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As told in the new documentary "Music…Money…Madness…Jimi Hendrix in Maui," Jimi’s notorious manager Michael Jeffrey made a deal with Warner Bros. in which they would finance a film shot in Hawaii called "Rainbow Bridge" and they would receive, in return, the rights to its soundtrack album. The film, the hippiest of the hippie, became a legendary train wreck full of improvised "scenes" by nonprofessional actors. But the film and its soundtrack featured an electrifying live performance by Jimi, Billy Cox and Mitch Mitchell, playing a concert on the lower slope of the dormant Haleakala volcano—in front of an audience arranged by their astrological signs(!). Directed by John McDermott, this fascinating new documentary comes to you here on Blu-Ray, and both the Blu-Ray and the CDs/vinyl LPs bring you newly restored Jimi Hendrix Experience performances from the two afternoon sets they played on July 30, 1970 (mixed by Eddie Kramer and mastered by Bernie Grundman). They do then-unreleased songs plus Hendrix classics—and, just as Billy Cox says in the documentary, Jimi was on FIRE here, doing "Purple Haze," "Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)," "Foxey Lady," "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)," "Fire," "Spanish Castle Magic," "Hear My Train A-Comin’," "Red House," "Stone Free," "Ezy Ryder," "Dolly Dagger," "Freedom" and more! Sony Legacy.