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Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys (Live at the Fillmore East)


Rare black and white footage captures Jimi Hendrix and his Band of Gypsys in a peak performance. The highlight is "Machine Gun". There's also a documentary on how the Band of Gypsys was formed and on Jimi's impact on "black" music.

Made less than a year before his death in September 1970, Band of Gypsys  was an album recorded live to fulfill a contractual obligation for a long-forgotten deal Jimi Hendrix signed when he 
still spelled his name "Jimmy." Hendrix had just disbanded the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and in order to dispense with the album as quickly as possible, he put together a new trio featuring Billy Cox (an old Army buddy) and drummer Buddy Miles, whose bombastic singing and thudding drum style would soon pollute FM airwaves across the nation. (Former Hendrix drummer Mitch Mitchell 
refers to him here as "William the Concreter," for his cement-mixer sense of rhythm.) They booked the Fillmore East with the idea of recording the shows for a live album, and this DVD features recently unearthed film footage of that historic performance, with Hendrix at the top of his powers 
(despite Miles's excesses). It also offers several other rare live performances from British clubs in the mid-1960s. The musical moments are mixed with new interview footage, including conversations with the self-effacing Cox and the elf-aggrandizing Miles. If you've only heard the CD's (Band of Gypsys and Jimi Hendrix: Live at the Fillmore East), you've only gotten half of this 
particular Jimi Hendrix experience.


Bron: R1 NTSC retail
Formaat: DVD9
Taal: Engels
Subs: Nee

Run Time: 130 minutes