Description Although ebay are allowing counterfeit records to flourish, they insist sellers clearly state the authenticity of officially sanctioned, licensed live albums, I even had to do that recently for Jimi's "Live At Winterland", issued on the red & black Polydor label! THIS FIVE ALBUM BOX SET WAS FULLY LICENSED TO 'CASTLE COMMUNICATIONS Ltd.' WHO PAID TO RELEASE "Live & Unreleased ~ The Radio Show" OFFICIALLY, IN 1989. CLEARLY PRINTED ON THE BOX WITH THE CREDITS & COPYRIGHT'S ON THE BOTTOM RIM, LEFT OF CENTRE IS: 'Licensed From 'Are You Experienced Ltd.' 'This Compilation (P) Castle Communications Plc.' 'This Compilation (C) Castle Communications Plc.' JIMI HENDRIX: "Live & Unreleased ~ The Radio Show" UK FIVE LP VINYL BOX SET, WITH A POSTER. ULTRA RARE OFFICIAL RELEASE, FIRST AND ONLY VINYL PRESSING MADE, RELEASED 20th NOVEMBER, 1989. CASTLE COMMUNICATIONS:  HBLP 100 CATALOGUE NUMBER* & MAITRIX** FOR ALL FIVE RECORDS:   RECORD 1: *HBLP 100 - 1A.  **HBLP 100 - 1 A / HBLP 100 - 1 B   RECORD 2: *HBLP 100 - 2A.  **HBLP 100 - 1 A / HBLP 100 - 1 B   RECORD 3: *HBLP 100 - 3A.  **HBLP 100 - 1 A / HBLP 100 - 1 B   RECORD 4: *HBLP 100 - 4A.  **HBLP 100 - 1 A / HBLP 100 - 1 B   RECORD 5: *HBLP 100 - 5A.  **HBLP 100 - 1 A / HBLP 100 - 1 B     THE LABELS HAVE INDIVIDUAL PASTEL COLOURS ON BOTH SIDES:   RECORD 1: Yellow   RECORD 2: Green   RECORD 3: Blue   RECORD 4: Pink   RECORD 5: Salmon Pink   WITH A SUPERB COLOUR POSTER, UNFOLDED MEASURING 21" x 17", FEATURING THE PICTURE OF JIMI'S SHADOW   ON THE MARSHALL AMPS USED AS  PART OF THE BOX LID'S ARTWORK.   IN 'NEVER LEFT THE BOX' MINT CONDITION,     ALL FIVE MATCHING PLAIN WHITE, DIE-CUT CENTRE INNER SLEEVES ARE IN UNUSED, MINT/MINT- CONDITION.   They were printed in England and have the actual dates they made on the front bottom right corners;   7/89 = July, 1989 (four have this date)   5/89 = May, 1989 (one has this date)     ALL THE PRINTED ITEMS AND THE THE RECORDS ARE STATED ON THE BOX TRAY AS BEING, "Made In England."       THE BOX IS CONSTRUCTED FROM HEAVY DUTY CARDBOARD, THIS HAS A REMOVABLE LID FROM THE BOTTOM TRAY.   THE TRAY'S BOTTOM  HAS ALL 39 TRACKS' COMPREHENSIVE DETAILS, PLUS A SIMILAR PICTURE OF JIMI HENDRIX   TO THE ONE THAT CREATED THE SHADOW ON THE AMPS.    A BACK VIEW ON STAGE, NOWHERE ON THIS BOX OR THE   POSTER IS THERE A FRONT PICTURE, I ASSUME A COMMENDABLE, DELIBERATE PLOY TO CONCENTRATE ON JIMI'S   MUSIC, NOT HIS IMAGE, THE 'SHADOW PICTURE' IS ONE OF THE MOST ORIGINAL IDEAS EVER TO APPEAR FOR THE   ARTWORK & POSTER FOR ANY HENDRIX ALBUM SINCE "Axis Bold as Love" IN 1967.     THE BOX AND LID ARE THE ORIGINAL UNYELLOWED/ UNSTAINED PURE WHITE INSIDE, THE OUTSIDE IS UNSCUFFED   ON THE TOP AND MOST TELLING OF ALL, ON THE TRAY'S BOTTOM WHERE THE ESSENTIAL TEXT AND TRACK INFO WAS   PRINTED.  NOT AN IDEAL POSITION FOR ANY BOX SETS THAT AFFECT CASSETTES, CD'S OR VINYL  BUT THIS IS 100%   PERFECT AND SPEAKS OF VERY CARING STORAGE OVER THE LAST 25 YEARS.     THERE ARE NO SPLITS OR TEARS ON ALL EIGHT OF THE CORNERS, A SUPERBLY STRONG LID AND TRAY WITH ONLY   THE MEREST BRUSHING TO THE OUTSIDE EDGES AND THE OUTSIDE IN GENERAL.  I FELT OBLIGED TO WRITE THAT, THERE IS NOTHING HERE THAT WAS NOT PART OF FACTORY HANDLING FOR PACKAGING AND DISTRIBUTION TO RECORD SHOPS. THE TITLES ARE PRINTED IN WHITE ON TWO OF THE LID'S EDGES AND ONCE AGAIN, THEY ARE TOTALLY UNWORN.    