Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child [2012, Documentary, Psychedelic Rock, BDRip 720p]

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You're considered one of the best
guitar players in the world.
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Oh, no!
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Certainly...
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Well, one of the best
in this studio anyway.
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How about some of the best
sitting in this chair?
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Subtitles downloaded from www.OpenSubtitles.org
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Another rapid return visit by a trio
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which is blazing a trail through Britain
with exciting new sounds.
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I just wish I Could just grab you, man,
and just ...
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An experience for Jimi Hendrix,
retaining his title as the world's top musician.
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I can't explain myself like this at that
sometimes 'cause it doesn't come out like that.
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Wait, don't waste all that Elm there.
Stop it for a second.
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I was born in Seattle, Washington, USA,
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on November 27th 1942
at the age of zero.
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My dad used to call me
Buster, or buddy boy,
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and my mother
used to call me Jimmy.
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Mostly my dad took care of me.
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My dad was very strict and taught me
that I must respect my elders always.
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I couldn't speak
unless I was spoken to first by grown-ups.
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A fish wouldn't get into trouble,
if he kept his mouth shut.
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So I've always been very quiet.
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But I saw a lot of things.
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My grandmother is part Cherokee.
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I used to spend a lot of time on a reservation
in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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My mother and father used to fall out a lot
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and I always had to be ready
to go tippy-toeing off to Canada.
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My dad was level-headed and religious
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but my mother used to like
having a good time and dressing up.
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She used to drink a lot
and didn't take care of herself.
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She died when I was about ten
but she was a groovy mother.
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I went to school in Seattle,
then Vancouver, then back to Seattle.
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On the whole,
my school was pretty relaxed.
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We had Chinese, Japanese,
Puerto Ricans, Philippines.
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We won all the football games.
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At school I used to write poetry a lot
and I wanted to be an actor or a painter.
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They said I used to be late all the time
but I was getting As and Bs.
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I had a girlfriend in the art class
and we used to hold hands all the time.
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The art teacher didn't dig that at all.
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I left school early.
School was nothing for me.
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I wanted something to happen to me.
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My father told me to look for a job,
so that's what I did.
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I worked for my father
for a couple of weeks.
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I had to work very hard.
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Dad was a gardener
and it got pretty bad in the winter
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when there wasn't any grass to cut.
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Have you heard of Muddy Waters?
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The first guitarist
I was aware of was Muddy Waters.
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I heard one of his old records when
I was a little boy and it scared me to death,
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because I heard all of those sounds.
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Wow! What is all that about?
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It was great!
One of the funkiest I've heard.
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I dug Howlin' Wolf
and Elmore James, Jimmy Reed,
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but I was into other stuff.
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I used to like Buddy Holly
and Ritchie Valens, Eddie Cochran.
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But you get your inspiration from everything.
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Color just doesn't make any difference.
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Look at Elvis.
He could sing the blues and he was white.
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I always say, let the best man win.
Whether you're black, white or purple.
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I was about 14 or 15
when I started playing guitar.
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I learned all the riffs I could.
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I never had any lessons.
I learned guitar from records and the radio.
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I was trying to play like
Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry.
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Trying to learn everything and anything.
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I played in my back yard at home
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and the kids used to gather round
and said it was cool.
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When I was 17, I formed this group
with some other guys
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but they drowned me out.
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I didn't know why at first
but after about three months, I realized:
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I had to get an electric guitar.
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My first electric was a Danelectro
which my dad bought for me.
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Must have busted him for a long time.
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I got the guitar together
because it was all I had.
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No city I've ever seen
is as pretty as Seattle.
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But I couldn't live there.
You get restless and, before you know it,
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you're too old
and you haven't seen any of the world.
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There 's more for you
in today's "Action: Army".
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I bet you didn't wear this in the paratroops.
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Not necessarily.
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You were a para... What is it?
A paratrooper or a parachutist? Or "shoutist"?
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It doesn't make a difference.
101st Airborne, Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
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I was 18. I figured I'd have to go
into the army sooner or later
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so I walked into the first recruiting office
I saw and volunteered.
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I wanted to get everything over with
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before I tried to get into music as a career,
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so they wouldn't call me up in the middle of
something that might be happening.
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I had no musical training
so I couldn't sign up as a musician.
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I figured I might as well go all the way,
so I joined the Airborne.
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This is the Airborne.
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Tough. Rugged. Big.
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This is the outfit that one enemy called
"those devils in baggy pants
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This is the outfit where brawn
has to match brains,
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where every man has to be
in top-notch condition,
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mentally, physically.
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If you're that man,
this is your outfit.
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I had to buy two pairs of jump boots
and four sets of tailored fatigues,
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plus 20 Screaming Eagle badges.
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You know what that represents?
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The 101 st Airborne Division,
Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
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Yes, indeedy.
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"Dear Dad,
Well, here I am,
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"exactly where I wanted to go:
in the 101st Airborne.
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“How are you and Leon, and everybody?
Fine, I really hope.
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"Well, it is pretty rough, but I can't complain
and I don't regret it so far.
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"We jumped out of the 34-foot tower
on the third day we were here.
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"It was almost fun.
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"We were the first nine
out of 150 in our group.
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"There were these three guys that quit
when they got to the top of the tower.
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"But I have in my mind
that whatever happens, I am not quitting.
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"I'll try my best to make this Airborne
for the sake of our name,
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"so that the whole family of Hendrix
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“will have the right to wear
the Screaming Eagle badge of the US Army.
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"To Daddy Hendrix, from your son.
Love James.
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"PS: Please send my guitar
as soon as you can. I really need it now."
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But the army is really a bad scene.
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They wouldn't let me
have anything to do with music.
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I was in the army for about 13 months
but I got injured on a jump.
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One day, I got my ankle
caught in the skyhook
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just as I was going to jump
and I broke it.
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I told them I'd hurt my back too.
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Every time they examined me I'd groan,
so they finally believed me.
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I was lucky to get out when I did.
Vietnam was just coming up.
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In the army,
I had started to play the guitar seriously.
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So I thought all I could do is
to try to earn money playing guitar.
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I went to Nashville, where I lived
in a big housing estate they were building.
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Every Sunday afternoon, we used to
go downtown to watch the race riots.
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We'd take a picnic basket because
they wouldn't serve us in the restaurants.
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One group would stand on one side
of the street and the rest on the other side.
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They'd shout names
and talk about each other's mothers
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and every once in a while
stab each other.
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Sometimes, if there was a good movie
on that Sunday,
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there wouldn't be any race riots.
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It took me some time to get better
from the injuries I had.
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It was pretty tough at first.
I lived in very miserable circumstances.
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I slept where I could
and when I needed to eat, I had to steal it.
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I played in cafes,
clubs and on the streets.
