Editing Jimi Hendrix (section)

=== Cry of Love Tour ===
{{Main|The Cry of Love Tour}}
[[File:Hendrix performing 6-20-1970.jpg|thumb|Hendrix in June 1970]]
Soon after the abruptly ended Band of Gypsys performance and their subsequent dissolution, Jeffery made arrangements to reunite the original Experience lineup.{{sfn|Unterberger|2009|p=113}} Although Hendrix, Mitchell, and Redding were interviewed by ''Rolling Stone'' in February 1970 as a united group, Hendrix never intended to work with Redding.<ref>{{harvnb|Shadwick|2003|pp=217–218}}; {{harvnb|Unterberger|2009|p=113}}.</ref> When Redding returned to New York in anticipation of rehearsals with a re-formed Experience, he was told that he had been replaced with Cox.{{sfn|Moskowitz|2010|pp=73–74}} During an interview with ''Rolling Stone''{{'s}} Keith Altham, Hendrix defended the decision: "It's nothing personal against Noel, but we finished what we were doing with the Experience and Billy's style of playing suits the new group better."{{sfn|Unterberger|2009|p=113}} Although an official name was never adopted for the lineup of Hendrix, Mitchell, and Cox, promoters often billed them as the Jimi Hendrix Experience or just Jimi Hendrix.{{sfn|Shadwick|2003|p=223}}

During the first half of 1970, Hendrix sporadically worked on material for what would have been his next LP.{{sfn|Shadwick|2003|p=221}} Many of the tracks were posthumously released in 1971 as ''[[The Cry of Love]]''.{{sfn|Moskowitz|2010|pp=86–90}} He had started writing songs for the album in 1968, but in April 1970 he told Keith Altham that the project had been abandoned.{{sfn|Shadwick|2003|p=221}} Soon afterward, he and his band took a break from recording and began the Cry of Love tour at the [[L.A. Forum]], performing for 20,000 people.{{sfn|Moskowitz|2010|p=74}} Set-lists during the tour included numerous Experience tracks as well as a selection of newer material.{{sfn|Moskowitz|2010|p=74}} Several shows were recorded, and they produced some of Hendrix's most memorable live performances. At one of them, the second [[Atlanta International Pop Festival (1970)|Atlanta International Pop Festival]], on July 4, he played to the largest American audience of his career.{{sfn|Schinder|Schwartz|2007|p=250}} According to authors Scott Schinder and Andy Schwartz, as many as 500,000 people attended the concert.{{sfn|Schinder|Schwartz|2007|p=250}} On July 17, they appeared at the New York Pop Festival; Hendrix had again consumed too many drugs before the show, and the set was considered a disaster.{{sfn|Moskowitz|2010|p=77}} The American leg of the tour, which included 32 performances, ended in [[Honolulu]], Hawaii, on August 1, 1970.{{sfn|Moskowitz|2010|pp=152–153}} This would be Hendrix's final concert appearance in the US.{{sfn|Moskowitz|2010|p=78}}