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The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Royal Albert Hall EXPERIENCE HENDRIX
Definitive audiovisual gig experience finally surfaces – premiered where it was filmed.
Considering it will soon be an incredible half-century since Jimi left the planet, this ‘holy grail’ of Hendrix movies couldn’t be better timed after almost taking that long to come to fruition. Shot around February 1969’s second Royal Albert Hall show, the film (then called Experience) got bogged down for decades in legal tangles, although a shoddy preview appeared on video in the 80s.
Vividly restored by original producer Jerry Goldstein, with sound remastered by Eddie Kramer, this is now as close as it can ever get to experiencing Hendrix’s still-unchallenged live impact and extraterrestrial charisma.
Unveiling a rough cut in the venerable building where the show took place is a fabulous touch (poignant for this writer, who attended the first 1969 gig, sitting over 50 years later with Mr
