"AX" 1972 ORIG EIRE APPARENT HENDRIX WINTER MORRISON 1968 "JAM" Hard Psych LP

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                                 "JAM"

         H e n d r i x    M o r r i s o n   W i n t e r

                   PRIVATE PRESS - AX RECORDS

Original 1972 first pressing and the first issue of this legendary Lp, below you will lerarn specific details behind the legendary LP & recording ... Obviously hard to find, a limited edition 44 years ago, harder to find this clean than you may realize (condition details below.)

After performing in Boston, The Doors arrive in New York a few days before their scheduled shows at the Fillmore East. On his first night back in town, Jim Morrison visits Steve Paul's The Scene with his friend Paul Ferrara. Jimi Hendrix is jamming there with the band Eire Apparent. Morrison starts shouting from the audience and soon jumps on stage and begins an encounter between two rock icons. Morrison continually moans into the microphone, screaming obscenities, falling to the floor, knocking over microphones, and grabbing at Hendrix who manages to keep jamming throughout his crazed antics. In addition to Hendrix and Morrison, Lester Chambers plays the harmonica and likely supplies some vocals during this jam. Other players that night are believed to include members of the band Eire Apparent, a group from Northern Ireland that toured and shared management with Hendrix and were playing at The Scene from March 18-30. Their line-up at the time featured Michael 'Mick' Cox on guitar, Ernie Graham on guitar, Chris Stewart on bass, and Dave Lutton on drums. Buddy Miles is also thought to perform on some songs. Many sources claim members of The Scene's house band The McCoy's played, including bassist Randy Jo Hobbs and drummer Warren 'Bugs' Pemberton. As this was an informal jam and the known recording contains several cuts, almost anyone could have joined in so it's difficult to know for sure who played on which songs. Suffice it to say, it's likely more than one set of performers joined Hendrix that night. It's often claimed that Johnny Winter was present, likely due to his connection with The McCoys, but Winter has said he never met Jim Morrison and did not remember playing that night. Neither did Noel Redding or Rick Derringer. For some reason, this jam has long been dated to March 7, 1968 but there is very little to substantiate that date in The Doors' chronology. The band was in the studio from late February through early March and had no reason to be on the east coast until March 15th for a show in upstate New York. Eire Apparent did not play The Scene until the 18th making a date prior to this rather unlikely. Fortunately Hendrix had his Sony 7" reel-to-reel recorder running and captured this unusual jam on tape. He had recently started carrying around with him a tape recorder for these occasions so he wouldn’t lose any musical ideas that would occur while he played. All of these tapes were stolen when Jimi died.    

At one point in the Jam, Jimi suggests to Morrison to sing into the recording microphone. The same master tape also includes a show by Eire Apparent at The Scene, further connecting it to their run of shows there. The recording was later obtained by Eire Apparent's Michael Cox and first released on this LP in 1972. It has since been released under various bootleg titles over the years. The Hendrix estate eventually acquired the master in an effort to prevent further such releases. Obviously, Morrison's drunken hollering was never meant to be released commercially, and it's important to stress that this recording should be taken for what it is -- a group of rockers getting together for an informal jam session and having some wild, raucous, obnoxious fun. Nothing on this LP can be considered essential, but these performances are exciting if you're seriously into Hendrix, or even Jim Morrison and should interest many collectors and historians as well.

Vinyl LP Album Details:

Release Date: 1970
Recorded: Likely , Monday, March 18, 1968
Location: The Scene, 301 West 46th Street, New York, New York

performing band members:

Bass – Randy Jo Hobbs

Drums – Buddy Miles, Randy Z Derringer (Rick Derringer brother)

Guitar – Johnny Winter (probably Rick Derringer)

Vocals, Guitar – Jimi Hendrix

Vocals, Harmonica – Jim Morrison

Tracks: 

Red House  (Unlike other versions of Red House Hendrix used a guitar figure  similar to Cream's Crossroads".
  People People, People
Tomorrow Never Knows
Sunshine Of Your Love

CONDITION: The cover: rated: M- more than hard to find this LP especially this clean, custom art design paste-on over white cardboard backing cover. After 44+ years it still has a fresh appearance -- there are no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing  ... VERY collection worthy ...

The vinyl: Rated: M- TOP CLEAN & CLEAR = plays with listenable enjoyable audio - straight from Jimi's private recorder.  Both "AX" labels are clean

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

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EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING

All imperfections are noted both cover & record