The Cry of Love Tour

The Cry of Love Tour

Tour by Jimi Hendrix
Associated album	First Rays of the New Rising Sun and The Cry of Love
Start date	April 25, 1970
End date	September 6, 1970
Legs	3
No. of shows	34 in North America 7 in Europe 41 Total
Jimi Hendrix concert chronology

The Cry of Love Tour was a concert tour by American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist Jimi Hendrix, which ran from April 25 to September 6, 1970, in the United States and Europe. The tour turned out to be the last on which Hendrix performed before his death in September, and featured many songs that he was working on for his double album First Rays of the New Rising Sun. Though the band did not feature original bassist Noel Redding, the trio of Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell (drums) and Billy Cox (bass) was often billed as "The Jimi Hendrix Experience".

Band members

The original Experience broke up in June 1969, after bassist Noel Redding left the band. Hendrix subsequently formed Gypsy Sun and Rainbows, which famously performed at the 1969 Woodstock Festival. After only two more performances, the band split up; Hendrix kept bassist Billy Cox and formed the Band of Gypsys with drummer and vocalist Buddy Miles. After a similarly short run, the trio disbanded, and Hendrix and Cox re-recruited drummer Mitch Mitchell to form what was often billed as "the Jimi Hendrix Experience". The band was later dubbed "The Cry of Love", a name taken from the tour and the album on which they performed.

• Billy Cox – bass guitar, backing vocals
• Jimi Hendrix – lead vocals, guitar
• Mitch Mitchell – drums

Set list

The set lists on the Cry of Love Tour consisted largely of new songs being worked on by Hendrix, including "Lover Man", "Room Full of Mirrors", "Machine Gun" and "Ezy Ryder". A number of songs from his original albums with The Jimi Hendrix Experience were still present, however, such as "Fire", "Red House", "Purple Haze" and "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)".

The following is the set list from the band's May 9 concert at the Will Rogers Coliseum in Fort Worth, Texas, which serves well as a sample set list for the tour.

1. "Fire"
2. "Lover Man"
3. "Hear My Train A Comin'"
4. "Foxy Lady"
5. "Room Full of Mirrors"
6. "Red House"
7. "Freedom"
8. "Ezy Ryder"
9. "Machine Gun"
10. "The Star-Spangled Banner"
11. "Purple Haze"
12. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"

• "Fire" and "Lover Man" were regularly used as the first songs in performances, and "Purple Haze" and "Voodoo Child" were regularly used as the last. A number of concerts featured "Spanish Castle Magic" as the opening song, and in the later dates songs like "Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)", "Stone Free", "Hey Joe" and "All Along the Watchtower" were introduced. "Straight Ahead" and "Midnight Lightning" also made their live debuts, both at the May 30 Berkeley concerts.

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue	Support act
North America Leg 1
April 25, 1970	Los Angeles	United States	The Forum	Buddy Miles Express, Ballin' Jack
April 26, 1970	Sacramento		Cal Expo	Buddy Miles Express, Blue Mountain Eagle
May 1, 1970	Milwaukee		Milwaukee Auditorium	Oz
May 2, 1970	Madison		Dane County Memorial Coliseum	Savage Grace, Oz
May 3, 1970	Saint Paul		Saint Paul Civic Center
May 4, 1970^1	New York City		The Village Gate	Johnny Winter with Noel Redding, Grateful Dead, Jim Morrison, Allen Ginsberg, Hugh Romney (M.C. – aka "Wavy Gravy")
May 8, 1970	Norman		University of Oklahoma Field House	Bloodrock
May 9, 1970	Fort Worth		Will Rogers Coliseum	Bloodrock
May 10, 1970	San Antonio		HemisFair Arena	Country Funk
May 16, 1970	Philadelphia		Temple University Stadium (Festival)	Grateful Dead, Steve Miller Band, Cactus
May 30, 1970	Berkeley		Berkeley Community Theatre	Tower of Power
June 5, 1970	Dallas		Dallas Memorial Auditorium	Ballin' Jack
June 6, 1970	Houston		Sam Houston Coliseum
June 7, 1970	Tulsa		Assembly Center Arena
June 9, 1970	Memphis		Mid-South Coliseum
June 10, 1970	Evansville		Roberts Municipal Stadium
June 13, 1970	Baltimore		Baltimore Civic Center	Crank, Cactus
June 19, 1970	Albuquerque		Albuquerque Civic Auditorium
June 20, 1970	San Bernardino		Swing Auditorium
June 21, 1970	Ventura		Ventura County Fairgrounds	Ballin' Jack, Grin
June 23, 1970	Denver		Mammoth Gardens
June 27, 1970	Boston		Boston Garden	The Illusion Cactus
July 4, 1970	Byron		Middle Georgia Raceway (Atlanta Pop Festival)	Rare Earth, The Chambers Brothers, Lee Michaels, The Allman Brothers Band, Cactus, Mountain, Procol Harum, Ravi Shankar, Poco, It's a Beautiful Day, John Sebastian, B.B. King
July 5, 1970	Miami		Miami Jai-Alai Fronton	Tunnel
North America Leg 2
July 17, 1970	Randall's Island	United States	Downing Stadium (New York Pop Festival)	John Sebastian, Grand Funk Railroad, Steppenwolf, Jethro Tull
July 25, 1970	San Diego		San Diego Sports Arena	Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys
July 26, 1970	Seattle		Sick's Stadium	Cactus, Rube Tuben and the Rhondonnas
July 30, 1970^2	Maui		"Haleakala" (actually in grazing pasture above Seabury Hall, not near the crater)	The Gemini Twins
August 1, 1970	Honolulu		Honolulu International Center	The Lucky Mud, Travelling Medicine Show
Europe
August 30, 1970	Isle of Wight	England	East Afton Farm (Isle of Wight Festival 1970)	Miles Davis, Ralph McTell, Heaven, Free, Donovan, Pentangle, The Moody Blues, Jethro Tull, Joan Baez, Leonard Cohen, Richie Havens, Kris Kristofferson
August 31, 1970	Stockholm	Sweden	Gröna Lund
September 1, 1970	Gothenburg		Liseberg
September 2, 1970^3	Aarhus	Denmark	Vejlby-Risskov Hallen	Leo Kottke
September 3, 1970	Copenhagen		K.B. Hallen	Blue Sun
September 4, 1970	Berlin	Germany	Deutschlandhalle (Super Concert '70)	Murphy Blend, Procol Harum, Canned Heat, Ten Years After, Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys
September 6, 1970	Fehmarn		Mecklenburg Bay (Love & Peace Festival)	Alexis Korner, Floh de Cologne, Limbus 4, Embryo

• ^1 A small charity event for Timothy Leary, not part of the tour.
• ^2 A small invited audience for a scene for the film Rainbow Bridge. Not part of the tour.
• ^3 Jimi Hendrix was unable to perform at the concert. After playing a couple of sets, the concert was cancelled. Leo Kottke did his best to fill in before the cancellation.

References

• Shapiro, Harry; Caesar Glebbeek. "Appendix 3: Jimi Hendrix – A Life in Music: A Chronology". Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. pp. 738–740. ISBN 978-0-312-13062-6.
• "Jimi Hendrix Set List". earthlink.net. Retrieved 2008-09-07.
• Wilkinson, Paul. "just ask the Axis". Digital Highway. Retrieved 2008-09-07.