![]() ![]() Of course, Killing Floor was by no means Hendrix’s only skilful reinvention of a blues standard. Jimi Hendrix Experience: Hollywood Bowl Augtrack list ![]() We’ll have to wait until November 10 to hear the rest, but that date is going on the calendar, for sure. It was the track that Eric Clapton first heard Hendrix perform in 1966, signaling a changing of the guitar hero guard, and the song that served as the thundering opener for the Hendrix’s Monterey Pop set – another line in the sand for ’60s pop culture. The decision to lead with a preview clip of Killing Floor feels poetic, too. My sister and I were going bananas, and the audience was like and they were trying to figure it out.” ![]() I wouldn't say that the audience response was quite the same as the response I was having. “It was sort of every human characteristic it was beauty, grace, it was sexual, violent, gentle, it was just everything all at once in one band coming out of this one guy. “He starts playing the guitar under his leg, and now it's behind his back, and now he's playing it with his mouth, and now he's on the ground on his knees and he's like humping it, and it, to me, was mind-blowing. Jimi Hendrix onstage for his soundcheck at the Hollywood Bowl in 1967 (Image credit: Michael Ochs Archives / Stringer / Getty Images) The guitar was part of his body and the sounds that were coming from that stage were just tremendous.” “I’d just never heard anything like that before, ever. This was a guy who took command of the stage… Many times they’d had the guitar strapped up very high and they wouldn’t move off center of the mic. “When the lights went up, mouths were agape – and I mean that quite literally… I had grown up watching people perform in a very static way. “I had no idea who Jimi Hendrix was and what the Jimi Hendrix Experience was,” recalls concert attendee Forrest Andrews, in the documentary. “Thanks anyway,” he quips.Īlongside the release, the label has also put together a new mini documentary about the show, which interviews key players and attendees, including The Mamas and The Papas’ Michelle Phillips and Paul McCartney guitarist Brian Ray. Indeed, one of the best things about the Killing Floor clip is the guitarist’s fleeting response to the shocked silence and smattering of applause that greets his efforts. ![]()
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