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A week before Electric Ladyland came out, Hendrix, Redding and Mitchell took the stage at the 5,400-capacity Winterland in San Francisco for six sold-out shows over three nights. Even though those sets are known to be among the best Jimi ever played with the Experience, the recordings of them were shelved for decades. Now, at long last, here is the first official in-depth presentation of that legendary October 1968 stand. Leading up to an audio interview with Jimi (from a month later at the Boston Garden) are absolutely ferocious renditions of Fire; Foxey Lady; Like a Rolling Stone; Hey Joe; Hear My Train A Comin’; Sunshine of Your Love; Little Wing; Are You Experienced? Manic Depression; Voodoo Child (Slight Return); Purple Haze, and more. All those are on the single-CD "best-of"; the 4-CD version is the only place to hear the interview and multiple versions of those songs plus Tax Free; Star Spangled Banner; Red House; Lover Man, and more. For the ultimate "experience," get it all on eight 180-gram vinyl LPs!