“Woke Up in the Morning”- 6:05
Rare Live electric performance by Jimi Hendrix from an unknown location.
To relieve the pressures of touring and recording, Jimi Hendrix frequently jammed with musicians at local clubs. He was also a tape-recording enthusiast and traveled with his Sony two-track reel-to-reel recorder. Hendrix recorded several after-hours jams in New York for his personal use, around the time that he began recording material for the Electric Ladyland album at the Record Plant studio
Some of these include jams at Steve Paul’s Scene, a former basement club in the Hell’s Kitchen section of NYC; at the Cafe Au Go Go on March 17, 1968, with members of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band (Elvin Bishop, Phillip Wilson), Harvey Brooks, and Buddy Miles and the Generation Club on April 15, 1968, with B.B. King, Bishop, Wilson, Buzzy Feiten, and Al Kooper. Partly because of its proximity to the Record
Plant, Hendrix frequently jammed at the Scene club, which was owned by Steve Paul, the McCoys and later Johnny Winter’s manager.
Several dates have been mentioned for the Scene club jam, including March 7, March 13, and June 6, 1968. In addition to Hendrix and Morrison, other jam participants have been tentatively identified as the Scene’s house band, the McCoys (bassist Randy Jo
Hobbs and drummer Randy Zehringer), bassist Harvey Brooks, and drummer Buddy Miles. Most albums list guitarist Johnny Winter, who occasionally jammed with Hendrix, Before and especially after Hendrix’s death in 1970, many of his personal belongings were stolen. These included many of his home tape recordings.

Although they were not intended for public release, some recordings have been issued posthumously on several albums, usually by small record labels. James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist, songwriter and singer. He is widely regarded as the greatest guitarist in the history of popular music and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him
as “arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music. Born in Seattle, Washington, Hendrix began playing guitar at age 15. In 1961, he enlisted in the US Army but was discharged the following year. Soon afterward, he moved to Clarksville, then Nashville, Tennessee, and began playing gigs on the chitlin’ circuit, earning a place in the Isley Brothers’ backing band and later with Little Richard, with whom he continued to work through mid-1965. He then played with Curtis Knight and the Squires before moving to England in late 1966 after bassist Chas Chandler of the Animals became his manager. Within months, Hendrix had earned
three UK top ten hits with his band, the Jimi Hendrix Experience (with its rhythm section consisting of bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell): “Hey Joe”, “Purple Haze”, and “The Wind Cries Mary”. He achieved fame in the US after his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, and in 1968 his third and final studio album, Electric Ladyland, reached number one on the US Billboard 200. The double
LP was Hendrix’s most commercially successful release and his only number one album. The world’s highest-paid rock musician, he headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 before his accidental death in London from barbiturate-related asphyxia in September 1970. Hendrix was inspired by American rock and roll and electric blues. He favored overdriven amplifiers with high volume and gain, and was instrumental in popularizing the previously undesirable sounds caused by guitar amplifier feedback. He
was also one of the first guitarists to make extensive use of tone-altering effects units in mainstream rock, such as fuzz distortion, Octavia, wah-wah, and Uni-Vibe. He was the first musician to use stereophonic phasing effects in recordings. Holly George-Warren of Rolling Stone commented: “Hendrix pioneered the use of the instrument as an electronic sound source Hendrix was the recipient of several music awards during his lifetime and posthumously.

In 1967, readers of Melody Maker voted him the Pop Musician of the Year and in 1968, Billboard named him the Artist of the Year and Rolling Stone declared him the Performer of the Year. Disc and Music Echo honored him with the World Top Musician of 1969 and in 1970, Guitar Player named him the Rock Guitarist of the Year. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Rolling Stone has ranked the band’s three studio albums, Are You Experienced (1967), Axis: Bold as Love (1967), and Electric Ladyland (1968), in its various lists of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”, and it ranked Hendrix as the greatest guitarist and the sixth greatest artist of all time.