Jimi Hendrix Experience Live in Maui “

The performance of the band The Jimi Hendrix Experience on the island of Maui in Hawaii, and the story of Jimi Hendrix “trapped” in the incision sessions of the unfortunate feature film “Rainbow Bridge” produced by the controversial manager Michael Jeffery. He tells you “Music, Money, Madness. Jimi Hendrix Experience Live in Maui”, broadcast on Wednesday 26 March at 11.05 pm on Rai5 (streaming on Raiplay).

In the summer of 1970 Michael Jeffery, the manager who had replaced Chas Chandler at the helm of Jimi Hendrix's career had serious liquidity problems and therefore contacted the reprise records of the Warner group, with the idea of ​​a “youthful” film, offering the soundtrack of that film as a counterpart, with music by Jimi Hendrix. But “Rainbow Bridge” the album, released posthumously after Jimi's death in 1971, would have contained raffazzonato material, taken from study recordings of 1968/69 and 70s, with a single live song. And it is said, among other things, that Jeffery had made large quantities of money disappear, to bring them together on their current accounts, and – but it has never been tried – was also involved in Hendrix's death. The topic was debated in various books and never resolved, also because Jeffery also died in an air disaster in France in 1973.
The film tells all the chaos of a management And of an artist in the wound, a few months after the death of one of the most influential musicians of the 19th century.

Jimi Hendrix, or the guitar that made the history of rock. Seattle's musician completely and irreversibly changed the approach to electric guitar, for a long time the main and undisputed instrument of rock (at least until the advent of the synthesizer) and, in any case, what most of all, from the beginning, has given this genre that adrenaline and a little wild brand, that quid which characterizes it from any other musical expression. More than the plan of Jerry Lee Lewis or Richard Pennyman, alias Little Richard (with whom Jimi Hendrix played how sessionman For a short period, among other things), more than the ghost icon of Elvis Presley. Chuck Berry docet.
With his instrument, Hendrix made a Copernican revolution that can be approached, perhaps, only to the innovations made to the way of playing the six ropes from Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt, Chuck Berry and, at the limit, Robert Johnson. With Hendrix, the feedback It becomes an art, no longer an annoying flaw (perhaps something know something about Sonic Youth & C.), the distortion, driven at the greatest limits, is power and delicacy at the same time (the “hard” sound that is now infiltrated almost everywhere, especially between certain groups of the scene indieborn here), the melodic and harmonic lines of the electric guitar intertwine and merge with naturalness and perfection as never before. The cathartic value of the musical act assumes a new and bursting meaning with the guitarist of Seattle.