Jimi Hendrix

The Experience had only been playing together a little over a year when most of the material on this compilation of British radio and television performances was recorded. Culled from Top of the Pops and a number of other programs, this documents the band's early live repertoire, including extended jams on a number of blues covers and Dylan's "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" Hendrix zealots will get a chuckle out of the guitarist's take on the BBC Radio One jingle.

During one of several spoken interludes on the two-disc BBC Sessions, Jimi Hendrix
interrupts the radio-interview happy talk to wonder whether anyone is listening. "Be a
shame for all that music to go to waste," he says. It seems incomprehensible now, but at the
time – late 1967 – the waste of all that music on an unsuspecting public was a distinct
possibility. Hendrix's debut with the Experience had just been released, and he... More >