Jimi Hendrix Both Sides of the Sky - new album coming March 9, 2018

Of all the "ersatz" post death releases, I thought crash landing was probably the best.

 

Agreed. The good stuff is on the Purple Box.

 

But how can you judge the quality of Crash Landing if you haven't heard it?

 

As for the "paltry 6 songs", back when this was first released, for sound quality reproduction, an LP side was roughly around 15 minutes per side. The songs on the LP meet that criteria. We can argue about the sound recording, performance and song selection all day long. They could have put the 22 minute Machine Gun on one side, had three songs on the other side, for a 4 song record.

In the US when this was first released as an Import, it was very expensive. I would have passed on a double for cost alone.

 

I like it, a lot. In fact I have few complaints about anything that's been released since 1971, maybe the Johnny B Goode live album, that was a bit short.

 

Yes, when single cd versions of Isle of Wight were reissued twice since then, they deleted 2 (Midnight Lightning & Foxy Lady) of the original 6 tracks on the album and replaced them with other songs.

 

I dunno, several live albums from that era were almost the double in duration.
I think the IOW lp is better than the intention behind it so to speak.
The second side is strong. The first side less so, but it has the only full live performance of Midnight Lightning. And a pretty cool version of Foxy Lady which is unusually long due to a bass and drums jam covering for Jimi who had split his pants.

 

I believe it is mentioned in Setting The Record Straight that the original Isle of Wight release would have been better if Midnight Lightning and Foxy Lady had been deleted and replaced by Machine Gun and/or Red House.

 

That would always drive me crazy, especially as any live version of Spanish Castle Magic wasn't released until years later. Once I heard the version and I saw he skipped some lyrics I understood why they didn't release this particular version.

 

To me Foxy Lady is the real weak link on the album, it just meanders around (looking at the situation, it really couldn't do anything else but that). Red House would've been better.

Side One
Intro/Midnight Lightning
All Along the Watchtower
Freedom
Lover Man

Side Two
Red House
In From the Storm

Not great great, but better.

 

For some reason Jimi often skipped lyrics in that song when he had equipment troubles or was in a bad mood.

 

Maui seems likeliest. There was a leaked photo of Kramer working on it 2-3 years ago.

San Diego/RAH may have been mixed by Kramer already to keep handy.

 

"It's better than Coca-Cola!"

 

It's been probably 20 years since I've heard any of the Maui material (which I know I used to have back about 15-30 years ago.

I seem to remember liking it, and would welcome another chance to hear it again.

 

I actually finally found my copy of the uncut Rainbow Bridge a few weeks back...my VHS copy. I did dub it to DVD but can't find that one at the moment.

Despite the technical issues, the performance is pretty enthusiastic. I think the Maui Foxy Lady could be among the best he ever did.

 

All I remember is that the sonics were definitely different (and in a good, or at least interesting way). Maybe it was the flying V? It definitely didn't sound like many other Hendrix gigs that I could think of. Though, again, it's been 20 years since I've heard it. But it did leave a strong impression on me, I will say that -- and a generally positive one.

 

Great performance. The high-point of the movie, by a mile...

 

Maui was the rumored first release of the new EH/Sony distribution deal a year ago or so. I wouldn’t mind hearing an upgrade.

 

I thought Maui was supposed to be the next big 'new' release has that been cancelled now ?

 

No word yet. We’ll have to see what’s next after the ELL box. We usually get something in March (so I have to wait to buy it due to Lent) so that’ll be the first opportunity. More than likely if it’s coming, it’ll be around this time next year-the studios have been in the spring and the live sets have tended to be in the fall

 

Are you serious, you are really going to wait, that's some admirable restraint you've got there fella.

 

Been doing it since 1991, as I went to the record store every week for 40 days, looking at the Charly Yardbirds box and hoping nobody bought it (nobody did, it was my Easter present). Notice each of the "trilogy" came out in March...

 

He was working on Maui before Atlanta came out. Maybe it was "coin flip" type situation on whichever came together better for the final CD/DVD packages. Maui probably has more "issues" to resolve before it gets a release date.

 

Late on board but have read the last half of the thread (the one that begins after the album release).
Lots of interesting discussions.

Here is just a thought about 'Hear my Train'.
It seems that the BSS 09/04/69 version has parts edited out (the last chorus and 16 bars sometime after, if you see what I mean..).

No idea why it has been made this way.

I love the last part of this version a lot (initially leaked from the Blues project).
IMO the definitive studio version of HMT can be made with an edit of the VON 07/04/69 version (the first 2'50) and the last part (some 3'05) of the 09/04/69 version.

Quite annoying that the official release of the 09/04/69 version has parts edited out...

 

I think this has been mentioned...somewhere if not here. Why Alan tried to mash up the Buddy version from May and this one I have no idea. It would've made much more sense to do something along the lines of what you mentioned. Personally I think the April 7 one is the whole package as is, but if you're going to mix and match, use pieces from similar puzzles.

I just listened to both over the past two days, the only issue with mixing even these two is the sound of the band is completely different on the two dates. It'd require some work to balance out the sound properly.