Saturday, November 30, 1968 
Detroit, Cobo Hall, Arena, 1 Washington Boulevard, Michigan, USA 

[Aud = Audience]

MC   : … Mitch, Noel, Jimi Hendrix Experience
Aud  : [Big applause] 
Mitch: All right. It’s nice to be back in Detroit anyway. Listen, it’s gonna take a couple of         
           minutes for our roadies [?] Right?
Noel : One. Good evening everybody
Jimi  : Yeah. It’s gonna take about a, it’s gonna take about a minute and a half to, like   
          [feedback… hammering… bass tuning]…
Aud : [Something happens causing applause]
Jimi : Testing, one, two, three. Oh, I’m sorry, excuse me. Ahm, well-it’s gonna take about a 
minute and a half, to, like, make our minor adjustments here and there, you know, like, to get tooned up and things, so don’t let it be a, you know, drag. Part of the show, man
Aud  : [Applause] 
Jimi  : Since, ah, um, last time you all seen us, something like that, since, like, ah, we haven't 
really practiced since then, and like-ah, we're just gonna be jammin’ tonight. So you might as well just relax and just get into it 
Aud  : [Big applause] 
Noel : We've been on the road for thirty four years …Something like that… Something like 
            that, I don’ know… thirty five [tuning] We finish our tour tomorrow… [tuning] …. 
Jimi  : No chance [tuning]…
Noel : So-o long.. Ba-doom long, grow long… We've all decided to grow our hair long 
           [drum tuning]… He’s starting off with a, a real old number, recorded a long, long time 
           ago, called ‘Let Me Stand Next To Your Whatever It Is’ something like that, Fire…     
           [drum tuning etc.]…
Aud  : [Applause] 
Jimi  : Thank you very… [tape glitch] thank [tape cut] you know, for waiting 
Aud  : [Applause] 
Jimi  : Thank you very much, and now for our next number we'd like… [tape cut] 
Noel : … okay it’s fine…

1. FIRE  [Backing vocal: Noel]

Hey

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-uh itchin’ desire
Let me stand next to your … [plays feedback howl]

(Let me stand next to your fire) Hey, let me stand baby
(Let me stand next to your fire) Let me sta-and, let me stand next to fire
(Let me stand next to your fire) Well, let me stand baby
(Let me stand next to your fire)

Oh, listen here baby, 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, burnin’ desire
Let me stand next to your … [plays feedback howl] 

(Let me stand next to your fire)
(Let me stand next to your fire) Let me stand, baby
(Let me stand next to your fire)
(Let me stand next to your fire)

Oh, move over Rover* and let Jimi take over
Yeah, you know what I’m talkin’ about
Yeah come on darlin’

Yeah
That’s what I’m talkin’ about
Wooh!

[Drum solo]

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 to your thing

(Let me stand next to your fire) Oh, yeah
(Let me stand next to your fire) Let me sta-and, baby
(Let me stand next to your fire) O-oh, let me stand
(Let me stand next to your fire) Hey!

*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’ & ‘Hound Dog’. 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’

Jimi  : All right… Thanks… 
Noel : Thank you very much, ta… boring old bass
Jimi  : Having slight difficulties, but-uh, or anyway we'd like to try to do Spanish Castle Magic 
          for you, if I’m allowed… 
Aud  : Yeah. Go on. Yeah, dig
Noel : He’s played in every blunt, or any musician’s [tour?]
Jimi?: [Whistles a funny tune] 
Aud  : [Applause]….
      ?: That’s very [joined?], man
Noel : No it’s not, ‘cause you don’t know, ey? I wouldn’t really know, it was last week
      ?: How do you know that?
Noel : We're just mumbling, you know, because our good friend Eric is fixing the amplifiers, 
          now… 
Aud  : Hooray
Noel : Later on. He comes from Glasgow, you know, you've heard of Glasgow, Scotland. A 
          very long way away from our curry. He misses his mother, she’s a haggis* …. Hah 
Jimi  : He was just mad at me
Noel : Haggis? Take it away
Jimi  : Oh, right, right. One, two, three, four…

*Scotland’s spicy national dish : A boiled ‘pudding’ made from a sheeps stomach bag stuffed with a mixture of 
 minced sheeps offal, oatmeal, onions and spices. A bizarrely funny  thing to call someones mother.

