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Do you consider yourself
a dropout from society?
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Not necessarily, no.
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Because we're making
our own society
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if you give us a chance.
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Oh, I shouldn't say that.
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- No...
- I'm not a dropout, man.
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I'm living and breathing like you.
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We just look a little different,
that's all.
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We just have different ways
of expressing ourselves
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which should be
the free point of view anyway.
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- What are you doing in your music?
- I'm trying to play...
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crash, blam, clunk, smash.
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He had the gift, he had the soul,
he had the love.
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He had his music.
That's all he cared about.
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What do you think your audience
likes best about you?
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Sex. Spank you. Oh!
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Your lyrics seem to have
quite a bit of sophistication.
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Yeah, well, we're for anybody that's
gonna get their selves together.
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We're not for the whole lot of people
sittin' in a big drug den,
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sitting around complaining.
If they're sitting around
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and still trying to get their self
together some way,
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regardless of it's a dropout
of society or whatever it might be,
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or if it's the people in society,
to get anybody's mind together,
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because the idea now is communicate,
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not to knock one another,
you know, rebel and all this.
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Quite naturally, you have
to start somewhere,
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so you go to
the rebellious.
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But the idea is to communicate,
for everybody to be respected
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regardless of what group scene
you might be in, you know.
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And all of a sudden, Jimi's going
to Hawaii for a vacation,
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and somehow he got locked
into making this movie in Hawaii
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with these knuckleheads.
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Chuck was a showman, the sort of guy
who dressed very carefully.
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He put on a costume
to go out for the day.
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He was called The Wizard
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because there's
nothing that Chuck didn't know about.
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He was totally turned in
to the cosmic world.
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Could you tell us once more what
the space brothers say about LSD?
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We're talking 1970,
so things were pretty crazy anyway.
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It was a psychedelic era,
you know, rock'n'roll lifestyle.
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We got involved in this crazy film,
"Rainbow Bridge", in Maui.
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Inhale.
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And, I mean,
that was just very strange.
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Chuck went in
to talk to Warner Bros.,
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these two heads Of Warner Bros.,
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explaining how he wants
to take all of us to Maui
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and rent this girls' school
that's on summer vacation
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and we're all gonna live there.
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The one guy looks at
the other guy and goes,
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"I do not know what the fuck
the guy is talking about.
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Give him the money."
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And off we went with all of our
friends to Maui to make this movie.
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Jimi did not want to be
a part of "Rainbow Bridge".
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It was asked of him many times,
and many times he would say no.
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There was no script,
it was just a very loose idea.
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And it shows.
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I see through the form
for I created the form.
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I am beyond all time
for I am before time.
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Anybody know
what's going on around here?
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Hello?
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Jimi Hendrix and I played
in a lot of concerts.
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A lot of them were strange,
but this is the most unusual one,
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on the cattle ranch,
on the side of the volcano.
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It wasn’t just a regular concert
that you go to.
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It was a colour,
vibratory sound experience.
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And it was insane.
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The electricity went Off in Lahaina.
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People swore a spaceship went by.
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I mean, crazy, crazy things
happened that day
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from whatever
Jimi pulled out Of that guitar.
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Hendrix's music kind of was like...
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I kept thinking
a spaceship was landing.
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People were going, "Oh, God, we're...
Jimi Hendrix is On the island."
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To see Jimi Hendrix in this setting,
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it was like a gift from God to me.
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Could you ask
for anything more amazing?
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Maui, free concert, Jimi Hendrix?
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Jimi Hendrix was a very successful
artist at the record company.
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There is no question of that.
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And he was such an innovative
and captivating guitar player
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that he was the artist
that everyone was talking about.
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He had a way to keep the crowd
on the edge of absolute hysteria.
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It seemed to be a dangerous situation
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because if the crowd went
in one direction,
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the result would have been a riot.
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It was very exciting.
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Jimi was a new force in music.
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He brought something
new and fresh to the table.
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And, yeah, he was the biggest noise.
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There was really nothing
that could touch him.
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His guitar playing,
it turned me upside down.
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It was like
his music got inside my brain.
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It was almost like it was
the soundtrack of my youth.
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Thank you very much.
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Frank Sinatra
started Reprise Records
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for his own records, initially.
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And then started signing his friends,
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like Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.
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And when Frank started Reprise,
he needed somebody to run it,
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and his lawyer, Mickey Rudin,
suggested Mo Ostin.
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And Frank's not so much
into signing rock acts,
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but Mo sees this as the future.
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All right.
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Hendrix's trajectory is straight up.
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This isn't lost on Mo,
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or the record distributors,
or Warner Bros. corporate, I'm sure.
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And I remember MO talking about
how excited he was
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about signing
The Jimi Hendrix Experience,
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these three guys who made
enough noise for 150 guys.
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Whoa!
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience!
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I felt 1969 was
a critical year for Jimi.
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He was just on his own just running
around, going from studio to studio
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to try to put stuff down
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while we were in the process
of building Electric Lady Studios.
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And the more we got into the building
of Electric Lady Studios,
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the more there was demand on Jimi
to go out on the road
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to get the money
to fund the whole operation.
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Hendrix and Eddie Kramer
and Jim Marron have decided
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to build this incredible studio.
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And Michael Jeffery,
Hendrix's manager, finds out
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it's a lot more expensive
than he initially thought.
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There were cost over-runs,
things they didn't anticipate.
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And they find themselves
in a cash crunch.
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And construction
has stopped dead in its tracks.
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Nothing's happening,
we are out of money.
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So, typically, someone going to try
and borrow half a million dollars
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for a recording studio
seemed kind of crazy.
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But in going to Warner Bros.,
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Michael Jeffery realised
that Hendrix's royalties
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would easily pay Warner Bros. back
for this loan.
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Michael Jeffery was...
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an operator.
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Mike's was more the role of taking
care of the financial side of things
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and they all seemed to have
a great deal of respect for Mike.
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And, in a sense,
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I think they were a bit frightened
of him and a bit in awe of him.
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Michael, like a lot of managers
in the music business,
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was kind of ruthless.
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His background was MI6, I believe.
He was a Secret Service guy.
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But clearly he was savvy about
the music business, about talent.
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But without Mike,
it would have gone nowhere.
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Without the actual
music experience that Mike had,
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I don't think any of them would have
gone any further than that time.
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Good old Michael Jeffery,
he was brilliant at figuring out,
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"How can I squeeze
some money out of somebody?"
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He goes to Warner Bros.
and figures out a deal
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whereby he gets a loan
against Jimi's forth Coming royalties.
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So Michael Jeffery,
being Michael Jeffery,
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couldn't leave well enough alone.
