Unearthed tape lets fans relive Hendrix experience

Technicians at Sweden’s state television have unearthed an unexpected delight for rock lovers – a 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 found on a shelf deep inside the station’s enormous archives during a project to transfer archived material from tape and film to digital, said SVT spokeswoman.

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.

She said it was likely that one of the state-run network’s workers, perhaps a Hendrix fan, stashed it on the shelf where it sat for 35 years gathering dust.

SVT is determining if it still has the rights to show the entire broadcast of the music legend’s concert.

“Of course we realise that this is great material that we would love to show,” Wilson said.

Hendrix died in London 24 years ago.