The post Jimi Hendrix’s Band of Gypsys to be reissued on vinyl for 50th anniversary appeared first on Consequence of Sound. In honor of its 50th anniversary, the Jimi Hendrix live album Band of Gypsys ...

Fans of Jimi Hendrix often don’t know what to make of the rock legend’s Band of Gypsys period. On the one hand, it made perfect sense for Hendrix to team up with longtime friends and collaborators ...

When Jimi Hendrix and his Band of Gypsys decided to cover the R&B song “Stop” at their debut concerts, they wanted to completely reinvent it, late drummer Buddy Miles said in a previously unreleased ...

Originally recorded to free up Hendrix from a contract he’d signed earlier in his career, while transitioning from the R&B circuit towards his first psychedelic flowering, Band of Gypsys, released in ...

Where was Jimi Hendrix (1942-70) headed after the breakup of his Experience? The more you dig into the final year of Hendrix’s life, the harder it becomes to answer that question. Yet one thing is ...

The right venue can have a profound impact on the recording of a live album. One of rock’s greatest, Band of Gypsys, was recorded over the course of two concerts on January 1, 1970 at the now defunct ...

Billy Cox held down low-end at two of rock's all-time dimension-melting gigs: Jimi Hendrix's 1969 Woodstock set and Hendrix's New Year's 1970 concert, the latter released as live album "Band of Gypsys ...

Former Experience and Band of Gypsys bassist Billy Cox met Jimi Hendrix when they were stationed together at the same army base in Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Legend has it that one rainy night, Billy ...