New Orleans (City Park Stadium) : 1er août 1968

New Orleans (City Park Stadium) : 1er août 1968


Setlist partielle selon Ben Valkhoff (Eyewitness 1968) :

- Red House
- Purple Haze
- Foxy Lady
- Wild Thing

Citation :

TontonJimi a dit : voilà, je sort ça de mes archives: Jeudi 1° Août 1968. Film de la chaîne de télévision W.V.U.E. Channel 12 New Orleans du Concert donné Beauregarde Square à la Nouvelle Orléans en Louisiane. Ce film n'a pas fait surface jusqu'à ce jour! Mai City Park Stadium et Beauregarde Square est-ce le même concert?

A priori sur LA CARTE ce n'est pas du tout le même lieu.
Beauregarde Square (lettre "B") se situe juste à côté d'Amstrong Park (un parc un peu plus grand). City Park Stadium, le grand carré vert, correspondant à la lettre "A".

THE UNGARBLED WORLD - by Howie Roman:

“Everyone who has ever been to a Jimi Hendrix concert has his own story about what, why and how Jimi Hendrix did what ever it was that he did... City Park Stadium is not the perfect place for a concert, in fact it is a wretched place. It is much too large... The audience at City Park though they were not free, was polite and appreciative. Hendrix dug the audience and let us know it... He did a lot of talking which is something he normally is not to fond of doing on stage. He also put on a full performance including humping amplifiers and sticking his tongue out at little girls with cameras. Besides all his playing, he played some awful heavy guitar... ‘Red House’... to me was the highlight of the evening... Due to the fact that this song is not available here, I was not aware that Hendrix can be a blues singer. Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding also showed us that they too can play the blues and not just loud ‘psychedelic’ music. I’m not putting down the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s psychedelic music. I really dig it. They did plenty of it at the concert and they did all of it well....
The closing song of the evening was ‘Wild Thing.’ I had never heard Hendrix do ‘Wild Thing’ and had always felt that it was one of the worst pieces of crap ever recorded. Hendrix turned the Troggs’ mess into the wildest composition I’ve ever heard. This was where he got into eating the guitar and humping the amps. Besides these antics being a blast, they created fantastic sounds that really shook up your head.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience turned out to be just that with Hendrix turning on City Park Stadium and delighting all of us. Hendrix turned out to be one of the most relaxed and yet frantic performers I’ve ever see. All in all, it really was a great concert and a ‘wonderful time was had by all”

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Cet article parle du dernier concert des Doors avec Jim Morrison, donné à New Orleans. L'histoire de la bande-fantôme enregistrée sur la console, que personne n'a jamais entendue, mais qui est quasiment confirmée comme réelle (des photos existent, il y a des particularités dans la setlist qui font croire que c'est vrai, ou sinon ce serait un canular très élaboré, les concerts étaient aparemment souvent enregistrés dans cette salle etc).

Le gars qui a récupéré la bande lors d'un déménagement dit "Le reste des bandes a sans doute été détruit. Je regrette d'avoir laissé la bande de Jimi Hendrix".
Parlerait-il de ce concert de 68, ou d'une autre date (Hendrix aurait-il joué à New Orleans en 69 ou 70 sans qu'on le sache? Dans cette salle, The Warehouse ?).