called Live at Berkeley "the strongest newly-released Hendrix material in a long time".[7] Robert Christgau cited "Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)" and "I Don't Live Today" as highlights and deemed it "the Cox-Mitchell band at its most documentable" in his consumer guide for The Village Voice.[8] In his review for Blender, he said Cox was a significant improvement over Noel Redding in a group that was Hendrix's best.[4] Uncut magazine was less enthusiastic and felt "there are still better versions of these tracks elsewhere."[6]

Track listing

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

  1. "Introduction" - 1:47
  2. "Pass It On (Straight Ahead)" - 6:58
  3. "Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)" - 6:07
  4. "Lover Man" - 2:59
  5. "Stone Free" – 4:08
  6. "Hey Joe" - 4:49 (Billy Roberts)
  7. "I Don't Live Today" - 5:26
  8. "Machine Gun" - 11:22
  9. "Foxey Lady" - 6:30
  10. "The Star Spangled Banner" - 2:45 (Francis Scott Key, John Stafford Smith)
  11. "Purple Haze" - 3:48
  12. "Voodoo Child (slight return)" - 10:49

Personnel

The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Additional Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Gordon, Keith A. "Jimi Hendrix Experience - Live At Berkeley (2012)". About.com. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
  2. ↑ Collette, Doug (November 10, 2012). "Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live at Berkeley". All About Jazz. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
  3. ↑ Westergaard, Sean. "Live at Berkeley: 2nd Show - Jimi Hendrix". AllMusic. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
  4. 1 2 Christgau, Robert (December 2005). "Back Catalogue: Jimi Hendrix". Blender (New York). Retrieved March 27, 2013.
  5. ↑ "none". Q. New York. 2003. p. 153.
  6. 1 2 "The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Live At Berkeley". Uncut (London) (December). 2005. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
  7. ↑ Fawcett, Rob (2002). "BBC - Music - Review of Jimi Hendrix - Jimi Plays Berkeley". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 28 August 2011.
  8. ↑ Christgau, Robert (2005). "Consumer Guide: Christians and Heathens". The Village Voice (November 1) (New York). Retrieved February 20, 2015.

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