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Jimi Hendrix: Rainbow Bridge

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Label: Reprise Records
Released: 1971.10.01
Time:
 42:22
Category: Rock
Producer(s): Jimi Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell, Eddie Kramer, John Jansen
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.jimihendrix.com
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Purchase date: 2014
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Dolly Dagger (J.Hendrix) - 4:45
[2] Earth Blues (J.Hendrix) - 4:20
[3] Pali Gap (J.Hendrix) - 5:05
[4] Room Full of Mirrors (J.Hendrix) - 3:17
[5] Star Spangled Banner [Studio version] (J.Stafford Smith/arr. J.Hendrix) - 4:07
[6] Look Over Yonder (J.Hendrix) - 3:28
[7] Hear My Train A Comin' [Live] (J.Hendrix) - 11:15
[8] Hey Baby [New Rising Sun] (J.Hendrix) - 6:05

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Jimi Hendrix - Guitars, Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals on [1,2]
Mitch Mitchell - Drums on [1-3,6-8], Engineer, Mixing
Billy Cox - Bass Guitar on [1-3,6-8]
Juma Sultan - Congas, Percussion on [1,3,6]
Buddy Miles - Drums on [4), Backing Vocals on [2]
Noel Redding - Bass Guitar on [6]
The Ghetto Fighters:
Albert Allen - Backing Vocals on [1]
Arthur Allen - Backing Vocals on [1]
The Ronettes:
Veronica Bennett - Backing Vocals on [2]
Estelle Bennett - Backing Vocals on [2]
Nedra Talley - Backing Vocals on [2]

Michael Jeffery - Executive-Producer
John Jansen - Engineer, Compilation
Eddie Kramer - Engineer, Mixing
Abe Jacobs - Recording Engineer
Bob Ludwig - Mastering
Bernie Grundman - Remastering
The Pineal Playhouse - Artwork, Design
Daniel Tahaney - Photography

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1971 LP Reprise - MS 2040

Recorded at various US locations, October 1968 to July 1970

Tracks 1, 3 and 8 recorded at Electric Lady Studios, New York City, July 1, 1970
Track 2 recorded at Record Plant Studios, New York City, December 19, 1969 and Electric Lady Studios, July 1970
Track 4 recorded at Record Plant Studios, November 17, 1969 and Electric Lady Studios, July 1970
Track 5 recorded at Record Plant Studios, March 18, 1969
Track 6 recorded at TTG Studios, Hollywood, October 22, 1968
Track 7 recorded at Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, California, May 30, 1970 (first show)



This month Experience Hendrix, LLC, in conjunction with Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will reissue two critically revered Jimi Hendrix albums on CD, vinyl and digital. The Cry Of Love and Rainbow Bridge, his first and second posthumous studio releases respectively, will be reintroduced with original album art and track orders. Both albums have been remastered by Bernie Grundman from the original analog masters. The Cry Of Love was last issued on CD in 1992, while Rainbow Bridge has never before seen an official CD release. The Cry Of Love may be pre-ordered on CD and LP; Rainbow Bridge may be pre-ordered on CD and LP - at Amazon. CDs of both titles will be out September 16 as will the vinyl version of The Cry of Love. Vinyl release of Rainbow Bridge follows on October 14.

Originally released in 1971, The Cry Of Love was compiled and mixed by Hendrix’s longtime engineer Eddie Kramer and Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell. The bulk of these tracks were recorded between December 1969 and the summer of 1970 at Electric Lady Studios in New York, and were intended to be part of an ambitious double LP tentatively titled First Rays of the New Rising Sun. Commercially, The Cry Of Love was a huge success, reaching #3 in the U.S. and #2 in the UK, and spawned favorites such as “Angel,” “Freedom,” and “Ezy Ryder.” While Mitch Mitchell and bassist Billy Cox comprised the rhythm section on the lion’s share of the tracks, Buddy Miles played drums on “Ezy Ryder” and Noel Redding played bass on “My Friend” (recorded in 1968, before his departure from the Jimi Hendrix Experience). The Cry Of Love also includes the participation of notable guest musicians including Steve Winwood, Chris Wood and Buzzy Linhart among others. VH1 recently declared The Cry Of Love the greatest posthumous classic rock record of all time.

