Jimi Hendrix: The Road to Woodstock

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0:00:04 > 0:00:05Jimi said, "We got this gig here"

0:00:05 > 0:00:09and he just said it casually like he did with everything else, you know.

0:00:11 > 0:00:13I had no idea what Woodstock was.

0:00:15 > 0:00:19It was the place to come to, it was not just a rock'n'roll show.

0:00:19 > 0:00:22It was not just about the music.

0:00:22 > 0:00:25It was really about that decade and that culture.

0:00:30 > 0:00:36There was 200,000-300,000 people that had converged on this... pasture.

0:00:36 > 0:00:38I drove through it in a station wagon

0:00:38 > 0:00:42and there was just endless people.

0:00:42 > 0:00:45This was the greatest rock'n'roll concert ever put on.

0:00:45 > 0:00:46MUSIC: "Hey Izabella"

0:00:46 > 0:00:49# Girl, I'm holding you close in my dreams

0:00:49 > 0:00:52# Every night, every night

0:00:52 > 0:00:54# Always sweet darlin'... #

0:00:54 > 0:00:57The Woodstock Festival was being planned and, I guess,

0:00:57 > 0:00:59the guys in charge of the festival figured,

0:00:59 > 0:01:03"Oh, let's get Jimi Hendrix to headline this festival."

0:01:09 > 0:01:14Jimi was important as a cultural icon...

0:01:14 > 0:01:19and, musically, as one of the premier musicians of his day.

0:01:19 > 0:01:22MUSIC: "Purple Haze"

0:01:30 > 0:01:35I though that Jimi would likely be the most exciting act on the show.

0:01:35 > 0:01:40Erm, and...I thought it would be an amazing way to end it.

0:01:40 > 0:01:43Actually, to be perfectly honest with you,

0:01:43 > 0:01:46he was not my first choice for a closing act.

0:01:46 > 0:01:49My first choice was Roy Rogers.

0:01:49 > 0:01:51I tried to book him. I wanted him to end the festival

0:01:51 > 0:01:55with Happy Trails, because we had all grown up with Roy Rogers

0:01:55 > 0:01:57singing Happy Trails when we were little kids, at that time.

0:01:57 > 0:02:00And I thought it would be the perfect way to end it.

0:02:00 > 0:02:03And I was going to have him follow Jimi, but,

0:02:03 > 0:02:06that aside, I thought that that would be the high point, you know,

0:02:06 > 0:02:09certainly of the day and a great way to finish the festival.

0:02:09 > 0:02:12Jimi Hendrix was The Beatle...

0:02:12 > 0:02:14in that year.

0:02:21 > 0:02:26He was on the same level as The Rolling Stones. He was rock royalty.

0:02:28 > 0:02:30You'd have to say they were a large act,

0:02:30 > 0:02:32apart from the festivals

0:02:32 > 0:02:34where they obviously played a major part in festivals.

0:02:34 > 0:02:37They could tour arenas, which...

0:02:37 > 0:02:40there weren't that many acts touring arenas at the time.

0:02:40 > 0:02:42MUSIC: "Crosstown Traffic"

0:02:42 > 0:02:44# You don't mind a little pain

0:02:44 > 0:02:47# You say you just want me to take you for a drive... #

0:02:47 > 0:02:50Our biggest gig was in a place in a place called Devonshire Downs,

0:02:50 > 0:02:53in Los Angeles, in 1969,

0:02:53 > 0:02:56and we played to 100,000 people.

0:02:58 > 0:03:00It's a bit weird.

0:03:00 > 0:03:03MUSIC: "Fire"

0:03:03 > 0:03:05# Stop acting so damn crazy

0:03:05 > 0:03:06# You say your mama ain't home

0:03:06 > 0:03:08# It ain't my concern

0:03:08 > 0:03:09# Just don't play with me

0:03:09 > 0:03:11# And you won't get burned

0:03:11 > 0:03:14# I have only one itching desire

0:03:14 > 0:03:17# Let me stand next to your fire... #

0:03:17 > 0:03:20The one thing you have to know about an act

0:03:20 > 0:03:23is that they have a direction that they're going, musically.

0:03:24 > 0:03:27And when they reach the summit of their life,

0:03:27 > 0:03:32when they are creatively on the top of the mountain,

0:03:32 > 0:03:34they don't know where to go next,

0:03:34 > 0:03:36and start looking around.

