Keep On Grooving

A look at the band Traffic, their four original members and their relationships with Jimi Hendrix from their beginnings in the music industry thru the end of 1969 and their first break-up, plus a remembrance of Dickey Betts

We go over the 55 year history of trying to get the Royal Albert Hall album and film out, what has actually made it out and all the lawsuits that popped up along the way.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience returns to the road in the first month of 1969 in surprisngly strong form as a lead up to their big filmed show at Royal Albert Hall in February.

Video podcast for this year's edition of the special featuring the Keep On Grooving Yule Log and a rundown of what videos make good gifts for the Hendrix fan in your life.

Jimi goes back into the studio with Curtis Knight and opens for the Mamas and the Papas at the Hollywood Bowl, yielding his latest album.

We go over the summer tour (or string of multi-night stands) including a week in San Francisco, the recording of a new single, on tour with a group of TV stars (and a look at their career) and a return to Curtis Knight.

We take a look at a number of films that have used Hendrix songs on their soundtracks, then go over the two Hendrix biographies that were unable to use Jimi's music, and finally go over the extras on the 1973 film's DVD, the extra footage added to the Jimi Plays Berkeley Blu-ray and the original 123 minute version of Rainbow Bridge.

A look ahead to what's coming up in the next year: The Jimi Hendrix Experience Live at the Hollywood Bowl, the return of the Keep On Grooving Holiday Special, the 1969 European tour, a look at the band Traffic and maybe, hopefully, the Electric Lady Studios box set...fingers crossed.

We take a look at the home video releases during the Experience Hendrix era on DVD and Blu-ray, plus a side by side look at the different versions of the concert films for Monterey, Woodstock, Atlanta Pop and Isle of Wight

The home video market of the 80s gave studios the opportunity to mine their back catalog for video footage and the Hendrix camp was no exception. Several major festival performances were finally released as was a Rockumentary on MTV.

We detail several sets of performances on TV in Europe and the US, talk about his three big screen appearances during his lifetimes and the three projects that came out in the years immediately after his death.

Eric plays on sessions with a blues legend and his best friend's epic solo album, while falling for his wife. He then turns that turmoil into a classic double album assisted by one the greatest guitarists of his generation. Then it all comes crashing down when addiction takes over his life.

Eric Clapton goes from one supergroup to the next, but Blind Faith ends before it could even get started. He then plays with various other artists and hooks up with good time rockers Delaney & Bonnie. With their help, he ends up gaining the confidence to make his own solo album.

A look at Eric Clapton's career during the time Jimi Hendrix was on the scene. Part 1 deals with Cream and guest starring on the Beatles White Album, as well as a discussion of Mountain...wait, Eric wasn't in Mountain...

The second half of the US tour takes Jimi from small venues to several giant festivals as well as the Rainbow Bridge shows in Maui for his last dates in America.

We look at the first part of the Cry of Love tour as Jimi returns to the road for this first time in nearly a year, starting at the LA Forum and making a stop at UC Berkeley to film a movie and record an album.

We take a look at each song in each concert from the final week of Jimi's tour.  There are some good shows, some bad ones and some of the best versions of songs Jimi ever did.

Encore presentation of the holiday special with a new ending regarding the best box sets to get as presents

We take a look at the events that happened around the holidays during Jimi's career, plus a review of the box sets that have come out over the years...all with the Christmas tree in the background!

The Experience's show at the LA Forum gets a stand alone release, so we'll talk about that, its previous release on Lifelines as well as the events of that week that began the changes to Jimi's career that would soon follow.

Part two of the look at the other people in Jimi's working world, from the tour managers to his later bandmates...and Alan Douglas.

The first group of the most important people in Hendrix's professional career from his producers, managers and bandmates, how they helped him and the other bands they worked with as well.  Plus in this episode a short dissertation on the career of Aynsley Dunbar.

We go over the last month of Jimi's life, from the party at Electric Lady Studios through the final weeklong tour and the confusion surrounding his final days, including some of the crazy conspiracy theories.

