Jimi Hendrix And The Experience – Scandinavia Vol.2 (6 CD Set)
Release Date: 5 Dec 2007
Label: Voodoo Chile Records
Format: CD (six box set)
7 complete 1967/68 performances from Sweden and Denmark – presented together for the first time in a 6 CD Collectors Numbered Limited Edition. Officially licensed from the Michael Jeffery Estate, and individually numbered, only 2000 copies world-wide.
Scandinavia had proved to be an extremely positive and fertile market for the music of Jimi Hendrix. This boxed set contains recordings from two specific tours and although there is only twelve months between the two sets of concerts captured here much had happened to Jimi between the two tours.
The 1969 tour finds Jimi and the Experience heading out on what would be the original Experience’s final tour. The second series of recordings, drawn from 1970, found the band (often billed as the Experience but featuring Jimi, Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox) fresh from the previous day’s massive Isle Of Wight concert performing the first of these concerts in Stockholm. Jimi Hendrix however would be dead in just over two weeks after commencing this brief Scandinavian tour which followed as series of concerts in Germany that had ended in disarray. The two concerts featured in this boxed set of recordings do capture the essence of Jimi Hendrix live and certainly do not show any lessening in his talent either as a song writer or performer and for this reason these recordings are important.
CD1: (56:11) 9th January 1969 Konserthuset Stockholm Sweden
First Show
MC Intro/ Jimi’s Intro/ Killing Floor/ Spanish Castle/Magic/Fire/Hey Joe/ Voodoo Child/ Red House/ The Sunshine Of Your Love
CD2: (68:35) 9th January 1969 Konserthuset Stockholm
Second Show
Introduction/ I Don’t Live Today/ Spanish Castle Magic/ Hey Joe/ Voodoo Child/ The Sunshine Of Your Love/ Red House/ Fire/ Purple Haze-Star Spangled Banner
CD3: (70:45) 10th January 1969 Falkoner Centret Copenhagen Denmark
First Show
Fire/ Foxy Lady/ Tax Free/ Spanish Castle Magic/ Red House/ The Sunshine Of Your Love/ I Don’t Live Today-Star Spangled Banner/ Purple Haze
CD4: (75:31) 10th January 1969 Falkoner Centret
Second Show (segment)
Fire/ Voodoo Child/ Foxy Lady/ Spanish Castle Magic
31st August 1970 Stora Scenen, Grona Lund, Tivoli Garden
Stockholm, Sweden
Jimi’s Introduction Lover Man/ Catfish Blues/ Ezy Rider/ Red House/ Come On/Room Full Of Mirrors-Hey Baby- Drum Solo
CD5: (69:33) 31st August 1970 Stora Scenen (continuation)
Drum Solo- Message To Love/ Machine Gun/ Voodoo Child/ In From The Storm/ Purple Haze/ Foxy Lady
3rd September 1970 K.B. Hallen Copenhagen Denmark
Stone Free-Foxy Lady/ Message To Love-Hey Baby- All Along The Watchtower
CD6: (68:07) 3rd September 1970 (continuation)
Machine Gun-Spanish Castle Magic-Ezy Rider/ Freedom/Red House/ In From The Storm/ Purple Haze-Voodoo Child-Hey Joe/ Fire
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