The Cry of Love Tour

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The Cry of Love Tour was a 1970 concert tour by American rock guitarist and singer Jimi Hendrix. It began on April 25, 1970, at the ForumTemplate:Efn in Inglewood, California, and ended on September 6, 1970, at the Love & Peace Festival in Fehmarn, West Germany.Template:Efn The majority of the 37 shows were in the United States,Template:EfnTemplate:Efn with two each in Sweden, Denmark, and West Germany, and one in England, where Hendrix was the final act at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970.

After experimenting with different lineups following the breakup of the original lineup of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Hendrix brought back drummer Mitch Mitchell with bassist Billy Cox replacing Noel Redding to record and tour. The trio would perform older tunes along with newer material from the live Band of Gypsys album and songs that Jimi was developing for a fourth album. Soon after their performance at the Isle of Wight, the tour was cut short due to Cox's illness and Hendrix was left considering his options. However, he died twelve days after the Fehmarn concert.

Several concerts were recorded and filmed that were later released on albums and film. Since their debut in 1971, the Berkeley, Atlanta, and Isle of Wight performances have been reissued several times, most recently as Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight (2002), Live at Berkeley (2003), and Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival/Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church (2015).Template:Efn Concert selections continue to be included on Hendrix retrospectives and documentaries, such as Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix Collection (2001), which contains five songs recorded during the tour.

Background

Following Noel Redding's departure from the Experience on June 29, 1969, Hendrix called on Billy Cox, an Army buddy and early bandmate, to play bass.Template:Sfn In July, Hendrix, Cox, and Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell moved to a rural retreat in upstate New York and began rehearsing with an expanded lineup, which included rhythm guitarist Larry Lee and percussionists Juma Sultan and Jerry Velez.Template:Sfn One month later, the group debuted at the Woodstock festival.Template:Sfn After a couple of gigs and recording sessions,Template:Sfn it became apparent that the group, sometimes referred to as "Gypsy Sun and Rainbows" after a comment Hendrix made at Woodstock,Template:Sfn was not making sufficient progress.Template:Sfn Hendrix still wanted to experiment with a different backup but return to the trio configuration, so drummer Buddy Miles replaced Mitchell with Cox remaining on bass.Template:Sfn However, the new trio, often called the Band of Gypsys,Template:Sfn was similarly short-lived. Hendrix's tour manager, Gerry Stickells, believed "Jimi's own lack of commitment to the Band of Gypsys concept [was] its fatal flaw".Template:Sfn Hendrix expressed his dissatisfaction with the subsequent Band of Gypsys live album and Cox saw it as a stopgap measure to meet a contractual obligation.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn With the return of Mitchell alongside Cox, Hendrix's latest group had only one member change from either the Experience or the Band of Gypsys.Template:Sfn

Shortly before the tour began, Hendrix was interviewed for Melody Maker, the British music magazine: "I called the tour the 'Cry of Love' because that is what it's all about", which the writer also thought was the name of the new group.Template:Sfn However, a new name was never officially adopted, but concert promoters often billed them as the "Jimi Hendrix Experience".Template:SfnTemplate:Efn Hendrix explained: Template:Quote

With the March–June 1970 releases in the US and UK of the Woodstock film and soundtrack and Band of Gypsys, Hendrix remained one of the biggest rock concert attractions:Template:Sfn "I'd like to play some festivals but I wish they would break up the events a bit for the audiences. There's no reason why these huge crowds should not be entertained by side attractions as well."Template:Sfn During this period, demonstrations, riots, and clashes with the police occurred at several concerts.Template:Sfn Some of Hendrix's performances were met with demands that they be free events, such at the Berkeley Community Theatre (May 30), Swing Auditorium (June 20), Ventura County Fairgrounds (June 21), and the New York Pop Festival (July 17), where they led to violent confrontations.Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn

