You can hear Jimi experimenting with his vocal. He's rustling the paper and going 'Oh...oh...oh I don't know where I am.' ... The first time he ever sang it, and he's laughing and carrying on.

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.

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.

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