Friday 23 August 1968
New York City, Singer Bowl, Flushing Meadow Park, Queens, New York, USA 
At some point Jimi ends up wearing a large Confederate States flag tied around his waist.

[Aud = Audience]

Aud : [Very chaotic –shouting etc.]
Jimi : [Tuning]      
     ?: Band’s on the stage! Get off the stage! Come on!
     ?: Get off!
Jimi : Yeah, dig, brother I got-‘ey? Can you hear me?
Noel: One, two…
Girl  : You bet!
     ?: Hot dogs, anybody!? Hot dogs!
Jimi : Ah, please give us about, about two minutes to toon up all right? Two minutes and                   
          we'll pay it right back to you, we'll pay it right back to you …
     ?: Right now

1. ARE YOU EXPERIENCED

Jimi : I want to ask you all: Are you experienced?
Aud : Yes! Yes!.....
Jimi :…Watch out, prick… [In silly voice:] You wish… 
     ?: Hey Noel?
Noel: What?...

If you can just get your mind together 
Come on across to me
We’ll hold hands and then we'll watch the sunrise 
From the bottom of the Sea
But first, are you experienced?
Now have you ever been experienced?
Hey! I ha-a-ave

I know, I know, baby
You’ll probably scream and cry 
That your little world won't let you go
Who in your measly little world
Are you tryin’ to prove that
You’re made out of gold and you can't be sold
So are you experienced?
Have you ever been experienced? 
I have

[Solo – places his damaged guitar on the stage and plays it with his foot while he straps on another, swapping the jack-plug makes a ‘beep! beep!’ like a car horn]

Trumpets and violins I can hear in the distance
I think they're calling our name
Maybe now you can't hear them, but you will
Take hold of my hand
Oh, but are you experienced? 
Have you ever been experienced?

[Tape cut]
Jimi : … please Let Me Stand Next To Your Fire, it goes something like this here. Gi’me… 
          [tuning]
     ?: How’s it goin’ huh?
Noel: It’s another quick tune-up
Jimi : … [tuning]…One, three. One two, three…

2. FIRE  [Backing vocal - Noel]

All right baby, you’re gonna listen to what I got to say right here
So you won't be in trouble after awhile

You don’t care for me, I don’t-uh care about that  
You’ve got a new fool hah, I like to laugh at
I have only one itchin’ desire
Let me stand next to your … [plays feedback with whammy bend]
(Let me stand next to your fire) 
(Let me stand next to your fire) Hey, let me stand
(Let me stand next to your fire) 
(Let me stand next to your fire) 

Oh, listen here baby, yeah-yeah 
And stop actin’ so damn 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, itchin’ desire
Let me stand next to your…[plays trill]
(Let me stand next to your fire) Yeah, baby
(Let me stand next to your fire) Let me stand
(Let me stand next to your fire) Yeah, baby
(Let me stand next to your fire) 

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

[Guitar & Drum jam]

Yeah, the drummer

You try to give me your money 
You better save it babe
Save it for your rainy day
I have only one-uh itchin’ desire
Let me stand next to your fire 
(Let me stand next to your fire) Yeah, baby
(Let me stand next to your fire) 
(Let me stand next to your fire) 
(Let me stand next to your fire) 

*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 get’s a mention in ‘Highway of Broken Hearts’ & ‘Keep On Groovin’ This, coupled with the story of Jimi asking if their dog could be moved so he could warm himself at the fire in Noel’s mother Margaret’s house at New Year 1966/67, would appear to be the inspiration for ‘Fire’

Noel: Thank you very much
[Tape cut]

Jimi : [Tuning]… Yeah, give us a touch… [Tuning]… Right, they-uh, slight, slow the pace 
          down a little bit, if it's all right with you…. We’d like to slow down the pace a little bit 
          and do a slow blues if you don't mind. This is something that came from the-uh 
          1878* version of the-uh Are You Experienced, which was recorded in England, in 
           the Benjamin Fr’…1
Girl  : Red House! okay
Jimi : .. yeah that's right, it's Red House, so [tuning]…

