Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child Page #6

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Paul McCartney was the big bad Beatle,

the beautiful cat who got us the gig

at the "Monterey Pop Festival".

I arrived in England

with just the clothes I stood up in.

I'm going back with the best wardrobe of

gear that Carnaby Street can offer.

"Monterey" was great.

It was a music festival done up

the way it's supposed to be done up.

That was our start in America.

Ladies and gentlemen,

Brian Jones.

This dude is a very good friend,

a fellow countryman of yours,

a brilliant performer,

the most exciting guitarist I've ever heard.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

When I was in Britain,

I used to think about America every day.

I'm American,

I wanted people here to see me.

I also wanted to see

whether we could make it back here.

We had our beautiful rock blues

country funky freaky sound.

I felt like we were turning the whole world

onto this new thing -

the best, most lovely new thing.

You know, I could sit up here all night

and say thank you, thank you, thank you,

but I just... I just wish

I could just grab you, man, and just...

Everything was perfect

and it was such a good feeling,

especially your own home country,

so I decided to destroy my guitar

at the end as a sacrifice.

You sacrifice the things you love.

I love my guitar.

The "Monterey Festival" was a good scene.

All those beautiful people.

It was one of the best gigs

I've ever played.

And we made it, man,

because we did our own thing.

And it really was our own thing

and nobody else's.

Jimi Hendrix!

Then we got into a tour

with The Monkees.

They're like plastic Beatles.

Then some parents

who brought their young kids

complained that our act was vulgar.

We decided

it was just the wrong audience.

I think they replaced me

with Mickey Mouse.

You get carted

from New York to London,

start a whole new scene going there,

then come back home.

America is so large.

When you play regularly in Britain,

you end up

going back to the same places.

That doesn't happen in America.

You ride into town,

you play your gig,

and these beautiful girls come around

for drinks and parties and so forth.

You do actually fall in love with them,

because that's the only love you can have.

If I get up at seven o'clock in the morning,

and, you know, I'm really sleepy,

but then I open the door and see somebody

that appeals to me, you know,

like the first thing I say,

"What in the world is she doing here?"

Or "What does she want?"

or something like that.

Then she says, "Maybe can I come in?"

And I'm standing there really digging her,

she's really nice-looking, you know.

To tell the honest to God truth, she's about

So, I say, "Oh".

Well, I probably stand there and then,

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