Notes

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Three different sources spanning just over a year in the life of Jimi's rise to fame, all of varying SBD-like quality.

The Hamburg shows used way too much reverb on his vocal, you could tell they were just really not sure what to make of this whole spectacle. Man that must have been funny. But clearly they were going for that 60's pyschedelic wash of space while Jimi had always been an innovator rather than a follower, and his rather dry and in-your-face recording techniques were unheard of at the time. So we get an echoey vocal. Sorry, it's just weird for me to hear it like that.

The Stockholm parts I think are the best for performance, quality of source and general mix. They got it. And his playful rendition of "Sgt Pepper's..." has always been a favorite of mine. Plus there's emotional versions of "Hey Joe", "The Wind Cries Mary" and "The Burning of the Midnight Lamp". The performance of the latter...wow...and I don't recall hearing it performed live all that often either.

The Miami Pop festival was the weakest of the sources, it being a bit thin and shifty. It has odd channel and frequency changes from song to song which I corrected as best as possible. Also those performances are, uh, let's call them loose. But still cool...maybe raw is a better word? You decide.

1-5: live radio recordings, Radiohouse, Hamburg, W. Germany, 3/18/67
6-13: live radio recordings from Radiohuset Studio, Stockholm, 9/5/67
14-17: live, Miami Pop Festival, 5/18/68, 2nd show