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Jimi Hendrix : Band of Gypsys
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Band of Gypsys is a live album by Jimi Hendrix. Released before his death in 1970, it was the last album Hendrix himself authorized, and the only Hendrix album to be released on Capitol Records—the result of a settlement regarding a forgotten recording contract he had signed in 1965 before he became famous. Band of Gypsys is now issued on MCA Records, along with the rest of his catalog.
After The Jimi Hendrix Experience broke up in mid-1969, Hendrix played with a line-up he called Gypsy Sun and Rainbows at Woodstock. Bassists Billy Cox was already playing on that line-up. The band was short-lived, and was turned to a Band of Gypsys with his drummer friend Buddy Miles. The name "Band of Gypsys" was already mentioned as an alternative name his band by Hendrix in his speeches during the Woodstock concert. Searching his musical direction he began to work with Buddy. In the beginning there were three percussionists, but that was scratched because of the jumbled sound. They recorded some studio material, some of which has been posthumously released, and made their live debut at the Fillmore East on New Year's Eve 1969 for a series of four shows, spread over two days. The Fillmore East show is supposed to be the definitive version of "Who Knows" and "Machine Gun."
The recordings included on Band of Gypsys featured selections from the final two shows, which were performed on the evening of January 1, 1970.
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