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For Jimi fans, this is a MUST HAVE
First off, for Jimi fans who collect the posthumous releases put out by the Hendrix family estate, this is a must have. This was the first cinematic effort at capturing the life of Jimi Hendrix though a combination of interviews and live concert footage. The interview clips are, for the most part, entertaining to listen to and watch. Some personalities are more colorful than others but with this new Deluxe version, you get even more interviews some of which should have been included in the original theatrical release. I really liked the interview with the road manager, Eric Barrett. The story he recounts about Jimi during the filming of Rainbow Bridge in 1970 is very funny! In addition to the extra interviews, you get the Atlanta Pop footage and Jimi's Stone Free! It's very good although Jimi's mood while performing at Atlanta Pop is difficult to gauge. He wasn't as "on" at Atlanta Pop as I'd say he was at Woodstock (if you can believe it) but Atlanta is considered a fairly strong show for Hendrix from the '70 period. The quality of the picture and sound is excellent. <
>In sum, get this for your Jimi DVD collection. It might be small now but don't worry, it will grow as the family continues to put out more live concerts of Jimi, in particular, the upcoming release of Jimi performing at the Royal Albert Hall on Feb. 24, 1969!!! That will be one of the GREATEST releases EVER!!!

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Yes, the Atlanta Pop July 4, 1970 show was filmed! - (LaserDisc only, no DVD)
In answer to a fellow review, questioning the "bonus" clip on this DVD - the "Stone Free" performance from the 7/4/70 Atlanta Pop Festival concert - YES, a previous video was released in the early 1990s, only on PCM-Digital LaserDisc [Japanese import], featuring a 1-hour release of Jimi's show [in excellent Dolby Surround Stereo]. The disc was produced by the previous management of Hendrix's catalog, aka as the infamous Alan Douglas, who it's also noted provided the now out-of-print Warner/Reprise CD "The Best of the Jimi Hendrix Concerts" [featuring the ABSOLUTE BEST AUDIO MIX of any anything live by Hendrix (whether CD or DVD) ever released to date!! NONE of the Experience Hendrix catalog of live CD's have matched this disc's audio mix.] <
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>Back to the 7/4/70 trivia... this show is not one of Hendrix's best performances, but is still not to be missed. Among the songs, it has decent versions of "Foxy Lady", "Stone Free" and "Voodoo Child, Slight Return", and also a unique closer: when Hendrix performs the "Star-Spangled Banner" [done better 1 month later at Woodstock], rather than seguing into the usual "Purple Haze", this time he proceeds right into an excellent performance of "Straight Ahead" (with strong vocals by Hendrix, as well as guitar licks). <
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>The 7/4/70 Atlanta show concludes with a nice "Voodoo Child, Slight Return", and this song's performance was also remixed by Douglas for another LaserDisc of unique "Music Videos" (28 minutes/7 songs] made from live and studio audio. For V.Child, they took both Atlanta's video and audio, and intercut the video with newly shot studio footage of costumed ballet-style women dancers [very nice moves], and the audio was remixed with a little studio-tweaking "echo" effect, although the video's version has shorter running time (around 4 mintues) in length than the Atlanta's show (7 minutes). <
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>That CD I mentioned above {Best of the Jimi Hendrix Concerts) also contains the greatest live performance EVER of "Stone Free" (around 10 minutes), which to my knowledge has never been released again on CD by the Experience Hendrix management. This performance was from the superb January 1969 London "Royal Albert Hall concerts" (2 concerts on 2 different days), which were ALSO FILMED!!, but due to long-standing disputes - between the original filmmakers [production team hired to film the concerts] and all the different managers of the Hendrix catalog since then... - well, the footage has never been officially released on any format (ever). Only about 70 minutes of very poor "bootleg" VHS footage has been seen [acquired at record conventions around the world], and the footage often is out-of-sinc with the video, or songs severely edited. Hendrix is also interviewed briefly, and seen riding around London in a car. <
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>All Hendrix fans who have seen the bootleg (or heard bootleg CDs of various audio from the shows), know that this is the "treasure trove" of live Hendrix material that we've been wanting to hear/see for sooo loooonng now!! [only 4 songs, AUDIO ONLY, have been officially released on LP and CD over the years]. The 2 London RAHall concerts were filmed WITH THE LIGHTS ON(!), so you can see everything perfectly [and audience reaction], plus Hendrix wore an amazing colorful outfit [highlighted by his green/gold pants]. <
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>The "Foxy Lady" [never officially released] and "Stone Free" [out-of-print CD] performed here at RAHall were the best I've ever heard of Hendrix live! What jaw-dropping solos in both songs! And one of the RAHall shows concluded with a "flashback" to Monterey 1967, as Hendrix performs a feedback/distortion soundfest (a few minutes), then proceeds into the infamous "Smashing of the Amps" segment - yes, Hendrix destoys some large guitar amps(!!), and tears up his guitar to boot, then leaves the stage. All of this is seen on the bootleg VHS, and how I so wish that a remastered DVD of these concerts will someday be released!! [PAUL ALLEN, are you listening? can you persuade the Experience Hendrix management to solve the financial dilemma that revolves around the RAHall video?] <
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>In my opinion, the London 1969 Royal Albert Hall performances (one of the last big shows with the original Hendrix lineup - Noel Redding on bass) is SUPERIOR in all areas to ANY other known Hendrix concert that's ever been released on VHS, LaserDisc, or DVD [including the Woodstock show, although the FULL 2 hours of Hendrix Woodstock's performance remains unreleased on video, just CD only.]. And my opinion is based solely on (1) the 4 officially released audio songs ["Little Wing", "Stone Free", "Voodoo Child, Slight Return", and "Bleeding Heart" (slow blues)], and (2) the 70 minutes of very rough VHS bootleg footage that's surfaced over the years. Maybe a miracle will happen in the coming years and the extremely rare 1969 London Royal Albert Hall 2 concerts will see a DVD release... maybe, maybe not.

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Essential Experience
This is the place to start for new JH fans - his whole story is told really by his Father, Al Hendrix, as most of the other interviewees give us little sense of his "direction". Long before "style" became so important to the "Rock Media", we have many segments with Jimi contemporaries who look and sound like they just got off a bad plane flight. Billy Cox has some interesting details and delivers them in a relaxed and engaging way - other than that, Hendrix's music, predictably, make this whole project come together. <
>Little Richard has three short segments. He waxes poetic and is very entertaining, but what a shame he says nothing about the incredible Soul Classic he made with Maurice James, "I Don't Know What You've Got But It's Got Me". Hendrix's guitar intro. itself on this historic work should have at least been been referenced on the soundtrack. It's been said that Jimi said something to the effect that he wanted to play his instrument the way Richard sings and this documentary seems to suggest just a casual, almost accidental working relationship. <
>The extras are for Hendrix historians. The complete, live "Stone Free" is surely worth revisiting.