Revel in Hendrix L.L.C. and Legacy Recordings introduced on Thursday (Sept. 10) a brand new documentary titled Song, Cash, Insanity . . . Jimi Hendrix In Maui, plus an accompanying album Reside In Maui.
The movie will characteristic the tale of the Jimi Hendrix Revel in’s well-known seek advice from to Maui, Hawaii in 1970 and the ill-fated Rainbow Bridge movie.
Hendrix used to be running on a follow-up album to Electrical Ladyland along with his bandmates Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox, and construction Electrical Woman Studios in New York Town’s Greenwich Village. Since finishing the recording facility used to be proving to be relatively pricey, his arguable supervisor Michael Jeffery procured a $500,000 advance from Warner Bros. to fund the rest building. At those self same conferences, Jeffery satisfied the label to finance the Rainbow Bridge movie in alternate for rights to its Hendrix-filled soundtrack.
The Chuck Wein-directed and Jeffery-produced movie focused across the concept of a “rainbow bridge” between the unenlightened and enlightened worlds, however as a substitute of its imaginative and prescient of that includes on a regular basis folks participating in the whole lot from browsing and yoga to meditation and Tai-Chi, the shoot started diminishing to an unorganized assemblage of hippie lifestyles. As Jeffery grew involved that his funding used to be in jeopardy, he was determined to characteristic Hendrix within the movie.
The Revel in have been already booked to accomplish a live performance in Honolulu on the H.I.C. Area on August 1, 1970 and Wein got here up with a plan to movie a unfastened “colour/sound vibratory experiment” at the decrease slope of the dormant Haleakala volcano. A couple of hundred Maui locals amassed for a a hit efficiency, and Hendrix quickly returned to New York and his paintings at Electrical Woman Studios sooner than he tragically died in London on September 18, 1970.
Jeffery ready Rainbow Bridge and its accompanying soundtrack to keep on with as much as acclaimed posthumous The Cry of Love. The movie used to be a business flop as moviegoers have been beneath the affect they have been going to peer a live performance movie. 17 mins of closely edited Hendrix live performance photos used to be utilized in the general minimize.
The Blu-ray will come with the total documentary in addition to bonus options that includes the entire current 16mm colour movie shot of the 2 performances that afternoon jumbled in each stereo and 5.1 encompass sound. Integrated within the bundle will likely be Reside In Maui unfold throughout 2 CDs or three vinyl LPs, restored and combined through longtime Hendrix engineer Eddie Kramer, and mastered through Bernie Grundman.
Watch the trailer, and watch the “Voodoo Kid (Slight Go back) efficiency right here, and pre-order each the documentary and album right here.