To attempt to pay respect to the venerable classic and arguably the greatest live album of all time, The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Live at Winterland (now tragically out of print), I’ve now recompiled all of the exact versions from Spotify and placed them within one playlist, in order, that should play as an ostensible replication of the original live album. In my last attempt to do this, I slotted all the songs in the right order, but the problem was that several of the songs had been performed multiple times within what became the Winterland box set, which comprised I think three straight shows in their entirety, so some of the specific versions differed from those originally featured on Live at Winterland, which, again, was just one CD. The only omissions, barely notable, from the original Live at Winterland disc, will be “Prologue” and “Epilogue,” the former of which I guess is quasi-notable for its feature of “A Whiter Shade of Pale” by Procol Harum playing on the PA in the background.
One reason why I keep painstakingly exerting myself on this issue is that this Winterland box set, while being overlong and in a way redundant as it features some of the same songs several times, is also really unprofessionally done. Some of these versions are just lousy and unlistenable — you’ve got things like Hendrix forgetting the lines of an entire verse, or coming in on the wrong note on one version of “Purple Haze” and then haphazardly fixing it halfway through, to awkward results. What is the record label that put this out? Does it really matter? This whole thing seems like a sinking ship, monetarily speaking (hence reflecting the apparent amount of effort that went into curating Winterland), but I think in this playlist replication we have an exciting, seminal vial of classic rock by Hendrix and his group, Hendrix who according to his autobiography went over to Britain because they’d let him play loud, got together with Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding and never looked back. Hey, that experiment turned out pretty decently, didn’t it?
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Since then, only four years – 1976, 1977, 1985 and 2014 – have passed without at least one new piece of Jimi Hendrix product, most of which promised previously unreleased material. The live albums, in particular, were a mess for decades, often packaging together performances from disparate concerts.
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