0:03:36 > 0:03:39And that's what I think happened to Jimi, at that point.

0:03:49 > 0:03:52The last gig I played at, we were playing in Denver.

0:03:52 > 0:03:55And we were on with Creedence, or something,

0:03:55 > 0:03:58and there were 35,000 people there

0:03:58 > 0:03:59and we were doing our gig...

0:04:00 > 0:04:03and, prior to the gig, someone in the hotel had said...

0:04:03 > 0:04:08had you heard that Jimi had said to the press about extending the band?

0:04:08 > 0:04:10And I said, "Well, he didn't tell me."

0:04:10 > 0:04:14So that went to me head. And then, we played this gig, 35,000 people

0:04:14 > 0:04:17and they all tried to get on stage, which...

0:04:17 > 0:04:19They wouldn't fit, would they?

0:04:19 > 0:04:21And, er...

0:04:21 > 0:04:24then the police started firing tear gas,

0:04:24 > 0:04:26except the wind was coming our way.

0:04:26 > 0:04:29So, basically, we had to get off the stage.

0:04:29 > 0:04:33And then these 35,000 people are trying to chase these three blokes,

0:04:33 > 0:04:37so they put us into this Avis Rent-a-Truck...

0:04:37 > 0:04:39lock the back door...

0:04:39 > 0:04:40there's no lights in it.

0:04:40 > 0:04:43And all these people start crawling all over the truck

0:04:43 > 0:04:46and the roof's buckling and the guy gets in and drives us

0:04:46 > 0:04:49back to the hotel and there's still people on top of the truck.

0:04:49 > 0:04:52And we had to go in the back of the hotel,

0:04:52 > 0:04:54cos we couldn't get in the front, through the kitchens

0:04:54 > 0:04:57or something, and next day I got on a plane. I just said...

0:04:58 > 0:05:00Couldn't handle it any longer.

0:05:08 > 0:05:11Jimi went through many struggles to put a new band together.

0:05:11 > 0:05:14He was looking for a new sound. He was tired of playing

0:05:14 > 0:05:18the same, uh, type of music, uh, that he had played.

0:05:18 > 0:05:22He didn't want to play all the... He had a whole plethora of

0:05:22 > 0:05:24new music that he wanted to present.

0:05:24 > 0:05:26He could see the point of having...

0:05:26 > 0:05:28of expanding...

0:05:28 > 0:05:31..a situation outside of a three-piece band.

0:05:31 > 0:05:37I mean, for heck's sake, there were so many opportunities...

0:05:37 > 0:05:41and I think it was just like... In his mind, he grabbed hold of...

0:05:43 > 0:05:45..what he thought would be comfortable.

0:05:45 > 0:05:50He knew it would take, er, getting away, concentrating

0:05:50 > 0:05:55and getting the right people, er, together, in order to form

0:05:55 > 0:05:59this group that he had a desire of forming.

0:05:59 > 0:06:02When Jimi Hendrix first came back from England, he fell in love

0:06:02 > 0:06:07with Woodstock and he was looking for a place to live and to practise,

0:06:07 > 0:06:08to play music.

0:06:08 > 0:06:13Woodstock had always been known from the early '20s as a hotbed for...

0:06:15 > 0:06:20..artistic endeavours. There were painters and sculptors, writers,

0:06:20 > 0:06:24and then, later on in the '50s and '60s, entertainers who loved

0:06:24 > 0:06:28that peace and tranquillity of Woodstock, as a place to go to,

0:06:28 > 0:06:31to recharge their batteries.

0:06:31 > 0:06:35And, I know, Michael Jeffery had bought a house up there in Woodstock

0:06:35 > 0:06:40and Jimi had a house he'd rented up there, to go and rehearse

0:06:40 > 0:06:44some material, so Woodstock became a place to hang out.

0:06:44 > 0:06:46When I ran into Jimi in Woodstock,

0:06:46 > 0:06:50he said... he invited me to come over and jam.

0:06:50 > 0:06:54He was a prolific jammer, he loved to play with so many different people.

0:06:54 > 0:06:57He said, "Billy, your job is to find Larry Lee. Find him."

