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Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings have announced a brand-new collection that celebrates The Jimi Hendrix Experience's near-mythic performances on Maui, Hawaii in 1970. Live In Maui brings together audio and video with a new feature-length documentary called Music, Money, Madness: Jimi Hendrix In Maui. The collection will be available in 2-CD/Blu-ray and 3-LP/Blu-ray configurations, all due on November 20.
Hendrix's performances on Maui in 1970 caught him at another pivotal point in his too-short career. Following the success of Electric Ladyland, he alternated between playing arenas and festivals with his revamped Experience alongside bandmates Billy Cox (bass) and Mitch Mitchell (drums), and overseeing the creation of his state-of-the-art Greenwich Village studio, Electric Lady Studios. In need of additional financing to complete building the studio, manager Michael Jeffery convinced Warner Bros. to advance Hendrix $500,000.00. The studio would also finance a film to be shot in Maui: Rainbow Bridge. Warner would then receive the soundtrack rights to the exclusive Hendrix music in the movie.
The impressionistic film, directed by Chuck Wein, would explore themes of enlightenment, with the titular rainbow bridge connecting the enlightened and unenlightened worlds. It wasn't much of a concert movie, though, as only 17 minutes of footage were included from the free show Hendrix held on a Maui cattle ranch on July 30, 1970 (one day before a Honolulu arena performance). Even those weren't "pure" as Mitch Mitchell had to re-record his parts at the recently-opened Electric Lady to make the footage useable. Sadly, Jimi Hendrix was gone before the film was ever completed. He died in London on September 18, 1970. Upon the film's release in 1971, fans were confused by it as well as the meticulously overdubbed soundtrack album which premiered Hendrix studio material but didn't actually include any music from the film or the two Maui sets.
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Director John McDermott's new documentary film chronicles the Jimi Hendrix Experience's visit to Maui and the story of the film by incorporating period footage with new interviews with Chuck Wein, Billy Cox, Eddie Kramer, and others key figures. It's presented in both editions of Experience Hendrix/Legacy's release on Blu-ray, and the discs will also feature all of the existing 16mm color footage from the two afternoon sets captured on July 30, 1970 mixed in stereo and 5.1 surround.
The accompanying 2-CD set features Hendrix, Billy Cox, and Mitch Mitchell's restored Maui sets, newly mixed by Eddie Kramer and mastered by Bernie Grundman. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" has been released as a preview single for the box. "Jimi loved adventure and there was certainly no shortage of it during his time in Hawaii, a place he also loved," comments Janie Hendrix in the press release. "The back story of Rainbow Bridge and these recordings paint a picture of Jimi's uncanny ability to turn the bizarre into something amazing! We're excited about this release because it gives the world a closer look at Jimi's genius."
You can order your copy of Live in Maui (due on November 20) with the links below, and whet your appetite with a taste of "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" here!
Jimi Hendrix Experience, Live in Maui (Experience Hendrix/Legacy, 2020)
2-CD/ Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop
3-LP/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop
Music and merch bundles: Authentic Hendrix Store
CD 1:
- Chuck Wein Introduction
- Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)
- In From the Storm
- Foxey Lady
- Hear My Train A-Comin'
- Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
- Fire
- Purple Haze
- Spanish Castle Magic
- Lover Man
- Message to Love
CD 2:
- Dolly Dagger
- Villanova Junction
- Ezy Ryder
- Red House
- Freedom
- Jam Back at the House
- Straight Ahead
- Hey Baby (New Rising Sun) / Midnight Lightning
- Stone Free
- Chuck Wein Introduction
Blu-ray:
- Music, Money, Madness: Jimi Hendrix In Maui film
- Bonus Live Footage
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Sorry, but unless the CDs are available WITHOUT a bluray, not interested.
Really curious about the audio quality for this, IIRC the “Voodoo Child” documentary in the West Coast Seattle Boy box set had some of the Hawaii concert showing the wind noise in the microphones made the recordings virtually unusable.
I'm glad to see the CDs and Blu-ray in one package!
Any idea how much live footage will be on the Blu-ray?
Definitely going to purchase! Foxy Lady from this set was always the definitive version for me. And Voodoo Child sounds and looks incredible.
SEE the Amazon page including STREAMING or MP3 OPTION, but it is not released just posted. The "Audio CD" option is actually 3 discs as listed here.
The GREAT 'Rainbow Bridge' LP (1971) - Special order import from England. - includes a mindbendingly great live version of 'Hear My Train A Comin' ' - if only... because the preview audio quality of Voodoo is not what I hoped for.
Digital formats are available for pre-order, and the CD page is listed correctly as three discs: two CDs, and one Blu-ray.
That Hear my train on Rainbow Bridge lp comes from Berkeley 70,not Hawaii 70.
How about a normal DVD as not everyone has embraced Blu-ray technology?
Agreed.
Nice to see this, but I was hoping that this holiday season would see the home release of the restored Royal Albert Hall concert ("The Last Experience", though hopefully not under that title) that was shown "one night only" in October 2019. Wonder when that will be released.
Exactly
I bought a 2 disc set of the Rainbow Bridge concerts (same songs although some are named differently or appear in a different order) back in the early 2000s. It was an import from UK. According to the insert it was released by Purple Haze Records Ltd. (HAZE001). It doesn't look like a bootleg (OR WAS IT?) and I ordered it through a magazine called Goldmine. So this was released before although not widely.
I will still pick this up because there is video of the complete concert and a hi-res stereo and 5.1 mix (hopefully with better sound). I have the original "Rainbow Bridge" movie on DVD, I haven't watched it in a while but my memory is that it's hilarious (not in a good way), but still a nice snapshot of the time it was released.
That mail-order CD you mention was in fact an unauthorized release.
Thanks for that info. It really was well packaged so it was hard to tell and, up until now, I never really checked into it.
Can't wait get this Hendrix set!
Looking forward to this. Long overdue.
Now, if Janie would finally release the RAH material and the famous “Black Gold” tapes that she said would be released “this decade” back in 2010.
If you’re not familiar with the fascinating tale of the Black Gold recordings, here it is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Gold_(Jimi_Hendrix_recordings)
For a more in-depth, but informative read go here:
https://longreads.com/2019/07/16/shelved-jimi-hendrixs-black-gold-suite/
I'm very interested in how much concert footage is here... This seems a very low key promotion maybe there isn't that much footage? Or maybe the concert will be rereleased in the future like the BOG (audio} releases, how many of those have come out?!? but on the positive over the moon the Maui shows aren't faroff now.,. Had the CD for ages & yes Hear My Train is outstanding. Excited here in New Zealand.
does this have the original drum and bass tracks not the overdubs done my mitch and billy in the 70s.
Hi Bruce, thanks for reading and for your patience! The answer to this is actually "both." Only 17 minutes of Hendrix footage were used in the film and Mitch overdubbed onto the songs included in the film. So those will include the drum overdubs but the other songs include un-overdubbed sound.
hi sam . that 2cd set that is mentioned above has all the songs will new drum and bass tracks. that was micheal jefferys idea for a proposed live lp. the overdubs are way to loud.eddie kramer supervised these but it was only a rough mix. ed chalpin aquired the jeffery estate and it was he who put out that and many others live shows,
As long as janie is associated w/this "new" project, honestly: Why would anyone be interested in Another retread? Most Serious Jimi Hendrix collectors have this music for quite some time. (And this is Not the Jimi Hendrix Experience)