villanova junction berkeley 1970 rehearsal rare

[eddiegrey]

a genius at work...great post!

[hendrix7755]

midnight lighting ^^^

[BordiniBlues85]

epic at 2:15

[Bluezking]

Awesome as always & refreshing improvisation.2;33-4:04 & at the end the fretboard talking can be heard in the Berkeley Voodoo Chile.Another ins called Pali Gap,what does it mean.??I've heard its the name of a creek in Howie.

[osopapi]

@Bluezking Pali Gap is in Hawaii, Maui I think. Check scene in Rainbow Bridge

[experienceads]

Really awesome instrumental by Jimi, Mitch and Billy at the Berkeley concert sound check..

[kanakaris]

This is from The Berkeley Concerts 2: The Soundchecks

Berkeley Community Theatre, May 30, 1970

Liberated Whoopy Cat bootleg

[davidwatson]

thanks for posting, never heard this version. (I hear a bit more of Wes Montgomery / Eric Gale in this at this tempo).

[econoroller]

Happy Birthday Jimi....we miss you

[bryandunnblues]

The first Time I heard it was in the full length version of Woodstock, at the very end. Its not as fast as this, that Univibe sounds like swirled jelly on bread. Hendrix was always making reference to Train Stations, and keep on moving. I bet it was a train station

[bryandunnblues]

The first Time I heard it was in the full length version of Woodstock, at the very end. Its not as fast as this, that Univibe sounds like swriled jelly on bread

[railcar123]

Never heard this...great ..thanks for posting!

[drjimiboy69]

"I get stoned/but I can't go home/so I call in long distance on a public saxophone/my mind is aching/my body's shaking/feel like I got run over by captain coconut and his dog named rover"...mixing embyonic midnight lightning lyrics and riffs into this flamenco funk excursion. and this is JUST a sound check. One of the most fertile minds of any musician in the history of the species. Putting in much work. Kudos for posting.

[Unclemoparman]

That whole soundcheck was and is amazing.

[jaifeezy]

Funky as a motherfucker!!! He lives on, in me. WORD.

[MadM4X939]

I searched over the web and even google maps and the only thing i could find was some obscure road junction called 'Villanova Junction' in some Australian suburbs... So i don't think Jimi would have named a song after a junction in Australia.

[SirTokesAlot16]

MAYB TAKE SUM CID IS MORE LIKE IT. I MEAN SERIOUSLY U KANT UNDERSTAN THE ENTIRTY OF THE WORLD INTILL U TRY IT. I USDERSTAND HIM AND HIS ANGUISH SOOOOOO MUCH MORE NOW. EVERYONE TRY IT CHILLIN WITH UR UNCLE SID.

[kingofnogame]

sweet one , woodstock was blowout shit though fucking crazy lol....made me think of my past love and whatnot and the people that are gone

[diamondbackseye]

Great riff- I'd have to say the L.A. Forum 4/25/70 version is tops, incredible improvising in that one. One thing I'd never read about is where the title Villanova Junction comes from why did he call it that...perhaps it's somewhere in the states, a town?

[SteadyHaze]

If you ask me, it sounds like the name of some interstellar club...

Then again...you didn't ask me

[diamondbackseye]

That's a cool idea...maybe in the future someone'll open a bar on Mars or the Moon called Villanova Junction. A Hendrix themed joint that people & various "visitors" can chug a pint and groove to Hendrix....awesome!

[JimmyMarshall27]

@diamondbackseye I must agree. The 4-25-1970 LA Forum is perhaps the best concert ever, only we'll never really know because they're aren't any real good recordings of the LA concert in 1970. But I have talked to a guy that was there and said it was the Bomb. I also heard that they were thinking about professionally recording it, but couldn't get it together. Too bad, cause from what I hear Jimi was PEAKING during that show. Long live Hendrix and Hendrix fans.

[g0ldbuG]

@diamondbackseye I've wondered about that same question and have asked it myself here on youtube too but I don't think I ever got an answer about it. I don't know what the significance of it is. Did Jimi have a cool experience there? Is it a real place? Did he just make it up to sound like the kind of name he wanted the song to have?

[toby2k75]

@g0ldbuG idk man but i did see something it was a junction of railroad train tracks in Pennsylvania, but jimi always just made names up to alot of his songs cause he was too high to remember names of is own songs!!!!!!1 lol

[MrMattstrat68]

@toby2k75 its from when he Played TEMPLE UNIVERSITY.........Villanova is very close by on the main line outside Philly......and many junctions ....peace.

[toby2k75]

@MrMattstrat68 Pretty much what i said but good looking out friend.......

[toby2k75]

@g0ldbuG I Found it Was a bunch railroads that all meet at one point in Pennsylvania, but jimi always just made up names of songs even if he had one cause he was so high he'd forget the names... lol

[drjimiboy69]

@diamondbackseye If I can quote Alan Iverson of all people: "Practice. We're talking about practice." JMH was the deepest into his craft and discipline as any artist/scholar/professional that has ever come to my attention. He was created by a collision of ethnic/cultural/economic/perso­nal factors and conquered the whole scene. A phenomena that was actually bigger than the established forms of his era, he created a new genre unto himself that energized rock, r&b, pop, jazz,... all of it.

[hardkace42]

@drjimiboy69 great comment jimi was a melting pot of all music's, its safe to say jimi is the one!

[EZIOTHEMASTER]

Beautiful.

[VoodooKush]

Magnificent

[holoar]

Sweet Jimi...