0:06:57 > 0:06:58And I found him.

0:06:58 > 0:07:03Billy called me. I guess Jimi

0:07:03 > 0:07:06had my mother's number and Billy called me.

0:07:06 > 0:07:11I remember... I just... I think I had just come back from Vietnam,

0:07:11 > 0:07:12I think I'd been home about...

0:07:14 > 0:07:15..maybe two weeks.

0:07:15 > 0:07:19I don't know if I had just come from the unemployment office.

0:07:19 > 0:07:22And I... phone rang and...

0:07:23 > 0:07:26..it was Billy. I said, "Wow! I ain't heard from that old cat."

0:07:26 > 0:07:28I said, "Billy, what's going on?"

0:07:28 > 0:07:30He said, "Everything fine..."

0:07:30 > 0:07:33I said, "Where are you?" He said, "I'm in New York."

0:07:33 > 0:07:35I said, "What you doing up there?"

0:07:35 > 0:07:37He said, "I'm with Jimi."

0:07:37 > 0:07:38I said, "Wow!"

0:07:40 > 0:07:43Er, I said, "Where is Jimi?" I figured he was going to

0:07:43 > 0:07:46say in England somewhere cos he was hot there at the time...

0:07:46 > 0:07:50He said, "He's sitting right here." And it kind of scared me!

0:07:50 > 0:07:51HE CHUCKLES

0:07:51 > 0:07:52I said, "Yeah...

0:07:53 > 0:07:57"..can I speak with him?" And I spoke to Jimi and he were the same

0:07:57 > 0:07:59Jimi, I didn't know if he would even remember me,

0:07:59 > 0:08:01as much money as I heard he was making, you know.

0:08:01 > 0:08:05And he was the same Jimi, just the same Jimi, no change.

0:08:05 > 0:08:07He said, "Yeah, what you doing?

0:08:07 > 0:08:09"We are going to try a few things up here,

0:08:09 > 0:08:11"we'd like for you to come up here and join us."

0:08:11 > 0:08:16When I first went to Woodstock, to play, before this festival.

0:08:16 > 0:08:21They'd been playing for... together for about... I don't know,

0:08:21 > 0:08:25ten days, maybe, something like that.

0:08:25 > 0:08:29And you've either got that gel and you can work off that conflict.

0:08:29 > 0:08:34It's either there or it's not, you know. And this was just not...

0:08:34 > 0:08:36I know the band that he was putting together,

0:08:36 > 0:08:38cos he was living in Woodstock at that time

0:08:38 > 0:08:40and I knew a lot of the guys in the band

0:08:40 > 0:08:42and I spent some time with Jimi

0:08:42 > 0:08:45and I know that he was trying to figure out which direction to

0:08:45 > 0:08:48take his music and was experimenting with different players.

0:08:48 > 0:08:50And so, we knew this wasn't going to be The Experience,

0:08:50 > 0:08:52but it was going to be Jimi.

0:09:06 > 0:09:09I remember arriving at Woodstock...

0:09:09 > 0:09:11about 5.30, 6 o'clock in the morning,

0:09:11 > 0:09:14sun coming up over this hill and I saw the structure...

0:09:15 > 0:09:19..that was hanging over what was, supposedly, a stage.

0:09:19 > 0:09:21And I'm saying to myself, "Wait a minute,

0:09:21 > 0:09:24"we're going to be recording here in about four or five hours.

0:09:24 > 0:09:26"The stage is still being built."

0:09:26 > 0:09:28There's a crane hanging up over the stage

0:09:28 > 0:09:31and they had these pieces of wood just hanging out there.

0:09:31 > 0:09:34Looked like fingers above the stage.

0:09:34 > 0:09:36This was going to support a canvas top, which was going to

0:09:36 > 0:09:38supposedly protect the people...

0:09:38 > 0:09:39HE CHUCKLES

0:09:39 > 0:09:40..the artists!

0:09:41 > 0:09:45And I'm thinking to myself, "What kind of craziness am I into?"

0:09:54 > 0:09:57We realised early on Friday that the shows were going to go late,

0:09:57 > 0:10:01cos we were having big gaps in our performance schedule.

0:10:01 > 0:10:04We had to wait for the rains to stop,

0:10:04 > 0:10:06we had to wait for the bands to get in.

