l p Posted August 17, 2016 Report Share Posted August 17, 2016 Original Release Date: September 30, 2016 Number of Discs: 1 Label: Sony Legacy Machine Gun - Jimi Hendrix The Fillmore East 12/31/1969 (FIRST SHOW) 1. Power of Soul 2. Lover Man 3. Hear My Train a Comin' 4. Changes 5. Izabella 6. Machine Gun 7. Stop 8. Ezy Ryder 9. Bleeding Heart 10. Earth Blues 11. Burning Desire https://www.amazon.com/Machine-Jimi-Hendrix-Fillmore-FIRST/dp/B01JZXX6LM the first 5 songs have been available on soundboard. 6-end have been available only on an audience recording. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kh1958 Posted October 2, 2016 Report Share Posted October 2, 2016 This came yesterday and I listened several times. Fantastic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted October 2, 2016 Report Share Posted October 2, 2016 Amen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster_Ties Posted October 3, 2016 Report Share Posted October 3, 2016 Knew this was in the works, but had lost track of the release date. Found myself in Best Buy on Sat, looking for something else, and stumbled on a copy on sale for $9.99. Hell of a recording!! - every bit as good as all the other BOG material released from these four concerts. Well worth picking up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted October 3, 2016 Report Share Posted October 3, 2016 I think it's the best of the four Fillmore shows that New Year's holiday time. Really well mixed and mastered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted October 3, 2016 Report Share Posted October 3, 2016 Listened to most of it. Great, as expected. I find myself drawn to the Band of Gypsys more than I ever thought I would. It's really too bad that it didn't work out and they didn't record more material. I've said this before, but Dagger Records' "Baggy's Rehearsal Sessions" is one of my favorite jamming albums. Question for you Jimi-philes (Lon?): I thought I read somewhere that in this first show Jimi pulled out a lot of his theatrical bits and was not well focused. Between sets Bill Graham told him to 'cut the crap' and play. In the second set he basically stood in place and proceeded to play one of his best performances ever. Am I remembering that right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted October 3, 2016 Report Share Posted October 3, 2016 (edited) I've heard that story, but I'm not sure that it had anything to do with this show. It seems this show he was dead serious from the git go, it's all great performances with better singing than usual and some killer guitar, a lot of the material was pretty new, this is a phenomenal show. It's possible that on the second night he did a more flamboyant first show and then a more focused second show. . . it's been a long time since I revisited the boots of these. These shows did have more of the familiar repertoire that I think would lead to the stage antics. I have mainly listened to the official two cd set the last five years or so. . . which is not all stellar (well non-stellar Jimi is still fantastic). I'll look to see what I can find out about Graham's statement. Edit to add: Researching on two forums it seems that "experts" think that either Bill Graham imagined this story or misremembered the actual show, applying it to these nights and not an earlier Fillmore appearance. No first set is sloppy and unfocused here. The second set of the first night may be the loosest. . . and Bill's story doesn't really apply to a second set. Edited October 3, 2016 by jazzbo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted October 4, 2016 Report Share Posted October 4, 2016 Thanks, Lon. From what I've heard of this new album, it didn't sound at all sloppy or that he was being overly flamboyant, either. That's why I brought that up. Nice to know that I wasn't imagining the "story," anyway. Good research! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted October 4, 2016 Report Share Posted October 4, 2016 Okay, more info. Graham quote in this article: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/concerts-that-changed-rock-jimi-hendrix-and-the-band-of-gypsies-at-the-fillmore-east-new-york-19870604 "But even at the Fillmore East with the Band of Gypsys he sometimes found old habits hard to break. Graham says that Hendrix's first set on the second night was in fact a disappointing reversion to his showbiz stunts. When Hendrix asked him during intermission what he thought of the set, Graham was brutally frank."I said, 'You're Jimi Hendrix, and anything you do is taken as gospel because of who you are,'" says Graham. "'In the first show, you humped the guitar, you played it with your teeth, you stuck it behind your back. You just forgot to play.'" Stunned, Hendrix went back out onstage for the second show and played. The incandescent version of "Machine Gun" on the 1970 live LP Band of Gypsys was recorded during that show. What doesn't make sense here is the order of shows he is talking about. He got confused with sequence. The way this would be true is if he were referring to the second show of the first night being flamboyant and then him taking him to task and Jimi returning the next night to a stand-still serious performance, as it is the first show of the second night that the "Machine Gun" mentioned was performed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l p Posted October 4, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2016 4 hours ago, jazzbo said: Graham quote it's such a fine line between being confused and being full of crap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr jazz Posted October 4, 2016 Report Share Posted October 4, 2016 anyone get the HR download? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted October 4, 2016 Report Share Posted October 4, 2016 9 hours ago, jazzbo said: Okay, more info. Graham quote in this article: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/concerts-that-changed-rock-jimi-hendrix-and-the-band-of-gypsies-at-the-fillmore-east-new-york-19870604 "But even at the Fillmore East with the Band of Gypsys he sometimes found old habits hard to break. Graham says that Hendrix's first set on the second night was in fact a disappointing reversion to his showbiz stunts. When Hendrix asked him during intermission what he thought of the set, Graham was brutally frank."I said, 'You're Jimi Hendrix, and anything you do is taken as gospel because of who you are,'" says Graham. "'In the first show, you humped the guitar, you played it with your teeth, you stuck it behind your back. You just forgot to play.'" Stunned, Hendrix went back out onstage for the second show and played. The incandescent version of "Machine Gun" on the 1970 live LP Band of Gypsys was recorded during that show. What doesn't make sense here is the order of shows he is talking about. He got confused with sequence. The way this would be true is if he were referring to the second show of the first night being flamboyant and then him taking him to task and Jimi returning the next night to a stand-still serious performance, as it is the first show of the second night that the "Machine Gun" mentioned was performed. Well ............ now it's more confusing than ever! I'm starting to think that your first guess is the most probable (if it happened at all); that it was a different show altogether. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l p Posted October 4, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2016 it's very simple. you've got graham telling us how great he is because he got jh to stop messing around and play a spectacular set. what graham didn't count on was that in the future, all the shows from the 2 nights would be released, at least in boogleg form, and his lie would be exposed. quite the visionary, since i'm sure he knew that all the shows were recorded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr jazz Posted October 5, 2016 Report Share Posted October 5, 2016 I bought the HR download and will listen when my spouse is out Thursday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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