| QUESTION: Can we ask you what your thoughts may be after getting in quite late? |
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| JIMI HENDRIX: Yeah,well uh,yeah,well I was pretty tired,you know.Very tired. |
| QUESTION: Why did you play the 'Star Spangled Banner'in your set? |
| JIMI HENDRIX: Oh,because we're all Americans.We're all Americans ,aren't we? It was written and played in a very beautiful, what they call beautiful state. Nice inspiring ,you heart throbs and you say, "great I'm American."But nowadays when we play it, we don't play it to take away all these greatness that America is supposed to have. We play it the way the air is in America today. The air is slightly static, isn't it? So when we played...Was what? Pardon? |
| QUESTION: With all the bad reports about drugs. If it was held in the same place next year would you appear again? |
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| JIMI HENDRIX: What?You mean the festival? QUESTION: Yes."Held in the same place.. |
| JIMI HENDRIX: "Yeah! I love to do it.But, ah, the drug scene is gonna be a little different by that time anyway.Everybody is gonna know the truth about that. By that time.(Laughter in the room)By that time. Just like Harlem is gonna have beautiful round buildings by that, you know. In comparison with that time ,you know, by that time too.. |
| QUESTION: What is your comment on uh..drug use at the festival? |
| JIMI HENDRIX: I don't know. Well some people believe that they have to, you know, do this or do that to get into the music. I have no opinions at all ."Different strokes for different folks", Sly & The Family Stone, I think said that. (Laughter in the room) |
| QUESTION: How do you think the benefit you're gonna do in Harlem will be compared to the Woodstock festival? |
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| JIMI HENDRIX: I don't know I might be living in the wrong time ,but I don't go by comparison just go by the truthness or the falseness of the whole thing. The intentions of, whatever it might be. Forget about comparing that's where we make our biggest mistake. |
| QUESTION: Why the United Block Association? |
| JIMI HENDRIX: It's a start man.You what's wrong with it?..what's wrong with it. |
| QUESTION: Do you think,that tuh,this kind of assembly, uh ,marks a change in American culture? |
| JIMI HENDRIX: It been some changes marked. Even before the times of King,Dr. Luther King,you know,it's been a whole lot of changes. But some people after the ah excitement, or the backwash of the change slows down they say,"yeah, that was groovy. Let's see ,what else can we feast upon now?", you know. One of them things. It's whole lot a changes happening, but now it's time for all these changes to connect. |
| They put it on TV ,didn't they? Talkin' bout the "yes and no's" what's the actual length of..,you know. It's the same thing with these festivals, and these gatherings hope it happens in art,I hope it happens, you know, community sports, whatever, you know. |