0:10:06 > 0:10:10Everybody...everything was running late. The roads were obviously...

0:10:10 > 0:10:14there were no roads! The roads were solid masses of people and humanity.

0:10:14 > 0:10:17Er, we started flying people in, but everything was sort of...

0:10:17 > 0:10:19backing up.

0:10:19 > 0:10:21And it continued that way through the weekend,

0:10:21 > 0:10:26so we knew we were into major, major...overlaps in time.

0:10:26 > 0:10:29The band was supposed to go on at 12 o'clock, midnight.

0:10:29 > 0:10:36We arrived there, after a long delay, and that was, er, that was pretty...

0:10:36 > 0:10:40disheartening, cos we just had to camp up in some little shack

0:10:40 > 0:10:42and just wait and wait our time.

0:10:42 > 0:10:44This was like military...

0:10:45 > 0:10:47..warfare.

0:10:47 > 0:10:49I mean, you know, helicopters coming in, dropping people in,

0:10:49 > 0:10:51dropping out.

0:10:51 > 0:10:53We didn't get a chance to get a helicopter,

0:10:53 > 0:10:56it just took for ever to get there.

0:10:57 > 0:11:02I remember we all loaded up in some old station wagons.

0:11:03 > 0:11:07Our whole band and whoever was going was heading for the helipad.

0:11:09 > 0:11:13And we finally got there and the helicopter wasn't running so...

0:11:13 > 0:11:17we had to go on in the station wagon.

0:11:17 > 0:11:22It had rained and, as we pulled up, I saw people laying up

0:11:22 > 0:11:24and I thought they were dead, man, covered with mud and...

0:11:25 > 0:11:29Got naked people, you know, I had never seen that...

0:11:31 > 0:11:34And I figured I'd been gone too long in Vietnam.

0:11:37 > 0:11:42He had just got back from Vietnam, he made a statement about that.

0:11:42 > 0:11:44Jimi thought that was really funny...

0:11:44 > 0:11:46"That girl over there ain't got no clothes on!"

0:11:51 > 0:11:54I think Jimi was originally scheduled to finish Sunday...

0:11:54 > 0:11:59the show on Sunday night but because of the back-up of artists over the

0:11:59 > 0:12:03two or three-day period, there was just no way he was going to

0:12:03 > 0:12:06go on Sunday night and it forced him to go on Monday morning,

0:12:06 > 0:12:10which was really a shame, cos after all the rain and the mud and...

0:12:10 > 0:12:13you know, there's Jimi going on at nine o'clock in the morning.

0:12:13 > 0:12:16Jimi arrived with Michael and, er...

0:12:16 > 0:12:18Jerry Morrison, I think there was

0:12:18 > 0:12:20a bunch of people that had met backstage.

0:12:20 > 0:12:23I had a house for him to stay in and I tried to talk them

0:12:23 > 0:12:25into going on at midnight.

0:12:26 > 0:12:30And I said to Michael, "Listen, I know you're contracted

0:12:30 > 0:12:32"to close the show and you can, if you want to,

0:12:32 > 0:12:34"but I think it's a mistake - the show's running late,

0:12:34 > 0:12:37"the best moment of the night will be at midnight."

0:12:37 > 0:12:42And, for whatever reason, they chose to stay with their principal

0:12:42 > 0:12:45and, er, close the show.

0:12:45 > 0:12:47And in some ways, it was unfortunate,

0:12:47 > 0:12:50in that a lot of the audience didn't get to see his performance.

0:12:50 > 0:12:52MC: Good morning.

0:12:52 > 0:12:54CROWD: Good morning.

0:12:54 > 0:12:56MC: Very shortly, we'll continue.

0:12:58 > 0:13:02Thank you for making all this possible.

0:13:02 > 0:13:06CHEERING AND WHISTLING

0:13:11 > 0:13:14It's been a long one, but it's been delightful.

0:13:14 > 0:13:19As the, the sun rose and we were getting ready to go on,

0:13:19 > 0:13:22all of the people who had been there, even for three days,

0:13:22 > 0:13:26they were revitalised and they also knew that Jimmy was going to

0:13:26 > 0:13:31come and play and the energy level, just everything, the karma...

0:13:31 > 0:13:34er, was all there in spades. It was great.