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That's where I really learned to play.
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I started a group called King Kasuals
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with a fella called Billy Cox
who played funky, funky bass.
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I met a guy named Gorgeous George
and he got me on some tours.
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So I started traveling around
and playing around the South.
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The idea of playing guitar with my teeth
came to me in a town in Tennessee.
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Down there you have to play with your teeth
or else you get shot.
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Those people really were hard to please.
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There's a trail of broken teeth
all over the stage.
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What are you looking at?
What are you looking at?
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There was a soul package
coming into town
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with Sam Cooke, Solomon Burke,
Jackie Wilson, B.B. King and Chuck Jackson
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and I got a little job
playing in the back-up band.
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I learnt an awful lot
playing behind all those names every night.
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"Dear Dad,
I hope everything is fine.
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“Well, here I am again,
traveling to different places.
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"I am on a tour that lasts about 35 days.
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"We're about halfway through it now.
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“We've been to all the cities
in the Midwest, East and South.
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"I'll write soon, Jimmy."
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"Dear Dad,
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"Just a few words to let you know
I made it to South Carolina.
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“Tell everybody 'Hello'.
With Love, Jimmy"
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I went to New York and won first place
in the Apollo Amateur Contest.
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25 dollars.
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I stayed up there
for about two or three weeks.
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Then The Isley Brothers asked
if I would play with them.
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I played with them for a while
and got very bored
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because you get very tired
of playing behind other people all the time.
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I quit them in Nashville somewhere
and this group came up
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and brought me back to Atlanta, Georgia,
where I met Little Richard.
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“Dearest Dad,
I received your letter while I was in Atlanta.
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"I'm playing with Little Richard now.
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"We're going towards the West Coast.
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“We're in Louisiana now.
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"But my address will be in Los Angeles
when I write again. Jimmy."
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Well, Little Richard,
he was the guy up front and that was it,
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and he said he was the only one
allowed to be pretty.
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I guess I played with Little Richard
for about five or six months.
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I quit because of money misunderstanding:
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he didn't pay us for Eve and a half weeks.
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I couldn't imagine myself
for the rest of my life in a shiny mohair suit
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with patent leather shoes
and a patent leather hairdo to match.
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I didn't hear any guitar players
doing anything new
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and I was bored out of my mind.
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I wanted my own scene,
making my own music.
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I was starting to see that you could create
a whole new world with an electric guitar.
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'Cause there isn't a sound like it.
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I had these ideas and sounds in my brain,
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but I needed people to do it with
and they were hard to End.
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I went back to New York and played
with this little rhythm and blues group
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called Curtis Knight And The Squires.
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I also played with King Curtis
and Joey Dee.
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"Dear Dad,
Well, I'm just dropping in a few words
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"to let you know everything's so-so
in this big, raggedy city of New York.
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"Everything is happening bad here.
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"I hope everyone at home is all right.
Tell Leon I said hello.
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"I'll write you a letter real soon
and will try to send a decent picture.
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"So, until then, I hope you're doing all right.
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"Tell Ben and Ernie
I play the blues like they never heard."
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I had friends with me
in Harlem and I'd say,
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"Come on down to the Village
so we can get something together."
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The Village was groovy.
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I just laid around
and played for about two hours a night.
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You had to chat someone up real quick
before you had a place to stay.
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I got a break playing guitar
for John Hammond Jr. at the Cafe au Go Go.
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Bob Dylan was also down there.
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We were both stoned
and just hung about laughing
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thanks to the demon ale.
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When I first heard Dylan,
I thought you must admire the guy
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for having that much nerve
to sing out of key.
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But when I started listening to the words,
that sold me.
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First real group I got together,
that would be around 1965, I guess.
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My big slice of luck came
when a little English friend
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persuaded Chas Chandler,
the bass player of The Animals,
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to come down where
we were gigging and give an ear.
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Chas came down
and heard me and asked,
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would I like to come to England
and start a group there?
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He seemed like a pretty sincere guy
and I'd never been to England before.
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I wasn't thinking about nothing
but the idea of going to England.
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That's all I was thinking about.
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'Cause I like to travel, you know?
One place bores me too long,
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so I have to see if I can get something
together by moving somewhere else.
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And the idea of England
was the idea of England itself.
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I said, "Wow! I've never
been there before."
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September 24th 1966.
That's when I came to England.
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They kept me waiting at the airport
for three or four hours
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because I didn't have a work permit.
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They carried on like
I was going to make all the money in England
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and take it back to the States.
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I moved into a flat with Chas Chandler.
227
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We used to get complaints about loud,
late parties when we were out of town.
228
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Chas got real mad about it
but I didn't let it bug me.
229
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Chas knows lots of telephone numbers.
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He helped me ind
my bassist and drummer.
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Four days after we got together,
we were playing at the Paris Olympia
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with Johnny Hallyday,
who is like the French Elvis.
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We just got thrown together,
we didn't know each other from Adam.
234
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I was thinking of the smallest pieces possible
with the hardest impact.
235
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That's why I like us being called
The Experience, it's right.
236
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All the photos I had done
for publicity to begin with
237
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were picked because I looked so grim.
238
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But I guess it was necessary
to get that visual thing going
239
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before we could make people listen.
240
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My music isn't pop, it's me.
241
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My guitar is my notes,
regardless of where they came from.
242
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I haven't set out
to produce a commercial sound
243
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but our intention is to be respected, you know,
after we die and we're old and all that.
244
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Who doesn't want
to be written down in history?
245
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"Dear Dad,
We're playing around London now.
246
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“That's where I'm staying these days.
247
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"I have my own group and
we'll have a record out in about two months
248
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"named Hey Joe
by The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
249
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"I hope you get this card.
250
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"I think things are going a little better.
Your loving son, Jimi."
251
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We all dug Hey Joe as a number.
252
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Chas made me sing serious.
I was too scared to sing.
253
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It was the first time
I ever tried to sing on a record.
254
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While we were working on it,
255
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I don't think
we played it the same way twice.
256
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Hey Joe is really a blues arrangement
of a cowboy song.
257
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It isn't quite a commercial song,
258
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so I'm surprised
that it got so high in the hit parade.
259
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I'm just wondering
how people are going to take the next one,
260
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because it's so different.
261
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I had this thing on my mind
about a dream I had
262
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that I was walking under the sea.
263
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It's linked to a story I read in a science fiction
magazine about a purple death ray.
264
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It's called Purple Haze.
265
00:29:12,684 --> 00:29:15,824
I don't consider it
the invention of psychedelic music,
266
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it was just asking a lot of questions.
267
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The way I write things, they are just a clash
between reality and fantasy.
268
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You have to use fantasy
to show different sides to reality.
