Monday 08 January 1968 
Stockholm, Stora Salen [Big Hall], Konserthuset [Concert House], 8 Hotorget [Hay gate], Sweden

[Aud = Audience] 

1st show:

Noel: Thank you very much, we’d like to start of with…
Jimi : Gi’ me a ‘A’, gi’ me…ah before we start, oh God, before we start I’d like to say that-uh, between every single song we’ve got a new song that I’ve to play for you, I think everybody knows it, it’s named ‘Toon Up Blues’ okay, we’d like to start off with ‘Toon Up Blues’ [tuning]. Yeah, thank you very much and now we can do our next song. 
Aud : [Applause] 
Jimi : There’ll be more of that song later on anyway…

1. SERGEANT PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND (John Lennon & Paul McCartney)

Yeah!
It was twenty years ago today
Sergeant Pepper told the band to play
They’ve been going in and out of style
But they’re guaranteed to bring a smile

May I introduce to you
Been together all these years
Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Cub Band 

[Solo]

Well, I don’t really wanna stop the show
But I think you might like to know
We’ve got a singer’s gonna sing a song
And he wants you all to join along

So may I introduce to you
One and only Billy Shears
Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Cub Band
 
Noel : Thank you very much 

2. EXP

Mitch: Thank you, thank you very much Ladies and Gentlemen, we wanna welcome you to-uh ‘Radio Station EXP’ and tonight we’re gonna feature an interview with a very peculiar looking gentleman who goes by the name of uh Mister Paul Caruso*. Mister Caruso’s gonna talk to us on the very dodgy subject of “Are there or are there not flying saucers or-uh U.F.O’s.” Um tell me Mister Caruso 
Aud : [Laughter]
Mitch: Yes, please do tell me Mister Caruso, what’s your regarded opinion on this nonsense about spaceships and even space people.
Jimi  : Thank you very much, as you all know, you just can’t believe everything you see and hear. Can you? ha-ha-ha. Now if you will excuse I must be on my way…
* Paul Caruso was one of Jimi’s early friends in New York City, a harmonica player, who 
  recorded with him on several occasions most notably on  ‘My Friend’ (1968)

3. UP FROM THE SKIES

I just uh-wanna talk to you, I won’t do you no ha-arm 
I just wanna know about your different lives 
On this here people farm
I heard some o’ you got your families livin’ in cages tall and co-old
And some of you just linger and dust away, past the age of old, mmm
Is this true? Please let me talk to you

I just wanna know about the rooms behind your mi-inds
Do I see a vacuum there, or am I goin’ blind? 
Or is it just remains of vibrations, echoes long ago-o
Things like-uh “Love the World” and-huh, “Let your fancy flow”
Is this true? Please let me talk to you, uh-let me talk to you

I have lived here before, the days of i-i-ice
And that’s why of course I’m so conce-e-e-erned
And I come back here to find, the stars misplaced
And the smell of a world, that has bu-u-urned
A smell of The World that has bu-urned
Yeah, well

[Solo]

Maybe it’s just a change of climate
Just like to see 

So where do I purchase my ticket?
I’d like to have a, a ringside seat
I wanna know and hear everything
Just wanna hear, everything
Hear and see everything
I wanna hear and see everything
Everything, everything

Everything

Everything, everything, everythi-ing, everything
Everything, everything

One, two, three, four…

4. SPANISH CASTLE MAGIC

It’s very far awa-ay 
It takes about a half a day to get there
If we travel by my-ah, dragonfly
No it’s not i-in Spai-ain
But all the same you know it’s a groovy name 
And the wind's just right 

Hang on my darlin’, hang on if you wanna go
Its a … really groovy place, you know
Look out
Spanish Castle magic

The clouds are really lo-ow 
And they overflow
With cotton-candy 
And battle grounds 
Red and brown
But it’s all in your mi-ind
Don’t spend your time on bad things
Just float your little mind around

Hey!
Hang on my darling
Hang on, if you wanna go
It’s still a…groovy place
Hitch a ride
Spanish Castle magic

[Solo]

Hang on my darling
Hang on, if you wanna go
It’s a…yeah
Rock an’ roll bar
Spanish Castle magic
Little bit of Spanish Castle magic
Hey!

