Band of Gypsys

by Jimi Hendrix

Band of Gypsys cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 25 March 1970
  • Label: Capitol
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 45:37
  • Community rating: 4.24/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded during four legendary shows at the Fillmore East on New Year's Eve 1969, this live album debuted Jimi Hendrix's new, funk-driven power trio featuring Billy Cox and Buddy Miles. Stepping away from the flashy pop-psychedelia of the Experience, Hendrix utilizes a massive battery of effects pedals to create dark, heavily rhythmic, and improvisational anti-war anthems like the ferocious 'Machine Gun'. It remains a crucial transition point cut tragically short by his death.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, rhythmic, live, virtuosic, distorted

Tracklist

  1. Who Knows - Live At Fillmore East, 1970 / 50th Anniversary (9:36)
  2. Machine Gun - Live At Fillmore East, 1970 / 50th Anniversary (12:39)
  3. Changes - Live At Fillmore East, 1970 / 50th Anniversary (5:11)
  4. Power To Love - Live At Fillmore East, 1970 / 50th Anniversary (6:55)
  5. Message To Love - Live At Fillmore East, 1970 / 50th Anniversary (5:23)
  6. We Gotta Live Together - Live At Fillmore East, 1970 / 50th Anniversary (5:49)

Credits

  • Jimi Hendrix - primary artist, performer, written-by
  • Bob Ludwig - lacquer cut by
  • Lee Hulko - lacquer cut by
  • Billy Cox - performer
  • Buddy Miles - performer, written-by

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