Friday 16 February 1968
Dallas, State Fair Music Hall, Texas

[Aud = Audience]

1. ARE YOU EXPERIENCED 

If you can just, get your, mind together
Come on across to me-e
We’ll hold hands and then, watch the sunrise
From the bottom of the sea
Oh, but are you huh experienced?
Have you ever been experienced?
We-e-ell I ha-a-a-ave

I know, I know, babe, you’ll, probably scream and cry
That, your little world won’t let you go
But who in your measly little world  
Are you tryin’ to prove that 
You’re made out of gold and yuh, can’t be sold
So, are you, ex-perienced?
Have you ever been experienced?
Well, well, well I ha-a-ave
Let me-uh, let me prove it to you

Trumpets and violins I can-uh, hear in the distance
I think they’re calling our names
Maybe now you can’t hear them, but you will ha-ha-ha
Just take hold of my ha-and
Oh, but are you experienced?
Have you ever bee-een ex-perienced?
Not necessarily stoned but a-ha-ha, beautiful

Noel: Thank you very much, ta…We’d like to do a number off our first LP, which you might remember, it was a long time ago, it’s called ‘Let Me Stand Next To Your Fire ‘
Jimi : uh-Before, before we do this, so like, I’d like to say that-uh, this is a really groovy city, because I went down and got these real groovy boots, man, I’m really out of sight, man, look at those, got some pointed toes, wow
Noel: Ha-ha-ha-ha
Jimi : Woof…Pointed toe shoes-uh 
Noel: Yeah 
Jimi : Wow I’m the biggest square in this whole building hu-huh
Noel: Ha-ha-ha
Jimi : Ready, one, two…One two…

2. FIRE  [Backing vocal - Noel]

Yeah, now dig this one right here
Dig, you don’t care for me, I don’t-uh care about that
You’ve got a new fool hyeah, I like to laugh at
I have only one-uh, itchin’ desire
Let me stand next to your… [plays feedback]
(Let me stand next to your fire) Yeah, let me stand, baby
(Let me stand next to your fire) Let me stand 
(Let me stand next to your fire) Yea-eah, let me stand, baby
(Let me stand next to your fire) 

Oh, 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 have only one-uh fuckin’ desire
Let me stand next to your … [plays whammy bend] 
(Let me stand next to your fire) Woa-hey, let me stand, baby  
(Let me stand next to your fire) Woa, let me stand
(Let me stand next to your fire) Let me stand, yeah
(Let me stand next to your fire, ow) 

Oh, move over Rover* and let Jimi take over…
You know what I’m talkin’ about…yeah

[Solo]

Yeah
That’s what I’m talkin’ about
Now dig this one

You try to give me your money 
You’d better save it, babe
Save it for your rainy day
I have only one-uh itchin’ desire
Let me stand next to your… [plays trill]
(Let me stand next to your fire) Woa-oa, let me stand, baby
(Let me stand next to your fire) Let me stand 
(Let me stand next to your fire) I ain’t gonna do you no harm
(Let me stand next to your fire, ow!) 

*From ‘Stoop Down Baby’ aka ‘Two Old Maids’ (Chick Willis?): “Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard… But when she bent over Rover took over. ‘Cause you know he had a bone of his own” ha-ha-ha. Jimi covered this at least five times from 1965 to 1970. He also gets a mention in ‘Highway of Broken Hearts’  ‘Keep On Groovin’ & ‘Hound Dog’. This, coupled with the story of Jimi asking Noel’s mother Margaret if her dog could be moved so he could warm himself at the fire, in her house at New Year 1966/67, would appear to be the inspiration

Jimi : Yeah, hey, dig, back in-uh 1732*, October the thirty first ahm, we did a 
song called ‘The Wind Cries Mary’ And we’d like to do it for you again right now, in the year of 1936. Gi’ me, gi’ me a ‘F’… 
Noel: We always tune up, you see, because it sounds better
Jimi : Yeah and we’re gonna toon up very closely in this number because we really care for your ears
Noel: And it’s in ‘F’ and it’s a very hard key
Jimi : Yes an-uh-uh
Noel: For tuning that is
Jimi : An-um quite naturally-um we don’t play very loud, so quite naturally we must be in toon, ‘cause we play very quiet, that’s the only hang up you know 
Noel: Man 
Aud : [Laughter]
Noel: …Oy
Jimi : It just takes two minutes to play…If you can toon…Yeah…Thank you very much and now for our next number, like to do…He-heh it’s so embarrassing, [whistles:] whyoo, whyoo, whyoo 
Aud: [Laughter]
Noel: Oh…

*Seventh 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?”
….

