Jimi Hendrix - Jimi Plays Monterey

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Music Review: MONTERAY MADNESS
Rating: 5 Stars

Other stories say it was Brian Jones of the Stones that lobbied for Hendrix and the Experience to be added. Brian and Jimi became instant friends after he saw Hendrix perform in the U.K.
Anywho, they arrived in Monteray to perform with the likes of Janis Joplin, The Mommas and The Poppas, Grace Slick and The Jefferson Airplane, the great soul star Otis Redding and many others. So, as they were deciding which order the bands would play, Pete Townsend and The Who were slated to go on after Jimi.
Pete did not dig that. He had seen Jimi and The Experience play
in the U.K. and did not want to be upstaged by this dynamic group. There was a lot of backstage rangling and feuding about who would perform first. The promoter decided to flip a coin to determine who would go on first. Well, The Who won the coin flip, but suddenly, Jimi jumped up on a chair and loudly proclaimed, "All bets are off!" meaning, NO HOLDS BARRED. The Who did their thing and at the end they destroyed their instruments. The drummer, Keith Moon, was famous for obliterating his drum set after most performances. The Who was convinced Jimi and the Experience could not top them. Boy, were they wrong. Jimi and the Experince were introduced by Brian Jones to the Monteray crowd. Now remember, the only song the U.S. had heard from Hendrix was Hey Joe, so they really didn't know to much about Jimi or what to expect. They came out the box with a 45rpm
version of Muddy Waters' Killing Floor. The crowd was floored. They loved blues, but had never heard any blues played like this. The group proceeded thru the set brilliantly,then Jimi pulled the rabbit out of the hat. After promising the crowd he was going to "sacrifice something I really love." the group did a cover version of The Toggs hit, Wild Thing. Near the end of the set Jimi showed em' what he meant by the statement, "sacrificing something he really loved", as he kissed the guitar, set it down on the stage and began to douse it with lighter fluid. (the band didn't even know he was going to set it on fire.) He produced a lighted match and set his ax on fire. He carressed the flames on the guitar as if he was going to make love to the thing right on stage. The crowd was freakin' out. They had never seen anyone do anything this outrageous on stage. Dude picked that flaming guitar up and pounded the stage with the custom guitar until it was in various peices, which he distributed lovingly to the crowd down front. The whole place was in pandamonium, and we're talking about established stars who were watching in the audiance and in the wings off stage. Obviously, he kept his promise to The Who, "ALL BETS ARE OFF!" Jimi Hendrix and The Experience had blown them off the stage. These young upstarts, who do they think they are. Who's this black guy playing his type of Rock think he is. Rock was the domain of white groups primarily from the U.K. So, at this coming out party for Jimi and The Experience, you witness them graduating from "RUMOR TO LEGEND." The album is a MUST for any TRUE Hendrix fan. It was the beautiful smash beginning for the, Most High Dali Lama of Guitarisms, James Marshall Hendrix, aka "JIMI." Peace and Love. OUT!

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