Jimi Hendrix-Live At Woodstock (2000)

On August 18, 1969, at the crack of dawn, the final performance of the legendary Woodstock Festival began. The last figure to take the stage was Jimi Hendrix, accompanied by his short-lived backing band, Gypsy Sun and Rainbow. By that morning, only about 40,000 privileged and exhausted spectators remained after three intense days, during which the total attendance had exceeded 500,000. After a dazzling opening filled with instrumental and guitar pyrotechnics from Hendrix, and with the support of a band that brilliantly fulfilled its role, the iconic guitarist began to perform some of his most emblematic songs. In all of them, as was typical for the guitarist, the versions were expanded with improvised solos, most often chaotic, but at the same time fascinating, dizzying, and explosive. Songs like the bluesy "Red House" and "Hear My Train a Comin' ", the visceral "Fire" and "Purple Haze", the psychedelic "Voodoo Child", the hard rock "Foxy Lady", and the improvised jams "Jam Back At The House" and "Woodstock Improvisation". To close his performance, Jimi Hendrix played a distorted version of the American national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner". All of this is captured on this double album, released 30 years later by MCA Records, a historical document that records one of the most memorable moments in rock history, as well as being one of the best live albums in all its splendor.