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And he said, in One of those
"Oh, by the way..." asides,
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"We're gonna go in the studio
and do some more recording."
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Fantastic.
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That means we'll get
our record that much quicker.
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"Oh, no, he's not recording
for you guys.
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He's recording a soundtrack album
to this movie I'm making,
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"Rainbow Bridge". Do you guys want
a soundtrack album?"
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And Warner Bros. flipped out
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and said, "Wait a minute, we have
the rights to this." No, you don't.
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Michael made
a deal with Warner Bros.
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that if they gave him
the money to make the movie,
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he would give them
an album called "Rainbow Bridge".
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As presented to Mo Ostin,
"Rainbow Bridge" was a score
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that Jimi Hendrix
was providing for a film.
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There was no notion that he was going
to be seen in the film.
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So it was a first for Jimi
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insofar as he had never scored
a movie before.
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And that was enticing.
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Michael Jeffery wanted to diversify
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and was interested in being
a filmmaker, an auteur.
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Four or five years before that,
it would have been ridiculous,
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but "Easy Rider"
had been a big success.
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This year the judges of the Cannes
Film Festival presented the award
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'Best Film By a New Director'
to "Easy Rider".
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It's the story of a man
who went looking for America
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and couldn't find it anywhere.
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I'd never seen a movie like that.
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I'd never seen a movie
that had people getting stoned
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and riding on motorcycles,
and didn't make linear sense.
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But I loved it.
And Jimi Hendrix's music was in it.
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I think that "Easy Rider"
had something to do
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with the elevation
of movie soundtracks.
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I mean, the score of "Easy Rider"
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was really remarkable and was
an unforgettable part of the picture.
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I don't think there's
any doubt that "Easy Rider",
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it was 'the' independent film.
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I mean, if you look at independent,
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it's normally people that don't have
anything to do with studios.
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Bert Schneider,
who was one of the producers,
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Bert's family
ran Columbia Pictures.
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So he had an in.
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But still, if you think of it,
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and how it was put together,
and who directed it,
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it's the most independent film ever.
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You do your own thing in
your own time. You should be proud.
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The difference is the subject matter,
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Hopper and the drugs
that were involved.
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I think he wanted
to get into the movie business.
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And so he started. You know,
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why not get some people
that maybe know the movie,
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and have Jimi in it, because
Jimi was gonna be the big draw?
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It's hard to imagine a star at the
level that Jimi Hendrix had attained
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being caught up in a project
along these lines.
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It seemed so amorphous.
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It wasn't really a solid bet,
so to speak.
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What really, I think,
crossed my radar
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was the presence
of these very odd people
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wandering around the studio offering
"good vibes", quote, unquote.
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They were a bit strange.
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I think these were Michael's
film partners in this venture.
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I believe Chuck Wein
was one of the individuals
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who was floating around there.
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And by floating I mean
sort of levitating, possibly.
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Chuck was one of the most
amazing men I've ever met in my life.
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Chuck graduated from Harvard
when he was 18. Completely brilliant.
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Spoke probably almost
every language on the planet.
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And besides that, he was totally
turned in to the cosmic world,
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the psychedelic world,
and worlds beyond.
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I don't know, man, it's like,
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"LSD good", "LSD bad". Every minute,
we hear something else.
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Nobody comes out and says
what really happened to them.
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He was psychic,
he was an astrologer,
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because he could do
all these wonderful magic things.
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He was called The Wizard
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because there's nothing
that Chuck didn't know about.
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Chuck knew about everything,
in this planet or planets beyond.
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He was a wizard. There were a
lot of wizards around in those days.
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But wizards like the Wizard of Oz,
sometimes you just see
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there's just a guy with a microphone
behind a screen.
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So I was making films in New York,
underground, Andy Warhol.
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Just...
You don't have to do anything.
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Just what you're doing.
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Really, it was just taking people
from the streets, mixing them
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with the Jackie Kennedy crowd,
and my girlfriend Edie Sedgwick.
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We were partying one night
in a disco called Ondine,
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under the 59th Street Bridge.
Everybody was kind of a little...
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What's that actress
who was like Marilyn Monroe?
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Jayne Mansfield, the one
who died in the horrible accident.
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Jayne Mansfield was there with
her muscle husband, Mickey Hargitay.
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And she had a little ocelot
that she had on a chain.
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A guy comes in and says, "Party
for Tennessee Williams' birthday,
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my penthouse, a block away."
Everybody streams out, we go there.
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That's where we met Warhol.
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Edie and I said, "We're filming
the Empire State Building, 24 hours.
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Why don't you guys come and make
movies with us?"
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The next day,
I went down to look at his studio.
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I said, "Let's go over to Edie's."
We made a film. Three days later,
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we're all over The New York Times,
boom, boom, boom.
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When Chuck first came to
The Factory in March '65 with Edie,
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he was involved the whole time.
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Chuck brought to Andy
Edie Sedgwick, the golden girl.
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Edie Sedgwick went on to be
one of Andy Warhol's favourite stars.
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Andy loved Edie,
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and that was before she was ravished
by drugs or anything.
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She was beautiful and delicate,
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a bon-vivant girl.
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She was really a society gal
in every aspect Of her life.
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Edie Sedgwick was born
out of the Sedgwick family
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who lived on the west coast
in Santa Barbara.
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She's like real aristocracy,
she's American aristocracy.
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She grew up rich.
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When Andy met Edie,
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she was in the thrall
of her Harvard-grad puppetmaster
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and confidant
and nursemaid Chuck Wein.
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Chuck was a '60s cosmic bullshitter
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with a great rap
about aliens and witchcraft.
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His operation was to use Edie
to get himself ahead with Warhol.
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Warhol was a very,
very powerful man.
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"Beauty No. 2"
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was the core of Warhol's relationship
with Edie Sedgwick.
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She sat on her bed
in her underwear drinking vodka
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with a hunk
in jockey shorts called Gino.
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He was her beauty number two.
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Beauty number one, Chuck,
sat several feet away,
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just off camera,
and interrogated her.
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As Chuck took Edie apart,
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Andy's camera recorded her
twisting and turning in its grip.
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By the end of the film,
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Edie was reduced to the victim
she always saw herself as.
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It's very cruel
what they're doing to her.
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It's very obvious what they're doing
to her, you know.
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But Edie was
a very weak person in reality.
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It was good
if you want to see somebody really...
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you wanna see
Edie Sedgwick fail.
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He was the king of failure.
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He wanted to document
the failure, much like Andy.
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Fabulous. So glamorous.
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"My Hustler" was really
totally Chuck's idea.
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He was giving notes to Andy
and setting it all up.
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In the middle of the film,
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Chuck went to Paul Morrissey,
who's the assistant director.
