Bleeding Heart (album)
| Bleeding Heart | |
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| Live album by Jimi Hendrix | |
| Released | 1994 |
| Recorded | The Scene club, New York City, 1968 |
| Genre | Rock |
| Length | 53:46 |
| Label | Various |
| Professional ratings | |
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| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic — High Live & Dirty |   |
| Allmusic — Woke Up This Morning and Found Myself Dead | |
| Allmusic — Jamming Live at the Scene Club, NYC | |
| Allmusic — NYC '68 |  |
Bleeding Heart is one of several names given to albums of a 1968 jam session with Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, and others. The albums were fashioned from an informal two-track tape recording made by Hendrix that was subsequently stolen from his apartment. The jam took place at the Scene club in New York City and various dates and participants have been suggested. Although it presents a unique setting, critics and biographers have generally found fault with the sound quality and Morrison's performance.
To relieve the pressures of touring and recording, Jimi Hendrix frequently jammed with musicians at local clubs. He was also a tape-recording enthusiast and traveled with his Sony two-track reel-to-reel recorder. Hendrix recorded several after-hours jams in New York for his personal use, around the time that he began recording material for the Electric Ladyland album at the Record Plant studio. Some of these include jams at the Cafe Au Go Go on March 17, 1968, with members of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band (Elvin Bishop, Phillip Wilson) and the Electric Flag (Harvey Brooks, Buddy Miles) and the Generation Club on April 15, 1968 with B.B. King, Bishop, Wilson, Buzzy Feiten, and Al Kooper. Partly because of its proximity to the Record Plant, Hendrix frequently jammed at the Scene club, which was owned by Steve Paul, the McCoys and later Johnny Winter's manager.
Several dates have been mentioned for the Scene club jam, including March 13, and June 6, 1968. In addition to Hendrix and Morrison, other jam participants have been tentatively identified as the Scene's house band, the McCoys (bassist Randy Jo Hobbs and drummer Randy Zehringer), bassist Harvey Brooks, and drummer Buddy Miles. Most albums list guitarist Johnny Winter, who occasionally jammed with Hendrix, as the second guitarist, although he has emphatically denied ever having met or performed with Jim Morrison or being in New York at the time. The McCoy's Rick Derringer has also been suggested as the other guitarist. The harmonica player has not been identified – at times Morrison is singing while the harmonica plays, which suggests a sixth participant.
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