Jimi Hendrix Music:

Jimi Plays Monterey 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. Wind Cries Mary
8. Purple Haze
9. Wild Thing

Jimi Plays Monterey Reviews:
The first one...
2009-04-16 - At the behest of The Beatles, Jimi got thrown in the foray in Monterey that weekend in June '67. Thank god. This is the original mix, before it was reissued later, and it's great to hear it raw, including the tune-up for a couple minutes before he tears into Killing Floor. Forget the stage antics and the lighter fluid; that was for the crowd. Instead, listen to the JHE, for the first time in America I might add, work a set of mostly cover tunes. Jimi returns to the US with a band, an album, and blows everyone away, ready to bust eardrums, screw his Marshall stacks, and lay waste to every other guitarist's technique before him. Rock Me Baby indeed.

Memorable Concert Wish I Was There
2006-10-17 - By far the best concert money could buy. I first heard a song from this legendary performance when I was 14. I remember Friday March 12, 1982 while hearing my family singing The Irish Rovers's "The Unicorn" I was listening to Hendrix sing "Like A Rolling Stone" after "All Along The Watchtower", and I was virtually awestruck. I never heard such beauty before. I got the old album with Hendrix and Otis Redding at the Monterry Pop Festival, and was more intrigued. I finally got this 5 years later after hearing "Killing Floor" off of the "Kiss The Sky" e.p. The rest of this concert is full on frontal assult of a 3 piece band, and a possessed 1965 Stratocaster. I got to hear "Hey Joe" when I bought this, and it was an old live version I used to hear on the radio station in Philly, and it's so wonderful, "Wild Thing" ends this concert, and for over 7 minutes it was 3 trips and a half, The only one I was rather dissapointed with was "Foxey Lady" I was disappointed because there was no beautiful melody after the third singing of the chorus like on the studio album. Without a doubt it was a groundbreaking time out in Monterry where alot of new musicians got thier feet wet, and Hendrix was one of them.

Staggering performance
2006-08-22 - This is a recording of Hendrix's explosive performance from the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. I used to have this on tape a long time ago and it was a favorite, but since I thought I had reached my Hendrix saturation point, it was a pleasant reminder of how potent his music could be. The songs are quite tight with no extraneous jamming. The setlist mixes some well chosen covers (Dylan, Howlin' Wolf) with originals from Are You Experienced? It's good to have this back in the collection again, because played at high volume, it's a wonder to behold.

Best Live Hendrix!!! Enough said....
2006-07-22 - This is by far my favorite live Jimi performance--- far better than Woodstock. Every Hendrix fan deserves to own this one-- get it used if you must, and pay whatever you need to--just GET it!!!! It is simply THAT good!

Yes, this is the concert where he sacrificed his guitar by burning it. Everyone knows the famous picture with the flames rising from the guitar with Jimi sitting by (and you can hear the actual guitar buring on this CD.) Funny thing is, that is actually probably the LOWLIGHT of the this CD--- because the rest of the music is SO spectacular! Even though Jimi was not yet well-known in the States-- a few years from "legend" status (heck, Purple Haze hadn't even been released yet!) he is on the very tip-top of his game on every track-- and Noel and Mitch are tight, and show why they are one of the most undeservedly underappreciated rhythm sections in rock.

This is before his "psychedelic" phase-- what I call his "noise" phase--- and the songs here are actually well-crafted and executed SONGS. It is abolutely MUSIC, not screetching noise. It's sort of like Picasso, who had to learn to paint in the conventional way before inventing cubism. Here we see Hendrix playing spectacular rock/blues-- with a few signs of the psychedelic "Star-Spangled Banners" that were to come.

Jimi talks to the crowd between some of the songs, making jokes and telling stories about how The Experience came together. This is an added bonus, and you can tell by this little banter that Jimi was actually also a genuinely nice and funny guy-- besides being a guitar god.

But, when all is said and done, the music is what will stand the test of time. Take a listen--- then tell me I'm wrong!

Jimi on Fire
2006-06-06 - I have not heard the entire album. All I know is that this particular version of Rolling Stone is, alone, worth the price of admission. It is possibly the finest cover song of all time. Bob Dylan admitted that Jimi could play definitive versions of his own work.