Hendrix & Miles Dead at the Fillmore
It is very difficult for me to say this, but probably the most disappointing musical experience I’ll have in 1970 already happened on the year’s first day. What has Jimi Hendrix been doing up in Woodstock? With each song of the set I found myself starting to compromise - telling myself that next song he will explode, but that next song never came.
Hendrix & Miles Dead at the Fillmore
It is very difficult for me to say this, but probably the most disappointing musical experience I’ll have in 1970 already happened on the year’s first day. What has Jimi Hendrix been doing up in Woodstock?
With each song of the set I found myself starting to compromise - telling myself that next song he will explode, but that next song never came. I am dumbfounded at the thought that I could predict Hendrix musically. It took me a few measures each song and I had it under my belt. I sat back miserably half amazed to wait out the rest of the song. At one point he even felt it necessary to apologize, saying that they were jamming and he thanked he audience for sitting through it. What in hell has he been doing up in Woodstock? He was enjoying it, too, giving a benign smile and nod each time the band followed one of his changes. I wasn’t enjoying it at all. I was thinking that if the audience had charged him to practice in front of them, it would have been a much better concert.