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The full concert came out ten years ago as “Freedom: Jimi Hendrix Experience Atlanta Pop Festival.” 13/13 https://t.co/nwhcwP5zTN #jimihendrixexperience

I love the way that Jimi envisaged the festival experience as being an “Electric Church.” Billy Cox says that what Jimi was most interested in was “people coming together and being a part of the music… in a sky church, almost like a humongous tent, like a tent revival.” 12/13

Jimi sang songs about universal love with an integrated band and, as it says in the documentary before the concert, he was able to bring people together in a way no other performer could have done. 11/13

The Vietnam war was still raging, the draft was happening & a black man is performing the national anthem before almost half a million people in the deep south turning it into a frenzy of distorted and chilling noise while fireworks light the sky. It’s an incredible moment. 10/13

The incredible version of The Star Spangled Banner played on what was the 4th July and segued wonderfully between ‘Stone Free’ and ‘Straight Ahead’, becomes a fiery social and political statement. 9/13

It’s another crying shame that he never had the opportunity to release a further studio album in his lifetime after Electric Ladyland; The Cry of Love being released unfinished posthumously. 8/13

Thank goodness that so many of Jimi’s performances were not only recorded professionally but also filmed. This is a rare delight watching the greatest guitarist of all time in his prime. I also think he was writing some of the best material of his career in 1969 and 1970. 7/13

has never been released because Jimi’s guitar wouldn’t stay in tune because of the intense heat. I find watching it emotional because you know the end is in sight and it’s still hard to believe that anyone who can burn this brightly could ever be extinguished so suddenly. 6/13

Nor are there the issues with the elements which meant that Mitch had to re-record his drum parts to the audio for the otherwise also incredible, Live in Maui concert, that took place on 30th July. Although, apparently, the last song of the show, ‘Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)’, 5/13

The reformed JHE with Billy Cox on bass are super tight and Jimi seems to be in good spirits. There don’t appear to be the technical problems that plague his performance at the Isle of Wight festival two months later, where he was also feeling unwell. 4/13

happened just a month prior, it isn’t a disaster and the worst problem is 104 degree temperatures. The local fire crew have to hose the hippies down, who appear to be mostly naked anyway. Jimi’s performance is, typically, astonishing. 3/13

The sleepy town of Byron, 100 miles south of Atlanta which hosted the festival, had one police officer and suddenly nearly 500,000 people turn up! Remarkably, despite the ongoing social tensions in Georgia regarding segregation and the fact that the murders at Kent State 2/13

This is currently available on iPlayer and watching it was an emotional experience. The documentary before the (edited) performance is very interesting about the Atlanta Pop Festival in July 1970. 1/13 #JimiHendrix https://t.co/nwhcwP5zTN

“Apartheid South Africa was rightly excluded from international sport for over thirty years. It was a moral duty — and it worked… The genocidal apartheid state of Israel must face the same consequences.” My piece for Tribune: https://t.co/4ApmWObNEV