With the usual controversy coming with any new Hendrix product - why not everything (Winterland), why reissue In The West when the original Royal Albert Hall cuts are substituted with, well, actual 'in the west' cuts.
I can't get too hung up about it - Winterland is awesome, 8 superbly well mastered and pressed RTI discs and the material is smoking hot. I listened end to end, all way through, in one sitting - it is that good. Hendrix at his live peak, tight and relaxed, in the groove, blazing. Great stuff.
In The West was well pressed at QRP. I actually find the material lesser than Winterland, yet still a more cohesive statement than the original, of which I have a fairly nice Japanese original, so I have no complaints as to whether this record really, is, "In The West", and since Hendrix was dead when this record was compiled and released, there really is no 'original' anyways. This may be closer to Hendrix than the original anyways.
We must surely be getting to the end of what is viable from the Hendrix vaults, RAH and more live material notwithstanding. These are two of the best - Winterland at the very top.
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