*Twentyfirst 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 a long time ago (usually 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?”
….
1 Third recorded mention of Jimi referring to Benjamin Franklin and/or to The BF Studios. ‘Benjamin’s’ is 
  slang for hundred dollar bills &  therefore making lot’s of money. This is the highest denomination dollar bill 
  and is graced with Franklin’s portrait. He experimented with electricity, played the guitar, invented an 
  ethereal spooky sounding instrument the ‘armonica’ - a revolutionary development of the ‘glass harmonica’, 
  and was one of the leading American revolutionists, second only to George Washington

3. RED HOUSE

There’s a red house over yonder, baby
Lord, that’s where my baby sta-a-ayed
Yeah
Lord, there’s a red house over yonder 
Lo-ord, where my baby stay-y-yeah
Ain’t been home to see my baby
Lord, in about a ninety nine and one half da-ays*

Wait a minute somethin’s wrong, girl 
Lo-ord, key won’t unlock this doo-oo-oor
Wait a minute somethin’s wrong, little girl
Lord, the key won’t unlock this doo-oo-oor
I’ve got a bad, bad feeling
Lord, my baby don’t live here no mo-o-ore
That’s all right I still got my guitar, hah

[Solo]

[Drum & bass jam]

[Tape cut]

Lord, I might as well go back over yonder 
Wa-ay, way back over yonder across the hi-ill
Lo-ord, Lord, Lord, Lo-o-ord
I might as well go back over yonder, ba-aby 
Wa-ay over yonder, over the hi-i-i-ill
If my baby don’t love me no more
I know, good an’ well, that her heh-heh, sister wi-ill

Jimi : [Guitar ‘says: “Very much… Thank you very much, yeah”]
Noel: Thank you very much… ooh!

* Three month jail term
 
[Tape cut]

4. I DON’T LIVE TODAY [Dedicated to the (Native) American “Indians”. Backing vocal - Noel]

Will I live tomorrow? 
Well, I just can’t say
Will I live tomorro-o-ow? 
Well, I just can’t say
But I know for sure I don’t live today

No sun coming through my windows
Feel like I’m livin’ at the bottom of a grave. 
No-o sun coming through my windows
Feel like I’m livin’ at the bottom of a grave.
I wish you’d hurry up an execute me
So I can be on my miserable way

I do-on’t live toda-ay
(I do-on’t live toda-ay)
Maybe tomorrow,
Well, I just can’t tell you baby, but
I do-on’t, live toda-ay
(I do-on’t, live toda-ay)
Isn’t it a shame to waste your time away like this

[Solo]

Well
I do-on’t live toda-ay
(I do-on’t live toda-ay)
Maybe tomorrow,
Well, I just can’t tell you baby, but
I do-on’t, live toda-ay
(I do-on’t, live toda-ay)
You know, it’s just a hang up and shame 
To waste your time away like this
Nothing but existing, baby
Nothing but existing

[Tape cut]

Jimi : [Tuning]      

[Tape cut]

Jimi : [Tuning]      

[Tape cut]

Jimi : [Tuning]…  
5. LIKE A ROLLING STONE (Robert ‘Bob Dylan’ Zimmerman)

Jimi:
Here's somethin’ we haven't did since we been away from New York
Since we played here last time. 

It's dedicated to the one and only Bob Dylan
Yeah, now goes with-ha-ha … 

A little thing called Like A Rollin’ Stone...

