Live at Berkeley

Infobox Album
Name = Live at Berkeley
Type = live
Artist = The Jimi Hendrix Experience


Released = September 16, 2003
Recorded = May 30, 1970 at the Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, California, USA
Genre = Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock
Length = 67:47
Label = MCA
Producer = Abe Jacob
Reviews =
*"BBC Music" [http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/classicpop/reviews/jimihendrix_berkeley.shtml link]
*Review-Christgau|hm3|album=13063
Last album = "Paris 1967/San Francisco 1968"
(2003)
This album = "Live at Berkeley"
(2003)
Next album = "Live at the Isle of Fehmarn"
(2005)

"Live at Berkeley" is a posthumous live album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience released on September 16, 2003. The album documents the band's second performance at the Berkeley Community Theatre on May 30, 1970.

After the Band of Gypsys split up, Hendrix had decided to reunite the original Experience, but bassist Noel Redding declined, perhaps convinced that his own band, Fat Mattress, was bound for glory. So with drummer Mitch Mitchell and bassist Billy Cox, the trio formed the new Jimi Hendrix Experience, also known as The Cry of Love, and at this particular concert pushed the boundaries with works-in-progress including embryonic versions of what would become "Straight Ahead" and "Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)". Strangely, Jimi didn't tune his guitar down a half step as he usually did at all other shows and on most of his albums. Instead, he stayed in standard tuning.

Track listing

All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.

#"Introduction" – 1:47
#"Pass It On (Straight Ahead)" – 6:58
#"Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)" – 6:07
#"Lover Man" – 2:59
#"Stone Free" – 4:08
#"Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts) – 4:49
#"I Don't Live Today" – 5:26
#"Machine Gun" – 11:22
#"Foxy Lady" – 6:30
#"The Star Spangled Banner" (Francis Scott Key, John Stafford Smith) – 2:45
#"Purple Haze" – 3:48
#"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" – 10:49

Personnel

*Jimi Hendrix – guitar, vocals
*Mitch Mitchell – drums
*Billy Cox – bass guitar