Rainbow Bridge (album)

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Rich stuff, exploring territory that as always with Hendrix consists not merely of notes but of undifferentiated sound, a sound he shapes with a virtuosity no one else has ever achieved on an electric instrument. [16]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Jimi Hendrix, except "Star Spangled Banner", written by Francis Scott Key. [e] .

Rainbow Bridge
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Compilation album / soundtrack by
ReleasedOctober 1971
RecordedOctober 22, 1968 – July 1, 1970 [1]
Venue Berkeley Community Center (Berkeley) [a]
Studio
Genre
Length42:22
Label Reprise
Producer
Jimi Hendrix US chronology
The Cry of Love
(1971)
Rainbow Bridge
(1971)
Hendrix in the West
(1972)
Jimi Hendrix UK chronology
Isle of Wight
(1971)
Rainbow Bridge
(1971)
Hendrix in the West
(1972)
Side one
No.TitleRecording dateLength
1."Dolly Dagger"June - Aug, 19704:45
2."Earth Blues"Dec 19, 1969; Jan 20 & June 26, 19704:20
3."Pali Gap"July 1, 19705:05
4."Room Full of Mirrors"Nov 17 1969; June - Aug, 19703:17
5."Star Spangled Banner" (studio)March 18, 19694:07
Total length:21:34
Side two
No.TitleRecording dateLength
1."Look Over Yonder"Oct 22, 19683:28
2."Hear My Train A Comin'" (live)May 30, 197011:15
3."Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)"July 1, 19706:05
Total length:20:48 42:22

Note: Later releases-

Recording details

TrackLocationRecording date(s)
"Dolly Dagger" Electric Lady Studios, New York CityJune 25, July 14 & 19, and August 14 & 20, 1970
"Earth Blues" Record Plant & Electric Lady, New York CityDecember 19, 1969; January 20 & June 26, 1970
"Pali Gap"Electric LadyJuly 1, 1970
"Room Full of Mirrors"Record Plant, Electric LadyNovember 17, 1969; June, July, & August 20, 1970
"The Star-Spangled Banner"Record PlantMarch 18, 1969
"Look Over Yonder" TTG Studios, Hollywood, CaliforniaOctober 22, 1968
"Hear My Train A Comin'" Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, CaliforniaMay 30, 1970 (first show)
"Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)"Electric LadyJuly 1, 1970

Personnel

From the original Reprise LP liner notes [1] (supplemented with details from the First Rays of the New Rising Sun CD booklet): [23]

Band members

Additional musicians

Additional personnel

Notes

Footnotes

  1. "Hear My Train A Comin'"
  2. "Dolly Dagger", "Pali Gap" and "Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)"
  3. "Earth Blues", "Room Full of Mirrors" and "Star Spangled Banner"
  4. "Look Over Yonder"
  5. The album's liner notes list the writing credit for "Star Spangled Banner" as "traditional"

Citations

  1. 1 2 Rainbow Bridge (Album notes). Jimi Hendrix. Burbank, California: Reprise Records. 1971. Inside cover. OCLC   7144291. MS 2040.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. Gallucci, Michael (September 26, 2014). "Jimi Hendrix, 'The Cry of Love' + 'Rainbow Bridge' – Album Reviews". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
  3. Rivadavia, Eduardo (October 10, 2016). "Why Completists Flocked to Jimi Hendrix's Second Posthumous LP, 'Rainbow Bridge'". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
  4. Moskowitz, David (2010). The Words and Music of Jimi Hendrix. ABC-CLIO. p. 91. ISBN   978-0313375927 . Retrieved August 11, 2015. The Rainbow Bridge album was a true compilation.
  5. McDermott, Kramer & Cox 2009, p. 240.
  6. "Jimi Hendrix Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
  7. Unterberger, Richie (2009). "The Legacy: 1970–Present". The Rough Guide to Jimi Hendrix. Penguin Books. ISBN   978-1405381093. ...the Rainbow Bridge album, which despite its title was not a soundtrack to the film of the same name. Instead, it was a rather hodgepodge compilation of 1968–1970 studio material (and one live track) from various sources, including but hardly limited to tracks in the running for First Rays of the New Rising Sun, among them the aforementioned "Dolly Dagger" and "Room Full of Mirrors".
  8. 1 2 3 4 Shapiro & Glebbeek 1990, pp. 542–543.
  9. Shapiro & Glebbeek 1990, pp. 535–536.
  10. Shapiro & Glebbeek 1990, p. 543.
  11. Shapiro & Glebbeek 1990, p. 542.
  12. "Chart History: Jimi Hendrix R&B/Hip-Hop Albums". Billboard . Retrieved July 10, 2020.
  13. 1 2 Shapiro & Glebbeek 1990, p. 541.
  14. "The Cry of Love & Rainbow Bridge to Be Reissued on CD & LP September 16". JimiHendrix.com (official website). September 16, 2014. Retrieved September 29, 2014.
  15. 1 2 Westergaard, Sean. "Rainbow Bridge". AllMusic . Retrieved January 26, 2015.
  16. 1 2 Christgau 1981, p. 174.
  17. Fielder, Hugh (November 5, 2014). "Jimi Hendrix: Cry Of Love/Rainbow Bridge". Classic Rock . Retrieved May 2, 2019.
  18. Larkin, Colin (2006). Encyclopedia of Popular Music . Vol. 4. Oxford University Press. p. 249. ISBN   0-19-531373-9.
  19. Alexander, Phil (November 2014). "Jimi Hendrix Rainbow Bridge". Mojo . p. 112.
  20. Evans, Paul; Brackett, Nathan (1992). "Jimi Hendrix". In DeCurtis, Anthony; Henke, James; George-Warren, Holly (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (3rd ed.). Random House. pp. 374–75. ISBN   0679737294.
  21. Hull, Tom (n.d.). "Grade List: Jimi Hendrix". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved July 22, 2020.
  22. Glover 1971.
  23. First Rays of the New Rising Sun (CD booklet). Jimi Hendrix. Universal City, California: MCA Records. 1997. pp. 5–20. OCLC   173216743. MCAD-11599.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  24. "Silver Apples – Selections From The Early Sessions". Swan Fungus. Retrieved 2025-03-21.

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