The 1990s and 2000s brought us several tribute albums with a wide variety of artists providing their takes on Jimi's songs, plus his old pals Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood honor their fallen friend in their reunion shows,

In the first of two episodes, we'll look at Jimi's guest appearances during his days with the Experiences, then at a number of different covers done by various artists through the 70s and 80s.

Jimi's recordings with Curtis Knight and the Squires are discussed along with the numerous ways these songs have come out over the years.

2019 gave fans their first good look at the long promised Royal Albert Hall film and a box set featuring all four sets by the Band of Gypsys.  2020 was going to be a major anniversary year, but a world wide pandemic changed everyone's plans.  Despite that, Jimi Hendrix managed to get FOUR releases out that year.

The Jimi Hendrix Experienced made a thunderous debut with their first album Are You Experienced.  This episode goes over that album in depth, the difference between the UK and US versions and how Smash Hits was used differently in each area to give record buyers the full picture.

We look at the Jimi Hendrix Experience's second LP, its stereo and mono mixes that both appear on the recent SACD plus a mystery mix that popped up along the way.

This episode, we go over the making of Jimi's double album masterpiece track by track, as well as discussing the changes made when creating the 5.1 mix for the 50th anniversary edition.

Sony goes to the well one more time with a third 'new' studio album, a 50th anniversary set is released for Electric Ladyland and high end SACDs are scheduled for Are You Expereinced and Axis: Bold As Love...but only one makes it out.

Sony releases another "new" studio album to even more chart success, more live material makes its way out and we begin our discussion of the Curtis Knight era.

After a Top 5 album and career spanning box set, Sony returns to California for two live projects including a surprise reissue and an expansive look at a famous run of shows from 1968

Jimi's catalog switches labels again and the new label doesn't hold back, releasing a brand new album and a box set to show they mean business.  And they're rewarded with a Top 5 album.

After taking care of box sets and bootlegs, Experience Hendrix returns to some of the big concert appearances with new audio and video combos, as well as Noel Redding getting his due with his own collection.

Experience Hendrix gets into the bootleg business and releases some essential material to trace the growth of Jimi as an artist

Listeners finally get the long awaited career spanning box set, but they also get another new best of and a segment on a PBS special done by one of America's most famous directors.

Jimi's family takes control of his back catalog and begins to try to sort out his legacy by putting old pieces back in place, adding some new ones and attempting to correct the flaws of some of the previous posthumous albums, with mixed results.

Jimi's catalog moves labels from Reprise to MCA with promises to build the catalog back better than ever.  But after a promising start with a blues collection and a Woodstock album, the project comes to a crashing halt in some voodoo soup.

A quick rundown of the holiday themed songs and concerts Jimi performed in his career both before the Experience all the way through to the Band of Gypsys.  Merry Christmas!

The late 80s led to a plethora of box sets and ressiues to fill up the CD shevles.  What did Jimi's labels do to fulfill the audience's desire for new and unreleased material?

The mid 80s brought forward a new batch of Hendrix releases.  Some long awaited like the full set at Monterey and others like...interpretive dance!  What?  It took an upstart CD label to get the Hendrix legacy back pointed in the right direction.

As a new decade begins, Jimi releases a jazz album, a double live album and a new greatest hits collection for a new medium: the compact disc.

Alan Douglas, an old friend of Hendrix, comes into to manage the pile of material the guitarist left behind and ends up doing so for the next two decades.

The Mike Jeffrey era comes to a close and it looked like Jimi Hendrix's posthumous career would come to an end as well.

Jimi Hendrix's legacy rests on his stellar live performances as well as his ground breaking studio work.  This episode look at some of the early live releases, both in the last year of his life and soon after his passing and how these performances cemented his reputation and set the standard (both high and low) for releases to come.

The passing of Jimi Hendrix in 1970 led to an unprecedented string of posthumous album releases that continues to this day.  The first episode of Keep On Grooving looks at the first two LPs after his death, Cry of Love and Rainbow Bridge and how they set the stage for future albums down the line.