NOTES

VINYL UPDATE [5 jul 2010]
The music (the interviews were excluded) from the Dagger Records cd Live At Clark University was released as a US vinyl lp on "Record Store Day" 17 April 2010. Contrary to rumours on black, not colored, vinyl.

For the UK "Record Store Day" a limited edition of 1000 was made of the Valleys Of Neptune / Cat Talking To Me 7" that was originally released in the US only. However, because of an error at the pressing plant all copies of the single actually play Bleeding Heart / Peace In Missisippi even though the cover & labels say otherwise.

And, a US 7" of Bleeding Heart was released 15 June 2010, the flip side is "Jam 292" (taken from "Hear My Music"), this also has different cover art compared to the UK single.

STUTTGART 1969 [5 jul 2010]
The new recording from Stuttgart 19 January 1969 (first show) was circulated in March 2010, see "recordings" for details. A thorough review of the tape (as well as the Hamburg 1969 tape) was included in Jimpress issue 92.

VALLEYS OF NEPTUNE UPDATE [25 feb 2010]
Here's a listing of out now / upcoming vinyl releases that I know about:

US VINYL
- 7" single of "Valleys Of Neptune / Cat Talking To Me"
Pressed by RTI in the USA. All analog.
Limited edition released 9 February 2010 (even though the Authentic Hendrix website still has this under upcoming releases / pre-order).

- 2 LP Valleys Of Neptune
Pressed by RTI in the USA. All analog 180g vinyl.
To be released 9 March 2010. The first 5000 copies will be numbered.

UK VINYL
- 7" single of "Bleeding Heart / Peace In Missisippi"
Pressed by: unknown?
Limited edition (Columbia 88697 671187) to be released 8 March 2010.

EURO VINYL
- 2LP Valleys Of Neptune
Pressed by Music On Vinyl in the Netherlands. 180g vinyl.
No mention is made on the label site about this being a limited edition like the US version so I assume it will just remain in print. Music On Vinyl MOVLP075. To be released 8 March 2010. In reply to a question on the website about wether the MOV issues will be all analog like the US releases the site admin posted this reply:
"We are pressing our records in the Netherlands, but we use the same masters as our Legacy colleagues in the US. Testings are triple-checked by all parties involved, to make sure the quality of our pressings will be the same."

RE-ISSUE VINYL [25 feb 2010]
Legacy / Experience Hendrix will be re-releasing a batch of Hendrix lps. There are going to be separate US and Euro releases, at the moment it is unknown if the lps will be remastered or if these will be straight reissues of the MCA pressings.

US VINYL
Pressed by RTI in the USA. All analog 180g vinyl.
The first 5000 copies of each lp will be numbered.

- First Rays of the New Rising Sun 2LP
- Are You Experienced 1LP
- Electric Ladyland (MOVLP078) 2LP
- Axis : Bold as Love (MOVLP079) 1LP

Are You Experienced will have the original 1967 US tracklist and will be a single disc issue with no bonus tracks. Band Of Gypsys will not be included in the US reissues but it will be released in Europe.

EURO VINYL
Pressed by Music On Vinyl in the Netherlands. 180g vinyl.
News item here. MOV will use the same masters as the US releases.

- First Rays of the New Rising Sun (MOVLP076) 2LP
- Are You Experienced (MOVLP077) 2LP
- Electric Ladyland (MOVLP078) 2LP
- Axis : Bold as Love (MOVLP079) 1LP
- Band of Gypsys (MOVLP080) 1LP

Are You Experienced will have the original 1967 UK tracklist and will be a 2LP set with the following bonus tracks on disc 2:

Hey Joe  3:30
Stone Free  3:36
Purple Haze  2:50

51st Anniversary  3:16
The Wind Cries Mary  3:21
Highway Chile  3:32

HAMBURG 1969 [1 feb 2010]
The German blogsite Jimi Hendrix In Deutschland reports that the sound quality of the new recording from Hamburg 1969 is very good and unveils a tracklist for the tape:

Hamburg 11.01.69, 2nd Show

Spanish Castle Magic
Getting My Heart Back Together
I Don't Live Today
Red House
Sunshine Of Your Love
Driving South
Foxy Lady
Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

STUTTGART 1969 [27 jan 2010]
The website In from the storm reports that in addition to the new Hamburg 1969 a tape from Stuttgart 19 January 1969 has also been found. A supposed tape from this date circulated for years before it was found to actually originate from Cologne 1969, apparently the new tape is a genuine Stuttgart 1969 recording.

VALLEYS OF NEPTUNE [11 jan 2010]
A Legacy Recordings press release circulated today annouces the 9 March 2010 release of Valleys Of Neptune, a new collection of studio recordings. Also annouced is the release of the track "Valleys Of Neptune" as a single on 2 February 2010.

