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Live at Winterland (1987)

Where the lyrics of Live at Winterland take you, and where it was really made.

The album was built from three nights in October 1968, yet it came out only after Hendrix had died, and it was the first Hendrix release made specifically for CD.

Key places

Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, October 1968 (1987)

Recording site Winterland Ballroom — The album compiles performances from the band's three concerts at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, where they played two shows each night on October 10, 11 and 12, 1968. The recordings were made at this ballroom. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Live at Winterland: live album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
• Compiles performances from the band's three concerts at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco
• Two shows each night on October 10, 11 and 12, 1968
• Released posthumously by Rykodisc in 1987
• First Hendrix release conceived specifically for the compact disc format

Background

• Recorded during a 1968 concert tour promoting the album Electric Ladyland
• The group's recordings were made professionally and could have been released at the time
• Release was blocked because the group objected to listening back to the tapes
• Tensions surrounded the guitarist, and Hendrix ended the group in spring 1969
• The album was withdrawn from sale in 1995 when Experience Hendrix resumed management of the catalogue

Recording

• Original recordings made at Winterland, San Francisco, October 10, 11 and 12, 1968
• Mixed at Sunset Sound, Los Angeles
• Digital mastering at Digital Magnetics, Los Angeles
• Mark Linett credited as engineer and mixer
• Alan Douglas and Chip Branton credited as producers
• Personnel: Jimi Hendrix on guitar and vocals, Mitch Mitchell on drums, Noel Redding on bass
• Jack Casady plays bass on one track

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com · fr.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Born James Marshall Hendrix in Seattle on November 27, 1942; began playing guitar at age 15 in 1958.
• Enlisted in the US Army in 1961 and was discharged in 1962; then played on the Chitlin' Circuit with bands in Tennessee and Nashville.
• Moved to England in late 1966 after Chas Chandler of the Animals became his manager, and formed the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Members

• The Jimi Hendrix Experience consisted of Hendrix on guitar and vocals, bassist Noel Redding, and drummer Mitch Mitchell.
• Hendrix later worked with Billy Cox in the Band of Gypsys and the Cry of Love tour lineup.

Career

• The Experience achieved three UK top-ten hits in 1967: "Hey Joe", "Purple Haze", and "The Wind Cries Mary".
• Hendrix became famous in the US after his performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.
• Electric Ladyland (1968) was his most successful album and his only US Billboard 200 number-one album.
• He headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970.
• He died in London in September 1970 at age 27 from barbiturate-related asphyxia.
• Hendrix is ranked by Rolling Stone as the greatest guitarist of all time and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 as part of the Experience.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Released by Rykodisc in 1987 and became the best-selling album from an independent label that year
• Sales topped 200,000 copies, more than any other Hendrix recording had sold in years
• Robert Christgau, writing for The Village Voice, was highly impressed by the performances
• Christgau said the album is ideal for the emerging CD format and surpasses earlier Hendrix live recordings
• He named Live at Winterland the tenth best album of 1987 in his Village Voice year-end list

Reappraisal

• In a retrospective review for Blender magazine, Christgau placed the album in Hendrix's discography
• He wrote that the album had been eclipsed sonically and conceptually by other Hendrix live releases
• He said its pioneering digitalization of songs from three San Francisco nights redefined posthumous Hendrix
• He called it a surpassingly realistic live keepsake

Records

• Best-selling album from an independent label in 1987
• Over 200,000 copies sold
• Re-released in 1992 with a bonus disc of three additional songs from the same concerts
• A four-disc box set titled Winterland, drawn from all six performances, was released in 2011

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Sold over 200,000 copies in 1987 and was the best-selling album from an independent label that year.
• The 1992 re-release added a bonus disc of three more songs from the same concerts.
• A limited edition sold exclusively on Amazon.com added a fifth disc with a bootleg soundboard recording from the Fillmore Auditorium on February 4, 1968.
• Christgau named the album the tenth best of 1987 in his Village Voice year-end list.
• The album was the first Hendrix release made specifically for the CD format.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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