can someone clue me in to this date?

December 31, 1969

Jimi Hendrix's new band debuts


Jimi Hendrix's new group, the Band of Gypsies, debuts with its first album, Band of Gypsies. Hendrix's former band, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, had dissolved after several productive years together.

Hendrix was born in Seattle in 1942. He grew up playing guitar, imitating blues greats like Muddy Waters as well as early rockers. He joined the army in 1959 and became a paratrooper but was honorably discharged in 1961 after an injury, which exempted him from duty in Vietnam. In the early 1960s, Hendrix worked as a pickup guitarist, backing up musicians including Little Richard, B.B. King, Ike and Tina Turner, and Sam Cooke. He moved to New York in 1964 and played in coffeehouses, where bassist Bryan Chandler of the British group the Animals heard him. Chandler arranged to manage Hendrix and in 1966 brought him to London, where they created the Jimi Hendrix Experience with bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell. The band's first single, "Hey Joe," hit No. 6 on the British pop charts, and the band became an instant sensation.

In 1967, the Jimi Hendrix Experience made its first U.S. appearance, at the Monterey Pop Festival. Hendrix made a splash by burning his guitar and was quickly established as a rock superstar. In the next two years, before the band broke up in 1969, it had released such classic songs as "Purple Haze," "Foxy Lady," and "The Wind Cries Mary." The band's albums included Are You Experienced? (1967), Bold as Love (1969), and Electric Ladyland (1969).

After the band dissolved over creative tensions, Hendrix made his famous appearance at Woodstock, playing a masterful, intricate version of "The Star Spangled Banner." Later that year, he put together a new group called the Band of Gypsies, which debuted on New Year's Eve in 1969. The band put out only one album, Band of Gypsies (1969). (A second album, Band of Gypsies II, was released in 1986.) Hendrix then recorded another album, without the band, called The Cry of Love, released in 1971.

Hendrix played his last concert in August 1970, at the Isle of Wight Festival in Britain. He died in London in September 1970, having choked on his own vomit following a drug overdose. He was 28 years old when he died.

hmmm i should of known.... great way to put a tribute to him on this site, every show that doesn't have a forum links to that page.... too bad its fill with ads from Bootyless Other Thesees

wiki's got nothing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969#December

RichHorror said:

I don't know where you got that Rich, but it is full of mistakes.

It recently came out that Hendrix's "injury" story was fake. He conned his way into a psych discharge by constantly masturbating.

Axis Bold As Love came out in '67
Electric Ladyland came out in '68
Band of Gypsies came out in April of '70. The show the recordings were taken from was Dec. 31 1969.

The Cry of Love was comprised of the most finished tracks from the album he was working on at the time of his death. In 1997 it was finally released under the title he had intended for it, First Rays of the New Rising Sun with all of the songs that had been recorded based on the final track listing he left behind.

It was the only thing I could find anywhere for that date.

you'd have to ask aaron why he that date comes up after his last shows pictures are done.