3. THE WIND CRIES MARY

After all the Jacks are in their boxes
[Big applause]
And the clowns have all gone to bed
You can hear happiness 
Staggering 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
The tiny island…….
The things tha-at, that go wild
And the wi-ind 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 stream
‘Cause the life they’d lived, is dead
And the wi-ind it screams, “Mary”

Will the wind ever remember
Names it has blo-own 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 : Yeah, okay then, thank you very much…Oh listen we’d like to bore you for about seven or eight minutes and do a instrumental
Noel: An instrumental
Jimi : It isn’t released yet and-uh, we just like to jam man, you know how we are, just like to sit up, here and jam. No, none of it’s volume. So we’d like to do this thing, it goes something like this here, I forgot the name of it a, we don’t have no name 
Aud: [Laughter]…

4. TAX FREE  (Bo Hansson & Janne Carlsson)

[instrumental]

Noel : Thank you, thank you very much 
Mitch:? Ta much
Noel : Mitch having a go there, a bash
Jimi : Thank you, yeah
Noel : Ta
Jimi  : I-I’d like to say that number there, we don’t, uh-you know it’s just a number that we mess around with sometimes, it’s done by a Swedish group named ‘Hansson and Karlsson’ and we just do it different ways every night, we just try like to, like to mess around and do it. Well, let’s see now, oh, I know a number back in 1776. Does this microphone work…

*Eighth recorded mention of Jimi referring to some of his early singles and songs off his first LP (usually 
  either ‘Red House’ or ‘Hey Joe’) 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?”
….

 5. FOXY LADY  [Backing vocal - Noel]

Now, you know you’re a cute little heart breaker
(Foxy) 
An’ you know you’re a sweet little love maker 
(Foxy)
I’m gonna take you home
I won’t do you no harm
You got to be all mine, all mine
Wooh! Pop! foxy lady
Yeah

Ah
I see you, I’m down on the scene
(Foxy)
You make me, wanna get up and scream!.
(Foxy) 
I’ve made up my mind
I’m tired of wastin’ all my, precious time
You’ve got to be all mine, all mine
Ooh! Pop! foxy lady

[Solo]

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

An’ here I come, baby, heh-heh
Comin’ to get you

Foxy lady, yeah, yeah
Ah, you look so good
(Foxy)
Yeah

(Foxy)

(Foxy)

Noel: Thank you very much, ta
Jimi : Yeah, if you only new how much fun this was [tuning]…Right now we’d like to play our most favourite record of all, it’s called ‘Toon Up Time’ get this [tuning]…I forgot the words, I’m sorry, man [tuning…  tape cut (Thank you)] very much, and now for our next number again, like to do a thing, well I tell you what, we’ll just play it and see what happens, okay [tuning]… I think I got it, that’s okay [tuning]
Aud: [Laughter] Oh my God!…

6. HEY JOE (William ‘Billy’ Roberts)

Hey-ey Joe, I said where you goin’ with that gun in your hand?
Hey-hey Joe, I said where you goin’ with that gun in your hand?

