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September 24th, 1966,
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un unknown figure touches down
in the streets of London
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with only a Fender Stratocaster
and a few dollars to his name.
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Within days of his arrival,
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Jimi Hendrix would turn
the world of music upside down.
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Jimi changed the sound of the guitar.
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I think in many respects he changed
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the sound of rock far
more than The Beatles.
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He called himself
a 'voodoo child',
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a virtuoso, who in just four
short years,
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will take the blues from
the Mississippi delta
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to the psychedelic limits
of outer space.
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He redefined what it meant
to be a guitar player,
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what it meant to be a musician,
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I think he redefined what
it meant to be an artist
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and he redefined the whole period
in which he existed.
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All that stuff that was going on
in the 60s
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is channeled through
Jimi Hendrix's music.
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You can hear Martin Luther King
being shot in his music,
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you can hear bombs falling
on Vietnam in his music,
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you can hear bombs exploding in the heads
of an entire generation on LSD
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in the music of Jimi Hendrix.
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In the end, he himself
will become a victim
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of the dark side of the era.
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His tragic death bringing
a symbolic end
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to the tumultuous 60s.
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This is a journey into
the first Age of Rock
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seen through the eyes
of his most dazzling icon...
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Jimi Hendrix.
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When Jimi Hendrix,
a left hander
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who played a right handed
guitar upside down,
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made his first explosive appearance
in London in 1966,
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he sent shockwaves through
the aristocracy of British music.
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# Purple Haze all in my brain,
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# lately things don't seem the same,
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# actin' funny but I don't know why
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# 'scuse me while I kiss the sky.
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I saw him perform with everybody else.
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With Eric Clapton, boy, you name it,
they were there.
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He came on the stage and
it was just mindblowing.
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And I think Eric's comment
after Jimi played was,
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"Well, I'm off home
to practice."
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I was just glad
I wasn't a guitarist.
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Like Eric Clapton,
fellow guitarist Jeff Beck,
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was also blown away by Hendrix's
guitar pyrotechnics.
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The fact that he was doing things
so upfront and so wild, unchained.
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That's what I wanted to do
but being British and
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the victim of the class system
or whatever...
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the poxy old schools I used to go to,
I couldn't do what he did.
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And I just went away
from there thinking,
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I'd better think of
something else to do.
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He was doing things
that they couldn't do,
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because he was picking out a baseline
with his thumb,
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a lead with his little finger and
playing rhythm with the rest of it.
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It was a kind of three-man group
on one guitar.
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The roots of rock lie deep
in the blues of the Mississippi delta.
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This music cast a powerful spell
on Jimi Hendrix.
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Growing up in Seattle in the 50s,
he got his first guitar aged 12,
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spending his teens learning the licks
of the twelve-bar blues.
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# Well I wait around the train station
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# Waitin' for that train
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The blues has always been there
way before it was ever called the 'blues'.
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It's a strand of music... it's a note
that resonates throughout the human race.
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In order to escape a jail term
for riding in a stolen Cadillac,
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Hendrix elected to join
the 101st Airborne Division.
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It was in the Army that Hendrix
began experimenting
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with the sounds of electric
rhythm & blues.
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Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf
and BB King were the godfathers of R&B,
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and this electrically charged music
would underpin
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the early career of Jimi Hendrix.
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Hendrix's time in the military
was troubled and didn't last long.
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The end came not long after he was
discovered sleeping with his guitar.
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Discharged from the Army in 1962,
a pennyless Hendrix
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found work as a guitar for hire
on the black R&B network
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known as the Chitlin' Circuit.
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It was this alternate nether universe
that happened
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that most white people
would never experience
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or never even know it happened.
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It happened when
all the white people were asleep,
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then in this little town,
these bands would come out an put on
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these incredible shows.
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Hendrix spent almost 4 years
on that circuit
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playing with a variety
of different bands.
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All I remember is getting out
of the Army
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and then trying to get
something together,
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and then I was playing in different groups
all around the States and Canada.
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Playing behind people
most of the time.
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He toured alongside the likes of Ike
and Tina Turner, BB King, James Brown...
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If he wasn't actually on stage
with these people
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he would be in the wings
watching and learning.
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Hendrix did a stint as a sideman
to Little Richard
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whose flamboyance was an inspiration
to the young guitarist.
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Hendrix said, "I want
to do with the guitar
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what Little Richard
does with his voice."
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Jimi Hendrix's perseverance to go on...
he didn't mind looking freaky,
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like I don't mind it, 'cause I was
doing it before he was.
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And I know when he saw me
gave him confidence,
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and great recompense or reward.
My Lord!
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4,000 miles away in Britain
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the R&B Hendrix was playing
on the Chitlin' Circuit
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was finding a devoted following.
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# I love the way you walk
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# I love the way you walk
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White musicians were
interpreting this music
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in ways that would in turn prove a key
influence on Jimi Hendrix.
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# ... I got my eyes on you
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It was playing blues that thawed out
the emotional permafrost
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of 1950s post-war English austerity.
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Because of its emphasis on improvisation,
it unlocked the creativity
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of the young musicians who
cut their teeth on it.
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Everybody starting out just copied
the records they listened to note for note.
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I was trying to sing like Howlin' Wolf.
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But from this copying
we learnt the roads.
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Tell us something about him, Brian.
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When we first started playing together
because we wanted to play R&B
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and Howlin' Wolf was one
of our greatest idols.
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It's a great pleasure to find
him booked in this show tonight.
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- It really is a pleasure.
- Thanks for Howlin's records.
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So I think it's better that we shut up
and we have Howlin' Wolf on stage.
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# How many more years
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# Have I got to let you dog me around
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# How many more years
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# Have I got to let you dog me around
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We based everything we did
from our knowledge of
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starting as a blues band.
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# If you see my little red rooster
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# Please drive him home
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Formed in 1962,
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The Rolling Stones took their name
from a classic Muddy Waters' song.
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# If you see my little red rooster
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The early shows, their sort
of embryonic period,
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they just played blues covers.
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They had no real material of their own,
so to speak, early on.
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The key of course was
when they began writing.
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And when they did,
they used these blues influences
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and filtered it through
their own experience.
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'Satisfaction' is really one
of the first great Stones' songs.
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It's a song that Muddy Waters
would have been happy to write.
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I think it would rank
as a great blues song
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even if it had come from one
of those guys on Chess Records.
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# I can get no satisfaction
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# I can't get no girl reaction
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'Satisfaction' is basically a blues,
you know, it's just a different form.
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I was just that...
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# I can get no satisfaction
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# I can get me know satisfaction
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# 'cause I try and I try, yeah I try
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# I can get no...
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The sexual swagger of 'Satisfaction'
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pointed the way
to a new direction in music.
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Electric blues music was morphing
into something distinctly British.
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# And I'm tryin' to make some girl
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They pretty much adapted pop-art ideas
to their blues-based R&B
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and, in a way, invented rock music
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just by putting pop and R&B together
in a cheeky funny way,
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with a great backbeat
and a blast off of a riff.
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Now the blues was being
reexported back to America
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introducing the mainstream
to a music they'd previously ignored.
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We, the young kids in London
and Newcastle and Liverpool,
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were responsible for putting
a hand inside America's garbage can
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and pulling out culture which
they were trying their best to crush.
