Jimi Hendrix Music:

Live at Winterland Track Listing:
1. Prologue
2. Fire
3. Manic Depression
4. Sunshine of Your Love
5. Spanish Castle Magic
6. Red House
7. Killing Floor
8. Tax Free
9. Foxey Lady
10. Hey Joe
11. Purple Haze
12. Wild Thing
13. Epilogue

Live at Winterland Reviews:
not the most famous Hendrix concert, but maybe the best
2008-07-02 - ...at least of those that were recorded in such a brilliant audio-quality.

I know, it's not Woodstock or Monterey, but I hardly know any other live recording of the Experience, where Jimi, Mitch, and Noel are merging so perfectly into one deep, rich unit of sound. It all fits together.

As mentioned before, all the "hits" like "Foxy Lady", "Purple Haze", or "Hey Joe" that Jimi soon got tired to play, are sounding extremely vivid on this recording.

It's hard to point out some of the songs in particular, but what makes that record especially so extraordinary to me is:

the only life version of "Manic depression" (at least I've never heard any other in that quality),

a superb "Spanish castle magic",

an incredible great "Tax free"-Jam,

a version of "Killing floor" different to all the others you might know,

the best "Hey Joe" with a superb intro,

and maybe not the longest but for sure the heaviest "Wild thing" you can get.



P.S: It was my first Hendrix-record, that I bought when I was 13 years old, back in 1987.
One evening I heard the 4th side of the LP (Hey Joe, Purple Haze, Wild thing) on radio.
Until that evening I just knew the name Hendrix...it sounds stupid, but these 15 minutes of music changed my life. It was a crucial experience to me and it teached me what music -in its best moments- really is about.

the BEST Hendrix album ...
2008-04-27 - I bought this CD in 1987 and was amazed by it then, and still am now. What are its virtues?

1) Incredible performances by Hendrix, Redding, and Mitchell. This record captures the band at their peak, and the playing is outstanding throughout.

2) Sound quality: This live recording sounds like it was made yesterday, not 1968. The clarity of the instruments is far better than on 95% of the studio albums, much less live albums, made during this era. Rykodisc has done a fantastic job with the mix and digital mastering.

3) the SONGS: This record has all of my favorites: Fire, Manic Depression, Red House, Foxy Lady, Hey Joe, Purple Haze ... and two great hit covers, Wild Thing and Sunshine of your love. This is like a Greatest Hits record.

Overall, i can't recommend this album highly enough. Five Stars.

awsome
2008-04-05 - great hendrix live show. back in 70's used to go to midnight movies on friday nights ,always had some great live hendrix shows,this has to be one of them as it catches him at his best doing his fav's rockin.

jimi hendrix at winterland
2007-06-25 - i own about 10 hendrix shows and this is by far the best one. this show defines what hendrix was about

"Aye, Jimae, do you believe in God?"
2006-05-18 - "Live at Winterland" was my first Jimi Hendrix CD, bought by sheer chance in 1993, when I was 16 years old and still knew him mostly from hear-say. Ever since, it has remained my favorite of all his recordings, with the arguable exception of the "Blues" album, and I have never heard a live CD or watched the live video of a better Hendrix performance, including Woodstock, Isle of Wight and the 4-concert compilation entitled "Stages". My impression is that in none of the other concerts I've heard Jimi is more at ease, sober, and enjoying his creative powers as viscerally and spontaneously as in this one. If I were to point out one single recording by our unforgetable man, I would have no doubt and say that Live at Winterland is the very hurricane's eye.

And so the CD has become my standard of comparison for everything else. In this one concert, we feel in Jimi through his music the overflow of such a healthy energy, such sane inspiration; he's got the right punch at all songs and is much more well-grounded and attentive than in other presentations - in which I feel him either too high, or simply bored, to give his best. Smartly taking his chances to push frontiers of improvisation in each note, even a song that otherwise doesn't catch my attention, "Maniac Depression", seems crisp and new. Soloes are long and beautiful, and playing fellows are incredibly tuned with his intuition. I never heard more intense and beautiful versions of "Sunshine of Your Love", "Tax Free" and "Foxy Lady"; the final sequence that starts with the intro to "Hey Joe" is mind-blowing and "Purple Haze" has a most special, longer solo, that I have not heard anywhere else. Finally, here "Spanish Castle Magic" is simply Revelation: I dare not even speak about it.