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In the spring of 1968, the Miami Pop Festival became the first major multi-day rock festival to be held on the East Coast in the wake of 1967's groundbreaking Monterey Pop Festival.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
had been the breakthrough act that wowed audiences at Monterey, so promoter Michael Lang (who would help put together the Woodstock Music and Art Fair a year later) persuaded
Hendrix
to headline the Miami event.
, who was recording
Electric Ladyland
at the time, brought along recording engineer
Eddie Kramer
to tape his gig in Miami, and while
's set has circulated for years as a bootleg,
Miami Pop Festival
finally gives this performance an authorized release, with
Kramer
mixing the 45-year-old tapes. This recording has long been celebrated by
enthusiasts over the years, and it's not hard to see why; thanks to
, the recording is clean and full of detail (right down to the rattle of the springs in
's whammy bar), and
the Experience
sound quite good, with
and drummer
Mitch Mitchell
interacting with their usual intuitive skill, while
Noel Redding
serviceably holds down the bottom end on bass. However, while this is a dynamic and well-preserved performance from
and
(and you can't have too many of those), it isn't an especially exciting one. There's plenty of nuance but noticeably less fire in
's guitar work, and he seems most comfortable stretching out on slow blues numbers, while sounding just a bit too relaxed on
Are You Experienced?
material like "Foxey Lady," "Purple Haze," and "Fire" (though he brings a welcome emotional intensity to "I Don't Live Today"); the group curiously ignores songs from the more recent
Axis: Bold as Love
. It's worth noting that
played two sets on the first day of the May 1968 Miamifest; this release features the evening set in full, while just two tunes from the afternoon show are included as a bonus, and "Fire" and "Foxey Lady" sound tougher and more committed in their first run through of the day than their second. Perhaps
and the
estate should scour the vaults to find the rest of the afternoon set; as it is,
is a welcome addition to the authorized
catalog, but it doesn't cast much new light on his music or his performance style, making for a good but not a great live release. ~ Mark Deming
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
had been the breakthrough act that wowed audiences at Monterey, so promoter Michael Lang (who would help put together the Woodstock Music and Art Fair a year later) persuaded
Hendrix
to headline the Miami event.
, who was recording
Electric Ladyland
at the time, brought along recording engineer
Eddie Kramer
to tape his gig in Miami, and while
's set has circulated for years as a bootleg,
Miami Pop Festival
finally gives this performance an authorized release, with
Kramer
mixing the 45-year-old tapes. This recording has long been celebrated by
enthusiasts over the years, and it's not hard to see why; thanks to
, the recording is clean and full of detail (right down to the rattle of the springs in
's whammy bar), and
the Experience
sound quite good, with
and drummer
Mitch Mitchell
interacting with their usual intuitive skill, while
Noel Redding
serviceably holds down the bottom end on bass. However, while this is a dynamic and well-preserved performance from
and
(and you can't have too many of those), it isn't an especially exciting one. There's plenty of nuance but noticeably less fire in
's guitar work, and he seems most comfortable stretching out on slow blues numbers, while sounding just a bit too relaxed on
Are You Experienced?
material like "Foxey Lady," "Purple Haze," and "Fire" (though he brings a welcome emotional intensity to "I Don't Live Today"); the group curiously ignores songs from the more recent
Axis: Bold as Love
. It's worth noting that
played two sets on the first day of the May 1968 Miamifest; this release features the evening set in full, while just two tunes from the afternoon show are included as a bonus, and "Fire" and "Foxey Lady" sound tougher and more committed in their first run through of the day than their second. Perhaps
and the
estate should scour the vaults to find the rest of the afternoon set; as it is,
is a welcome addition to the authorized
catalog, but it doesn't cast much new light on his music or his performance style, making for a good but not a great live release. ~ Mark Deming
In the spring of 1968, the Miami Pop Festival became the first major multi-day rock festival to be held on the East Coast in the wake of 1967's groundbreaking Monterey Pop Festival.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
had been the breakthrough act that wowed audiences at Monterey, so promoter Michael Lang (who would help put together the Woodstock Music and Art Fair a year later) persuaded
Hendrix
to headline the Miami event.
, who was recording
Electric Ladyland
at the time, brought along recording engineer
Eddie Kramer
to tape his gig in Miami, and while
's set has circulated for years as a bootleg,
Miami Pop Festival
finally gives this performance an authorized release, with
Kramer
mixing the 45-year-old tapes. This recording has long been celebrated by
enthusiasts over the years, and it's not hard to see why; thanks to
, the recording is clean and full of detail (right down to the rattle of the springs in
's whammy bar), and
the Experience
sound quite good, with
and drummer
Mitch Mitchell
interacting with their usual intuitive skill, while
Noel Redding
serviceably holds down the bottom end on bass. However, while this is a dynamic and well-preserved performance from
and
(and you can't have too many of those), it isn't an especially exciting one. There's plenty of nuance but noticeably less fire in
's guitar work, and he seems most comfortable stretching out on slow blues numbers, while sounding just a bit too relaxed on
Are You Experienced?
material like "Foxey Lady," "Purple Haze," and "Fire" (though he brings a welcome emotional intensity to "I Don't Live Today"); the group curiously ignores songs from the more recent
Axis: Bold as Love
. It's worth noting that
played two sets on the first day of the May 1968 Miamifest; this release features the evening set in full, while just two tunes from the afternoon show are included as a bonus, and "Fire" and "Foxey Lady" sound tougher and more committed in their first run through of the day than their second. Perhaps
and the
estate should scour the vaults to find the rest of the afternoon set; as it is,
is a welcome addition to the authorized
catalog, but it doesn't cast much new light on his music or his performance style, making for a good but not a great live release. ~ Mark Deming
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
had been the breakthrough act that wowed audiences at Monterey, so promoter Michael Lang (who would help put together the Woodstock Music and Art Fair a year later) persuaded
Hendrix
to headline the Miami event.
, who was recording
Electric Ladyland
at the time, brought along recording engineer
Eddie Kramer
to tape his gig in Miami, and while
's set has circulated for years as a bootleg,
Miami Pop Festival
finally gives this performance an authorized release, with
Kramer
mixing the 45-year-old tapes. This recording has long been celebrated by
enthusiasts over the years, and it's not hard to see why; thanks to
, the recording is clean and full of detail (right down to the rattle of the springs in
's whammy bar), and
the Experience
sound quite good, with
and drummer
Mitch Mitchell
interacting with their usual intuitive skill, while
Noel Redding
serviceably holds down the bottom end on bass. However, while this is a dynamic and well-preserved performance from
and
(and you can't have too many of those), it isn't an especially exciting one. There's plenty of nuance but noticeably less fire in
's guitar work, and he seems most comfortable stretching out on slow blues numbers, while sounding just a bit too relaxed on
Are You Experienced?
material like "Foxey Lady," "Purple Haze," and "Fire" (though he brings a welcome emotional intensity to "I Don't Live Today"); the group curiously ignores songs from the more recent
Axis: Bold as Love
. It's worth noting that
played two sets on the first day of the May 1968 Miamifest; this release features the evening set in full, while just two tunes from the afternoon show are included as a bonus, and "Fire" and "Foxey Lady" sound tougher and more committed in their first run through of the day than their second. Perhaps
and the
estate should scour the vaults to find the rest of the afternoon set; as it is,
is a welcome addition to the authorized
catalog, but it doesn't cast much new light on his music or his performance style, making for a good but not a great live release. ~ Mark Deming
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