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He said, "Hey, let's you and me
direct this film.
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We don't need Andy,
just get rid of Andy."
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A crazy, crazy, crazy thing to do.
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He probably wasn't allowed
to come round after "My Hustler".
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One, he tried to mutiny on the set.
Second, he gave everyone acid.
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I mean, it's just like...
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He was brilliant,
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but in the end, I think, turned out
to be kind of a destructive force.
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You was a model
back in New York, huh?
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Yeah, I was a model, the model.
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The story of Edie Sedgwick,
superstar of New York's silver '60s,
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in "Ciao! Manhattan",
the film that wrote itself.
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When I finished with the rough cut,
there was a New York Times article
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that it was gonna change
the history of film.
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The next day it was seized.
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But it's very easy to get carried
away and think, "I'm a big star now,"
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when actually you're only there
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'cause Andy Warhol said
you could be there.
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I had a falling Out with Warhol.
Things didn't turn out.
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Went my own way,
made a Kennedy assassination film
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that got seized by the CIA.
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Went underground, left July 4th, '68,
from Manhattan on a psychedelic...
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At noon, July 4th, '68.
July 5th at noon I was in Memphis.
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July 6th at noon I was
on the Hopi Indian Reservation,
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didn't know how I got there.
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Chuck Wein got a great deal of
credibility from working with Warhol.
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So when Chuck would talk
to people after this
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and say "I was at the Factory,
I did this and that,"
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no one would question him.
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You meet Chuck,
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he was dressed extravagantly
even for the time.
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He'd find the highest place to sit
and he would sit there
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and then sometimes his eyes would
roll back in his head, and then...
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he would come back to us,
and he would say
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that he had just teleported somewhere
or something like that.
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So at first I'm wondering, "Is this
for real? What's going on here?"
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But apparently that was his...
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Do I dare call it his shtick?
I don't know.
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I don't know if he believed it,
I never could figure that out.
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He, as I later learned, liked
to call the archangels,
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the four archangels, what he called
"out of the corners", right?
335
00:23:28,991 --> 00:23:33,830
So he would call, "Michaelo,"
in this big booming voice,
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"Gabrielo."
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And we were at Michael Jeffery's
house in New York
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with the whole Experience,
Michael Jeffery and Chuck.
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00:23:42,213 --> 00:23:44,215
And he stood up and said
he was gonna do this,
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he was gonna call all the angels
out of the corners.
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So most of us just sat there.
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He said, "If you want, join me."
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I didn't get up and follow Chuck,
but Jimi did.
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Jimi just stood up
like he was being pulled,
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and walked over there
in all his splendour.
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00:24:02,859 --> 00:24:07,738
And he, luckily, sat in a chair
right by the door, so I could watch.
347
00:24:07,989 --> 00:24:11,492
And Chuck, I could hear his big
booming voice calling the angels.
348
00:24:11,659 --> 00:24:13,202
And Jimi was like...
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00:24:16,372 --> 00:24:20,126
Chuck would call the angels out
and make a big event out of it.
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Either you saw them or you didn't.
He did, Chuck always saw them.
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And if you didn't see them,
"Oh, well, maybe next time."
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00:24:29,886 --> 00:24:32,346
Chuck Wein was working together
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with a gentleman
named Barry De Prendergast.
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They came to Los Angeles together
355
00:24:38,436 --> 00:24:41,898
and set up an organisation
called Alcyone Distribution.
356
00:24:42,148 --> 00:24:46,027
Barry was very eccentric.
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00:24:46,736 --> 00:24:50,948
Barry De Prendergast was
very, very entrepreneurial
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and got into the film business
with Chuck Wein.
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00:24:54,452 --> 00:24:56,996
And there was some hint
of aristocracy in there.
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I'm not sure if that was real or not.
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00:25:00,291 --> 00:25:02,126
But he was quite the lad.
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00:25:02,835 --> 00:25:05,046
One time they were gonna go
to a restaurant
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which was like
two and a half blocks away.
364
00:25:07,215 --> 00:25:10,510
But they couldn't leave right away,
they had to wait for a limo,
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00:25:10,676 --> 00:25:13,304
'cause Barry couldn't walk,
he was on crutches,
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'cause he had athlete's foot.
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00:25:16,098 --> 00:25:20,228
So...you had
to kind of wonder a little bit
368
00:25:20,394 --> 00:25:22,313
about priorities here and there.
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00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:25,233
Jimi did not wanna be
a part of "Rainbow Bridge".
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It was asked of him many times,
and many times he would say no.
371
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But Barry was relentless.
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And Barry happened to call one day,
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and Jimi was at Our apartment
in New York,
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and was telling me, "Do you know
how I can get in touch with Jimi?"
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I said, "Well, Jimi's right here,
so why don't you say hello?"
376
00:25:46,170 --> 00:25:47,672
And I put Jimi on the phone.
377
00:25:48,047 --> 00:25:53,344
And that's how Barry and Chuck
got together with Jimi.
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We're meeting Michael Jeffery in LA,
379
00:26:02,270 --> 00:26:04,313
and Michael Jeffery said,
"Let's go ahead."
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00:26:04,897 --> 00:26:07,942
The first time that anybody had ever
raised funds for a movie
381
00:26:08,109 --> 00:26:09,735
by promising the soundtrack.
382
00:26:10,778 --> 00:26:16,158
Michael Jeffery was smart,
tough, ex-MI5,
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00:26:16,325 --> 00:26:18,369
he used to pack a. 38 on the ankle.
384
00:26:18,953 --> 00:26:21,789
Nobody would mess with him,
you would think.
385
00:26:22,707 --> 00:26:26,335
He had been through the trenches
with the gangs in London,
386
00:26:26,544 --> 00:26:29,046
and the clubs,
and knew how to run all of that,
387
00:26:29,213 --> 00:26:32,425
run his little mini empire.
A master negotiator.
388
00:26:32,592 --> 00:26:37,179
But here's this guy who you would
never think in a million years
389
00:26:37,346 --> 00:26:41,976
could be turned
by a bunch of whack jobs.
390
00:26:42,435 --> 00:26:45,062
I mean, that's what they were,
for crying out loud!
391
00:26:45,896 --> 00:26:50,318
I don't know how they managed to
convince Michael to part with money.
392
00:26:50,484 --> 00:26:51,902
That's the mystery.
393
00:26:52,069 --> 00:26:54,363
That's the ten-thousand-dollar
question.
394
00:26:54,530 --> 00:26:58,826
Did Michael just fall for this?
Sometimes they say
395
00:26:58,993 --> 00:27:01,871
the professionals can get fooled
by amateurs, or something.
396
00:27:02,330 --> 00:27:04,415
I think they slipped
something in his tea.