I’m goin’ down to shoot my ol’ lady
You know, I caught her messin’ ‘round with another man
I’m goin’ down to shoot my ol’ lady
You know, I caught her messin’ ‘round with another man
An’-uh that ain’t too cool
 
Hey-ey Joe, I heard you shot your lady down
You shot her down to the ground
Yeah
Hey-ey Joe, I heard you shot your lady down
You shot her down to the ground
Yes I did, I shot her 
You know I caught her messin’ ‘round, messin’ around town 
Yes I did, I shot her 
You know I caught her messin’ around town
And you know what I did, I gave her the gun, I shot her

[Solo]

Hey-hey Joe 
Where you gonna run to now, where you gonna go to?
Hey-hey Joe, I said 
Where are you gonna run to now, where you gonna go to?
An’ he said this, dig, baby
I’m goin’ way down south, way down to Mexico way
Yeah, yeah, yeah, hey
I’m goin’ way down south, way down where I can be free
Ain’t no one gonna find me
Ain’t no hangman gonna
He ain’t puttin’ rope around me, yeah
You’d better believe it, baby
I gotta go chile
Hey, hey-ey Joe, you’d better run on down 
You’d better, goodbye everybody

Noel: thank you very much, ta
Jimi : Yeah, okay 
Aud : Put it on your head! Put on your hat! Purple Haze!  
Jimi : Man, I got the whole script written down right in the palm of my hand. I know when to put on my hat he-he-heh 
Aud : Ha-ha-ha. Sorry about the hat  
Jimi: No don’t be sorry he-heh, great, that’s out of sight man, this is, yeah, Dallas, great, okay then, we’ll go for that through [tuning]... Like to do a song specially dedicated to Dallas right about this time, it’s a thing called-uh Spanish Castle Magic, it’s a place you wouldn’t take your grandmother [guitar blast,then tuning] okay then it’s too sharp against ‘B’ 
Noel: Nah, it’s fucked again. 
Jimi : Hit a ‘C’ sharp
Noel: This is in ‘C’ Sharp
Jimi : [Tuning] There goes our famous song again [tuning] They sold a million copies between each other ‘Toon Up Time’ [tuning] oh fuck  [tuning] It goes something like this here. Take ‘Spanish Castle Magic’ da-da-da-dee [tuning] You bastard son of a bitch. One, two, three, four…

7. SPANISH CASTLE MAGIC

Yeah

It’s very far awa-ay 
Takes about a half a day to get there
If we travel by my-ah, dragonfly ha-ha
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 
Look out baby, hey

Hang on my darlin’, hang on if you wanna go-o
Its a … real groovy place, you know
You’re not really missin’ it
Spanish Castle magic
Yeah

The clouds are really lo-ow 
And they overflow
With cotton-candy 
And battle grounds 
Red and brown (but ah)
But it’s all in your mi-ind
Don’t waste your time thinkin’ about bad things
Just float your little mind around
Look out

Hey!
Hang on my darling
Hang on, if you wanna go
It’s a…little bit of thing between you and me
Yeah
Spanish Castle magic
Hey

[Solo]

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

Jimi : Yeah, okay then
Noel: Ta
Jimi : [Tuning] Try ‘Red House’ [tuning]… Yes indeed, we’d like to continue - oh wow what arrh-ah-woofs, [radio has started coming through the PA} kuh-hum cough, cough - yes indeed we would like to continue, what’s wrong man? [radio]… God!
Noel: We-we got a radio thing built into our things
Jimi : You talk to them
Noel: I don’ know, fuck it
Jimi : Come on people, oh man, what a drag, man, can’t even get that together, makes us so mad, the cat’s sittin’ up there blabbin’ all through our act, now when you give him  a chance to talk, he clams up [tuning]  I tell you what, you won’t be able to hear him now, ‘cause we’re gonna do a sound called ‘The Red House’ [Jimi starts talking to the radio]. Yeah, okay then, okay…
Aud: [Laughter]
Jimi: …yeah, probably, yeah yesterday probably wha’ nobody else, tomorrow okay then, okay, right away, okay ‘Red House Blues’ and I’ m not crazy honest to God I’m not, that’s him on the ‘Fender’…bass. One two three…

8. RED HOUSE

The red house over yonder, baby
That’s where my-y baby stay
Yeah, that’s all right, baby
Red house over yonder, baby
That’s where my baby stay
Yeah
I ain’t been home to see my baby
In about a ninety nine and one half day *
‘Bout time to see her

