The Set List

Beatles, Hendrix Tape Sales: A Case Of Buyer Beware?

Fuego Entertainment, a Florida-based entertainment company that has specialized in Spanish-language music, has enthusiastically announced that it will be releasing live albums by Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles.
The Hendrix family has already stepped in to put the kibosh on those plans and one imagines that the Beatles can't be too far behind.
Fuego Entertainment reported that it had secured the rights to 11 double albums of live performances from Jeffrey Collins. Experience Hendrix says the albums are inferior quality bootleg recordings whose release the estate has blocked by getting several U.K. court judgments against the former owner, Purple Haze Records.
Fuego has started to sell digitally two albums, the first and second sets from the Rainbow Bridge shows, for 99 cents a song at their website.
Experience Hendrix, which has owned and administered since 1995 all the music and related rights created by Jimi, says it will take all legal action necessary to remove the recordings from the marketplace.
Meanwhile, Fuego has also acquired 15 tracks of previously unreleased recordings made in 1962 at the Star Club in Hamburg, Germany. Tapes are from Ringo Starr's first appearance with the band. The tapes were also in the collection of Collins.
Fuego says the particular tape was among those used by Collins, who ran a booking agency in London, to promote the Star Club as a venue. The tapes were not touched until 1994.
Tracks include "A Taste of Honey," "Hippy Hippy Shake" (with Tony Sheridan),"Money", "Twist and Shout," "I Saw Her Standing There," Hank Williams' "Lovesick Blues" and Maurice Williams' "Do You Believe."

The Return of Hendrix at Monterey

It's near impossible to keep track of Jimi Hendrix live albums, but if you have to have one, "Live at Monterey" is the winner. Some of us never tire of the way he says "Bob Dylan,"  jokingly refers to Dylan's grandmother being in the front row or has a field day with "Like a Rolling Stone."
Experience Hendrix/Geffen/UMe will release the Jimi Hendrix Experience Live at Monterey on DVD, CD and  LP on Oct. 16.
Here's the trivia:
Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding performed at the Monterey International Pop Festival on June 18, 1967.
Paul McCartney was on the festival board and insisted that Hendrix be invited.
Rolling Stones’ guitarist Brian Jones introduced the band.
Hendrix played on the last day of the three-day fest, following the Grateful Dead and preceding the fest closer the Mamas and the Papas.
D.A. Pennebaker and his crew shot the show on 16mm;  Wally Heider recorded it on eight track.
Beyond the performance of the band’s set, The Jimi Hendrix Experience Live At Monterey offers numerous bonus features.
One DVD bonus features is called A Second Look, which  allows the viewer to switch between multiple, previously unseen camera angles.
DVD will include "American Landing," a new documentary that includes previously unreleased interviews with Mitchell,Redding and Hendrix, plus "Music, Love and Flowers," a look at the Monterey International Pop Festival with co-founder Lou Adler.
Simon and Schuster’s Atria will release the book "Jimi Hendrix: An Illustrated Experience" this fall. Book is authored by Janie Hendrix and John McDermott.