Fran wrote:1.Jimi Hendrix - 'Valleys of Neptune' - Sounds fantastic which makes me wonder about Fran's comment on the CD version being described as 'bright'.......
mmm, maybe the CD version ain't so good. Might go and pick up the vinyl version so, see how that sounds. The content on the album is pretty good, so prolly worth it alright.
Interesting one from borderline. I kinda gave up going in there after repeated bad pressings. He always changed them no problem but it was a PITA. Might be worth it for a jimi though. Please do let us know how it goes...
Fran
Well I listened to the 'Borderline' Jimi last night and it left me exhilarated and exhausted in equal measure!!While I was a bit suspicious about whether he actually did a concert the day following his exhausting all nighter at the IOW....when I got home I consulted my Jimi bible 'Electric Gypsy' (1990) and lo and behold, there it was on page 696, his concert in Stora Scenen,Grona Lund, Tivoli Garden, Stockholm with almost the full track listing as on the record I got yesterday!??!!? Oh me of little faith! On consulting another book 'Eyewitness Hendrix' by Johnny Black, this is what Chas Chandler had to say about the gig: "He was wrecked. He'd start a song, get into the solo section and then he wouldn't even remember what song they were playing at the time.He'd come into a different song.It was a disasterous concert,it was really awful to watch."
My impression is Jimi wanted to stay permanently in the solo section which means you get plenty of incendiary guitar and muffled vocals but a sad vision of a great man fighting with his demons and losing.....Only really for the Hendrix fanatic.Am I happy I bought it? 100% yes :-))) for the simple reason I'm hearing the real Hendrix and not the edited, homogenised version.
Re: pressing : it sounds ok to me ie no clicks and pops; as for anything else I wouldn't be in a position to hear any other flaws TG!!
Track listing:
Lover Man/Catfish Blues (short 3 min instr.)/Ezy Ryder/Red House
Come On (Part 1)/Room Full of Mirrors/Villanova Junction/Hey Baby medley
Machine Gun/Voodoo Chile (barely recognisable!)
Message to Love/In From The Storm/Purple Haze/Foxy Lady/Star Spangled Banner
Incidentally the next night he played in Vejlby Risskov Hallen,Arhus, played two songs and left the stage due to
total exhaustion;then followed only three more gigs at the K.B. Hallen, Copenhagen, Super Concert 70, Deutschlandhalle,Berlin and his final gig at the love and Peace Festival (sic), Isle of Fehmarn on the 6th of Sept. 1970....
Hope that helps...[/color]
