Band of Gerbils was a video of a night's performance during a special Hamsters

The Hamsters

The Hamsters are a band from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England.They performed their first live show at the Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea, on 1 April 1987. They initially played in local pubs with no ambitions to take themselves seriously or to turn professional...

 tour which was to celebrate the 25th year of Jimi Hendrix's

Jimi Hendrix

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 death in 1970. It was recorded onto S-VHS

S-VHS

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 master tapes at The Square Club

The Square, Harlow

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, Harlow

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, Essex on the evening of 22 October 1995 in front of a live audience. The video was released originally to accompany the CD release of The Jimi Hendrix Memorial Concerts: 1995

The Jimi Hendrix Memorial Concerts

The Jimi Hendrix Memorial Concerts: 1995 is a live, double CD composed entirely of Jimi Hendrix covers. It is The Hamsters fifth CD release....

 which was recorded on a different night during the same tour.

It was originally released in 1996 on VHS, then was re-released (along with the rest of The Hamsters

The Hamsters

The Hamsters are a band from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England.They performed their first live show at the Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea, on 1 April 1987. They initially played in local pubs with no ambitions to take themselves seriously or to turn professional...

' video back catalogue) in 2005 when it was re-edited and re-mastered into the DVD format (MPEG2 with Dolby Digital

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 2.0 stereo). There are some minor differences between the DVD version and the original VHS release, primarily Slim's introductions and explanations of the history behind the songs about to be played.

Track listing

1. "Stone Free"
2. "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)"
3. "Third Stone From The Sun"
4. "Come On"
5. "The Wind Cries Mary"
6. "Izabella"
7. "Power of Soul"
8. "Spanish Castle Magic"
9. "Rock Me, Baby"
10. "Ezy Rider"
11. "Hey, Joe"
12. "Little Wing"
13. "Straight Ahead\If Six Was Nine\Midnight\Machine Gun\Voodoo Chile\Land of the New Rising Sun\Moon, Turn The Tides Gently, Gently Away...\Villanova Junction\Pali Gap\Sunshine of your Love" (25 minute medley
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14. "Room Full of Mirrors"
15. "Foxy Lady"
16. "Fire"
17. "All Along the Watchtower
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18. "Star-Spangled Banner"
19. "Purple-Haze"

Personnel

• Snail's-Pace Slim – guitars, lead vocals.
• Rev Otis Elevator – drums, vocals
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• Ms Zsa Zsa Poltergeist – bass, vocals.

Production

• Recorded sound – Chris Fallon
• Concert sound – Nick Foote
• Cover layout – Kurt Adkins.
• Video editing
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   – Kurt Adkins.
• DVD authoring
  DVD authoring
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  , DVD mastering
  MPEG encoding
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  , Video digitising – Kurt Adkins.