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The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Miami Pop Festival (2013) {Sony–Legacy 88883769922 rec 1968}
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© 1968, 2013 Experience Hendrix / Sony Music / Legacy | 88883769922
Rock / Blues Rock / Hard Rock / Psychedelic Rock

In the spring of 1968, the Miami Pop Festival became the first major multi-day rock festival to be held on the East Coast in the wake of 1967's groundbreaking Monterey Pop Festival. The Jimi Hendrix Experience had been the breakthrough act that wowed audiences at Monterey, so promoter Michael Lang (who would help put together the Woodstock Music and Art Fair a year later) persuaded Hendrix to headline the Miami event. Hendrix, who was recording Electric Ladyland at the time, brought along recording engineer Eddie Kramer to tape his gig in Miami, and while Hendrix's set has circulated for years as a bootleg, Miami Pop Festival finally gives this performance an authorized release, with Kramer mixing the 45-year-old tapes.

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