Live at the Oakland Coliseum

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Live at the Oakland Coliseum
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ReleasedFebruary 27, 1998 (1998-02-27)
RecordedApril 27, 1969
Venue Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, California
Genre Rock
Length84:28
Label Dagger
Producer Janie Hendrix, John McDermott
The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology
South Saturn Delta
(1997)
Live at the Oakland Coliseum
(1998)
BBC Sessions
(1998)

Live at the Oakland Coliseum is a two-disc posthumous live album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience. It documents the group's performance at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California, on April 27, 1969. The Experience broke up two months later, making the album one of the last full-length concert recordings of the trio to be officially issued. [1]

Contents

Dagger Records released Live at the Oakland Coliseum on February 27, 1998. It was the first release on the label, which was set up by the Hendrix estate for recordings that "don't meet the technical recording criteria and sonic high standards" for standard releases. [2]

Songs

The Experience's performance at the Coliseum was not professionally recorded, however, a monophonic sound recording was made by fan Ken Koga. [2] The set list for the concert was one typical of the 1969 tour, featuring staples "Fire", "Purple Haze" and "Spanish Castle Magic".

Other songs include the improvised "Hey Joe", blues numbers "Red House" and "Hear My Train A Comin'", the extended "Foxey Lady" and the finale of the night, an eighteen-minute jam on "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)", with Jefferson Airplane's Jack Casady on bass. [2]

Track listing

All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted. [2]

Disc one

  1. "Introduction" 0:42
  2. "Fire" 4:19
  3. "Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts) 4:26
  4. "Spanish Castle Magic" 8:53
  5. "Hear My Train A Comin'" 10:25
  6. "Sunshine of Your Love" (Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Pete Brown) 6:45
  7. "Red House" 13:12

Disc two

  1. "Foxey Lady" 10:36
  2. "Star Spangled Banner" (Public domain) 2:58
  3. "Purple Haze" 4:08
  4. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" 18:04

Personnel [2]

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References

  1. The short-lived Reprise Records box set Stages (1991) includes the Experience's set recorded a month later on May 24, 1969, at the San Diego Sports Arena, in San Diego, California.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 McDermott, John (2017). Live at the Oakland Coliseum (Album notes). Jimi Hendrix Experience. Dagger Records. OCLC   992175290. 08RD2-11743.