[ * ] indicates a cut in the tape. These are not yet listed for every tape
[ / ] indicates that songs run into each other without a pause in between

Personelle: all recordings feature the Jimi Hendrix Experience (Jimi Hendrix - vocals & guitar, Noel Redding - bass & vocals, Mitch Mitchell - drums) unless otherwise noted.

QUALITY : I use the Jimpress grading system.
(E+) Excellent+, cd quality
(E) Excellent, top quality analogue source
(VG+) Very good +, vinyl, very slight noise / distortion
(VG) Very good, generally good but not professional quality
(G+) All instruments audible, some distortion
(G) Good, all instruments audible with excessive hiss, compressed sound or distortion
(R) Reasonable, fair instrument balance, but sound quality below avarage
(F) Fair, poor balance, at least one instrument inaudible, bad distortion
(P) Poor, only main instrument clearly audible (e.g. guitar or vocals), very distorted with bad hall ambience
(A) Abysmal, virtually inaudible

This list only includes clean discs, as far as I know any noises / drop-outs / cuts exist on the masters
or on all copies circulating, unless otherwise noted.

LAST UPDATE: 9 march 2024 - webmaster@earlyhendrix.com ------------------------






Flamingo, London, UK
Saturday 4 February 1967
1 Killing floor (start cut, fades in)
2 Mercy, mercy
3 Can you see me
4 Like a rolling stone
5 Rock me baby (drop-out at 0.39 on the left fixed, hiss spike. Cut patched from c. 3.05 onwards)
6 Catfish blues (patch ends at 0.09)
7 Stone free
8 Hey Joe (drop-out at 2.24 fixed but still partially audible)
9 Wild thing (cut spliced together at 6.40)

Rumoured to have been recorded by John Mayall. If the rumour is correct then the master was probably destroyed in a fire at Mayall's home along with other 60s recordings that he had.
Composite of two different lineage copies of the tape, phase & pitch corrected (by +5%). A raw low gen copy was used as the main source. A cut before Catfish Blues was patched from a heavily eq'd 2nd gen copy, the eq was reversed but since the 2nd gen tape was digital mono there is a change in the hiss (from stereo to mono) in the patched section. Some clicks not on the master were removed and drop-outs fixed (as well as possible) at 0.39 in Rock Me Baby & 2.24 in Hey Joe. The original notes for the composite list a drop-out at 6.40 in Wild Thing but this has actually turned out to be a cut spliced together on the source used. The two drop-outs were not on the original master as they are in stereo which is why it was possible to improve them by patching one channel with the other. Ultimately this composite is a compromise for the time being, somewhere there must be a straight low gen transfer of the complete uncut mono master or perhaps the master itself will pop up one day.

Lineage: Master (reel?) > ? > cdr > cdr > wav
Raw low gen source.
The MC's speech after Wild Thing is complete, this is the only copy that has it.
The cut before Catfish Blues takes place before Jimi mentions Muddy Waters, several seconds are missing. Phase & pitch corrected (by +5%) in May 2008.

Lineage: Master (reel?) > 2nd gen
Heavily eq'd digital mono 2nd gen version.
This copy was used to patch the cut before Catfish Blues.
The MC's speech after Wild thing is missing.
The cut before Catfish Blues takes place after Jimi mentions Muddy Waters. There's a short repeat section on the tape at this point so there's actually no audio lost.



BBC Broadcasting House, London, UK
Monday 13 February 1967
1 Interview with Jimi by Brian Matthew
2 Hey Joe
3 Stone Free
4 Love Or Confusion
5 Foxy Lady (outtake)
6 Foxy Lady

Lineage: 17min, EX+, Broadcast, Master > various official sources
Session for "Saturday Club", first broadcast Saturday 18 February 1967,
BBC Light Programme, 10.00 to 12.00
Introduced by Brian Matthew
Episode 437 with: Sonny and Cher, The Troggs, Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Spencer's Washboard Kings, The Johnny Arthey Orchestra
Some or all of these tracks contain overdubs so they are not stricktly speaking "live". Released officially on "BBC Sessions", alternate edits/masters available from the "Hendrix At The Beeb" radio show.



