Jimi Hendrix - 3 Nights At Winterland [2006 Limited Edition 6 CD Box Set] [FLAC]
Release: 2006 | Track: 53 (6CD) | EAC Rip | FLAC(Image-Cue-Log) | Covers | Size: 2.15 GB Genre: Classic Rock - Blues | Label: Michael Jeffrey Estate
The more than 6 hours of live music assembled here gives Hendrix fans the first opportunity to compare The Experience's live performances 2-performances per night 3-day recorded during the band's temporary residence at San Francisco's Winterland arena. Given that these recordings have been assembled from a variety of different sources, the sound quality (with the exception of the last 3 tracks on Disc 3, which, as the soundboard tape mysteriously stopped running, have been taken from a less-than perfect audience recording) is excellent, and as usual, Jimi's virtuoso delivery is as varied and unpredictable as ever, as are the technical problems which were invariably the sub-text of the majority of Hendrix concerts.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Winterland (incl. bonus disc) (2011)
Release: 2011 | 4CD + bonus CD | Format: MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | Size: 715 MB Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Classic Rock | Label: Legacy
BBC Review
Over four decades since the six shows - recorded over three nights in October 1968 and documented in this four-CD set - that helped define the legend of Jimi Hendrix, it's easy to forget just how groundbreaking he truly was. Other electric guitar heroes have come and gone, feedback is now an accepted part of the instrument's arsenal, and the extended solo is largely the domain of the muso. But, despite his death less than two years later, Hendrix endures, and even the most hardened of cynics cannot deny the power of performances that robbed Eric Clapton of his reputation as the world's best guitarist.
Obviously there's none of the studio trickery here that he pioneered on his albums and which seduced fans back in the late 60s, but the dextrous fluidity of his playing, the enviable discipline of his band, The Experience - Noel Redding on bass, Mitch Mitchell on drums - and the effortlessly exuberant chemistry they shared are still extraordinary. The rawness of these performances is also impressive, the band magically keeping pace with Hendrix's seemingly capricious fretwork despite the sense that no one, least of all Hendrix, knows where his fingers will lead him. Whether riffing around the simple blues of Red House, or, some might say, birthing the sound of heavy metal on Spanish Castle Magic, he succeeds in the unlikely task of making vocal melodies secondary to his instrument. The mind rolls with guitar lines that cannon around his songs, exploding sometimes with an extraordinary fury, at other times with unexpected tenderness. There is, of course, an inevitable masculinity to the whole sound, a flexing of musical muscles despite his between-song exhortations to free the mind. But this is offset by his sometimes-vulnerable vocal style, one that remains underappreciated and yet strangely charming.
Grateful Dead - The Closing of Winterland (1978)
4CD | EAC Rip | FLAC(Image) + CUE + LOG | Complete Scans included | 4:15:30 | 1.47 GB Genre: Rock | Label: Grateful Dead / Wea | Release date: December 16, 2003
This 4 CD set contains the entire Grateful Dead performance from the Closing of Winterland on 12/31/78, mixed from the 24-track analog master tapes, and includes a 24-page booklet containing photos and essays.
Kurdish refugee, Renas, is living in the very north of Norway. In a remote desolate house. In the middle of snowy nowhere. But soon his special princess, Fermesk, will be joining him. Though the couple has never met, they have already fallen in love from looking at each other's photographs and talking on the phone. Their families have performed a wedding ceremony back home in Iraq, and Fermesk is put on a plane. The first encounter at the airport does not live up to their expectations, however. Neither look very much like their flattering photos would indicate. Fermesk is now a much bigger woman, and Renas isn't quite the handsome young man anymore
The Blues Brothers - Winterland, San Francisco, CA - New Year's Eve '78
DVD | 720x480 | VOB | 9586 kbps | 29.97 fps | Aspect ratio: 4:3 | MP3 1536 kpbs | 2.17 GB
Type: Live Concert | Venue: Winterland Ballroom (San Francisco, California, United States) | Band: The Blues Brothers (Jake and Elwood)
The Blues Brothers perform with Grateful Dead at the last ever gig in the Winterland Ballroom on New Year's Eve. This has been released on several bootlegs, and there is also some video available.