At this time, Hendrix was also writing and recording songs for a planned fourth studio album. In early June after many delays, his new recording facility, Electric Lady Studios, was operational.Template:Sfn Hendrix was able to get his manager, Michael Jeffery, to agree to limit his concert appearances to three-day weekends, so the group could return to New York City to record during the rest of the week.Template:Sfn There were some stretches when the group took time off: they only performed twice between May 10 and June 5 (three gigs were cancelled due to illness); and twice between June 27 and July 17.Template:Sfn The group spent most of August recording at Electric Lady, before the official opening party on August 26.Template:Sfn

Afterwards, Hendrix departed for England and the European segment of the tour. For his first appearance in England in eighteen months, Hendrix was one of the top-billed events at Isle of Wight Festival 1970.Template:Sfn A few dates later, Cox became ill and had to return to the US to recover.Template:Sfn So, after performing at only seven European concerts, the tour was cancelled.Template:Sfn Hendrix stayed in London, where he attended parties and jammed with other musicians. He was considering whether to find a new bass player and met with Chas Chandler,Template:Sfn the producer of Are You Experienced and Axis: Bold as Love. However, Hendrix died on September 18, 1970.

Repertoire

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[The earlier Experience songs] may have been old to Jimi and Mitch but they were new to me. I think adding my flavor to those songs made it refreshing for Mitch and Jimi to play them again. Playing new songs like "In from the Storm" gave us a chance to take them out of Electric Lady, which was our laboratory, and see what people's reactions would be.

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Throughout the tour, Hendrix continued to perform Experience material and introduced several newer songs.Template:Sfn "Purple Haze" and "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" were frequent concert closers; "Foxy Lady", "Red House", "Fire", and "Hey Joe" were concert staples as they had been in Experience performances.Template:Sfn Hendrix also continued to perform popular songs that dated back to the Experience, but not yet recorded to his satisfaction, such as "Lover Man", "Hear My Train A Comin'", and "Roomful of Mirrors".Template:Sfn From his time with Cox and Miles, he added "Machine Gun", "Message to Love", and "Ezy Ryder".Template:Sfn

Hendrix also had a number of new songs that were still in development that he chose to include in his concerts: "Freedom" and "Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)" were among the most played new numbers; others, such as "Straight Ahead", "In from the Storm", "Dolly Dagger", and "Midnight Lightning" were performed occasionally.Template:Sfn The songs signaled a new direction in Hendrix's music,Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn which biographer John McDermott describes as "music of a more mature and refined ExperienceScript error: No such module "String".... reflecting a more subtle and intricate approach".Template:Sfn At Atlanta Pop, where they played several new songs, Hendrix was encouraged by the audience reaction. As they left the stage, he remarked to Cox, "we must be riding in the right direction".Template:Sfn

Set lists, which identify the songs to be performed and their order, were not used by the group. According to Cox, "We never had a set list. Jimi always starts the song off. So wherever he wanted to go, that's where we went."Template:Sfn When he wanted to extend a song, Hendrix provided a cue, such as a head or hand gesture known to Mitchell and Cox.Template:Sfn Biographer David Moskowitz identifies the songs performed on July 26 at the Sick's Stadium in Seattle, Washington, as representative of the Cry of Love repertoire:Template:Sfn

Despite being one of his best-selling singles, Hendrix usually ignored requests for "All Along the Watchtower" during his tours with the Experience.Template:Sfn However, after the song's debut about midway through the tour on June 20, he performed it more often.Template:Sfn Cox wished to delve deeper into Hendrix's catalogue: "I wanted to play those songsScript error: No such module "String".... I wanted him to play 'Crosstown Traffic,' but we never got around to rehearsing it."Template:Sfn However, Hendrix occasionally surprised him – at a May 16 gig at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Cox recalled: Template:Quote Hendrix also performed "Johnny B. Goode" at the first show on May 30 at the Berkeley Community Theatre.Template:Efn During the afternoon rehearsals, the group tried out another rock and roll classic, Carl Perkins' "Blue Suede Shoes".Template:Sfn In Europe, Hendrix reached back to his early career for a couple of performances of Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor" and the Muddy Waters tribute "Catfish Blues".Template:Sfn

