The Jimi Hendrix Memorial Concerts: 1995 is a live, double CD composed entirely of Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...

 covers. It is 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...

 fifth CD release.

The tour the album ultimately derived from was performed as a tribute to Jimi Hendrix as a celebration of 25 years since his death. The band's first album, Electric Hamsterland

Electric Hamsterland

Electric Hamsterland was The Hamsters first CD release and consists entirely of Jimi Hendrix covers. This was the only time they recorded an album of totally non-original material...

, also a compilation of Hendrix covers, was released in 1990, 20 years after the death of Hendrix. For the 25th anniversary the band decided to do a full UK tour playing predominantly Hendrix covers. This album was recorded during that tour, as was a concert film, Band of Gerbils

Band of Gerbils

Band of Gerbils was a video of a night's performance during a special Hamsters tour which was to celebrate the 25th year of Jimi Hendrix's death in 1970. It was recorded onto S-VHS master tapes at The Square Club, Harlow, Essex on the evening of 22 October 1995 in front of a live audience...

which was initially released on VHS

VHS

The Video Home System is a consumer-level analog recording videocassette standard developed by Victor Company of Japan ....

 with a subsequent release on DVD

DVD

A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....

 ten years later.

Disk 1 (Red CD)

1. "Foxy Lady" – 4:20
2. "Fire" – 3:53
3. "Little Wing" – 6:39
4. "Izabella" – 5:05
5. "Up From The Skies" – 4:51
6. "Power of Soul" – 1:10
7. "Spanish Castle Magic" – 3:54
8. "Rock Me, Baby" – 2:49
9. "Voodoo Chile" – 6:49
10. "Hey, Baby (Land of the New Rising Sun)" – 5:53
11. "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" – 3:48
12. "Ezy Rider" – 4:10
13. "Hey Joe'" – 5:52

Disk 2 (Purple CD)

1. "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)" – 6:58
2. "Room Full of Mirrors" – 4:31
3. "Third Stone From The Sun" – 3:59
4. "Come On (Let the Good Times Roll)" – 3:46
5. "51^st Anniversary" – 3:55
6. "I Don't Live Today" – 2:12
7. "Love or Confusion" – 3:37
8. "The Wind Cries Mary" – 3:38
9. "Manic Depression" – 4:05
10. "Stone Free" – 3:44
11. "All Along the Watchtower
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    " – 5:53
12. "Star-Spangled Banner" – 3:38
13. "Purple Haze'" – 4:32
14. "Angel" – 4:19

Musicians

• Snail's-Pace Slim —- guitars
  Electric guitar
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  , lead vocals.
• Rev Otis Elevator —- drums
  Drum kit
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  , vocals
  Backing vocalist
  A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
  
  .
• Ms Zsa Zsa Poltergeist —- bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , vocals.

Production

• Recorded live at the Robin Hood, Brierley Hill, West Midlands
  West Midlands (county)
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  , UK on the 'Zipper Mobile'.
• Recording supervised by Richard Willis
• Mixed
  Mix engineer
  A mix engineer, also referred to as "mixing engineer", is a person who, once all instruments, voices, and sounds, etc., have been recorded, creates what is called the final version of a song, hence the term "mix engineer"...
  
   by Dave Morris & Mark Tempest at Workshop Studios, Redditch
  Redditch
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  , Worcestershire
  Worcestershire
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• Post-production
  Post-production
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   sonic enhancement and editing by Jerry Stevenson.
• Mastered
  Mastering engineer
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   by Iestyn Rees.
• Produced
  Record producer
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   by 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...
  
  
• Cover design by Phil Smee
  Phil Smee
  Phil Smee is an English music journalist, designer and record collector, most widely known for designing music album covers and his Bam-Caruso music label, best known for the Rubble series of albums. One of his more notable designs is the lettering of the Motörhead logo .-External links:...
  
   of Waldo's Design Emporium.
• Cover concept by 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...
  
  
• 'Jimi Hamster' design by Des Penny
• Photography by Nixon