''Live at the Oakland Coliseum'' is a two-disc posthumous

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. It documents the group's performance at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California, on April 27, 1969. The Experience broke up two months later, making the album one of the last full-length concert recordings of the trio to be officially issued.The short-lived

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'' (1991) includes the Experience's set recorded a month later on May 24, 1969, at the

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, in San Diego, California.

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released ''Live at the Oakland Coliseum'' on February 27, 1998. It was the first release on the label, which was set up by the Hendrix estate for recordings that "don't meet the technical recording criteria and sonic high standards" for standard releases.

Songs

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" and " Spanish Castle Magic". Other songs include the improvised " Hey Joe", blues numbers " Red House" and " Hear My Train A Comin'", the extended " Foxey Lady" and the finale of the night, an eighteen-minute jam on " Voodoo Child (Slight Return)", with

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's Jack Casady on bass.

Track listing

All songs were written by

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, except where noted. Disc one #"Introduction" – 0:42 #"

" – 4:19 #" Hey Joe" (

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) – 4:26 #" Spanish Castle Magic" – 8:53 #" Hear My Train A Comin'" – 10:25 #"

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" (

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, Jack Bruce,

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) – 6:45 #" Red House" – 13:12 Disc two #" Foxey Lady" – 10:36 #"

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) – 2:58 #"

" – 4:08 #" Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" – 18:04

Personnel

– guitar, vocals * Mitch Mitchell – drums * Noel Redding – bass guitar, backing vocals, rhythm guitar on "Voodoo Child" * Jack Casady – bass on "Voodoo Child"

References

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