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Band of Gypsys |  | Artist: Jimi Hendrix
Label: Universal / Island
Category: Music
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Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 1945
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 45 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 0.4
UPC: 008811160722
EAN: 0008811160722
ASIN: B000006U2S
Release Date: March 20, 1999
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Who Knows | | • | Machine Gun | | • | Power To Love | | • | Message To Love | | • | Changes | | • | We Gotta Live Together |
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From Amazon.com
Tired of the showboating image that his early live performances had saddled him with--and that his black audience viewed as demeaning and degrading to his musical talent--Hendrix dissolved his Experience in 1969 in search of a more terra-firma-grounded, blues-oriented persona. On New Year's Eve, Hendrix, his old Army buddy bassist Billy Cox, and ex-Electric Flag drummer Buddy Miles performed a loose, jam-filled set at New York's Fillmore East (completists will want the panoramic though uneven iLive at the Fillmore East/i). Released a few months after his New Year's Eve 1969 concert, IBand of Gypsies/I underscored Hendrix's desired return to basics--even if his basic was at a level most guitarists could never attain in a lifetime of playing. I--Billy Altman/I
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They don't know what I know... April 2, 2002
31 out of 32 found this review helpful
"Band of Gypsys" is a fine album, and the blueprint for funk-rock, funk-metal and a hundred other funks which, ironically enough, languish in the CD players of a multitude of twenty-first century white kids. Buddy Miles' soulful songs of love and life are a refreshing contrast to Hendrix's new-found didacticism (witness "Message to Love"), and the whole thing is spolighted in an uncluttered performance, Cox and Miles a solid rhythm section a million miles from the flashy Experience.pThe high-point on this album, recorded live on New Year's Eve, 1969, is "Machine Gun", Jimi's musings upon the Vietnam War, made shockingly real by the guitarist's otherworldly playing and Buddy Miles' onamatopoeic percussion. Other classics are the groovesome opener "Who Knows" and Miles' effervescent "Changes".pAs well as being arguably the most successful live album of all-new material ever issued, "Band of Gypsys" shows Hendrix as less of a band-leader and more of a band-member. Furthermore, it grooves, it rocks, and it's excellent. Anyone who cares a jot about rock, funk or twentieth century popular music in general ought to purchase this.
Simply stunning! November 27, 2004
The Rocker (Broadlands, Bridgend United Kingdom)
20 out of 22 found this review helpful
This is quite simply the most amazing live guitar album ever. Everything on this album is perfect..I cannot find a single fault and I've listened to it many many times. Jimi's masterpiece Machine Gun is the most amazing piece of guitar work I've ever heard in my life......and the bass and drums throughtout the entire album are spot perfect. If you like Hendrix...or a big fan of guitarists like me....you just have to own this album. It's like a law of the universe.
PURE GENIUS March 19, 2002
19 out of 21 found this review helpful
Joe Satriani once described jimi's playing on this album,as the best live guitar work ever.Machine gun the centerpiece of this album sends shivers down your spine,pure genius.Together with miles (Buddy) power drumming.And (Cox) Billy steady bass lines.Hendrix seems free to just play from within. Anyone who likes MUSIC MUST OWN THIS.
brilliant guitar playing January 4, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
In this version of the Band of Gypsies Hendrix returned to the guitar, base drums trio format but with Buddy Miles and Billy Cox in place of the Experience players. Gone also was much of the extravagent feedback and wild sounds, and in its place is cleaner guitar sound with vituoso playing, and effects used in a more restrained manner. The first side has two long tracks, and the latter is a version of Machine gun that other guitarists have called the greatest playing ever heard. The second side is four more upbeat tracks. It is unlike his other studio and live albums in sound and with a funkier sound. Well worth getting. I#x27;ve loads of Hnedrix albums and after Electric Ladyland this is my favorite
supreme hendrix September 8, 2006
Mr. Gerald J. Lister (middlesbrough, uk)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I doubt very much that this live performance by Hendrix can ever be bettered by any blues/rock guitarist in the world, past or present. Superbly backed by bass and drums (Cox Miles) Hendrix
br /performs wonders with his playing and covers an astonishing range of emotions and statements through his guitar. A truly classic album of genuine greatness from an artist at his peak.
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