"Saturday Scene", The Corn Exchange, Chelmsford, Essex, UK
Saturday 25 February 1967
1 Stone free (start cut)
2 Like a rolling stone (3 cuts)

Lineage: ?min, ?, Audience, Master > ?
Released officially by Experience Hendrix on the dvd / blu-ray "Live At Monterey".
Recorded & filmed for "Telixer: A Thing Of Beat Is A Joy Forever" broadcast by KRO, The Netherlands, 21 July 1967. Although filmed for television the audio is not taken from the mixing desk (and the footage was shot with just one camera).



"Beat Club", Marquee, London, UK
Thursday 2 March 1967 broadcast
1 Hey Joe
2 Purple haze

Lineage: 7min, VG+, Broadcast, Master > VHS? > ?
Probably taken from the soundtrack of a VHS copy of a re-broadcast as there's what sounds like VHS tracking noise on the right channel. The tracks run into each other with an introductio by Radio Caroline DJ Dave Lee Travis in between.



"Beat Club", Marquee, London, UK
Thursday 2 March 1967 rehearsal
1 Hey Joe (start slightly cut)
2 Purple haze (end slightly cut)

Lineage: 6min, VG+, Broadcast, Master > ?
The tracks run into each other with an introduction by Radio Caroline DJ Dave Lee Travis in between.



"Twenclub", Studio 1 / NDR Funkhaus, Hamburg, Germany
Saturday 18 March 1967
1 Interview with Jimi & Noel by Jochen Rathmann
2 Foxy lady
3 Hey joe
4 Stone free
5 Fire
6 Purple haze

Lineage: 21min, E, Broadcast, Master > ? > CD
Released on the Odeon JH6261 "Are You Experienced" mono mix bootleg cd, best quality that I have heard and doesn't have tape wobbles like some other versions in circulation.

BBC Broadcasting House, London, UK
Tuesday 28 March 1967
1 Killing Floor
2 Fire
3 Purple Haze

Lineage: 8min, E, Broadcast, Master (reel) > ? > BBC transcription lp > cd
Session for "Saturday Club", first broadcast Saturday 1 April 1967 on "Saturday Club", BBC Light Programme, 10.00 to 12.00
Introduced by Brian Matthew
Episode 443 with: Manfred Mann, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Vince Hill, Helen Shapiro, The Easybeats, The Montanas, The Pete Smith Group
The Brian Matthew introductions on "Fire" and "Purple Haze" are not from the original "Saturday Club" broadcast, these were added when the tracks were included on the "Top of the Pops" broadcasts / transcription lps which are the only surviving dubs of these recordings as the master tapes were wiped.
Released officially on "BBC Sessions", alternate edits/masters available from the "Hendrix At The Beeb" radio show.



Gaumont, Ipswich, UK
Saturday 1 April 1967
1 Purple haze (incomplete and with voice-over)

Lineage: ? min, VG+, Soundboard, Master > Arte Channel via TNT > PAL DVD+RW / HQ Mode / MPEG-1 sound via Standalone > editing via DVD Shrink > Video-TS
Filmed for the French tv show "Bouton Rouge".
First broadcast: 21 May 1967, "Bouton Rouge" (Piece 6547), France
Rebroadcast: 4 August 2007, "Turn me on - 1967", ARTE, France



"Late Night Line-Up", BBC TV Studios, Studio B, London, UK
Monday 17 April 1967
1 Manic Depression

Lineage: 3min, E, Soundboard, Master > CD
Officially released on "BBC Sessions" cd.



"Music Hall de France et d'Ailleurs", Salle Municipale, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris, France
Thursday 11 May 1967
1 Hey Joe
2 Wild thing

Lineage: 8min, VG, Broadcast, Master > ?



"Beat, Beat, Beat!", Stadthalle, Offenbach, Germany
Thursday 18 May 1967
8 Stone free (end cut)
9 Hey Joe
10 Purple haze

Lineage: 10min, E, Broadcast, Master > ?