397
00:27:05,333 --> 00:27:09,462
I think that the reason
why Jimi went for it...
398
00:27:09,629 --> 00:27:11,714
and that's
what you're asking me, right?
399
00:27:11,881 --> 00:27:15,301
I think that the fact
that Barry was a friend of mine.
400
00:27:16,302 --> 00:27:21,807
Chuck Wein had sold this concept
initially as "Wave", a surfing movie,
401
00:27:21,974 --> 00:27:26,646
and it was going to be the next
big thing after "Easy Rider".
402
00:27:26,812 --> 00:27:30,107
The idea was kind of it to be
a take-off on "Easy Rider", I think.
403
00:27:30,274 --> 00:27:34,111
And the scene in "Easy Rider"
that stole everything
404
00:27:34,278 --> 00:27:38,866
was when Jack Nicholson smokes
a joint and starts talking about UFOs
405
00:27:39,033 --> 00:27:43,871
and space people that are already
here on the planet amongst us.
406
00:27:44,455 --> 00:27:48,334
That was a UFO beaming back at you.
407
00:27:48,501 --> 00:27:51,545
They've been coming here
ever since 1946
408
00:27:51,712 --> 00:27:56,133
when the scientists first started
bouncing radar beams Off of the moon.
409
00:27:56,300 --> 00:27:58,511
And they have been living
and working among us
410
00:27:58,678 --> 00:28:00,388
in vast quantities ever since.
411
00:28:00,554 --> 00:28:02,181
The government
knows all about them.
412
00:28:03,057 --> 00:28:06,644
Chuck's idea was
to produce a programme
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00:28:06,811 --> 00:28:10,272
to relieve the mass paranoia against
the arrival of the space brothers.
414
00:28:10,648 --> 00:28:12,983
You are into extra-terrestrials?
415
00:28:13,150 --> 00:28:16,529
Yes, there are many people here at
Rainbow Bridge who have made contact.
416
00:28:16,696 --> 00:28:18,447
But Earth is not aligned right now.
417
00:28:18,614 --> 00:28:21,992
And that's why the space brothers
are here, to get Earth all in line.
418
00:28:42,179 --> 00:28:47,059
Maui in 1970 was like
just after World War Two.
419
00:28:47,268 --> 00:28:50,521
Front Street in Lahaina
was all mom-and-pop stores.
420
00:28:50,771 --> 00:28:54,108
There was only three hotels
at Kaanapali.
421
00:28:54,275 --> 00:28:57,820
It was, like, shocking,
coming from Southern California.
422
00:28:58,279 --> 00:29:00,948
And I was here to ride waves.
423
00:29:01,115 --> 00:29:04,994
Mauiin 1970 was a sleepy island.
424
00:29:05,161 --> 00:29:06,954
There was a Dairy Queen in Kahului.
425
00:29:07,121 --> 00:29:10,166
And when I was a teenager,
we hung out there.
426
00:29:10,332 --> 00:29:13,043
Pretty quiet and sedate.
427
00:29:13,836 --> 00:29:18,007
Undeveloped,
no lines of hotels along the shore.
428
00:29:18,174 --> 00:29:20,926
And the surfing
was very uncrowded back in 1970.
429
00:29:21,093 --> 00:29:23,220
And that was really nice.
430
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:26,599
There was just
a lot of freedom over here.
431
00:29:26,766 --> 00:29:30,352
It was just beautiful waves,
and no people on them.
432
00:29:30,519 --> 00:29:33,147
Yeah, it was just great,
just the lifestyle.
433
00:29:34,899 --> 00:29:37,443
Yeah, 1970,
no rock concerts on Maui.
434
00:29:38,486 --> 00:29:41,322
Well, I got involved by hearing
435
00:29:41,489 --> 00:29:46,619
that there was a guy On the island
recruiting, making a movie,
436
00:29:46,786 --> 00:29:48,871
and Jimi Hendrix was gonna play.
437
00:29:49,497 --> 00:29:53,042
That was like a big deal on Maui,
that was like a gigantic deal.
438
00:29:53,751 --> 00:29:57,338
So there was a juice stand
called Charley's Juice Stand.
439
00:29:57,505 --> 00:30:00,049
There was these people there one day,
440
00:30:00,216 --> 00:30:05,429
Chuck Wein,
long hair, kind Of like a Jesus.
441
00:30:05,971 --> 00:30:11,727
Actually, how he was introduced
was he was The Wizard.
442
00:30:12,102 --> 00:30:14,897
Far out. Yeah, he was a far-out guy.
443
00:30:15,064 --> 00:30:17,066
He was a good guy, a far-out guy.
444
00:30:17,233 --> 00:30:20,110
He had the answers.
He had all the answers.
445
00:30:24,490 --> 00:30:26,033
Chuck said he was gonna come back
446
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,702
and do the surfing footage
in May of '70.
447
00:30:28,869 --> 00:30:30,871
When they actually showed up,
we were like,
448
00:30:31,038 --> 00:30:32,498
"Whoa, they actually showed up."
449
00:30:35,209 --> 00:30:37,753
In those days, surfers were
the epitome of everything.
450
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:41,465
They were the most handsome people,
they were the most fit people.
451
00:30:41,632 --> 00:30:44,385
They were doing yoga,
they were eating organic.
452
00:30:44,552 --> 00:30:46,595
They were riding waves,
453
00:30:46,762 --> 00:30:48,889
they were riding
off the edge of the earth.
454
00:30:50,558 --> 00:30:53,227
And I married a surfer,
one of the most famous surfers ever,
455
00:30:53,394 --> 00:30:55,312
Michael Hynson,
who made "The Endless Summer".
456
00:30:58,774 --> 00:31:01,610
"The Endless Summer"
was a documentary.
457
00:31:01,777 --> 00:31:05,364
It just stormed the surf world.
458
00:31:08,409 --> 00:31:10,536
That's when I kind of met Chuck Wein.
459
00:31:10,703 --> 00:31:12,705
Chuck knew about "The Endless Summer"
460
00:31:12,997 --> 00:31:15,457
and the fact
that I was making a movie.
461
00:31:15,624 --> 00:31:19,503
So we just kind Of juggled
our situations, you know.
462
00:31:20,296 --> 00:31:24,925
Chuck had seen the success
of "Easy Rider" and his feeling was
463
00:31:25,092 --> 00:31:28,429
that it wasn't that the movie
appealed to people so much
464
00:31:28,596 --> 00:31:30,389
as the fact that on the opening scene
465
00:31:30,556 --> 00:31:32,600
when they ride their bikes
across the desert,
466
00:31:32,766 --> 00:31:37,062
that they're riding past
the Hopi Indian burial grounds,
467
00:31:37,229 --> 00:31:39,773
which is a high-energy centre
on the planet,
468
00:31:39,940 --> 00:31:43,193
and that everybody that's watching
the movie subconsciously goes,
469
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:44,695
"Oh, this is... I feel great."