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All this was a revelation
to Jimi Hendrix.
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In 1965 he left the Chitlin' Circuit
and moved to New York
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where he discovered a new world
of white music coming out of the UK.
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Imagine Hendrix walking down somewhere
where there's an import record store.
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Somebody's just got all these weird
records from England,
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records by people like the Yardbirds...
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where guitar players like Jeff Beck
are pursuing many of the same things
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that Hendrix himself was working on
to do with feedback, distortion,
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and in some cases maybe taking it further
than Hendrix himself had at that time.
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The guitarists that most
impressed Hendrix
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were Jeff Beck of the Yardbirds
and Eric Clapton.
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Clapton had gained
a formidable reputation
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playing with John Mayall
and the Bluesbreakers.
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English guitar players showed us, not just
how to play the guitar in a certain way,
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but they showed us how it looked.
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And how it could be sexy,
how it could be forceful.
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They were clearly taking influences
from America
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but they were showing us something
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that we really didn't
know that much about.
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It wasn't only British
guitar experimentation
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that was to shape the music
of Jimi Hendrix.
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While living in Harlem he fell
under the spell of an unlikely hero,
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Bob Dylan.
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Jimi took a copy of 'Blowin' in the wind'
to a Harlem discotheque,
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totally African-American
experience at the time,
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brought this in, went
up to the DJ and said,
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"I've got this great new track.
Let's play it."
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So the DJ puts the song
and the immediate response,
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everyone was dancing and then
'Blowin' in the wind', "How many...",
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Everyone stops, they all look at Jimi,
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and Jimi literally
has to run from the club for his life.
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# Johnny's in the basement
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# Mixing up the medicine
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# I'm on the pavement
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# Thinking about the government
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# The man in the trench coat
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# Badge out, laid off
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# Says he's got a bad cough
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# Wants to get it paid off
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# Look out kid
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# It's somethin' you did
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# God knows when
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# But you're doin' it again
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# You better duck down the alley way
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# Lookin' for a new friend
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# The man in the coon-skin cap
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# In the big pen
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# Wants eleven dollar bills
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# You only got ten
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The song that would define
Dylan in his prime
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and be pivotal in
the development of Jimi Hendrix
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is 'Like a Rolling Stone',
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a tour-de-force that
revolutionized rock music.
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One of the most exciting
things about it
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is that opening "bang"
on the snare.
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You know, it's like a gavel,
a judge wackin' the gavel on his desk,
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saying, "Ok, History is called to order."
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# Once upon a time you dressed so fine
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# You threw the bums a dime
in your prime, didn't you?
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That's how special, I think the people
involved in that song,
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not just only Dylan but the producer,
the musicians, everyone knew.
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# You used to laugh about
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They say it's the greatest record
of all times.
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It's amazing to have played on that.
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I knew that this stuff would be regarded
as something other than another record.
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# Once upon a time you dressed so fine
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# You threw the bums a dime
in your prime, didn't you?
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# People'd call, say,
"Beware doll, you're bound to fall"
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The character of Dylan's voice
struck a chord with Jimi,
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encouraging Hendrix to believe
that he too could make it as a singer.
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Hendrix had always been
very self-conscious about his singing.
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He'd worked behind
a lot of great singers,
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and on the same bill
as a lot of great singers,
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and he barely considered
himself a singer at all.
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But when he heard Dylan, he thought,
"Well, if this guy can sing, so can I."
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# How does it feel
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# To be on your own
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# With no direction home
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Hendrix heard Dylan and realised
that if a voice has character
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then it really doesn't matter if
it's a conventional "good voice" or not.
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If you sound like yourself
and you sound like you mean it,
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then you can sing rock 'n roll.
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# Got a feeling inside
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It was The Who,
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an uncompromising, loud
and aggressive London band,
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that would feed most directly
back into the act of Jimi Hendrix.
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Their high octane performances
gave rock a harder edge.
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I think the first band
that I ever truly believed
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was and out-and-out rock band
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that I saw was The Who.
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When I saw The Who
play at the Marquee
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there was a unity about what they did
with the base, guitar and drums...
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and it said to me, this is different,
this is not blues, it's something else.
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I wouldn't have been able
to categorise it as 'rock' at that time,
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but that's really what it was.
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We were doing feedback
and all that stuff onstage,
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which came out of putting
all this stuff in a pot, stirring it up,
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getting bored with this bit,
doubling up the beat,
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banging on a note,
wanging on a chord
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and turning the amp until
it fed back and...
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away you go.
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# People try to put us d-down
(Talkin' 'bout my generation)
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# Just because we get around
(Talkin' 'bout my generation)
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# Things they do look awful c-c-cold
(Talkin' 'bout my generation)
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# I hope I die before I get old
(Talkin' 'bout my generation)
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In 'My Generation' they had that
incredible stutter, you know,
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"Why don't you all f-f-f..."
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# Why don't you all f-fade away
(Talkin' 'bout my generation)
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# And don't try to d-dig what we all say
(Talkin' 'bout my generation)
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The stuttering on that record,
I thought was brilliant phrasing.
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That was their debut in America,
so you heard the record and you went,
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"He's gotta be putting that on."
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That couldn't be a guy
that actually stuttered.
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It was interesting.
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# I'm just talkin' 'bout my g-g-generation
(Talkin' 'bout my generation)
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The stutter on 'My Generation' reflects
the frustration and the anger
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in the attitude of the song.
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It's a 'fuck you' moment.
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This was a complete homage to
the inarticulateness of rebellious youth,
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who couldn't speak,
they could hardly think.
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It's like the old line,
"What are you rebelling against?"
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"Well, what have you got?"
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The Who were actually pivotal
in the development of the new rock.
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Remember that rock performance
was still more or less in its infancy
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when the Stones started out in the clubs
they were all sitting on stools.
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But with The Who there was
an element of real danger.
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The Who completely altered
notions of rock performance,
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and also the way that a basic
three instrument band
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could look and sound.
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The Who's total mastery of the stage
and somewhat destructive tendencies
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anticipated the wilder
excesses of rock to come.
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Jimi Hendrix, for one,
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would borrow heavily from The Who's
incendiary style of performance.
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He certainly took an awful
lot of what The Who were doing.
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The feedback stuff from Townsend,
he made it his own thing.
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But it was kind of weird seeing
a black guy come over from America
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and look at what we were doing
and take it into his own thing.
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So the whole thing
had gone a circle.
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By mid 1966,
Hendrix was going it alone,
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playing the clubs
in Greenwich Village.
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He wasn't making much money
but he was gathering a cult audience.
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Whispers began to circulate
about an extraordinary talent.
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I once went to the 'Cafe Wha?'
in the Village,
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that's when I first saw Jimi Hendrix,
and I went, Wow!
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This guy is good!
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Among the early Hendrix fan club
was Chas Chandler,
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the base player of The Animals,
who in the early 60s
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had been at the forefront of
the British invasion of America.
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When Chandler discovered
Hendrix in New York
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The Animals had already broken up.
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Chas had gone into management
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and was looking for an artist
to cover a Tim Rose folk song,
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called 'Hey Joe'.
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# Hey Joe, where you goin'
with that gun in your hand
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The night Chandler turned up
at the Cafe Wha?
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he was stunned, not only
by Hendrix's virtuosity,
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but also by his choice of song.
