For Y'all Jimi Hendrix - 1971 [1988] Island Of Wight

Isle of Wight was a posthumous live album past times Jimi Hendrix, released inwards Nov 1971 past times Polydor inwards the Great Britain only. The album documents Hendrix's functioning at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival on August 30, 1970, his final functioning inwards England earlier his expiry inwards September. The album was engineered past times Carlos Ohlms (a British based engineer). The tape companionship did non piece of employment a motion painting from the Isle of Wight concert. The embrace photograph is from a hold upward concert from Berlin, Deutschlandhalle, September 4, 1970. The album spent exclusively 2 weeks inwards the Great Britain albums chart, peaking at No. 17.
Isle of Wight contains simply business office of the concert, but this unloosen has a unique mix compared to the Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight 2002 release). The entire functioning was released on the 2002 album Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight.

 In August 1970 Jimi Hendrix was at the Isle of Wight festival along alongside roughly other 600,000 people. His functioning took house inwards the early on hours of the morning time of August 31. Less than a calendar month afterwards on September xviii Jimi Hendrix died.
The Hendrix gear upward of 62 minutes has non been regarded every bit i of his best performances. Nevertheless it was good. Hendrix could play his guitar. His musical mightiness in addition to phrasing was quite extraordinary. Amongst roughly of the favourites that he played were Machine Gun (where the safety personnel’s radio was picked upward through the amp), All Along the Watchtower in addition to Red House. He was real much alive.

Track listing

All songs written in addition to composed past times Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.

1.     "Midnight Lightning"       7:21
2.     "Foxy Lady"       8:40
3.     "Lover Man"       3:18
4.     "Freedom"       4:21
5.     "All Along the Watchtower" (Bob Dylan)     4:27
6.     "In from the Storm"       6:08

Personnel

    Jimi Hendrix – guitar, vocals
    Mitch Mitchell – drums
    Billy Cox – bass guitar