Saturday 02 May 1970 
Madison, Dane County Memorial Coliseum, Wisconsin, USA. JHE [II]

[Aud = Audience]

[Tape starts short, with drum and guitar beat]…
Aud : [Rhythmic clapping in time]
Jimi : [Tuning]… Got to make sure all the goodies is right for everybody, I want to, y’know… 
Hey, we got Billy Cox on bass… 
Aud : [Applause]
Jimi : … Mitch Mitchell on drums
Aud : [Applause]
Jimi : And your’s truly on public saxophone. Whole lot of ‘oldies but goodies’, but we thank   
          you for your previous… 
Aud : Night
Jimi : [Tuning]…

1. FIRE  (backing vocal – Billy Cox, can only be heard occasionally, and very faintly)

Yeah, you remember this one? It’s still old

You don’t care for me, I don’t-uh care about that  
You’ve got a new fool huh, I like to laugh at
I have only one, h-itchin’ desire
Let me stand next to your fire
(Let me stand next to your fire) Oh, let me stand, baby
(Let me stand next to your fire) Oh, let me stand
(Let me stand next to your fire) Next to your fire 
(Let me stand next to your fire) Let me sta-and
 
Oh, listen here mama, yeah
Stop actin’ so damned crazy
You say your mom ain’t home, it ain’t my concern
Just don’t play with me, child, and you won’t get burned
I have only one, itchin’ desire
Let me stand next to your… [plays trill] 
(Let me stand next to your fire) Let me stand
(Let me stand next to your fire) Stand next to your fire
(Let me stand next to your fire) Let me stand, baby
(Let me stand next to your fire) Yeah

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

[Solo]

[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 itchin’ desire
Let me stand next to your fire 
(Let me stand next to your fire) Yeah, let me stand, baby
(Let me stand next to your fire) Oh, let me stand
(Let me stand next to your fire) Oh, let me stand
(Let me stand next to your fire)

[Outro solo]

*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: Yeah, thank you very much. Turn up vocals, more volume, turn up the vocal [tuning]… 
This next one is called Room Full Of Mirrors we do this as a, you know, when they cross kind of groovy and then dig what’s happening, or either are THERE.
Aud : [Cheers and claps, about this?] 
Jimi : An’ I’d-uh, like to dedicate this to everybody who’s been through this trip one way or 
another in a ‘Room Full Of Mirrors’, when you get so high, that’s all you can see is you, reflections here, “Oh fuck an’ I’m nothin’ else” Tried to get rid of that hang-up, but it happened to flash around me [tuning] It goes somethin’ like this, dig it though… 

2. A ROOM FULL OF MIRRORS* 

I used to live in a roo-oom full of mirrors 
All I could see was me
An’ I take my spirit and crash my mirrors
Now the whole world is here for me to see
Whole world is here for me to see
An’ peace of mind is nice and easy

Yeah-y-yeah-yeah-y-yeah-ea-ea-ea-yeah-yeah

Broken glass was all in my head 
Janglin’, screamin’, stabbin’ in my head
Broken glass was all in my head 
Used to fall out my dreams, cut me in bed
Fall out my dreams and cut me in my bed 
Makin’ love kind o’ strange in my bed 

Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-y-yeah, yeah-y-yeah 

[Solo]

No where to fall
No where’s fall
No where to fall
Can’t find the floor, nowhere at all
See my life 
Near my pillow 
He ain’t got time to knock now, no

Love shines over the mountains
Love shines over the sea
Love shine on my baby 
Then I know exactly who it’s gonna be
So she’s comin’ down the hill naturally
My love
Yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Till there was
Some people never ask
Somethin’ about that first love
Happens to be the best of love we have
Ninety-nine to the power
Wa-ay! yeah, yeah!

