Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys LP 1970 Australian puppet cover purple text psych
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Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys LP 1970 Australian puppet cover purple text
Original Australian release on Polydor with title in purple text
Band of Gypsys is a blues rock band led by Jimi Hendrix and backed by Billy Cox and Buddy Miles. Hendrix formed the band after the dissolution of The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Band of Gypsys is also the band's eponymous live album recorded on two separate nights, 31 December 1969 and 1 January 1970, at the Fillmore East. Released just three months before his death in 1970, it was the last album Hendrix himself authorized, and the only Hendrix-authorized album to be released on Capitol Records (in the U.S.). This was the result of a settlement regarding a recording contract he had signed in 1965.
Produced by Hendrix, Band of Gypsys reached #5 in the U.S. and #6 in the UK.
After Hendrix disbanded the Jimi Hendrix Experience in early-1969, he formed Gypsy Sun and Rainbows to fulfill the contract for the Experience to play Woodstock. Bassist Billy Cox (who had played with Hendrix while they were in the army) had been rehearsing and playing with Hendrix since April, but the band was short-lived.
With Cox and his drummer friend Buddy Miles, Hendrix next formed the Band of Gypsys, this time to fulfill his obligation to produce an LP of new material for Ed Chalpin, to be released on the Capitol label. Hendrix, in interviews as early as March 1969, had already mentioned a "jam" album to be titled Band of Gypsys. Hendrix also mentioned in his introduction at Woodstock that "Band of Gypsys" was an alternative name for the group performing there.
They recorded a single "Stepping Stone" (b/w "Izabella") for Reprise, which was quickly withdrawn after its release. They also recorded some studio material, and several finished tracks, some of which have been released on First Rays of the New Rising Sun and elsewhere. They made their live debut at the Fillmore East on New Year's Eve, 1969, for a series of four shows spread over two nights.
The Fillmore East concerts featured mostly new songs, as the songs for the Band of Gypsys LP would have to be original due to a recent judgment against him in a contractual suit. This performance was captured using the then new portable Sony Portapak B&W video camera and open-reel 1/2" videotape recorder, from two different angles.
The set of concerts is notable for being the only known time in which Hendrix used a harmonic distortion device, which he called an "Octavio." The device was rather experimental, several versions having been made by his sound technician, Jim Morris, who was a founding partner of Kelsey-Morris Sound Company of London. While he had used one of these devices on many of his studio recordings, including "Purple Haze," they were rather temperamental for use in live recordings. After Jimi's death one of the remaining Octavios became the basis for the re-designed "Octavia," manufactured by Tycobrahe Sound Company of Hermosa Beach, California in the mid 1970s.
In some markets, including the UK, the album was released with a cover photograph that featured dolls of Hendrix, Brian Jones, Bob Dylan and British DJ John Peel, an early supporter of Hendrix.
Hendrix selected two Buddy Miles songs and three of his own for the album, not wanting to give away any more of his new songs than he had to. "We Gotta Live Together" is heavily edited to fit on the album. Its original length is about twice that which can be heard on the album. A longer version can be heard on Live at the Fillmore East album; the full version has never been officially released.
Side 1:
1. "Who Knows" 9:32
2. "Machine Gun" 12:36
Side 2:
3. "Changes" ("Them Changes") (Buddy Miles) 5:10
4. "Power to Love" ("Power of Soul") 6:53
5. "Message of Love" 5:22
6. "We Gotta Live Together" (Buddy Miles) 5:46
CONDITION:
SLEEVE: VG++ laminated finish has some rubbing, rear has ring wear, name on back
RECORD: EX Plays clean, minor marks & name on label
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