| Live at Monterey | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Label: Experience Hendrix
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 15563
Format: Extra Tracks, Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 000984302
UPC: 602517455160
EAN: 0602517455160
ASIN: B000VI6T6K
Release Date: October 16, 2007
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 Oh for the love of god Mr. Rissoff & Mr. Frankl - Jimi At Monterey Is Past Due! October 28, 2007
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
Look, I know there's Hendrix fans who have the Reprise release of this from 1986 or possibly the 1970 edited Hendrix/Redding combo. But hey, some people have gotten into Hendrix in between the Alan Douglas/Reprise/Experience Hendrix blowout of the early 90's which killed a lot of great Hendrix/Reprise releases...Stages, Lifelines, Concerts. Okay, we can do without "Nine" and "Midnight" because those sucked.
In their places post 1995 we've gotten basically overused-univibe Jimi with a lagging Mitchell and a bored Redding or having Cox drowned out by Jimi. Heck, they'll release Berkeley and four or five other sub-par gigs but not San Diego 1969 which blows the doors off of everything since Monterey...plus still no Monterey anyway? And where's Winterland, by the way? Oh, I forgot...Hendrix's family in their infinite wisdom - Jimi Drink showed their "skills", I might add - killed Ryko's Hendrix releases as well. Like Ryko was a major force to be dealt with or something.
All these things said, I'm glad they've released Monterey again. I lost my 1986 copy in 1991 and have been looking for a new copy since. Plus, the Wild Thing mix on 2002's Voodoo Child was much better than the 1986 mix, let alone the Hendrix/Redding 1970 thing. And think of how many new Hendrix fans since the mid 90's who've picked up either beat up used 1986 Monterey off the internet, probably one of them was once mine, or some tanked bootleg off a torrent site.
Stop whining and be glad they're releasing it to properly and triggering newer fans and us morons who lost our 1986's to get an official Monterey release currently in circulation.
Five stars.
Hendrix-Monterey October 21, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Kind of an honor to be the first, or one of the first, to review this great and historically important album.
Imagine, Hendrix appears at the Monterey pop festival in 1967, and launches full-force into guitar-driven hard rock, using distortion and blistering runs, and caps it off by torching his guitar. He almost shyly tells the audience before the last song, "Wild Thing," that he loves them and will sacrifice something that is precious. Hearing those comments for the first time explains his intent in lighting his guitar on fire, an iconic image.
The audience must have been stunned, wondering what they had just experienced when Hendrix, Redding and Mitchell walked off the stage. I suspect most of the audience had NEVER heard rock played like that before.
Forty years ago, the music is still fresh. Hendrix was a pioneer, and showed versatility, from the whimsical "Castles in the Sand" to the driving "Foxy Lady." Hendrix's innovations, making his instrument a wailing creature or a droning storm, are still copied today.
 here we go again October 26, 2007
4 out of 20 found this review helpful
as time goes on this charade gets sadder and sadder--whats next--a new cd which contains nothing but jimi getting in tune
it has degenerated into the most crass commercialism, and this is coming from a 40 year fan who can never get enought jimi
jimi is probably turning over
 Overdue November 10, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am very glad they finally re-released this whole concert if only for one song: Hey Joe. Don't get me wrong - there is plenty more, but that was the one I was waiting for. I first heard the version from Monterey on the soundtrack to the Jimi Hendrix movie and I enjoy it in some ways even more than the studio version which is damn close to being perfection. It is rough but demonstrates Jimi's showman style mixed with his powerfully fluid rhythm/lead style. There are a few clunkers here, particularly Can You See Me and Wild Thing which suffers mostly from being a visual treat much more than an aural one. Listening to a guitar burning or being smashed is not the preferred medium for such an act. Beyond those two, however, this is a solid live effort, something that is difficult to find in the sprawling mess of Hendrix live material available. The excellent version of Like A Rolling Stone, the take on Rock Me Baby that later became Lover Man, and the bludgeoning opener of Killing Floor are all superb. This was an important show for Jimi and it shows. Despite reportedly tripping his face off on acid dosed just prior to taking the stage, the show is pure Hendrix brilliance - flamboyant, incendiary, wavering on the edge of chaos, and jaw-dropping. Making for an added novelty is Jimi's between song babbling as he tunes up between nearly every song, a consequence of whammy-ing your Stratocaster into the next dimension. While the Jimi that set the world on fire this night was to become an image he came to see as a burden, it is also what propelled him to transcontinental fame and guaranteed the world would never forget this amazing man.
 Now let's go back to the beginning November 25, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I hate to burst anyone's bubble; and Eddie Kramer did a fine re-mix & master on this, but all it really is is a re-working of the original album release.
This album first came out on CD in 1987, re-mixed & re-mastered, & trimmed in order to fit the CD. It's ok that the Hendrix estate brought it back in it's original form. But there's nothing new here. For those of you under the age of 50, who may have heard the name Jimi Hendrix in passing, this concert is a good place to start. For those of us who have seen all the film, and have all the CD's, this is just the Hendrix estate squeezing another nickle out of something that's had it's day in the sun......
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