*On one level at least, a reference to breaking free from drugs - mirrors are what you use to chop out lines 
  on – “An’ I take my spirit and crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see”

Mitch: [?] Coming up
Jimi : [Tuning]… We’d like to continue on now with a slow blues, right now, I’m sorry, you 
know 
Aud : [Applause]
Jimi : Yeah, right, I’m, er, ah. God damn, there is some lovely people here. I’m glad you’re all 
sitting here comfortable though, bless you. Also I’d like to go by [in strange nasal voice] “a God damn, funeral now.” So I quit an’ put it down in a little thing ‘bout this cat feelin’ kind of down, because his old-lady put him down, an’… parents said he wasn’t too cool, was he though, he had a little clown, so they threw him out of town, an’ he’s down at the railroad, train station, layin’ up there, diggin’ himself, an’ how about [wolfering out a lung?], in that ‘play the Voodoo chile’, if we’re doin’ a song…
Aud : [Stoned tapers laughing]
Jimi : …whenever they call us. So he gets his thing back together, you know, hoping to get 
his spirit back together, an’-um,  what do you call it, I don’t know, we don’t even have a name for it yet, but we really should, play the song now…

3. GETTING MY HEART BACK TOGETHER AGAIN [aka HEAR MY TRAIN A COMIN’]

Here my train’ comin’
Lo-ord, I hear my train a comin’

I’m waitin’ ‘round the train station
Waitin’ for that train
Take me away
Take me away
From this lonesome town

Too bad you don’t give me no lovin’ anymore, baby
Lord! It’s too bad you put me dow-ow-own

Tears are burnin’ me
Way down in soul
Tears burnin’ me in my eye-y-eye-eyes 
Tears burnin’ me down in my so-oul 

Too bad you don’t love me no more, girl
Too bad your people made me go-o-o
All right

He-ey!
Well, I hear my train a comin’
Hear my train a comin’
Hear my train comin’
Hear my train comin’

I’ll maybe take me a r-i-ide!

[Solo]

Aud : [Applause]

[Guitar ‘says’ ‘Fuckin’ good’]

I’m gonna leave this town
Got ‘o leave this town
Go out on the road, an’ be a Voodoo chile, you know
Be a magic bo-oy
Come back and buy this town
Come back and buy this town, baby
And put it all [pop!] in my shoe

Hey!
And if you can make love to me one more time, girl 
I might even give a piece to you
Could love to me one more time 
I’ll give a piece to you

Hear my train a comin’
Hear my train a comin’
Hear my train comin’
Hear my train comin’
Hear my train comin’
Hear my train comin’
Hear my train comi-i-in’
Trai-ai-ai-ain!

[Solo]

Walkin’ down the road getting’ kind o’ hard
You know what I mean?
But you got to show your old-lady that you can
And that you’re a man

Yeah

Hear my train a comin’
Hear my train a comi-in’

Jimi : Yeah, man. Thank you for waiting, that’s very good
Aud : [Applaud something]
Jimi : [Goes backstage briefly, and reappears with what looks like a joint]
Aud : [Applause and laughter]
Jimi : [In Groucho voice:] “As long as they’re fresh air, you know what I mean, I don’t want to 
be responsible for this here joint” 
Aud : [Much hubbub]
Jimi : Look-ha-ha at tha-ha-at, yeah, ha-ha
Aud : [Laughter and applause]
Jimi : I tell you what we’ll wait for the lights go down, and we can get into our thing, you know 
what I mean… what, let me… 
Aud : [Laughter and applause]
Jimi : It’s not really a joint. I swear to God it’s not really one, it’s all right
Aud : [Laughter]
Jimi : This is really funny…
Aud : Smoke it! Let’s get higher! etc.
Jimi : [Tuning] Yeah, right, we’d like to do this thing that, ah, um. That’s a surprise for me. I 
may do this thing called, um, Here Comes Your Lover Man, it’s about all the soldiers out fightin’ in the war, an’ everything, an’ the cats over here doin’ it to their old-ladies, and might come home on leave, an’ all of a sudden the war will-listen the war is over everybody’s home, and-uh, find the new man in the bedroom, fairplay too
Aud : [Laughter]
Jimi : Fuck off. Here Comes Your Lover Man [strums guitar] We’re not, we’re not too loud are 
we? [strums several times]
Aud : Turn it up! Louder! etc.
Jimi : …break [strums again] okay…

4. LOVER MAN *

Here he comes, baby
Here comes your lover man
Lord, here comes now
Here comes your lover man
Got to get out o’ here, boy
Get out of here as fast as I ca-an
Wooh!

