Jimi Hendrix - Stages
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Artist: Jimi HendrixEdition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 1991-11-12
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
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Free Music Review: A Whole Lot of Hendrix in One Little Blue Box
Hit: 5 Stars
A little background about "Stages". While Jimi was alive he worked briefly with a producer named Alan Douglas. Nothing much came of their work together. After Jimi's death in the fall of '70, (and later Jimi's manager Michael Jeffery's death in '73) the Hendrix family often turned to Alan Douglas to help pull together Jimi's "loose ends" of music that had never seen release. This Stages collection was overseen by Douglas in '90-'91. Whatever else history says about his other Hendrix-related efforts, I believe he did a good job of finding quality recordings from 4 different years that are not only very well recorded, but also show a lot of variety and creativity in Jimi and the band. If you buy a Stages set be sure it has all the booklets for the great concert set notes in each one.
'67 in Stockholm finds the band still pretty fresh in the music business and obviously not wearied by the road as they'd later become. I have heard some poor recordings of Jimi from Scandinavia. This one is very good quality for the time, and is easy to listen to. Many of Jimi's greatest hits are here including a couple that weren't always heard in concerts later on - the Beatles "Sgt. Pepper" (contemporaries of Jimi during his debut in England) and Jimi's "Burning of the Midnight Lamp". Jimi is conversant with the audience if not a little bit shy.
'68 in Paris is a favorite of mine. The band is much more, shall we say "randy"; chatting up the audience, joking with each other, and playing loose. Among a 9-song stellar set, you'll find an excellent version of Muddy Waters' "Catfish Blues" (later to become Jimi's Voodoo Chile on Electric Ladyland) A stomping "Foxy Lady", a simmering "Red House" with Noel playing the bass on a borrowed 6-string Les Paul guitar of Keith Richards', and a very loose fun instrumental; "Drivin' South", seldom heard live. One of my favorites is "Little Wing" with a beautiful and extended, 30-bar, end solo by Jimi.
'69 in San Diego is classic "big arena" Jimi. The crowd was rowdy and Jimi did his best to calm things down; pointing out all the men in blue to the audience and joking with them between songs. This is a greatest hits set, but Jimi opens it up by the 5th song in a long and fiery "Red House". For my money, the last number in the set, "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" is utterly amazing. Jimi pulls out the stops in a soaring solo and as the band is settling into the final verse, there is a rush of people below him surging toward the stage toppling chairs and each other. He calls out, mid-song, for everyone to calm down. Nevertheless the band somehow played on and the intensity of the moment is felt in the music. The sound quality of this recording is exceptional.
Lastly, 1970 in Atlanta. This was the 4th of July and a huge crowd - tens of thousands in very hot weather - for an outdoor festival show. I feel like you can hear the strain of touring in Jimi's voice. You also know that the band was breaking up. I think Billy Cox is on bass here as Noel Redding had left to stay in England. I understand this was a late set at night and despite the poor conditions - heat, huge crowd, strain of travel, Jimi wishing he was back in the studio, etc. the band pulls it off, ending with "Voodoo Child" and makes a hasty retreat into the night, sadly never to return. Standout tracks for me; a great treatment of "Hear My Train a Comin', a very fast-paced, actually danceable "Stone Free", and the inclusion of two songs that never made it to albums in Jimi's lifetime - "Straight Ahead" and a country-flavored (!) "Room Full of Mirrors". R.I.P. Jimi! c.Andy O'Neill: Used with permission only
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