Live at the Oakland Coliseum: Difference between revisions

{{Infobox album

| name = Live at the Oakland Coliseum

| type = live

| artist = [[the Jimi Hendrix Experience]]

| cover = JimiHendrixOaklandColiseum.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{Start date|1998|02|27}}

| recorded = April 27, 1969

| venue = [[Oakland Coliseum]], Oakland, California

| genre = [[Rock music|Rock]]

| length = 84:28

| label = [[Dagger Records|Dagger]]

| producer = Janie Hendrix, John McDermott

| prev_title = [[South Saturn Delta]]

| prev_year = 1997

| next_title = [[BBC Sessions (The Jimi Hendrix Experience album)|BBC Sessions]]

| next_year = 1998

'''''Live at the Oakland Coliseum''''' is a two-disc posthumous [[live album]] by [[the Jimi Hendrix Experience]]. It documents the group's performance at the [[Oakland Coliseum]] in Oakland, California, on April 27, 1969. The Experience broke up two months later, making the album one of the last full-length concert recordings of the trio to be officially issued.<ref>The short-lived [[Reprise Records]] box set ''[[Stages (Jimi Hendrix album)|Stages]]'' (1991) includes the Experience's set recorded a month lateronMay 24, 1969, at the [[San Diego Sports Arena]], in San Diego, California.</ref>

[[Dagger Records]] released ''Live at the Oakland Coliseum'' on February 27, 1998. It was the first release on the label, which was set up by the Hendrix estate for recordings that "don't meet the technical recording criteria and sonic high standards" for standard releases.<ref name="McDermott"/>

==Songs==

The Experience's performance at the Coliseum was not professionally recorded. However, a [[Monaural|monophonic sound]] recording was made by fan Ken Koga.<ref name="McDermott">

{{cite AV media notes

| title = Live at the Oakland Coliseum

| others = [[Jimi Hendrix Experience]]

| year = 2017

| last = McDermott

| first = John

| type = Album notes

| publisher = [[Dagger Records]]

| id = 08RD2-11743

| OCLC = 992175290

}}</ref> The [[set list]] for the concert was one typical of the 1969 tour, featuring staples "[[Fire (Jimi Hendrix song)|Fire]]", "[[Purple Haze]]" and "[[Spanish Castle Magic]]".

Other songs include the improvised "[[Hey Joe]]", blues numbers "[[Red House (song)|Red House]]" and "[[Hear My Train A Comin']]", the extended "[[Foxey Lady]]" and the finale of the night, an eighteen-minute jam on "[[Voodoo Child (Slight Return)]]", with [[Jefferson Airplane]]'s [[Jack Casady]] on bass.<ref name="McDermott"/>

All songs were written by [[Jimi Hendrix]], except where noted.<ref name="McDermott"/>

'''Disc one'''

#"[[Hear My Train A Comin']]" &ndash; 10:25

'''Disc two'''

#"[[Foxey Lady]]" &ndash; 10:36

#"[[The Star-Spangled Banner|Star Spangled Banner]]" ([[Public domain]]) &ndash; 2:58

==Personnel<ref name="McDermott"/>==

*[[Jimi Hendrix]] &ndash; guitar, vocals

*[[Mitch Mitchell]] &ndash; drums

*[[Noel Redding]] &ndash; bass guitar, backing vocals, rhythm guitar on "Voodoo Child"

*[[Jack Casady]] &ndash; bass on "Voodoo Child"

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