Jimi Hendrix ‘Electric Church’ Doco Heads To DVD

‘Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church’, the story of Hendrix’s Atlanta International Pop Festival show, will be released on DVD.

Producer Eddie Kramer has worked in the sound taken from the original master tapes.

According to the Hendrix Estate, “The film details the efforts by Atlanta promoter Alex Cooley to create the definitive music festival. Cooley secured such talent as Bob Seger, BB King and the Allman Brothers, but Hendrix was the critical component he needed to elevate the three day festival to a major cultural event. Electric Church features interviews with Hendrix’s Experience band mates Billy Cox and the late Mitch Mitchell as well as Paul McCartney, Steve Winwood, Rich Robinson, Kirk Hammett, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, festival organizer Alex Cooley and many others. The film contains breathtaking, color 16mm footage of Jimi Hendrix’s Independence Day appearance, a mere ten weeks before his untimely passing. Standout performances include such Hendrix classics as “Hey Joe,” “Voodoo Child (Slight Return),” “Purple Haze,” as well as confident, compelling versions of songs such as “Straight Ahead,” and the aforementioned “Freedom” and “Room Full Of Mirrors” that had not yet been issued by Jimi on an Experience album, but were intended to be part of the album he was working on that summer. “The Star Spangled Banner,” played against a backdrop of exploding fireworks, is another highlight, which Cooley recalls as having “knocked peoples’ socks off.”

Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church DVD and Blu-ray contains the following Jimi Hendrix Experience performances from July 4, 1970:

1) Fire
2) Spanish Castle Magic
3) Red House*
4) Room Full Of Mirrors*
5) All Along the Watchtower
6) Freedom*
7) Foxey Lady
8) Purple Haze
9) Hey Joe
10) Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
11) Stone Free
12) Star Spangled Banner
13) Straight Ahead
*Not in televised version

Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church DVD and Blu-ray will be released on October 4, 2015.