Falkoner Teatret, Falkoner Centret, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sunday 21 May 1967, broadcast on "Beat Forum" P1, 2 June 1967
1 Wild thing
2 Interview with Jimi by Carsten Grolin

Lineage: 3min, G, Audience / Broadcast, Master > ?
Audience recording done by Carsten Grolin and broadcast together with a backstage interview with Hendrix.



"Popside", TV, Stockholm, Sweden
Wednesday 24 May 1967
1 The wind cries mary
2 Purple haze

Lineage: 7min, E, Broadcast, Master > DVD
Officially released on the "Experience" dvd.



Stora Scenen, Tivoli Gröna Lund, Djurgården, Stockholm, Sweden
Wednesday 24 May 1967
1 Intro (cut at 0.02)
2 Foxy lady (analog? click at 0.13, digital? noises at 1.101.26, 1.27, 1.34, 1.37, 1.53, 1.56, 2.01 & 2.16)
3 Rock me baby (digital? click at 2.49)
4 Hey Joe (analog? clicks at 1.05, 1.06 & 4.07)
5 Can you see me (digital? clicks at 0.44, 0.46, 1.48 & 2.43)
6 Purple haze (analog? clicks at 0.23, 0.25, 0.26, 0.31, 2.02 & 3.01)
7 Wild thing (digital? noises at 2.23 & 2.28)

Lineage: 27min, G, Audience, Master (cassette) > reel > reel > DAT > Panasonic SV-300 DAT machine > ProTools d24 system (Mac G3 environment) > CDR > Soundstudio
First audience source recorded by Hans Erik Huss. From "The Swedish Shows 1" aka "The Swedish Flood" -torrent by Jonsattic, original torrent had index clicks, this is a repaired version. Distortion, on master / all copies?



Stora Scenen, Tivoli Gröna Lund, Djurgården, Stockholm, Sweden
Wednesday 24 May 1967
1 Hey Joe
2 Can you see me (analog? click at 1.52, drop-out at 1.55)
3 Purple haze (analog? click at 2.41)
4 Wild thing (digital? noises at 2.24 & 2.33, cut at 4.06 & 4.34)

Lineage: 17min, R, Audience, Master (cassette) > cassette > cassette > Denon DRS-640 cassette deck > Soundstudio
Second audience source. From "The Swedish Shows 1" aka "The Swedish Flood" -torrent by Jonsattic, original torrent had index clicks, this is a repaired version. Some distortion, on master / all copies?



"Monterey International Pop Festival", Monterey, California, USA
Sunday 18 June 1967
1 Killing floor
2 Foxy lady
3 Like a rolling stone
4 Rock me baby
5 Hey Joe
6 Can you see me
7 The wind cries Mary
8 Purple haze
9 Wild thing

Lineage: 46min, E, Soundboard, Master > CD
Officially released on the lp "Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival" (1970), the cd / lp "Jimi Plays Monterey" (1986) and the cd / lp "Live At Monterey" (2007).



Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, California, USA
Friday 18 August 1967
1 Introduction
2 Sgt Pepper's lonely hearts club band
3 Killing floor
4 The wind cries Mary
5 Foxy lady
6 Catfish blues
7 Fire
8 Like a rolling stone
9 Purple haze
10 Wild thing

Lineage: 43min, ?, Soundboard, Master > CD
Experience Hendrix released this previously uncirculated recording as "JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE: HOLLYWOOD BOWL – AUGUST 18, 1967 " on 10 November 2023. Judging by the sound of the recording it comes from the same source as the 1968 Hollywood Bowl soundboard that was released on the 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of Electric Ladyland.



"Dee Time", Tuesday 22 August 1967
BBC1 TV, BBC Lime Grove Studios, London
1 Burning of the midnight lamp

Lineage: 4min, VG, Broadcast, Master (taped off a tv set) > CD
Officially released on the 2010 expanded reissue of "BBC Sessions".
Studio backing track with live vocals, introduced by Simon Dee. First the backing track to "The House That Jack Built" by the Alan Price Set is accidentally played instead of the Experience tape prompting Jimi to say "Oh man. I don`t know the words to this one!"