Reach u-up baby
Hand me down my-y runnin’ shoe-oes
Reach u-up baby
Hand me down my runnin’ shoe
Ooh!
See your old-man comin’ out the window
Lord, I ain’t got no time lose

[Solo]

Yeah
I wanna love you longer
Yes, I’m gonna love you stronger, baby
I wanna love you long enough
Disgust just a horrible man

Here comes your old-ma-an 
Here comes your old-man 

* Music: BB King’s ‘Rock Me Baby’. Lyrics are a mix of Elmore James’s ‘Look On Yonder Wall’ 
(Bill ‘Jazz’ Gillum) & Howlin’ Wolf’s ‘Meet Me In The Bottom (Willie Dixon), last verse is Jimi’s. Jimi related this song to the Vietnam war veterans returning, as Elmo’s version of ‘Look On Yonder Wall’ did to those of World War 2, the missing verse being: “Your husband went to the war, I know it was tough, I don’t know how many men’s he killed, but I  know he done killed enough.”

5. RED HOUSE 

Aud: [Applause]

There’s a red house over yonder, baby
Aud: [Applause]
Lord, that’s where my baby stay-ay-ay-ay
Lord, there’s a red house over yonder 
Lord, that’s where my baby stay-ay-ay
Lord, I ain’t been home to see my pretty baby 
Lo-ord, in about a ninety nine and one half da-ay *

Wait a minute somethin’s wrong 
Lord, that key won’t unlock this door
Let me dig it more
Wait a minute somethin’s wro-o-ong
Lo-ord, that key won’t unlo-ock this doo-oor, yeah 
Lord, I’ve got a bad feelin’-uh
Lord! That my baby don’t live here no mo-o-ore
She ain’t said a God damn thing about leavin’
But I’ve still got my guitar, it’s all right

[Solo]

Aud: [Applause]

Yeah

[Guitar ‘says’ ‘Really love you’]

Yes, I think I’ll go back there, over yonder
Way back over yonder across the hi-i-ill
Lord, I might as well go back over yonder, ba-by
Way back over yonder across the hill-uh

If my baby don’t love me no more
Lord, I know, good an’ well, her nappy headed1 sister will

[Guitar makes spaceship engine noise then ‘says’ ‘Engine’ then ‘What?’ then ‘Thank you’]

* Three month jail term
1 ‘Nappy’ hair – usually taken as being a racist, denigrating description, this is an analogy between some   
   sub-Saharan Africans hair and the short fuzzy ends of fibers on the surface of cloth called ‘naps’ 

Aud : [Someone shouting something ]
Jimi : That’s right, right. That’s one of two things we didn’t put together on that-uh, another LP, 
that we’ve got a lot of straight compositions for
Aud : Yeah! Yeah! etc… Machine Gun!
Jimi : [Long pause as something is fixed… guitar ‘says’ ‘I don’t know’… ] 
Aud : Get on with the show!
Jimi : We’d like to entertain you for an error of five secs, a thing called Toon Up Jam [tuning] 
It’s so embarrassing, man, just standing here an’ tooning-up, man [tuning] Yeah, if you all [tuning] play golf, you know, all those things, you know [tuning] Swedish flight an’ you miss it [tuning]  And all that don’t appreciate it [tuning] Anyway, what the Hell did I, cowboy’s the only one stays in toon anyway, so nobody I know [tuning] Boy, this gonna take another second of you [tuning] One… One, two, three…

6. MESSAGE TO LOVE 

I said we’re travellin’ at a speed of a reborn man
We got a lot of love to give, from the mirrors of my hand
I send a message of love, baby, don’t you run away
Look at your heart now, baby, face the truth today

I am what I am thank Go-od
Some people just don’t understand

Find yourself first and then your tool
Find yourself first, don’t you be no fool

[Solo]

Here comes 

Here comes a woman, dressed up in chain
Messin’ with that fool, baby, keeps your life in pain         
If you wanna be free, come along with me  
And never mind the blues-man ha-ha, he’ll never understand 
I said find your self first and then your talent        
Work hard in your mind for it to come ali-ive         
You’ve got to prove to the ma-an, you’re strong as him
‘Cause in the eyes of God we’re all children to him

Everybody come alive 
Everybody love their life   
Everybody live their life
Everybody hear my message