2. 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, ffup! dragonfly!
No, it’s not i-in Spain
But all the same you know it’s a groovy name 
And the wind's just right
Hey!
Hang on my darling, hang on if you wanna go-o-o 
It’s a whole lot of fun, now baby
Some of you here into it now
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 mind, baby
Don’t waste your time thinkin’ about bad things
Just float your little mind around
Hang on my darlin’
Hang on, if you wanna go-ho-o
Yeah
Snowin’ here and there, everywhere
Talkin’ ‘bout our first time on
Spanish Castle magi-i-ic
Yeah, babe

[Solo]

Yeah

Hang on my darlin’ 
Hang on, if you wanna go-o-o
I said it before baby
Yeah, I told you in here in the first place
Maybe they’ll tell Wolf about it

Spanish Castle magic
Little bit of 
Spanish Castle magi-ic
Yeah, baby
You will daydream here and there

Waoh!
Noel : Thank you very much… 
Mitch: Thank you very much [echo] 
Noel : …ta 
Jimi  : Yeah, there's another song that we note too, an’ it goes somethin like this here, it's 
called-uh, oh, yeah it's dedicated to the Black Panthers# and the-uh, American Indian, it's called I Don't Live Today, Maybe Tomorrow…All right…

#5th recorded direct reference to the Black Panthers, this the 2nd dedication

3. 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, right now
But I know for sure, baby
I don’t live today, y’all

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-e
So I can be on my miserable way

I do-on’t live toda-ay
(I do-on’t live toda-ay)

Well, 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 right now
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
Nothing but existing

Noel: Thank you very much, ta
Jimi : We'd like to do another song, it’s a thing done by-uh, one of the grooviest groups in The 
World. Sort of a jam impression type song, we’ll play an instrumental of the vocal that was really out of sight. An’ like-uh, we're not sayin' that we're playin’ this song because we play it better than the other group, we’re not sayin’ that at all. We're just sayin’ that we dig the group and like-uh, like to do it as a memorial or as some kind o’, whatever you call it, dedication to some of their songs. Anyway the name of the group is The Cream, and the name of the song is Sunshine Of Your Love…
 4. SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE (John ‘Jack’ Bruce, Peter, Brown & Eric Clapton)

….
[Drum solo]

Aud: [Applause]
…..

Noel: Thank you very much, ta… Who won the war?
Jimi : And then we’re gonna do this other song, that we did on the A’, what? ooh, we got to do 
         ano-ther song, yeah, hmm. Anyway, I think yea-ha-ha, dig, anyway we’re gonna do this 
         song…
Noel: [Interrupting Jimi] Currant bun
Jimi : … our-uh, that we recorded on our third LP it's called Electric Ladyland, LP. Like to do 
the song called Voodoo Child Slight Return though, cause he’s forgotten, forgot the words to the other songs … I mean, it’s not that I forget words, I really, dead sincere when I wrote ‘em, but like we're on our, you know, we're recording a new LP now, and so-uh, you know, that's the way it happens [tuning] …

5. VOODOO CHILD (Slight Return) 

[Tape cut in middle (vocal missing)]

Noel: Thank you very much, ta. That was Voodoo child

6. RED HOUSE 

[Tape cut in middle (most vocals missing)]

I might as well go back over yonder, baby
Way over yonder
Way over yonder, across the hi-i-ill 

Lord, I might as well go back over yonder, baby
Way over yonder, across the hi-i-ill 
If my baby don’t love me no more, fuck her
I know, good an’ well, that her, her sister wi-ill

7. FOXY LADY [Backing vocal: Noel]

Now you know you’re a cute little heartbreaker 
(Foxy)
And you know you’re a sweet little love maker
(Foxy)
I wanna take you home 
Oh, I won’t do you no harm, no
Got to be all mine, yeah, all mine
Ooh, foxy lady

Now 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, yeah
You’ve got to be all mi-i-ine, foxy lady 

[Solo]

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, foxy lady 

Foxy Lady yeah, yeah
(Foxy)
You look so gorgeous
(Foxy)

