Live at Winterland

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Live at Winterland
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Live album by
Released1987
RecordedOctober 1012, 1968
Venue Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco
Length68:12
Label Polydor (UK)
Rykodisc (US)
Producer Alan Douglas, Chip Branton
The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology
Band of Gypsys 2
(1986)
Live at Winterland
(1987)
Radio One
(1988)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [1]
Blender Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Tom Hull – on the Web B [4]
The Village Voice A [5]

Live at Winterland is a live album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. It compiles performances from the band's three concerts at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, where they played two shows each night on October 10, 11 and 12, 1968. The album was released posthumously by Rykodisc in 1987 and was the first Hendrix release to be specifically conceived for the compact disc format.

Contents

Release and reception

Live at Winterland was released by Rykodisc in 1987 and became the best-selling album from an independent label that year. With sales of over 200,000 copies, it sold more than any other Jimi Hendrix recording had in years. [6] In a contemporary review for The Village Voice , music critic Robert Christgau was highly impressed by the performances compiled for the album, which he said is ideal for the emerging CD format and surpasses previous live recordings of Hendrix: "The sound is bigger and better in every way for an artist whose sound was his music". [5] He named Live at Winterland the tenth best album of 1987 in his year-end list for The Village Voice. [7] Christgau remarked on its significance to Hendrix's discography in a retrospective review for Blender magazine:

"It's been eclipsed sonically ( Berkeley ) and conceptually ( Woodstock ). But this pioneering digitalization, piecing together songs from three San Francisco nights in October 1968 to simulate one uninterrupted concert, redefined posthumous Hendrix and remains a surpassingly realistic live keepsake." [2]

In 1992, Live at Winterland was re-released with a bonus disc, which contained three additional songs from the same concerts. [8] A 4 disc box set (titled Winterland ) drawn from all 6 performances was released on September 12, 2011. A limited edition sold exclusively on Amazon.com includes a 5th bonus disc containing a bootleg soundboard recording of a performance at the Fillmore Auditorium on February 4, 1968. [9]

Track listing

All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.

No.TitleRecording dateLength
1."Prologue"October 11, 1968, 1st show0:57
2."Fire"October 11, 1968, 2nd show3:12
3."Manic Depression"October 12, 1968, 2nd show4:46
4."Sunshine of Your Love" (Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Pete Brown)October 10, 1968, 2nd show6:25
5."Spanish Castle Magic"October 12, 1968, 2nd show5:32
6."Red House"October 11, 1968, 1st show11:32
7."Killing Floor" (Howlin' Wolf)October 10, 1968, 2nd show8:05
8."Tax Free" (Bo Hansson, Janne Carlsson)October 11, 1968, 2nd show8:00
9."Foxy Lady"October 11, 1968, 2nd show4:50
10."Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts)October 12, 1968, 1st show6:44
11."Purple Haze"October 12, 1968, 1st show4:34
12."Wild Thing" (Chip Taylor)October 12, 1968, 1st show3:05
13."Epilogue"October 12, 1968, 1st show0:30
1992 Live at Winterland +3 bonus disc
No.Title...Length
1."Are You Experienced"October 11, 1968, 1st show13:28
2."Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"October 11, 1968, 1st show6:43
3."Like a Rolling Stone" (Bob Dylan)October 11, 1968, 2nd show11:48

Personnel

Credits are adapted from AllMusic. [1]

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Additional personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Wynn n.d.
  2. 1 2 Christgau 2005.
  3. Evans & Brackett 1992, p. 316.
  4. Hull, Tom (n.d.). "Grade List: Jimi Hendrix". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved July 22, 2020.
  5. 1 2 Christgau 1987.
  6. Morse 1988; Pederson 2007 , p. 330
  7. Christgau 1988.
  8. CD Universe.
  9. Amazon.com.

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