Rainbow Bridge was also compiled and mixed by Eddie Kramer and Mitch Mitchell in 1971, with the help of Electric Lady Studios engineer John Jansen. Most of the tracks were recorded in 1969 and 1970, during the same sessions that spawned The Cry Of Love. Rainbow Bridge is often misconstrued as being an entirely live album, being that the film of the same name features excerpts of a live Jimi Hendrix performance in Maui. However, Hendrix had no role in the creation of the rambling, unfocused 1971 film which was directed by Chuck Wein. The film was not a Hendrix project in any way but instead an independent vision of his manager Michael Jeffery. After Hendrix’s death in September 1970, Jeffery scrapped Hendrix’s original vision of a double studio album titled First Rays Of The New Rising Sun and called for Kramer, Mitchell and Jansen to compile two posthumous albums—including one that would that would serve as a soundtrack for the Rainbow Bridge film.

Mitchell, Kramer and Jansen drew upon Hendrix’s rich trove of studio recordings that the guitarist had been developing at Electric Lady Studios. Songs such as “Dolly Dagger” and “Room Full Of Mirrors” were bright examples of Hendrix’s new creative direction. Other standouts on the album included a studio rendition of “Star Spangled Banner” as well as the majestic “Hey Baby (New Rising Sun).” The one live track on the album, an extraordinary rendition of Hendrix’s original blues composition “Hear My Train A Comin’” is taken from a performance at Berkeley Community Theatre in May of 1970, and not in the film at all. Buddy Miles and Noel Redding both appear on one track each, and the Ronettes provide backing vocals on “Earth Blues.”

Beginning in the late 1990s, the tracks on The Cry Of Love and Rainbow Bridge were reassembled into various compilations, including First Rays of the New Rising Sun, South Saturn Delta, and The Jimi Hendrix Experience box set. Now, fans of all ages will be able to enjoy songs such as “Straight Ahead,” “Nightbird Flying,” and “Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)” as they were experienced when they first became available 43 years ago.

JimiHendrix.com



Long before Jimi Hendrix‘s vaults were raided for every last burp and fart he committed to tape, ‘The Cry of Love’ and ‘Rainbow Bridge,’ both originally released in 1971, were the pinnacle of unreleased Hendrix recordings. But years of posthumous album releases have dimmed the spotlights that once shone on these records.

Too bad, because almost all of the essential Hendrix songs that aren’t on his three official albums — aside from a couple of ‘Band of Gypsy’ cuts and his historic live performance of ‘Star Spangled Banner’ from Woodstock – can be found here. Countless repackaging of the material has diluted their value over time, but ‘The Cry of Love’ and ‘Rainbow Bridge’ remain integral parts of the Hendrix catalog.

So even if the new, frills-free reissues of the albums may seem a bit pointless after all this time, especially after all of the other posthumous LPs, they’re still the best way to hear some key songs in settings not weighted down by the unfinished scraps surrounding them. There’s some filler here, to be sure, but these remastered recordings — ‘Rainbow Bridge’ has never been released on CD, ‘The Cry of Love’ was released on disc back in 1992 — add the final pieces to Hendrix’s legacy.

When the guitar great died on Sept. 18, 1970, he had already disbanded the Experience — the trio with which he made three classic albums, ‘Are You Experienced?,’ ‘Axis: Bold as Love’ and ‘Electric Ladyland’ — and was working on his fourth LP, a double-record set tentatively titled ‘First Rays of the New Rising Sun.’ The 18 songs found on ’The Cry of Love’ and ‘Rainbow Bridge’ pretty much make up the completed tracks slated for that album.

Over the years, alternate takes and mixes, more songs (mostly skeletal fragments of pieces) and studio jams have surfaced on various records. But none of them are as significant as the best cuts on these two LPs (upon its original release, ‘Rainbow Bridge’ was touted as the soundtrack to a 1971 movie that featured Hendrix in concert, but it really has nothing to do with that forgotten film).

‘Freedom,’ ‘Drifting,’ ‘Night Bird Flying,’ ‘Angel’ (all from ‘The Cry of Love’), ‘Dolly Dagger,’ ‘Hear My Train A Comin” and ‘Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)’ (‘Rainbow Bridge’) are cornerstone works of Handrix’s post-Experience era, and reflect an artist on the move to shake his past and forge his future. Wrapping the blues in entirely new shades, Hendrix guides these songs — recorded primarily between December 1969 and summer 1970 with an assortment of musicians including former Experience members Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding, Band of Gypsys Billy Cox and Buddy Miles, Steve Winwood and Stephen Stills.

While the 1997 release of ‘First Rays of the New Rising Sun’ reconstructs, as closely as possible, Hendrix’s vision for his fourth studio album, ’The Cry of Love’ and ‘Rainbow Bridge’ remain pivotal releases in Hendrix’s discography. They not only got there first, they also proved that vault sweeping didn’t necessarily have to leave fans feeling betrayed. There was plenty of that to come later.