Everybody

Won’t you come alive 
It’s a pa-arty

Yeah, yeah

Put it over, yeah

Right

Jimi : Thank you. We’re not religeous or anything, but, you know, this happened earlier on, 
man [tape cut] …five eighty three, and like that was only one third of our life, you know, 
we have to get blown up, and then we go on to somethin’ else, better, right?... Fuck off! 
[at exact time as “infidel”]
Aud : [Murmers, then an “infidel” shouts:] Fuck off! [at exact time as Jimi, then applause]
Jimi : That was a good one [tuning]… If you don’t think that, you might as well go and die now 
[tuning] Glorified mic’ [tuning] We got a thing called Ezy Rider, you know. I don’t know 
what’s happening, but, like, we’ll just go and do it, an’ see what happens…

7. EZY RIDER

There goes Ezy, Ezy Rider
Ridin’ down the highway of desire
He says the free wind takes him higher
Tryin’ to get his heaven above
But he’s dying to be loved

He say’s that livin’, it’s so magic
Today is forever, so he claims
He says dyin’, it’s so tragic 
But don’t you worry about it today
We got freedom comin’ our way

[Solo]

See all the lovers say “Do what you please”
Got to get the brothers together 
And the right to be free
In a cloud of angel dust I think I see a freak
Hey, motorcycle mama, will you marry me?
Then I’ll be sto-one crazy
Sto-oned 

[Solo]

There goes Ezy, Ezy Rider
Known to be guilty, insane and
He says the free wind takes him higher 
Tryin’ to find his heavenly Queen
Drove’ insane
Ezy Rider-er 
Fly out higher
He’s a li-ier

Jimi : [Tuning] Yes, continuing on with those things
Aud : [“Infidel”:] Who’s lying!
Jimi : Dedicated to all the soldiers in-uh… Madison1, Milwaukee1, Chicago1, oh, yes, Vietnam, 
[in silly spooky voice:] “and Cambodia” [tuning]
Aud : [Nervous laughs & slight applause] 
Jimi : What a drag that is, man. Are we gonna lay around and let all that shit happen? Next 
thing you know, everyone of us in here, completely wiped out because of some shit that old people said
Aud : [Shouts, whistles & applause] 
Jimi : [Tuning] But as smart as we are, and as heavy as we are, we ain’t gonna have shit 
happen on our own 
Aud : Right on! 
Jimi : [Tuning… plays off key first line of THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER… more tuning]…

8. MACHINE GUN*

Machine gu-un
Teari-in’ my body all apart
Well, machine gu-u-un tearin’ my body all apart

Evil men make me kill you
Evil men make you kill me, baby
Evil men make me kill you
Even though we’re only families apart

[Guitar ‘says’ ‘Maybe you’re beat]

Well, I pick up my axe and fight like a farmer 
But your bullets keep knockin’ me down 
On to the ground
Now I know all the time, baby
? : It’s law
You’ll be goin’ just the same
Three times the pain
And your own self to blame

Pai-ai-ai-ain
Pai-ai-ai-ai-ain, good Lord

[Solo]

Aud: [Applause]
Nobody to blame for the stuff they made
And my boys don’t regret they ca-ame
Fly your pigs home, babe
Woah! it isn’t easy to stop the pain
So let your bullets fly like rain

Yeah, yeah, machine gun

Over yonder stands a mother
Sewin’ clothes so the child to fight in war
Way over yonder is a mother-er
Sewin’ clothes so as the son can fight their war
But, I say-uh
Lord! I’m her lover, I’m her lover
And we don’t make no babies to fight their war
All you got to do is close your doo-oo-oor
To the machine gu-u-u-un
It takes more of a hero to stay out
To the very end, yeah

Hey, hey machine gu-u-un
Tearin’ my body apa-a-art
Lord! You know you’re wrong, baby
And you’ll be goin’ just the same
And your own self to blame, yeah

Don’t forget Bobby Seale2 now

Is that a machine gun firin’?
Now you know what I’m talkin’ abou-out
Yea-eah

[Improvisation… guitar ‘says’ ‘I don’ know’]

*According to Jimi this addresses at least two subjects, one is war and the other is personal struggle  
 “People fighting wars within’ themselves.”
1Black Panthers (although the Milwaukee chapter was shut down in November 69, the news may not have 
  reached Jimi)/ Anti-war movement. Not sure that Madison had much of either?Jimi maybe just being polite?
211th recorded direct reference to the Black Panthers. Bobby Seale co-founder of the Black Panther party was on trial for allegedly ordering the murder of alleged police informer 19 year old Panther Alex Rackley, when he briefly visited New Haven, he was found not guilty. Rackley had been tortured by fellow Panthers for two days, then shot and dumped in a river. (how nice)

