Life was but a joke and a dream, quite frankly. We were having a good time, and we were working very hard and the sessions were very light-hearted.

There was a guy onstage filming the whole bloody thing. Who's this guy? Where did he come from? We tracked him down. He was a student. His parents had given him some money to buy an open reel video recorder, ... It shows some wonderful moments that were not captured by the other cameras.

When I first did Woodstock many, many years ago, my initial impression when I went to California to look at the rushes . . . was I was appalled. I knew the performance was OK, but the visual of the crowd walking away in the mud and the way they cut it together was kind of depressing,

[Hendrix plays the role of both himself and Leon.] It think it's very clever, and very, very emotionally charged, ... It has a tremendous wallop, I think.

We always joked and kidded around, every day and every moment,

There's gonna be one nice piece of product coming out every year for about the next 15 years. There's enough good stuff there, trust me.