| J-Card Comment | The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Tuesday, March 26, 1968
Public Music Hall
Cleveland, OH
2nd show
Source: Unknonwn AUD -> cas/x? -> ? -> CD -> EAC -> SHN ; Chris Dixon 30th Anniversary Realease.
I guessed on source info. There was none on it when i got the shns. But in the
notes section it says this show "survived on tape" so thats where i got the
cas/x? from. Sorry!
Note: This show all together doesnt really sound to good. This is for hardcore hendrix
fans only. If this is your first jimi show i suggest you pass! But Its the best known
recording so this is all we have! Enjoy!
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1 Intro
2 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
3 Fire
4 I Don't Live Today
5 Red House
6 Foxy Lady
7 Spanish Castle Magic
8 Manic Depression
9 Purple Haze
10 Wild Thing
Notes: From Chris Dixon's 30th Anniversary Series ? C S Dixon. March 26, 1998 is
30 years since the only Jimi show ever in Cleveland. Jimi's only appearance in my
hometown! Sadly I was only 11 and didn't go. There were two shows that night and
the first was marked by a bomb scare. The crowds at both shows were rowdy and
tore up the Music Hall so bad that Jimi wasn't welcome back to Cleveland (robbing me of
the chance to see him, as I certainly would have in 69 or 70!). I remember shortly
afterward hearing an article about the show out of a Time magazine in the school library.
it was titled 'Fireman, spare that guitar!' and written, I read later, by Joe Ezterhaus,
Clevelander-turned Rolling Stone writer-turned big time screenwriter. Also read later
that PR man Michael Goldstein was from my home 'burb of Shaker Heights and there was
a description of Jimi tooling around Shaker in the Corvette he bought that day in
Cleve- jeez, he was right there! Anyway, the second show survives on tape. Not too
bad sounding for the era but, as is typical, the vocals are buried on the loud songs.
Some great shots survive from the shows and I can see that the PA stacks were a mere
2 Altec Voice of the Theater cabs (15" speaker and 1" horn) per side- I got more PA than
that in my garage!! Near the beginning of the show Jimi says (I think) "Welcome to
Cleveland"- one of the few times I can think of him referring to (or maybe, knowing) the
town he's in during a show!
Couple of musical notes: Opens with increasingly rare 'Sgt Pepper'. Only later recorded
versions are 9 months later in Providence then twice in 1970 (Philly and Iow). Pretty slow
'Red House' and ever longer- over 11 minutes now (though the tape is a little slow).
Middle part features a wah solo followed by the 'slapped' chordal bit into a couple of
heavy handed verses. Sixth documented 'Spanish Castle Magic' still close to record at
under 5 min. Great, and ever rare, 'Manic Depression', 3rd of 7 recorded live ones.
Before playing it the crowd is yelling out requests and Jimi says "we want to play Stone
Free but first we'll do Manic Depression", however after MD he says "we can only do 2
more so just pretend we did Stone Free" !! Before Wild Thing he uses the 'I'll take off my
hat if you take off your pants" line as the crowd's been yelling about the damn hat
since the third song! Wild Thing has a higher-than-usual # of quotes. Before starting the
familiar chords he does that 'Leader of the Pack' line, then a few words (mentions the
soldiers coming back with 'feedback guitars'), then a few bars of what sounds like 'Dear
Mr Fantasy' (though contains hints of his later 'Bolero' progression)! Also, after the usual
'Strangers in the Night' quote he plays what I think is a Jeff Beck line from 'Shapes Of
Things', though it might be something else (Cream?) that I can't quite put my finger on at
the moment . The tape continues for quite awhile after the show ends and at one point
you hear a guy yell something like "whoa, better put your crash helmets on!" ??????....
guess we'll never know..... |