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# Hey Joe, where you goin'
with that gun in your hand
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The first song Jimi
played was 'Hey Joe',
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and I was like, you know,
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I wasn't really conscious
of the rest of the act.
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I saw a master guitar player.
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I saw the best guitar player
I'd ever seen in my life.
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It was that obvious, you know,
I just sat there and went, "Puh!"
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Let's come to England.
Let me bring him to England.
327
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Hendrix would come to London
on one condition.
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He actually said,
"If I go to England with you,
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"can you introduce me
to Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton?"
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And said, "They're pals of me.
I've known them 2-3 years."
331
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That was the only question he asked.
332
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When Hendrix landed in England
in September 1966,
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this was ground central
for not just music,
334
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but for fashion, photography,
film making, this was...
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swinging London in its prime
and Jimi showed up
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at the single, most opportune moment
he could have shown up in history.
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# In the white room with black curtains
near the station.
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When Hendrix arrived in London,
Cream were the biggest act in town.
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A power trio comprised of blues
jamming legends Eric Clapton,
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bassist Jack Bruce,
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and Ginger Baker on drums.
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# Dawn-light smiles on you leaving,
my contentment.
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We considered ourselves
to be 'the cream'.
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We were the guys who could play.
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Musically we were streets ahead
of any of the others.
346
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If we had played music written
by Humpty Dumpty and Mickey Mouse,
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00:25:22,724 --> 00:25:27,453
it would still have been fantastic
because of the musicians playing it.
348
00:25:28,922 --> 00:25:35,446
# You said no strings
could secure you at the station.
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We were very competitive, at that age,
we were like gunslingers or something.
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I wanted to be the best, most frightening
base player in the world,
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and I think I was.
I think I succeeded in that.
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I was certainly the loudest.
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We would take the language of the blues
and apply it to modern music.
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In other words, be very arrogant
about it and nick it,
355
00:26:08,809 --> 00:26:10,476
but not nick actual songs,
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we just nicked the feeling and
the language of the blues and used that.
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Which is very much what
we ended up doing.
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What marked this band
as the cream of London,
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was their flair for improvisation,
playing solos that never seemed to end.
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We simply couldn't stop playing.
361
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None of us was the band leader
so no one would say "Stop. Enough!"
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If one of us took off,
let him go.
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And we'd just go off that direction,
or go off in that direction.
364
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We were very much pioneers
of that kind of music.
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We built that audience
from nothing really,
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and the bands that followed us
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reaped the benefits of
the work that we had done.
368
00:27:19,978 --> 00:27:22,311
Such was Clapton's
prowess on the guitar,
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fans proclaimed his divinity
on the streets of London.
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00:27:27,121 --> 00:27:31,444
But the guitar god was soon
to be challenged by one of his disciples.
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Having been in London
for just a week,
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Jimi went along to a Cream gig,
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and put in an audacious request
to jam with Clapton.
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Nobody gets up to jam with Cream.
375
00:27:44,501 --> 00:27:47,682
Cream is Mount Olympus,
Cream is the absolute pinnacle.
376
00:27:47,722 --> 00:27:49,407
Ordinary mortals cannot breathe
377
00:27:49,462 --> 00:27:52,863
that rarified air that exists
in this hallowed space.
378
00:27:53,208 --> 00:27:55,759
The very brave person
who would do that...
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As far as I remember,
he plugged in to my base amp
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and did a version of 'Killing floor'.
A blues all the way of course.
381
00:28:06,178 --> 00:28:09,560
Clapton always loved the song
but always thought it was too difficult.
382
00:28:09,609 --> 00:28:12,030
And Hendrix just rages through it,
383
00:28:12,463 --> 00:28:16,890
and does all his tricks and stunts,
the kind of things that people like
384
00:28:16,925 --> 00:28:19,271
Little Richard and The Isley
Brothers hated him doing.
385
00:28:19,515 --> 00:28:23,171
He plays the guitar behind his head,
between his legs, with his teeth...
386
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:29,569
Feedback, tremolo arm,
dive bombs, the whole works.
387
00:28:32,309 --> 00:28:35,361
He just played his arsehole basically.
388
00:28:35,422 --> 00:28:40,318
The first time I saw Eric I thought,
"Ah, there's a master guitar player."
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00:28:40,339 --> 00:28:44,078
But Eric was a guitar player,
Jimi was some sort of force of nature.
390
00:28:45,962 --> 00:28:49,642
Eric just stands there and plays
and then we got this guy, you know,
391
00:28:49,646 --> 00:28:55,490
on his knees and playing with his teeth
and screwing the guitar onstage,
392
00:28:55,519 --> 00:28:58,627
and I thought, "God! What is this?"
393
00:28:58,681 --> 00:29:01,147
It was like, Wow!, that kind of thing.
394
00:29:01,176 --> 00:29:03,313
I know it had a
tremendous effect on Eric.
395
00:29:03,376 --> 00:29:05,546
And Eric's hands were
like this on the guitar
396
00:29:05,581 --> 00:29:08,040
and they just dropped and he said...
397
00:29:08,114 --> 00:29:12,113
He just stood there looking at Jimi.
He walked off the stage
398
00:29:12,162 --> 00:29:15,250
and I thought,
"I knew this was gonna happen."
399
00:29:18,269 --> 00:29:20,887
And everybody's just going, "My God!"
400
00:29:20,922 --> 00:29:24,642
It's like word goes around,
"This guy got up to jam with Cream
401
00:29:24,687 --> 00:29:27,956
and he cut Clapton,
he killed god, man!"
402
00:29:28,421 --> 00:29:32,543
I ran backstage and Eric was
standing trying to light a cigarette.
403
00:29:32,617 --> 00:29:34,258
And his hands were shaking
and he just says,
404
00:29:34,313 --> 00:29:36,141
"Is he really that good?"
405
00:29:37,744 --> 00:29:41,373
Chas Chandler was quick to exploit
Jimi's sensational appeal,
406
00:29:41,452 --> 00:29:45,543
stealing the thunder of Cream,
he put his own power trio together,
407
00:29:45,603 --> 00:29:48,500
flanking Hendrix with
two English musicians,
408
00:29:48,544 --> 00:29:51,549
Mitch Mitchell on drums
and Noel Reading on base,
409
00:29:51,613 --> 00:29:55,074
to create
'The Jimi Hendrix Experience'.
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00:30:01,015 --> 00:30:07,429
# Hey Joe, where you goin'
with that gun in your hand
411
00:30:12,719 --> 00:30:18,909
# Hey Joe, I said where you goin'
with that gun in your hand
412
00:30:19,377 --> 00:30:23,333
'Hey Joe', the song Chas Chandler
had heard Hendrix perform
413
00:30:23,377 --> 00:30:26,431
in obscurity in New York
just six months earlier,
414
00:30:26,474 --> 00:30:30,382
entered the UK top ten
in December 1966.
415
00:30:30,629 --> 00:30:34,382
It was to be the launchpad
for a meteoric career.
416
00:30:55,563 --> 00:30:58,438
The show he played in America
before he went to England...
417
00:30:58,487 --> 00:30:59,768
there were 12 people there.
418
00:31:00,011 --> 00:31:03,909
England a month later, he's attracting
crowds of several hundred.
419
00:31:04,444 --> 00:31:08,118
Six months later,
he's the biggest star in the world.
