SETLIST:
Fire // Hey Joe // Spanish Castle Magic // Hear My Train A Comin' // Sunshine Of Your Love // Red House // Foxey Lady // Star Spangled Banner // Purple Haze // Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

This inspired performance served as the debut release for Dagger Records, a unique label established by Experience Hendrix to bring Jimi's fans inspired performances which don't meet the technical criteria and sonic standards Hendrix himself established over the course of his short, but spectacular career.

Spread over two discs, The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live In Oakland was made from an amatuer audience recording made by Ken Koga using a single microphone onto a portable Sony reel to reel deck. The concert was not professionally recorded, so Ken's amateur tapes represent the only known documentation of this performance. The monophonic sound is unobtrusive and clear, but far from industry [as well as Jimi's own] standards.

Fans of the Experience will recognize the set list, as songs such as "Fire", "Purple Haze", and "Spanish Castle Magic" were staples of the 1969 US tour repertoire, but there are many intriguing elements marbled throughout the eighty-five minute performance. Highlights include Jimi's spontaneous reworking of "Hey Joe", complete with passages about the `soldiers in Vietnam'. Jimi's two blues workouts, "Red House" and "Hear My Train A'Comin" are particularly strong, as is a raucous, extended rendition of "Foxey Lady". The evening came to a close with a rousing finale, as Casady climbed onstage to join the group for "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)".

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