470
00:31:45,029 --> 00:31:49,783
So his philosophy was to shoot
scenes in high-energy locations,
471
00:31:49,950 --> 00:31:52,578
which he knew about, which was Maui,
472
00:31:53,203 --> 00:31:57,416
and to put in elements
of pop culture at that time:
473
00:31:57,583 --> 00:32:00,544
surfing, drugs, music, and whatever.
474
00:32:00,711 --> 00:32:03,797
That would pull it all together
and you'd have a hit movie.
475
00:32:10,554 --> 00:32:12,222
It wasn't intended to be a surf film.
476
00:32:12,389 --> 00:32:15,726
I said, "Let's at least show
that there's a little bit of yoga,
477
00:32:15,893 --> 00:32:18,520
there's some pure food,
some partying,
478
00:32:18,687 --> 00:32:20,439
some good drugs,"
you know what I mean.
479
00:32:20,606 --> 00:32:23,817
So I said,
"I wanna give a little bit of reality
480
00:32:23,984 --> 00:32:27,613
and humanise this whole thing and
show there's some consciousness here
481
00:32:27,780 --> 00:32:29,406
and the people can take it as it is."
482
00:32:29,573 --> 00:32:31,408
Chuck's making
a cosmic surfing movie.
483
00:32:31,575 --> 00:32:33,452
Oh, you're gonna film the surfers?
484
00:32:33,619 --> 00:32:36,497
Not just them, but I mean
the cosmic surfers?
485
00:32:36,789 --> 00:32:39,541
We talked about what would be
the best music for the film.
486
00:32:39,708 --> 00:32:42,419
And there was no doubt,
we all said Jimi would be.
487
00:32:50,094 --> 00:32:52,137
I always had Jimi Hendrix in mind,
488
00:32:52,304 --> 00:32:55,933
because he used the guitar to
sound like the music, you know,
489
00:32:56,100 --> 00:32:57,434
that we could make the waves.
490
00:32:57,601 --> 00:33:01,230
And we just wanted to have him just
watch us film, and do his thing.
491
00:33:01,563 --> 00:33:03,482
We weren't
gonna bother him too much.
492
00:33:20,708 --> 00:33:24,586
We were able to have
this amazing, beautiful place
493
00:33:24,753 --> 00:33:27,798
called Seabury Hall in Maui,
where we could do this.
494
00:33:29,383 --> 00:33:32,052
Seabury Hall
started as a girls' school.
495
00:33:32,219 --> 00:33:33,846
It was a boarding school.
496
00:33:34,138 --> 00:33:40,060
It had charm classes,
it had hand bells.
497
00:33:40,227 --> 00:33:44,523
And it was not
an alternative school by any means.
498
00:33:44,815 --> 00:33:49,445
It was a religious school
based on Episcopalian principles,
499
00:33:49,611 --> 00:33:53,282
because Roger Melrose
was an Episcopal minister.
500
00:33:54,533 --> 00:33:55,826
Dad relays the story
501
00:33:55,993 --> 00:34:01,081
that he gets called upon by two
handsome gentlemen in suits
502
00:34:01,248 --> 00:34:03,500
representing themselves
as Warner Bros.
503
00:34:03,667 --> 00:34:07,588
They come in with their cards
and they ask to rent the campus
504
00:34:07,755 --> 00:34:10,799
for a programme that they were
gonna do that summer.
505
00:34:11,008 --> 00:34:12,885
When the group finally did show up,
506
00:34:13,052 --> 00:34:16,346
Antahkarana Productions
showed up, not Warner Bros.
507
00:34:16,638 --> 00:34:20,142
Antahkarana is called also
the Rainbow Bridge.
508
00:34:20,309 --> 00:34:27,066
And it's a bridge
between our Higher Self and Spirit.
509
00:34:27,316 --> 00:34:31,653
All the Rainbow Bridge is is a bridge
between here, here and here,
510
00:34:31,820 --> 00:34:33,739
between the Lower Self
and the Higher Self.
511
00:34:33,906 --> 00:34:36,742
The front page
of The Maui News at the time was:
512
00:34:36,909 --> 00:34:40,829
"The hippies have taken over
Seabury Hall," you know.
513
00:34:45,167 --> 00:34:47,628
My dad was incredibly stressed
514
00:34:47,795 --> 00:34:50,964
by what happened from the instant
that the people showed up.
515
00:34:51,131 --> 00:34:55,969
All of the staff on campus are aghast
at what's happening.
516
00:34:56,136 --> 00:34:57,554
We had a chef
517
00:34:57,721 --> 00:35:00,891
that came from a restaurant
in Los Angeles called Help.
518
00:35:01,266 --> 00:35:05,270
They would not cook with light,
they had to cook with candles,
519
00:35:05,437 --> 00:35:08,690
because the light put off
the wrong kind of energy.
520
00:35:08,857 --> 00:35:11,485
Warner Bros. wouldn't eat with us
because they were afraid
521
00:35:11,652 --> 00:35:16,365
that maybe we would be dosing the
food with some kind of psychedelic.
522
00:35:16,865 --> 00:35:19,952
They did not stay with us at night,
they did not eat with us.
523
00:35:20,119 --> 00:35:23,288
They all left, every single day.
524
00:35:25,457 --> 00:35:29,670
Chuck's directorial approach
was basically,
525
00:35:29,837 --> 00:35:31,213
he'd keep his eyes and ears open
526
00:35:31,380 --> 00:35:35,259
as he meandered through
Seabury Hall, or wherever,
527
00:35:35,425 --> 00:35:39,096
picking up on conversations
that were happening.
528
00:35:39,263 --> 00:35:42,015
Yeah, it was a general chaos thing.
529
00:35:43,475 --> 00:35:44,893
The film crew are freaking out.
530
00:35:45,060 --> 00:35:47,729
They’d just come off of some
Burt Lancaster movie in Spain
531
00:35:47,896 --> 00:35:49,231
to go there and film this thing.
532
00:35:49,398 --> 00:35:51,358
They'd be in the middle
of the night, sleeping,
533
00:35:51,525 --> 00:35:52,776
and somebody'd rush in,
534
00:35:52,943 --> 00:35:55,529
"Come! You have to get up now.
The vibrations are right."
535
00:35:55,696 --> 00:35:58,866
I'd be like, "What the fuck's going
on? It's four in the morning."
536
00:35:59,032 --> 00:36:00,492
Vibrations are right in the church.
