The Jimi Hendrix Experience

• Live at Winterland [Rykodisc, 1987] A
• Radio One [Rykodisc, 1988] A-

See Also:

• Jimi Hendrix
• The Isley Brothers & Jimi Hendrix
• Otis Redding/The Jimi Hendrix Experience
• merge all

Consumer Guide Reviews:

Live at Winterland [Rykodisc, 1987]
This reconstructed hour-plus, drawn from the same three-night October '68 engagement that showed up on the 1982 Jimi Hendrix Concerts, is what the format is for. The sound is bigger and better in every way for an artist whose sound was his music--a vast improvement on live analog remixes, a meaningful improvement on the digitals that redefined live Hendrix last year. The uninterrupted length makes sense, conveying a concert's pace and logic into your audio-only living room. Also, the performances are splendid. A

Radio One [Rykodisc, 1988]
If it's getting like Coltrane, crazies examining umpteen versions of the same tune, Hendrix's versions do bear scrutiny like no other rock and roll. Noncrazies aren't obliged or even advised to make the effort, yet newcomers could just as well start with these BBC sessions as with Are You Experienced?, also cut when he still led kind of a pop band. Ace new stuff includes Curtis Knight's "Drivin' South" and Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog." A-

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• The 40 Essential Albums of 1967 [2007-07-12]