Got this on VHS in 1993. Then, I just fast forwarded to Jimi's performance. But today, I'm watching the whole movie and I get it. This was a glimpse into 1970. An earlier time, a VERY DIFFERENT America.
I remember sleeping through the bulk of this film when it ran in theaters, waking up when Jimi came on. Thankfully, scene selection is available today!
@@JamesFolkers "I think it's a beautifully filmed and preserved time capsule !! Life was so much more simple and fun, you can feel it if you turn on your energy."
This was fantastic! Thank you! I had not seen this in years....I used to have Rainbow Bridge on VHS in the early 80's, but lost my copy and have not seen this again until now. I remembered watching Jimi's concert footage back in the day and I had forgot how much great film footage there was of him performing. This upload is truly a treasure for Hendrix fans. I own the Blue Ray release of Hendrix Live in Maui from 2020, but Janie Hendrix and the Hendrix estate cut out some of the great filmed portions of him doing his magic on guitar. On the Live in Maui release, it has a caption when the film cuts out with only audio "Cameras stopped working." I call BS now, since the original film has it all right there, no "camera stopped working" here....Thank you for uploading this! Amazing! And thank you for all the work bringing it to us, dealing RUclips, etc.
The concert footage used in the film was approx 17 mins and was cut quite a lot in places. Unfortunately the cameras that were filming the concert were running on one generator; which also powered the amps and sound stuff. For whatever reason the cameras did fail over and over. That has been talked a lot over the years in books like Setting the Record Straight. We are lucky with what we have got in the video and audio. Now, also the JH estate still might have some minor cuttings left, but not both wonderful sets in there complete celluloid glory....unfortunately.
I found Rainbow Bridge on VHS in a video store in 1987 in Wallingford, Connecticut. I nearly cried. I don’t think kids today understand how much we had to hustle for bootlegs and rare releases.
The Jimi Hendrix Estate released Live in Maui Box Set on 11/20/2020, which contains the complete show on LP, CD, and DVD. The DVD has all of the audio and all available video fragments. There also an additional DVD documentary where Billy Cox tried to distance the band from the theatrical film but keep in mind that this is Billy Cox’s opinion, we’ll never know what Jimi’s opinion was. But Billy Cox does provide entertaining insight into the shenanigans surrounding the movie. This film can be summarized as one needs to find their own spiritual path. At times there seemed to be interesting points however either because of cross-talk and poor audio production and/or audio degradation over time, some of the conversation is hard, if not impossible to clearly hear. I think the idea of the movie is solid, the execution, as others have noted, is dismal. But if you have never seen it then it is worth a one time watch.
@@curbozerboomer1773Hendrix made poor business decisions thinking the way he played his 🎵🎶 music, the signing of contracts also free-wheelimgly applied to commitments. NOT SO❗Those sharks🦈 figured once u put your name on the dotted line, they OWNED U ,Mind, body & soul like uh piece of furniture. Hendrix figured there was NO WAY OUT with these sharks🦈.
@@curbozerboomer1773 Great observation. The entire generation (mine) saw all the pollution (Lake Erie caught fire? Piles of white powder dumped in the neighbor's woods?) and hyper-judgemental attitudes (the Beatles haircut made them - what, disposeable ? 😂) and so we rebeled, at the same time women could take a pill to avoid pregnancy and airfare became accessible to young adults. Exploration by immature brains! 😂 Jimi died around the age our brains mature, something recently proved by science yet known for almost 100 years by the car insurance industry.😅 Jimi remains unmatched at improvisation and stage show with guitar, though Prince comes close. Recently I've got this idea that ❤❤ Mayara Lima ❤❤ does something similar in dance, endless beautiful improvisation.
His rendition of In From the Storm was a funky mind blow worthy of viewing if for only the concert footage but still an interesting account of a groupies travels in Hawaii😂❤
Thank you thank you thank you !! I have a burned copy of this on DVD from 20 yrs ago. I absolutely love this movie and the entire hippy vibe of it. Hendrix is just an added bonus. Cheers ✌️❤️✌️
On July 4th 1976 I saw the Full Theatrcal Release of this movie in the Villiage in NY, In that version that astrologer sat down with Jimi Hendrix and read his horscope chart too. Then they actually flashed his horoscope chart on the movie screen and it showed he was 5 Degree Capricorn Rising Sign. That scene was NOT in this version. They cut it out of the movie and all the DVDs..One year before I had read an astrology book that used that same chart. Jimi Hendrix gave that astrologer his birth information himself, so it was correct. Jimi had an amazing chart it showed he was indeed a cosmic being, This was because his Sun sign had close contact with all three of the higher octave body outer planets Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. This explains the cosmic energy he channel through his music. .Very few music artists have that connection. The other artist that had close contact with two higher octave planets Neptune, and Pluto was Michael Jackson. Artist with those planetary contacts always give out this cosmic enegy that tranforms mass consciouness. I always wondered why they would cut that secne out of th movie? When I saw Jimi's chart flash across that big screen like that, it changed my life
I remember seeing this film around the mid 80's as a young teen, about a 20 mile round trip on bikes for me and my buddies and we thought, WTF is this ? I pretty much deleted it all from my mind and this brought it back again, and I still think, WTF is this ? I know I have seen more Jimi concert footage than this, I remember there was this one dreamy hippy chick, spaced out on acid and the camera zoomed on her for like a minute, she locked eyes with the camera while grooving to Jimis music and I was mesmerized, wanting to go back in time and get me some stoned hippy tuna ,, That part was no where to be seen here, also there were parts where the video cut out completely but the audio was still there.
