R.I.P.

Appropriately unearched in memorium of Mr. Hendrix's deathSeattle Post-Intelligencer: Swedish television unearths Hendrix concert from 1969:

Technicians at Sweden's public television have unearthed an unexpected delight for music lovers: the complete original recording of a Jimi Hendrix concert in Stockholm from 1969 on a tape long thought to have been destroyed.


The unmarked tape was recently found stashed on a shelf deep inside station's enormous archives during a project to transfer archived material from tape and film to digital, SVT spokeswoman Catarina Wilson said Friday.


"They looked through the tape, and found it had some Jimi Hendrix," Wilson said. "Then they saw it had a lot of Jimi Hendrix - the entire concert, which is what makes this tape unique."


The black-and-white recording from Stockholm's concert hall was ordered destroyed by a producer in 1969, a time when it was too expensive to keep all raw footage, Wilson said.