This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
It’s hard to believe there still are unreleased Jimi Hendrix shows out there — let alone any as remarkable as these four N.Y.C. gigs staged over New Year’s 1969-’70.
Actually, even these are only half-new; other tracks from the shows formed part of the Band Of Gypsys LP. These 16 songs are just as notable, capturing Jimi not only at the height of his dive-bombing, feedback-conjuring powers, but also at a time when he was letting his freak flag fly high, pulling and stretching his music into a funkier, free-form dimension light-years beyond Voodoo Child and Stone Free. We’ll never know where he would have ended up, but this cosmic, lighthearted outing — check out his impromptu Auld Lang Syne — is a map to where he was headed.