420
00:31:08,182 --> 00:31:11,481
No artist, I would argue,
in the history of rock
421
00:31:11,505 --> 00:31:13,610
has become famous so quickly.
422
00:31:22,355 --> 00:31:25,798
# One pill makes you larger
423
00:31:26,147 --> 00:31:29,990
# And one pill makes you small
424
00:31:30,196 --> 00:31:33,652
By the mid point of
the summer of love in 1967,
425
00:31:33,715 --> 00:31:35,995
Jimi Hendrix was the toast of London
426
00:31:36,063 --> 00:31:39,590
and had become the
psychedelic dandy of flower-power.
427
00:31:39,810 --> 00:31:42,320
But in his home country
he was little known.
428
00:31:42,788 --> 00:31:44,358
All that was about to change
429
00:31:44,437 --> 00:31:47,609
when Hendrix got the chance
to play the Monterrey Pop Festival
430
00:31:47,658 --> 00:31:49,956
sharing the bill with The Who.
431
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,345
There was a bit of jockeying
between him and The Who
432
00:31:52,389 --> 00:31:55,894
as to who was to go on when,
because neither band...
433
00:31:56,042 --> 00:32:00,311
Each band had a very healthy
respect for the other's capabilities
434
00:32:00,336 --> 00:32:03,107
and neither of them
wanted to follow the other.
435
00:32:03,127 --> 00:32:06,180
I said to Jimi, "Fuck it!
We're not going to follow you on."
436
00:32:06,807 --> 00:32:08,839
So he said, "I'm not going
to follow you on."
437
00:32:09,103 --> 00:32:12,830
So I said, "Listen. We are not
going to follow you on and that's it."
438
00:32:12,864 --> 00:32:16,697
So in the end they resolved
the situation by tossing up a coin.
439
00:32:16,731 --> 00:32:19,819
Townsend won
and opted to go on first.
440
00:32:24,147 --> 00:32:27,084
We didn't get all this 'peace and love'
shit that was going on there.
441
00:32:27,119 --> 00:32:28,616
That was just a load of rubbish.
442
00:32:28,674 --> 00:32:30,126
But the birds were nice.
443
00:32:33,283 --> 00:32:35,258
It was like something from outer space.
444
00:32:35,882 --> 00:32:38,376
Because not only the music
was totally different,
445
00:32:38,450 --> 00:32:41,931
it was played with all
the aggression of a war.
446
00:32:46,637 --> 00:32:51,346
And I think as a piece of theater,
it kind of woke them up.
447
00:32:51,772 --> 00:32:55,526
Only Jimi Hendrix could have
followed us, to be honest with you.
448
00:33:05,787 --> 00:33:09,630
# You know you're
a cute little heartbreaker
449
00:33:11,066 --> 00:33:11,866
# Foxy
450
00:33:15,094 --> 00:33:18,889
# You know you're
a sweet little lovemaker
451
00:33:19,706 --> 00:33:22,138
I think what was so dazzling
about Hendrix
452
00:33:22,196 --> 00:33:26,275
was the sounds he was creating
and the charismatic spell
453
00:33:26,313 --> 00:33:30,288
that he was casting over
the audience was so extreme
454
00:33:30,345 --> 00:33:34,804
that he made everybody else look
as if they were almost trying too hard.
455
00:33:35,505 --> 00:33:38,883
I'd like to bore you for about six
to do a little a thing, you know...
456
00:33:42,158 --> 00:33:44,774
Excuse me for a minute.
Just let me play my guitar, all right?
457
00:33:49,182 --> 00:33:52,220
It was at this point
that Hendrix reached for Bob Dylan,
458
00:33:52,244 --> 00:33:54,773
paying homage to
his song writing hero
459
00:33:54,808 --> 00:33:58,899
with an electrifying performance
of 'Like a Rolling Stone'.
460
00:34:00,551 --> 00:34:03,341
# Once upon a time you dressed so fine
461
00:34:03,385 --> 00:34:09,466
# You threw the bums a dime
in your prime, didn't you?
462
00:34:10,931 --> 00:34:13,705
In a way it was almost
as audacious a thing to do
463
00:34:13,768 --> 00:34:17,661
as burning Clapton
on his own stage was.
464
00:34:17,725 --> 00:34:20,279
Because people left that song alone.
465
00:34:20,299 --> 00:34:23,273
It was one of the all time
monuments of the counter culture.
466
00:34:23,313 --> 00:34:25,725
Hendrix comes on playing
this amazing guitar licks
467
00:34:25,783 --> 00:34:29,490
sort of drawling the song out
in his own inimitable way.
468
00:34:33,803 --> 00:34:38,162
# Look at ya',
a complete unknown
469
00:34:39,828 --> 00:34:43,746
# Like a rolling stone
470
00:34:48,015 --> 00:34:49,547
I was a Dylan fan
471
00:34:49,596 --> 00:34:53,454
but 'Like a Rolling Stone'
was one of these Dylan songs
472
00:34:53,508 --> 00:34:56,368
that sort of escaped me
at the time.
473
00:34:56,437 --> 00:35:00,108
It didn't quite work for me...
by Dylan.
474
00:35:00,138 --> 00:35:02,791
But when Jimi played it
I understood the song.
475
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:04,821
It clicked with me
for the first time.
476
00:35:13,102 --> 00:35:15,208
The Monterrey audience
was stunned
477
00:35:15,252 --> 00:35:18,659
by the sheer explosive power
of Hendrix's performance.
478
00:35:19,639 --> 00:35:21,270
But more was to follow.
479
00:35:21,327 --> 00:35:24,460
As the cameras rolled,
the voodoo magician
480
00:35:24,500 --> 00:35:27,265
had one final trick
up his sleeve.
481
00:35:33,039 --> 00:35:36,103
There's another great moment
that I remember.
482
00:35:36,192 --> 00:35:39,673
It was a screening of
the Monterey movie,
483
00:35:39,706 --> 00:35:43,343
and happened to be
Eric Clapton and myself
484
00:35:43,378 --> 00:35:46,222
in a little room watching this.
485
00:35:46,619 --> 00:35:51,419
When it came time for
'Wild Thing', which he closed with,
486
00:35:51,487 --> 00:35:57,943
Jimi sneaks and listens to the guitar,
and it's really not very much in tune,
487
00:36:01,889 --> 00:36:05,191
and Clapton yelled,
"Now what are you gonna do?"
488
00:36:06,475 --> 00:36:09,250
And he just turned up the guitar
489
00:36:09,251 --> 00:36:13,065
and showed Clapton
what he was gonna do.
490
00:36:21,424 --> 00:36:24,778
I thought it was an incredible moment.
491
00:36:24,925 --> 00:36:32,271
# Wild thing, you make my heart sing
492
00:36:35,125 --> 00:36:39,502
# You make a everything, groovy
493
00:36:40,973 --> 00:36:42,710
He was such a showman,
494
00:36:42,735 --> 00:36:45,442
and his show was so much
the highlight of Monterrey,
495
00:36:45,481 --> 00:36:48,393
that it got him in
the headlines immediately,
496
00:36:48,467 --> 00:36:52,460
and people were clamouring
to see Jimi Hendrix after that point.