Jimi : Everybody stand for the pigs, I’m tellin’ you to stand up an’ smile. Everybody that’s doin’ 
America system, is doing from the script…

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

 [Instrumental]
…

Aud: [Applause]
10. < FOXY LADY

Aud: [Wild applause, then clapping in time]

You know you’re a cute little heart breaker
And you know you’re a sweet little love maker
Foxy
Hey, baby
I wanna take you home 
I won’t do you no harm
You’ve got to just be all mine
Ooh shucks, foxy lady 

I see you, I’m down on the scene
You make me wanna get up and scream
I’ve made up my mind 
I’m tired of wastin’ all my, precious time, high 
You’ve got to be all singin’, all around
Ooh, foxy lady 

[Solo]

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

Here I come baby
Comin’ to do it to you

Yea-eah foxy lady!
There you’ve proved me

Hey

Jimi : I thank you for, us accompanying your noise now
Aud : [Still applauding]
Jimi : Dig, we’d like to say thank you very much, and cat’s gettin’ ready to run us off stage 
now, so, like-uh, [tuning] read about Bobby Seale’s2 an’ Peter Palvadim3??
Aud : [Shouting, some irate inc:] Go fuck yourself!
Jimi : And we’d like to do what, we’d like to do what you say, you better do an “argument” for 
that one [tuning] Follow The Army Pro, we call it Voodoo Child normally, it’s better than that
Aud : [Applause & cheers]
Jimi : Look out for the crock at the top of their minds [tuning]…

212th recorded direct reference to the Black Panthers.Second mention of Bobby Seale co-founder of the Black  
 Panther party was on trial for allegedly ordering the murder of alleged police informer 19 year old Panther Alex  
 Rackley, when he briefly visited New Haven, he was found not guilty. Rackley had been tortured by fellow Panthers for two days, then shot and dumped in a river.
3Don’t know who Peter [Palvadim?] might be

11.  VOODOO CHILE (Slight Return) >

Well, I stand up next to a mountain
And chop it down with the ledge of my hand
Well, I stand up next to a mountain
And chop it down with the edge of my hand
I pick up all the pieces an’ make an island
Might even ‘raise a little sand’*
Yeah, ‘cause I’m a Voodoo chile
Lord knows, I’m a Voodoo child, baby

[Solo]

Didn’t mean to take up all your sweet time
I’ll give it right back to you one of these days
Didn’t mean to take up all your sweet talk
I’ll give it right back, one of these days, yeah 

If I don’t see you no more in this world
If I don’t see you no more in this world 
If I don’t see you no more in this world, babe
I’ll meet you on the next one, an’ don’t be late
‘Cause I’m a Voodoo chile
Lord knows, I’m a Voodoo child, baby
Lord!

* ‘Raise sand’ - expression meaning to get angry, cause a disturbance etc.

Jimi : Thank you very much, and peace be with you for ever, guess we’ll be movin’ on
?     : Okay Jimi, 
Jimi : Kind o’ like-ah, the song you brought with you, forget about yesterday or tomorrow, we 
hope we meet some together, we got a little prayer we made for ourselves, and was 
something that I still count on, like to say…

12. “THANK YOU GOD” [untitled lyric written on “blue butchers paper” along with “The Gray Village Of 
                                                North Gray Isle” (See – ‘Writings’ files), only other recorded example is during 
                                                Voodoo Chile (SR) at LA Forum April ‘69]

Thank you God for stayin’ ‘til you belong
Thank you God for keepin’ me strong
Inside me
Inside me
Way down inside me

[Drum solo]

13. PURPLE HAZE 

Aud: [Clapping & singing along]

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

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 me, baby, help me, baby 

[Solo]

Aud: [Applause]

Purple haze all in my eyes
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 me, baby, help me, baby, yeah-yeah!
Yeah-yeah, purple haze
Oh, you make me blow my mind, baby
And you own the parachute
Yeah-yeah, purple haze, yeah
Oh, brother, you better really listen to this song
An’-uh, it’s all music

[Outro solo]

Aud: [Applause]

Jimi : Thank you very much 

[Band leave stage with feedback pulsing]

Aud: [More! more! etc.]