Michael Gallucci - September 26, 2014
UltimateClassicRock.com



Jimi Hendrix's first two posthumous studio albums, The Cry of Love and Rainbow Bridge – which both originally came out in 1971 – will be available as newly remastered CD, LP and digital reissues next month. Audio engineer Bernie Grundman, whose mastering credits include Prince's Purple Rain and Michael Jackson's Thriller, went back to the original analog masters for each album to get the best sound possible, and each reissue will feature the original album art and track orders. It will also be the first time that Rainbow Bridge has been available as an official CD.

The Cry of Love originally came out less than six months after Hendrix's death in September 1970 and was compiled by engineer Eddie Kramer and Jimi Hendrix Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell. The guitar icon recorded the majority of the songs on the album between December 1969 and the summer of the following year at his New York studio Electric Lady, with the intention of releasing it as a double album titled First Rays of the New Rising Sun. That album was later pieced together for a 1997 release featuring recordings with Mitchell, bassist Billy Cox, drummer Buddy Miles (on "Ezy Rider") and Experience bassist Noel Redding, as well as a guest appearance by Steve Winwood.

Rainbow Bridge, which Kramer and Mitchell also compiled, originally came out in October 1971 and contained more music from the sessions that made up The Cry of Love. The record contains a studio version of Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner," as well as a single live recording of "Hear My Train a Comin'," which he recorded in 1970. The album also features appearances by Miles and Redding, as well as a guest shot by the Ronettes, who provided backing vocals for "Earth Blues."

Kory Grow - August 20, 2014
RollingStone.com



Rainbow Bridge is an album by American musician Jimi Hendrix. It was the second posthumous album release by his official record company and is mostly composed of recordings Hendrix made in 1969 and 1970 after the breakup of the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Despite the cover photo and subtitle Original Motion Picture Sound Track, it does not contain any songs recorded during his concert appearance for the 1971 film Rainbow Bridge.

Continuing in the vein of The Cry of Love, the first official posthumous Hendrix album, Rainbow Bridge explores new guitar styles and textures. All the songs, except for a solo studio version of "The Star Spangled Banner", are written by Hendrix and mostly performed with Mitch Mitchell on drums and Billy Cox on bass.

The songs on Rainbow Bridge represent material in various stages of development and were never finalized or approved for release by Hendrix. Four of the songs on the album, along with the ten songs from The Cry of Love and three from War Heroes, were planned for Hendrix's followup album to the live Band of Gypsys, released in March 1970. These songs were later included on First Rays of the New Rising Sun in 1997, which is the most fully realized attempt at completing the double album Hendrix was working on at the time of his death.

"Look Over Yonder" began as "Mr. Bad Luck" while Hendrix was performing in Greenwich Village, New York City, with his group Jimmy James and the Blue Flames in the summer of 1966. The version included on Rainbow Bridge was recorded by the Experience in 1968. Two songs by the Band of Gypsys, "Room full of Mirrors" and "Earth Blues" date from 1969, although the latter has subsequent drum overdubs by Mitchell. "The Star Spangled Banner" is a 1969 solo studio recording by Hendrix. The remainder of the songs were recorded with the "Cry of Love" group (Mitchell and Cox) in 1970: "Dolly Dagger", "Pali Gap", and "Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)". "Hear My Train A Comin'" is a live recording from the first show on May 30, 1970, at the Berkeley Community Theatre. An edited version appears in the 1971 concert film Jimi Plays Berkeley.

The album was the second to be produced by Eddie Kramer and Mitch Mitchell, with John Jansen assisting. It was released in October 1971 in the US, and the following month in the UK where it reached numbers 15 and 16 respectively in the album charts. "Dolly Dagger" with "The Star Spangled Banner" as the B-side was released as a single in the US in October 1971. It appeared at number 74 in the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart. In 2014, the original Rainbow Bridge album was reissued in both CD and LP formats.

In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone magazine, music critic Tony Glover wrote favorably of the songs on side one, particularly the "really majestic version" of "The Star-Spangled Banner". Robert Christgau gave the album an "A–" in a retrospective review and felt that, while The Cry of Love (1971) highlighted Hendrix's abilities as a songwriter, Rainbow Bridge showcased his guitar playing: "Rich stuff, exploring territory that as always with Hendrix consists not merely of notes but of undifferentiated sound, a sound he shapes with a virtuosity no one else has ever achieved on an electric instrument."

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