As JMcD jumping to conclusions, baseless? Nothing happened, but no evidence of connection to anything?
No. We are talking about the same thing, JMcD is not the Pope

If Reprise wanted to release Monterey, it had already been mentioned as a possible 4 track EP not long after the festival, they would. They could release what they wanted that they owned. Reprise owned and mixed/mastered the tape themselves. And after the "settlement" Jeffery really had no say, they forced him into making the Rainbow Bridge "soundtrack", they later refused his 'Loose Ends', withdrew 'Rainbow Bridge' and 'Was Heroes' due to Douglas, who failed in his bid to have ;Cry of Love' removed too. And it seems they had control over most of Jimi's previous recordings, especially the stereo mixes of AYE which only saw a full release outside of USA/Canada with Douglas' Reprise re-master.
Again, according to who? Don't just say, "McD said so," pu-lease
Not, "instead". The Track/Polydor was a huge seller World wide and was an obvious chart topping release at that time.
I find this complete fantasy based on McD's fantasy. The "settlement " with Chalpin was for, as
he understood it, the next JHE
studio album composed of
new, original songs of a comparable worth as his previous, would be given to him. Jimi
himself managed to wangle it so that he got the royalty as producer as "Heaven Research" and only really gave Chalpin three songs, all "jammed" and live, with a different band and got an audience to pay for the recording of it!!

And which he publicly insulted to the press on it's release! Who Knows was just obviously jammed together and he never played it again. 'Machine Gun', although well loved, and often part of his later sets, was not much different, he never made a serious attempt at recording a "finished" version and always played it differently and with different lyrics.
Jeffery had nothing to do with this "agreement" it was between Reprise (who betrayed JH) and Chalpin/Capitol
and JH organised the concerts and their recording with Bill Graham himself.
No. All his mentions of Band of Gypsys were strictly related to the Chalpin album. He first tried it with "Gypsy Sun & Rainbows/Band of Gypsys", but that was just him experimenting with Reprise (who had betrayed him)/Chalpin/the songs he would give Chalpin and having a bit of a holiday with chums at the same time, and part of his sticking it to Chalpin/Reprise (who had betrayed him), for
a year and a half

. There is no evidence that there was anything "serious"/long term about his intentions with this "group", apart from some wishful thinking by some involved.
Yeah, the one mentioned previously, where Jeffery falsely claimed the Albert Hall as West Coast and quite possibly originally intended to use the inferior '68 Winterland?

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