Once upon a time you dressed so fine
Threw the bums a dime In your prime, uh-didn’t you?
People call, say, “Beware, doll, you’re bound to fall.”
And you thought they were all, uh-kiddin’ you

You used to, laugh about
Everybody that was-uh
Down in Washington Park* hangin’ out
And now you don’t, you don’t seem to talk so loud
And now you don’t, baby, you don’t seem so proud
About havin’ to be scrounging 
Hey! your next mea-eal

Hey! how does it feel
Oh, how does it feel baby, all right
To be on your own 
No direction home
A complete unknown 
Look at you
Like a rollin’ stone

Oh, you
Used to go to the finest schools, all right, he-yeah
Miss Lonely, but
You know you only used to get, ah juiced in it
Nobody here to taught you how to live on the streets
And now you just gonna have to get, used to it

You say you’d never, you’d never compromise with The Mystery Man
But now you, you got to realise
He’s not askin’-uh for no alibi’s
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And you said “Hey baby, how would you like to uh-make a dea-eal”

How does it feel 
How does it feel, ba-aby 
On your own
No direction home 
A complete unknown
Hey, like a rollin’ stone, right now

Princes of the steeple and all the pretty people
They all laughin’, drinkin’, thinkin’ that they 
Think they’ve got it ma-ade 
Exchangin’ all precious gifts and things, but I
I think you better take your diamond ring 
You better, you better pawn it babe

You used to be, so amused at Napoleon in rags 
And the sweet talk that he used
There he is, go to him now, he calls you, you can’t refuse
You ain’t got nothin’, you got-uh nothin’ to lose
You’re invisible now - can’t you understand
You got no secrets, baby, to concea-eal

Hey! Lord! how does it feel
Lord, how does it feel, baby
To be on your own, yeah
No direction home
Hey, a complete unknown
Look at you Like a rollin’ stone, right now
Hey-ah!

*Washington Square Park is the hub of Greenwich Village, Jimi refers to it several times in songs. ‘The   
  Twins’ (Albert & Arthur Allen) are interviewed there, sitting next to the triumphal arch, in ‘A Film About Jimi   
  Hendrix’

[Tape cut]

Jimi : [Tuning] … Yeah, I'm hav’-uh, havin’ a very, very hard time hearing myself, I don't 
know what they’re tryin’ to do to me.. These amplifiers, man. Yeah, brrr, you’re a man, bad habits a-ha-ha. You all should be goin’ down to London… 
This is for-uh somebody's girlfriend, that, oh well I don't know what's gonna happen later on tonight, but it's for sombody's girlfri-ha-ha-end... 

6. FOXY LADY  [Backing vocal - Noel]

Hey!
Now you know you’re a cute little heart breaker
(Foxy)
And you know you’re a sweet little love maker
(Foxy)
Hey! now
I wan’ ‘o take you home 
I won’t do you no ha-arm, no
You got to be all mine, all mine
Oh Lord, foxy lady
(Foxy)

(Foxy)

I see you, I’m down on the scene, yeah
(Foxy)
You make me wan’o get up and scream, yeah
(Foxy)
I’ve made up my mind
I’m tired of wastin’ all my precious time
You got to be all mine, all mine
Oh Lord, foxy lady

[Solo]

I’m gonna take you home 
I won’t do you no ha-arm, no
You got to be all mine, all mine
Awe shucks, foxy lady
Oh
Yeah, ha-ha that’s right ha-ha
Here I come baby he-he-he yeah
Come, baby, give it to you

Foxy lady, yeah-yeah

(Foxy)

(Foxy)

(Foxy)

[Tape cut]

Aud : [Girls:] ….[Purple] Haze!!
Jimi : [Guitar sounds like a flock of hysterical chickens] Yes, one time we was in San 
Fransisco once, and-uh we had such a groovy time  there that we wrote a song about it’s called Purple Haze, excuse me 
Aud : [(Girls): Mass screams, a couple shrieking very loudly]
Jimi : [Hysterical chickens guitar sounds] Pain in our-our heads… It goes 
somethin like this here, okay, it goes somethin like this here, okay, it goes somethin like this here [hysterical chickens guitar sounds] …

7. PURPLE HAZE  [Backing vocal - Noel]

Hey!

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

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

Help baby, help me baby
Oh, Lord, Lord, Lord

[Solo]

(Ooh…aah, Ooh…aah, Ooh…aah, Ooh…aah)

Hey!
Blue haze all in my eyes,
Don’t know if it’s-uh day or night
You’ve got me blowin’, blowin’ my mind [cough]
Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?

