c'è Banned

The film isn't sloppily made, but you can tell it’s not in great condition due to the wind—you must have noticed that. That’s why that live performance has always and only been released as a bootleg and not as an official release. Imagine if they hadn't intended to officially release that concert; the issue was the quality of the recording.

Yes, it’s really Byron Moreno. Oh, if soldier Di Livio meets you…

Rainbow Bridge the album, not the DVD. It features all the songs that Hendrix hadn't finished and/or didn't want to release, and in fact, it was the first one withdrawn from the market as soon as his father won the legal battle. For example, Pali Gap wasn't finished, and the version on that album was actually completed by Kramer. I personally think it's a great piece, but if Hendrix didn't consider it finished, who knows what the hell it could have turned into.

"pressures from the record label" :D

and then, if you allow me, I also contextualize the phrase tribute rather than speculation. In the years following his death, before the rights were taken over by his father, they published everything—literally everything—even unfinished tracks that Hendrix had never completed, which Eddie Kramer had hastily put together and released under the pressures of, coincidentally, Rainbow Bridge, featuring a lot of material that Hendrix would have never wanted to publish. So much so that much of that stuff, including Rainbow Bridge, was pulled from circulation as soon as the rights entered the hands of his father, and it remains out of production to this day.

Because you think Jimi Hendrix would ever release a live album putting together bits and pieces here and there? But do you at least know what the word Experience refers to? And then the choice of songs is really off-putting; you can't listen to Blue Suede Shoes, nor the English anthem, played just to give a little treat after the immortal and sacrilegious American anthem at Woodstock (whose distortion echoed for years until Neil Young's "Blowin' In The Wind" from Weld in 1991). Even Sgt. Pepper, aside from its historical importance and the fact that Hendrix pays tribute to the Beatles, isn't exactly something special in his hands. "Johnny B. Goode" is monstrous, and then there’s about 2 seconds between him asking "What do you want me to play?" and a guy in the audience saying "Johnny B. Goode," but it's live at Berkeley, which we've already mentioned, I think. The rest, "Red House" and "Little Wing," are amazing; they're my favorite Hendrix songs along with "Voodoo Child." That said, Hendrix's live performance is an experience that can't be extracted and pasted together like a Greatest Hits; it has to be taken as a whole from start to finish. For this reason, I can only give this album a 3. The fact that you keep acting superior saying you’ve never listened to it, you can’t read, you can’t play, etc., doesn’t change my opinion.

But you are Byron Moreno, the one from the World Cup in Korea and Japan?

only 29 comments in an Iron Maiden review? only 281 visits?

If by "knowing how to play" you mean playing like Hendrix, the answer is definitely no.

However, I also have the DVD. And anyway, I believe I've explained why I give this album a 3. I don't see the reason to get angry. It's my opinion. You don't have to share it; no one is asking you to, but at least respect it.