New Haven (Yale University) : 17 novembre 1968

New Haven (Yale University) : 17 novembre 1968


Deux shows étaient prévus mais le premier a été annulé.

Setlist partielle du second Show :

- Foxy Lady
- Purple Haze
- Wild Thing / Star Spangled Banner

YALE DAILY NEWS - “A ‘Smash’, Hendrix Explodes” by Tom Linden:

“The Jimi Hendrix ‘experience’ came to Woolsey Hall Sunday night and left in its wake one busted amplifier, one smashed guitar, and 1,000 popped eardrums. Playing to an appreciative, yet restrained crowd, the bushy-haired Hendrix was at his destructive best as he climaxed an orgiastic version of ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ by ramming his guitar into one of 17 amplifiers and then slamming the instrument onto the stage. With his musical, mystical paroxysm over. Hendrix ran off the stage, jumped into a waiting black Cadillac. and split. Yet before he left. Hendrix had turned in a moving performance.
Plucking his instrument with a sexual intensity, Hendrix jolted the audience with a furious version of ‘Foxy Lady.’ As a polished quarterback can ‘do everything’ with a football, Hendrix ‘did everything’ with his guitar. In ‘Foxy Lady’ he lay on the stage floor while he pounded his guitar to the leaping beat of the song. Never did he ease up on the destructive ‘I’m coming to get you’ tempo that characterizes all of his songs....
Only a plugged-in audience was lacking. The people were there. In fact, they were everywhere, sitting in aisles, standing near the stage, and listening outdoors. But they never really picked up the tempo that Hendrix offered.
If the audience wasn’t turned on, Hendrix was. ‘I’m too stoned to remember the words,’ he muttered as he stumbled into the opening of ‘Purple Haze.’ When he did get going, he was good as he lashed out his famous number.
Next he followed with... ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ as he instructed the packed crowd to stand up. Then the fury began... Gyrating under flashing lights, Hendrix reached the climax as he smashed everything in sight. Then as quickly as he came, he was gone, and the audience was left only with that ‘morning after’ feeling.”

HIT PARADER
Eric Barrett [JHE equipment manager]: “There are many outside problems too. Like.. .at Woolsey Hall in New Haven. The whole place was wired for D.C. and amplifiers are A.C. We had to find power a mile away on the Yale campus and the only wires that long were very thin. We need two heavy wires that can take twenty amps, one for Jimi and one for Mitch and Noel.
But these thin wires couldn’t take the power so as soon as they began to play all the fuses blew. All the equipment went, so we had to set up new equipment and run two heavier wires. Then, the hall was so huge that there was too much echo and the microphones couldn’t be heard”

Chas Chandler interview by Keith Altham? -
Chas: “It was just prior to Jimi and the boys going on stage and all the lights round the stadium were full on and glaring down. It ruins an artist’s entrance and the dramatics of the spectacle so I asked for them to be lowered... Surprisingly enough I did not get excited - I must have had a sixth sense about him because I just said ‘Look, if you don’t lower the lights the boys don’t go on - and then you will have a riot. I’m the group’s manager.”
The next few minutes were a blur of uniforms and hand cuffs and Chas found himself sitting in the Bridgeport jail some hours later. Unbeknown to Chas the man he was addressing had been the local Commissioner of Police.”