Jimi Hendrix, "Blue Wild Angel," Live At Isle Of Wight-3LPs-Number #2075--SEALED

$

100

Dr. John's Spin Factory is quite pleased to offer a brand new, unopened, unspoiled, that is, a SEALED copy of the 2002 release of Wild Blue Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live At The Isle of Wight.  Here are some specifics to note about the copy up for sale: * What is pressed on the these three 180g slabs of vinyl is the complete concert of August 30, 1970.   * This version was approved by the Hendrix family.  It was a limited, numbered edition manufactured by MCA, and is currently out of print.  The current copy is stamped with the number #2075 (out of a likely 5000 total pressed). 
* This album includes a full color booklet with rare photos and liner notes.  
* This sealed album looks almost exactly as it did when I bought it new at Flipside Records in Kalamazoo Michigan in 2002.  How it looked then and now includes how the jacket is pinched at the edges due to the very tight shrink wrap. (See photos #9-12).  Meaning, how the jacket is pinched at the one edge is what it is and what it always was.  My only other comment: They really should have packaged these three heavy hunks of vinyl as a boxset. 
* Here are the songs spread across the six sides of this album: 

A1

God Save The Queen

3:54

A2

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

0:49

A3

Spanish Castle Magic

5:09

A4

All Along The Watchtower

4:26

B1

Machine Gun

23:07

C1

Lover Man

3:29

C2

Freedom

4:36

C3

Red House

11:19

D1

Dolly Dagger

6:24

D2

Midnight Lightning

6:24

D3

Foxey Lady

8:49

E1

Message To Love

6:54

E2

Hey Baby

6:59

E3

Ezy Ryder

4:42

F1

Hey Joe

4:34

F2

Purple Haze

3:32

F3

Vodoo Child (Slight Return)

8:17

F4

In From The Storm

6:14

“A bit more volume on this one, Charlie, it’s going to need it,” says a roadie testing microphones — and then Jimi Hendrix comes onstage and proves him absolutely right. This live album captures a thrilling Hendrix gig in the U.K. at the Isle of Wight Festival, on August 30th, 1970 — between sets from Jethro Tull and Joan Baez. Unlike many Hendrix repackagings, this record is not just for wonks who want to pore over every note of the “Red House” solo — it’s an amazing document that will grab your ears and twist them.

The show starts with an incendiary version of “God Save the Queen” — no, not the Sex Pistols song, which came seven years later, but the British national anthem, a sequel to Hendrix’s take on “The Star-Spangled Banner.” (One can only hope that continued archival work will uncover Hendrix doing “La Marseillaise” and “O Canada.”) Since this concert marked Hendrix’s return to the United Kingdom, where he made his name, he plays like he has something to prove. Even a short cover of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” is imbued with real passion.

The Isle of Wight show was among Hendrix’s last concerts; three weeks later, he was dead. If you want to find clues as to where he was headed musically, you won’t find many here. He performs “Dolly Dagger,” slated for inclusion on his never-completed album First Rays of the New Rising Sun, and although it’s a solid up-tempo song, it doesn’t break any new ground for him.

This concert has been released before, but only on woefully truncated discs. The show’s centerpiece, previously unavailable, is “Machine Gun”: twenty-two astonishing minutes of Hendrix fireworks, encompassing both a savage guitar assault and improvisation that stretches out like Silly Putty. It’s a worthy final testament.

Finally, while this album will not come to you on the cheap in an absolute sense, relatively speaking this one is  bargain priced.  Say what?  Here's the deal: Out of the 10 copies of this album currently for sale on Ebay, there is only one that is priced lower than mine, and that one is used.  

To all Hendrix fans, good luck and good listening.  May you enjoy you some Wild Blue Angel in the very near future!  Dr. John