0:13:34 > 0:13:36We were the last act to go on.

0:13:37 > 0:13:40And we followed Sha Na Na.

0:13:40 > 0:13:45That was my first time seeing or hearing about them, maybe we were...

0:13:45 > 0:13:49But we went on right after they did.

0:13:51 > 0:13:53We were down around the back

0:13:53 > 0:13:56and you couldn't see a lot that was going on out the front,

0:13:56 > 0:13:58so the lift carried you up to the main stage.

0:13:58 > 0:14:00Jimi says, "Look at all those people" and Mitch says,

0:14:00 > 0:14:02"Hell, I'm not going out there."

0:14:02 > 0:14:06So, Mitch had a bottle of Blue Nun wine and when he got through,

0:14:06 > 0:14:11between me, Jimi and Mitch, the wine were down to there so we went out...!

0:14:11 > 0:14:12HE LAUGHS

0:14:16 > 0:14:17AMP FEEDBACK

0:14:20 > 0:14:26I had bought a little scarf that had fringes on it and I folded it,

0:14:26 > 0:14:30so when I tied it round like a headband, it, kind of...

0:14:30 > 0:14:33I thought it was nice, you know. Everybody was doing their own thing.

0:14:33 > 0:14:36I hadn't seen nobody doing that...

0:14:36 > 0:14:41It came down, I thought it looked nice. Nobody cared, anyway...!

0:14:42 > 0:14:46So, I just thought, you know, "Doing my own thing..."

0:14:46 > 0:14:50CHEERING

0:14:50 > 0:14:53So many people. As far as the eye could see, it was nothing but

0:14:53 > 0:14:57a big field of people, so most of us, except for Jimi,

0:14:57 > 0:14:59had not had that particular experience.

0:14:59 > 0:15:03When you see how much power he puts into his show,

0:15:03 > 0:15:06it's so amazing that he was fresh.

0:15:06 > 0:15:10Up, you know, intense, right from the get-go.

0:15:10 > 0:15:12MC: Ladies and gentlemen...

0:15:12 > 0:15:14the Jimi Hendrix Experience...

0:15:14 > 0:15:16CHEERING

0:15:24 > 0:15:27Yeah, there's a lot of girlfriends we like to try to sing about sometimes.

0:15:27 > 0:15:30We're going to sing about this one over there in the section over there,

0:15:30 > 0:15:33the one with the yellow underpants on. Yeah, yeah, you.

0:15:33 > 0:15:36I remember you last night. Hey, baby!

0:15:37 > 0:15:42MUSIC: "Foxy Lady"

0:15:57 > 0:16:00# You know you're a sweet little heartbreaker

0:16:02 > 0:16:04# Foxy

0:16:06 > 0:16:09# You know you're a sweet little heartbreaker

0:16:14 > 0:16:17# I wanna take you home

0:16:19 > 0:16:22# I won't do you no harm, no

0:16:24 > 0:16:27# You've got to be all mine, all mine

0:16:28 > 0:16:30# Ooh, foxy

0:16:41 > 0:16:45# I see you, hey, down on the scene

0:16:45 > 0:16:48# Hey, foxy

0:16:50 > 0:16:53# You make me wanna get up and scream

0:16:53 > 0:16:57# Foxy

0:16:59 > 0:17:01# I've made up my mind

0:17:03 > 0:17:05# I wish you were my baby

0:17:08 > 0:17:12# You've got to be all mine, all mine

0:17:12 > 0:17:14# Foxy lady

0:18:29 > 0:18:31# I've made up my mind

0:18:32 > 0:18:35# I'm tired of wasting all my precious time

0:18:38 > 0:18:41# You've got to be all mine, all mine

0:18:41 > 0:18:43# Woo, foxy... #

0:19:46 > 0:19:48CHEERING

0:19:59 > 0:20:01MUSIC: "Fire" by Jimi Hendrix

0:20:04 > 0:20:06# All right, baby, listen here to what I'm sayin'

0:20:08 > 0:20:12# You don't care for me I don't care about that

0:20:12 > 0:20:13# Gotta a new fool, ha

0:20:13 > 0:20:15# I like it like that

0:20:15 > 0:20:17# I have only one itching desire

0:20:17 > 0:20:19# Let me stand next to your...

