While the fiftieth anniversary of his death has not benefited from any particular repercussions on the discographic level, Jimi Hendrix is the subject of a rather discreet album release at the end of the year.
Tourists will undoubtedly pass their way, but amateurs know that the concert which comes out - in audio and video - is one of the most legendary given by the guitarist in 1970. In the period of what would constitute his last recordings and his last appearances public, Hendrix was accompanied by the English drummer Mitch Mitchell, whom he had met on his arrival in London, and by the American bassist Billy Cox, with whom he had done his military service as a volunteer in the early 1960s. .
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“It was a very special concert,” confirms Cox.
Jimi was at his best, and so were we, as he constantly pulled us to the top.
His energy was colossal ”
Billy Cox, bassist and friend of Jimi Hendrix
This
Live in Maui
, captured in the magnificent setting of the former Haleakala volcano, on the island of Maui in the Hawaiian archipelago, has long circulated in clandestine copy, with muffled sound.
Here it is, carefully restored, restoring the power of concerts
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