269
00:29:49,221 --> 00:29:52,259
A lot of people think
what I do with my guitar is vulgar,
270
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but I don't let them hang me up.
271
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I play to the people
and I don't think our actions are obscene.
272
00:29:59,097 --> 00:30:02,704
Music is such a personal expression,
it's bound to project sex.
273
00:30:02,701 --> 00:30:05,773
What is so wrong about that?
Is it so shameful?
274
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I play and move as I feel.
It's not an act, but a state of being.
275
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I consider ourselves to be
some of the luckiest cats alive,
276
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because we're playing just what we want
to play, and people seem to like that.
277
00:30:43,575 --> 00:30:47,990
You must remember that Jimi Hendrix USA
didn't really have a chance to do anything,
278
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because he was playing behind people.
Then this happened.
279
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When Chas saw me
in Greenwich Village,
280
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he said it would all happen
just like it has.
281
00:31:32,891 --> 00:31:36,304
The first night of the “Walker Brothers Tour"
was when I started to worry.
282
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This was an audience
who'd come to see the Walker Brothers,
283
00:31:39,064 --> 00:31:42,170
Engelbert Humperdinck
and Cat Stevens.
284
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We'd step outside the stage door
where the teenyboppers were,
285
00:31:46,538 --> 00:31:51,180
and think, "They won't bother about us",
and then get torn apart.
286
00:32:25,343 --> 00:32:27,550
I don't know how it happened
so suddenly,
287
00:32:27,546 --> 00:32:30,755
but our records began to sell
at an incredible rate.
288
00:33:01,913 --> 00:33:04,985
In England,
you have to keep releasing records.
289
00:33:04,983 --> 00:33:08,556
They have very quick minds
and they get bored easily.
290
00:33:53,265 --> 00:33:56,712
We are calling our album
Are You Experienced.
291
00:33:56,701 --> 00:34:00,615
This is a very personal album,
just like all our singles.
292
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I guess you could call it an ad-lib album,
293
00:34:03,208 --> 00:34:05,779
as we made so much of it up on the spot.
294
00:34:45,784 --> 00:34:49,322
I don't want people to get the idea
it's a collection of freak-out material.
295
00:34:49,321 --> 00:34:51,699
Imagination is the key to my lyrics,
296
00:34:51,690 --> 00:34:53,897
and the rest is painted
with a little science fiction.
297
00:34:53,892 --> 00:34:57,135
What I like to do
is write a lot of mythical scenes.
298
00:34:57,128 --> 00:34:58,869
You can write your own mythology -
299
00:34:58,863 --> 00:35:01,173
like the history of the wars on Neptune
300
00:35:01,166 --> 00:35:04,113
and the reason Saturn's rings are there.
301
00:35:38,670 --> 00:35:40,479
Britain is our station now.
302
00:35:40,472 --> 00:35:43,282
It's not my home
but it was our beginning.
303
00:35:43,274 --> 00:35:45,811
They took us in like lost babies.
304
00:35:45,810 --> 00:35:49,383
We'll stay here probably
until around the end of June,
305
00:35:49,381 --> 00:35:52,726
and then we'll see
if we can get something going in America.
306
00:36:13,038 --> 00:36:15,382
Paul McCartney was the big bad Beatle,
307
00:36:15,373 --> 00:36:19,685
the beautiful cat who got us the gig
at the "Monterey Pop Festival".
308
00:36:19,678 --> 00:36:23,455
I arrived in England
with just the clothes I stood up in.
309
00:36:23,448 --> 00:36:27,624
I'm going back with the best wardrobe of gear
that Carnaby Street can offer.
310
00:36:51,543 --> 00:36:53,147
"Monterey" was great.
311
00:36:53,144 --> 00:36:56,956
It was a music festival done up
the way it's supposed to be done up.
312
00:36:56,948 --> 00:36:59,189
That was our start in America.
313
00:36:59,184 --> 00:37:02,358
Ladies and gentlemen,
Brian Jones.
314
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This dude is a very good friend,
a fellow countryman of yours,
315
00:37:09,127 --> 00:37:13,166
a brilliant performer,
the most exciting guitarist I've ever heard.
316
00:37:13,164 --> 00:37:15,542
The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
317
00:37:22,140 --> 00:37:25,610
When I was in Britain,
I used to think about America every day.
318
00:37:25,610 --> 00:37:28,386
I'm American,
I wanted people here to see me.
319
00:37:28,379 --> 00:37:31,155
I also wanted to see
whether we could make it back here.
320
00:40:14,345 --> 00:40:18,191
We had our beautiful rock blues
country funky freaky sound.
321
00:40:18,182 --> 00:40:21,425
I felt like we were turning the whole world
onto this new thing -
322
00:40:21,419 --> 00:40:23,831
the best, most lovely new thing.
323
00:41:27,085 --> 00:41:30,532
You know, I could sit up here all night
and say thank you, thank you, thank you,
324
00:41:30,521 --> 00:41:34,025
but I just... I just wish
I could just grab you, man, and just...
325
00:41:39,497 --> 00:41:42,171
Everything was perfect
and it was such a good feeling,
326
00:41:42,166 --> 00:41:44,373
especially your own home country,
327
00:41:44,369 --> 00:41:48,078
so I decided to destroy my guitar
at the end as a sacritice.
328
00:41:48,072 --> 00:41:50,143
You sacrifice the things you love.
329
00:41:50,141 --> 00:41:51,586
I love my guitar.
330
00:42:43,461 --> 00:42:45,566
The “Monterey Festival" was a good scene.
331
00:42:45,897 --> 00:42:47,740
All those beautiful people.
332
00:42:47,732 --> 00:42:51,202
It was one of the best gigs
I've ever played.
333
00:42:51,202 --> 00:42:54,240
And we made it, man,
because we did our own thing.
334
00:42:54,238 --> 00:42:57,811
And it really was our own thing
and nobody else's.
335
00:42:58,509 --> 00:43:00,352
Jimi Hendrix!
336
00:43:04,782 --> 00:43:07,228
Then we got into a tour
with The Monkees.
337
00:43:07,218 --> 00:43:09,630
They're like plastic Beatles.
338
00:43:32,376 --> 00:43:34,413
Then some parents
who brought their young kids
339
00:43:34,412 --> 00:43:36,983
complained that our act was vulgar.
340
00:43:47,458 --> 00:43:49,904
We decided
it was just the wrong audience.
341
00:43:49,894 --> 00:43:51,999
I think they replaced me
with Mickey Mouse.
342
00:44:12,917 --> 00:44:15,124
You get carted
from New York to London,
343
00:44:15,119 --> 00:44:18,794
start a whole new scene going there,
then come back home.
344
00:44:19,357 --> 00:44:21,462
America is so large.
