{"id":973593,"date":"2019-11-19T07:11:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T14:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=913482"},"modified":"2019-11-19T07:11:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T14:11:53","slug":"hear-jimi-hendrixs-wild-unreleased-ezy-ryder-from-fillmore-east-concerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/hear-jimi-hendrixs-wild-unreleased-ezy-ryder-from-fillmore-east-concerts\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Jimi Hendrix\u2019s Wild, Unreleased \u2018Ezy Ryder\u2019 From Fillmore East Concerts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Band of Gypsys work their way up to a comfortable groove on a previously unreleased recording of \u201cEzy Ryder,\u201d recorded at the Fillmore East half a century ago, which will feature on a new box set. From the start, drummer Buddy Miles sets the tempo, while Jimi Hendrix<\/a> and bassist Billy Cox establish the riff, all leading up to an explosion of Hendrix singing, \u201cEzy, Ezy Ryder, riding down the highways of desire.\u201d The band had already played the song once already that day in an earlier set, and you can hear a new confidence in this version as they work together to give the tune a steady foundation for Hendrix to play a guitar solo that nearly levitates over the rhythm section.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Band of Gypsys was a group about growth, and evolution without ego,\u201d Cox tells Rolling Stone <\/em>of the experience. \u201cIt was just musicians loving each other and loving the music. It was another way to express the music.\u201d<\/p>\n

The trio\u2019s shared musical intuition is on full display on the upcoming box set, Songs for Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts<\/em>. The collection, which will be available Friday digitally or as either a five-CD or eight-LP set, marks the first release of the ensemble\u2019s legendary debut gigs in full \u2014 four performances on New Year\u2019s Eve and New Year\u2019s Day in 1969 and 1970 \u2014 which provided the raw material for Hendrix\u2019s live album, Band of Gypsys<\/em>, in 1970. It contains several previously unreleased recordings, unedited cuts of tracks that had once been trimmed down, and a number of tunes that had been out of print.<\/p>\n

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When Cox hears the recordings, he says he can still picture the effect it had on the crowd. \u201cI distinctly remember you could see people with their mouths hanging wide open about five, six, 10 rows,\u201d he says. \u201cThey had never heard anything like that, but evidently it had sounded good to them, because we got almost a standing ovation after every song.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the years since Cry of Love <\/em>came out, recordings from the concerts have come out at various points. A two-CD release, Live at the Fillmore East<\/em>, came out in 1999, while Machine Gun: The Fillmore East First Show<\/em> was released in 2016 on a single disc. When Cox considers why there has been so much interest in this music and why it came from the three members of Hendrix\u2019s Band of Gypsys, he says, \u201cJimi\u2019s music was spiritual and that what is spiritual never divides.<\/p>\n

\u201cJimi Hendrix\u2019s music is as relevant today in the 21st century as it was in the 20th century, because Jimi impacted the lives in many untold ways,\u201d he adds.  \u201cIt influenced everyone from the soldiers in the rice paddies and jungles of Vietnam to the brothers and sisters in the hood. It inspired everyone from the young people who were lovers of peace and justice and for those musicians who were looking for a new direction in music. The Band of Gypsys has always been in the now because we were about musical excellence, expression, and soul all wrapped up into the body of spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Band of Gypsys work their way up to a comfortable groove on a previously unreleased recording of \u201cEzy Ryder,\u201d recorded at the Fillmore East half a century ago, which will feature on a new box set. From the start, drummer Buddy Miles sets the tempo, while Jimi Hendrix and bassist Billy Cox establish the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 19:24:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}