Woodstock Nation


Woodstock. 3 Days of Peace, Love, Music, & Mud :) This 2 CD set features the most complete performance of Jimi at Woodstock, missing only Message To Love (which I have been informed by a trading partner, is available, in a complete form, on the CD 500,000 Halos). It is however, recorded too fast, no doubt to make it fit on the double album it came out on originally. This makes Jimi sound like Alvin from The Chipmunks, although a Internet pal says he think it sounds like someone has Jimi's balls in a vise. Hope not! :) Good performances, although reading Mitch Mitchell's book last night he doesn't think they were that good. In time I may rip these tracks to my computer and speed correct them, adding Message To Love from the incoming 500,000 Halos CD and make a more complete and proper sounding concert. Although I know the moment I do that, the Experience Hendrix re-issue will come out :)

I like the cover image, though the rest of the package suffers from some of the worst spelling mistakes I've seen since I was in kindergarden. Examples? On the back, it gives the title of the CD, and where it was recorded; then the artist line: JIMI HENDRIX AND THE GYPSY SUNNY RAIMBOW

And the writing credit for Mastermind? The Gypsy Summy Raimbow.

Did I mention I like the cover picture? :) If you have any other of the multiple Woodstock issues, I'd stick with them, especially if they are at the right speed, and maybe try to compile the complete concert from different sources. Or you could try speed correcting this one. Or even better, petition/e-mail/beg Experience Hendrix to hurry up with a proper and complete release of probably Jimi's most well known concert. We've been waiting for this one for a long long time. Hopefully not much longer now.

Catalog #: Wild Bird Records WBR 890901/2