[Quotes Cream’s OUTSIDE WOMAN BLUES (‘Blind’ Joe ‘Reynolds’ (Sheppard)] 

Noel: Jimi’s learned over half our LP, he’s looking tired 
Jimi : Wanna say that we practised that-uh for about two or three seconds, we got on stage, an’-uh this mess, we didn’t know it wasn’t released here in Stockholm. We didn’t know it wasn’t released here now in Sweden. Swedish food. Try not to come up there. Poor ol’ guy. You’re out of this world
Noel: Arse-hole 
Jimi : Noel…Probably better work overtime tonight, see 
Noel: You are joking
Jimi : [Sudden, very loud, screeching feedback]
Aud : [Loud laughter] 
Noel: Nearly crapped it too 
Aud : [Still laughing] 
Noel: Well, everybody get’s caught late, huh 
Aud : [Still laughing] 
Jimi : Oh! remember our song for tonight, you remember tonight’s new song? Toon Up Song? remember that? [sings:] ‘Let’s too-oon up tonight!’. We toon up because we really care for your ears, you know we really care, we think very much about your ears, that is why we don’t play very loud, that’s why we don’t play very loud, so we’d like to play our toon up song for you just one second here, if that’s all right …[tuning].. We’ve a flashback from 19321 – Foxy Lady!...

1 Third recorded mention of Jimi referring to some of his early singles and songs off his first LP (most 
  frequently ‘Red House’ or ‘Hey Joe’) as being recorded (usually)over a hundred years ago, although in this 
  case only thirty five years. Possibly a reference to Elmore James’  strange 1954 song ‘1839 Blues’ which 
  starts with him singing in a weird voice: 

 “Hey Joe… you know I’m a young man this time
 And you know I ain’t seen my baby since 1839
 I got to find her. What you say?”
….

5. FOXY LADY  [Backing vocal - Noel]

Now you know you’re a cute little heart breaker
(Foxy)
And you know you’re a sweet little love maker 
(Foxy) 
I wanna take you home 
I won’t do you no ha-arm
You’ve got to be all mine, all mine
Ooh! foxy lady
(Ow)

(Foxy)

(Foxy)

I see you, I’m down on the scene
(Oh, foxy)
You make me wanna get up and scream
(Foxy)
I’m gonna take you home
I won’t do you no harm, yeah
You’ve got to be all mine, all mine
Ooh! foxy lady

[Solo]

I’m gonna take you home
I won’t do you no harm, no
You’ve got to be all mine, all mine
Ooh! foxy lady

Here I come, baby 
Comin’ to get you

One, two…

(Foxy)

You look so good

(Foxy)

(Foxy)

(Foxy)
Jimi : [tuning] Favourite song again, one more time. We’d like to slow pace down a little bit and-uh [tuning], I’d like to know if you’re really a song for our new LP, favourite song, song called-uh Little Wing and we’d like to do on our new one, now called Message Of Love2 – beautiful - On our new LP, thank you very much…

2A weird reference to his much later 1969 song with this title.

6. LITTLE WING

Well she’s walkin’ through the clou-ou-ou-ouds
With a circus mind that’s running wi-ild 
Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams 
And fairy-ta-a-ales 
That’s all she thinks about
Riding with the wi-ind

When I’m sad, she-e comes to me-e-e 
With a thousand smiles, she gives to me free
‘It’s all right’. She says. ‘It’s all right
Take anything you want from me, anything
Anythi-ing’ 

Noel: Thank you very much, ta…..To do …
Jimi : It’s very hard to do records when you fade out, you know, ha-ha-hell. 
Noel: Mitch!
Jimi : Please say I wrote it for you. So I won’t get her. All the things that are Sweden and beautiful. Old! Yeah, we’d like to do a old number, it’s an old song in-uh, 18723, that was a good year for old songs, yes, this is now called-uh, uh-‘Let Me Stand Next To Your Fire’ there, back in the days when they used to use fire for it. One, two. One, two, three…

