jimi hendrix / gypsy sun & rainbows

"the shokan house rehearsals"

place: jimi's rented house [shokan], traver hollow road, boiceville, ulster county, new-york
recorder: jimi and/or eddie kramer on 2-track and/or 4-track
(except tracks 1&2 on disc 1 recorded by gerry guida on portable reel-to-reel)

date: recorded during the summer of 1969 (between july & september)

jimi hendrix: guitar & vocals
larry lee: guitar & vocals
billy cox: bass
mitch mitchell: drums
juma sultan: bass, flute & percussion
jerry velez: percussion
mike ephron: keyboards*

lineage: master > low gen. reels & tapes > cdr > eac > wav > flac (via dbpower amp, low compression)
except *: "this flyer" boot lp > cdr > eac > wav > flac (via dbpower amp, low compression)

quality: vg to ex with more or less slight hiss, best available quality !!!
no officialy released material


disc 1:
1. back on the desert / medley
2. izabella / the rumble
3. izabella / machine gun jam
4. univibe jam
5. message to love
6. mannish boy
7. mannish boy / izabella / you make me feel
8. ain't got nobody
9. the dance
10. sundance
11. free form jam

disc 2:
1. izabella
2. izabella
3. izabella
4. message to love
5. beginning
6. instrumental
7. beginning
8. machine gun / if 6 was 9
9. flute instrumental take 1
10. flute instrumental take 2
11. why i sing the blues
12. flying (here i go)*

disc 3:
1. lover man
2. lover man / drum solo
3. getting my heart back together again
4. spanish castle magic
5. instrumental jam
6. jams / villanova junction
7. this flyer jam 1*
8. this flyer jam 2*


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[july 2005]