537
00:36:00,659 --> 00:36:03,996
They think you can just rush in
and film it, know what I mean?
538
00:36:04,163 --> 00:36:06,456
It was utter shambles.
539
00:36:06,874 --> 00:36:08,125
Who are you anyway?
540
00:36:08,292 --> 00:36:09,918
I'm the same thing that you are.
541
00:36:10,127 --> 00:36:12,963
I see through the form
for I created the form.
542
00:36:13,422 --> 00:36:16,383
There really was no script.
543
00:36:17,301 --> 00:36:21,221
But he would create incidents
that could happen.
544
00:36:21,471 --> 00:36:26,268
I am beyond all time for I am
before time and I am beyond time.
545
00:36:27,311 --> 00:36:28,645
When you take people,
546
00:36:28,812 --> 00:36:31,356
even if you're shooting
somewhat documentary-style,
547
00:36:31,523 --> 00:36:34,985
you get people talking
from their hearts passionately,
548
00:36:35,319 --> 00:36:36,987
they thought I wrote it.
549
00:36:37,362 --> 00:36:38,947
I mean, people were coming
550
00:36:39,114 --> 00:36:41,575
trying to nail me saying,
"You wrote these lines."
551
00:36:41,742 --> 00:36:43,368
But these people are so convincing
552
00:36:43,535 --> 00:36:46,705
because they're so interested
in what they're doing,
553
00:36:46,872 --> 00:36:48,874
which is the real reality technique.
554
00:36:49,458 --> 00:36:53,921
I did not hear about any movie
at all until we got here.
555
00:36:54,630 --> 00:36:57,216
And I don't know how much
Jimi knew about a movie at all.
556
00:37:02,971 --> 00:37:06,767
Jimi went to Hawaii thinking
he was going to do a concert.
557
00:37:07,476 --> 00:37:13,523
He sort of knew in the background
that people wanted to make a film.
558
00:37:16,777 --> 00:37:18,195
When I first came to Maui,
559
00:37:18,612 --> 00:37:23,700
they were gonna give us 30 days
to just RandR.
560
00:37:23,867 --> 00:37:25,953
So we could have
a couple of weeks there
561
00:37:26,119 --> 00:37:28,288
to cool out with the families
or whatever else.
562
00:37:29,623 --> 00:37:30,832
Jimi was tired.
563
00:37:31,041 --> 00:37:32,251
When he came here,
564
00:37:32,417 --> 00:37:36,088
he thought perhaps he'd have the
chance to just relax and lay back.
565
00:37:36,255 --> 00:37:37,464
But no way.
566
00:37:47,266 --> 00:37:49,434
Jimi didn't really know
what was going on, I don't think.
567
00:37:49,685 --> 00:37:51,603
When he first showed up there,
he was going,
568
00:37:51,770 --> 00:37:53,939
"I don't know exactly
what's going on around here."
569
00:37:58,902 --> 00:38:01,363
Oh, boy,
we knew there was some movie
570
00:38:01,530 --> 00:38:03,949
we were gonna
be doing something with.
571
00:38:04,700 --> 00:38:07,619
And the movie,
that was uncharted territory.
572
00:38:08,328 --> 00:38:09,705
It was very bizarre.
573
00:38:20,048 --> 00:38:22,092
Jimi was pretty much
into all this stuff.
574
00:38:22,259 --> 00:38:24,845
He wanted to take
a stack of Marshalls
575
00:38:25,012 --> 00:38:27,431
and put it in the Grand Canyon
'cause sound created matter.
576
00:38:27,597 --> 00:38:29,599
He thought we could duplicate
the experiment.
577
00:38:38,650 --> 00:38:43,447
He thought surfing was just
like musicians with their guitar.
578
00:38:43,655 --> 00:38:47,868
That surfboard is their...
you know, riff, what they do.
579
00:38:56,668 --> 00:38:59,463
"Rainbow Bridge"
was Michael Jeffery's production.
580
00:39:00,714 --> 00:39:04,676
Jimi was required to be up here
while they were making the movie.
581
00:39:05,469 --> 00:39:10,432
Jimi felt Michael was really
using him for "Rainbow Bridge".
582
00:39:10,599 --> 00:39:14,311
That was not Jimi's idea,
of doing "Rainbow Bridge", at all.
583
00:39:14,603 --> 00:39:16,813
And he just didn't wanna be there.
584
00:39:17,731 --> 00:39:20,901
There was a scheme 'cause Michael
wasn't gonna be around for a while,
585
00:39:21,068 --> 00:39:24,988
so he snuck away and had
some more little off-times.
586
00:39:25,197 --> 00:39:27,115
And we had a good time that time.
587
00:39:27,282 --> 00:39:29,868
But then when Mike came back
he had to come back here
588
00:39:30,285 --> 00:39:33,163
and fulfill the obligations
that Mike wanted him to do.
589
00:39:33,538 --> 00:39:36,750
Every day, they'd try to get Jimi
to talk on camera,
590
00:39:36,917 --> 00:39:39,252
it was the main thing
when he showed up.
591
00:39:39,419 --> 00:39:42,923
So the thing was that
he would always chicken out.
592
00:39:43,173 --> 00:39:45,634
He just expected to play, basically.
593
00:39:45,926 --> 00:39:50,639
Michael didn't understand
the creativity of Jimi.
594
00:39:51,431 --> 00:39:57,020
Jimi's brilliance was very simple
because it was pure.
595
00:39:57,396 --> 00:39:59,439
Jimi was very mysterious.
596
00:40:00,273 --> 00:40:02,734
And he would see right through you.
597
00:40:03,151 --> 00:40:04,778
He could smell the hustle.
598
00:40:07,656 --> 00:40:10,409
Let's turn this army
into an ecological army.
599
00:40:10,659 --> 00:40:12,452
Let's re-plant the planet.
600
00:40:13,161 --> 00:40:16,665
In that one scene
where he shoots Baron...
601
00:40:17,332 --> 00:40:18,792
You think they want you to know
602
00:40:18,959 --> 00:40:21,086
that your car
doesn't have to wear out?
603
00:40:21,253 --> 00:40:24,923
You think the power elite wants you
to know what you can do?
604
00:40:30,846 --> 00:40:32,681
He goes, "All right, break's over.
605
00:40:32,848 --> 00:40:35,016
Everybody get back
on your goddamn heads,"
606
00:40:35,183 --> 00:40:37,811
'cause he thought it was a yoga
centre, you know what I mean?
607
00:40:40,105 --> 00:40:42,232
Back on your goddamn heads.
608
00:40:43,316 --> 00:40:46,236
He didn't really know, he wasn't
really that into yoga and stuff.
