Jimi Plays Monterey

Infobox Album
Name = Jimi Plays Monterey
Type = live
Artist = Jimi Hendrix


Released = February 1986
Recorded = June 18, 1967 at the Monterey Pop Festival, Monterey, California, USA
Genre = Rock, psychedelic rock, acid rock
Length = 41:02
Label = Reprise
Producer = Alan Douglas
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dnfyxqygld0e link]
*Review-Christgau|B+|album=4952
Last album = "The Jimi Hendrix Concerts"
(1982)
This album = "Jimi Plays Monterey"
(1986)
Next album = "Johnny B. Goode"
(1986)

"Jimi Plays Monterey" is a posthumous live album by Jimi Hendrix released in February 1986. The album documents The Jimi Hendrix Experience's performance at the Monterey Pop Festival on June 18, 1967. As well as songs from the band's debut album "Are You Experienced", "Monterey" also includes covers of "Killing Floor" (Howlin' Wolf), "Like a Rolling Stone" (Bob Dylan), "Rock Me Baby" (B.B. King) and "Wild Thing" (Chip Taylor). The version of "Wild Thing" on the album is one of the most notable live performances ever, as, in an iconic moment in rock history, he sets his guitar alight after the song and lets it burn.

"Jimi Plays Monterey" is also a short film directed by D.A. Pennebaker documenting the same performance as the album, also released in 1986. It is notable for containing several interviews with rock stars, and containing an art piece by Denny Dent during the performance of "Can You See Me".

Track listing

All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.

#"Killing Floor" (Chester Arthur Burnett) – 3:37
#"Foxy Lady" – 3:34
#"Like a Rolling Stone" (Dylan) – 6:50
#"Rock Me Baby" (Joe Josea, B.B. King) – 3:29
#"Hey Joe" (Roberts) – 4:03
#"Can You See Me" – 2:43
#"The Wind Cries Mary" – 3:46
#"Purple Haze" – 5:06
#"Wild Thing" (Taylor) – 7:54

ee also

*Jimi Hendrix discography
*"Monterey International Pop Festival - Otis Redding/The Jimi Hendrix Experience"
*"Live at Monterey"

External links

*imdb title|id=0093312|title=Jimi Plays Monterey