Hendrix - Band of Gypsys

Oh I thought you were being sarcastic about the Meg White thing, but I guess not?

Yeah Buddy Miles has that pocket & a big sound. I was definitely influenced here by my first drum teacher, who was a big Bonham and James Brown guy and put me on to the Fillmore record. I hadn't really enjoyed a Hendrix record before, haven't re-evaluated this opinion since.

i just wrote like three different posts and erased them all

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

too close.

should repeat w no machine gun

That long jam "Young/Hendrix" from one the West Coast Seattle Boy box set is pretty hot with Buddy Miles on drums, Dave Holland on bass and Larry Young on organ. There are definitely sections you could hear in your mind how a certain trumpet player might have rode on the rhythms.

I interviewed Dave Holland the other week and asked him about playing with Hendrix, among many, many other things.

crush my fucking skull

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uDv6HBvmVQ

that flamenco intro. good lord

All four Fillmore East sets are being released as a 5CD set in November.

https://www.superdeluxeedition.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/cdbox-768x532.jpg

I always heard that a big chunk of this stuff was unreleasable because of equipment problems. Did they fix it all? I'm definitely curious to hear this.

Both 5CD and 8LP vinyl box sets contain the four shows in full. The audio has been newly mixed (by Eddie Kramer) and restored in sequence without edits. In total there is over two dozen tracks that have either never before been released commercially or have been newly pressed and newly remixed. All audio was mastered by Grammy-winning engineer Bernie Grundman.

The package comes with a booklet with unseen photos and remembrances from bassist Billy Cox and sleeve notes courtesy of Nelson George.

12/31/69 1st Set:

CD 1

1) Power Of Soul
2) Lover Man
3) Hear My Train A Comin’
4) Changes
5) Izabella
6) Machine Gun
7) Stop
8) Ezy Ryder
9) Bleeding Heart
10) Earth Blues
11) Burning Desire

12/31/69 2nd Set:

CD 2

1) Auld Lang Syne%
2) Who Knows%
3) Fire
4) Ezy Ryder*
5) Machine Gun%
6) Stone Free
7) Changes*
8) Message To Love*
9) Stop*
10) Foxey Lady

1/1/70 1st Set:

CD 3

1) Who Knows
2) Machine Gun
3) Changes+
4) Power Of Soul%
5) Stepping Stone%
6) Foxey Lady+
7) Stop%
8) Earth Blues+
9) Burning Desire%

1/1/70 2nd Set:

CD 4

1) Stone Free%
2) Power Of Soul#
3) Changes#
4) Message To Love#
5) Machine Gun%
6) Lover Man*
7) Steal Away*
8) Earth Blues%

CD 5

1) Voodoo Child (Slight Return)%
2) We Gotta Live Together#
3) Wild Thing%
4) Hey Joe*
5) Purple Haze*

*previously unreleased
+ first time on CD/LP/streaming (previously only available as part of concert film)
# longer, unedited versions of previously released material, and newly remixed
% back in print on CD/LP for the first time in a decade, and newly remixed

Is all of Buddy's scatting getting restored?

I guess that "restored in sequence without edits" part is more of a threat than a promise.

SOLD

Came across this relatively recently uploaded clip last night, just unbelievable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3w8SMavasQ

Ffuuuuuuuck

Tempted to get this. But it's a toss between this and the winterland set.

get this

still can't believe flappy bird included 'machine gun' in the options, making the poll much less interesting

Message of Love would be my choice after Machine Gun.

after machine gun, its Message of Love, Changes, then a tie for We Gotta Live Together and Power to Love, with who knows far, far, far beneath them. how did that get picked for the opener?

The Winterland shows were consistently better. Get that.

The Fillmore/Band of Gypsys set is worth getting if you're diehard Hendrix fan, but it's very uneven. Neither set is actually "complete" which understandably has pissed off certain collectors, but I'm not a completist and having heard what's missing, it's not a big loss honestly.

(I was referring to the box sets, but if you meant the single disc live releases, I would still prefer Live at Winterland, but Band of Gypsys might be better for the casual fan since it was programmed to be all new songs rather than live versions of previously released songs.)

I was referring to the box sets too.
From what I did hear of the Fillmore shows, the best and most interesting songs were actually seeing how this band tackled the experience songs.

Def gave them a very diff slant.

N/m ordered the electric ladyland 50th deluxe instead lol

I honestly would've made the case for Who Knows before like 2 years ago

I assumed, beneath Machine Gun, that and Changes would win. Rest of the record is great but it's a blur in my mind.

and yeah the Fillmore set is great if you want an aborted, completely out of tune Machine Gun as example of how Hendrix dealt with instrumental disaster (extremely well)

some of this stuff is so good, i cant believe that the proper BOG album included the songs that it did. i know he was prob saving a lot of the better material for the studio album, and didnt care what was being put out there to fulfill an old contract but this period and lineup should have been better represented than a six track album where two songs feature buddy miles singing lead. cant say that the band or the material doesnt have its limitations, but its no wonder really that it was seen as a poor setup after the experience - most people never would have gotten to hear lover man, stepping stone, burning desire, or a couple of others.