0:20:23 > 0:20:27# Hey, baby, let me stand

0:20:27 > 0:20:29# Oh, let me stand

0:20:30 > 0:20:33# Listen here, baby

0:20:33 > 0:20:35# And stop acting so damn crazy

0:20:35 > 0:20:37# You say your mama ain't home

0:20:37 > 0:20:38# That ain't my concern

0:20:38 > 0:20:41# Just play with me and you won't get burned

0:20:41 > 0:20:44# I have only one itching desire

0:20:44 > 0:20:46# Let me stand next to your...

0:20:51 > 0:20:53# Oh, let me stand

0:20:53 > 0:20:55# I ain't gonna do you too much harm

0:20:57 > 0:20:59# Oh, move over Rover

0:21:00 > 0:21:02# Let Jimi take over

0:21:03 > 0:21:05# Yeah, you know what I'm talkin' about baby

0:21:43 > 0:21:45# Yeah

0:21:48 > 0:21:49# You try to give me your money

0:21:49 > 0:21:51# You'd better save it babe

0:21:51 > 0:21:54# Save it for your rainy day

0:21:54 > 0:21:56# I have only one itching desire

0:21:56 > 0:21:58# Let me stand next to your...

0:22:00 > 0:22:02# Oh, let me stand

0:22:04 > 0:22:06# Let me stand

0:22:06 > 0:22:08# Yeah

0:23:02 > 0:23:05CHEERING

0:23:05 > 0:23:07Thank you very much.

0:23:12 > 0:23:15MUSIC: "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"

0:24:14 > 0:24:17# Well, I stand up next to a mountain

0:24:18 > 0:24:21# And I chop it down with the edge of my hand

0:24:29 > 0:24:31# Well, I stand up next to a mountain

0:24:31 > 0:24:34# And I chop it down with the edge of my hand

0:24:37 > 0:24:40# Well, I pick up all of the pieces and make an island

0:24:40 > 0:24:43# Might even raise a little sand

0:24:43 > 0:24:45# Yeah

0:24:46 > 0:24:48# Cos I'm a voodoo child

0:24:49 > 0:24:53# Lord knows I'm a voodoo child, baby... #

0:28:34 > 0:28:37Before we leave I just want to say the name of the group one more time.

0:28:37 > 0:28:40This is our first-ever gig and I just want to say thank you very much

0:28:40 > 0:28:43for listening with your ears and your hearts.

0:28:44 > 0:28:47And the name of the group is Gypsy Sun and Rainbows

0:28:47 > 0:28:50and you can call it, Band of Gypsys, anything you want to.

0:28:52 > 0:28:57Let me call them here. Playing congas over there, that's Juma.

0:28:57 > 0:29:00We have Larry Lee, with a headscarf around his face!

0:29:02 > 0:29:04We got Billy Cox over there, playing bass.

0:29:06 > 0:29:08Mitch Mitchell...

0:29:08 > 0:29:09and Jerry Velez.

0:29:27 > 0:29:30# I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time

0:29:30 > 0:29:33# I'll give it right back to ya one of these days

0:29:57 > 0:30:00# I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time

0:30:00 > 0:30:03# I'll give it right back one of these days

0:30:03 > 0:30:06# Yeah, yeah, yeah

0:30:15 > 0:30:18# If I don't see you no more in this world

0:30:18 > 0:30:20# I'll meet ya in the next one

0:30:20 > 0:30:22# And don't be late

0:30:22 > 0:30:24# Don't be late

0:30:24 > 0:30:27# Cos I'm a voodoo child A voodoo child, baby

0:30:27 > 0:30:30# Lord knows I'm a voodoo child, baby

0:30:30 > 0:30:33# Yeah, yeah, yeah

0:31:25 > 0:31:28I'd like to say, thank you very much and good night.

0:31:28 > 0:31:30I'd like to say, peace.

0:31:30 > 0:31:31Yeah, and happiness.

0:31:31 > 0:31:34Happiness, yeah. Happiness!

