The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Magic Boy – Live At Berkeley, 1st Show [CD]

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: 19958454082
Barcode: 0199584540825
Release Date: 16 Oct 2026
Genre: Rock

Magic Boy presents Jimi Hendrix's legendary first show at the Berkeley Community Theater in May 1970.  

Hendrix fans first became aware of his Berkeley performance when two early posthumous releases featured a stunning "Hear My Train A Comin'" [1971's Rainbow Bridge] and his electrifying rendition of "Johnny B. Goode," [1972's Hendrix: In The West].  The shambolic 1971 film Jimi Plays Berkeley stoked the fires further by way of its inclusion of extracts of Purple Haze" and "Star Banner".  

Magic Boy includes those two classics and finally assembles the performance in its running order for the first time.  The album provides fans with the opportunity to hear new songs 'Ezy Ryder" and "Freedom" in development before they had been completed in the studio by guitarist, "Message To Love" and Machine Gun" from his recent Band Of Gypsys album and high intensity renditions of Experience favourites such as "Fire" and Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"--all newly remixed by Eddie Kramer from the original multi-track tapes.

Fire                                                    
Johnny B. Goode                                
Hear My Train A-Comin'                                                                             
Machine Gun                                             
Freedom                                                      
Red House                                                
Message to Love                                    
Ezy Ryder                                                   
Star Spangled Banner                    
Purple Haze                                              
Voodoo Child (Slight Return)