Wait a minute somethin’s wrong 
The key won’t unlock the door
(Wow, I didn’t think I was gonna make that one)
Wait a minute somethin’s wrong, baby
Yeah-ha-ha
The key won’t unlock the door
I got a bad, bad feelin’ 
My baby don’t live here no more
That’s all right, I still got my guitar
Look out, baby
Yeah

[Solo]

Might as well go back over yonder
Ha-ha-ha
Way back over yonder, across the hill, baby
Might as well go back over yonder, baby
Way back over yonder, across the hill
Yeah, probably
‘Cause if my, my baby don’t love me no more
Oh-I know her-ah, her sister will

* Three month jail term

Jimi: Thank you very much [tuning] Oh I didn’t think I was gonna make that one
Yeah, um-er-ah there’s this song we did, slightly before the BC era a-huh! Oh, I shouldn’t have said that should I, oh wow, eleven BC3 is the year we wrote er recorded ‘is song, and we’d like to dedicate it to the 1968 people sittin’ in front of us, and the 1969 people, and the seventies on up to two hundred and seventy nine and all that blurb blah, blah, woof, woof1. The usual selling the woof tickets, you know, heh and so we’d like to, we’d like for you to leave this song as blah, blah, woof, woof, you know, he-heh and we’d like for you to pick out the name to your selves, you know if it’s crap I’ll say ‘Oh well, the name is uh-uh’ and all this, you know, just dig it, and ‘cause we’d like to put a certain beginning on it which pertains to the song it’s self. Can you hear me red and blue lights there? Okay, here we go huh…

*Ninth 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, this must be the earliest 
  11BC!). 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?”
….
1Tony Garland (Jimi’s 1st PR): “He used to have a lot of private jokes. He’d tell a story and make people believe it. Then he’d say ‘Woof, woof’ – to let people know he was lying. That was called ‘selling a Woof ticket’ to someone.”

9. PURPLE HAZE  [Backing vocal - Noel]

…Hmmm, yes, so right now I’m pertaining if you’ll notice, I am pertaining…Can you hear me pertain, yea-ah-ha-ha…Hope the plane don’t crash heh-heh…Oh that’s just to wake you up there, thank you very much, mmm ……..[don’t you know this party started?]  on you microphone…

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

Purple haze all around 
Don’t know if I’m goin’ up or down
And am I happy or in misery?
Whatever it is, that girl put a spell on me 

Help baby
Help me baby, yeah

[Solo]

(Ooh aah, ooh aah, ooh aah, ooh aah) 

Yeah
Purple haze all in my eye
Don’t know if it’s-uh day or night.
You’ve got me blowin’, blowin’ my mind.
Is it tomorrow or just the end of time
Help, baby
Yeah baby
Yeah
Yea-eah, purple haze
               (Purple haze)
Yea-eah, purple haze
               (Purple haze)
Oh baby, you got me
You got me blowin’ my mind now
(Purple haze) 
Yeah
(Purple haze) 

(Ooh aah, ooh aah, ooh aah, ooh) 

[Quotes Cream’s CAT’S SQUIRREL (Charles Isiah ‘Dr.’ Ross)]

