HuMpThAnG said:

Cool I hope they have some cool studio footage. Thanks man.

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September 5, 2013, 12:34 pm
New Hendrix Documentary to Be Released in November
By ALLAN KOZINN

A new two-hour documentary DVD about Jimi Hendrix and a compact disc with a previously unreleased concert 1968 recording by the Jimi Hendrix Experience will be released on Nov. 5, as the concluding installments of a yearlong commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the guitarist’s birth.

The documentary, “Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin’,” will also be shown as part of PBS’s “American Masters” series the same day the DVD version is released. Sony Legacy, which is releasing both discs in a collaboration with Experience Hendrix, the production company overseen by the guitarist’s estate, issued “People, Hell and Angels,” a collection of studio outtakes, this year.

The concert disc was recorded at the Miami Pop Festival on May 18, 1968, when the Jimi Hendrix Experience was at its height: the group had released its second album, “Axis: Bold as Love,” the previous December, and was working on the follow-up, the two-disc “Electric Ladyland,” which would be released in October 1968.
“Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin’” will be released in November. “Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin’” will be released in November.

Hendrix gave two performances at the Miami festival, and the album is drawn from both. Included are Hendrix’s earliest recorded concert performances of “Hear My Train a Comin’” and “Tax Free.” The set is otherwise devoted to familiar classics – “Hey Joe,” “I Don’t Live Today,” “Red House” and “Purple Haze,” with versions of “Foxy Lady” and “Fire” from both the afternoon and evening shows.

Recently discovered film from the outdoor concert also figures into the documentary, which is directed by Bob Smeaton. Mr. Smeaton’s other music films include “The Beatles Anthology,” “Festival Express” and several installments of the “Classic Albums” series, as well as several Hendrix projects: “Hendrix: Band of Gypsys” (1999), “Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show” (2002), “Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child” (2010) and “Hendrix 70: Live at Woodstock” (2012).

“The biggest challenge,” Mr. Smeaton said in a telephone interview from London, “was that having done a number of Hendrix projects in the past, I had to find a way of getting everything I wanted into the film without having it run six hours, and without having it turn into the same film I did in the past. You’ve got to hit certain points: when he came to London, when he played Monterey, certain albums, Woodstock, building his recording studio. But you also want to get a different take. And that’s the hardest thing – trying to stay fresh.”

One way Mr. Smeaton did that was to rely mainly on people who knew and worked with Hendrix. And though he includes plenty of interviews with musicians who collaborated with Hendrix, Mr. Smeaton said that he was most taken with the observations by the women in Hendrix’s life.

“In the past, I’ve interviewed mainly guys,” Mr. Smeaton said. “And with guys, it always comes down to, ‘He was a great guitar player, he looked good on stage, he died too young.’ And that’s all true. But the women offer a different take. They say ‘He was shy,’ or ‘He was gentle.’ The women bring an interesting insight, and maybe for once we know more about him.”

Mr. Smeaton added: “The other things that’s important, when you make a film like this, is that you try to get to the real musicality of the guy, rather than just ‘here we go again, another guitar solo.’ There’s a section where Eddie Kramer, his producer, is sitting at the mixing desk, playing each of the four guitar tracks on ‘Little Wing.’ Each part is different, and when you put them together, it’s orchestral. So you hear about Hendrix playing the guitar with his teeth, or behind his head. But he knew what he was doing. And that sometimes gets overshadowed by the crazy hair and the other stuff.”

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September 3rd, 2013
Jimi Hendrix
Film: Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin'

Premieres nationally Tuesday, November 5 at 9 p.m. on PBS
(check local listings)

The Hendrix estate has cooperated fully with this film, releasing performance footage of Jimi Hendrix that has never been seen before, as well as an extensive archive of photographs, drawings and family letters. A pioneering electric guitarist, Hendrix had only four years of mainstream exposure and recognition, but his influential music and riveting stage presence left an enduring legacy. Presented as part of a year-long celebration concluding what would have been his 70th year (11/27/1942), this is his definitive story, illustrated by interviews with Hendrix and illuminated with commentary by Paul McCartney, Noel Redding, Billy Cox, Eddie Kramer, and others. Poignant, protected footage from his final performance in Germany in September 1970, just 12 days before his drug-related death at age 27, concludes the film.

Filmmaker is Bob Smeaton (Festival Express; The Beatles Anthology; Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child; Hendrix 70: Live at Woodstock)

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/a...omin/2660/

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tA,

If Hendrix was alive today, what'd you make of his career? Or, where do you think he was

headed musically? Do you have any idea?

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Always count on you for the coolest updates! Thx! Hope all is well.

duccichucka said:

tA,

If Hendrix was alive today, what'd you make of his career? Or, where do you think he was

headed musically? Do you have any idea?

From the postive side of the fence, you look at his contemporaries (Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page,etc) and think he could have had a productive career. If the Miles Davis collab had occurred, I believe it would have given him cred with the more forward thinking Jazz artists to possibly move in that direction. Maybe with the popularity of the Band of Gypsys style, Funk-Rock would have been another avenue.

On the other side of the coin, was there enough left in the creative tank?
Would he have progressed as a guitarist technically?

My guess is that he was one of those innovative artists that was just here long enough to open doors for others to at least appreciate and some to walk through and expand upon.


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Hendrix: ‘I need to lay back and think about it all’

Martin Kielty at 08:02am September 20, 2013

Classic Rock Magazine

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Jimi Hendrix was planning to put two bands together just before his death – but he wanted a little time to think things through before he embarked upon the next stage of his career.