WITH ONLY THE SLIGHTEST OF SLIGHT STORAGE SIGNS, THE GRADING HAS TO BE NEAR MINT CONDITION.   THE IMMMACULATE LABELS DO NOT HAVE ANY SPINDLE ALIGNMENT TRACES, ALL TEN SIDES ARE UNPLAYED,   WITHOUT ANY MARKS OR PLAYING TRACES THE GRADING OF ALL FIVE RECORDS IS, MINT CONDITION. All The Thirty Nine Tracks Were Recorded Between 1966 /1970, I Have Added The Basic Details From The Box Tray.   SIDE 1      "I Don't Live Today" (Live, Previously Unreleased, L. A. Forum, 26th April,1969) "Cherokee Mist" (Previously Unreleased, Home Demo, early 1968, N.Y.C.) "Testify" (With The Isley Brothers, April,1964) "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" (With Little Richard, June, 1964) SIDE 2   "I'm A Man" (Wth Curtis Knight & The Squires, December,1964) "Like A Rolling Stone" (Live Previously Unreleased, Generation Club, NYC, April,1968) "Red House" (Live Previously Unreleased, L'Olympia, Paris, 9th October, 1967) "Hey Joe" (De Lane Lea Studios, London, 23rd October,1966) SIDE 3   "Hoochie Koochie Man" ('Rhythm & Blues,' BBC,17th October,1967) "The Wind Cries Mary" (De Lane Lea Studios, London, 11th February,1967) "Foxy Lady" ('Saturday Club' BBC, 13th February,1967) SIDE 4 "Third Stone From The Sun" (CBS Recording Studios, 13th December, 1966) "Wild Thing" (Live, 'Monterey International Pop Festival',18th June, 1967) "Look Over Yonder"/"Mister Bad Luck" (Previously Unreleased, Olympic Sound Studios, London, 4th May,1967) SIDE 5 "Burning Of The Midnight Lamp" (Mayfair Recordings Studio, NYC, July 6,1967) "Spanish Castle Magic" (Olympic Sound Studios, London, 27th October,1967) "Bold As Love" (Olympic Sound Studios, London, 29th October,1967) "One Rainy Wish" ((Previously Unreleased Alternate Mix, Olympic Sound Studios, London, 29th October,1967)  SIDE 6 "Little Wing" (Olympic Sound Studios, London, 25th October,1967) "Drivin' South" ('Top Gear', BBC, 6th October, 1967) The Things I Used To Do"(Previously Unreleased With Johnny Winter &  Steve Stills  Record Plant, NYC 15th May, 1969) "All Along The Watchtower" (Olympic Sound Studios, London, 21st January, 1968) SIDE 7   "Drifter's Escape" (Recorded At Electric Lady Studios, N.Y.C. Spring, 1969) "Cherokee Mist" (Previously Unreleased,Record Plant, N.Y.C. 2nd May, 1968) "Voodoo Chile" (Previously Unreleased,Home Demo, N.Y.C. early 1968) "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" (Previously Unreleased,'Take 4', Record Plant, N.Y.C. 3rd May ,1968)   "1983...(A Merman I Should Turn To Be)" (Previously Unreleased Alternate Mix,Record Plant, N.Y.C. 23rd April,1968) SIDE 8   "Voodoo Chile" (Record Plant, N.Y.C. 2nd May,1968) "Come On (Part 1)" (Previously Unreleased, 'Take 9', Record Plant, N.Y.C. 27th August, 1968)   "Manic Depression"  (Live, 2nd Show At Winterland Arena,12th October, 1968)   SIDE 9   "Machine Gun" (Live, Previously Unreleased,2nd Show At  Fillmore East, 31st Dec, 1969/1970) "Room Full Of Mirrors" (Previously Unreleased Alternate Mix, Record Plant, N.Y.C. 1th November,1969) "Angel" (Previously Unreleased Home Demo, N.Y.C. Early 1968) "Rainy Day Shuffle" (Record Plant, N.Y.C. 10th June, 1968) "Valley Of Neptune" (Electric Lady Studios, N.Y.C. January,1970 & Hit Factory, N.Y.C. September,1969) SIDE 10   "Send My Love To Linda" (Previously Unreleased, Electric Lady Studios, N.Y.C. August,1970) "South Saturn Delta" (Previously Unreleased, Record Plant, N.Y.C. 14th June,1968) "Dolly Dagger" (Live, Isle Of Wight Festival, 30th August,1970) "Night Bird Flying" (Electric Lady Studios, N.Y.C. 16th June,1970) I have just about used up every possible superlative to describe the genius of Jimi Hendrix, there is no point in repeating all that here and as I will obviously offer this five LP box set without attempting to cover any of those ten sides!  