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Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church Documentary To Premiere On SHOWTIME\u00ae\u00a0On September 4<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
Documenting The Historic July 4, 1970 Performance In Front Of His Largest Ever U.S. Audience<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
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\u00a0NEW YORK (Perfect Music Today) 8\/14\/15\/–,\u00a0 About 100 miles south of Atlanta, next to a field just outside the town of Byron, there stands a plaque erected by the Georgia Historical Society marking the location of the Second Atlanta International Pop Festival, where from July 3-5, 1970, \u201cOver thirty musical acts performed, including rock icon Jimi Hendrix playing to the largest American audience of this career.\u201d Despite the overwhelming attendance (estimated to be 300,000-400,000), the festival and Hendrix\u2019s performance in particular, has not received its due in terms of historic importance and impact until now.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church<\/span><\/i>, a new documentary film about the music legend\u2019s Atlanta Pop set and the circumstances surrounding it, will debut on\u00a0SHOWTIME\u00a0on September 4 at 9:00 p.m. ET\/PT. Experience Hendrix L.L.C. and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, is releasing the DVD and Blu-ray version on Oct. 30, which will feature bonus content not included in the broadcast version.\u00a0 The film documents the massive festival hailed then as the \u2018Southern Woodstock\u2019 and recognized now as the last great US Rock Festival.\u00a0 The film presents the story of how rock music\u2019s burgeoning festival culture descended en masse to the tiny rural village of Byron, Georgia and witnessed Hendrix\u2019s unforgettable performance.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The film details the efforts by Atlanta promoter Alex Cooley to create the definitive music festival.\u00a0 Cooley secured such talent as Bob Seger, BB King and the Allman Brothers, but Hendrix was the critical component he needed to elevate the three day festival to a major cultural event.\u00a0\u00a0Electric Church<\/i>\u00a0features interviews with Hendrix\u2019s Experience band mates Billy Cox and the late Mitch Mitchell as well as Paul McCartney, Steve Winwood, Rich Robinson, Kirk Hammett, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, festival organizer Alex Cooley and many others.\u00a0 The film contains breathtaking, color 16mm footage of Jimi Hendrix\u2019s Independence Day appearance, a mere ten weeks before his untimely passing.\u00a0 Standout performances include such Hendrix classics as \u201cHey Joe,\u201d \u201cVoodoo Child (Slight Return),\u201d \u201cPurple Haze,\u201d as well as confident, compelling versions of songs such as \u201cRoom Full Of Mirrors,\u201d \u201cFreedom,\u201d and \u201cStraight Ahead\u201d that had not yet been issued by Jimi on an Experience album, but were intended to be part of the album he was working on that summer. \u201cThe Star Spangled Banner,\u201d played against a backdrop of exploding fireworks, is another highlight, which Cooley recalls as having \u201cknocked peoples\u2019 socks off.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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The audio release\u00a0Freedom: Jimi Hendrix Experience Atlanta Pop Festival<\/i>, which Experience Hendrix L.L.C. and Legacy Recordings will put out on Aug. 28, includes six performances not seen in the Showtime documentary.\u00a0 This will be available as a 2CD set and also as a 200-gram 2LP vinyl set.\u00a0\u00a0 The first 5,000 vinyl units will be individually numbered.<\/span><\/div>\n
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By the beginning of the 1970s, Jimi Hendrix was unquestionably one of the most exciting rock musicians of his generation, having captivated the world with his highly stylized approach to blues guitar. In\u00a0Electric Church<\/i>, Paul McCartney freely admits to worshipping him, adding, \u201cWe all played guitar. We all knew a bit. But he seemed to know more than us.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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Jimi Hendrix put the rock festival concept on the map with his blistering performance at California\u2019s Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, headlining 1968\u2019s inaugural Miami Pop Festival, and providing the soundtrack for the counterculture with a dazzling set at Woodstock in 1969.<\/span><\/div>\n
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His performance at the Second Atlanta International Pop Festival was not only significant on a musical level, but also in terms of socio-political dynamics. The organizers were keen to push back against the cultural divide that was very much in evidence in the Deep South. It was assumed that rural audiences would not take kindly to \u201clong-hair\u201d bands, and that black and white artists could not comfortably exist on the same bill; Atlanta Pop set out to challenge those beliefs. Hendrix\u2019s music and message of universal love made him the ideal artist to represent that pushback, and, appropriately, was the first act booked for the festival.<\/span><\/div>\n
