Woke Up This Morning and Found Myself Dead is a posthumous live album by Jimi Hendrix released in Canada 1980 by Stony Plain Recording Co. and in the USA by Red Lightnin' Records. The album documents Hendrix's jam session (which he recorded himself on his portable reel to reel machine that he had brought with him) at The Scene club, 301 West 46th Street, New York City in March 1968, with guest vocals from Jim Morrison (that consist almost entirely of drunkenly shouted obscenities). Other musicians on the recordings are unknown, though it is possible that the bassist is Randy Hobbs and the drummer is Randy Zehringer, members of The Scene's house band at the time. It has been rumored that Noel Redding and Johnny Winter also appear. In the case of Redding, this is definitely untrue. Winter himself has denied that he took part in the jam, saying he never met Jim Morrison, although at times during the recording a second lead guitar (at a lower volume than Hendrix's) can be heard playing in an electric blues style. The LP release is interesting for its strange depiction of Hendrix on the cover (an illustration by artist George Snow).
The material on Woke Up This Morning and Found Myself Dead was first released on a bootleg LP entitled Sky High, and at various times in the past and present under different names including High, Live 'N Dirty, Sunshine of Your Love, Live at the Scene Club, Red House, New York Sessions, Tomorrow Never Knows, Bleeding Heart, and many more, though all are semi-official releases. This is probably the most bootleged material from Jimi Hendrix appearing on hundreds of releases (records, cassettes, CD's etc.) worldwide. Experience Hendrix now owns the original reel to reel tape, and has it safely put away in the vaults.
On the picture disc of this album the featured artists are said to be Jim Morrison, Buddy Miles, and Johnny Winter.
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—Bible: New Testament, Luke 8:24-25.
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