From the Vault: Jimi Hendrix

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PRA Archive #: 
PZ0673.230
Description: 

This week on From The Vault we look at one of the great creative spirits of the 20th Century, Jimi Hendrix. His short career starting in 1966, Hendrix would stun crowds his virtuosity and groundbreaking manipulation of the electric guitar until his untimely death at age of 27 in 1970.

Jump forward to 1982, when a team of talented producers (including Bari Scott, Craig Street and Don West) from Pacifica’s flagship station KPFA 94.1 FM – Berkeley enlisted the help of Hendrix biographer David Henderson, author of Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child of the Aquarian Age (1978). Their collaboration led to an amazing four-hour documentary that compiled previously unheard and rare recordings exploring this musical legend. The documentary includes music, of course, but also interviews with the people who knew Hendrix best: his family, blues singer John Hammond (who befriended the young Hendrix in Greenwich Village in 1966), Chas Chandler from The Animals (who brought Hendrix to England and became his manager), as well as his bandmates and Hendrix biographer David Henderson.

Since then, many of these performances have been released or are otherwise available on the Internet – but back in 1982, this was absolutely a masterpiece production, and despite its age, we think it still sounds pretty good today! We hope you enjoy this special one-hour version of the 1982 Pacifica Radio landmark documentary Jimi Hendrix.

From the Vault is presented as part of the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project.

Date Recorded on: 
2010-10-08 00:00:00
Date Broadcast on: 
2010-10-08 00:00:00
Total duration (All reels): 
59
Distributor: 
Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archive, 1975.
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