![]() ![]() This approach was on full display at the Forum performance, blending more familiar tunes such as “Foxey Lady” with “I Don’t Live Today” from Are You Experienced and his signature blues original “Red House”(“Everybody want to know what America’s soul is everybody think it’s Motown … America’s soul is something more like this here”) which had still not yet been released in the US at this time.įurthermore, the group opened their set with a cover of “Tax Free” – an obscure 1967 instrumental by Swedish duo Hansson & Karlsson (consisting of Bo Hansson and Janne Karlsson), with whom The Experience had previously shared bills in Stockholm. He never relied on a standard set list comprised only of his biggest commercial hits. Hendrix treated each performance as a unique event. A heavy police presence is felt lyrics for their hit “Purple Haze” are altered (“’Scuse me while I kiss that policeman!”) and Jimi dedicates “Spanish Castle Magic” to “the plain clothes police out there and other goofballs.” Between songs, Jimi pled with audience members to stop rushing the stage. ![]() ![]() Floor seats cost $6.50 ($51.20 adjusted for inflation).īy the time The Jimi Hendrix Experience took the stage to blaze through a spirited set, live concert sound had drastically improved from the time of The Beatles baseball stadium tours, but crowd control was still a major concern. The Jimi Hendrix Experience were booked to perform on Apwith opening acts Chicago Transit Authority (soon-to-be renamed Chicago) and Cat Mother & The All Night Newsboys, the latter of whom shared management with the headliners. Among the earliest concerts held there was Aretha Franklin in January 1968 and the Cream farewell tour with opening act Deep Purple in October of that year. Designed by famed architect Charles Luckman (who also designed New York’s rebuilt Madison Square Garden), this multi-purpose venue opened in 1967 as the home of the Los Angeles Kings hockey team and Los Angeles Lakers basketball team, but also began to serve as a music venue. This widescale public interest coincided with the construction of new arenas for sporting events, among them the Forum in Inglewood, CA. An advance track from the album “I Don’t Live Today” is now available and debuted yesterday through LA NPR affiliate’s .įollowing the massive success of The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s 1967-68 studio album trifecta ( Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold As Love, and Electric Ladyland), the trio had developed into the most popular international touring attraction in rock music. ![]() This album comes out in time for the 80th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix’s birth (Nov 27). Recorded in the spring of 1969 before a raucous, sold-out audience, the captivating performance of the original lineup (singer/guitarist Jimi Hendrix, drummer Mitch Mitchell, bassist Noel Redding) has never before been released in its entirety. in partnership with Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, is releasing The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Los Angeles Forum: April 26, 1969 this November 18 on 2LP vinyl, CD and all digital platforms. Legendary 1969 Performance Includes “Purple Haze” and an incendiary 17-minute medley of “Voodoo Child (Return)” and Cream’s “Sunshine Of Your Love”Įxperience Hendrix, L.L.C. THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE LOS ANGELES FORUM: APTO BE RELEASED NOVEMBER 18 IN ADVANCE OF MUSIC LEGEND’S 80th BIRTHDAY Jimi Hendrix Experience ‘Los Angeles Forum: April 26, 1969’ To Be Released November 18 ![]()
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