Saville Theatre, London, UK
Sunday 27 August 1967
1 Summertime blues
2 Fire
3 The wind cries mary
4 Foxy lady
5 Catfish blues
6 I don't live today
7 Red house
8 Hey Joe
9 Purple haze

Lineage: 28min, G+, Audience, Master > 2nd
A sampler tape with all tracks cut, the complete tape is not in circulation.



Stora Scenen, Tivoli Gröna Lund, Djurgården, Stockholm, Sweden
Monday 4 September 1967
1 Intro (cut at 1.05)
2 Sgt Pepper's lonely hearts club band (drop-out at 0.18)
3 Rock me baby
4 Catfish blues
5 Hey Joe (drop-out at 0.42-44, analog? noise at 3.42)
6 Purple haze (analog? noises at 3.05, 3.06 & 3.44, digital? noise at 3.48, analog? noise at 4.43)

Lineage: 28min, G, Audience, Master (cassette) > reel > reel > DAT > Panasonic SV-300 DAT machine > ProTools d24 system (Mac G3 environment) > CDR > Soundstudio
First audience source. Some distortion, on master / all copies? The listed noises are all very small.
From "The Swedish Shows 2" aka "The Swedish Flood" -torrent by Jonsattic.



Stora Scenen, Tivoli Gröna Lund, Djurgården, Stockholm, Sweden
Monday 4 September 1967
Clean copy (with no digital errors) of the second audience source needed



Dans In, Tivoli Gröna Lund, Djurgården, Stockholm, Sweden
Monday 4 September 1967
1 Killing floor
2 Foxy lady
3 Catfish blues
4 Hey Joe
5 Fire
6 The wind cries Mary
7 Purple haze

Lineage: 50min, G+, Audience, Master (cassette) > reel > reel > DAT? > CD
Officially released on the Univibes "EXP Over Sweden" cd.



"Tonårskväll", Studio 4 / Radiohuset, Stockholm, Sweden
Tuesday 5 September 1967
1 Sgt Pepper's lonely hearts club band
*
2 Hey Joe
3 I don't live today
*
4 The wind cries Mary
5 Foxy lady
6 Fire
*
7 Burning of the midnight lamp
8 Purple haze

Lineage: 31min, E, Broadcast, Master > 2nd > MD > CDR
This tape is better quality than the official "Stages" cd (which was sourced from a bootleg) but with cuts between songs. "Stages" has a different running order and no cuts but it sounds like the tape used actually had cuts and they were masked by crossfading. The correct running order as far as I can tell should be as follows (note that I'm guessing here as an uncut complete tape doesn't seem to circulate):

Sgt Pepper's lonely hearts club band
The wind cries Mary
Foxy lady
Fire
Hey Joe
I Don't live today
Burning of the midnight lamp
Purple haze



Filips (aka Klubb Filips), Stockholm, Sweden
(Thursday 7 or Monday 11) September 1967
Jam with Hansson & Karlsson, the complete tape is not in circulation



Stora Salen, Akademiska Foreningen, Lund
Sunday 10 September 1967 1st show
1 Introduction
2 Sgt pepper´s lonely hearts club band
3 Foxy lady
4 Catfish blues
5 Fire
6 The wind cries Mary
7 Mercy, mercy (cut in middle)
*
8 Manic depression (analog pop at 4.26)
9 Purple haze

Lineage: 38min, VG, Audience, Master (reel) > 1st > Cdr
Recorded by Anders Thornberg on reel to reel.



Stora Scenen, Tivoli Gröna Lund, Djurgården, Stockholm, Sweden
Monday 11 September 1967
Clean copy (with no digital errors) needed of first and second sources



Dans In, Tivoli Gröna Lund, Djurgården, Stockholm, Sweden
Monday 11 September 1967
1 Killing floor
2 Hoochie coochie man
3 Burning of the midnight lamp
4 Wild thing

Lineage: 18min, G, Audience, Master > ?
Circulated on YouTube 24 september 2013. A little snippet of another song near the end of "Wild Thing" has been labeled as "Red House", it may be "Red House" but it doesn't sound like Hendrix, more likely a leftover of previous recording or an accidental tape over of an unknown band?



