Rainbow Bridge Concert

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Subsequent album from the concert

The Rainbow Bridge concert was a free unpromoted concert by Jimi Hendrix that was held in a horse pasture, on July 30, 1970 3000 feet up on the slope of Mt.Haleakala on the island of Maui in Hawaii.^[1]

A modest audience of a few hundred island hippies, surfers, and students showed up from rumours that Hendrix would play a free concert for the movie Rainbow Bridge that Chuck Wein was directing. In actuality very little of the footage was used in the film and none of it was used on the soundtrack album Rainbow Bridge (soundtrack). The concert had been bootlegged for some time before the Hendrix estate decided to officially release part of it in the album The Rainbow Bridge Concert, The Early Show. ^[2] Hendrix enlisted his former Jimi Hendrix Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell and bassist Billy Cox from Gypsy Sun and Rainbows for the concert and had the director Chuck Wien make an introduction.

This would be the second to last concert Hendrix performed in the United States, his last being in Honolulu Hawaii on August 1 1970. Hendrix would subsequently die less than 3 weeks later on September 18, 1970 in London England.