If anything, the frustration bassist Noel Redding began to feel during the sessions for Electric Ladyland (Reprise, 1968) prompted him to play with greater authority and, in some cases, as on this frenetic reading of "I Don't Live Today," with out and out aggression. However much friction had begun to manifest itself within the Experience trio at this point of their existence, this top-of-the-line recording by Wally Heider and Bill Halvorson—mixed by Eddie Kramer and mastered by George Marino to noticeably improved effect—suggests its adverse effects do not seem to have carried over to the stage. With various selections having been packaged in something of piecemeal fashion over the years, it is only now, in 2022, complete with its attendant impact heightened by its availability close to the eightieth anniversary of Hendrix's birthday. Yet it appeared there in slightly truncated form, and until this standalone release, the entire concert has never been issued in its entirety. The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Los Angeles Forum Apis an integral component of one of the earliest posthumous Jimi Hendrix anthologies, the four x CD set Lifelines: The Jimi Hendrix Story (Reprise, 1990).
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