release notes:
There is much to be relished in this unpolished recording. Jimi's
train whistle feedback announces his powerhouse rendition of Howlin'
Wolf's "Killing Floor". A stinging "Red House", Jimi's own blues
masterwork, is even stronger. Live In Ottawa also presents the
earliest live version of "Tax Free" issued to date. Here Mitchell
and Redding push Hendrix insistently throughout the song's complex
arrangement. The expanded introduction to "Hey Joe", a precursor
to the more elaborate efforts which would follow in the weeks and
months to come, is wickedly clever and no doubt a salve to Hendrix's
restless creative spirit. The guitarist loathed having to replicate
his hits in the same manner night after night. It is alterations
and embellishments such as these which made every Jimi Hendrix
performance so unique.
More than three decades later, it is performances such as these
which reveal just how exciting it was to have a witnessed a Jimi
Hendrix Experience concert.
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