1 Fourth recorded mention of Jimi referring to some of his early singles and songs off his first LP (most 
  frequently  ‘Hey Joe’ or ‘Red House’) as being recorded over a hundred years ago. Possibly a reference to 
  Elmore James’  strange 1954 song ‘1839 Blues’ which starts with him singing in a weird voice: 

 “Hey Joe… you know I’m a young man this time
 And you know I ain’t seen my baby since 1839
 I got to find her. What you say?”
….

7. FIRE  [Backing vocal – Noel]

Yeah, dig this, baby
You don’t care for me, I don’t-uh care about that
You’ve got a new fool, I like to laugh at
I have only one-uh itchin’ desire
Let me stand next to your fire
(Let me stand next to your fire) Woa-oa, let me stand, baby
(Let me stand next to your fire) Yea-eah, let me stand
(Let me stand next to your fire) Baby let me
(Let me stand next to your fire) 

Listen here baby and stop actin’ so crazy…
You say your mom ain’t home, it ain’t my concern
Just don’t play with me and you won’t get burned
I’veonly one, burnin’ desire
Let me stand next to your …[plays whammy bend]
(Let me stand next to your fire) O-oh let me stand 
(Let me stand next to your fire) Let me sta-and
(Let me stand next to your fire) I ain’t doin’ no harm 
(Let me stand next to your fire) Yeah

Let Jimi take over
You know what I’m talkin’ ‘bout
Yeah

[Solo]

Yeah, dig this now 
You try to, give me your money 
You’d better save it babe
Save it for your rainy day-uh
I have only one-uh itchin’ desire
Let me stand next to your …[plays trill]
(Let me stand next to your fire) Oh, let me stand 
(Let me stand next to your fire) Yeah, let me stand, baby
(Let me stand next to your fire) Yeah
(Let me stand next to your fire, ow) 

Yeah

Mitch: Thank you very much. Thank’s very much, yeah. Well, it’s nice to hear that, you know, it’s nice to know that you’re all listening to us anyway. Listen, wanna slow the pace right down, again and do a very slow, quiet number and bore you all to death again, it’s a, oh, oh, no it’s been changed, see, your kind of thing, it’s kind of rhythm and blues, all right, so, you know, listen.
[?]   : Come on Jimi!
Noel: This is some old blues number called-er
[?]   : Catfish Blues…You tell him
Noel: Oh, he said he didn’t tell you, if you ask, I don’-know, do I? 
Jimi : Gi’ me a ‘A’. Oh, our song, remember my favourite solo, Toon Up Time [tuning]. Things very, very rushed tonight huh 
Aud : [Laughter & applause] 
Jimi : I feel very guilty, I really do. Okay, we’re gonna play that blues…

8. CATFISH BLUES *

Jimi : You’re fired
Noel: Fuck off 
Aud : [Laughter]

Pop!

So they can see

Well, I wish, I was a catfish
Swimmin’ in Lo-ord the deep blue sea
I’d have-uh all you pretty women
Fishin’ after me-e, after me 
Oh Lo-ord, oh Lord, oh yeah, whoa yeah, sure ‘nough, oh yeah

Well, I went down, my girlfriend’s house
And I sat down, Lo-ord, on her front step
And she says er-uh “Come in now Jimi
My husband just now left.”
He’s, sure ‘nough, just now left
Oh, yeah, baby, sure ‘nough, oh yeah, 
Sure ‘nough, baby, sure ‘nough do, oh yeah

[Solo]

Well, there’s two, two trains runnin’-uh
But there’s now none, Lo-ord, is goin’ my way
You know, there’s-uh one train runnin’ at midnight 
Other one, leave just ‘fore da-ay
Leave just ‘fore day, leave just ‘fore da-ay
An’ I say oh yeah, sure ‘nough it do
Oh, yeah, sure ‘nough

