Footage of the Jimi Hendrix Experience performing “Foxey Lady” from Maui in 1970 recently surfaced. The clip previews the upcoming documentary Music, Money, Madness … Jimi Hendrix in Maui as well as an accompanying double LP, Live In Maui, both arriving on November 20.
The new doc traces the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s jaunt through Hawaii in 1970. The trip coincided with the making of the hippie film Rainbow Bridge, which was produced by The Experience’s manager, Michael Jeffrey.
“The Experience was already set to play a show in Honolulu during the trip,” as per Rolling Stone, who premiered the clip “but because Rainbow Bridge director Chuck Wein wanted to feature Hendrix in the movie, he cooked up a plan for a free concert on the lower slope of the dormant Haleakala volcano in Maui (in true hippie fashion, the audience was arranged by astrological signs).”
While the movie didn’t do so well, the show was largely a success, even though Mitch Mitchell had to overdub his drums at Electric Lady Studios in New York City after Jimi’s death. Longtime Hendrix engineer Eddie Kramer spoke about Mitchell’s dedication to the project:
He was determined to fix what suffered on the recordings due to the 50-mile-an-hour winds because they were playing on the side of a bloody volcano! After Jimi died it took a while before I was able to go back to the closet with all the tapes. Mitch was a trooper with a can-do British attitude. It’s all very well to overdub drums but to do it so you can’t tell, that’s the magic. He knew the material extremely well and it’s a tribute to his sensitivity as a great musician and an equal and willing partner of Jimi’s.
Watch the Jimi Hendrix Experience perform “Foxey Lady” from Maui in 1970 below:
Live In Maui Tracklist:
Disc One
- Chuck Wein Introduction
- Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)
- In From the Storm
- Foxey Lady
- Hear My Train A-Comin’
- Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
- Fire
- Purple Haze
- Spanish Castle Magic
- Lover Man
- Message to Love
Disc Two
- Dolly Dagger
- Villanova Junction
- Ezy Ryder
- Red House
- Freedom
- Jam Back at the House
- Straight Ahead
- Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)/Midnight Lightning
- Stone Free
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