Jimi Hendrix
Will Rogers Auditorium
Ft. Worth, Texas
May 9, 1970

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Quality: Poor, distorted!

Intro
Fire
Lover Man
Hear My Train A Comin'
Foxy Lady
Room Full of Mirrors
Red House
Freedom
Ezy Rider
Machine Gun
Star Spangled Banner
Purple Haze
Voodoo Child (slight return)
Closing remarks

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Notes: From Chris Dixon's 30th Anniversary Series...
If you are fan of soundboards, FMs or digital audience recordings, go run and hide, this ain't for you. But if you can adjust your ears a bit, can concentrate and can appreciate the genius of Jimi, you may wanna check this out. The tape is extremely distorted. It was just too much for whatever tiny recorder was being used. Oddly very clear recording was made at the same venue two years earlier! In fact some of the poorer recordings made of Jimi were may during the 1970 U.S. tour. But alas, it is A recording...so a very rough listen but a few things can be discerned here and there....
The tape opens with the emcee, who announces this "the biggest concert in the history of Forth Worth." Jimi thanks the crowd for waiting and wishes them "peace and happiness". You can hear someone as the taper "Are you recording this?" Ya, duh!! The tryouts of the various instruments sound OK, but as soon the band cranks up 'Fire', a bit of a guitar improv before Jimi gets back into the structure of the song. Jimi slips in the 'Outside Woman Blues' quote, and the places where Mitch plays without the others come through reasonably.
'Lover Man' gets a nice, and relatively clear, solo coda from Jimi.
'Hear My Train' does OK during Jimi's intro and again around 5:00 when the band pulls back for a short interlude before the final verse.
Jimi hits a few chords of "Freedom" and thanks the crowd for "the last three years" before doing 'Foxy'. We hear Jimi adding some climbing unison bends similar to the ones in 'Manic Depression'.
Before 'Roomful' we hear a yahoo yell "I said Boogie!" as Jimi adjusts the UniVibe speed. Jimi does a false start on the wrong chord.
Jimi intros 'Red House' as one they did "3 1/2 years ago". 'RH' usually can be relied on have a bit more clarity on marginal tapes and that is the case here, with Jimi voice, guitar, and Billy's bass and Mitch's drums all audible, as points that is. Solo is just two 12 bar verses long.
The tape cuts into 'Freedom', already in progress, the first 15-20 seconds missing. Some nice soloing from Jimi in the middle section.
Mitch's drum intro to 'Ezy Rider' sounds great, like a machine, and we hear some of the cool fills Billy throws in during the solo section. Afterward we hear someone ask the taper "Do you tape all the concerts you go to?" and he says something about recording Chicago.
'Machine Gun' : Jimi lingers a little on the verses, getting into the main solo about 4 minutes into the song. Some very fiery playing. They go to the secondary riff at 5:30 and at 6:45 the band pulls back for one of the quietest, and therefore clearest, parts of the tape while Jimi does the 'wobbly' vibrato and thankfully stretches it out with some nice variations. Wraps it up with a few 'rat-a-tats'.
We hear a nearby voice ask the taper "Pretty good concert, huh?" (maybe to get on the tape?) Then the taper anwers "Yes i tis." Jimi thanks the crowd for coming asks everyone to stand up and says "thank you, goodnight and peace always..." before launching into 'Star Spangled Banner' which starts with some cool riffs. Good version w/ slightly longer tag at the end and then straight into 'Purple Haze.'
'VC(SR)' sounds OK on the intro and good (well, reasonable) again around 4:00 in when the dynamics lighten up and Jimi does some clean soloing with wah, including a cool climbing riff at one point. After restating the intro riff at 7:45 he ends it with an unusual move, a brief coda of his flamenco-style playing ala parts of the Woodstock Improvisation.
"Jimi Hendrix!" says the emcee. The crowd wants an encore, but Jimi never did them. "He's not coming back" before the emcee makes some announcements.