345
00:44:21,459 --> 00:44:23,700
When you play regularly in Britain,
346
00:44:23,694 --> 00:44:26,641
you end up
going back to the same places.
347
00:44:26,631 --> 00:44:28,508
That doesn't happen in America.
348
00:44:32,336 --> 00:44:34,714
You ride into town,
you play your gig,
349
00:44:34,705 --> 00:44:38,881
and these beautiful girls come around
for drinks and parties and so forth.
350
00:44:38,876 --> 00:44:41,049
You do actually fall in love with them,
351
00:44:41,045 --> 00:44:43,924
because that's the only love you can have.
352
00:44:43,915 --> 00:44:47,829
If I get up at seven o'clock in the morning,
and, you know, I'm really sleepy,
353
00:44:47,818 --> 00:44:52,096
but then I open the door and see somebody
that appeals to me, you know,
354
00:44:52,089 --> 00:44:57,334
like the first thing I say,
"What in the world is she doing here?"
355
00:44:57,328 --> 00:44:59,433
Or “What does she want?"
or something like that.
356
00:44:59,430 --> 00:45:01,967
Then she says, "Maybe can I come in?"
357
00:45:01,966 --> 00:45:06,039
And I'm standing there really digging her,
she's really nice-looking, you know.
358
00:45:06,037 --> 00:45:11,350
To tell the honest to God truth, she's about
19 or 20, beyond the age of so and so.
359
00:45:11,342 --> 00:45:15,017
So, I say, "Oh".
Well, I probably stand there and then,
360
00:45:15,012 --> 00:45:18,016
there I go,
I'll be biting into an apple maybe.
361
00:45:18,015 --> 00:45:19,892
I used to be on the block starving.
362
00:45:19,884 --> 00:45:23,331
Girls used to help me.
Girls were my best friends.
363
00:45:23,321 --> 00:45:26,063
And ever since then,
that's when I said to myself,
364
00:45:26,057 --> 00:45:28,367
"I'll have to show my appreciation."
365
00:45:28,359 --> 00:45:32,967
Little Wing was a very sweet girl that
came around, that gave me a whole life,
366
00:45:32,964 --> 00:45:35,968
and me with my crazy ass
couldn't get it together.
367
00:46:05,630 --> 00:46:07,041
I dig writing slow songs,
368
00:46:07,031 --> 00:46:11,070
because I feel it's easier
to get more blues and feeling into them.
369
00:46:11,068 --> 00:46:14,140
The ballads I really get together.
That's what I dig.
370
00:46:38,229 --> 00:46:42,609
Flower power - yeah, I dig anything
as long as it don't hurt anybody,
371
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:45,843
anything as long as
people are grooving off it.
372
00:46:45,836 --> 00:46:49,113
You're not a "love-in" person
just because you have curly hair,
373
00:46:49,106 --> 00:46:50,881
or wear bells and beads.
374
00:46:50,875 --> 00:46:53,879
You have to believe in it,
not just throw flowers.
375
00:47:00,017 --> 00:47:04,488
Although the flower scene was all tied up
with sensation stuff about drugs,
376
00:47:04,488 --> 00:47:07,992
the "love everybody" idea
helped one helluva lot.
377
00:47:07,992 --> 00:47:11,565
Of course, a lot of those hippies
may get busted once in a while,
378
00:47:11,562 --> 00:47:14,304
but you don't hear
of banks being robbed by hippies.
379
00:47:23,507 --> 00:47:26,283
It's your own private thing
if you use drugs.
380
00:47:26,277 --> 00:47:28,917
Anybody should be able
to think or do what they want,
381
00:47:28,913 --> 00:47:31,416
as long as it doesn't hurt anybody.
382
00:47:33,451 --> 00:47:35,328
Music is a safe type of high.
383
00:47:35,319 --> 00:47:37,458
It's more the way it's supposed to be.
384
00:47:37,455 --> 00:47:39,731
That's where highness
came from anyway.
385
00:47:39,724 --> 00:47:42,466
Different strokes for different folks,
that's all I can say.
386
00:47:57,308 --> 00:48:00,721
I don't consider myself a songwriter,
not yet anyway.
387
00:48:00,711 --> 00:48:03,658
A lot of times I write a lot of words
all over the place,
388
00:48:03,647 --> 00:48:05,524
on matchboxes or on napkins,
389
00:48:05,516 --> 00:48:08,554
and then the music makes me think
of the few words I might have written,
390
00:48:08,552 --> 00:48:12,591
so I go back to those few words,
you know, and just get it together.
391
00:48:54,365 --> 00:48:56,345
Sometimes, if I have a new song,
392
00:48:56,333 --> 00:48:59,780
maybe I'll go to the studio by myself
and have an acetate made,
393
00:48:59,770 --> 00:49:03,718
and have a rough idea about the drums,
guitar, bass and vocals.
394
00:49:03,707 --> 00:49:06,881
Then other times, I'll just come in
banging away on the guitar.
395
00:49:29,099 --> 00:49:32,205
We recorded this album
right after the first one.
396
00:49:32,203 --> 00:49:35,810
All the songs on it
are exactly the way we felt right then.
397
00:49:44,515 --> 00:49:46,495
The reason for working
in the States is that
398
00:49:46,484 --> 00:49:48,691
we make twenty times
more money here,
399
00:49:48,686 --> 00:49:50,324
and there's no harm in that.
400
00:49:50,321 --> 00:49:52,460
We have to eat like everyone else.
401
00:49:53,257 --> 00:49:56,363
I'm looking forward
to going home to Seattle.
402
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:58,203
It's been seven years.
403
00:50:11,075 --> 00:50:13,214
There's my father,
who's married again,
404
00:50:13,210 --> 00:50:15,212
and my brother Leon, who's 19.
405
00:50:15,212 --> 00:50:17,658
He's trying to form a band of his own now.
406
00:50:17,648 --> 00:50:21,892
And I've got a six-year-old sister, Janie,
whom I've never seen.
407
00:50:21,886 --> 00:50:24,492
That's how long
I've been gone from home.
408
00:50:46,110 --> 00:50:48,681
The problem of succeeding
is a hard one for you,
409
00:50:48,679 --> 00:50:50,955
if your bassist, say, is into the blues
or something like that,
410
00:50:50,948 --> 00:50:54,725
and you suddenly make hundreds
of thousands of dollars a year.
411
00:50:54,718 --> 00:50:56,595
Someone said it's hard
to sing the blues
412
00:50:56,587 --> 00:50:58,863
when you're making
that kind of money.
413
00:50:58,856 --> 00:51:01,837
This assumes that you can't be unhappy
and have a lot of money.
414
00:51:01,825 --> 00:51:04,567
Sometimes it gets to be really easy
to sing the blues,
415
00:51:04,562 --> 00:51:06,769
when you're supposed to be making
all this much money,
416
00:51:06,764 --> 00:51:10,871
because, like, money is getting to be
out of hand now, you know.
