Bleeding Heart (album)

[1] Some of these include jams at the Cafe Au Go Go on March 17, 1968, with members of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band (Elvin Bishop, Phillip Wilson) and the Electric Flag (Harvey Brooks, Buddy Miles) and the Generation Club on April 15, 1968, with B.B.

[8] Most albums list guitarist Johnny Winter, who occasionally jammed with Hendrix, although he emphatically denied ever having met or performed with Jim Morrison or being in New York at the time.

Except for part of the Elmore James slow blues "Bleeding Heart", the remainder of the jam is disjointed and includes rambling harmonica accompaniment and "Morrison's drunken hollering".

[13] Snippets of instrumental passages and ad-libbed lyrics have led the album's producers to give the tracks names, such as "Tomorrow Never Knows", "Outside Woman Blues", "If You Wake Up This Morning (And Found Yourself Dead)", "Uranus Rock", etc., although these are brief jam themes and not actual songs.

The albums have been described as "exceedingly lo-fi",[2] "interesting because it records for posterity two '60s icons on stage and the ensuing hilarity",[10] and "a horribly drunken, obscenity-spewing Jim Morrison only makes the experience that much more unpleasant".

[17] While one reviewer noted the album was "mandatory for completists, Hendrix fanatics and historians",[16] others conclude "nothing on this LP can be considered essential"[13] and "it sheds absolutely no new light on the guitarist's enduring legend".

[17] Biographer Shadwick wrote: As a private tape in a musician's own collection it would have had its point, but as a commercially available record of an informal night's worth of music-making it has serious aesthetic problems.