0:32:01 > 0:32:03MUSIC: "Stepping Stone"

0:32:05 > 0:32:08# I'm a man At least I'm trying to be

0:32:08 > 0:32:12# I've lived before The other part of me

0:32:12 > 0:32:15# I'm try-y-ying

0:32:16 > 0:32:20# Cry-y-y

0:32:21 > 0:32:25# You're a woman At least you say you are

0:32:25 > 0:32:29# But then I see you make it with my guitar

0:32:29 > 0:32:32# I cry-y-y

0:32:32 > 0:32:36# Cry-y-y

0:32:37 > 0:32:41# Doo-doo-doo-doo

0:32:41 > 0:32:45# Doo-doo-doo-doo

0:32:45 > 0:32:49# Doo-doo-doo-doo

0:32:49 > 0:32:54# Doo-doo-doo-doo

0:32:54 > 0:32:59# Doo-doo-doo-doo... #

0:33:20 > 0:33:25Thank you, you can leave if you want to, we're just jammin', that's all.

0:33:25 > 0:33:27You can leave or you can clap.

0:35:02 > 0:35:06MUSIC: "The Star-Spangled Banner"

0:38:39 > 0:38:41MUSIC: "Purple Haze"

0:39:02 > 0:39:04# Purple haze, in my brain

0:39:06 > 0:39:10# Lately things just don't seem the same

0:39:10 > 0:39:13# I'm acting funny but I don't know why

0:39:13 > 0:39:16# Excuse me while I kiss the sky

0:39:19 > 0:39:22# Purple haze, all around

0:39:23 > 0:39:27# Don't know if I'm coming up or down

0:39:27 > 0:39:29# Am I happy or in misery?

0:39:31 > 0:39:34# Whatever it is That girl put a spell on me

0:39:37 > 0:39:39# Help me

0:39:39 > 0:39:40# Help me, baby

0:40:44 > 0:40:48# Purple haze, all in my eyes

0:40:48 > 0:40:51# Don't know if it's day or night

0:40:51 > 0:40:54# You got me blowin', blowin' my mind

0:40:55 > 0:40:59# Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?

0:41:02 > 0:41:04# Help me, baby

0:41:04 > 0:41:06# Help me, baby

0:41:06 > 0:41:09# Hey, yeah, purple haze

0:41:15 > 0:41:18# Yeah, purple haze... #

0:42:56 > 0:42:58MUSIC: "Improvisation"

0:46:42 > 0:46:44MUSIC: "Villanova Junction"

0:49:09 > 0:49:11Thank you.

0:49:11 > 0:49:12CHEERING

0:49:23 > 0:49:26CROWD CHANT: More! More! More!

0:49:39 > 0:49:41CHEERING

0:49:41 > 0:49:44MC: Ladies and gentlemen, The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

0:50:07 > 0:50:10MUSIC: "Hey Joe"

0:50:10 > 0:50:11# Hey Joe

0:50:12 > 0:50:15# Where you goin' with that gun in your hand?

0:50:21 > 0:50:23# Hey Joe

0:50:23 > 0:50:26# I said, where you goin' with that gun in your hand?

0:50:31 > 0:50:34# I'm goin' down to shoot my ol' lady

0:50:35 > 0:50:38# I caught her messin' 'round with another man

0:50:42 > 0:50:46# Yeah, I'm goin' down to shoot my ol' lady, yeah

0:50:46 > 0:50:49# You know I caught her messin' 'round with another man

0:50:49 > 0:50:51# And that ain't too cool

0:50:53 > 0:50:56# Hey Joe, hey Joe

0:50:58 > 0:51:00# Where you gonna run to now?

0:51:05 > 0:51:07# Hey Joe, hey Joe

0:51:08 > 0:51:11# I heard you shot your lady down

0:51:11 > 0:51:14# All the way down

0:51:14 > 0:51:16# And he say, yeah, I did

0:51:16 > 0:51:18# Yes, I did, I shot her

0:51:20 > 0:51:23# You know I can't mess around

0:51:28 > 0:51:30# Yes, I did, I shot my woman

0:51:31 > 0:51:34# You know I caught her messin' around

0:51:34 > 0:51:37# I gave him the gun, I shot her

0:52:11 > 0:52:14# Hey Joe, hey Joe

0:52:14 > 0:52:16# Where you gonna run to now?