What s blast from the past. Saw this at the drive-in movies in the '70s. The woman that gets halled in by the Gestapo and then is released and gets on the double decker bus was one of Jimi's girls. Can't remember her name though. I am from the Land of the New Rising Sun. LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹
Yeah, Pat.I remembered that later, but couldn't remember her last name. She was one of Jimi's ladies; she also was in the doc film 'Jimi Hendrix', along with a host of others. Jimi's hottest lady was Fayne, by far. Wonder how long this will stay up; a while ago the entire footage of the concert was on here but got taken down by the Queen. It had several areas where the cameras were turned off(?)but the audio was still there. I'd rather have that than this. Cool concert though, at I think it was called Haleiaka Crater, Maui. I just dig the music of Jimi Hendrix. My first real influence on guitar. There's never been nobody like him since, and his few copy cats never did anything for me. That's not to say there hasn't been great guitarists since, there has, but nobody like him. LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹
1:00:35 - I hate to break it to this guy but he's just a poser, who would have you think he's some sort of divine possessor of absolute knowledge, when in fact all he's doing is spewing out some generic spiritual concoction. I'm sure that Hendrix saw right through him too!
Quire the contrary. I don't enjoy the death, the misfortune, the stupidity or the suffering of any living entity, even those that I am not particularly fond of.@@oakley2001
Jimi at 1:33.20 is the beginning of the worthwhile portion of this film. We sat through the entire thing at the theater because it was touted as a Jimi Hendrix concert on film. If not for the portions with Jimi playing and/or talking, a total waste. " Peace Love and Happiness" Jimi Hendrix 1967
One thing said about Haley's comet slamming into Earth due to a slow rotation most likely will occur again The last time it put Jurrasic Park into the ice age Man who slay oxen is same as doing it to man So is consuming steak pork chops guilt turning more choices of vegetarian fruits n grain a more purest set of values😢 Hey there's still cheese n mushroom pizza so all is not lost Keep the faith health n spirit🎉❤
Form sentences much? BTW, I think that guy meant the earth's orbit around the sun is slowing. Earth's rotation wouldn't change where it is in relation to Haley's comet. Obviously, he was wrong.
I wonder if Don Ho will make a cameo appearance n want to do tiny bubbles in E flat backwards or maybe Captain Coconut followed by Yes we have no F. N bananas😅
The worst of the worst except for the Hendrix footage. "Did you know the space people have already made their way to the US!?" and the hollowed out surfboard. Drug use does not necessarily equate to creative genius. Jimi wasn't into this elitist bs scene it was just another gig and he was passing through. If he lived to see the finished product it would not have seen the light of day.
Jimi was very much into the idea that the saucer brothers were here and he had to help the American public understand how and why. He also smoked DMT before the encore of this gig and plucks harmonic fragments of new inter-dimensional phases of consciousness out of the air like he's peelin' a string cheese so I dunno maybe but maybe your favorite rock guitar player was crazy and weird too!
I heard or read about this particular Jimi Hendrix Maui concert. Supposedly during the filming, the film crew saw UFOs coming out of the Volcano 🌋 But failed to record it or something similar that happened
An absolutely dreadful movie notable only for the footage of Jimi at the end. Before the advent of home video when you could only see it in theaters you had to sit thru an hour and a half of hippy psycho babble (which I did more than once) just to see Jimi. I have seen people get up and walk out 30 minutes in saying "This is bullshit man" as they left. After it was available on VHS and later DVD I never saw the movie again. The recent documentary on the making of the movie was just as unwatchable. Thank goodness they also gave us all of the unreleased footage on a separate disc.
It's a snapshot in time. A way to see the way it was in the hippy days so I believe for historical reasons it has validity in that respect and for older people maybe nostalgia
I would love to know who and where the lead “actress” is. She appeared in a 1973 documentary about Hendrix and came across just as spacey (and lovely) as she does in this tripped out film. Weird, I know. But if you have a penchant for “where are they now” type questions, you’ll get it.
She’s a film director who just made a documentary about the author James Baldwin. Still has that energetic, talkative and amusing personality, with a lot less of the hippy spaciness.
When I hear the title RAINBOW BRIDGE, I think of a great Jimi Hendrix album (8 songs, released posthumously). I try to forget that this unwatchable film even exists. Appreciate you putting the effort into your upload...I'm not slagging on you. But the only footage worth watching from this film is Jimi's concert...and that's now been released in a high-definition, 5.1 surround restoration...MUCH MORE concert footage than the 20 or so minutes this film gives you. It's not necessarily an accurate representation, but movies like this really make "hippies" look like nothing more than self-absorbed bums during a time in which there was a lot of bad happening in the world (which is still true today).