609
00:40:47,737 --> 00:40:49,614
Michael Jeffery was Jimi's manager.
610
00:40:49,781 --> 00:40:51,616
Other than that,
he just stepped aside.
611
00:40:51,992 --> 00:40:54,035
There was really
no part for him in the movie.
612
00:40:54,202 --> 00:40:59,624
He was the producer, but he didn't
have anything to say on set.
613
00:41:00,375 --> 00:41:03,503
The whole concert idea
was separate from the film.
614
00:41:03,670 --> 00:41:05,046
That was Chuck's.
615
00:41:05,213 --> 00:41:07,883
Chuck was always talking
about energy and all that stuff.
616
00:41:08,049 --> 00:41:11,136
I don't know if Michael tried to tap
into that, what his motivations were.
617
00:41:11,303 --> 00:41:13,472
But it was a business venture.
618
00:41:13,847 --> 00:41:16,308
And at a certain point,
619
00:41:16,766 --> 00:41:19,728
he knew that there was something
very wrong with this film.
620
00:41:22,189 --> 00:41:25,233
Barry De Prendergast went
to talk to Ben Baldwin
621
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,235
who was the owner
of Haleakala dairy.
622
00:41:27,694 --> 00:41:31,031
The one thing that Ben Baldwin asked
us was not to disturb the cows.
623
00:41:31,198 --> 00:41:34,159
So Barry De Prendergast,
he's up on the top of the hill,
624
00:41:34,326 --> 00:41:36,244
and he runs down the hill
chasing the cows
625
00:41:36,411 --> 00:41:38,330
and goes, "Aagh, Aagh,"
chasing the cows.
626
00:41:38,497 --> 00:41:40,248
Immediately,
the first thing that happens,
627
00:41:40,415 --> 00:41:43,043
a whole herd of cows ran
right through a barbed-wire fence
628
00:41:43,210 --> 00:41:45,629
and just mixed in
with these other cows.
629
00:41:48,215 --> 00:41:53,345
Chuck's whole idea was going
to be this colour-sound experience.
630
00:41:53,762 --> 00:41:56,681
It was going to be free,
and it was for everybody to come.
631
00:41:58,517 --> 00:42:01,728
The place that they chose
was directly up the hill
632
00:42:01,895 --> 00:42:06,483
from school, in the pasture.
And it was a natural bowl.
633
00:42:11,112 --> 00:42:16,660
Behind us is a volcano,
Haleakala, here in Maui.
634
00:42:21,623 --> 00:42:25,168
So Haleakala crater
is, by some people, considered
635
00:42:25,335 --> 00:42:28,213
the heart chakra of this planet.
636
00:42:28,421 --> 00:42:30,924
It has a very, very high vibration.
637
00:42:31,841 --> 00:42:34,970
The energy there is amazing,
really, truly amazing.
638
00:42:35,637 --> 00:42:37,973
It is a place of energy
when you're in the crater,
639
00:42:38,139 --> 00:42:39,307
there's no question.
640
00:42:39,474 --> 00:42:42,727
When you see the sun rise
out of the clouds of the horizon,
641
00:42:42,894 --> 00:42:44,437
it feels like
642
00:42:44,604 --> 00:42:47,857
it's all boiling right out
of the middle of the volcano itself.
643
00:42:48,108 --> 00:42:49,484
It's a beautiful spot.
644
00:42:51,278 --> 00:42:54,990
On the side of that volcano
is where the concert took place.
645
00:42:55,365 --> 00:42:59,536
The area behind the trees
is where they built the stage.
646
00:42:59,703 --> 00:43:01,413
There's a natural bowl behind there.
647
00:43:01,580 --> 00:43:04,457
All of what you see here has changed.
648
00:43:04,874 --> 00:43:08,044
There was nothing here,
no buildings, no nothing.
649
00:43:09,254 --> 00:43:11,673
I was used to playing
on stages, on fields,
650
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:14,217
but never on the side of a volcano.
651
00:43:14,384 --> 00:43:15,468
Jimi goes...
652
00:43:15,635 --> 00:43:17,596
We were in the back
and fixing to go on stage.
653
00:43:17,762 --> 00:43:20,890
He said,
"Man, this used to be a volcano,
654
00:43:21,057 --> 00:43:24,269
but it's no longer erupting anymore."
655
00:43:24,436 --> 00:43:25,854
And I turned to him and I said,
656
00:43:26,021 --> 00:43:28,898
"I sure damn hope
it doesn't erupt today."
657
00:43:29,649 --> 00:43:31,109
So he cracked up.
658
00:43:34,070 --> 00:43:38,283
The Wizard did not want
the rest of the world to know
659
00:43:38,450 --> 00:43:41,995
that Jimi Hendrix was gonna
perform a concert on Maui.
660
00:43:42,162 --> 00:43:44,831
So it was not advertised.
661
00:43:44,998 --> 00:43:48,877
But what he did have done
was he had a carload of us,
662
00:43:49,628 --> 00:43:54,132
at strategic spots and parks,
spread the word
663
00:43:54,299 --> 00:43:58,219
and leave the signs
that Jimi Hendrix was going to play.
664
00:43:58,386 --> 00:44:00,639
Well, there was something
called the Coconut Wireless,
665
00:44:00,805 --> 00:44:04,184
which we have in Hawaii.
It's the Coconut Wireless,
666
00:44:04,351 --> 00:44:06,936
and it's just you tell
two or three people,
667
00:44:07,103 --> 00:44:09,230
and before you know it,
it's all over the island.
668
00:44:09,481 --> 00:44:13,068
Mike Jeffery and a few other people
from the film came up with this idea
669
00:44:13,234 --> 00:44:17,238
of going through the streets
with a kind of truck
670
00:44:17,405 --> 00:44:21,076
and a few placards saying, like,
"Anyone who wants to come,
671
00:44:21,368 --> 00:44:24,704
come up to the crater of the sun
and the moon, to the volcanoes,
672
00:44:24,871 --> 00:44:27,165
and we're gonna have
a concert, okay?"
673
00:44:28,208 --> 00:44:32,295
The morning of July 30th,
I was going by myself,
674
00:44:32,462 --> 00:44:37,175
I wanted to be there for the sunrise
at the top of the Haleakala crater
675
00:44:37,342 --> 00:44:40,011
because that's the only word I had
of where it was going to be.
676
00:44:40,178 --> 00:44:41,262
I didn't realise
677
00:44:41,429 --> 00:44:44,265
it was gonna be On the lower slopes
of the Haleakala crater.
678
00:44:44,599 --> 00:44:47,852
I got up there, and it was freezing.
679
00:44:48,103 --> 00:44:50,063
I waited up there all night long.
