Jimi Hendrix Experience - Live at Winterland
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Artist: Jimi Hendrix ExperienceEdition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Rykodisc
Soundtracks:
- Prologue
- Fire
- Manic Depression
- Sunshine of Your Love
- Spanish Castle Magic
- Red House
- Killing Floor
- Tax Free
- Foxey Lady
- Hey Joe
- Purple Haze
- Wild Thing
- Epilogue
Music reviews of Live at Winterland
Music Review: A Spiritual Sunburn...
Rating: 5 Stars
It's hype time - No apologies, positively the hottest Hendrix concert disc. Jimi's "Star Spangled Banner" at Woodstock is the towering pinnacle of guitar creativity, but that show at times drifts and lulls, as he was stressed with his "new" band and totally exhausted. "Live at Winterland" by the Jimi Hendrix Experience is a superior show that, from start to finish, blazes with energy. Molten, volcanic energy.
Right off, "Fire" erupts with a million megaton burst, the most violent, nuclear version of the song I've ever heard. Next, "Manic Depression" is a blast furnace of aural wonder, swirling with electro-thermal fury. He douses Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love" with a fiery flamethrower. "Spanish Castle Magic" gets ruthlessly battered and bruised in a relentless sonic assault. A smoldering "Red House" is glowing at every seam. Next, he and guest bassist Jack Cassidy scorch "Killing Floor."
And then, on "Tax Free", in what is absolutely the most unusual, the most mind bending gesture of creativity, Jimi performs an astonishing tours de force parody of himself by way of a complex composition by two Swedish dudes. Within the span of its eight minutes every tone, style and effect that Hendrix had yet ever attempted is dramatically recreated, seemingly being played by someone imitating Jimi, but actually doing a better job than him. It's such a disturbingly outrageous act of inventiveness, sublime and hysterical, no other artist could even conceive it. I can't overstate the uniqueness off this moment, the sheer stunning genius. You might doubt what I'm saying about this particular performance because it's essentially unrecognized. You never hear critics talk about it. It's not discussed by hard core Hendrix fans. The fact is, just about nobody gets it, probably because the tune itself isn't all that memorable in its construction. But, it's the indescribable things that Jimi does to, with, for, and about the song that is the very definition of Art. If you're fortunate to follow where he's journeying with all his time shifting stops and starts, backward sounding leads and feedback orchestrations, your mind gets twisted, stretched, and remolded in very bewildering ways. There's just no equivalent experience to compare it to by any other performer, ever. It's for this track above all the others that I recommend this disc, and the rest of the tracks are indeed blazing brilliance.
He then proceeds with blistering, tight versions of the staples "Foxy Lady", "Hey Joe", "Purple Haze" and "Wild Thing." He's not bored and burnt out on these numbers yet and they all crackle and snap with toasty crispness. He packs every sound as absolutely full of heart as any superman can. His notes are loaded with decades, eons of musical memory, and radiate a galaxy of cosmic heat. It's hardly worth mentioning that on some of album's tracks there are audible buzzes, hisses and static noise, as various technicalities are being attended to as they flare up. The distraction is minimal as these petty glitches are so overshadowed by the band's nuclear power. Fact is I didn't even notice the stuff till just a few years ago.
If you find all this just too hard to believe, too much fawning and raving, then know that only just now, after marveling at it for more than 22 years, have I thought to put into words my impressions of this disc. I've waited to submit this comment to be sure I wasn't exaggerating or fooling myself. I acknowledge his Fillmore East '69/'70 "Band of Gypsies" concert has "Machine Gun", which might just be the single most remarkable rock song performance ever, iconic. But the rest of that concert is not up to that level - it lags and wavers throughout, as it's often brought to a crawl by Buddy Miles' tedious call and response and plodding drums. And '67's "Monterrey Pop", of course, has "Wild Thing" that seared everyone's mind with its shamanistic flaming sacrifice. He and the boys were certainly fresh and tight back then, but there's even more group cohesion and incendiary virtuosity a year later. So it's with all that consideration and contemplation that I make the claim that this concert disc is the most raging inferno of Jimi's searing talent ever captured. Yeah, it's so hot!
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