417
00:51:10,868 --> 00:51:13,246
And musicians, especially young cats,
418
00:51:13,237 --> 00:51:14,409
they get a chance to make all this money,
419
00:51:14,405 --> 00:51:16,043
and they say, "Wow, that's fantastic."
420
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:19,681
And like I said before, they lose themselves
and forget about the music itself.
421
00:51:19,677 --> 00:51:22,783
They forget about their talents,
they forget about the other half of them,
422
00:51:22,780 --> 00:51:24,987
so therefore,
you can sing a whole lot of blues.
423
00:51:24,982 --> 00:51:27,428
The more money you make,
the more blues sometimes you can sing.
424
00:52:57,441 --> 00:52:59,546
There was a time I was worried
about the money.
425
00:52:59,543 --> 00:53:03,047
I was worried about whether
I was getting all I was entitled to.
426
00:53:03,047 --> 00:53:05,254
But money doesn't affect me right now.
427
00:53:13,557 --> 00:53:17,004
These guys in the business
who go out and spend, spend, spend,
428
00:53:16,994 --> 00:53:18,837
then end up flat busted broke.
429
00:53:18,829 --> 00:53:21,571
Except maybe they have
some personal things they bought.
430
00:53:21,565 --> 00:53:23,169
That's no good for me.
431
00:53:23,167 --> 00:53:25,613
I get my biggest kicks out of music.
432
00:53:26,036 --> 00:53:27,743
We've been together
for about two solid years
433
00:53:27,738 --> 00:53:31,276
and we've been playing Purple Haze,
The Wind Cries Mary,
434
00:53:31,275 --> 00:53:32,811
Hey Joe, Foxy Lady.
435
00:53:32,810 --> 00:53:35,689
We've been playing all these songs,
which I really think are groovy songs,
436
00:53:35,679 --> 00:53:38,125
but we've been playing
all these songs for two years.
437
00:53:38,115 --> 00:53:40,254
So, quite naturally,
we started improvising here and there,
438
00:53:40,250 --> 00:53:43,322
and there's other things
we wanted to turn on to the people.
439
00:54:07,010 --> 00:54:09,354
We're cutting a new record
between our tours.
440
00:54:09,346 --> 00:54:12,486
There may be two tracks
from the new Bob Dylan album on it.
441
00:54:12,483 --> 00:54:15,987
In fact, we've done
All Along The Watchtower already.
442
00:54:52,256 --> 00:54:55,294
It is now that I plan to start
making real music.
443
00:54:55,292 --> 00:54:56,999
I wanna create a new sound.
444
00:54:56,994 --> 00:55:01,101
Most of all, I'd like to forget
everything before 1968.
445
00:55:01,098 --> 00:55:03,271
We call it The End Of The Beginning.
446
00:55:23,720 --> 00:55:28,897
But see, LPs to us
are like personal diaries, you know.
447
00:55:28,892 --> 00:55:31,873
That's why I like all the songs we did.
448
00:55:31,862 --> 00:55:34,240
I'm not saying they're better
than anything else, but I just like them.
449
00:55:34,231 --> 00:55:38,111
I have personal feelings for anything
that we recorded, we released.
450
00:56:02,526 --> 00:56:04,403
That album, when it was released over here,
451
00:56:04,394 --> 00:56:07,739
had a picture of me,
Noel and Mitch on the cover.
452
00:56:07,731 --> 00:56:10,109
But people had been asking me
about the English cover
453
00:56:10,100 --> 00:56:13,104
and I don't know anything about it.
454
00:56:13,103 --> 00:56:15,174
All I can say is that I had no idea
455
00:56:15,172 --> 00:56:18,710
that it had a picture
of dozens of nude girls on it.
456
00:56:27,217 --> 00:56:29,925
When we recorded our last LP there,
Electric Ladyland,
457
00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:33,390
we were touring at the same time
which is hard to do.
458
00:56:33,390 --> 00:56:35,631
Because that means
you have to concentrate on two things.
459
00:56:35,626 --> 00:56:37,503
You have to do a good show tonight
460
00:56:37,494 --> 00:56:41,806
and plus tomorrow morning at six o'clock,
you have to go into the studio.
461
00:56:41,798 --> 00:56:45,041
And so it was really hard.
So I got down half the things
462
00:56:45,035 --> 00:56:47,072
that I really wanted
to get down during that period.
463
00:57:04,521 --> 00:57:08,628
The negro riots in the States are crazy,
discrimination is crazy.
464
00:57:08,625 --> 00:57:11,003
I think we can live together
without these problems.
465
00:57:10,994 --> 00:57:14,669
But because of the violence
these problems aren't solved yet.
466
00:57:14,665 --> 00:57:17,145
I don't look at things in terms of races.
467
00:57:17,134 --> 00:57:19,136
I look at things in terms of people.
468
00:57:19,136 --> 00:57:22,174
Quite naturally, I don't like
to see houses being burnt.
469
00:57:51,168 --> 00:57:54,308
They asked us to give benefit concerts
for the Black Panthers.
470
00:57:54,304 --> 00:57:55,908
I was iron in all this,
471
00:57:55,906 --> 00:57:58,910
but I'm not for the aggression of violence
or whatever you wanna call it.
472
00:57:58,909 --> 00:58:00,889
I just wanna do what I'm doing
473
00:58:00,877 --> 00:58:04,051
without getting involved
in racial or political matters.
474
00:58:21,631 --> 00:58:26,273
I can't express myself in a conversation,
I can't explain myself like this or that
475
00:58:26,269 --> 00:58:28,681
sometimes 'cause, you know,
it just doesn't come out like that.
476
00:58:28,672 --> 00:58:33,178
So, when we're on stage,
it's our own little world, that's your whole life.
477
00:59:10,213 --> 00:59:11,590
Music is what matters.
478
00:59:11,581 --> 00:59:13,185
When you hear somebody making music
479
00:59:13,183 --> 00:59:16,027
they are baring a naked part
of their souls to you.
480
00:59:25,896 --> 00:59:28,638
That was really nice.
Great.
481
00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:32,202
Well, ladies and gentlemen,
in case you didn't know,
482
00:59:32,202 --> 00:59:37,880
Jimi and the boys won
in a big American magazine called Billboard,
483
00:59:37,874 --> 00:59:41,515
the Group of the Year
and they're gonna sing for you now
484
00:59:41,511 --> 00:59:43,957
the song that absolutely made them
in this country,
485
00:59:43,947 --> 00:59:46,154
and I love to hear them sing it,
Hey Joe.
486
01:00:47,811 --> 01:00:51,122
I feel guilty when people say
I'm the greatest guitar player on the scene.
