Hendrix Albert Hall Show Film Coming
New film looks at Hendrix\'s legendary 1968 concerts
The Jimi Hendrix Estate continues to work hard for its money following the release of this year’s Valleys Of Neptune and West Coast Seattle Boy anthology with the news that they are putting together a Royal Albert Hall film compiled from footage recorded at Hendrix’s two shows at the historic venue in February 1969.
In an interview with Billboard Hendrix Estate CEO and Jimi’s sister Janie revealed that they have a lot of footage recorded during the Albert Hall.
"It's kind of a day in the life of Jimi, how we put it together," Hendrix says of the project, which has been two years in the making. "There were about four cameras that followed Jimi and the guys around in Europe and filmed the two concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, as well as them coming off trains, planes and automobiles, signing autographs, Jimi backstage getting ready, in his apartment doing little apartment jams with his friends and then later playing the Speakeasy.
"It's not an actor playing Jimi; it's Jimi, and he really does forget the cameras are rolling and you see those sides of him, the stage and the sweetness with different girlfriends -- there's several that are in the film -- and how he was around friends and how he was really into listening to the (tape of) the night before's performance."
Currently the plan is to release the film theatrically as well as on DVD and as a CD featuring a compilation of recordings from the show.
The Hendrix Estate also has plans to commemorate what would have been Jimi’s 70th birthday with a new film recorded at the Miami Pop Festival in 1968 using what they describe as "pristine” footage.
Plus the Hendrix Estate continues to work with Stephen Stills on a box of unheard demos that he recorded with Hendrix in the late 60s which he had forgotten about until two years ago.