Jimi Hendrix: Experience
by Peter Neal
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Actor: Alexis Korner, Jimi Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell, Noel ReddingDirector: Peter Neal
Cinematographer: Brian Grainger
Cinematographer: Ian McMillan
Cinematographer: Peter Jessop
Editor: Peter Neal
Producer: John Marshall
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), PCM Mono; English (Original Language), PCM Mono
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 29 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-02-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Polygram Video
DVD Reviews of Jimi Hendrix: Experience
DVD Review: a good Hendrix primer
Summary: 5 Stars
this dvd begins with the half-hour documentary "Experience" filmed in 1967 at the height of this new phenomenom everybody was talking about at the time, Jimi Hendrix and his band The Jimi Hendrix Experience. The film integrates live performances with interview segments and a promo clip for Foxy Lady(a foxy lady named Beth wrapped in a fox fur, a mini skirt and white go-go boots runs hither and thither...sort of like a fox being chased by the hounds, all to the tune of FOXY LADY)as well as Jimi by himself with just a 12-string acoustic guitar performing a very bluesy "hear my train a-comin". this last solo performance is also seen in the film "Jimi Hendrix".
it's great to hear Jimi reflect on what it was like as a paratrooper during his time in the service and his thoughts on native American indians. the two live performances from Blackpool England show just what a showman Jimi was as he plays his guitar behind his back, between his legs, rolling on the floor and playing his guitar with his teeth after which he teases the audience with "what are you looking at!!??".
This is Jimi just having a great time showing exactly what he can do with his guitar to stunned audiences. He introduces the song Wild Thing by asking everyone to all sing along and if they don't "we're gonna put a curse on you and all your children that they be born completely naked".
Following the "Experience" film are 2 black and white clips from Swedish television with jimi and band lipsynching(i think) to Wind Cries Mary and Purple Haze. very nice.
Next up is the main course of this disc. After seeing this i went out and bought this DVD. It is a live performance from early 1969 with the Experience performing in Stockholm Sweden. Introducing the band, the emcee informs the audience that the band will be performing what they like to call 'electric church music'....and out they come. After a smattering of applause the room becomes very quiet as Jimi plugs in and begins a long exploratory improvisation on the song Red House. You can see instantly that this is no longer the flashy entertainer who a few years earlier would stun the audience with teeth picking and speaker cabinet humping. Instead, we see a Hendrix who looks like he just go out of bed and is all business as he acquaints himself with the Gibson SG he's using this night instead of his trademark Fender Strat. This is the most interesting performance i've seen of the man....watching him trawl through this set as if he were a scientist in his laboratory, first with Red House and then a long jam to a vocal-less Sunshine of your Love that includes a very unexpected Noel Redding bass solo. Buy this DVD for this live footage alone. Well, that's what i'm doing. but after the red house performance there is also the promo clip for the song Hey Joe and another live performance from Paris, 1967, with the band doing another take on Wild Thing. the program concludes with a posthumous video of the song Dolly Dagger that i notice a lot of reviewers seem to shun. I guess i can see why. it comes off as a marketing ploy but i got past that and enjoy the song and the choreography set to it. and the gal in the video, Fawn Reed ain't half bad either!
overall, i recommend this nice lil' disc. it's a really good sampler of a shooting star-Jimi Hendrix
Description of Jimi Hendrix: Experience
Step inside the world of Jimi Hendrix via Experience, the acclaimed 1968 program which features a high speed mix of commentary, interviews with Jimi, Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding, and indelible live performances. Highlights include Jimi's unforgettable twelve-string acoustic rendition of "Hear My Train a-Comin'" as well as incendiary live performances of "Purple Haze" and "Wild Thing" filmed in Blackpool, England, and a soundtrack filled with Hendrix classics like "Voodoo Chile," "If Six Was Nine," "Castles Made of Sand," "May This Be Love," and "Foxey Lady."Live performances of "The Wind Cries Mary" and "Purple Haze" from Swedish Television's Popside, May 24, 1967; Live performances of "Red House" and Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love" from Swedish Television's Number Nine, January 9, 1969, featuring Jimi playing a Gibson SG rather than his trademark Fender Stratocaster; "Wild Thing" live in Paris, October 9, 1967; Original promotional film for "Hey Joe" filmed at London's Saville Theatre in January 1967; 1997 music video for "Dolly Dagger" featuring Fawn Reed and James Hong.
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