487
01:00:51,114 --> 01:00:53,094
What's good or bad doesn't matter to me.
488
01:00:53,083 --> 01:00:57,156
What does matter is feeling and not feeling,
technicality of notes.
489
01:00:57,154 --> 01:01:01,364
You got to know the sound
and what goes between the notes.
490
01:01:01,358 --> 01:01:04,237
I always try to get better,
but as long as I'm playing,
491
01:01:04,227 --> 01:01:07,606
I don't think I'll ever reach the point
where I'm satisfied.
492
01:02:14,264 --> 01:02:17,211
It was the same old thing
with people telling us what to do.
493
01:02:17,200 --> 01:02:19,077
They wanted to make us play Hey Joe.
494
01:02:19,069 --> 01:02:21,071
So I caught
Noel and Mitch's attention,
495
01:02:21,071 --> 01:02:23,312
and we went into
Sunshine Of Your Love.
496
01:02:23,306 --> 01:02:27,152
If you play live, nobody can stop you
or dictate what you play.
497
01:02:27,143 --> 01:02:31,182
We'll stop playing this rubbish
and dedicate a song to the Cream,
498
01:02:31,181 --> 01:02:32,751
regardless of what kind of group
they might be in.
499
01:02:32,749 --> 01:02:37,255
I'd like to dedicate it to Eric Clapton,
Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce.
500
01:03:22,666 --> 01:03:24,441
We're being put off the air.
501
01:03:53,863 --> 01:03:55,672
An experience for Jimi Hendrix retaining
502
01:03:55,665 --> 01:03:57,770
his title as the world's top musician,
503
01:03:57,767 --> 01:04:00,714
Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees
doing the honors.
504
01:04:02,205 --> 01:04:04,310
What do you like to hear
if somebody comes up after a concert,
505
01:04:04,307 --> 01:04:06,412
what kind of compliment do you like?
506
01:04:06,409 --> 01:04:08,753
I don't know.
I don't really live on compliments,
507
01:04:08,745 --> 01:04:11,157
matter of fact,
it has a way of distracting me
508
01:04:11,147 --> 01:04:14,651
and a whole lot of other musicians
and artists that are out there today.
509
01:04:14,651 --> 01:04:17,393
They hear these compliments, they say,
"I must have been really great."
510
01:04:17,387 --> 01:04:19,890
So they get fat and satisfied
and they get lost
511
01:04:19,889 --> 01:04:22,301
and they forget about
the actual talent that they have,
512
01:04:22,292 --> 01:04:24,329
and they start living
in another world, you know.
513
01:04:38,108 --> 01:04:41,419
A couple of years ago,
all I wanted out of life was to be heard.
514
01:04:41,411 --> 01:04:45,188
Now I'm trying to figure out
the wisest way to be heard.
515
01:04:45,181 --> 01:04:47,024
I don't want to be a clown any more.
516
01:04:47,016 --> 01:04:49,223
I don't want to be a rock 'n' roll star.
517
01:05:15,845 --> 01:05:18,121
We haven't had a rest
since we've been together,
518
01:05:18,114 --> 01:05:20,924
and we're going to have
to take a rest sometime or another,
519
01:05:20,917 --> 01:05:23,454
or else some of the music
is gonna come out really bad,
520
01:05:23,453 --> 01:05:25,455
or it's not gonna come out
the way we want it to.
521
01:05:30,727 --> 01:05:33,833
What I wanna do
is rest completely for one year.
522
01:05:33,830 --> 01:05:36,640
It's the physical and emotional toll
I have to think of.
523
01:05:36,633 --> 01:05:39,375
Maybe something will happen
and I'll break my own rules,
524
01:05:39,369 --> 01:05:40,871
but I have to try.
525
01:05:45,608 --> 01:05:48,214
It was always my plan
to change the bass player.
526
01:05:48,211 --> 01:05:49,849
Noel is definitely out.
527
01:05:49,846 --> 01:05:53,225
Billy Cox has more of a solid style
which suits me.
528
01:05:53,216 --> 01:05:55,958
I first met Billy when we were
in the US Airborne.
529
01:05:55,952 --> 01:05:58,296
I'm not saying any one
is better than the other.
530
01:06:03,193 --> 01:06:04,433
We're gonna take some time off
531
01:06:04,427 --> 01:06:08,000
and go out somewhere in the hills,
or whatever you call it,
532
01:06:07,997 --> 01:06:11,672
until I get some new songs,
and new arrangements and stuff like that.
533
01:06:11,668 --> 01:06:14,706
So we have something to offer,
you know, something new.
534
01:06:45,201 --> 01:06:47,977
I'm not sure how I feel about
The Experience now.
535
01:06:47,971 --> 01:06:49,416
Maybe we could have gone on.
536
01:06:49,405 --> 01:06:51,078
But what would have been the point?
537
01:06:51,074 --> 01:06:52,951
What would it have been good for?
538
01:06:52,942 --> 01:06:56,583
It's a ghost now, it's dead,
like back pages of a diary.
539
01:06:57,881 --> 01:07:00,760
Ladies and gentlemen,
The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
540
01:07:06,823 --> 01:07:09,394
I'll say hello to you again.
541
01:07:10,460 --> 01:07:12,565
All right.
542
01:07:13,363 --> 01:07:15,843
Dig, we'd like to get something straight,
543
01:07:15,832 --> 01:07:18,039
we got tired of Experience
544
01:07:18,034 --> 01:07:20,139
and it was blowing our minds too much,
545
01:07:20,136 --> 01:07:22,810
so we decided
to change the whole thing around
546
01:07:22,805 --> 01:07:25,945
and to call it Gypsy Sun and Rainbows.
547
01:07:25,942 --> 01:07:27,819
For short it's nothing but a Band Of Gypsys.
548
01:09:15,218 --> 01:09:16,288
What was the controversy
549
01:09:16,285 --> 01:09:18,526
about the national anthem
and the way you played it?
550
01:09:18,521 --> 01:09:21,764
I don't know, man, all I did was play it.
I'm American, so I played it.
551
01:09:21,758 --> 01:09:24,898
I used to sing it at school,
they made me sing it at school, so...
552
01:09:24,894 --> 01:09:27,431
It was a flashback, you know.
553
01:10:13,443 --> 01:10:15,286
This man was in the 101st Airborne,
554
01:10:15,278 --> 01:10:17,918
so when you write your nasty letters in...
555
01:10:17,914 --> 01:10:19,518
Nasty letters? Why...
556
01:10:19,515 --> 01:10:21,290
When you mention the national anthem
557
01:10:21,284 --> 01:10:24,322
and talk about playing it
in any unorthodox way,
558
01:10:24,320 --> 01:10:27,130
you immediately get
a guaranteed percentage of hate mail
559
01:10:27,123 --> 01:10:30,366
-from people who say, "How dare...?"