@@johntrinkwalder1853 Uh...WHAT? I'm just saying: It's NOT a good movie. Almost unwatchable. BUT...the concerts in the movie are great (and can be watched on their own in a newer release in much better quality).
Is this the actual full length version ? I've been looking for this on the torrents for a long time. I wonder if it's the same length as the old Rhino home video VHS copy
This is the MovieCD version from Rhino. I hear the VHS version of Rainbow Bridge is only 74 minutes long, and this version claims to have more bonus footage than VHS.
@@oakley2001 thanks for saying that. There's some pictures on the internet of the VHS box. I believe some versions were longer than 74 minutes but I could be wrong
This was meant to to space out no script hippies in Hawaii talking bout LSD then u hot some girl dropping on all over n Hendrix tunes on the background so hey take it for what it worth a lot not much nothin at all It's where yer heads at with it so dig groovy souls it's two hours out of a lifetime which was a Journey tune😅😂❤
Miss Mercy (Mascara hippie) , GTO that modeled for Hot Rats cover.,,Pat Hartley sets that cut bread loaf on that patio table the sane way she rides a bus.,It really isn't a bad film. It doesn't deserve the flack it received.
Some good concert footage and Jimi hanging out talking is really fun. The concert footage was redone and retitled as another movie. Space people? Why would anyone intelligent stop at our planet? Still, we need progressive minds, not the angry repressive minds of today. Oh well.
Those ex-hippees /baby boomers in charge need to deprogram their minds with MC5 and The Stooges as the soundtrack. Pali Gap is the most gorgeous instrumental track by Jimi on this very weird flick of a movie.
Jimi hated this film and wanted nothing to do with it 😆 , Well he barely was a part of it , Only the concert and the footage they filmed of him describing a trip.
Nigel in Canada🇨🇦 in the middle of the pandemic I bought a Deja Vibe you can really hear it in this "live" performance hmm ? I will "pass" on the "obligatory Hendrix perm"
Too bad jimi didn't write more music during this time to contribute more to the soundtrack. Get rid of the viet nam political crap and stick to the early funk vibe. Trying to figure out which version of Hey Baby is this at the beginning of the concert. Two were played that day, for two whole separate sets. the distributed versions are not the one played in the movie. Very cool tune
The Hey Baby played on the white Strat is from the first set, but the not the first song of the set. It segues into, In from the Storm. The intro for Hey Baby on this version still wasn't completely included in the Maui sets most recent release, I think Jimi messed it a little or it was damaged; were talking the first few seconds here, most of the intro is there. The audio for those first few seconds does exist, someone put it on YT a while back. The second version is towards the end of the 2nd set played on his custom Gibson Flying V. Nice mellow intro, elements of "The New Rising Sun" instrumental in there. That is what we see at the end where Jimi is faded out into the back drop of Maui's volcanic crater. He never completed the play through in the 2nd set as he broke into "Midnight Lightning" then into "Race with the Devil". Finishing the set with a drum solo from Mitch, sub-par Stone Free and Hey Joe. I myself wondered about that version at the end after watching Rainbow Bridge years ago, "Did he finish the song? I want to hear the rest of it !! " I thought. But where it fades in the film is pretty much where Jimi just breaks into Midnight Lightning. Too bad the studio version wasn't fully completed, he would have added overdubs and all sorts. It would have been an even grander masterpiece than it already is. He was heading to the US to complete the album in the coming weeks, starting late Sept 1970. Sadly never happened.
Nigel in Canada🇨🇦 Billy Cox on bass was an improvement over Noel Redding Mitch Mitchell was a better drummer to my ears than Buddy Miles so much for the Band of Gypsies lasting then
It's cool to see Jimi kicking back. Looks like he was having a little fun with the Brotherhood even if they were acting a little pretentions or philosophical when they could have been being a little more wise and real. Some bullshit like that. Man, I wish Jimmy would have been with us a lot longer. Mike Hynson said he was just a regular guy off the stage. A really cool guy. Does anyone think Jimi may have committed suicide? I only ask because he allegidly said things to indicate that he was gonna die very soon. Anyone, I'm getting a headache listening to this bullshit while writing this. I hope Jimi at least.got laid or enjoy Mike's company and talks on surfing.
Yeah, if it hadn't been for Jimi... Like a lot here, I lived through that time, and I loved the music at Woodstock, Isle of Wight etc. But already then all I could see were spoiled narcissistic brats who saw themselves as the new generation chosen to save the world. And those idiots later ran the show, and what did we get? Thank God or whoever we had the music, otherwise it would have been unbearable. Jimi forever!
Melinda Merriweather--the tall hottie, is still alive...she has been living an upscale life in La Jolla, california. She is still concerned about environmental issues. She was married for some time to a famous surfer/documentarian, Bruce. They divorced, and I believe she then married some rich doctor...typical, really. I mean, She was Jimi's lover in this movie, and for real, too!...But ya know--Castles Made of Sand--right?
