Jimi Hendrix

This 125 minute DVD film. is a Mystical Voyage storyline built around a 1970 performance in Hawaii. Songs include Purple Haze, Foxy Lady, Star Spangled Banner, more . The video also includes Interviews. Original uncut film from only 16mm print in existance! Interviews w/ Jimi where, through a haze of drugs & alcohol, he talks about his life , beliefs, &, in what now seems prophetic, his death which would occur only 3 mos. later. Filmed atop Hawaii's Haleaka la Volcano…

Given that Jimi Hendrix's career as a frontman lasted only about three years, it might be hard to believe that there's still great material that hasn't been officially released even 40 years after his death (of course, unofficially released is a different matter). But here is Jimi's three-night stand at Winterland in San Francisco from October of 1968, which, despite excellent recordings by Wally Heider, sat largely unreleased until 2011. A single disc was compiled and released by Rykodisc in the late '80s (there was also a hard-to-find three-track bonus disc), but had been out of print for years when this box set arrived.
The Winterland shows were notable for a few reasons. The original Jimi Hendrix Experience had been together for two years and were probably playing at the height of their powers in October 1968 (they would break up in June of 1969)…

This 118 minute video features the debut of the entire performance of Hendrix at the legendary Isle of Wight performance. Special DVD features include picture in picture, providing multiple camera angles, a behind-the-scenes segment featuring director Murray Lerner and a Memorabilia section, which provides everything from original tickets and posters to Hendrix' own handwritten directions to the festival sight.

Jimi Hendrix’s immortal 1970 live album, Band of Gypsys, is one of his most influential releases, with the charismatic guitar icon testing the bounds of his creative approach to produce some of the most ambitious music of his career. Capitol/UMe will honor this landmark record on March 27, almost exactly 50 years from its original release, with special 50th anniversary vinyl editions of Band of Gypsys that recapture the album’s boundary-breaking spirit.