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Another Hendrix release scheduled for November

 

 

 

More than a year before his command performance at Woodstock, Jimi Hendrix was in the line-up of another festival also produced by Michael Lang.  It took place at Gulfstream Park, a horse race course north of Miami in Hallandale, Florida.  In addition to the Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Miami Pop festival featured Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, Chuck Berry, Blue Cheer and the Crazy World of Arthur Brown.  On May 18 of 1968, Hendrix took the stage for a set that included Fire, Foxy Lady, Purple Haze, Hey Joe, Hear My Train A Comin and Getting My Heart Back Together. On November 5th, the original Eddie Kramer recording of the set the Experience did that day will get its first official release.  Day two of the event got rained out - and is purported to be the day that Jimi wrote Electric Ladyland's Rainy Day, Dream Away'.  About 50,000 attended the concert, a number that would double with a second festival on the same site in December of '68 that included the Grateful Dead, Procol Harum, Fleetwood Mac, Canned Heat, Three Dog Night, Joni Mitchell, Steppenwolf and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.