Sold Date: July 13, 2017
Start Date: July 6, 2017
Final Price: £87.10 (GBP)
Bid Count: 4
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"MIDNIGHT LIGHTNING"  (Jimi Hendrix, Isle Of Wight Festival,1970)

Midnight lightning,
Flashing all around me.
Lord, see it flashing all around the trees,
See it flashing on my love and me.
Wake up my sweet darling,
And see the light upon your eyes.
Blue light flashing,
Shadows leaping, church bells ring,
Made against the night.
Hey, my love, please stand up and watch me,
Midnight lightning flashing,
Flashing all around my country house,
Thunder flashing,
See where the fields lie,
On our tree, in our little dream.
JIMI HENDRIX: ‎"Jimi Hendrix At The Isle Of Wight" LP,  FIRST UK PRESSING, 13th NOVEMBER, 1971.
ULTRA RARE SHRINK WRAPPED COVER STILL COMPLETELY ENCASING THE WHOLE COVER, APART FROM
THE EXTREME TIP OF THE BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER, BUT EVEN THAT IS PERFECT.
A perfectly preserved cover, a small parting of the top seam relieved the pressure shrink wrapping can potentially cause over
such a long time. The cover is 100% flat and the spine and the corners are like new, so few UK covers were shrink wrapped in
the 20th century, this is among the earliest I have found.  An unplayed record also prevented the constant handling that would
have torn, peeled and then the shrink wrapping would have long ago been discarded.  Just to confirm this is indeed a UK cover,
the back has this printing credit:
Sleeve Made And Printed In England by James Upton Ltd.
That brings me to another related item about the actual title of the album, the front cover, the spine and the back cover, have,
"Jimi Hendrix Isle Of Wight" but the the labels have, "Jimi Hendrix At The Isle Of Wight," which would be more appropriate.
The back cover move towards that with, "Recorded at the Isle Of Wight Festival, 1970" the same is also printed on the labels,
but  the word 'live' is not found on the labels or the cover.  The whole concert was recorded and that released in 2002 titled
 "Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight," but the mix on the 1971 UK version, remain unique.  The analogue original mix
was by far superior... but of all the Jimi Hendrix albums I have sold on ebay, I have never sold this 1971 album due to the state
of the covers and the records.  A fantastic album and recorded 30th August, 1970, very close to Jimi's fateful death that robbed
the world of a musical genius we will never see the like of again.  The original 1971 album includes a precious live version of
"Midnight Lightning", the studio version was not released until 1975, with that track becoming the album's title and it inspired
incredible cover artwork.  I can't help getting into the many associated surrounding anything connected to Jimi Hendrix, that
began in December, 1966, as I will not play this major rarity, perhaps I should just concentrate on the subject in hand. With the
whole set filmed and available on a DVD, is the entire weekend is, this will be all the text I will write outside of the basic,
  details. I am still genuinely blown away to see ‎"Jimi Hendrix At The Isle Of Wight," literally looking exactly how it was first
appeared in a UK record shop...... in November, 1971.  The Isle of Wight Festival is well known and Jimi's set was nothing less
than staggering visually and a performance of biting intensity.


POLYDOR LABEL: 2302016 SUPER

MAITRIX:  2302016  A  // 1 ∆ 420  1   2  /   2302016  B // 2 420  1   2
Polydor's format for the very first pressing made.


ORIGINAL 1971, POLYDOR LINED INNER SLEEVE, UNSPLIT, UNUSED AND UNAGED, IN MINT- CONDITION.
There was a manufacturing coded date printed on the front bottom right corner, made a matter of weeks before the album was
released,13th November, 1971.


9/71 = September, 1971.


THE COVER IS OF COURSE IN ABSOLUTELY STUNNING CONDITION, I NEVER GRADE COVERS STILL IN SHRINK
 WRAPPING.


CENTRE HOLE, THERE ARE NO MARKS, SCRATCHES OR EVEN ANY FACTORY HANDLING TRACES.
THE RECORD IS IN UNPLAYED MINT CONDITION.   SIDE 1
"Midnight Lightning"
  "Foxy Lady"  
"Lover Man"

SIDE 2
"Freedom"
"All Along The Watchtower" (Bob Dylan)
"In From The Storm"

Jimi Hendrix - guitar & vocals
Billy Cox - bass
Mitch Mitchell - drums


Recorded Sunday, 30th September, 1970, Live At East Afton Farm, Isle of Wight, "The Isle Of Wight Festival," England.
All Songs Written By Jimi Hendrix Except "All Along the Watchtower."
Produced By  Michae lJeffrey
{Roy}
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