Live at the Hollywood Bowl: August 18, 1967 is a live album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. It was released on November 10, 2023, 56 years after it was first recorded.
Background On August 18, 1967, three months and five days after the release of Are You Experienced, the Jimi Hendrix Experience opened for The Mamas & the Papas during their concert at the Hollywood Bowl and played 10 songs, including cover versions of the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" and Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor". all of the songs on the album had previously been unreleased. According to Redding, the band didn't do very well during the performance, which he described in his biography as them "Having flopped so dismally".
Release The album was released on November 10, 2023, and includes photos from the performance and liner notes written by Jeff Slate.
Reception Louder Sound critic Julian Marszalek commented that it "is the sound of the future fighting against the odds."
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