27 Club who die at 27." Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison all died at the age of 27 between 1969 and 1971. At the time, the coincidence gave rise to some comment, but it was not until the 1994 death of Kurt Cobain at age 27, that the idea of a "27 Club" began to catch on in public perception. According to Hendrix and Cobain biographer Charles R. Cross, the growing importance of the media—Internet, television and magazines—and the response to an interview of Cobain's mother were jointly responsible for such theories. An excerpt from a statement that
Woodstock (Jimi Hendrix album) Woodstock (Jimi Hendrix album) Woodstock is a live album by Jimi Hendrix released posthumously on August 20, 1994. The album is an edited recording of Hendrix's performance with his band Gypsy Sun and Rainbows at Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York on August 18, 1969. A more-complete version of the concert would be released in 1999 as "Live at Woodstock", albeit with some of the performers mixed out. In a contemporary review for "The Village Voice", music critic Robert Christgau said the under-rehearsed, highly eccentric music on "Woodstock" makes for what was a transitional but all-important live album by Hendrix: "All