The Jimi Hendrix Memorial Concerts

The Jimi Hendrix Memorial Concerts: 1995
Live album by The Hamsters
Released	1996
Recorded	Recorded live during October, 1995 at the Robin Hood, Brierley Hill West Midlands, UK
Genre	Blues Rock
Length	118:00
Label	Rockin' Rodent Recordings
Producer	The Hamsters
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Last updated February 27, 2019

The Jimi Hendrix Memorial Concerts: 1995 is a live, double CD composed entirely of Jimi Hendrix covers. It is The Hamsters fifth CD release.

James Marshall Hendrix was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most influential musicians of all time. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music".

The Hamsters band from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom

The Hamsters were a British band from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England.

The tour the album ultimately derived from was performed as a tribute to Jimi Hendrix as a celebration of 25 years since his death. The band's first album, Electric Hamsterland , also a compilation of Hendrix covers, was released in 1990, 20 years after the death of Hendrix. For the 25th anniversary the band decided to do a full UK tour playing predominantly Hendrix covers. This album was recorded during that tour, as was a concert film, Band of Gerbils which was initially released on VHS with a subsequent release on DVD ten years later.

<i>Electric Hamsterland</i> album by The Hamsters

Electric Hamsterland (1990) was The Hamsters first CD release and consists entirely of Jimi Hendrix covers. This was the only time they recorded an album of totally non-original material. There was also a limited release of the album in vinyl LP form.

VHS is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes. Developed by Victor Company of Japan (JVC) in the early 1970s, it was released in Japan on September 9, 1976 and in the United States on August 23, 1977.

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Track listing

Disk 1 (Red CD)

"Foxy Lady" – 4:20
"Fire" – 3:53
"Little Wing" – 6:39
"Izabella" – 5:05
"Up From The Skies" – 4:51
"Power of Soul" – 1:10
"Spanish Castle Magic" – 3:54
"Rock Me, Baby" – 2:49
"Voodoo Chile" – 6:49
"Hey, Baby (Land of the New Rising Sun)" – 5:53
"Burning of the Midnight Lamp" – 3:48
"Ezy Rider" – 4:10
"Hey Joe'" – 5:52

Disk 2 (Purple CD)

"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" – 6:58
"Room Full of Mirrors" – 4:31
"Third Stone From The Sun" – 3:59
"Come On (Let the Good Times Roll)" – 3:46
"51st Anniversary" – 3:55
"I Don't Live Today" – 2:12
"Love or Confusion" – 3:37
"The Wind Cries Mary" – 3:38
"Manic Depression" – 4:05
"Stone Free" – 3:44
"All Along the Watchtower" – 5:53
"Star-Spangled Banner" – 3:38
"Purple Haze'" – 4:32
"Angel" – 4:19

Musicians

Snail's-Pace Slim —- guitars, lead vocals.
Rev Otis Elevator —- drums, vocals.
Ms Zsa Zsa Poltergeist —- bass, vocals.

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals. The vibration occurs when a guitar player strums, plucks, fingerpicks, slaps or taps the strings. The pickup generally uses electromagnetic induction to create this signal, which being relatively weak is fed into a guitar amplifier before being sent to the speaker(s), which converts it into audible sound.

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists. Singers may perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, gazal and popular music styles such as pop, rock, electronic dance music and filmi.

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum. A drum kit consists of a mix of drums and idiophones – most significantly cymbals, but can also include the woodblock and cowbell. In the 2000s, some kits also include electronic instruments. Also, both hybrid and entirely electronic kits are used.

Production

Recorded live at the Robin Hood, Brierley Hill, West Midlands, UK on the 'Zipper Mobile'.
Recording supervised by Richard Willis
Mixed by Dave Morris & Mark Tempest at Workshop Studios, Redditch, Worcestershire.
Post-production sonic enhancement and editing by Jerry Stevenson.
Mastered by Iestyn Rees.
Produced by The Hamsters
Cover design by Phil Smee of Waldo's Design Emporium.
Cover concept by The Hamsters
'Jimi Hamster' design by Des Penny
Photography by Nixon

The West Midlands is a metropolitan county and city region in western-central England with a 2014 estimated population of 2,808,356, making it the second most populous county in England after Greater London. It came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972, formed from parts of Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. The county itself is a NUTS 2 region within the wider NUTS 1 region of the same name. The county consists of seven metropolitan boroughs: the City of Birmingham, the City of Coventry and the City of Wolverhampton, as well as the boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull and Walsall.

An audio engineer helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, and reinforcement of sound. Audio engineers work on the "...technical aspect of recording—the placing of microphones, pre-amp knobs, the setting of levels. The physical recording of any project is done by an engineer ... the nuts and bolts." It's a creative hobby and profession where musical instruments and technology are used to produce sound for film, radio, television, music, and video games. Audio engineers also set up, sound check and do live sound mixing using a mixing console and a sound reinforcement system for music concerts, theatre, sports games and corporate events.

Redditch is a town and local government district in north-east Worcestershire, England, approximately 15 miles (24 km) south of Birmingham. The district had a population of 84,300 in 2011. In the 19th century it became the international centre for the needle and fishing tackle industry. At one point 90% of the world's needles were manufactured in the town and its neighbourhoods. In the 1960s it became a model for modern new town planning.

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