The Jimi Hendrix Experience - The Complete Winterland Reels
(ATM 208-210/ATM 211-213)

Winterland Arena, San Francisco, October 10, 1968 (complete 1st & 2nd show), October 11, 1968 (complete 1st show & 2nd show) and October 12, 1968 (complete 1st & 2nd show).

Stereo Soundboard Digitally Restored (except October 11, tracks 5-7, 1st gen audience recording).

Lineage: 1st Generation Stereo Soundboard Recording (RAW unedited version) Silver CD > EAC > FLAC FrontEnd (L-8) rburly 11-06-2004 Artwork included

Setlist:

DISC 1: 1ST SHOW (October 10)

1. Intro/Tune-up (0:24)
2. Are You Experienced (7:36)
3. Voodoo Child (slight return) (7:38)
4. Red House (14:51)
5. Foxy Lady (6:12)
6. Like A Rolling Stone (9:44)
7. (This Is America) Star Spangled Banner (5:27)
8. Purple Haze / Outside Woman Blues (6:01)

Total running time: 58:00

DISC 2: 2ND SHOW (October 10)

1. Intro/Tune-up (2:28)
2. Tax Free (13:33)
3. Lover Man (4:27)
4. Sunshine Of Your Love (9:09)
5. Hear My Train A Comin' (12:57)
6. Killing Floor (with Jack Casady on bass) (9:19)
7. Hey Joe (with Jack Casady on bass) (5:31)
8. (This Is America) Star Spangled Banner (6:32)
9. Purple Haze (5:59)

Total running time: 70:38

DISC 3: 1ST SHOW (October 11)

1. Intro (2:02)
2. Are You Experienced (with Virgil Gonsales on flute) (17:05)
3. Voodoo Child (slight return) (8:14)
4. Red House (11:50)
5. Foxy Lady (5:44)
6. (This Is America) Star Spangled Banner (6:32)
7. Purple Haze (5:59)

Total running time: 57:35

DISC 4: 2ND SHOW (October 11)

1. Intro (0:29)
2. Tax Free (Drum & Bass) (20:32)
3. Spanish Castle Magic (11:05)
4. Like A Rolling Stone (with Herbie Rich on organ) (11:32)
5. Lover Man (with Herbie Rich on organ) (5:39)
6. Hey Joe (with Herbie Rich on organ) (5:13)
7. Fire (with Herbie Rich on organ) (4:44)
8. Foxy Lady (with Herbie Rich on organ) (5:13)
9. Purple Haze (5:53)

Total running time: 64:35

DISC 5: 1ST SHOW (October 12)

1. Intro (2:29)
2. Fire (3:47)
3. Lover Man (5:37)
4. Like A Rolling Stone (12:14)
5. Foxy Lady (6:53)
6. Drum & Bass Jam (Noel Redding & Mitch Mitchell) (8:58)
7. Tax Free (8:14)
8. Hey Joe (6:50)
9. Purple Haze (3:39)
10. Wild Thing (3:28)

Total running time: 61:57

DISC 6: 2ND SHOW (October 12)

1. Intro (1:32)
2. Foxy Lady (8:22)
3. Manic Depression (5:55)
4. Sunshine Of Your Love (9:07)
5. Little Wing (4:40)
6. Spanish Castle Magic (7:06)
7. Red House (12:08)
8. Voodoo Child (slight return) (7:02)
9. (This Is America) Star Spangled Banner (4:57)
10. Purple Haze (7:02)

Total running time: 67:57

This is an upgrade of ATM 011-016 "Three Nights of Winter", which was used for the "official" release "3 Nights At Winterland". The sound of this compared to the 2nd Gen used for ATM 011-016 is somewhat different. This version has more bass and it's also "dryer" in sound (less reverb) than the 2nd Gen version. An earlier flawed version of this Set is also in circulation. That Set, sometimes also known as "Winterland Raw Source" and "A Raw Winter", suffers from index clicks, DAT clicks and buzzes all throughout, and was "leaked" to the general public by a mistake. The Clean version (this) has 9 tracks on Disc 4 (11.10.68/2nd Show), while the flawed version only has 8 (same amount of music, just one less index mark).

The more than six hours of live music assembled here gives Hendrix fans the first opportunity to compare The Experience’s live performances. 2-performances per night for 3-days recorded during the band’s temporary residence at San Francisco’s Winter- land arena. Given that these recordings have been assembled from a variety of different sources, the sound quality, with exception of the last 3 tracks on Disc 3, which, as the soundboard tape had mysteriously stopped running, have been taken from a less-than perfect audience recording is excellent, and as usual, Jimi’s virtuoso delivery is as varied and unpredictable as ever, as are the technical problems which were invariably the sub-text of the majority of Hendrix concerts.

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Lineup:

Jimi Hendrix: guitar (all tracks)
Mitch Mitchell: drums (all tracks)
Noel Redding: bass (all tracks)
Jack Casady: bass (disc 2, tracks 6, 7)
Virgil Gonzales: flute (disc 3, track 2)
Herbie Rich: organ (disc 4, tracks 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)