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Jimi Hendrix Rainbow Bridge Concert 2CD flac
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is a 1972 film directed by Chuck Wein that features footage from a Jimi Hendrix concert, and a short piece of
conversation between Hartley, Wien and Hendrix. It was mainly financed by Hendrix manager Mike Jeffery, hence his appearance.
The film is about Pat Hartley's "spiritual awakening" via a visit to the 'Rainbow Bridge' planetary meditation cult on Maui, where, as
part of the proceedings Jimi Hendrix visits to play a concert during a 'Rainbow Bridge' mass meditation/colour/sound "experiment".
The "Rainbow Bridge" concert was a free concert by Jimi Hendrix that was held on July 30, 1970, in a horse pasture above Seabury
Hall, on the "Upcountry" slopes of Haleakala, the volcano that makes up 75% of the island of Maui, Hawaii, although it probably last
erupted in the 1600s, it is officially considered as being active. - A modest audience of a few hundred island hippies, surfers, and
students turned up following announcements that Hendrix would play a free concert for a film. Hendrix was also in Hawaii to play the
last concert on his 'Cry of Love' tour with his reformed 'Jimi Hendrix Experience' (with Billy Cox replacing Noel Redding on bass &
backing vocals. Mitch Mitchell & Cox were also - previously - members of Gypsy Sun and Rainbows). The director Chuck Wein
introduced Hendrix' performance (no mention of a group name) as the driving force of this 'Rainbow Bridge' "experiment" , (this title is
often mistaken as being the name of the site of this concert rather than the name of this "Planetary meditation" cult). The original cut,
not surprisingly used very little of the concert footage, as this was not intended to be a concert film and no music from the film was
released on the official Reprise LP 'Rainbow Bridge' which was falsely sub-titled "Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" for contractual
reasons and due to the original music soundtrack being unreleasable due to its very substandard sonic quality on account of strong
winds that day. However, the music was distributed as a bootleg recording for three decades, before Radioactive Records released
this same bootleg recording on the 2003 album, The Rainbow Bridge Concert: The Early Show until it was withdrawn due to a court
action by 'Experience Hendrix' which makes this officially a 'bootleg' CD release. The 'Rainbow Bridge' concert was the penultimate
performance by Hendrix in the United States, his last was two days later on 01 August 1970, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Hendrix died less
than two months later on September 18, 1970 in London, England.