:56:01
It's like a circus that might come to town.
"Wow, watch that."
:56:04
Soon as they fade away,
they go on to feed upon the next thing.
:56:08
But it's all right. It's part of life.
I'm diggin' it myself.
:56:12
You're considered one of the best
guitar players in the world.
:56:17
But Jimi was very, very self-conscious.
:56:19
He came in and said, "How's my hat?
How does my hat look?"
:56:23
We said, "Your hat looks all right."
:56:25
He said, "You think they'll mind."
:56:27
Yeah, "You think 'they'll' mind..."
:56:30
Always worryin' about what...
:56:32
When I say "we", what the
other black people thought.
:56:35
About his music.
:56:36
Yeah, about his music, and himself,
and propaganda that they heard.
:56:40
And a lot of it was true,
but he was experiencing things.
:56:43
He was goin' through a lot of changes.
:56:45
He was a black man
in a white man's world.
:56:47
I mean, it's an extraordinary sort
of uptight, white, hetero set...
:56:52
...the rock-and-roll set.
They're all so aggressively normal...
:56:56
...with their wives, children, houses,
and Jimi doesn't belong to that.
:57:00
I think Noel wanted to become
a lead guitarist for a start.
:57:03
Noel was the first one to leave.
:57:06
He was the first one
ever to leave the band.
:57:08
And then, well, Mitch stayed.
Mitch was happy.
:57:13
But then it went in a weird way.
:57:15
It went like, Jimi started bringin' in
all these musicians...
:57:19
...like his old Army buddy, Billy Cox.
:57:22
Then he brought up, I don't know...
:57:25
...a conga player and another guitarist.
:57:28
That was when we did Woodstock.
Up at that house...
:57:32
...there was all these colored guys.
:57:35
It was a really strange atmosphere.
:57:38
If he had a group of people
that he didn't have to tell what to play...
:57:43
...it'd have been another kind of sound,
the kind he was lookin' for.
:57:47
Somebody thinkin' for himself.
:57:49
That's the difference between
the marketing of commercial music...
:57:54
...and music of true expression.
:57:56
He was tryin' to spread a little joy
and love together, to show the world...