497
00:36:58,976 --> 00:37:01,065
Sacrificing the guitar
at Monterrey
498
00:37:01,109 --> 00:37:05,670
was the defining moment of an artist
who had reached his creative peak.
499
00:37:05,807 --> 00:37:10,630
On that night Jimi Hendrix
became a rock legend.
500
00:37:19,004 --> 00:37:22,031
I was standing right
next to Robbie Shankle,
501
00:37:22,091 --> 00:37:24,532
and I looked around
and his face was like...
502
00:37:25,155 --> 00:37:26,669
in shock.
503
00:37:27,646 --> 00:37:29,196
The audience was shocked too.
504
00:37:29,255 --> 00:37:33,196
That was the whole idea of the act,
to outdo The Who.
505
00:37:35,065 --> 00:37:37,872
Robbie was shocked and disgusted,
you know,
506
00:37:37,911 --> 00:37:43,930
how can a musician take his instrument
and smash it to smithereens.
507
00:37:43,970 --> 00:37:47,479
This is bad karma, man.
508
00:37:55,415 --> 00:37:58,705
To the wide rock audience that saw
Jimi at Monterrey pop
509
00:37:58,738 --> 00:38:01,758
this was the most brilliant show
anybody had ever put on.
510
00:38:05,851 --> 00:38:08,527
When he lit that guitar on fire,
511
00:38:08,537 --> 00:38:13,123
that became one of the seminal
moments of the 60s.
512
00:38:25,304 --> 00:38:27,583
# It was 20 years ago today
513
00:38:27,808 --> 00:38:30,580
# Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play
514
00:38:31,398 --> 00:38:33,724
Hendrix was always looking
for a new direction
515
00:38:33,802 --> 00:38:38,022
and when 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely
Hearts Club Band' was released in 1967,
516
00:38:38,071 --> 00:38:40,890
he was among the first
to hear its significance.
517
00:38:41,375 --> 00:38:45,897
Having stopped touring in '66,
The Beatles had taken refuge in the studio
518
00:38:45,966 --> 00:38:51,021
to transform themselves from a pop band
into pioneers of psychedelic rock.
519
00:38:51,075 --> 00:38:53,575
What Hendrix saw with
'Sgt. Pepper's'
520
00:38:53,619 --> 00:38:58,977
was a band taking control
of its own musical destiny.
521
00:38:59,021 --> 00:39:03,756
EMI ageing studios at Abbey Road
played a key role in the process.
522
00:39:03,955 --> 00:39:07,097
# We hope you did enjoy the show
523
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:10,339
The studio at EMI was basically
totally obsolete,
524
00:39:10,388 --> 00:39:14,528
and yet the EMI staff knew
everything about it.
525
00:39:14,562 --> 00:39:17,111
Knew how to push it to its limits
and how to exploit it.
526
00:39:17,166 --> 00:39:20,612
So it's a very English album.
527
00:39:20,646 --> 00:39:23,867
It's like inventing radar in the potting
shed at the end of the garden.
528
00:39:23,881 --> 00:39:26,101
It's very amateurish
529
00:39:26,155 --> 00:39:31,452
and yet they were able to produce
something of genius level from it.
530
00:39:31,658 --> 00:39:36,228
# I read the news today,
oh boy
531
00:39:38,170 --> 00:39:42,662
# About a lucky man who made the grade
532
00:39:43,322 --> 00:39:45,718
It was like a Heath Robinson
sort of situation.
533
00:39:45,744 --> 00:39:48,130
We were tying things together
with bits of string,
534
00:39:48,174 --> 00:39:51,033
and bashing things with hammers
and taping microphones to this,
535
00:39:51,043 --> 00:39:56,657
and putting microphones in water,
you name it, we tried it.
536
00:39:56,687 --> 00:39:59,535
It was always this thing about
guitars not sounding like guitars,
537
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:02,251
and pianos not sounding
like pianos and so on.
538
00:40:02,329 --> 00:40:05,057
There's more fun in the record
if there's a few sounds
539
00:40:05,116 --> 00:40:06,846
that you don't really
know what they are.
540
00:40:06,901 --> 00:40:09,724
Really they're just instruments,
only something happens on here,
541
00:40:09,773 --> 00:40:12,493
I couldn't tell you what 'cause we have
a special man who sits here
542
00:40:12,547 --> 00:40:13,763
and goes like this...
543
00:40:14,083 --> 00:40:16,725
And the guitar turns into a piano
or something, you know.
544
00:40:17,978 --> 00:40:20,267
And then you always say,
why don't you use a piano?
545
00:40:20,336 --> 00:40:22,308
Because the piano sounds
like a guitar.
546
00:40:22,347 --> 00:40:24,999
# Woke up, got out of bed
547
00:40:25,059 --> 00:40:27,670
# Dragged a comb across my head
548
00:40:28,407 --> 00:40:29,529
They changed everything.
549
00:40:29,593 --> 00:40:31,567
The Beatles were the ones
who changed everything.
550
00:40:31,621 --> 00:40:36,405
'Sgt. Pepper', you could argue
is the most important album of the 60s.
551
00:40:36,420 --> 00:40:39,283
# Found my coat and grabbed my hat
552
00:40:39,322 --> 00:40:41,442
# Made the bus in seconds flat
553
00:40:41,486 --> 00:40:44,272
There was no question that
at the moment it was made,
554
00:40:44,311 --> 00:40:50,551
it was the absolute summation
of everything that had come before
555
00:40:50,574 --> 00:40:53,896
in say, the previous 4 or 5 years.
556
00:40:54,077 --> 00:41:00,321
'Sgt. Pepper' is an entire reflection
of the society at that time.
557
00:41:00,578 --> 00:41:04,574
# Lucy in the sky with diamonds
558
00:41:05,657 --> 00:41:09,717
# Lucy in the sky with diamonds
559
00:41:09,776 --> 00:41:15,022
They were able to... essentially
take drugs without too much censure,
560
00:41:15,105 --> 00:41:17,363
and they could write what they wanted.
561
00:41:17,669 --> 00:41:19,514
The Beatles were tripping
out of their heads.
562
00:41:19,543 --> 00:41:23,469
# Lucy in the sky with diamonds
563
00:41:23,498 --> 00:41:28,612
I think that knocks down
a lot of barriers in your mind.
564
00:41:28,642 --> 00:41:31,402
You say, "Well, you can't play a C sharp
in a C Chord."
565
00:41:32,221 --> 00:41:38,470
But... after you do that,
you can play a C sharp in a C chord.
566
00:41:44,089 --> 00:41:47,299
'Sgt. Pepper' is arguably
their greatest record.
567
00:41:47,348 --> 00:41:49,211
Certainly their most
influential record.
568
00:41:49,235 --> 00:41:51,709
It stunned Jimi Hendrix more
than almost anyone else.
569
00:41:51,743 --> 00:41:56,371
He did, what I think, is the most risky
move he ever did in his entire career.
570
00:41:56,376 --> 00:42:00,141
It was the day after 'Sgt. Pepper's'
had come out,
571
00:42:00,155 --> 00:42:03,493
and Jimi had gotten a copy of it
and learned it.
572
00:42:03,534 --> 00:42:07,847
He came backstage at this concert
and announced to 'The Experience',
573
00:42:07,910 --> 00:42:12,459
we're gonna start our show with a cover
of 'Sgt. Pepper's', the title track.
