Jimi Hendrix: Band of Gypsys/Fillmore East concerts to be released in full – box set released in November

Hendrix’s Band of Gypsys concerts have become the stuff of legend.  Fans have been given various highlights into their four Fillmore shows from 1969/70, but now the picture is to be completed with the release of a lavish new box set, ‘Songs For Groovy Children’.

Following the dissolution of the Jimi Hendrix Experience after just three albums, Hendrix formed a new group with Buddy Miles on drums and his old army pal Billy Cox taking on bass duties.  The Band of Gypsys made their debut at The Fillmore East on New Years Eve 1969.  That day, they played two shows; two further shows followed on New Years Day.

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Both Sides of The Sky: More unreleased Hendrix material to be released in March ’18

Another new compilation of material authorised by the Hendrix Family estate will be released in the first quarter of the new year.

Following 2016’s ‘Machine Gun’, a live set which made the whole of the Band of Gypsys’ early Fillmore show available for the first time, ‘Both Sides of the Sky’ concentrates on the Gypsys line up in the studio.  The new release features thirteen tracks, ten of which will are previously unreleased.  Among the highlights is an early take of ‘Angel’ (then still provisionally titled ‘Sweet Angel’) recorded in January 1968.

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