Jimi Plays Monterey

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Jimi Plays Monterey
Live album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Released	1986
Recorded	June 18 1967
Genre	Rock
Length	41:02
Label	Reprise Records
Producer	Alan Douglas
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (B+) link
The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology
Hendrix in the West (1972) Jimi Plays Monterey (1986) The Last Experience Concert: Live at the Royal Albert Hall (1990)

Jimi Plays Monterey is a live album by Jimi Hendrix, released in 1986. It contains his performance with his band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. The setlist includes mainly, tracks from Are You Experienced?, as well as covers of Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor", Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone", B.B. King's "Rock Me Baby" and Chip Taylor's "Wild Thing". The version of "Wild Thing" included here is one of the most notable live performances ever, as, in an iconic moment in rock history, he sets his guitar alight after the song and lets it burn.

Jimi Plays Monterey is also a short film directed by D.A. Pennebaker documenting the same performance of the album, also released in 1986. It is notable for containing several interviews with rock stars, and containing an art piece by Denny Dent doing a painting of Hendrix during the performance of "Can You See Me".

Jimi's cover of B.B. King's "Rock Me Baby" features the music from Jimi's own "Here He Comes (Lover Man)", with the lyrics from King's song.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Killing Floor" (Burnett) – 3:37
2. "Foxy Lady" (Hendrix) – 3:34
3. "Like a Rolling Stone" (Dylan) – 6:50
4. "Rock Me Baby" (Josea, King) – 3:29
5. "Hey Joe" (Roberts) – 4:03
6. "Can You See Me" (Hendrix) – 2:43
7. "The Wind Cries Mary" (Hendrix) – 3:46
8. "Purple Haze" (Hendrix) – 5:06
9. "Wild Thing" (Taylor) – 7:54

[edit] See also

• Monterey International Pop Festival - Otis Redding/The Jimi Hendrix Experience

[edit] External links

• Jimi Plays Monterey at the Internet Movie Database