Amazon.com is already listing 3 different releases for pre-order:
- cd
- 2 lp
- 7" single
Amazon lists the release date of the single as 9 February 2010.

HAMBURG 1969 [7 jan 2010]
The website In from the storm reports the following:
"The latest discovery in the World of Hendrix concert recordings is a brand new tape from Hamburg 11.01.69, 2nd Show. The tape consists of 8 tracks, and the tracklist also includes the (so far) only known (recorded) live performance of "Drivin' South" from 1969. The recording is currently not in circulation."

HOLLYWOOD BOWL - PART 2 [8 dec 2009]
More info about the Fame Bureau Hollywood Bowl 1967 footage. The film does not have sync sound from the concert, it's a circa 11min 30 sec documentary shot in 1970 after Jimi's death and includes interviews with people on the streets of New York City, shots outside the Fillmore East and Electric Lady Studios and film from the Hollywood Bowl. The concert part is roughly 3 minutes long and the soundtrack is a backstage interview with Jimi (unknown location but apparently previously uncirculated). Filmed in 16mm b&w.

HOLLYWOOD BOWL [2 dec 2009]
The auction house the Fame Bureau announces on it's website the discovery of "UNSEEN HENDRIX FOOTAGE FROM 1967 HOLLYWOOD BOWL WITH SOUND". Unfortunately that's all the details given apart from 4 black & white stills from the film, no details on the length or quality of the film & audio or who filmed it. It's also not clear when the film will be auctioned (if it indeed will be auctioned).

The Jimi Hendrix Experience played at the Hollywood Bowl on Friday 18 August 1967 as a support act for the Mamas and the Papas & Scott McKenzie.

THROUGH THE EYES OF TOMORROW [27 sep 2008]
CBC has the complete (or at least near complete as far as currently known, who knows how much film there originally was) "Through The Eyes Of Tomorrow" interview with the JHE available online:
http://archives.cbc.ca/arts_entertainment/music/clips/15461/

Filmed: Tuesday 7 January 1969, 25 Brook Street, London, UK
Film, B & W, with sound
First broadcast: "Through The Eyes Of Tomorrow", CBC, 23 February 1969

CLASSIC ARTISTS [16 may 2008]
A new dvd documentary is in production:
http://classicartistsonline.com/jimihendrix_synopsis.html
The Cream documentary that the same company produced was very good, new interviews with Bruce, Baker & Clapton and others and well researched so this might turn out to be a wortwhile Hendrix film.

SPOKANE [26 aug 2005]
The Coliseum, Spokane 8 September 1968 tape has long circulated as a "dat clone of master" but is actually 2nd gen. I received a copy of this with a known lineage of Master > cassette > cassette > cdr (originating from the person who discovered the tape) and the quality is identical to the "dat clone". If there is a real dat clone I haven't come across it, and the name of the person who recorded the master is unknown at this time.

GENERATION [6 aug 2005]
The correct personelle for the 7th of April 1968 "Roy Buchanan" Generation club jam is actually as follows:

Jimi Hendrix - guitar
Dave Woods - guitar
Ed "Bugs" Gregory - bass
Glenway McTeer? - drums

Dave Woods' email explaining his involvement is actually posted on another Hendrix site but no-one apparently connected the dots:
www.hendrix-links.de/fan/meeting.html

Thus the guitar player is Dave Woods, NOT Roy Buchanan. The bass player turns out to be Ed "Bugs" Gregory of PPX fame who was at the time playing in the same band as Woods, The Hudson Dusters. They worked as the backing band for Dave van Ronk, check this discography link for an lp sleeve featuring both Woods & Bugs: www.wirz.de/music/vanrofrm.htm
Bugs took Woods to meet Hendrix and afterwards they all headed to the Generation for a jam session... Dave Woods even mentions the PPX case though he can't remember Curtis Knight's name.

Check Dave Woods website for a recent picture of him:
www.musictolight.org

The drummer's name is still a bit of a mystery. As he can't be seen in the film we can't really be sure, all we got is that Woods says he was Buddy Guy's drummer. Buddy released "This is Buddy Guy" on Vanguard in November 1968, that's a live album with Glenway McTeer playing the drums. Unfortunately he's either not around anymore or not active as Google doesn't really give any results for him. So Glenway McTeer as the drummer is probably the best bet, but not confirmed...

FRANKFURT 1969 [6 aug 2005]
A note on the Frankfurt 17 jan 69 tape. This has been
circulating as a master clone, it's not. I recently got a cdr of this
directly from the person who has the only surviving copy, and he
explained the whole thing as follows. Part of this was already
published in the UV diary for that date but he provided some additional
detail.

He borrowed the master from the taper in 1969 (he assumes it was the
master as he had to return the tape). The master was a 4-track reel,
this was dubbed onto a 2-track reel, and then dubbed back on 1 track
of the 4-track reel. He later transferred the reel to dat, then again
from dat to cdr. I got a copy from him of that cdr.