@@curbozerboomer1773 Which girl? not Pat Hartley... yeah well any woman within 10 feet of Jimi was his lover...other men's wives included :)... yeh castles made of sand...
@@curbozerboomer1773Hartley & JH knew one another in NY after JH was fired from Little Richards' band in '65 according to Hartley.She said she saw jh at the CHEETAH club with Curtis Knight & the SQUIRES (fun fact). RAINBOW🌈 BRIDGE. What was Mike Jeffrey thinking? At least Electric 💡⚡ Lady Studios was up & running; Studio A anyway, JIMIS' wing.
Hawaii outdoors LSD n seeing a guitarist behind three double stack Marshalls was America when all was a dream of beauty such a fat cry from today makes one wonder how political party would intentionally destruct it's integrity making money the root of all evil😮
Hendrix did NOT want anything to do with this movie...he was basically forced to do it, by Mike Jeffery. He did not mind the outdoor venue, but really did not want to be an actor in the film. At least, he got to be with that sexy model, Melinda Merriwether, he even recorded for himself, a tune dedicated to her, "Scorpio Woman"...Melinda went on, to live in upscale La Jolla, and eventually got into politics/animal rights, etc. She still is around!
lets keep the rainbow bridge goin further whos with me we need a foxey lady dolly dagger and izabella 24/7 rainbow bridge bus and house lets all shuttle from my place
This was almost my first date movie. Lucky it didn't work out. The poor kids try real hard to be hip- and they aren't, they're conforming and brown nosing . It was (like today) an undeclared war for GRIFT laundered tax money to politicians. I remember the Jesus movement -desperate young ..no money/future/clueless. this is a Chuck Wein film. He also did Edie Sedgewick -and she ended up dead soon after too.....
Got this on VHS in 1993. Then, I just fast forwarded to Jimi's performance. But today, I'm watching the whole movie and I get it. This was a glimpse into 1970. An earlier time, a VERY DIFFERENT America.
I remember sleeping through the bulk of this film when it ran in theaters, waking up when Jimi came on. Thankfully, scene selection is available today!
Gillman Theater Berkeley....same experience.
Saw this at a midnight movie in 1979 tripping ....and same here, I dozed off till the concert, lol!
I think it's a beautifully filmed and preserved *time capsule* !!
Life was so much more simple and fun, you can feel it if you turn on your energy.
What?
@@JamesFolkers "I think it's a beautifully filmed and preserved time capsule !!
Life was so much more simple and fun, you can feel it if you turn on your energy."
What a lot of work made by people who restore this! Thank you for share it!
Interesting, how the term Rainbow Bridge refers to where the spirits of our beloved pets go when they die.
This was fantastic! Thank you! I had not seen this in years....I used to have Rainbow Bridge on VHS in the early 80's, but lost my copy and have not seen this again until now. I remembered watching Jimi's concert footage back in the day and I had forgot how much great film footage there was of him performing. This upload is truly a treasure for Hendrix fans. I own the Blue Ray release of Hendrix Live in Maui from 2020, but Janie Hendrix and the Hendrix estate cut out some of the great filmed portions of him doing his magic on guitar. On the Live in Maui release, it has a caption when the film cuts out with only audio "Cameras stopped working." I call BS now, since the original film has it all right there, no "camera stopped working" here....Thank you for uploading this! Amazing! And thank you for all the work bringing it to us, dealing RUclips, etc.
The concert footage used in the film was approx 17 mins and was cut quite a lot in places. Unfortunately the cameras that were filming the concert were running on one generator; which also powered the amps and sound stuff. For whatever reason the cameras did fail over and over. That has been talked a lot over the years in books like Setting the Record Straight. We are lucky with what we have got in the video and audio. Now, also the JH estate still might have some minor cuttings left, but not both wonderful sets in there complete celluloid glory....unfortunately.
I found Rainbow Bridge on VHS in a video store in 1987 in Wallingford, Connecticut. I nearly cried. I don’t think kids today understand how much we had to hustle for bootlegs and rare releases.
The Jimi Hendrix Estate released Live in Maui Box Set on 11/20/2020, which contains the complete show on LP, CD, and DVD. The DVD has all of the audio and all available video fragments. There also an additional DVD documentary where Billy Cox tried to distance the band from the theatrical film but keep in mind that this is Billy Cox’s opinion, we’ll never know what Jimi’s opinion was. But Billy Cox does provide entertaining insight into the shenanigans surrounding the movie.
This film can be summarized as one needs to find their own spiritual path. At times there seemed to be interesting points however either because of cross-talk and poor audio production and/or audio degradation over time, some of the conversation is hard, if not impossible to clearly hear.
I think the idea of the movie is solid, the execution, as others have noted, is dismal. But if you have never seen it then it is worth a one time watch.
152:39, reminds me of the back cover of "The Cry Of Love". Every time I see it, reminds me of the song "Drifting".👍🏾
"The art of words which means nothing". He was ahead of his time.
Hey baby where you trying to go to ? Jimi Hendrix the goat
Jimi's impulsive lifestyle hastened his death at age 27.....I admire the music, but the man?..not so much. He was just as confused as the rest of us.