[Drum solo]

* First two verses from  Muddy Waters ‘Rollin’ Stone’ , last from his ‘Still A Fool’ both songs are themselves 
  variations of other blues songs 

Noel: Thank you very much, man, Mitch on drums there. Very good, man, ah, ah, ah good blah, blah, man
[?]   : Woo-hoo-oo-oo-doo-doo
Jimi : [….?] Gi’ me an ‘F’, man
Aud : [Girl?]: [in high voice “Fuck you as well [laughter]…you’re so unkind…ouch” 
         whistling]
Jimi : Hurry back […………………………………….?] here. [tuning] Tooning your guitar can 
be fun. We’re writin’ a book named ‘Tooning Can Be Fun’, or either ‘You And Music’ he-he-he [tuning] what music [tuning, sings:] Oo-oo-oo-ooh[ tuning] Oh, out o’ sight , here we go [strums a tune] Take a picture of me with you [tuning] Yeah, okay. Oh, oh yeah ‘Wind Cries Mary’’ I’m sorry…

9. THE WIND CRIES MARY [False start]

Noel:? [Complaining?] that you’re too drunk are you? 
Aud : [Laughter & applause] 
Jimi : You’re just floatin’ around in Martini. One more time, here, yeah…

10. THE WIND CRIES MARY 

After all the Jacks are in their boxes
And the clowns have a-all gone to be-ed
You can hear happiness 
Staggerin’ on down the street
Footprints dressed in red
And the wi-ind it whispers, “Mary”

A broom is drearily sweeping
Up the broken pieces of yesterdays life
Somewhere a Queen is weeping
Somewhe-ere a King has no wife
And the wind it cries, “Mary”

[Solo]

The traffic lights they turn a blue tomorrow
And shine their emptiness down on my bed
The tiny island sags down the stream
‘Cause the life they’d lived is, is dead
And the wi-ind screams, “Mary”

Will the wind ever remember
The names it has blown in the past?
And with its crutch, it’s old age and it’s wisdom
It whispers “No this will be the last”
And the wi-ind it cries, “Mary”

Jimi : Thank you very much
Noel: I think we’ve only got time for one more number …ey? 
Jimi : […?] Uh, dee-dee! doo-doo! Oh yeah, we’re gonna do this song made in 17794, that was a good year, pardon
Noel: For wine, brought up?
Jimi : I can’t hear you, can’t hear a thing. Oh, I see, said the Prime Antelope5, let’s see what happens. Anyway we got one more last song to do. And we’ll let you figure it out, what it is a-huh. Probably goes back in tears, hmm. This’ll be so much fun for me, should be fun for you as well. [……..? laughter] What deviant is swollen to fuck, look [at the size of it?]
Noel: Oh, whoh……

4 Fifth recorded mention of Jimi referring to some of his early singles and songs off his first LP (most 
  frequently ‘Hey Joe’ or ‘Red House’) as being recorded over a hundred years ago, (four time-warp intro’s in 
 one concert!). Possibly a reference to Elmore James’  strange 1954 song ‘1839 Blues’ which starts withhim 
 singing in a weird voice: 

 “Hey Joe… you know I’m a young man this time
 And you know I ain’t seen my baby since 1839
 I got to find her. What you say?”
….
5 ‘Prime Antelope’ sounds very like a USA masonic reference as their lodges are frequently named after wild 
   animals eg ‘The Elks’ etc. He mentions The ‘Short White’s Antelopes’ along with the ‘Black Panthers’ in a 
  strange intro to Voodoo Chile (SR) at the LA Forum in 1970.

11. PURPLE HAZE

Purple haze all in my brain
Lately things they don’t seem the same-uh
I’m actin’ funny, but I don’t know why
‘Scuse me while I kiss the sky

Yeah
Purple haze all around 
Don’t know if I’m comin’ up or down.
Am I happy or in misery?...[tape cut]