- But that's not unorthodox.
560
01:10:30,359 --> 01:10:32,361
- It isn't unorthodox?
- No, no.
561
01:10:32,361 --> 01:10:35,740
I thought it was beautiful,
but then there you go, you know.
562
01:11:20,543 --> 01:11:23,547
Everyone was amazed
at the absence of violence.
563
01:11:23,546 --> 01:11:26,390
It's become a cliche now about
that big festival and about the others.
564
01:11:26,382 --> 01:11:29,522
- Were you surprised at it?
- I was glad, I was glad.
565
01:11:29,519 --> 01:11:32,830
That's what it's all about,
you know.
566
01:11:32,822 --> 01:11:34,824
Try to keep violence down,
keep them off the streets...
567
01:11:34,824 --> 01:11:39,000
A festival of 500,000 people
was a very beautiful turnout, you know.
568
01:11:38,995 --> 01:11:40,770
I hope we have more of them.
569
01:12:55,071 --> 01:12:56,812
It was a success for the simple fact
570
01:12:56,806 --> 01:12:59,946
that it was one of the largest
gatherings of people,
571
01:12:59,942 --> 01:13:03,321
in the musical sense of it, you know.
572
01:13:04,380 --> 01:13:06,792
It could have been arranged a little more tighter
573
01:13:06,782 --> 01:13:08,625
but it was a complete success, though,
574
01:13:08,618 --> 01:13:12,566
compared to all the other festivals
everybody tried to knock here and there.
575
01:13:12,555 --> 01:13:17,595
And the idea of people really listening to music
over the sky, in such a large body.
576
01:13:17,593 --> 01:13:20,506
Everybody thinks that something's
gonna go haywire or something,
577
01:13:20,496 --> 01:13:23,739
but that's always brought on
by the police, always, 'cause we play...
578
01:13:23,733 --> 01:13:26,976
You said that this is a success
but there's 300,000 people,
579
01:13:26,969 --> 01:13:31,850
isn't that pretty large
for it to really be a success?
580
01:13:31,841 --> 01:13:34,048
It sure is and I'm glad it is a success.
581
01:14:46,115 --> 01:14:50,086
What is your comment
on drug use at the festival?
582
01:14:50,086 --> 01:14:51,588
I don't know, some people believe
583
01:14:51,587 --> 01:14:54,727
that they have to do this
or do that to get into the music.
584
01:14:54,724 --> 01:14:56,931
I don't know, I have no opinions at all.
585
01:14:56,926 --> 01:14:58,997
Different strokes for different folks,
that's all I can say.
586
01:14:59,495 --> 01:15:01,736
The Fillmore is proud to welcome back
587
01:15:01,731 --> 01:15:04,109
some old friends with a brand-new name,
588
01:15:04,100 --> 01:15:05,636
A Band of Gypsys.
589
01:15:09,638 --> 01:15:12,744
We've been recording with my new group,
the Band of Gypsys.
590
01:15:12,742 --> 01:15:17,521
It's a three-piece and we have
Buddy Miles on drums and Billy Cox on bass.
591
01:16:20,676 --> 01:16:24,055
You can always sing about love
and different situations of love
592
01:16:24,046 --> 01:16:25,684
but now we're trying to give solutions
593
01:16:25,681 --> 01:16:29,424
to all the protests and arguments
that they're having about the world today.
594
01:16:30,152 --> 01:16:32,723
I want to dedicate this to a scene
that's happening right now,
595
01:16:32,721 --> 01:16:34,701
the soldiers of Vietnam.
596
01:16:34,690 --> 01:16:37,102
We call it Machine Gun.
597
01:16:37,093 --> 01:16:40,233
I dedicate it to the other people
that might be fighting wars
598
01:16:40,229 --> 01:16:43,108
but within themselves,
not facing up to the realities.
599
01:17:04,820 --> 01:17:07,357
We're working on songs
that are very hard
600
01:17:07,356 --> 01:17:10,098
but that are very straightforward
and to the point.
601
01:17:10,092 --> 01:17:13,266
We're trying to get the people
to listen to us, first of all.
602
01:17:13,262 --> 01:17:16,334
Then we can say to them,
"Come follow us.
603
01:17:16,332 --> 01:17:18,369
"Let's go knock down
the White House door."
604
01:17:52,501 --> 01:17:56,813
The frustrations and riots going on today
are all about personal things.
605
01:17:56,805 --> 01:17:58,978
Everybody has wars within themselves
606
01:17:58,974 --> 01:18:01,477
and it comes out as war against other people.
607
01:18:01,477 --> 01:18:02,615
That's all it is.
608
01:18:12,855 --> 01:18:15,563
You can see how desperate
the whole case must be
609
01:18:15,558 --> 01:18:19,802
if a kid's going to go out there
and get his head busted open.
610
01:18:19,795 --> 01:18:24,266
I like to see these kids with helmets on
and then do their thing.
611
01:18:28,370 --> 01:18:32,250
Some of them will say, "We don't have
nothing else to live for anyway.
612
01:18:32,241 --> 01:18:33,481
"This is our scene now."
613
01:18:57,533 --> 01:19:01,447
I'm working on music to be completely,
utterly, a magic science,
614
01:19:01,437 --> 01:19:03,314
where it's all pure positive.
615
01:19:03,305 --> 01:19:06,343
The more doubt and negatives
you knock out of anything,
616
01:19:06,342 --> 01:19:08,845
the heavier it gets
and the clearer it gets,
617
01:19:08,844 --> 01:19:11,381
and the deeper it gets into
whoever is around it.
618
01:19:11,380 --> 01:19:13,087
It gets contagious.
619
01:19:21,056 --> 01:19:23,127
Don't mind us,
we just feel like playing to you.
620
01:19:23,959 --> 01:19:26,838
We're playing for
the new rising sun.
621
01:19:49,551 --> 01:19:52,896
Are You Experienced was where
my head was at a couple of years ago.
622
01:19:52,888 --> 01:19:54,629
Now I'm into different things.
623
01:19:54,623 --> 01:19:57,627
There's a need for harmony
between man and earth.
624
01:19:57,626 --> 01:19:59,731
I think we're really screwing up
that harmony
625
01:19:59,728 --> 01:20:03,642
by dumping garbage in the sea
and air pollution and all that stuff.
626
01:20:03,632 --> 01:20:07,603
And the sun is very important.
It's what keeps everything alive.
627
01:20:07,603 --> 01:20:10,914
The first rays of the new rising sun
is my new life.
