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Jimi Hendrix: Bold As Love ( 4CD + Blu-ray)

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by Doug Collette
November 7, 2025

Recent history suggests the Jimi Hendrix estate would seem to be approaching the iconic guitarist's three original studio albums in reverse order. Electric Ladyland (Reprise, 1968) was issued in suitably extravagant form in 2018, fifty years after its original release. Now, Bold As Love (Reprise, 1967), simultaneously follows and predates the previous entry in the man's oeuvre, perhaps as means to suitably memorialize the 1967 debut in coming months. Four CDs (or five LPs) plus Blu-ray constitute a ...

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Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live At The Hollywood Bowl – August 18, 1967

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by Doug Collette
November 18, 2023

The archiving of Jimi Hendrix' vault has apparently reached the point where what happens on a given release is less important than when it happened. So it is with Live At The Hollywood Bowl--August 18, 1967, the setlist for which is similar to that of his ground-breaking June '67 performance at Monterey Pop, one the late rock icon would soon come to rue as he continued live appearances beyond a short stint in July '67 opening for the ...

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Los Angeles Forum April 26, 1969

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by Doug Collette
November 20, 2022

The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Los Angeles Forum April 26, 1969 is an integral component of one of the earliest posthumous Jimi Hendrix anthologies, the four x CD set Lifelines: The Jimi Hendrix Story (Reprise, 1990). Yet it appeared there in slightly truncated form, and until this standalone release, the entire concert has never been issued in its entirety. With various selections having been packaged in something of piecemeal fashion over the years, it is only now, in 2022, complete with ...