Jimi Hendrix: The Jimi Hendrix Concerts
Mark Cooper, Q, December 1989
THE RECENT spate of activity that has surrounded Jimi Hendrix – The South Bank Show, Charles Shaar Murray's musical biography Crosstown Traffic and now the final release of this live anthology on CD – has done much to rescue Hendrix from his tabloid myth as the ultimate '60s rock star, crazy, stoned and dead.
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