574
00:42:12,483 --> 00:42:15,807
And Noel Reading told me,
"I just was stunned.
575
00:42:15,838 --> 00:42:17,367
"What do you mean?
This album just came out.
576
00:42:17,401 --> 00:42:19,396
"We're gonna cover someone
else's song?"
577
00:42:19,539 --> 00:42:22,077
And that's what they started
that concert with.
578
00:42:22,152 --> 00:42:26,883
And, to add to it, several of
The Beatles were in the audience.
579
00:42:26,912 --> 00:42:29,427
# It was twenty years ago today,
580
00:42:29,472 --> 00:42:31,927
# Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play
581
00:42:31,956 --> 00:42:34,306
# They've been going in and out of style
582
00:42:34,335 --> 00:42:36,516
# But they're guaranteed
to raise a smile.
583
00:42:37,133 --> 00:42:39,173
The nerve to do that.
584
00:42:39,237 --> 00:42:43,492
Can you imagine anyone
having the guts to,
585
00:42:43,535 --> 00:42:44,888
The Beatles' album has just come out,
586
00:42:44,898 --> 00:42:49,372
universally acclaimed the biggest rock
band in the world that there ever would be,
587
00:42:49,427 --> 00:42:52,965
and for Jimi then to go,
"Ok, the day after it comes out,
588
00:42:52,999 --> 00:42:55,027
"I'm gonna play their song
and do it better."
589
00:42:55,110 --> 00:42:59,056
# Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
590
00:43:13,853 --> 00:43:16,215
Hendrix obviously saw that power.
591
00:43:16,258 --> 00:43:20,502
A band that was actually
producing itself now, pretty much.
592
00:43:20,550 --> 00:43:22,766
And said, "Yeah, yeah.
That's for me too."
593
00:43:28,266 --> 00:43:30,422
The Beatles had caught
Jimi's imagination
594
00:43:30,472 --> 00:43:32,880
just as powerfully
as Dylan and The Who.
595
00:43:33,233 --> 00:43:35,869
Through the sonic revolution
of 'Sgt. Pepper',
596
00:43:35,932 --> 00:43:38,696
Hendrix saw the potential
of the recording studio,
597
00:43:38,725 --> 00:43:42,716
believing it could help take his guitar
to a higher level.
598
00:43:44,342 --> 00:43:47,780
# I love your gypsy eyes
599
00:43:55,184 --> 00:43:59,750
In 1968, he started recording
'Electric Ladyland'.
600
00:44:04,626 --> 00:44:08,056
# Way up in my tree
I'm sitting by my fire
601
00:44:09,750 --> 00:44:12,923
'Electric Ladyland'
is Hendrix the producer,
602
00:44:12,986 --> 00:44:18,161
Hendrix fully embracing the capabilities
of the recording studio
603
00:44:18,206 --> 00:44:24,362
and exploring the kind of soundscapes
he could create in the studio
604
00:44:24,391 --> 00:44:31,241
to try to realise on tape the extraordinary
sonic visions he was hearing in his head.
605
00:44:33,265 --> 00:44:35,596
One of the high points
of 'Electric Ladyland'
606
00:44:35,641 --> 00:44:38,675
found Jimi once again acknowledging
a musical debt
607
00:44:38,714 --> 00:44:43,417
with an apocalyptic version
of Dylan's 'All Along The Watch Tower'.
608
00:44:53,984 --> 00:45:01,572
# "There must be some way out of here,"
said the joker to the thief,
609
00:45:02,659 --> 00:45:09,491
# "There's too much confusion,
I can't get no relief.
610
00:45:09,545 --> 00:45:12,760
Hendrix had actually
created the scenario itself.
611
00:45:12,846 --> 00:45:17,080
Dylan had written the scenario,
Hendrix filled in all the colours.
612
00:45:17,128 --> 00:45:21,128
Even Dylan admitted at one point
that 'All Along The Watch Tower'
613
00:45:21,163 --> 00:45:27,767
as Hendrix envisioned it was beyond
the song he had written and recorded.
614
00:45:30,234 --> 00:45:34,504
That song, it's as if Jimi wrote it.
You just get the sense.
615
00:45:34,574 --> 00:45:37,847
It's like the song
he was made to play.
616
00:45:41,347 --> 00:45:44,420
Although 'Electric Ladyland'
would be acclaimed a masterpiece,
617
00:45:44,503 --> 00:45:47,665
the studio where it was recorded
became a curse.
618
00:45:47,857 --> 00:45:51,372
Hendrix's heavy intake of drugs
began to take its tall.
619
00:45:51,435 --> 00:45:54,180
Some tracks took over 50 takes,
620
00:45:54,213 --> 00:45:57,729
and the album hundreds of hours
of recording time.
621
00:46:01,432 --> 00:46:02,873
Things were getting quite freaky.
622
00:46:02,951 --> 00:46:05,382
This was peculiar times.
623
00:46:05,427 --> 00:46:06,550
There was an awful lot of...
624
00:46:06,677 --> 00:46:11,015
unauthorised substances flying around
with different people and all the rest of it.
625
00:46:12,164 --> 00:46:14,763
You were turning up in the studio
and try to mix tracks
626
00:46:14,793 --> 00:46:18,270
and there was 30 and 40 people
turned up as hangers-on.
627
00:46:19,725 --> 00:46:25,271
It was very difficult to be able to talk
about the next step of your life because
628
00:46:27,187 --> 00:46:30,594
most of the people were out of
their minds at the time, you know.
629
00:46:30,953 --> 00:46:35,340
I just thought, "This is crazy.
I'm spending half my time in the day
630
00:46:35,375 --> 00:46:38,424
"trying to talk common sense
to people and...
631
00:46:38,846 --> 00:46:41,159
"all they want to do
is get out of their minds."
632
00:46:41,378 --> 00:46:44,230
I said, "Well. I'm off back to England.
633
00:46:44,279 --> 00:46:46,504
"When you come to your
senses give us a ring."
634
00:46:48,220 --> 00:46:51,749
Minus his manager,
Jimi was left to face the future
635
00:46:51,783 --> 00:46:55,631
without the guiding light
that had led him to stardom.
636
00:46:59,907 --> 00:47:05,209
By 1968, the idealism and promise
of 'flower-power' had begun to fade.
637
00:47:05,456 --> 00:47:09,788
America was bogged down
in Vietnam and at war with itself.
638
00:47:09,980 --> 00:47:13,867
Torn apart by assassinations
and the civil rights struggle.
639
00:47:14,601 --> 00:47:17,299
Europe also saw rioting
on the streets.
640
00:47:18,795 --> 00:47:22,311
The drugs got heavier
and so did the music,
641
00:47:22,347 --> 00:47:26,076
reflecting the paranoia
and tension in the air.
642
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:28,584
You could just feel it.
It was very, very different.
643
00:47:28,656 --> 00:47:32,035
The whole atmosphere changed.
Became much more politicised, I think.
644
00:47:32,488 --> 00:47:35,572
No longer could you just be a happy
flower child skipping through Hyde Park
645
00:47:35,602 --> 00:47:38,371
with your daisy chain
and your joss stick
646
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:40,847
because some cop would come along
and bang you on the head.
647
00:47:40,941 --> 00:47:43,456
Whereas in '67 it was
all ok, you know.
