Live at Woodstock

About Live at Woodstock

Live at Woodstock is a posthumous live album by Jimi Hendrix released on July 6, 1999. It documents most of his performance at the Woodstock Festival on August 18, 1969, and contains Hendrix's iconic interpretation of "The Star-Spangled Banner" and other songs from the original festival film and soundtrack album. In his first public performance since the breakup of the Jimi Hendrix Experience on June 29, 1969, Hendrix was accompanied by an expanded lineup of backing musicians. The short-lived group has been informally referred to as "Gypsy Sun and Rainbows", after a comment Hendrix made during the performance: Dig, we'd like to get something straight. We got tired of the Experience ... So we decided to change the whole things around, and call it Gypsy Sun and Rainbows. Or short, it's nothin' but a Band of Gypsys. Hendrix's historic set began at 9 a.m. and lasted for about two hours; he played to a dwindling Monday morning audience and the set closed the festival. The album, produced under the family-run Experience Hendrix, supersedes the 1994 Woodstock album produced by Alan Douglas, which contains fewer and more edited tracks more »