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In the sweltering Georgia heat, amongst intimidating bikers who were hired as security, hundreds of thousands of mostly young music fans descended upon the festival grounds, eventually knocking over fences and leaving the organizers with no choice but to declare it a free event. Law enforcement, not equipped to handle such crowds, adopted a hands-off policy with regards to crowd control, drug use and nudity. Against incredible odds, the event proved to be largely peaceful. By the time the Jimi Hendrix Experience took the stage on the evening of July 4, the audience swelled to more than 300,000.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Massive, anarchic music fests in the U.S., unencumbered by high ticket prices and corporate sponsors were soon to be extinct, and the Atlanta Pop Festival was the last of this dying breed. Glenn Phillips (Hampton Grease Band) says, \u201cThis was, certainly in retrospect, sort of the end of an era, and a great end to an era. It was a powerful moment.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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The Atlanta festival footage in\u00a0Electric Church<\/i>\u00a0was shot by Steve Rash, later known for directing such Hollywood films as\u00a0The Buddy Holly Story\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0Can\u2019t Buy Me Love<\/i>.\u00a0 Rash intended for the footage he and his team were filming to be used for a documentary in the vein of\u00a0Woodstock<\/i>.\u00a0 When a deal couldn\u2019t be secured, virtually all of the film lay undeveloped inside Rash\u2019s barn for over three decades. The full-color film stock held up remarkably well, and makes for a transcendent viewing experience.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I’d never heard anything like it in all my life.”<\/div>\n
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He’d listen to Mozart, he’d read sci-fi\u00a0his music, this singular, uplifting, otherworldly, menacing, exotic and erotic sound?<\/p>\n

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\u200bJimi Hendrix only sounds like he does because he was Jimi Hendrix.”<\/div>\n

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What you hear when you listen to Hendrix is pure music<\/div>\n
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Bill Mankin, who worked on the construction and stage crews for the festival, provides liner notes for theFreedom<\/i>\u00a0package, describing his first-hand account. He explains, \u201cAt the center of the vortex was the master magician on guitar: the personification of a life lived fully and wildly, with no boundaries, no limitations, and aiming for the stars at light speed.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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From 1966-1970, he played over 600 shows, many of them festivals that he headlined.<\/div>\n
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4 years = 150 concerts per year<\/div>\n
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you’ll be telling your children and their children’s children about,Jimi Hendrix<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Jimi Hendrix Experience –\u00a0Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival<\/i>\u00a02CD\/2LP VINYL (release date: August 28)<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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1)<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Fire<\/span><\/div>\n
2)<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Lover Man<\/span><\/div>\n
3)<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Spanish Castle Magic<\/span><\/div>\n
4)<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Red House<\/span><\/div>\n
5)<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Room Full Of Mirrors<\/span><\/div>\n
6)<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Hear My Train A Comin\u2019<\/span><\/div>\n
7)<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Message To Love<\/span><\/div>\n
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1)<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>All Along The Watchtower<\/span><\/div>\n
2)<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Freedom<\/span><\/div>\n
3)<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Foxey Lady<\/span><\/div>\n
4)<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Purple Haze<\/span><\/div>\n
5)<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Hey Joe<\/span><\/div>\n
6)<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Voodoo Child (Slight Return)<\/span><\/div>\n
7)<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Stone Free<\/span><\/div>\n
8)<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Star Spangled Banner<\/span><\/div>\n
9)<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Straight Ahead<\/span><\/div>\n
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Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival<\/span><\/i>\u00a0\u2013 2CD<\/span><\/div>\n
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Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival<\/span><\/i>\u00a0\u2013 2LP VINYL<\/span><\/div>\n
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Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church DVD\/Blu-ray (release date: October 30)<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church<\/span><\/i>\u00a0\u2013 DVD<\/span><\/div>\n
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Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church<\/span><\/i>\u00a0\u2013 Blu-ray<\/span><\/div>\n
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