@@curbozerboomer1773Hendrix made poor business decisions thinking the way he played his 🎵🎶 music, the signing of contracts also free-wheelimgly applied to commitments. NOT SO❗Those sharks🦈 figured once u put your name on the dotted line, they OWNED U ,Mind, body & soul like uh piece of furniture. Hendrix figured there was NO WAY OUT with these sharks🦈.
@@curbozerboomer1773 Great observation.
The entire generation (mine) saw all the pollution (Lake Erie caught fire? Piles of white powder dumped in the neighbor's woods?) and hyper-judgemental attitudes (the Beatles haircut made them - what, disposeable ? 😂) and so we rebeled, at the same time women could take a pill to avoid pregnancy and airfare became accessible to young adults.
Exploration by immature brains! 😂 Jimi died around the age our brains mature, something recently proved by science yet known for almost 100 years by the car insurance industry.😅
Jimi remains unmatched at improvisation and stage show with guitar, though Prince comes close.
Recently I've got this idea that ❤❤ Mayara Lima ❤❤ does something similar in dance, endless beautiful improvisation.
Jimi was bumped off - Mike Jefferies, look into it.@@curbozerboomer1773
At one time, I would've jumped over hurdles to see this.
Found it on VHS in 1987 in a video store in Wallingford, Connecticut and just about died.
@@user-user-user-user. The interviews were like a 'who's more wasted' contest. 🤣
His rendition of In From the Storm was a funky mind blow worthy of viewing if for only the concert footage but still an interesting account of a groupies travels in Hawaii😂❤
Thank you thank you thank you !! I have a burned copy of this on DVD from 20 yrs ago. I absolutely love this movie and the entire hippy vibe of it. Hendrix is just an added bonus. Cheers ✌️❤️✌️
classic!! they havent cut out the songs yet!
Hopefully they won't. All claims have been properly disputed and settled.
1:33:00 you finally see hendix play.
My favourite Jimi tune....Dolly Dagger.
I love this movie...it's so bad that it's done a full circle and is great!!!
1:07:50 - Room Full of Mirrors with Mitch Mitchell on drums, still unreleased.
Sounds like the studio version
@@matthewtaylor7355Mitch Mitchell overdubbed the drums, except the cowbell.
Remember going to a midnight showing San Onofre Beach Ca in the 70's to see this
On July 4th 1976 I saw the Full Theatrcal Release of this movie in the Villiage in NY, In that version that astrologer sat down with Jimi Hendrix and read his horscope chart too. Then they actually flashed his horoscope chart on the movie screen and it showed he was 5 Degree Capricorn Rising Sign. That scene was NOT in this version. They cut it out of the movie and all the DVDs..One year before I had read an astrology book that used that same chart. Jimi Hendrix gave that astrologer his birth information himself, so it was correct.
Jimi had an amazing chart it showed he was indeed a cosmic being, This was because his Sun sign had close contact with all three of the higher octave body outer planets Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
This explains the cosmic energy he channel through his music. .Very few music artists have that connection. The other artist that had close contact with two higher octave planets Neptune, and Pluto was Michael Jackson. Artist with those planetary contacts always give out this cosmic enegy that tranforms mass consciouness. I always wondered why they would cut that secne out of th movie? When I saw Jimi's chart flash across that big screen like that, it changed my life
5 degree Capricorn Rising? What the hell are you babbling about?!
Welcome to the bridge❤🎉
BX BRIDGE 6:42 CAPITAL OF U PUMA 1STR
This is amazing! Have not watched this for years. Rare video. Wild footage. Jimi Hendrix rocks!
This is amazing, thank you!
Groovy grape wine, Cleo!
Ah, the dream....too bad it all died so quickly....
We just need to bring it back and get rid of the repression of this era. Some of us are trying.
What dream? This is a nightmare!
1:37:30 - 1:37:46 so awesome. you can't play like that without feeling it
always get s to me with Jimi fading out to 'Land of the New rising Sun'....
yeah its like the astral foot prints of christ...its a mood you want to reside in forever...
PALI GAP was it true inspirational song that I had to learn and enjoy playing
Honestly, except for the Hendrix footage, I'd love to see the Rifftrax guys do this film!
Seen this at the 8th street playhouse in the village NYC
Hendrix's Electric Lady studio is on 8th St. by 6th Ave.
Thanks a million!
I am the 108th like on this video! My favorite auspicious number.
Saw this at a Midnight Movie, everyone was high, so it made sense 😂
Wow!
Wowowowo !
I remember seeing this film around the mid 80's as a young teen, about a 20 mile round trip on bikes for me and my buddies and we thought, WTF is this ? I pretty much deleted it all from my mind and this brought it back again, and I still think, WTF is this ? I know I have seen more Jimi concert footage than this, I remember there was this one dreamy hippy chick, spaced out on acid and the camera zoomed on her for like a minute, she locked eyes with the camera while grooving to Jimis music and I was mesmerized, wanting to go back in time and get me some stoned hippy tuna ,, That part was no where to be seen here, also there were parts where the video cut out completely but the audio was still there.
