Swedish Television Unearths JIMI HENDRIX Concert From 1969

September 17, 2004

The Associated Press is reporting that technicians at Sweden's public television have unearthed an unexpected delight for music lovers: the complete original recording of a Jimi Hendrix concert in Stockholm from 1969 on a tape long thought to have been destroyed.

The unmarked tape was recently found stashed on a shelf deep inside station's enormous archives during a project to transfer archived material from tape and film to digital, SVT spokeswoman Catarina Wilson said Friday (Sept. 17).

"They looked through the tape, and found it had some Jimi Hendrix," Wilson said. "Then they saw it had a lot of Jimi Hendrix — the entire concert, which is what makes this tape unique."

The black-and-white recording from Stockholm's concert hall was ordered destroyed by a producer in 1969, a time when it was too expensive to keep all raw footage, Wilson said.

She said it was likely that one of the state-run network's workers, perhaps a Hendrix fan, stashed it on the shelf where it sat for 35 years gathering dust.

Part of the 56-minute concert was broadcast on SVT in 1969, before the JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE disbanded, but it's never been shown in its entirety. SVT is determining if it still has the rights to show the entire broadcast of the music legend's concert.

"Of course we realize that this is great material, that we would love to show," Wilson said.

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