Machine Gun

Description

Jimi Hendrixs electrifying first Band of Gypsys performance!
Mastered by Grammy Award-winning engineer Bernie Grundman
Two 180-gram LPs plated and pressed at Quality Record Pressings!
Never-before-released material from the first New Years Eve set!

Jimi Hendrix closed 1969 by disbanding the Jimi Hendrix Experience and assembling a new group, the short-lived Band of Gypsys. They debuted in four historic concerts at New York Citys Fillmore East two sets on New Years Eve, and two more on New Years Day 1970. The latter shows were combined and edited for the famed Band of Gypsys album in April 1970.

The first nights first concert is now getting a proper release as Machine Gun: The Fillmore East First Show 12/31/69. The new album marks the first time the complete early set has been released in any configuration. And theres also great news for SACD and high-res music fans!

Machine Gun: The Fillmore East First Show 12/31/69 and People, Hell & Angels are being released the same day in SACD and high-resolution digital formats, the first-ever Jimi Hendrix hi-res digital releases! The SACDs will be issued by Analogue Productions.

Quality Record Pressings is pressing the 180-gram 2LP version of Machine Gun for album producers Experience Hendrix L.L.C. led by the team of Janie Hendrix, Eddie Kramer and John McDermott. Kramer was Jimi Hendrixs primary recording engineer; Machine Gun: The Fillmore East First Show 12/31/69 was mixed from the original 1-inch 8-track master tapes by Eddie Kramer and mastered by Grammy Award-winning engineer Bernie Grundman.

People, Hell & Angels is a collection of previously unreleased studio recordings; the album peaked at No. 2 on Billboards Top 200 album chart in March 2013 following its release. The album features studio versions of many of the songs featured on Machine Gun.

In addition to the Machine Gun title track, one of Hendrixs last classics, the 11-song set collected here in its entirety and in order includes songs such as Hear My Train A Comin’ and Ezy Ryder that he was still fine-tuning at the time of his death on Sept. 18, 1970.

The original Band of Gypsys album included Hendrixs first work with his new trio, rounded out by bassist Billy Cox and drummer Buddy Miles, after the breakup of the Experience in 1969. Machine Gun: The Filmore East First Show 12/31/69 chronicles the groups first-ever live performance.

We didnt know what to expect from the audience, and the audience didnt know what to expect from us, but from the time we hit that first note, they were in awe, Cox notes in a press release announcing the set. You had Jimi Hendrix, a drummer who had been with the Electric Flag and Wilson Pickett, and I was the new kid on the block.

Measured alongside his triumphs at Monterey Pop and Woodstock, Hendrixs legendary Fillmore East concerts illustrated a critical turning point in a radiant career that boasted of indefinite possibilities.