1:33:49 Hey Baby !!! ... One of His Best Performance !
Its the bloody bananas!
完全版を見たのははじめてです！ありがとう！
Love this movie! People just wanted a movie when they went to see something on the screen. Not something introspective!
What s blast from the past. Saw this at the drive-in movies in the '70s. The woman that gets halled in by the Gestapo and then is released and gets on the double decker bus was one of Jimi's girls. Can't remember her name though.
I am from the Land of the New Rising Sun.
LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹
Pat Hartley. I have mixed feelings about her. Seems like a spoilt model, but also earnest, and with a native NYC ability to spot BS.
Yeah, Pat.I remembered that later, but couldn't remember her last name. She was one of Jimi's ladies; she also was in the doc film 'Jimi Hendrix', along with a host of others. Jimi's hottest lady was Fayne, by far.
Wonder how long this will stay up; a while ago the entire footage of the concert was on here but got taken down by the Queen. It had several areas where the cameras were turned off(?)but the audio was still there. I'd rather have that than this.
Cool concert though, at I think it was called Haleiaka Crater, Maui.
I just dig the music of Jimi Hendrix. My first real influence on guitar.
There's never been nobody like him since, and his few copy cats never did anything for me. That's not to say there hasn't been great guitarists since, there has, but nobody like him.
LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹
1:00:35 - I hate to break it to this guy but he's just a poser, who would have you think he's some sort of divine possessor of absolute knowledge, when in fact all he's doing is spewing out some generic spiritual concoction.
I'm sure that Hendrix saw right through him too!
I bet you enjoyed this scene 1:28:35
Quire the contrary. I don't enjoy the death, the misfortune, the stupidity or the suffering of any living entity, even those that I am not particularly fond of.@@oakley2001
@@oakley2001😂
Love❤
Nigel in Canada🇨🇦
Robin Trower use of the "neck" and "middle" pickups on the Strat kept the Hendrix sound "alive"
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like this stuff .
Back when becoming a big time Ganja dealer and then retiring to Hawaii was the..Dream
and some did make that happen
.. believe it or not
Brotherhood of Eternal Love
Jimi at 1:33.20 is the beginning of the worthwhile portion of this film. We sat through the entire thing at the theater because it was touted as a Jimi Hendrix concert on film. If not for the portions with Jimi playing and/or talking, a total waste. " Peace Love and Happiness" Jimi Hendrix 1967
One thing said about Haley's comet slamming into Earth due to a slow rotation most likely will occur again The last time it put Jurrasic Park into the ice age Man who slay oxen is same as doing it to man So is consuming steak pork chops guilt turning more choices of vegetarian fruits n grain a more purest set of values😢 Hey there's still cheese n mushroom pizza so all is not lost Keep the faith health n spirit🎉❤
Mindless gibberish.
Complete nonsense. There's no sky rocks to hit us and I don't live on a ball floating in space.
Form sentences much? BTW, I think that guy meant the earth's orbit around the sun is slowing. Earth's rotation wouldn't change where it is in relation to Haley's comet. Obviously, he was wrong.
Yeaaaaahh!!!!!!
Thnx, I fast forward it😊
I wonder if Don Ho will make a cameo appearance n want to do tiny bubbles in E flat backwards or maybe Captain Coconut followed by Yes we have no F. N bananas😅
The worst of the worst except for the Hendrix footage. "Did you know the space people have already made their way to the US!?" and the hollowed out surfboard. Drug use does not necessarily equate to creative genius. Jimi wasn't into this elitist bs scene it was just another gig and he was passing through. If he lived to see the finished product it would not have seen the light of day.
Chuck Wein and his ufo drug cult
he spent like a month living in Maui with them as I recall
Jimi was very much into the idea that the saucer brothers were here and he had to help the American public understand how and why. He also smoked DMT before the encore of this gig and plucks harmonic fragments of new inter-dimensional phases of consciousness out of the air like he's peelin' a string cheese so I dunno maybe but maybe your favorite rock guitar player was crazy and weird too!
It cost ten dollars to make. Good when you are on LSD
@@thepuppethead1188Say what? Do you have any references for any of this? I would bet not…
I heard or read about this particular Jimi Hendrix Maui concert. Supposedly during the filming, the film crew saw UFOs coming out of the Volcano 🌋 But failed to record it or something similar that happened
You heard that huh?
Jimi at the height of his prowess.
thx for this
An absolutely dreadful movie notable only for the footage of Jimi at the end. Before the advent of home video when you could only see it in theaters you had to sit thru an hour and a half of hippy psycho babble (which I did more than once) just to see Jimi. I have seen people get up and walk out 30 minutes in saying "This is bullshit man" as they left. After it was available on VHS and later DVD I never saw the movie again. The recent documentary on the making of the movie was just as unwatchable. Thank goodness they also gave us all of the unreleased footage on a separate disc.
