Perhaps the most unusual split record in my collection, pairing Jimi Hendrix and Otis Redding. Both are live performances captured at Monterey Pop in 1967, and both have since been expanded in more comprehensive releases dedicated to each performer.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience (with Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell, and Noel Redding) had not yet performed in the US – as the liner notes put it they “were no more than a rumor to most of the Monterey crowd.” Otis Redding (backed by Booker T. & the M.G.s) was more well known but performing before a rock crowd, coming on at midnight on Saturday night.

I picked this copy up via an Estate Sale