Jimi Hendrix - Maui/Haleakala Crater/Rainbow Bridge Project(DVDrip)forJAN

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Jimi Hendrix - Maui/Haleakala Crater/Rainbow Project
Full Screen Mode; Time 1hr 21mts
Jimi Hendrix
1970-07-30

Rainbow Bridge Concert
Haleakala Crater
Maui, Hawaii, USA

This an amazing document of the Rainbow Bridge Concert, made by Mike Parker, with almost all of the available concert footage plus some great filler footage, all synched to the soundboard audio. A true piece of art!

Trivia note:Jimi played the Strat for the (afternoon)Early Show
and the Gibson V for the (evening) Late Show...

Track listing:
01.assasin (not song...but a Jimi clip)
02.Pali Gap
03.Spanish Castle Magic
04.Lover Man
05.Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)
06.In From the Storm
07.Message to Love
08.Foxy Lady
09.Hear My Train A'Comin
10.Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
11.Fire
12.Purple Haze
13.Dolly Dagger
14.Villanova Junction
15.Ezy Rider
16.Jimi Raps 1

Sourcing info, to give credit where credit is due:

I made this. It is the 25 minutes of Rainbow Bridge
Jimi Hendrix footage, 20 minutes of outtakes, and
the Strange Day On Maui footage (about 10 minutes),
all re-synced to the soundboard audio. The songs are
full-length, although the film footage is not. The
gaps are filled in with Maui footage, 60`s stuff,
surfing footage, and Strange Day On Maui footage.

The audio is the overdubbed-drums source, the only
one available, so the drums are out of sync a bit.
It's hardly noticeable though. Hope you all enjoy it.

Mike Parker

About this project: Originally all I was going to do
was sync the 20 minutes of silent outtake footage
(end of Hear My Train>Voodoo Child>beginning of Ezy Ryder).
But after that was done, I thought, well, why not continue
with the movie footage too? The audio on RB was pretty poor.
Then there was the Strange Day On Maui footage to deal with.
Univibes magazine had an issue about silent Jimi footage
that gave me a good reference guide to what was being played
during all that double-image footage, so that was a huge help.
Ezy Ryder & Message To Love footage was just too dark or had
too much double imaging to be able to really sync it up.
There's enough there to get an idea of that's going on though.

I wanted to keep the songs full-length, so began to think
about what to use for filling in the gaps. There was some nice
footage in RB of the people walking to the concert, some
skinny-dippers, volcano footage, and film of Jimi's girlfriend
Pat Hartley wandering around Maui. Plus lots of great surfing
footage. Love that surfboard-cam shot!

So I used all the RB footage I could, then went looking for
footage at a video store. Hawaiian Paradise was a cheesy
travelog video, has some nice volcano footage with beautiful
sunrises, and that great 1940's Maui footage. Endless Summer
has one chapter on Maui, that footage is from 1964. check out
that spill where the cameraman gets bonked in the head (& the
surfing babes). Easy Rider, well that's all the actual
motorcycle riding footage from the movie. The 60's protest/Vietnam
footage fit perfectly in the large gap during Hear My Train A'Coming.
I also used all the non-Jimi footage from Strange Day On Maui as a
tribute to Duff Hendrickson, who filmed the actual footage.

this project was made on an eMac, using Final Cut Express. My very
first video project. I think it turned out well. By the way I am a
long-time Jimi Hendrix collector, if anyone out there has any
unreleased/circulated film footage, recordings, or photos gathering
dust, I would love to hear from you. Doesn't matter if the audio is
poor or if the film/photos are grainy, it's all worth checking out.
Any Jimi is good Jimi.You can contact me at jimiclones (at) yahoo (dot) com.
thanks everyone,
Mike Parker
Source:
http://crosstowntorrents.org

Some background info:
Rainbow Bridge is a 1972 film directed by Chuck Wein that features footage from a Jimi Hendrix concert, and a short piece of conversation between Pat Hartley, Wein and Hendrix. It was mainly financed by Hendrix manager Mike Jeffery, hence his appearance. The film is about Pat Hartley's "spiritual awakening" via a visit to the 'Rainbow Bridge' planetary meditation cult on Maui, where, as part of the proceedings Jimi Hendrix visits to play a concert during a 'Rainbow Bridge' mass meditation/colour/sound "experiment". The "Rainbow Bridge" concert was a free concert by Jimi Hendrix that was held on July 30, 1970, in a horse pasture above Seabury Hall, on the "Upcountry" slopes of Haleakala, the volcano that makes up 75% of the island of Maui, Hawaii, although it probably last erupted in the 1600s, it is officially considered as being active.

A modest audience of a few hundred island hippies, surfers, and students turned up following announcements that Hendrix would play a free concert for a film. Hendrix was also in Hawaii to play the last concert on his 'Cry of Love' tour with his reformed 'Jimi Hendrix Experience' (with Billy Cox replacing Noel Redding on bass & backing vocals. Mitch Mitchell & Cox were also - previously - members of Gypsy Sun and Rainbows). The director Chuck Wein introduced Hendrix' performance (no mention of a group name) as the driving force of this 'Rainbow Bridge' "experiment" , (this title is often mistaken as being the name of the site of this concert rather than the name of this "Planetary meditation" cult, an extension of the Gaia hypothesis into spiritual realms). The original cut, not surprisingly used very little of the concert footage, as this was not intended to be a concert film and no music from the performance was released on the official Reprise LP "Rainbow Bridge- Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" for contractual reasons and due to the original music soundtrack being unreleasable due to its very substandard sonic quality on account of strong winds that day. The album does include, however, the studio tracks featured in the film. However, the music from the concert was distributed as a bootleg recording for three decades, before Radioactive Records released this same bootleg recording on the 2003 album, The Rainbow Bridge Concert: The Early Show until it was withdrawn due to a court action by 'Experience Hendrix' which makes this officially a 'bootleg' CD release. The 'Rainbow Bridge' concert was the penultimate performance by Hendrix in the United States, his last was two days later on August 1, 1970, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Hendrix died less than two months later on September 18, 1970 in London, England.