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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This original Live Hendrix album gets five stars becuase of Machine Gun, one of the greatest live rock guitar performances ever and Power Of Love, one of Jimis best funk-rock songs you will never tire off.
The rest is a bit miss-mash with Buddy Miles getting a song of his own along with a lot of whoooing and whoaing from Buddy on other tracks. (When Jimi was editing this album he cringed at Buddys background hollering).
Message Of Love has a brillant guitar solo, but We Gotta Live Together shoudnt have been on this album at all.
The rest is a bit miss-mash with Buddy Miles getting a song of his own along with a lot of whoooing and whoaing from Buddy on other tracks. (When Jimi was editing this album he cringed at Buddys background hollering).
Message Of Love has a brillant guitar solo, but We Gotta Live Together shoudnt have been on this album at all.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Band of Gypsys was released in Hendrix's lifetime, so it has an authenticity that the large amounts of posthumous dross do not.
Even so a nice digipak replica sleeve is not worthy of yet another "standard" re-issue.
A new label should have taken the opportunity to issue a real deluxe 2CD version.
DISC ONE - The original album plus the Steppin' Stone b/w Izabella single and the studio versions of Power of Soul & Message to Love.
DISC TWO - Alternate versions of the above from the Fillmore Concerts.
Come on treat the fans properly as the Stones have done with Exile
Even so a nice digipak replica sleeve is not worthy of yet another "standard" re-issue.
A new label should have taken the opportunity to issue a real deluxe 2CD version.
DISC ONE - The original album plus the Steppin' Stone b/w Izabella single and the studio versions of Power of Soul & Message to Love.
DISC TWO - Alternate versions of the above from the Fillmore Concerts.
Come on treat the fans properly as the Stones have done with Exile
18 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This a re-release of a CD first issued in 1997 (LP 1970) and a very small subset of Live At Fillmore East. So if you've got any of those you don't need this one. Even if it has been remastered, it's a live album, and you don't need 24bit.
The album has been criticised as being a contractual obligation to Ed Chalpin, but in all honesty, who cares? However, Hendrix is on the record as being underwhelmed with Band of Gypsys and to my ears the real problem is that the trio (Hendrix, Cox, Miles) didn't really work. This is even more obvious on the Fillmore double CD.
The one exception to some fairly ordinary music, is Machine Gun, Miles got the drumming right, and subsequently Mitch Mitchell never seemed to be capable of matching it. It's set in a certain context, (Vietnam war, Kent U student deaths) and in its own way it's up there with Star Spangled Banner.
In some ways the album demonstrates by counter example just how well the JHE worked. Redding, for all his challenges drove better than Cox, and Mitchell's jazzy drumming interacted with Hendrix better than did Miles' whom I found to be too heavy handed. Mitchell was quickly back in the band and it was suggested at the time there was a possibility of a Hendrix/Redding reconciliation.
If you haven't got any of the music already, get the cheapest version of any of them for the Hendrix compositions, particularly M Gun. Buddy Miles is no composer to this listener.
The album has been criticised as being a contractual obligation to Ed Chalpin, but in all honesty, who cares? However, Hendrix is on the record as being underwhelmed with Band of Gypsys and to my ears the real problem is that the trio (Hendrix, Cox, Miles) didn't really work. This is even more obvious on the Fillmore double CD.
The one exception to some fairly ordinary music, is Machine Gun, Miles got the drumming right, and subsequently Mitch Mitchell never seemed to be capable of matching it. It's set in a certain context, (Vietnam war, Kent U student deaths) and in its own way it's up there with Star Spangled Banner.
In some ways the album demonstrates by counter example just how well the JHE worked. Redding, for all his challenges drove better than Cox, and Mitchell's jazzy drumming interacted with Hendrix better than did Miles' whom I found to be too heavy handed. Mitchell was quickly back in the band and it was suggested at the time there was a possibility of a Hendrix/Redding reconciliation.
If you haven't got any of the music already, get the cheapest version of any of them for the Hendrix compositions, particularly M Gun. Buddy Miles is no composer to this listener.
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