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Magic Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Experience Live at Berkeley [First Show]
Magic Boy presents Jimi Hendrix's legendary first show at the Berkeley Community Theater in May 1970. Hendrix fans first became aware of his Berkeley performance when two early posthumous releases featured a stunning "Hear My Train A Comin'" [1971's Rainbow Bridge] and his electrifying rendition of "Johnny B. Goode," [1972's Hendrix: In The West].
The shambolic 1971 film Jimi Plays Berkeley stoked the fires further by way of it's inclusion of extracts of Purple Haze" and "Star Banner". Magic Boy includes those two classics and finally assembles the performance in it's running order for the first time.
The album provides fans with the opportunity to hear new songs 'Ezy Ryder" and "Freedom" in development before they had been completed in the studio by guitarist, "Message To Love" and Machine Gun" from his recent Band Of Gypsys album and high intensity renditions of Experience favorites such as "Fire" and Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"-all newly remixed by Eddie Kramer from the original multi-track tapes.
Club Reggae '69 - Various
A landmark examination of late-60s British working-class youth culture. Includes eleven UK chart hits. Numerous tracks new to CD.
In 1969, the bold new sound of reggae hit Britain like a shockwave, challenging the music establishment and rewriting the rules of popular taste. Dismissed by mainstream critics as repetitive and unsophisticated, this electrifying music from Jamaica struck an immediate chord with young working class record buyers, for whom the increasingly psychedelic excesses of prog rock held little appeal.
By the end of the year, a wave of reggae singles had stormed the national charts despite virtually no support from the UK's only nationwide radio, the BBC, and the fact that sales from specialist record shops across the country were routinely overlooked by chart compilers.
This essential 3CD collection brings together over 80 tracks from the late 1960s, spanning major breakthrough hits, dancefloor favourites and long-lost obscurities, many unavailable since their original release nearly 60 years ago. Compiled by people who lived it first hand, these are the records that offered Britain's working-class youth a vivid alternative to the increasingly self-indulgent rock favoured by the middle classes and the mainstream media; raw, immediate and impossible to ignore.
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