This massively rare box set that has never been re-issued and I do not believe it ever will be now, when issued in 1989, Jimi Hendrix was certainly not as heavily collected as he is today in Britain.  We were trading at the UK record fairs during this period of the late 80's and although I kept completely full Hendrix LP and singles sections, they were sold to the converted and mostly to those replacing their worn out originals. The 1980's almost swept aside the 1960's greats from new generations and even the Beatles 1980's compilations struggled to sell, the psychedelic music or pure blues of Hendrix was waiting to be re-discovered. Polydor put together the superb "The Singles" double album with the 'puppet cover' and released it in February, 1983, every   'A'&'B' Side Jimi ever made should have been enticing enough but it struggled to reach a lowly No.77.  Then nothing until the   last year of the decade in 1989 when another double album "Radio 1" was airing the BBC sessions for the first time, but that   could only make a brief appearance at No.30 and so Castle resorted to Limited Editions, with colour vinyl and a poster to try   and re-ignite interest, this was around the Spring of 1989.  Later in the year, Castle were by now committed to releasing this,   "Live & Unreleased ~ The Radio Show," and by then it was obvious the legend of Jimi Hendrix had become a 'sleeping giant.'   They had to release this on three fronts, cassettes, CD's and of course vinyl, normally by then the CD Box Sets were made in   large numbers with cassettes and vinyl being run down to just token gestures. However, in this case Castle knew the writing was on the wall for Jimi's rarest music ever offered officially, all three formats were made in equally tiny amounts.   I know because in 1989 I tried my very best to pick up all three ways of getting to hear this amazing box set on behalf of my regular   customers, rare items like those were as tough to get my hands on in November, 1989 as they are today.  Ironically I had no competition to buy and sell Jimi's 1967 to 1970 Track original's, like now, I only did so when in top condition, now everyone is a record seller and target those same albums, but without any care if the sound quality fails to do Jimi's extraordinary music the fullest justice.  This is an absolutely stunning condition complete "Live & Unreleased ~ The Radio Show," with a fantastic colour poster in the same Mint Condition as the five records.    I have described the condition's of all items in my headings so I will instead fill in the little known background to the release of the Box Set, shame the release did not fall in the mid-1990's. That was when the Jimi Hendrix legend once again exploded into the technicolour psychedelic splendour I first experienced in late 1966, but music has a way of re-asserting itself when the time is right, I saw the same happen to Led Zeppelin around the same period.   "Live & Unreleased ~ The Radio Show" was only released by Castle Communications, following a great American idea to create a series of radio shows to include commentaries about the rarest and previously unheard material.  'Westwood One' also made a fantastic job of John Lennon's unreleased demo's, live recordings and studio out-takes for their "Lost Lennon Tapes" series. The Jimi Hendrix material was originally broadcast as a six hour long radio show in the USA on the 2nd & 3rd September, 1988,   these five LP's include the original radio commentary in the same way the "Lost Lennon Tapes" series did.  The following year   Castle released their version in the three formats I mentioned before, all three are still as elusive now!  With so many of the   tracks previously unreleased on this five LP box set, I don't know quite where to begin, you have "Like A Rolling Stone" from   'The Generation Club' in 1968 as a great example of a live track not from a stadium concert.  The studio material is remarkable,   for example, "Mister Bad Luck" was an early version of "Look Over Yonder," recorded during the 1967 sessions for Jimi's debut   album,"Are You Experienced."  In a way I am sorry to not be describing these tracks, but after typing out all the details for the   individual titles,I have hardly neglected my duties, but Hendrix rarities like this are an all consuming collecting field, so I would   love to take even further, I had better sign off before I change my mind!   {Roy}   R & M RECORDS. My lifetime's love of music and records began at a very young age, the arrival of the Beatles and the 1960's decade   in general had a very profound effect. It was only natural to bring all my first hand experience of collecting vinyl   into becoming a professional record seller.  Over twenty years ago now we entered into the wonderful atmosphere of record fairs with the highest possible standards set. When the Internet became the world's new market place for   vinyl, in 2001 it was time to join ebay. Those standards were rigidly adhered to as they will always continue to be, the basics of honesty and integrity were very much part of the era the music I love originated in, so here is our friendly and very efficient service we are proud to provide; EVERY RECORD IS FULLY PLAYED AND COMES WITH A 'NO ARGUMENT' MONEY BACK GUARANTEE.   I USE GOOD OLD COMMON SENSE AS WELL AS A GLOBALLY ACCEPTED GRADING TERMINOLOGY   FROM THE U.K. "RECORD COLLECTOR PRICE GUIDE" BOOK. THERE IT CLEARLY STATES "Sound Quality" AFFECTS EVERY GRADING LEVEL AND THAT IS THE ONE AND ONLY POSSIBLE WAY TO ACCURATELY GRADE RECORDS. i.e. COMBINING A STRICT VISUAL INSPECTION WITH VERY CLOSELY LISTENING TO EVERY SECOND, UNLESS PERHAPS IN THE CASE OF GENUINELY UNPLAYED VINYL.  EVEN THEN WE STILL TAKE FULL RESPONSIBITY FOR A RECORD WHEN A CUSTOMER RECEIVES EITHER A SEALED OR AN UNPLAYED RECORD.   MY DESCRIPTIONS WILL ALWAYS BE 100% HONEST AND TOTALLY ACCURATE ON ALL GRADINGS FROM 'V.G.' ( VERY GOOD), TO THE ULTIMATE 'MINT' CONDITION. ANY QUESTIONS ON OUR ITEMS ARE WELCOMED AND WILL BE PROMPTLY REPLIED TO.   WE ARE FULLY EXPERIENCED AT SHIPPING WORLDWIDE AND NO EFFORT IS SPARED TO PROTECT RECORDS AND COVERS ETC.  WE WELCOME BIDDERS FROM ANY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. ALL RECORDS ARE REMOVED FROM THEIR SLEEVES AND PLACED INTO NEW PROTECTIVE CARD SLEEVES AND THEN PLACED INTO NEW, HEAVYWEIGHT PLASTIC OUTER SLEEVES. 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