So the lineage actually is as follows:
Master (4-track reel) > reel (2-track) > reel (one track of a 4-track
reel) > DAT > Cdr

The "dat clone" that has been circulating for years does seem to
originate from this same transfer but it's not identical, at least
not the cdr copy of it that I had. It sounds slightly different and
runs 65+ mins, while the cdr runs for 67+ mins. Based on A/B:ing &
the timings I suspect the dat has been pitch corrected and eq'd at
some point, just my copy or all of them that I don't know.

The taper apparently was an American soldier stationed in Germany so
the master might still exist somewhere in the USA...

REELING IN THE YEARS [30 jul 2004]
The company that licenced the bonus tracks for the "Experience" dvd (http://www.reelinintheyears.com) has a new entry listed in their database, a 1 min 38 sec color film of Jimi performing at Woodstock.

EPHRON SESSION [30 jul 2004]
The date of the Mike Ephron session (which produced the "This Flyer" bootleg and the three "At His Best" -lps) at Shokan has usually been listed as Friday 19th September, very likely based on the Rolling Stone article by Sheila Weller. This doesn't however seem to match with the know facts. Here are some relevant quotes from said article:

"With close friends of Jimi I drove up to Liberty on a quiet
September weekend"

"We are listening now to the tape of such a session, the previous
night's jam: Jimi on electric guitar, avantgarde pianist Michael
Ephron on clavichord, Juma on congas and flute."

"It's 7 AM and he has to be at the recording studio in Manhattan at 4
in the afternoon."

"The talk is of the session. They'll record at a studio on West 44th
Street, then go somewhere else to mix it"

"The session, costing $200 an hour, was booked to begin at 4:00"

Based on the article Sheila Weller visited Shokan during a
September weekend, driving back to NYC the next day as Jimi had a
studio session booked at 4:00 at the Record Plant (44th street),
and John McDermott's book "Sessions" lists a perfect match:

Monday, September 15, 1969
Record Plant
4:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M.

So if we trust the Rolling Stone article Sheila Weller arrived at
Shokan on Sunday 14th, which would date the Ephron session as
Saturday 13th September.

RAINBOW BRIDGE DVD [1 jun 2002]
The UK an US releases of this disc differ from each other quite a lot. Compared to the US release on Rhino Home Video (R2976656) the UK version on Eagle Vision (EREDV133) has different menus and much less scene indexing meaning that when you want to see the parts that are actually worth seeing you have to fast forward whereas on the US version every song and interview is indexed separately.

More importantly the film is not exactly the same, footage nor quality -wise. Eagle Vision saw fit to replace the black screen during the intro talk with a Rainbow Bridge logo -still. And the worst part last, they remastered the sound & picture, as a result the audio is now even more muffled because de-noising has been applied, and the picture quality is much worse than the Rhino release due to a very bad compressing job that causes a lot of digital noise (or artifacts) during any fast moving visuals. And as the icing on the cake Eagle Vision didn't include the 3 movie trailers that are present on the Rhino disc.

So the Rhino DVD is definately the one to get, the only thing that the Eagle Vision disc has going for it is much nicer graphics on the DVD case...the only problem is that the Rhino disc is a region 1 release.

EXPERIENCE DVD [4 feb 2002]
If anybody has wondered about the "Reeling in the Years" -logo on the cover of the 2001 dvd / vhs release "Experience", go here: www.reelingintheyears.com Experience Hendrix licenced the Stockholm 24 may 1967 & 9 jan 1969 tracks from SVT via the company, they also offer the 7 mar 1967 "Tienerklanken" footage. The dvd has now sold 50.000 copies in the U.S. and 100.000 worldwide, check the news item on the "Reeling..." -frontpage.

IOW VCD [22 aug 2001]
For some strange reason the Malaysian pirate VCD release (T-1467) of the 1990 film "Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight" is an edited version. The pre-concert interview for french radio appears without sound, only Jimi's closing comment "It wouldn't hurt me anyway" remains. They don't like the French in Malaysia??

VOODOO CHILE SINGLE [16 jul 2001]
The German 7" single "Voodoo Chile / Watchtower" (Polydor 2121 012) has some strange edits. "Voodoo Child (slight return)" has the intro cut out, fading in after it, and "All Along the Watchtower" has a short bit at the end repeated and fades out some seconds too soon after the repeat. There must have been a good reason for this...

95.5 KLOS [6 jul 2001]
A page for WBCN (at that time) DJ J.J.Jackson, MC for the Boston Garden 1968 concert.

GOLD [7 jul 2001]
The dutch cheapo cd "Gold" on the label "Gold" exists in two different versions. Release with serial "GOLD 022" has "Psycho" as track 13, while the release with serial "GOLD022N" replaces it with "Bleeding heart".