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I understand that the editing was not totally well done in that too much of Jimi is shown etc. I agree with many people that there is too much of Jimi's face and not enough of the band, his pedals...i.e. his playing with his teeth sections...should have been done much better, camera wise. I in a way hope that they redo the DVD, and in a way I don't, as this would cost me tons of money to get it again!

Other than this, this is the most awesome CD/performance, I've listened to it over a hundred times. My favourite songs are Jam Back At The House, Woodstock Improvisation and Voodoo Chile (SR).

Mate, Hendrix Rules!

NOT his best performance, but take what you can get!
It's amazing how much hype has built around Woodstock over the years. Noastalgia softens memories I guess. I've read many accounts of bands (i.e. Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead) actually having prett bad/mediocre performances at Woodstock (Though, in Fairness, others, like The Who and Santana really did play fantastically). I'm a Hendrix fan/geek whose read and heard a lot. Unfortunately, he was very exhausted from lack of sleep and who knows what else by the time he hit the stage at Woodstock. He also suffered a lack of judgement and focus by trying to present an expanded line-up that wasn't entirely rehearsed or necessary. A percussionist is a nice touch, but a rhythm guitarist behind him? Many of the songs were played sloppily and without punch. However... Jimi was magic after all and there ARE definitely some great, inspired moments. I've heard him do Star Spangled Banner a few times and the one at Woodstock is hands down the best by far. It's frustrating and ironic but the few Hendrix shows that were well-filmed, such as Isle of Wight, were conversely some of his weaker... But weak for Jimi is strong for most other musicians and with so little Hendrix footage legally available you take what you can get, so yeah, but this. As for the songs being cut up, out of order, or missing altogether, welcome to the world of Jimi's legacy. Warner Bros, MCA, and whomever else tend to more often than not butcher their posthumous Hendrix releases one way or another and this is no exception!

Gypsy Sun In The Garden
This is certainly Jimi's most famous performance with the exception on Monterey in 1967. Again re-inventing himself he becomes the Gypsy Sun, psychedelic leader and captain of the rag-tag outfit of musicians known as the Rainbows. I've been to the concert site in Bethel several times and you can still feel the electricity Jimi and the other artists and 500,000 members of the Woodstock Nation created that famous weekend on Max Yasgur's farm 35 years ago. Although a lot of this concert is experimental jamming, Jimi absolutely goes into the stratosphere on the best version of "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" I ever heard (or in this case heard AND saw!). Watching him take flight on the long solo is purely the sickest thing I ever heard. Nobody should be so gifted to make it look THAT EFFORTLESS! The blistering solo alone makes this trip to Yasgur's farm well worth the price of admission. Of course THE most famous moment of all is the bombastic rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner," in which the Gypsy Sun made his very own. "Purple Haze," "Red House," "Izabella" and "Fire" are among the more well known numbers Gypsy Sun And Rainbows delivers to the remainder of the Woodstock Nation early that Monday morning. The only bad thing about the DVD is that it's not the complete set. However, it sure does deliver and never fails to take me "back to the Garden" and feel the real spirit of what it was like to wake up to the Gypsy Sun And Rainbows and take a soaring ride to rock n' roll's most famous event.