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'''Electric Church''' was a term used by ] to represent an informal cooperative of musicians performing more exploratory music in nontraditional settings. This is represented by various Hendrix ]s, the additional musicians with whom he recorded '']'' (1968), and the group who accompanied Hendrix at ], informally dubbed ].
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'''Electric Church''' was a ] belief that electric music brings out ]s, feelings, and creative ideas in people, and encourages ] maturity. It was popularized by ] and his band ], as well as other followers of ] in the 1960s.


'''Electric Church''' may also refer to:
In an interview on the Dick Cavett Show in 1969, Cavett asked Hendrix about the Electric Church. Hendrix replied by saying that he designed his music so that it would be able to go "inside the soul of the person, and awaken some kind of thing inside, because there are so many sleeping people". In an interview promoting his third album '']'', Jimi Hendrix said "the influence the psychedelics have on one is truly amazing, and I only wish more people appreciated this belief and genre". When asked why he didn't name the album "Electric Church" instead of "Electric Ladyland", Hendrix said that some ladies were "electric too".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rollingstone.com/archives/1968/mar12/hendrix014.html |title=Jimi Hendrix interview |work=] |accessdate=2008-12-24 |date=1968-03-12}} {{Dead link|date=December 2008}}</ref>
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*"Electric Church" (1968) a jam recorded by Hendrix with ], ], ], and ]
Hendrix made numerous allusions to the concept in his musical work, most famously in his widely distributed live performance of the song "]", in which he introduces his band by saying that he is about to present them all to the "Electric Church".
*"Electric Church Red House" (1968) a song released on '']'' (1994), which is a composite of the "Electric Church" jam and the Hendrix composition "]"
*''Electric Church'' (1968) an album by the ], one half of which was produced by Hendrix
*'']'' (2005) a documentary film about Hendrix's performance at the ]


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Electric Church was a term used by Jimi Hendrix to represent an informal cooperative of musicians performing more exploratory music in nontraditional settings. This is represented by various Hendrix jam sessions, the additional musicians with whom he recorded Electric Ladyland (1968), and the group who accompanied Hendrix at Woodstock, informally dubbed Gypsy Sun and Rainbows.

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