0:52:22 > 0:52:25# Hey Joe, hey Joe

0:52:25 > 0:52:29# Where you gonna run to now? Where you gonna run to, yeah

0:52:32 > 0:52:36# I'm goin' way down south, way down south

0:52:36 > 0:52:40# Way down to Mexico way, yeah

0:52:44 > 0:52:47# Yes, I'm goin' way down south, way down south

0:52:48 > 0:52:50# Way down where I can be free

0:52:52 > 0:52:53# Ain't no man gonna find me

0:52:55 > 0:52:57# Ain't no hang man gonna...

0:52:59 > 0:53:02# He ain't gonna put a rope around me

0:53:02 > 0:53:04# You better believe it, baby

0:53:06 > 0:53:08# Hey Joe, hey Joe

0:53:10 > 0:53:14# Hey Joe, you better run down, you better goodbye everybody... #

0:54:17 > 0:54:20CHEERING

0:54:34 > 0:54:38MC: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so very much.

0:55:25 > 0:55:30I had been listening to Jimi, of course, since he was recording.

0:55:30 > 0:55:34And, um, Hey Joe, and that era, especially,

0:55:34 > 0:55:37so that was the group that I expected to see on stage

0:55:37 > 0:55:41but I thought that... the expansion of the group,

0:55:41 > 0:55:44the increased ability to have different modes

0:55:44 > 0:55:49of music was just perfect, especially for Woodstock.

0:55:49 > 0:55:54Most artists, from Van Gogh, to Beethoven, to Hendrix,

0:55:54 > 0:55:56they...they have to grow,

0:55:56 > 0:56:00and Jimi was in the growing period of his time and he wanted to grow.

0:56:00 > 0:56:02He felt the need, in order to survive,

0:56:02 > 0:56:04he had to grow musically.

0:56:04 > 0:56:07Now, to the chagrin of the management at that time,

0:56:07 > 0:56:09they didn't want him to change a thing,

0:56:09 > 0:56:12because they had ... they had their formula.

0:56:12 > 0:56:15It's just, like, once you have a formula,

0:56:15 > 0:56:17you don't want to change it, because this is what people -

0:56:17 > 0:56:19it's even true today, in the music world -

0:56:19 > 0:56:21that's what they want you to stick to,

0:56:21 > 0:56:23to what is a sellable item.

0:56:23 > 0:56:27I don't know how much pressure the management put on Jimi,

0:56:27 > 0:56:28to be honest, you know?

0:56:28 > 0:56:30I just know there was a conflict

0:56:30 > 0:56:33and that was the reason I told Jimi I would leave.

0:56:33 > 0:56:37I was seeing that he was fighting a battle that,

0:56:37 > 0:56:39maybe, if I was gone,

0:56:39 > 0:56:41he would be more like... what they wanted.

0:56:41 > 0:56:44They wanted three pieces, as far as I could gather.

0:56:44 > 0:56:48There was a money-maker, there was the hit,

0:56:48 > 0:56:50I had to experience it.

0:56:50 > 0:56:52So I just told him, "I'm just going to leave."

0:56:52 > 0:56:54He said, "Well, we'll get a drummer and we'll get together."

0:56:54 > 0:56:57I just came on back to Memphis.

0:56:57 > 0:57:01I was hoping that would take some of the heat off Jimi, you know.

0:57:05 > 0:57:09He had so established an identity with the public...

0:57:11 > 0:57:14..that they wanted to see him they way they saw him

0:57:14 > 0:57:17and when he didn't want them to see him that way any more,

0:57:17 > 0:57:19they weren't ready for the transition.

0:57:19 > 0:57:21Let's put it this way.

0:57:21 > 0:57:26It was much easier after that - a relief, shall we say -

0:57:26 > 0:57:28just to play with Jimi and Billy Cox.

0:57:34 > 0:57:36I think, all in all, it went well.

0:57:36 > 0:57:39Everyone did exceptionally well.

0:57:39 > 0:57:41I was proud of that group and I was proud to be a part

0:57:41 > 0:57:44of that Hendrix band, at that particular time.

0:57:44 > 0:57:45I really wanted him under the lights

0:57:45 > 0:57:48and I wanted it to be that really special moment

0:57:48 > 0:57:53and the high point of the show for me and for the audience

0:57:53 > 0:57:57and...then he did Star-Spangled Banner

0:57:57 > 0:57:59and all that changed.

0:57:59 > 0:58:01That was all of it - combined.