"Top Gear", Playhouse Theatre, London
Friday 6 October 1967
1 I Was Made To Love Her / Ain't Too Proud To Beg
2 Interview with Jimi, Noel and Mitch by Tommy Vance.
3 Burning Of The Midnight Lamp
4 Hound Dog
5 Intro by Tommy Vance
6 Little Miss Lover
7 Experiencing The Blues
8 Drivin' South
9 Drivin' South (edited version)
10 Drivin' South (alternate take)

Lineage: ?min, ?, Broadcast, Master > ?
Session for "Top Gear", first broadcast Friday 13 October 1967, BBC Radio 1
Released officially on "BBC Sessions", alternate edits/masters available from the "Hendrix At The Beeb" radio show. Except for the complete take of Driving South (track 8) which only circulates as an off-air recording on the bootleg lp "Live Experience 1967-68". Also the first sentence of the interview is only available on tape and "BBC Sessions" contains an edited version of the Stevie Wonder jam, "Hendrix At The Beeb" is complete but has a voice over.



"Musicorama", L'olympia, Paris, France
Monday 9 October 1967
1 Hey Joe
2 The wind cries Mary
3 Purple haze

Lineage: 11min, G, Broadcast, Master > ?
Complete AM radio broadcast (Europe 1?)



"Musicorama", L'olympia, Paris, France
Monday 9 October 1967
1 Foxy lady
2 The wind cries mary
3 Rock me baby
4 Red house
5 Purple haze
6 Wild thing

Lineage: 37min, VG+, Soundboard, Master > 2nd



Playhouse Theatre, London
Tuesday 17 October 1967
1 Signature tune and intro by Alexis Korner
2 Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
3 intro by Alexis Korner
4 Hoochie Coochie Man
5 Intro by Alexis Korner
6 Drivin' South

Lineage: ?min, ?, Broadcast, Master > ?
Session for "Rhythm And Blues", first broadcast ???
Released officially on "BBC Sessions", alternate edits/masters available from the "Hendrix At The Beeb" radio show.



"Hoepla", Vitus Studio, Bussum, the Netherlands
Friday 10 November 1967
1 Foxy lady
2 Catfish blues
3 Purple haze
4 Purple haze
5 Purple haze

Lineage: 28min, VG+, Soundboard, Master (Ampex video reel) > 2nd



Opera House, Blackpool, Lancashire, UK
Saturday 25 November 1967, 1st or 2nd show
1 Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band (start slightly cut & cut at 0.52)
*
2 Fire (start & end slightly cut)
*
3 Hey Joe (start & end slightly cut)
*
4 The wind cries Mary (start slightly cut & end cut)

Lineage: 11min, F, Audience, Master > ? > MD? > cassette > CDR



Opera House, Blackpool, Lancashire, UK
Saturday 25 November 1967, 1st or 2nd show
1 Purple haze
*
2 Wild thing (edit/cut at 1.39)

Lineage: 9min, VG, Audience, Master > VHS
This is the original mono film soundtrack mix from the film "Experience". The Alan Douglas -mix (used for "On the Road - the Ultimate Experience Live!" and the Experience Hendrix dvd release of "Experience") adds a lot of echo effects, the original film soundtrack is a "dry" mono mix. Although this is taken from an officially released film the audio was not recorded from the soundboard, it`s a "professional" audience recording instead.



Playhouse Theatre, London
Friday 15 December 1967
1 Radio One Theme
2 Interview with Jimi by Tony Hall
3 Spanish Castle Magic
4 Wait Until Tomorrow
5 I Want To Tell You riff > Day Tripper
6 Getting My Heart Back Together Again
7 Getting My Heart Back Together Again (alternate vocal take)

Session for "Top Gear", first broadcast Sunday 24 December 1967, BBC Radio 1
Released officially on "BBC Sessions", alternate edits/masters available from the "Hendrix At The Beeb" radio show. The longest version of the interview was released on the Univibes cd "Calling Long Distance" but that release has a 1 minute section in the middle of the interview edited out, the missing bit is available on "Hendrix At The Beeb". Some of the riffs preceding "Day Tripper" are missing on "BBC Sessions" but available on tape.



"Christmas on Earth Continued", Olympia, Kensington, London, UK
Friday 22 December 1967
Clean copy (with no digital errors) needed.