JIMI HENDRIX — Band of Gypsys (review)

JIMI HENDRIX — Band of Gypsys album cover Live album · 1970 · RnB Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Warthur
It was the end of the 1960s, and who better to play the decade out than Jimi Hendrix? Band of Gypsys consists of original songs trimmed from Hendrix's new blues-soul-rock combo in their gigs at the Fillmore East on New Year's Eve 1969 and New Year's Day 1970, giving the album a good claim to be both the last one recorded in one decade and the first recorded in the next. But musically speaking, it's a deliberate back-to-basics attempt, laying down heavily blues- influenced tracks and toning down Hendrix's usual experimental edge (which he was still indulging in the studio, as can be heard on the First Rays of the New Rising Sun album). Pretty good stuff, perhaps not very psychedelic, but still important as a means of capturing a side of Hendrix's music we have precious little record of.

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