They have footage but sit on it or just release tiny glimpses. Rare Jimi footage in the doc is more seconds than minutes. Looks like EH yanked the clips and full doc I watched earlier this week. 2:18 - 2:22. Fillmore East glimpse judging by light show?
Does kind of look like it, but I don’t think his outfit matches any of the Fillmore photos, either 1968 or Band of Gypsys.
This is what I was getting at it being super rare. It’s in colour, he has is playing a Flying V, looks like a military jacket and big wild hair, so I would say it’s 67. There can’t be many gigs with a light show behind where is used a Gibson V.
just played my 2 tone EL pressing, 1st side, not a wasted note on it, but lord help me, voodoo child is one of the best things ever recorded at 7:30 am no less... the power and intensity just pour out from the speakers nearly 60 years later, oh what I'd give to be in the studio listening to that being tracked live off the floor all those years ago
Ive said it before, but I'll say it again... Forget Black Gold. Forget RAH. Man, forget this boxset... The ABC VCSR film is the holy grail for me. If that ever shows up, I will die a happy man. But yeah, Voodoo Chile would've been a great session to have been filmed. I think the Slight Return Sessions just hurts so much because we know it was filmed. But now its probably nothing more than dust in the wind... ...oh man...just cuts me up.
Maybe EH have it in the archives. On the same shelf as RAH, Black Gold and the ELSbox. All marked "Never To Be Released".
I was very surprised Experienced Hendrix had footage from Miami 1968 which is one of those holy grail films made around the same time as the footage that is missing.
True. I guess theres hope. EH have never been in a rush to release things. Stranger things have happened.
They really are missing a trick. They should look at Grateful Dead’s business model. Yes, they have a lot of years to choose from by comparison but they could still do similar. They could try a subscription service for limited exclusives. They could have exclusive AI de mixed and cleaned up bootlegs. Exclusive online pay per view streams of rare live footage. Access to multitracks to hear isolated drums, bass, guitar. Online exclusive photo gallery - close up HD shots of rare Jimi paraphernalia guitars, equipment like a virtual museum. Just a thought.
I like your thinking. And as long as theres records getting released, Im buying. I've always said, EH need to get on to the multi source merged bootleg recording train. Some of them sound real good and would sound fine as a record release (I'm looking at you LA70). Some of the merges fans have put together have great depth and atmosphere. Revive Dagger. Make it a subscription service. Count me in. ...oh...and release RAH, Black Gold and ELSbox...
It actually "went missing" after Jimi passed. The implication was that all the ABC footage was stolen as I recall.
I've heard about the ABC/VC footage but I wonder how long they had it before it disappeared. They did have '68 Miami Pop footage they showed when he died.
It is likely 1/8/68 Stockholm and contains additional footage/angle from the back that isn't in this commonly circulated footage that has circulated for years.
IIRC is was a bunch of stuff ABC filmed, studio, Miami, interviews, etc. and it might have been the “JH” doc filmmakers that looked for it in 1973 and it was missing.
You’d think at the very least word would’ve leaked that it might be in private hands. A lot of the other stuff that’s not available there’s at least an idea of where it might be. No one’s seen it for 55 years already. The hope might have been it was with the Miami material but…
My uneducated guess: someone who had access to the ABC archive and figured no one at the network would care if it went missing just walked out with it sometime after 9/19/70. Maybe he thought he could sell it, or he was a fan and thought it would be cool to have, but with no easy way to play it, he put it in a box and it’s sitting in a garage somewhere. Maybe the theft occurred when it was pulled for the death report and was waiting to be re-filed? Here is info from the EH website: “Experience publicist, Michael Goldstein arranged for ABC-TV to record the group’s studio work on 5/3/68 for a proposed news feature. Although the 16mm film recordings captured the Experience recording “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)” at the Record Plant, no records indicate if the footage was ever used. Unfortunately, this footage, along with the recordings for the Experience’s May 10 show at Fillmore East and May 18 show at the Miami Pop Festival were all stolen from the ABC-TV archives sometime after Hendrix’s death in 1970.”
the fact that not a snippet has ever been seen again, implies it's either in land fill, lost or destroyed
