Jimi Hendrix
The Rainbow Bridge Concert
Haleakala Crater, Maui, Hawaii
July 30, 1970 early and late shows
Purple Haze Records HAZE001


True and completely factual lineage:
My own store-bought original silver compact discs > EAC secure rip > wav > Trader's Little Helper > FLAC8 > TTD > YOU!


Setlists:

Disc One:
[Early Show]
01 Lover Man
02 Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)
03 In from the Storm
04 Message to Love
05 Foxey Lady
06 Hear My Train a Comin'
07 Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
08 Fire
09 Purple Haze

Disc Two:
[Late Show]
01 Dolly Dagger
02 Instrumental
03 Ezy Ryder
04 Red House
05 Freedom
06 Jam Back at the House
07 Land of the New Rising Sun


This edition of this show reared its head recently at TTD, and was found to be from a lossy source, and pulled. The show was not originally lossy (at least the copy I purchased at A&B Sound downtown Vancouver isn't) and with how many people were so happy to get it, I figured that you all deserved a totally LOSSLESS version for your archives. So, delete that lossy copy and get this one. It will be so much better.

There are other mixes of this recording. Due to the magnetic fields in the volcanic rocks below (!) the original 16 track recording was harshly flawed. According to an interview with Mitch Mitchell that I remeber reading once, when they went to a studio to mix down the multitrack tapes, only 8 of the 16 tracks were working at any one time. As a posthumous labour of love, Mitch attempted to re-record his drum parts from the concert back in the studio. While I've not yet heard that recording specifically, I've heard through the grapevine (and I realize due to my own recording studio experiences) that it is very hard for a drummer to re-record drum parts and keep the same time as a previous performance, and that Mitch's re-recorded parts are usually slightly out of synchronization to the existing multitrack recording. This version of this performance is (perhaps) a re-mastered edition of the original master tapes pre-overdubs. It sounds to me like the drum parts are badly recorded, and the maybe one or two tracks that had drums on them of the 8 that worked in the 16 track master were severely EQ'd and compressed to attempt to make them sound as good as they can. In other words, they brought as much natural drums sound as they could out of the drum sound bleed onto the other 8 tracks as they could...

I have included my own scans of all the artworx of this package, including the slipcase, tray liner, CDs, and the 12 page booklet. I had to remove the staples and seperate the pages. Hope I can put my copy back together again! Also in this fileset are EAC logs for your confirmation that this one's the real deal!

Please don't EnCrap this recording to LOSSY formats, and if you do absolutely positively have to for your little cheezy eMPty3 player, please keep a tight guard on that eMPty3 fileset. Don't let it get into the wrong hands! Actually, any hands are the wrong ones. If you feel that those eMPty3 files sound just as good as the REAL lossless files, then I suggest you go to an audiologist and get your hearing tested. Maybe while you're at it, go get your whole head examined! To paraphrase my old english teacher, I say "Smash your IPood, you festering nerd!!!"

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