(Audience FLAC)
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma.
8th May 1970 (2nd show)
Source: Audience recording. Mono master
Lineage:
Master reel> DAT> Amadeus> xACT> Flac
01. Fire
02. Spanish Castle Magic
03. Machine Gun
04. Lover Man
05. Foxy Lady
06. Hear My Train A Comin'
07. Message To Love
08. Red House
09. Star Spangled Banner
10. Purple Haze
11. Voodoo Chile (slight return)
(65.01 minutes)
Notes:
This show was recorded by, a then 20 year old, Lee Agnew on a 5” reel using his parents portable Sony monophonic reel-to-reel deck. Lee hitched a ride from his home in Stillwater with the tape deck wrapped in a blanket. “I didn’t really know what I was doing. Nobody hassled me or anything. I brought it in, and then spread the blanket out on the floor”, Lee recalled. he only had one hour of tape and recorded the concept by lifting a little hand-held microphone above the heads of the crowd. The tape speed fluctuated a bit towards the end of the show as the batteries weakened.
In 1996 Dave Byers, a friend of Lee’s and Hendrix collector found out, quite by chance that Lee had actually recorded the show. They managed to locate a studio with the right equipment a made a transfer of the master onto DAT and CDR.
All copies that have so far been circulated have come from CDR copies. This is the first time (I believe) that the show has been made available from a DAT from the master.
The show is mono as it was recorded, the left channel which had various dropouts has been discarded in preference to the right. No other alterations.
Eyewitness:
The Kent State University incident was four days prior to the concert at OU. Student protests rocked the 72 hours before the first show. "It was a very significant time in Norman on campus," said Mike Thompson, who is a conscientious objector. "There was just an awareness of what was going on. The campus was galvanized. Then, my God heres Jimi Hendrix coming to town, holy smoke! All of this timing and energy kind of came together at the one time."
"Acts at that time didn't have big trucks and roadies," said Montgomery. "I helped unload three martial double stacks. The road manager said that Jimi used one and left the other two on standby in case of breakdowns. Besides, three looked cool."
Rick Vittenson, a freelancer for the publication Crawdaddy, said he managed to get a backstage interview with Jimi… "Our conversation was very short and rambling," Vittenson said. "He just seemed very down and I knew that there was no article to be written." Prior to the show, in front of the stage, Thompson said Hendrix walked over and pointed to a black armband that displayed the letter K. Hendrix dedicated to show to the victims at Kent State. Mike Thompson said, "I understood exactly what was going on."
Larry Locklear, who was a senior at Crooked Oak High School in 1970 recalls the show being extremely loud. The same adjective could be used to describe Jimi's threads: red and white polka-dot necktie as a headband, a sheer black shirt with flowing sleeves, red pants, a psychedelic multi-colored vast, and the aforementioned black armband. "I remember seeing those red pants and headband and I thought, God Almighty!" said Locklear. "It was like something from another world."
Marcia Chibitty, who was sitting inside near the top of the Fieldhouse recalls thinking that the music was changing her heart beat to thump in time with the band's rhythm. "I could physically feel it beating on my chest," said Chibitty. "It was great."
An estimated crowd of 5500 attended the last set, which started at 10 p.m…the Hendrix show included everyone from cheerleaders to fringe student hippie radicals…Following the final show Lynn Shirley remembers seeing Hendrix - escorted by a pair of tall, thin college aged blondes on either arm - walking toward a limousine parked on the grass… "I could see their silhouettes as they pulled out, and his big hair, and I was thinking, 'They don't know him.' I remember I was a little shocked. It just seemed a little scary to me."
"People thought Chuck Berry was outrageous, with his little escapades," said Ed Fontaine. "It was nothing. People thought Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones were bad boys. Nonsense. Hendrix was pure energy and it just poured out of him. He was like a wildflower just exploding."
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