Ist eigentlich Chris Albertsons Bericht über den Neujahrsabend im Fillmore East 1969/70 hier schon erwähnt worden?
Jimi Hendrix—The Voices of East Harlem
Fillmore East, New York CityIt was in many ways a special evening. A new year was about to be rung in, a chaotic decade was coming to an end, and one of the star exponents of the music that so colored that decade was changing direction.
Spending New Year’s Eve at the Fillmore is not exactly my idea of a fun way to ring out the old, but I must say the management had done its best to lend a holiday touch to the proceedings—from donning its ushers in greeting-inscribed sweatshirts to placing a small metal tambourine at each seat and projecting, on the large movie screen behind the stage, a caricature of Guy Lombardo, baton in hand.
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After a few thousand „Happy New Years,“ the screen slipped back into place, Joshua and his gang cast their imagination on it, and the star of the show, Jimi Hendrix, intoned a most unusual rendition of Auld Lang Syne, turning it into a blusey thing of strange beauty.
Hendrix was changing directions—a new group and a new repertoire. It is no longer the Jimi Hendrix Experience but rather Jimi Hendrix: A Band of Gypsys, with Buddy Miles (formerly of the Electric Flag and the Buddy Miles Express), drums, and Billy Cox (an Army buddy of Hendrix’s), electric bass. As for the repertoire, the emphasis is decidedly on the blues. The result is promising.
Den kompletten Text gibt’s hier:
http://stomp-off.blogspot.com/2011/05/night-decade-hit-dust.html
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