628
01:20:10,906 --> 01:20:13,409
The thing is you have to be positive,
629
01:20:13,409 --> 01:20:15,582
you have to keep going until you have
630
01:20:15,577 --> 01:20:17,887
all the negatives out of your system.
631
01:21:00,823 --> 01:21:03,326
There is one thing
I hate about studios, usually,
632
01:21:03,325 --> 01:21:05,669
and that is the impersonality of them.
633
01:21:05,661 --> 01:21:09,336
Within a few minutes,
I lose all drive and inspiration.
634
01:21:10,599 --> 01:21:14,672
Electric Lady is different,
I have done great things with this place.
635
01:21:14,670 --> 01:21:18,345
It has been built
with great atmosphere and every comfort.
636
01:21:18,340 --> 01:21:20,479
It makes people feel like they're at home.
637
01:21:20,476 --> 01:21:25,755
It is capable of recording 32 tracks,
it has the best equipment in the world.
638
01:21:31,754 --> 01:21:33,825
We have recorded a lot of material
639
01:21:33,822 --> 01:21:36,894
and I hope the next single
will come out in six weeks.
640
01:21:36,892 --> 01:21:40,772
The number most likely to be the A-side
is Dolly Dagger,
641
01:21:40,763 --> 01:21:42,674
which is about a notorious lady.
642
01:22:12,895 --> 01:22:16,536
When you first make it,
the demands on you are very great.
643
01:22:16,532 --> 01:22:19,411
I don't try to live up to anything any more.
644
01:23:21,697 --> 01:23:23,643
The main thing
that used to bug me was
645
01:23:23,632 --> 01:23:26,738
that people wanted
too many visual things from me.
646
01:23:26,735 --> 01:23:29,306
When I didn't do it,
people thought I was being moody,
647
01:23:29,304 --> 01:23:32,717
but I can only freak
when I really feel like doing so.
648
01:24:06,174 --> 01:24:09,678
The moment I feel that I don't have
anything more to give musically,
649
01:24:09,678 --> 01:24:11,954
that's when I won't be
found on this planet.
650
01:24:11,947 --> 01:24:15,087
I'm not sure I will live to be 28 years old,
651
01:24:15,083 --> 01:24:17,154
but then again so many beautiful things
652
01:24:17,152 --> 01:24:19,564
have happened to me in the last three years,
653
01:24:19,555 --> 01:24:21,865
the world owes me nothing.
654
01:24:38,540 --> 01:24:41,419
Thank you. Thank you very much.
655
01:24:41,410 --> 01:24:43,890
When the last American tour finished,
656
01:24:43,879 --> 01:24:46,883
I just wanted to go away
and forget everything.
657
01:24:46,882 --> 01:24:50,591
Then I started thinking,
thinking about the future,
658
01:24:50,586 --> 01:24:52,566
thinking that this era of music,
659
01:24:52,554 --> 01:24:55,592
sparked off by The Beatles,
had come to an end.
660
01:24:55,591 --> 01:24:58,765
Something new has to come
and Jimi Hendrix will be there.
661
01:25:42,604 --> 01:25:44,447
Kids listen with open minds
662
01:25:44,439 --> 01:25:47,215
but I don't want to give them
the same things all the time.
663
01:25:47,209 --> 01:25:49,018
I wanna keep doing fresh things,
664
01:25:49,011 --> 01:25:52,185
I wanna show them all over again
what it's all about.
665
01:26:04,493 --> 01:26:08,498
The "Isle of Wight" was great.
It's a fantastic place to have a show,
666
01:26:08,497 --> 01:26:11,569
that brings the kids together
from not only the British Isle,
667
01:26:11,566 --> 01:26:13,978
but also the whole of the continent.
668
01:26:13,969 --> 01:26:16,279
- Yeah, right.
- Are you ready?
669
01:26:16,271 --> 01:26:18,683
- Ask the road manager.
- Are we ready? Are we ready?
670
01:26:20,308 --> 01:26:21,685
OK, ready.
671
01:26:21,677 --> 01:26:23,918
Tell the MC to go, then.
672
01:26:28,183 --> 01:26:31,562
A bit more volume on this one, Charlie.
It's gonna need it.
673
01:26:31,553 --> 01:26:34,159
Let's have a welcome for Billy Cox on bass,
674
01:26:37,793 --> 01:26:40,034
Mitch Mitchell on drums,
675
01:26:42,631 --> 01:26:45,510
and the man with the guitar, Jimi Hendrix.
676
01:26:47,169 --> 01:26:50,343
Yeah! Thank you very much
for showing up, man.
677
01:26:50,338 --> 01:26:53,876
You all look out of sight.
Thanks for waiting.
678
01:26:53,875 --> 01:26:55,582
We'll do a thing called Freedom.
679
01:26:59,715 --> 01:27:02,753
The "lsle of Wight“ might be the last
or the second to the last
680
01:27:02,751 --> 01:27:04,924
before I form my new big band.
681
01:27:04,920 --> 01:27:08,663
If the kids really enjoy it,
then I might carry on a little longer.
682
01:27:08,657 --> 01:27:11,501
But I'm not here to talk, I'm here to play.
683
01:27:48,930 --> 01:27:51,137
I don't think I'll be around
when I'm 80.
684
01:27:51,133 --> 01:27:53,841
There's other things to do
besides sitting around
685
01:27:53,835 --> 01:27:55,815
waiting for 80 to come along.
686
01:27:55,804 --> 01:27:59,616
I'm into new things and I wanna
think about tomorrow, not yesterday.
687
01:28:39,481 --> 01:28:41,791
I'm working on my next album.
688
01:28:41,783 --> 01:28:45,754
We have about 40 songs in the works,
about half of them completed.
689
01:28:49,858 --> 01:28:52,236
I have plans that are unbelievable.
690
01:28:52,227 --> 01:28:56,107
But then wanting to be a guitar player
seemed unbelievable at one time.
691
01:29:10,545 --> 01:29:13,116
The Jimi Hendrix Experience is oven
692
01:29:13,114 --> 01:29:16,288
The acid rock musician died today
in a London hospital.
693
01:29:16,284 --> 01:29:20,596
During his short careen
Hendrix Hailed his electric guitar
694
01:29:20,589 --> 01:29:23,832
into some of the most unusual sounds
of an unusual music.
695
01:29:41,009 --> 01:29:44,513
When I die,
I'm gonna have a jam session
696
01:29:44,512 --> 01:29:48,289
and knowing me,
I'll probably get busted at my own funeral.
697
01:29:59,361 --> 01:30:01,432
And I'll try and get Miles Davis along,
698
01:30:01,429 --> 01:30:03,170
if he feels like making it.
699
01:30:05,400 --> 01:30:09,246
The music will be played loud
and it will be our music.
700
01:30:33,228 --> 01:30:36,232
When I die,
just keep on playing the records.