The Last Experience Concert: Live at the Royal Albert Hall
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| The Last Experience Concert: Live at the Royal Albert Hall | ||
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| Live album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience | ||
| Released | 1990 | |
| Recorded | February 24, 1969 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 01:05:37 | |
| Label | Timeless Treasures | |
| Producer(s) | ??? | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology | ||
| Jimi Plays Monterey (1986) |
The Last Experience Concert: Live at the Royal Albert Hall (1990) |
Jimi Hendrix: Live at Berkeley (2003) |
The Last Experience Concert: Live at the Royal Albert Hall is a live album containing Jimi Hendrix's performance with the Experience at the Royal Albert Hall, on February 24, 1969. The concert was filmed and recorded, because it was planned to be released as a movie, Experience. The movie has never seen an official release, but there are many packagings of the audio recording. This one was released in 1990.
The title the album cover shows is The Last Experience: His Final Live Performance. This is inaccurate. In reality, the last Experience concert took place several months later at the Denver Pop Festival,[1] and Hendrix continued to tour after the break up of the Experience.
There are many different packagings of the same performance. Real Hendrix fans may already have a copy of this performance on their collections, so they should check the track listing and the running times before picking one copy of this album. Even that other issues of this performance may have better sound quality, this issue also contains extended versions of "Bleeding Heart" and "Room Full of Mirrors", so it can be considered as a better purchase among some.
[edit] Track listing
- "Little Wing" (Hendrix) – 3:18
- "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" (Hendrix) – 7:16
- "Room Full of Mirrors" (Hendrix) – 2:54
- "Fire" (Hendrix) – 3:43
- "Purple Haze" (Hendrix) – 3:04
- "Wild Thing" (Taylor) – 1:19
- "Bleeding Heart" (James) – 5:29
- "Sunshine of Your Love" (Brown, Bruce, Clapton) – 6:48
- "Room Full of Mirrors (Extended Version)" (Hendrix) – 8:14
- "Bleeding Heart (Extended Version)" (James) – 8:36
- "Smashing of the Amps" (Traditional) – 6:24
- "C# Blues (People, People, People)" - (Hendrix, James) – 8:31
[edit] Additional History
The Royal Albert Hall concert was among the first records to be massively bootlegged. It remains the most common "unofficial" Hendrix release, widely available under numerous labels with varying quality. In 1995, Eric Burdon acquired the master tapes for this concert. His production team, under the name Risin' Sun Productions, determined that the concert was recorded at a slightly fast speed and previous releases had a correspondingly higher tone than reality. Risin' Sun corrected the defect and reproduced the concert in a number of CD's under the title "The Jimi Hendrix Experience Live at Royal Albert Hall", until the brand new Experience Hendrix label put a quash on the production.