It's a snapshot in time. A way to see the way it was in the hippy days so I believe for historical reasons it has validity in that respect and for older people maybe nostalgia
@@BladeObssession Snapshot in time? That's not how I remember that era. Except for the footage of Jimi at the end it was a waste of film.
@@stlrockn Well it has some great footage of Hawaii at that time
@@BladeObssession yep i think the same
@@stlrockn Fortunately for me I have it on DVD so I can just fast forward to the parts with Jimi
Can you make your uncompressed video file available to people ? I know You Tube puts their own compression on it
i cant lose
i tried i assuRe u 4:49 5:26 FEEL IT
I would love to know who and where the lead “actress” is. She appeared in a 1973 documentary about Hendrix and came across just as spacey (and lovely) as she does in this tripped out film.
Weird, I know. But if you have a penchant for “where are they now” type questions, you’ll get it.
She’s a film director who just made a documentary about the author James Baldwin. Still has that energetic, talkative and amusing personality, with a lot less of the hippy spaciness.
Shes actually quite normal and Rich to boot😂
@@AntwhaleNearfar shes VERY rich BTW
Pat Hartley.
@32:10 So far into this movie, I was thinking the dialogue sounded Tarantino-ish, then I got to this Part Hartley foot scene😅
When I hear the title RAINBOW BRIDGE, I think of a great Jimi Hendrix album (8 songs, released posthumously). I try to forget that this unwatchable film even exists. Appreciate you putting the effort into your upload...I'm not slagging on you. But the only footage worth watching from this film is Jimi's concert...and that's now been released in a high-definition, 5.1 surround restoration...MUCH MORE concert footage than the 20 or so minutes this film gives you. It's not necessarily an accurate representation, but movies like this really make "hippies" look like nothing more than self-absorbed bums during a time in which there was a lot of bad happening in the world (which is still true today).
...agree with you 🎸☮
Why focus on the bad? It’s a movie
@@johntrinkwalder1853 Uh...WHAT? I'm just saying: It's NOT a good movie. Almost unwatchable. BUT...the concerts in the movie are great (and can be watched on their own in a newer release in much better quality).
Cope harder
Looks like a documentary on the Manson Family.
Is this the actual full length version ? I've been looking for this on the torrents for a long time. I wonder if it's the same length as the old Rhino home video VHS copy
This is the MovieCD version from Rhino. I hear the VHS version of Rainbow Bridge is only 74 minutes long, and this version claims to have more bonus footage than VHS.
@@oakley2001 thanks for saying that. There's some pictures on the internet of the VHS box. I believe some versions were longer than 74 minutes but I could be wrong
It is
This was meant to to space out no script hippies in Hawaii talking bout LSD then u hot some girl dropping on all over n Hendrix tunes on the background so hey take it for what it worth a lot not much nothin at all It's where yer heads at with it so dig groovy souls it's two hours out of a lifetime which was a Journey tune😅😂❤
Miss Mercy (Mascara hippie) , GTO that modeled for Hot Rats cover.,,Pat Hartley sets that cut bread loaf on that patio table the sane way she rides a bus.,It really isn't a bad film. It doesn't deserve the flack it received.
I ENJOYED WHEN THEY STARTED CHOPPING UP THE SURFBOARD AND IT WAS PACKED WITH HASH
Some good concert footage and Jimi hanging out talking is really fun. The concert footage was redone and retitled as another movie. Space people? Why would anyone intelligent stop at our planet? Still, we need progressive minds, not the angry repressive minds of today. Oh well.
Did they include the footage of Jimi leaning out a window and shooting someone with a rifle?
Brutal.
clairvoyant ...
Is it me or the audio on this film is sketchy
Whenever
Now you know
Nixon gave this movie -500 stars 🤪
1:35- So choppy... (and I'm a Hendrix fan!)
Its 2024 and the Hippies have taken over!!!
Those ex-hippees /baby boomers in charge need to deprogram their minds with MC5 and The Stooges as the soundtrack.
Pali Gap is the most gorgeous instrumental track by Jimi on this very weird flick of a movie.
Nice dream. There're way too many uptight people.
Nigel in Canada🇨🇦
we don't hear a lot of songs about trains 🚂🚃 these days
or Voodoo
just saying
Jimi hated this film and wanted nothing to do with it 😆 , Well he barely was a part of it , Only the concert and the footage they filmed of him describing a trip.
That is some Groovy sh!t. ✌🏼Peace, Love!😂
What a joke..If Jimi wasn't a part of this, it wouldn't even be a film
More judeo social engineering.
Nigel in Canada🇨🇦
in the middle of the pandemic I bought a Deja Vibe
you can really hear it in this "live" performance
hmm ? I will "pass" on the "obligatory Hendrix perm"
Too bad jimi didn't write more music during this time to contribute more to the soundtrack. Get rid of the viet nam political crap and stick to the early funk vibe. Trying to figure out which version of Hey Baby is this at the beginning of the concert. Two were played that day, for two whole separate sets. the distributed versions are not the one played in the movie. Very cool tune
The Hey Baby played on the white Strat is from the first set, but the not the first song of the set. It segues into, In from the Storm. The intro for Hey Baby on this version still wasn't completely included in the Maui sets most recent release, I think Jimi messed it a little or it was damaged; were talking the first few seconds here, most of the intro is there. The audio for those first few seconds does exist, someone put it on YT a while back.