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He talked about his aims for the future in an interview recorded by press agent Keith Altham a week before he passed awar on September 18, 1970 – and broadcast in full for the first time on TeamRock Radio’s Classic Rock Magazine Show this week.

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Hendrix discussed the aftermath of bassist Billy Cox leaving his lineup, saying: “I think I’ll get a small one together. It’s really hard to decide. I’d like to have both, if I could. I’d get two guitarists – one being myself – an organist, a singer, drums and bass. That would be out of sight.”

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He admitted he wanted to appear live less often because “it would count for more if we did less.”

But asked if the excitement had gone out of music for him, Hendrix said: “No. I was feeling like that before, because I was thinking too fast. It’s hard to know what people want sometimes – right now I can’t feel anything. I just need to lay back and think about it all.”

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Exclusive: Jimi by Leon Hendrix – Inside A Voodoo Childhood

The guitar icon said he’d realised there was no point in paying attention to the hype surrounding his career, but that he didn’t want people separating his live performance from his writing. “I’d hate to be in one corner, put only as a guitar player, only as a songwriter, only as a tap-dancer or something like that,” he reflected. “I like to move around.”

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Asked whether it was important to be recognised as a songwriter, Hendrix replied: “I guess it would be if I want to lay around and only write songs when I can’t go on stage any more.”

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Altham tells The Classic Rock Magazine Show host Nicky Horne how he first met Hendrix via his manager, Chas Chandler, who’d played bass with the Animals. “Chas always said when he finished with the Animals he’d become a manager and take me along for the ride, which is a promise he fulfilled,” says the journalist.

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“The night Hendrix arrived in London I went down and Jimi was playing with a few musicians – not singing, just jamming. Chas said, ‘What do you think?’ I said, ‘He’s brilliant, but he’ll go right over the heads of the kids; he’s a jazz guitarist, he’s not a teenage idol.’

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“Chas said, ‘He will be if I’ve got anything to do with it.’ Gradually as he invented the Jimi we saw on stage I began to see what he was talking about. When Hey Joe got into the charts Chas helped it along by buying a few extra copies, getting it an early entry – then it took off on its own.”

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This documentary was shown here in UK last night. Was worth watching if a little shallow in places, but little new to me info-wise, though there were some nice snippets of live performances I'd never seen before, but all very short, apart from Star-Spangled Banner at Woodstock.

This was produced with the co-operation of the Hendrix Estate, but even so, was disappointed by them still propagating the 'sanitised' version of his demise, which, according to the widely available books I've read, just no longer holds water compared to the claims of ambulance personnel etc who were at the scene of his passing in London, and later conflicting claims of alleged 'witnesses' after the fact - as outlined here in this interesting article - http://www.classicrockmag...i-hendrix/

I saw this the other night. Great footage, but it's very familiar ground. We've heard all the stories before. Also, it was a whitewash. We were told over and over what a great guy he was. Even his death was more or less blamed on someone else - one of his girlfriends giving him sleeping pills - would it really be so bad to admit that Hendrix' lifestyle might have had something to do with his early demise?

I have nothing against presenting an artist in the best light, but I have a low tolerance for bullshit. I don't like being misled and this program did a fair bit of whitewashing.

Still, it was well put together. Hendrix was an electric performer in those first few years. You could see towards the end though that he was losing his way. Going through the motions on stage and chasing that elusive magic in the studio.

Mr. Kozinn article pulls at the heart string so, I can't wait to see these.

Two are more decades ago PBS aired a documentary about Hendrix and they shwoed footage of him playing at the Checkerboard Lounge and on the West Side of Chicago. I saw it once and I've never saw that film ever again. The film ended with Hendrick on a stool playing acoustic guitar. Hendrick's appeared to be a guy who was serious about his music but didn't take him self very seriously... self-effacing. I'm really looking forward to this documentary, thanks for the hook-up.

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MarshallStacks said:

This documentary was shown here in UK last night. Was worth watching if a little shallow in places, but little new to me info-wise, though there were some nice snippets of live performances I'd never seen before, but all very short, apart from Star-Spangled Banner at Woodstock.

This was produced with the co-operation of the Hendrix Estate, but even so, was disappointed by them still propagating the 'sanitised' version of his demise, which, according to the widely available books I've read, just no longer holds water compared to the claims of ambulance personnel etc who were at the scene of his passing in London, and later conflicting claims of alleged 'witnesses' after the fact - as outlined here in this interesting article - http://www.classicrockmag...i-hendrix/

inter.EST.ing wow, I never gave much thought to Hendrix's death, the drugging lifestyle being so prevalent. but could that be the most CONVENIENT aspect to his lifestyle that made it easy to possibly to take him out for financial reasons. The family's resfusal to acknowledge that he could've OD'd might NOT be just because they want to present him in the best light. From that article, it seems to be enough reason to believe otherwise! SMH

TD3 said:

Two are more decades ago PBS aired a documentary about Hendrix and they shwoed footage of him playing at the Checkerboard Lounge and on the West Side of Chicago. I saw it once and I've never saw that film ever again. The film ended with Hendrick on a stool playing acoustic guitar.

This is it:

JoeBala said:

TD3 said:

Two are more decades ago PBS aired a documentary about Hendrix and they shwoed footage of him playing at the Checkerboard Lounge and on the West Side of Chicago. I saw it once and I've never saw that film ever again. The film ended with Hendrick on a stool playing acoustic guitar.

This is it:

Yep, that it !!! Thank you JoeBala.