Jimi : Thank you 
Noel: Thank you very much, we got one more number to do, I hope, you should all know it
Aud : [crazy guy:] Ain’t true! 
Noel: Ey?
Aud : [crazy guy:] You got it!  
Noel: What? 
Aud : Burned it?! Where is it!? Burn it all fucker!
Jimi : ?[In silly voice] Motherfucker’s walkin’ round here
Noel: What did you say? 
Aud : I have an expert! 
Noel: Who? 
Aud : Burn your guitar James!
Noel: Yeah 
Aud1 : You’re a liar!  
Aud2 : Shut up!  
Noel: Has she? Oh, where? Is she? Quick … 
Aud : [Girl:] We’re all here for Hendrix!
Jimi : A guitar fell down so “Look at that the guitar fell down wa-a-ah”
Aud : [Laughter]
Jimi : Yeah, we got one more last song to do. I know you all sayin’ “Thank God” oh wow
Noel: [Talking over the top of Jimi] It’s a very quiet number
Jimi : You’ll go, woah, woah! 
Aud.: More, more  
Jimi: You know good and well you’re sayin’ “Thank God”, okay, here we go ….
Aud: You got your son […?]
Jimi : No I’m old, you might not represent the VA’s all right, an some…
Aud : Have to put on your hat!  
Jimi : What? 
Aud : [Girl:] Hendrix! [Guy:] Get your hat! [Girl:] Hendrix! 
Jimi : He-he-heh wow, I couldn’t, fuck…
Noel: No, I took me aspirins I’m satisfied
Jimi : Where you all from anyways? 
Aud :  Little Rock!! [Arkansas] ... Have fun
Jimi : What fun we’re having, wow, if you only new how much fun this was woo-ooh I ca-I never will get over this all my whole life 
Noel: You have to all join…
Jimi : Have my little…
Noel: … in with this song
Jimi : … have my little grandson go [in old man voice]  “Yes stupid boy I used to play Rock an’ Roll music, yes, long time ago there” he-he-he-heh. Gi’ me a ‘A’ man [tuning]…Oh-oh look out now, hold on [tuning]…Okay the-uh, like-uh, there’s a lot of people pickin’ on a certain cat who’s President right now, so we’ll try to help him out, and do a song ‘The International Anthem’ bringin’ all the soldiers back to Vietnam1. This is the kind o’ song you should have, instead of them marchin’ down the street back from Vietnam with big M-16’s and all that you know, and big uh-submarines and all this mess on their backs, uh-how about they marched into town with big feed back guitars and-uh-he-heh-yeah [guitar makes war noises] “Yeah, just come in back from Vietnam there.” [guitar makes noise of heavy machine gun] …and all that kind ‘o stuff yeah. Well-uh not aloof necessarily like that, but what if they came down and all you all sang this certain song with them, and if we all sang together on this certain song, because it is the ‘International Anthem’ So if everybody could stand up, put their left hand across the, and put their right hand across, well, you know,  whatever you can find to put it across there an’ we can really get it on there uh heh, and it’s very important for you all to sing along, don’t be scared, I’m not gonna tell nobody, so you all be really groovy and sing along with this song-g, it’s a International theme, and it goes something like this here, uhr hell, how does this work…

1Jimi’s 3rd recorded mention of the Vietnam war.  “No Vietcong ever called me a Nigger,”: Mohammed Ali -  
 1966, on refusing conscription.

10. WILD THING (John ‘Chip Taylor’ Voight) [Backing vocal - Noel]

Wild thing, you make my heart sing
(Wild thing, you make my heart sing)
You make, oh, everything groovy
(You make, oh, everything groovy, heh)
Yeah
Wild thing
(Wild thing)
Hey

Wild thing I think you move…
But I wanna know for sure
(I wanna know for sure)
Come here now, sssock it to me one mo’ time again
Pop! you move me

Wild thing, you make my heart sing
(Wild thing, you make my heart sing)
You make, oh, everything groovy
(You make, oh, everything groovy)
Wild thing
(Wild thing)

[Jimi plays a very wild discordant solo]

Wild thing I think I love y…
But I wanna know for sure y’all
      (I wanna know for sure)
Come here now, sssock it to me one more time again 
Pop! I love you
Look out baby
(Ow!)

Wild thing, you make my heart sing
(Wild thing, you make my heart sing)
You make, oh, everything groovy
(You make, oh, everything groovy)
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Wild thing
(Wild thing)
Yeah
Wild thing
(Wild thing)

Wild thing
(Wild thing)

Yeah, yeah, yeah
Wild thing
(Wild thing)

Wild thing
(Wild thing)

Wild thing
(Wild thing)

[Guitar ‘says’ ‘Thank you, very, very much’, ’thank you’, thank you, thank you very much, thank you, thank you very much, thank you and goodnight to you… Then plays the ‘TAPS’ and ‘REVEILLE’ bugle calls]

Noel: Thank you very much
Jimi : Thank you very much…Thanks a lot …

[Band leave stage with feedback still droning]