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July 11, 2008

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A lost album Jimi Hendrix recorded with Stephen Stills has been discovered more than 30 years after it was recorded

Stills recently found the recording among a stack of material he taped during the 1970s, and is due to be released by his Crosby, Stills and Nash bandmate Graham Nash.

“He has an enormous history of recording,” says Nash in an interview with the Las Vegas Sun.

“In the ‘70s, he was a recording fool. He just found a bloody album he made with Hendrix. ‘Oh yeah, I forgot that.’ We’ve got to listen to that… I want to listen to every track he ever recorded in case he recorded with Al Jolson.”


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#1 Good Taste says:

Now THAT was good to hear. Let's see/hear more stories like THIS on Daily Swarm!

#2 Dennis Hopper says:

This is great. I wonder if Obama would like it. What do you think all you daily swarmers? It is not Wilco, I know, but hey, sometimes you gotta ice your nuts and let the swelling go down. Right?

#3 Thirteenburn says:

WOW!!!

Oh and I absolutely agree with 'Good Taste'. Far too many pointless stories under the title of "rock & roll" are put up on this site.

#4 lostmaster says:

Hey Good Taste - if you like that Rock N Roll story check out the Artwork and Story behind a 'Lost' Album that Hendrix recorded as a Tribute to Martin Luther King:

http://www.lost-masters.com/Albums/MLK

At 6:01pm on April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, who had been standing on the balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis was assassinated. Outrage in the African-American community over his murder, widely believed to have been orchestrated by rogue elements of America's law enforcement agencies, triggered a wave of riots, looting and arson in cities across the country.

On the same evening, hundreds of miles away, Jimi Hendrix was playing a concert in New York. On hearing the news, he announced the tragedy to the crowd, scrapped the set and played an impromptu 45 minute jam which he titled ‘MLK.’

The concert was being recorded as a possible live album, the name of which swiftly changed from the innocuous ‘Hendrix live in concert’ to ‘MLK.’ Everything was in motion to release the album as a tribute to Martin Luther King, but as the mixing session drew to a close, Hendrix had already decided that he didn’t want it released.

Both the label and Hendrix agreed it might be interpreted that they were trying to benefit from the death of the great statesman. With this in mind, the tapes were locked away and the few existing copies of the album were presented to Mr King’s immediate family.

A cut down version, appeared during a jam session recorded on January 23rd, 1970 at Record Plant Studios, New York City, and was one of the highlights of the Jimi Hendrix Experience box set issued in September 2000.

…Wouldn’t it be great if this story was true.


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