10 Things We Learned from the New JIMI HENDRIX: ELECTRIC CHURCH Documentary, Esquire 9/4/15
"10 THINGS WE LEARNED FROM THE NEW JIMI HENDRIX DOCUMENTARY "ELECTRIC CHURCH" features a blistering performance just weeks before his death 45 years ago.
This month marks 45 years since Jimi Hendrix left this earth. But arguably more than any of the innumerable legends we've lost- Elvis Presley, John Lennon, even Bob Marley- Hendrix feels at once still alive and ahead of the times.
The newly unearthed 16mm footage of one of his last concerts certainly helps. While audio from Hendrix's scorching performance at the Atlanta International Pop Festival on July 4, 1970 has long been traded in bootleg form, it just got a complete, cleaned-up AUDIO RELEASE and tonight SHOWTIME PREMIERS the documentary "JIMI HENDRIX: ELECTRIC CHURCH" (9PM ET). >The footage sat untouched for more than 30 years.
Featuring near complete performances by the Jimi Hendrix Experience of that era- Hendrix, drummer Mitch Mitchell, and bassist Billy Cox- the first third of the movie chronicles the road to the festival through the eyes of Hendrix's bandmates, the promoter Alex Cooley, filmmaker Steve Rash, those close to Hendrix at the time, and locals from BYRON, GEORGIA, the sleepy town that the golden-era rock festival took over during INDEPENDENCE DAY weekend.
The film footage will take your breath away, but it's the insight of the early part of the film that's perhaps most intriguing.
In an almost mundane way, it tells the story of a small-time promoter's efforts to bring the counterculture to the Deep South, amid the fury of the times.
Here are 10 things that even the most die-hard Hendrix fans will learn from "Electric Church"...
>Article continued with VIDEO & Official Showtime Documentary *TRAILER, "Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church",
Esquire, "Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church", by Jeff Slate, Sept. 4, 2015.
http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a37466/jimi-hendrix-electric-church/
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Two nights ago I saw the film on SHOWTIME on Dish TV. It was incredible, like yesterday. Look for listings & showings.
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older sister and friend but Dad said no since we were pretty young and it was a two-hour drive. Got to see Elvis, Dylan, the Allman Bros. with Duane, Joni Mitchell, Aretha, Prince, Tina Turner, Bonnie Raitt, Sinatra and others so it's been good.
This Atlanta festival documentary is amazing. I hadn't heard of it & came across it recently, couldn't believe my eyes. It was all new & I kept watching the crowds, performances & atmosphere. So glad this has surfaced after all these years, since July 4, 1970. 
of Hendrix this sounds amazing, thanks!
~ When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. ~ Jimi Hendrix. 
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wonderful if Hendrix had enjoyed a full life. Like other artists and activists, I think he would have become involved in many issues for social change, the arts, race relations, human justice, environmentalism and earth justice. 
Jimi Hendrix Memorial and Grave in Renton, Washington (credit icymist ) ~ Rest in Peace Jimi ~