Films and albums

Over the years, several films and albums have been released of Hendrix's concert performances during the Cry of Love tour (all are albums, except where noted):

Additionally, songs recorded during the tour have been released along with other live and/or studio material:

Concerts

List of concerts with date, location, venue, support act(s)/event, references
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(1970) 		Location Venue Support act(s) /
event 		Ref(s)
Template:Dts Inglewood, California Script error: No such module "sort".Template:Efn Template:Sfn
Template:Dts Sacramento, California Cal Expo Template:Sfn
Template:Dts Milwaukee, Wisconsin Milwaukee Auditorium
  • Oz
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Template:Dts Madison, Wisconsin Dane County Coliseum
  • Savage Grace
  • Oz
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Template:Dts Saint Paul, Minnesota St. Paul Civic Center Template:Sfn
Template:DtsTemplate:Efn New York City, New York Script error: No such module "sort". Template:Sfn
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(2 shows) 		Norman, Oklahoma University of Oklahoma
Field House 		Template:Sfn
Template:Dts Fort Worth, Texas Will Rogers Coliseum — Template:Sfn
Template:Dts San Antonio, Texas HemisFair Arena Template:Sfn
Template:Dts Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Temple Stadium Template:Sfn
Template:Dts Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati Gardens
  • cancelled
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Template:Dts St. Louis, Missouri Kiel Auditorium Template:Sfn
Template:Dts Columbus, Ohio Veterans Memorial Auditorium Template:Sfn
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(2 shows) 		Berkeley, California Berkeley Community Theatre Template:Sfn
Template:Dts Dallas, Texas Memorial Auditorium Template:Sfn
Template:Dts Houston, Texas Sam Houston Coliseum Template:Sfn
Template:Dts Tulsa, Oklahoma Assembly Center Arena Template:Sfn
Template:Dts Memphis, Tennessee Mid-South Coliseum — Template:Sfn
Template:Dts Evansville, Indiana Roberts Municipal Stadium Template:Sfn
Template:Dts Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore Civic Center Template:Sfn
Template:Dts Albuquerque, New Mexico Albuquerque Civic Auditorium — Template:Sfn
Template:Dts San Bernardino, California Swing Auditorium Template:Sfn
Template:Dts Ventura, California Ventura County Fairgrounds Template:Sfn
Template:Dts Denver, Colorado Mammoth Gardens — Template:Sfn
Template:Dts Boston, Massachusetts Boston Garden Template:Sfn
Template:Dts Byron, Georgia Middle Georgia Raceway Template:Sfn
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(2 shows) 		Miami, Florida Miami Jai-Alai Fronton — Template:Sfn
Template:Dts Randall's Island, New York City Downing Stadium
  • New York Pop Festival
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Template:Dts San Diego, California San Diego Sports Arena Template:Sfn
Template:Dts Seattle, Washington Sick's Stadium
  • Cactus
  • Rube Tuben
  • The Rhondonnas
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(2 shows) 		Maui, Hawaii Script error: No such module "sort". Template:Sfn
Template:Dts Honolulu, Hawaii Honolulu International Center — Template:Sfn
Template:DtsTemplate:Efn Isle of Wight, England East Afton Farm Template:Sfn
Template:Dts Stockholm, Sweden Gröna Lund — Template:Sfn
Template:Dts Gothenburg, Sweden Liseberg Template:Sfn
Template:DtsTemplate:Efn Aarhus, Denmark Vejlby-Risskov Hallen
  • Blue Sun
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Template:Dts Copenhagen, Denmark K.B. Hallen Template:Sfn
Template:Dts West Berlin, West Germany Deutschlandhalle Template:Sfn
Template:Dts Fehmarn, West Germany Mecklenburg Bay
  • Love & Peace Festival
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Footnotes

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