“Purple Haze” Out Today From Forthcoming Jimi Hendrix Experience Album ‘Los Angeles Forum: April 26, 1969’
In New Video Original Members of Chicago Recall Hendrix Inviting Them To Be An Opening Act On His 1969 US Tour Before Their First Album Was Even Released
“Purple Haze,” an advance track from the forthcoming live album Jimi Hendrix Experience Los Angeles Forum: April 26, 1969 is out today. Experience Hendrix, L.L.C. in partnership with Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, is releasing the set on November 18 on 2LP vinyl, CD and all digital platforms. This comes in anticipation of the late music icon’s 80th birthday on November 27.
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The main support act at the Forum that night was Chicago Transit Authority, who soon thereafter shortened their name to Chicago. In a brand new short film, three original members (trombonist James Pankow, trumpeter Lee Loughnane, keyboardist/vocalist Robert Lamm) recall being in awe of Jimi Hendrix as a musician and his graciousness as a person, and explain how his personal invitation to open for him on such a large stage was a turning point in their career. Pankow remembers meeting Jimi Hendrix at the Whisky a Go Go: “He looks at us and he goes, ‘You guys have a horn section that sounds like one set of lungs, and a guitar player that’s better than me. You want to go on the road?’ Hell yeah! . . . our jaws were hanging open.” “The way that they [the Jimi Hendrix Experience] were approaching their music was very jazz-like,” says Lamm. “Jimi’s songs, the way that he addressed them, the way he sang them, the nature of the solos and how the sections kind of bled into each other . . . we had never seen anything like this and we were grateful to be there.” Pankow says of witnessing the live performance: “Nobody had the ferocity and the daring that Jimi and his trio had . . . I’m not so sure that the audience necessarily understood the musicality, but they felt the power. It was overwhelming. It was undeniable. If you were living and breathing, you were overwhelmed, period . . . And to be invited? To be a part of that? My mouth to God’s ears– it was the coolest, most important invitation that we have yet received.”
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Also present at the Forum concert was ZZ Top singer/guitarist Billy F Gibbons, whose band Moving Sidewalks had earlier opened for The Jimi Hendrix Experience in multiple cities during 1968. “After the performance, Jimi came by and said, ‘Hey man, how did we do?’” Gibbons states in the liner notes of the Los Angeles Forum album. “How do you respond to that since there’s no basis for comparison as it was such a singular performance? All I could manage was, ‘I’m floored, I’m fixed’ and left it at that. Still am.”
Today also marks Jimi Hendrix’s debut on the streaming service YouTube Music. This comes in the wake of the Jimi Hendrix YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/jimihendrix) surpassing one million subscribers. The entire Jimi Hendrix audio catalog can now be accessed on YouTube Music.
Also being released during the month of Jimi Hendrix’s 80th birthday is the book JIMI. Published by Chronicle Chroma and out November 8, JIMI is a visually stunning and specially curated deluxe 320-page hardcover book authored by Janie Hendrix and John McDermott. Childhood stories, rarely seen photos and candid images, dedications and inspirational anecdotes will give fans an inside look at the music legend’s groundbreaking artistry.
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Los Angeles Forum: April 26, 1969 tracklist:
- Intro
- Tax Free
- Foxey Lady
- Red House
- Spanish Castle Magic
- Star Spangled Banner
- Purple Haze
- I Don’t Live Today
- Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
- Sunshine of Your Love
- Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
Produced by Janie Hendrix, Eddie Kramer & John McDermott for Experience Hendrix, L.L.C.
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