The second version is towards the end of the 2nd set played on his custom Gibson Flying V. Nice mellow intro, elements of "The New Rising Sun" instrumental in there. That is what we see at the end where Jimi is faded out into the back drop of Maui's volcanic crater. He never completed the play through in the 2nd set as he broke into "Midnight Lightning" then into "Race with the Devil". Finishing the set with a drum solo from Mitch, sub-par Stone Free and Hey Joe.
I myself wondered about that version at the end after watching Rainbow Bridge years ago, "Did he finish the song? I want to hear the rest of it !! " I thought. But where it fades in the film is pretty much where Jimi just breaks into Midnight Lightning.
Too bad the studio version wasn't fully completed, he would have added overdubs and all sorts. It would have been an even grander masterpiece than it already is. He was heading to the US to complete the album in the coming weeks, starting late Sept 1970. Sadly never happened.
Jimi didn't wanted to do this crazy film. Michael Jeffrey pushed him to the limit.
Ahhhhh back when there was real blonde hair people and only man and woman
Uh, no.
Saw Clapton and Jeff beck with hendrix never Jimmy page
That’s nice
I disagree somewhat. Although Jimi wasnt into making this movie, its very deep, and informative. 💙
Indeed
24:20 Detektor kovů?
A 2:45
Nigel in Canada🇨🇦
Billy Cox on bass was an improvement over Noel Redding
Mitch Mitchell was a better drummer to my ears than Buddy Miles
so much for the Band of Gypsies lasting then
The only thing saving this incoherent mishmash of '60s airy-fairy musings is the shots of Hawaii and Hendrix at the end.
It's cool to see Jimi kicking back. Looks like he was having a little fun with the Brotherhood even if they were acting a little pretentions or philosophical when they could have been being a little more wise and real. Some bullshit like that. Man, I wish Jimmy would have been with us a lot longer. Mike Hynson said he was just a regular guy off the stage. A really cool guy. Does anyone think Jimi may have committed suicide? I only ask because he allegidly said things to indicate that he was gonna die very soon. Anyone, I'm getting a headache listening to this bullshit while writing this. I hope Jimi at least.got laid or enjoy Mike's company and talks on surfing.
Yeah, if it hadn't been for Jimi... Like a lot here, I lived through that time, and I loved the music at Woodstock, Isle of Wight etc. But already then all I could see were spoiled narcissistic brats who saw themselves as the new generation chosen to save the world. And those idiots later ran the show, and what did we get? Thank God or whoever we had the music, otherwise it would have been unbearable. Jimi forever!
An absolute disaster of a movie. But the footage of hendrix shows that he was the lamb of that generation
Melinda Merriweather--the tall hottie, is still alive...she has been living an upscale life in La Jolla, california. She is still concerned about environmental issues. She was married for some time to a famous surfer/documentarian, Bruce. They divorced, and I believe she then married some rich doctor...typical, really. I mean, She was Jimi's lover in this movie, and for real, too!...But ya know--Castles Made of Sand--right?
@@curbozerboomer1773 Which girl? not Pat Hartley... yeah well any woman within 10 feet of Jimi was his lover...other men's wives included :)... yeh castles made of sand...
@@curbozerboomer1773Hartley & JH knew one another in NY after JH was fired from Little Richards' band in '65 according to Hartley.She said she saw jh at the CHEETAH club with Curtis Knight & the SQUIRES (fun fact). RAINBOW🌈 BRIDGE. What was Mike Jeffrey thinking? At least Electric 💡⚡ Lady Studios was up & running; Studio A anyway, JIMIS' wing.
Narcissistic a holes, But good music. Hendrix pulling their chain a bit.
Hawaii outdoors LSD n seeing a guitarist behind three double stack Marshalls was America when all was a dream of beauty such a fat cry from today makes one wonder how political party would intentionally destruct it's integrity making money the root of all evil😮
Hendrix did NOT want anything to do with this movie...he was basically forced to do it, by Mike Jeffery. He did not mind the outdoor venue, but really did not want to be an actor in the film. At least, he got to be with that sexy model, Melinda Merriwether, he even recorded for himself, a tune dedicated to her, "Scorpio Woman"...Melinda went on, to live in upscale La Jolla, and eventually got into politics/animal rights, etc. She still is around!
lets keep the rainbow bridge goin further whos with me we need a foxey lady dolly dagger and izabella 24/7 rainbow bridge bus and house lets all shuttle from my place
This was almost my first date movie. Lucky it didn't work out. The poor kids try real hard to be hip- and they aren't, they're conforming and brown nosing . It was (like today) an undeclared war for GRIFT laundered tax money to politicians. I remember the Jesus movement -desperate young ..no money/future/clueless. this is a Chuck Wein film. He also did Edie Sedgewick -and she ended up dead soon after too.....
Have yall notist people rolling there eyes back
So he predicts his death in this film...