648
00:47:43,888 --> 00:47:46,305
They'd even light
your joint for you.
649
00:47:47,488 --> 00:47:50,453
Mick Jagger and Keith Richard
of course have great instincts
650
00:47:50,523 --> 00:47:52,350
for trends and what's going on.
651
00:47:52,425 --> 00:47:57,848
And by 1968 they could see
the trend was for this endarkenment.
652
00:47:58,058 --> 00:48:01,254
The music had to turn darker in response
653
00:48:01,255 --> 00:48:04,849
to the darkness
of the times, 1968 and '69.
654
00:48:04,878 --> 00:48:11,741
So, to their great credit, The Rolling
Stones perfectly synched into that.
655
00:48:12,629 --> 00:48:15,523
# Oh, a storm is threatning
656
00:48:15,607 --> 00:48:19,078
# My very life today
657
00:48:19,250 --> 00:48:23,183
# If I don't get some shelter
658
00:48:23,974 --> 00:48:26,715
# Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away
659
00:48:27,627 --> 00:48:33,376
# War, children, it's just a shot away
660
00:48:33,401 --> 00:48:35,983
# It's just a shot away
661
00:48:36,027 --> 00:48:38,548
The Stones are one
of the few bands that
662
00:48:38,852 --> 00:48:43,588
that darkness kind of gives them
a new creative zenith.
663
00:48:43,622 --> 00:48:45,260
There was a different
world going on there,
664
00:48:45,289 --> 00:48:47,786
but the Stones were
not afraid to embrace,
665
00:48:47,787 --> 00:48:50,050
and somewhat make
that their mistress.
666
00:48:58,476 --> 00:49:00,157
When you listen to
'Sympathy for the Devil'
667
00:49:00,196 --> 00:49:02,079
it's not like this is a hidden meaning.
668
00:49:02,133 --> 00:49:05,491
You have some people are taking records
and playing them backwards
669
00:49:05,516 --> 00:49:08,456
to look for satanic messages.
With the Stones it's right there.
670
00:49:09,090 --> 00:49:12,938
They're not afraid to touch on
that darkness.
671
00:49:14,287 --> 00:49:17,867
# Please allow me to introduce myself
672
00:49:17,893 --> 00:49:21,769
# I'm a man of wealth and taste
673
00:49:22,771 --> 00:49:25,956
# I've been around for a long, long year
674
00:49:26,014 --> 00:49:29,670
# Stole many a man's soul and faith
675
00:49:30,428 --> 00:49:34,612
They're the band, strangely,
that survives and actually feeds off
676
00:49:34,647 --> 00:49:41,627
the dark drug elements that came in
and destroyed the rest of the scene.
677
00:49:43,485 --> 00:49:46,889
# Please allow me to introduce myself
678
00:49:46,943 --> 00:49:51,197
# I'm a man of wealth and taste
679
00:49:52,546 --> 00:49:55,973
By the time The Rolling Stones
came to play Altamont Festival
680
00:49:56,006 --> 00:49:59,855
in December 1969,
heavy drugs and bad trips
681
00:49:59,922 --> 00:50:02,114
were destroying the hippy dream.
682
00:50:02,193 --> 00:50:06,594
And now Hell's Angels touting
knives and guns were on the scene.
683
00:50:06,770 --> 00:50:11,000
Hired as security, they turned what
was meant to be a peace loving event
684
00:50:11,055 --> 00:50:14,997
into one of the most violent days
in rock history.
685
00:50:17,207 --> 00:50:20,693
A Stones fan was stabbed to death
by a Hell's Angel.
686
00:50:20,751 --> 00:50:25,021
Never had 'Sympathy for the Devil'
seemed a more appropriate song.
687
00:50:29,173 --> 00:50:32,685
We're splitting man if those cats
don't stop beating everybody up inside.
688
00:50:32,720 --> 00:50:34,930
I want them out of the way, man!
689
00:50:36,383 --> 00:50:38,011
I don't like you!
690
00:50:38,418 --> 00:50:42,403
I think the closing of that era
was probably Altamont.
691
00:50:44,443 --> 00:50:51,489
And that really sort of tied it up
with a black bow,
692
00:50:52,343 --> 00:50:53,806
and that's it.
693
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:57,946
Things got very
business-like after that.
694
00:50:58,590 --> 00:51:02,178
That free spirit died at Altamont.
695
00:51:06,995 --> 00:51:09,260
Altamont had been planned to replicate
696
00:51:09,305 --> 00:51:12,156
the utopian spirit of
the Woodstock Festival
697
00:51:12,203 --> 00:51:16,123
that had taken place in New York St.
just four months before.
698
00:51:16,461 --> 00:51:19,599
It was here that Jimi Hendrix
would make history
699
00:51:19,657 --> 00:51:24,057
unleashing a searing rendition
of the Star-Spangled Banner.
700
00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:48,664
Hendrix climaxed the festival
701
00:51:48,726 --> 00:51:51,875
with this performance of
the Star-Spangled Banner
702
00:51:53,010 --> 00:51:59,390
which, I would say, is the greatest
American work of art
703
00:51:59,462 --> 00:52:02,120
to deal with the Vietnam War
704
00:52:02,154 --> 00:52:08,056
and the titanic struggles
of the civil rights movement,
705
00:52:08,144 --> 00:52:13,065
in any art form
by any artist.
706
00:52:18,283 --> 00:52:21,561
Jimi's tortured take
on the American National anthem
707
00:52:21,616 --> 00:52:24,763
was seen by many
to be a political statement
708
00:52:24,842 --> 00:52:28,092
about the horror the US
was inflicting on Vietnam.
709
00:52:28,184 --> 00:52:31,978
His howling guitar echoing
the sounds of helicopters,
710
00:52:32,057 --> 00:52:34,660
bombs and machine-guns.
711
00:52:36,803 --> 00:52:40,281
This man was in the 101st Airborne
so when you write your nasty letters in...
712
00:52:40,330 --> 00:52:42,791
Nasty letters? Why...?
713
00:52:42,810 --> 00:52:44,026
Well, when you mention
the National Anthem
714
00:52:44,100 --> 00:52:46,810
and talk about playing
it in any unorthodox way,
715
00:52:47,079 --> 00:52:50,753
immediately get a guaranteed percentage
of hate mail from people to say
716
00:52:50,787 --> 00:52:52,771
- how dare...?
- But listen, that's not unorthodox.
717
00:52:52,860 --> 00:52:54,634
- It isn't unorthodox?
- No, no.
718
00:52:54,674 --> 00:52:57,278
I thought it was beautiful,
but then, there you go...
719
00:53:04,941 --> 00:53:08,990
To some critics, the sound
of Hendrix's distorted guitar
720
00:53:09,058 --> 00:53:12,764
was also symbolic of the muddy
reality of Woodstock.
721
00:53:13,308 --> 00:53:14,963
Drenched by torrential rain,
722
00:53:15,021 --> 00:53:18,624
the event hyped as three
days of peace and love
723
00:53:18,648 --> 00:53:20,922
had more the look of a war zone.
724
00:53:22,619 --> 00:53:25,919
We think of this moment as being
the great moment of the 60s.
725
00:53:25,959 --> 00:53:28,358
Everyone coming together.
Oh here's Jimi Hendrix playing.
