Coming on November 18th is Jimi Hendrix Experience – Los Angeles Forum: April 26, 1969. The new archival set will be issued on double-LP vinyl and CD — as well as all digital platforms. The original concert featured such opening acts as Chicago Transit Authority –– soon-to-be renamed Chicago — and Cat Mother & The All Night Newsboys, who shared management with Hendrix. Floor seats cost $6.50 — that's $51.20 in 2022 dollars.
According to the announcement, Hendrix was quite vocal during the show telling the crowd before “Red House”: “Everybody want to know what America’s soul is; everybody think it’s Motown . . . America’s soul is something more like this here” and joking during “Purple Haze”: “'Scuse me while I kiss that policeman!” Hendrix went on to dedicate “Spanish Castle Magic” to “the plain clothes police out there and other goofballs.” Prior to “The Star Spangled Banner” Hendrix quipped: “Here’s a song we was all brainwashed with.”
Interestingly, the Experience opened the gig with “Tax Free” — an obscure 1967 instrumental tune by Swedish duo Hansson & Karlsson with whom Hendrix and the band had previously performed alongside in Stockholm.