Help baby, help me baby, yeah

Yea-eah purple haze
(Purple haze)
Yea-eah purple haze
(Purple haze)

(Purple haze)

I’m gonna blow my mind, baby
Not necessarily stoned, but-uh beautiful
(Purple haze (Beautiful)

(Ooh…aah, Ooh…aah, Ooh…aah, Ooh)

Jimi : [Tuning]… Like to dedicate this song to ‘The Village’1 people and it goes out to Tim-
         uh, Tim Rose* and so forth and so on. A thing called ah-ah, Hey Joe…

8. HEY JOE (William ‘Billy’ Roberts) 

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

I’m goin’ down to shoot my lady
You know I caught her messin’ ‘round another man
I’m goin’ down to shoot my lady 
You know I caught her messin’ ‘round another man
And that ain’t too cool, baby
 
Hey-hey Joe, I heard you shot your lady down
You shot her down on the ground
[Quotes the Beatles’  I FEEL FINE (John Lennon & Paul McCartney)]
Hey-hey Joe, I heard you shot your woman down now

Yes I did, I shot my baby
You know I caught her messin’ ‘round town
Yes I did I shot my baby
You know I caught her messin’ ‘round town
So I gave her the gun, I shot her

[Solo]

Hey!

Yeah-yeah
Hey-hey-Joe, where you you gonna run to now?
Hey baby
Hey-hey-ey Joe, I said where you you gonna run to now, baby?
Where you gonna go?
An’ he said, dig
I’m goin’ way down south, way down to Mexico way
Yeah, an’ I think I could be cool down there, no strings
I’m going 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 gonna put a rope around me 
I can’t get busted down south of the border
Can I?

Hey-hey

Hey, hey-hey Joe, you better run on down
You better
Goodbye everybody

Hey

Noel: Beautiful, thank you very much

1Greenwich Village, New York City’s Bohemian enclave – it’s Haight Ashbury
* One of the ‘Village people’ Jimi’s version of Hey Joe is based on Tim’s recording

[Tape cut]

      ?: …[ex]cuse me 
Jimi : …so, like, everybody must stand up for this song. Put your right hand across your 
left… yes eh, heh-heh-heh. You know what the song’s gonna be anyway, man, okay. Can you all join in and sing it? Dedicated to everybody. Dedicated to ah. What is that? Rght. Thank you very much for comin’ too, man. Hey, hey dig this right here! Watch this, watch this, you got it [tuning]…
Noel: Two…
Jimi : …I'm very sorry that our truck passed the police, forgive me
Aud : No problem [laughter] No problemo No problem…

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

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

Wild thing, I think you move 
I wanna know for sure
(I wanna know for sure) 
Come on everybody, sing
[With audience singing ‘Wild thing’ out of step]
Come on an’ sssock it to me one ha-ha time
Ooh shucks, you move me

Wild thing
(Wild thing) 
You make my heart sing
(You make my heart sing)
N.Y.3, baby
You make, oh everything groovy
(You make, oh everything groovy)
Wild thing
(Wild thing) 
Yeah

[Solo quotes: Frank Sinatra’s STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT  (Burt Bacharah & Hal David)

Wild thing I think I love you 
But I wanna know for sure, y’all
(I wanna know for sure) 
Come here now  sssock it to me one more time again
I love you 
But it’s a big drag
(O-ow!)

Come, come on

[Guitar ‘laughs’: ‘Thank you very much’]

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

[Guitar ‘says’ ‘Hey Jimi [….?] …
Noel: Thank you very much you were wonderful…
…[Guitar … Thank you very much]
Noel:… see you tomorrow
[Guitar ‘says’:  […?] ‘Thank you very much’]

3 New York 

10. THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER  (music: ‘The Anacreontic Song’ by John Stafford Smith)

Jimi : Thank you very much, thank you 
MC  : Standing ovation! Jimi Hendrix Experience! Jimi Hendrix a standing ovation! Noel 
          Redding mixed!2 Mitch Mitchell! Jimi Hendrix!...

2 Reception? the sound? the drinks?