A re-edited version of Episode 18 focusing on the Axis: Bold As Love sessions and album, plus a tribute to Ace Frehley and happy birthday to Billy Cox
We're back! A brief look ahead at the Hendrix releases coming out over the next few months (3 on one day!) with a full episode on them coming in November
We go over the building and operation of Electric Lady Studio, as well as the documentary form the box set. Also featuring our special guest host.
Saving the time to go hunt for it, here's the return of the original, plus a quick new ending
We go back over First Rays of the New Rising Sun, the songs that came out in the years after Jimi's passing that may have been on the album, as well as the three current versions available and if something on the new box can serve as an alternate.
The Electric Lady Studios box set is finally out, we do a rundown of what's on the set and how it looks.
We go over the sessions Hendrix did at his own studio, finally making progress towards completion of his next studio album.
We discuss the last part of the final Experience tour in mid 1969, along with some studio sessions that later led to the formation of the Band of Gypsys
The Experience tries one last time to record something in the studio while touring on the weekends to raise money for the upcoming studio. Then something was found in Jimi's luggage in Toronto...
The third part of the Traffic retrospective features Steve Winwood's rise as an 80s hitmaker, the band's surprise return in the 90s, who we've lost and who is still with us.
We discuss the band's albums in the first half of the decade before their break up as well as some solo recordings and the band member who got the unlikely first solo hit.
A look at the band Traffic, their four original members and their relationships with Jimi Hendrix from their beginnings in the music industry thru the end of 1969 and their first break-up, plus a remembrance of Dickey Betts
We go over the 55 year history of trying to get the Royal Albert Hall album and film out, what has actually made it out and all the lawsuits that popped up along the way.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience returns to the road in the first month of 1969 in surprisngly strong form as a lead up to their big filmed show at Royal Albert Hall in February.
Video podcast for this year's edition of the special featuring the Keep On Grooving Yule Log and a rundown of what videos make good gifts for the Hendrix fan in your life.
Jimi goes back into the studio with Curtis Knight and opens for the Mamas and the Papas at the Hollywood Bowl, yielding his latest album.
We go over the summer tour (or string of multi-night stands) including a week in San Francisco, the recording of a new single, on tour with a group of TV stars (and a look at their career) and a return to Curtis Knight.
We take a look at a number of films that have used Hendrix songs on their soundtracks, then go over the two Hendrix biographies that were unable to use Jimi's music, and finally go over the extras on the 1973 film's DVD, the extra footage added to the Jimi Plays Berkeley Blu-ray and the original 123 minute version of Rainbow Bridge.
A look ahead to what's coming up in the next year: The Jimi Hendrix Experience Live at the Hollywood Bowl, the return of the Keep On Grooving Holiday Special, the 1969 European tour, a look at the band Traffic and maybe, hopefully, the Electric Lady Studios box set...fingers crossed.
