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Jimi Hendrix and the Experience: Scandinavia 1967-1970 (FLAC)

Jimi Hendrix and the Experience - Scandinavia Vols 1 and 2 (12 CD Limited Edition Box Set) Both Volumes (All 12 CDs included)

Vol 1: 7 complete 1967/68 performances from Sweden and Denmark - presented together for the first time officially licensed* from the estate of Hendrix’s former manager, Michael Jeffery individually numbered, only 2000 copies world-wide.
Presented here are complete concerts sourced from amateur recordings with the exception of the 5th September live radio show which is now in improved sound quality over its previous release on Stages. What you will hear on these concerts from Sweden and Denmark is the raw energy of those early shows and the excitement of fans perhaps seeing Jimi for the first time and being blown away by the Experience. You will hear what they heard; you will become part of the audience, you will share their Experience. For us, this more than makes up for what it might lack in recording quality; we believe these tapes have adequate clarity and deserve release on their own merit. You will also hear occasional problems that Jimi faced with the mismatch of volume levels between voice and instruments due to inadequate, low-powered public address systems for his vocals and sometimes unreliable guitar amplifiers. Although on first glance the set-lists look repetitive, one has to bear in mind that Jimi never played the same song in the same way twice. He liked to keep things fresh and was a master of improvisation, hence his love of jamming.

VOL 1
Disc 1
24TH MAY 1967 : STORA SCENEN
Introduction and Tune-up
Foxy Lady
Rock Me Baby
Hey Joe
Can You See Me
Purple Haze
Wild Thing
Silence
4th SEPTEMBER 1967 : STORA SCENEN
Introduction and Tune-up
Sgt Pepper
Rock Me Baby
Catfish Blues
Hey Joe
Purple Haze
Interview 25th May 1967

Disc 2 - 4th SEPTEMBER 1967 : DANS-IN EVENING SHOW
Introduction and Tune-up
Killing Floor
Foxy Lady
Catfish Blues
Hey Joe
Fire
The Wind Cries Mary
Jimi’s Rap
Purple Haze

Disc 3 - 5th SEPTEMBER 1967 : RADIOHUSET, STOCKHOLM
Sgt Pepper
Fire
The Wind Cries Mary
Foxy Lady
Hey Joe
I Don’t Live Today
Burning of the Midnight Lamp
Purple Haze
Interview 05/09/67
Noel, Mitch and Jimi

Disc 4 - 10th SEPTEMBER 1967 : LUND
Introduction
Sgt Pepper
Foxy Lady
Catfish Blues
Fire
The Wind Cries Mary
Have Mercy
Manic Depression
Purple Haze

11th SEPTEMBER 1967 : STORA SCENEN
Introduction and Tune-up
Foxy Lady
Burning of the Midnight Lamp
Fire
Catfish Blues
Hey Joe
Purple Haze

Disc 5 - 7th JANUARY 1968 : COPENHAGEN
Introduction
Sgt Pepper
Fire
Hey Joe
Catfish Blues
The Wind Cries Mary (aborted)
Purple Haze
Spanish Castle Magic
Wild Thing

Disc 6 - 8th JANUARY 1968 : STOCKHOLM
Introduction and Tune-up
Sgt Pepper
EXP
Up From The Skies
Spanish Castle Magic
Foxy Lady
Little Wing
Fire
Catfish Blues
The Wind Cries Mary
Purple Haze
Interview 08/01/68

Vol 2: Scandinavia had proved to be an extremely positive and fertile market for the music of Jimi Hendrix. This boxed set contains recordings from two specific tours and although there is only twelve months between the two sets of concerts captured here much had happened to Jimi between the two tours.

The 1969 tour finds Jimi and the Experience heading out on what would be the original Experience’s final tour. The second series of recordings, drawn from 1970, found the band (often billed as the Experience but featuring Jimi, Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox) fresh from the previous day’s massive Isle Of Wight concert performing the first of these concerts in Stockholm. Jimi Hendrix however would be dead in just over two weeks after commencing this brief Scandinavian tour which followed as series of concerts in Germany that had ended in disarray. The two concerts featured in this boxed set of recordings do capture the essence of Jimi Hendrix live and certainly do not show any lessening in his talent either as a song writer or performer and for this reason these recordings are important.

CD7: (56:11) 9th January 1969 Konserthuset Stockholm Sweden
First Show
MC Intro
Jimi’s Intro
Killing Floor
Spanish CastleMagic
Fire
Hey Joe
Voodoo Child
Red House
The Sunshine Of Your Love

CD8: (68:35) 9th January 1969 Konserthuset Stockholm
Second Show
Introduction
I Don’t Live Today
Spanish Castle Magic
Hey Joe
Voodoo Child
The Sunshine Of Your Love
Red House
Fire
Purple Haze
Star Spangled Banner

CD9: (70:45) 10th January 1969 Falkoner Centret Copenhagen Denmark
First Show
Fire/ Foxy Lady
Tax Free
Spanish Castle Magic
Red House
The Sunshine Of Your Love
I Don’t Live Today
Star SpangledBanner
Purple Haze

CD10: (75:31) 10th January 1969 Falkoner Centret
Second Show (segment)
Fire
Voodoo Child
Foxy Lady
Spanish Castle Magic
31st August 1970 Stora Scenen, Grona Lund, Tivoli Garden
Stockholm, Sweden
Jimi’s Introduction
Lover Man
Catfish Blues
Ezy Rider
RedHouse
Come On
Room Full Of Mirrors
Hey Baby
Drum Solo

CD11: (69:33) 31st August 1970 Stora Scenen (continuation)
Drum Solo
Message To Love
Machine Gun
Voodoo Child
In From The Storm
Purple Haze
Foxy Lady
3rd September 1970 K.B. Hallen Copenhagen Denmark
Stone Free-Foxy Lady
Message To Love
Hey Baby
All Along The Watchtower

CD12: (68:07) 3rd September 1970 (continuation)
Machine Gun
Spanish Castle Magic
Ezy Rider
Freedom
Red House
In From The Storm
Purple Haze
Voodoo Child
Hey Joe
Fire

*Some labels including this one were leased by the so-called Mike Jeffrey Estate. They have no legal rights to Hendrix's music as Mike Jeffrey was not even a shareholder of Yameta
but simply an employee.