Saturday, September 3, 2011

Jimi Hendrix - 1969-08 - Gypsy Suns and Rainbows


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Dr. Forrester said...

A 3-disc collection of available studio recordings from the Gypsy Suns and Rainbows. These recordings date from late August to mid-September 1969, a period of a little over two weeks. The recordings all likely took place at the Hit Factory except for the last track (from the Record Plant). Shortly afterwards Jerry and Larry left the group, and the ensemble that played at Woodstock was only a memory.

There's nothing unexpected in this collection; all of the tracks are readily available on scores of discs. The versions included here are the best quality copies circulating, and they've been checked and corrected for technical issues including pitch, phase offset, and digital errors.

Together with the Shokan tapes and the complete Woodstock live concert, these complete the coverage of the brief existence of the GSR.

"Gypsy Sun & Rainbows: New York City"
The GSR Studio Sessions
(actual song timings given; see artwork for CD track times)

Disc 1 (46:32)

01 Freedom (29) Jam (8:00)
02 Message to Love (3) (2:35)
03 Message to Love (50) (6:18)
04 Easy Blues (1) (complete) (10:12)
05 Easy Blues (3) (edited) (7:41)
06 Easy Blues (2) (more edited mix) (4:35)
07 Jam Back at the House (13) (2:23)
08 Jam Back at the House (15) (4:19)

Disc 2 (78:50)

01 Izabella (1) (0:19), Izabella (2) (1:07)
02 Izabella (3) (4:44)
03 Izabella (4) (0:40), Izabella (5) (1:07)
04 Izabella (6) (3:40)
05 Machine Gun (1) (12:18)
06 Machine Gun (2) (alternate take) (12:39)
07 Izabella (25) (mono mix) (3:40)
08 Izabella (28) (stereo mix) (3:39)
09 Machine Gun (3) (8:11)
10 Machine Gun (38) (11:19)
11 Machine Gun (39) (7:28)
12 Machine Gun (40) (1:19)

Disc 3 (70:31)

01 Jungle Jam / Jam Back at the House (3) (5:58)
02 Valleys of Neptune (22) (instrumental) (3:54)
03 Blues for Me and You (2) (10:29)
04 Blues for Me and You (1) (10:00)
05 Lover Man (45) (instrumental, stereo) (3:42)
06 Blues for Me and You (3) (8:55)
07 Lover Man (4) (instrumental, mono) (4:18)
08 Blues for Me and You (4) (edited) (5:43)
09 Stepping Stone (1) (15:22)



Notes on particular recordings:

The recording date of Freedom (29) Jam is unknown.

Message to Love (3) is possibly from the 29th rather than the 28th.

Easy Blues (1) is the most complete version of this recording, with an extra second at the start and without edits.

Easy Blues (3) is edited, with a 2:30 section removed at the 1:34 point (a Larry solo). In addition, it's a different mix with the percussion and tambourine removed.

Easy Blues (2) is taken from collectors' tapes with a few extra seconds at the end. The mix differs from the other two, with instruments placed somewhat differently in the stereo image and some of Larry's guitar mixed low. This version is more heavily edited, with a 3:16 portion removed at 1:17 (Larry's solo again). There are 5 further short edits, removing either one or two measures each: at 2:59 (7 seconds removed), at 3:13 (7 seconds removed), at 3:32 (4 seconds removed), at 3:41 (4 seconds removed), and at 4:00 (7 seconds removed). This version also fades 1:50 early at the end.

Jam Back at the House (13) is a nearly mono mix of the first part of the unaltered track. It ends before providing us with all the parts in the other edits.

Jam Back at the House (15) is digital mono, a rough edit of the track with portions missing, but without later overdubs. It has a 9-second cut at 1:01 and a longer cut (at least 44 seconds) at 1:29, and is cut at the end. Without a complete unaltered version we don't know what other edits might be present later in the track.

Jam Back at the House (4) (3:04) is not included here. That is the overdubbed altered track from 1975's "Midnight Lightning" LP, and there's nothing in it that's not on (15), which is longer, less edited, and lacks the posthumous overdubs.

September 3, 2011 at 7:56 AM
wm said...

Thank you for the Hendrix!

September 3, 2011 at 9:16 AM
Anonymous said...

Top!
Thank you very much Doc!

February 7, 2012 at 5:50 AM

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