8. HEY JOE  (William ‘Billy’ Roberts)

Hey-hey 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 old lady
You know I caught her messin’ ‘round with another man
I’m goin’ down to shoot my old lady 
I caught her messin’ ‘round with another man
And that ain’t to cool, you know now
 
Hey-hey Joe, I heard you shot your lady down
You shot her down in the ground
Hey-hey Joe, I heard you shot your lady down
You shot her down in the ground

Yes, I did, I shot that girl
You know I caught her messin’ ‘round
Messin’ around, town

Yes I did, I shot my lady
You know I caught her messin’ around town
An’ I gave her the gun
I shot her 

[Solo]

Hey-hey Joe, I heard you shot your lady down
Hey-hey Joe, where you gonna run to now?
Where you gonna go?
An’ he said, later, baby
I think I’ll go way down south
Way down to Mexico way
Oh, yeah
I’m goin’ way down south
Way down, where I can be free

[Quotes The Beatles ‘I FEEL FINE’ (John Lennon & Paul McCartney)]

Ain’t no one gonna find me, baby 
Ain’t no hangman gonna 
Ain’t gonna put a rope around me
You better believe it, baby 

Heeeey, hey-ey Joe
Better run on down 
You better 
Goodbye everybody

Jimi : Yeah, that’s what you get for breakin’ a string. That what you get right there… 
Aud : [Singing in unison] ‘Purple haze, running all around your brain!’…
Jimi : Freshmen. But, like, I’d like to say something - Thank you for even thinkin’ about that 
         song. Thank you very much. And now I'd like to do Purple Haze,  okay? 
Aud : [Applause] Go Jimi go! ….
Jimi :… Manic Depression, I wish we could do it, man, but, you know, like, like we only have 
about two minutes left you know? The cat's gonna have to ts’-turn off the power, if we don't get off the stage pretty soon, which is a very fat drag… Like being in-uh, different places, you know, right. Do you have a ‘A’ four? [tuning] This thing here, this song here is dedicated to all the-uh plain-clothes-men in the audience and all the narcotics, a thing called Blue Anger
Aud : [Big applause] All right, yeah [etc.]…
Jimi : [Tuning, guitar ‘laughs’ & ‘speaks’]
Aud : [Laughter & applause]
Jimi : [Tuning] You'll probably notice that your hearin’ distortion’ here and there. Well it's true, 
         yes, you are really hearin’ it. Guess I’m only playin’ with about…
Noel: [Interrupting Jimi (again)] Hope you all blast off
Jimi : … ahem, I'm only playin with about two speakers, and like he’s playin’ with about three 
and a half, and like-uh, there you go, playin on the ashes with nothin’ but shadows. So, you know where we was at [tuning] Like to say, but thanks very much, though, for comin’ in here, this is the last gig. Tomorrow night is the last gig we're doin’ in the States… for a long time, an’ it's been really groovy for the last few months, you know, [tuning]
Noel: We’re now artists
Jimi : [Tuning]
Aud : [Applause]
Jimi : [Guitar ‘says’: ‘Now look motherfucker’]  
Aud : [Man]: Hey mixed up!
Jimi : Don’t let him back in
Aud : [Man]: You’re Boring!
Jimi : No, Purple Haze is the last one
Aud: [Laughter]

9. PURPLE HAZE [Backing vocal: Noel]

Hey!
Purple haze all in my brain
Oh, Lately things don’t seem the same
I’m actin’ funny, an’ 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, child now

Help me, baby, help me, baby, yeah

[Solo]

Ooh, aah, ooh, aah, ooh, aah, ooh, aah

Hey!
Purple haze all in my eyes 
Don’t know if I’m day or night
You’ve got me blowin’, blowin’ my mind
Is it tomorrow or just the end of time? [sic]

Help, baby, help, baby, yeah
Yea-eah, purple haze
(Purple haze)
Yea-eah, purple haze
(Purple haze)
Yeah, baby, you got me blowin’ my mind
Not necessarily stoned, but-uh
Rock an’ Roll
(Rock an’ Roll)

Ooh, aah, ooh, aah, ooh, aah, ooh, aah

Noel: Thank you very much
Jimi : Thank you…