Live at Winterland is a posthumous live album

Live album

A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 by The Jimi Hendrix Experience

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

The Jimi Hendrix Experience were an English-American psychedelic rock band that formed in London in October 1966. Comprising eponymous singer-songwriter and guitarist Jimi Hendrix, bassist and backing vocalist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell, the band was active until June 1969, in which...

 released in May 1987. The album documents The Jimi Hendrix Experience

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

The Jimi Hendrix Experience were an English-American psychedelic rock band that formed in London in October 1966. Comprising eponymous singer-songwriter and guitarist Jimi Hendrix, bassist and backing vocalist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell, the band was active until June 1969, in which...

's performances at Winterland

Winterland Ballroom

The Winterland Ballroom, often referred to as Winterland Arena or simply Winterland, was an old ice skating rink and 5,400-seat music venue in San Francisco, California...

, San Francisco

San Francisco, California

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, California

California

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 which they played two shows each night on October 10, 11 and 12, 1968. This release compiles the best of those performances.

It was re-released in 1992 with a Bonus EP which contained 3 additional songs from the same concerts.

Track listing

All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...

, except where noted.

1. "Prologue" – 0:57
2. "Fire" (October 11, 1968, 2nd show) – 3:12
3. "Manic Depression
   Manic Depression (song)
   "Manic Depression" is a song written and recorded by Jimi Hendrix and first released in 1967 on the Are You Experienced album.-Overview:The song's name is an old name for bipolar disorder, a mental health disorder...
   
   " (October 12, 1968, 2nd show) – 4:46
4. "Sunshine of Your Love
   Sunshine of Your Love
   "Sunshine of Your Love" is a 1967 song by the British supergroup Cream. The song was originally released on the album Disraeli Gears in November 1967, and was later released as a single in January 1968. It is Cream's only gold-selling single in the United States. It features a distinctive...
   
   " (Eric Clapton
   Eric Clapton
   Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...
   
   , Jack Bruce
   Jack Bruce
   John Symon Asher "Jack" Bruce is a Scottish musician and songwriter, respected as a founding member of the British psychedelic rock power trio, Cream, for a solo career that spans several decades, and for his participation in several well-known musical ensembles...
   
   , Pete Brown
   Pete Brown
   Peter Ronald Brown is an English performance poet and lyricist.Best known for his collaborations with Jack Bruce, Brown also worked with The Battered Ornaments, formed his own group Pete Brown & Piblokto!, and worked with Graham Bond and Phil Ryan. Brown also writes film scores and formed a film...
   
   ) (October 10, 1968, 2nd show) – 6:25
5. "Spanish Castle Magic
   Spanish Castle Magic
   "Spanish Castle Magic" is a song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Written by Jimi Hendrix and produced by Chas Chandler, it is the third track from their second studio album Axis: Bold as Love...
   
   " (October 12, 1968, 2nd show) – 5:32
6. "Red House
   Red House (song)
   "Red House" is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and originally recorded by The Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1966. The song, a slow twelve-bar blues, "is one of the most traditional in sound and form of all his official recordings". It was developed during his pre-Experience days while Hendrix was...
   
   " (October 11, 1968, 1st show) – 11:32
7. "Killing Floor" (Chester Arthur Burnett
   Howlin' Wolf
   Chester Arthur Burnett , known as Howlin' Wolf, was an influential American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player....
   
   ) (October 10, 1968, 2nd show) – 8:05
8. "Tax Free" (Bo Hansson
   Bo Hansson
   Bo Hansson was a Swedish musician best known for his four instrumental albums released in the 1970s.-Early life and musical career:...
   
   , Janne Karlsson
   Janne Karlsson
   Jan "Janne" Tordh Ingemar Karlsson is a Swedish professional ice hockey coach and former player. He is currently the head coach for the Atlant Moscow Oblast of the Kontinental Hockey League .-Playing career:...
   
   ) (October 11, 1968, 2nd show) – 8:00
9. "Foxy Lady
   Foxy Lady
   "Foxy Lady" is a song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience from their 1967 album Are You Experienced. It can also be found on a number of Hendrix's greatest hits compilations, including Smash Hits and Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix...
   
   " (October 11, 1968, 2nd show) – 4:50
10. "Hey Joe
    Hey Joe
    "Hey Joe" is an American popular song from the 1960s that has become a rock standard and as such, has been performed in a multitude of musical styles by hundreds of different artists since it was first written. "Hey Joe" tells the story of a man who is on the run and planning to head to Mexico...
    
    " (Billy Roberts
    Billy Roberts
    Billy Roberts is an American songwriter and musician credited with composing the 1960s rock music standard "Hey Joe"...
    
    ) (October 12, 1968, 1st show) – 6:44
11. "Purple Haze
    Purple Haze
    "Purple Haze" is a song written in 1966 and recorded in 1967 by The Jimi Hendrix Experience and released as a single in both the United Kingdom and the United States. It appeared on their 1967 album Are You Experienced...
    
    " (October 12, 1968, 1st show) – 4:34
12. "Wild Thing" (Chip Taylor
    Chip Taylor
    James Wesley Voight , better known by his stage name as Chip Taylor, is an American songwriter, who is noted for writing the songs "Angel of the Morning" and "Wild Thing." He is the brother of actor Jon Voight and geologist Barry Voight...
    
    ) (October 12, 1968, 1st show) – 3:05
13. "Epilogue" – 0:30

Tracklist for the 1992 Bonus Disc

1. "Are You Experienced" (October 11, 1968, 1st show) – 13:28
2. "Voodo Chile (Slight Return)" (October 11, 1968, 1st show) – 6:43
3. "Like A Rolling Stone
   Like a Rolling Stone
   "Like a Rolling Stone" is a 1965 song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Its confrontational lyrics originate in an extended piece of verse Dylan wrote in June 1965, when he returned exhausted from a grueling tour of England...
   
   "(Bob Dylan
   Bob Dylan
   Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
   
   ) (October 11, 1968, 2nd show) – 0:30

Personnel

• Jimi Hendrix
  Jimi Hendrix
  James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Mitch Mitchell
  Mitch Mitchell
  John Ronald "Mitch" Mitchell was an English drummer, best known for his work in The Jimi Hendrix Experience.-Early life and the Jimi Hendrix Experience:...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  
• Noel Redding
  Noel Redding
  Noel Redding was an English rock and roll guitarist best known as the bassist for The Jimi Hendrix Experience.-Biography:...
  
   – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , backing vocals
  Backing vocalist
  A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
  
   on track 11
• Jack Casady
  Jack Casady
  Jack Casady , is an American musician considered one of the foremost bass guitarists of the rock music era and best known as a member of Jefferson Airplane. First playing as a lead guitarist with the Washington D.C...
  
   – bass guitar on track 7

Box set

A 4 disc box set (titled Winterland

Winterland (album)

Winterland is a posthumous live box set by English/American psychedelic rock band The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Released on September 12, 2011 by Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings, the four-disc collection documents the band's six performances at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco,...

) drawn from all 6 performances was released on September 12, 2011. A limited edition sold exclusively on Amazon.com

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includes a 5th bonus disc containing a bootleg soundboard recording of a performance at the Filmore Auditorium on February 4, 1968. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0055PL5KO