726
00:53:28,372 --> 00:53:30,279
Well, while he was playing
the Star-Spangled Banner
727
00:53:30,323 --> 00:53:32,996
people are streaming out of the venue.
728
00:53:33,031 --> 00:53:36,433
It's a muddy field.
There are only a handful of people left.
729
00:53:37,619 --> 00:53:39,359
That's the difference
between, of course,
730
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:41,761
the reality of what it would
have been like to be there,
731
00:53:41,806 --> 00:53:46,315
and the reality of now looking back
at the footage and what we remembered as.
732
00:53:46,354 --> 00:53:49,695
But we as pundits and writers
and film makers go back
733
00:53:49,710 --> 00:53:52,525
and it's hard not
to think of that, in retrospect,
734
00:53:52,579 --> 00:53:54,404
as being the end of a decade.
735
00:53:54,643 --> 00:53:57,967
To Jimi, he left the stage
exhausted and collapsed,
736
00:53:57,996 --> 00:54:00,551
and maybe that's a good metaphor
737
00:54:00,580 --> 00:54:03,436
for what the 60s had become
for everybody at that point.
738
00:54:04,871 --> 00:54:09,478
Jimi Hendrix would never again
match the emotional high of Woodstock.
739
00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:12,283
Burnt out on drugs and exhaustion,
740
00:54:12,322 --> 00:54:15,416
he'd become tired of
the attention-grabbing stage tricks
741
00:54:15,471 --> 00:54:18,298
that audiences constantly
demanded of him.
742
00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:22,170
I don't care, man.
I don't care what they say any more.
743
00:54:22,725 --> 00:54:27,169
It's up to them. If they want to mess up
the evening by looking at one thing...
744
00:54:28,027 --> 00:54:30,593
Because all that is included, man,
when I feel like with my teeth
745
00:54:30,635 --> 00:54:32,289
I do it. because I feel like it.
746
00:54:33,196 --> 00:54:37,239
When I'm onstage, I'm a complete
natural, more so than
747
00:54:37,309 --> 00:54:39,309
talking to a group of people
or something.
748
00:54:41,082 --> 00:54:44,838
By August 1970,
the sparkle had gone.
749
00:54:44,898 --> 00:54:48,892
Hendrix returned to England
to play the Isle of Wight Festival.
750
00:54:48,951 --> 00:54:53,499
Dosed heavily on LSD, he gave
a lacklustre performance.
751
00:54:53,603 --> 00:54:58,273
It would be the his last appearance
in the country that had made him a star.
752
00:54:59,911 --> 00:55:02,113
I was actually at that show
753
00:55:02,114 --> 00:55:05,702
and I'd been waiting,
like everybody else,
754
00:55:05,764 --> 00:55:09,594
for Hendrix to come on
and lift our spirits,
755
00:55:09,595 --> 00:55:12,147
set light to the whole event.
756
00:55:12,191 --> 00:55:16,386
But when he came on. it seemed like
everything was going wrong.
757
00:55:16,416 --> 00:55:22,154
He seemed exhausted, he was having
sort of to drag out all his old songs,
758
00:55:22,254 --> 00:55:24,395
his gear was malfunctioning.
759
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:35,775
He couldn't get the sound
he wanted out of his amps.
760
00:55:35,809 --> 00:55:40,930
You could almost see the life
ebbing out of him the longer he's onstage.
761
00:55:51,590 --> 00:55:56,114
There was an awful finale, see,
to the whole thing.
762
00:55:56,183 --> 00:56:01,237
Remember Jim Morrison was dead,
Janis Joplin was dead,
763
00:56:01,292 --> 00:56:02,860
The Beatles had broke up,
764
00:56:02,913 --> 00:56:05,189
it seemed like
all the furniture of the 60s
765
00:56:05,247 --> 00:56:08,070
was being put out
on the pavement outside.
766
00:56:15,344 --> 00:56:18,564
On the morning of
September 18th, 1970,
767
00:56:18,627 --> 00:56:23,113
almost exactly 4 years to the day
he'd first arrived in London,
768
00:56:23,157 --> 00:56:25,503
Jimi Hendrix was found dead
769
00:56:25,543 --> 00:56:29,602
in the basement of the Samarkand Hotel
in Notting Hill.
770
00:56:29,705 --> 00:56:34,630
# And the clowns have all gone to bed
771
00:56:36,236 --> 00:56:40,180
His death was undignified,
drowned in vomit,
772
00:56:40,235 --> 00:56:43,597
unconscious from
a combination of red wine
773
00:56:43,631 --> 00:56:47,033
and an accidental
overdose of sleeping pills.
774
00:56:48,341 --> 00:56:50,793
He was 27 years old.
775
00:56:57,034 --> 00:57:00,235
Jimi Hendrix was a weak man,
that was his problem.
776
00:57:01,187 --> 00:57:03,285
And the weakness made him vulnerable.
777
00:57:03,614 --> 00:57:06,468
And vulnerable people in
rock music don't last long.
778
00:57:07,694 --> 00:57:10,318
There might be good people,
there might be nice people,
779
00:57:10,387 --> 00:57:12,298
but they don't last...
You've gotta be tough
780
00:57:12,351 --> 00:57:14,633
in the rock music business
to survive.
781
00:57:15,294 --> 00:57:17,104
The night that he died,
782
00:57:18,497 --> 00:57:22,743
I was supposed to meet him
at the Lyceum to see Sly Stone play,
783
00:57:23,485 --> 00:57:26,614
and I brought with me
a left handed Stratocaster,
784
00:57:26,633 --> 00:57:30,638
I'd just found it.
I think I bought it at Orange Music.
785
00:57:30,703 --> 00:57:33,845
I'd never seen one before
and I was gonna give it to him.
786
00:57:34,626 --> 00:57:38,406
And he was in a box over there
and I was in a box over here
787
00:57:38,430 --> 00:57:43,597
and I could see him
but we never got together.
788
00:57:43,602 --> 00:57:48,092
The next day he was gone and I was
left with that left handed Stratocaster.
789
00:58:05,189 --> 00:58:08,807
The death of Jimi Hendrix
was the final curtain.
790
00:58:08,881 --> 00:58:14,081
Drawing to a close an unprecedented
period of creativity.
791
00:58:16,052 --> 00:58:20,506
The 60s had given birth
to the First Age of Rock.
792
00:58:20,550 --> 00:58:26,138
Presiding over it all, was the genius
and showmanship of Jimi Hendrix.
793
00:58:28,975 --> 00:58:32,487
Jimi Hendrix would prove
a hard act to follow.
794
00:58:32,520 --> 00:58:35,470
# Well, I stand up next to a mountain
795
00:58:36,310 --> 00:58:39,343
# And I chop it down
with the edge of my hand
796
00:58:47,699 --> 00:58:49,734
Next week on
Seven Ages of Rock,
797
00:58:49,798 --> 00:58:53,699
rock reinvents itself
with Pink Floyd and David Bowie.
798
00:58:58,295 --> 00:59:00,649
To find out more about
'The Seven Ages of Rock'
799
00:59:00,712 --> 00:59:03,711
and see some extra stories featuring
artists in the series,
800
00:59:03,775 --> 00:59:07,928
go to "bbc.co.uk/sevenages".
801
00:59:09,771 --> 00:59:13,271
Transcription and
synchronization by Fry.