680
00:44:50,438 --> 00:44:51,981
Nobody showed up.
681
00:44:54,693 --> 00:44:58,822
On the day of the concert,
they had rented a large bus.
682
00:44:59,155 --> 00:45:02,200
And we drove to Lahaina
683
00:45:02,367 --> 00:45:08,665
to get people that had no way
to get to Olinda, to the concert.
684
00:45:08,873 --> 00:45:10,875
And I had them stop at one point
685
00:45:11,459 --> 00:45:14,462
and then go to the shopping centre
at the other end of Front Street.
686
00:45:14,629 --> 00:45:17,465
And myself
and whoever I was with went,
687
00:45:19,843 --> 00:45:21,302
"Jimi Hendrix is playing today.
688
00:45:21,469 --> 00:45:24,514
Jimi Hendrix is playing in Olinda.
You wanna come? I got a bus.
689
00:45:24,681 --> 00:45:26,349
Get your stuff. Let's go.
690
00:45:26,516 --> 00:45:29,602
Meet us at the post office.
We're gonna leave in a half hour."
691
00:45:29,769 --> 00:45:30,770
We went up the street.
692
00:45:30,937 --> 00:45:33,481
Everybody I saw that looked cool,
looked young,
693
00:45:33,648 --> 00:45:36,776
looked like they'd be hip,
we filled that bus.
694
00:45:38,862 --> 00:45:43,283
And I see two young guys,
obviously had just hit the island.
695
00:45:43,450 --> 00:45:44,492
You can always tell them
696
00:45:44,659 --> 00:45:47,120
'cause they haven't got
long hair and beards yet.
697
00:45:47,537 --> 00:45:49,914
And I go,
"You wanna see Jimi Hendrix?"
698
00:45:52,041 --> 00:45:53,126
And they're like...
699
00:45:53,918 --> 00:45:56,129
They don't say a word
and I go, "Get in the bus.
700
00:45:56,296 --> 00:45:59,299
We'll take you to see Jimi.
We're all going to see Jimi Hendrix."
701
00:45:59,466 --> 00:46:00,633
They got in the bus.
702
00:46:02,510 --> 00:46:05,388
When I woke up,
I continued down the hill.
703
00:46:05,555 --> 00:46:09,017
And I saw like a piece of plywood
nailed to a palm tree.
704
00:46:09,184 --> 00:46:11,895
Somebody had painted Rainbow Bridge
705
00:46:12,061 --> 00:46:14,439
with rainbow colOurs with an arrow.
706
00:46:14,647 --> 00:46:18,401
And I got there, and I rolled down
the window of that panel truck,
707
00:46:18,568 --> 00:46:21,946
and I looked at the guy. He looked
at me. I said, "Rainbow Bridge?"
708
00:46:22,113 --> 00:46:23,198
He said, "Yes."
709
00:46:23,364 --> 00:46:26,993
And I went, "Oh, my God, this is it.
I have found it."
710
00:46:40,548 --> 00:46:43,134
People started walking
from everywhere,
711
00:46:43,301 --> 00:46:47,514
parking on the side of roads
and walking in, crossing,
712
00:46:47,764 --> 00:46:50,600
people walking through
people's backyards off Olinda Road.
713
00:46:50,809 --> 00:46:53,728
All over the place,
people started walking in
714
00:46:53,978 --> 00:46:57,106
to the absolute horror
of most of the community up here.
715
00:46:58,483 --> 00:47:01,152
And this was like,
if memory serves me right,
716
00:47:01,319 --> 00:47:02,695
it's like a four-mile hike.
717
00:47:03,071 --> 00:47:06,616
Even if you drive to where it is,
you've got one heck of a walk.
718
00:47:07,158 --> 00:47:09,452
And all these people turn up.
719
00:47:14,290 --> 00:47:15,291
This was the gate.
720
00:47:15,458 --> 00:47:18,628
The band and the crew,
we went up that way.
721
00:47:18,795 --> 00:47:23,424
We were taken up in a Jeep,
and waited to go on in the tent
722
00:47:23,591 --> 00:47:25,802
right behind where those trees are.
723
00:47:28,221 --> 00:47:31,599
You see these electric poles?
None of these were here.
724
00:47:31,766 --> 00:47:34,352
We had to use a generator
to do the concert.
725
00:47:35,562 --> 00:47:38,606
Welcome, cosmic brothers
and sisters of Maui,
726
00:47:38,773 --> 00:47:41,943
to the Rainbow Bridge vibratory
colour-sound experiment.
727
00:47:42,110 --> 00:47:45,029
If we just turn on our energy
so Jimi can pick into that
728
00:47:45,196 --> 00:47:46,656
and lead us across that bridge
729
00:47:46,823 --> 00:47:49,284
and everybody all over the world
is going to pick up on that.
730
00:47:49,450 --> 00:47:52,370
So we're all counting on you,
and here's your chance.
731
00:47:52,537 --> 00:47:55,540
Jimi should be here
in a few minutes.
732
00:47:56,040 --> 00:48:00,670
I remember we took a trip to Hawaii,
supposedly to clear his head.
733
00:48:00,837 --> 00:48:04,215
I guess nowadays,
you'd call me the tour manager.
734
00:48:04,382 --> 00:48:08,845
But it was road manager, tour
manager, whatever you wanna call it.
735
00:48:09,137 --> 00:48:11,389
We had a couple of guys
who took care of equipment,
736
00:48:11,556 --> 00:48:16,352
I took care of the band, and
generally got the operation around
737
00:48:16,519 --> 00:48:19,564
and convinced them they should go
on stage, which wasn't always easy.
738
00:48:20,023 --> 00:48:22,400
We were filming
on top of the mountain.
739
00:48:22,567 --> 00:48:23,943
We hauled everything up there,
740
00:48:24,110 --> 00:48:26,279
four-wheel drives to get all the shit
up there.
741
00:48:26,446 --> 00:48:28,406
Chuck what's-his-name,
who was the director,
742
00:48:28,573 --> 00:48:29,532
"Roll all the cameras."
743
00:48:30,241 --> 00:48:32,535
You can't take
a multi-track recording machine,
744
00:48:32,702 --> 00:48:35,246
put it on the back of a Jeep
and take it up the top of a volcano.
745
00:48:35,413 --> 00:48:36,831
They've got trouble with
the recording machine.
746
00:48:36,998 --> 00:48:40,710
I say, "Hey, let's stop everything,
'cause the machine ain't working."
747
00:48:40,877 --> 00:48:42,545
He said,
"Oh, you can't stop him now, "
748
00:48:42,712 --> 00:48:45,590
because he's standing there
going "Om".
749
00:48:45,757 --> 00:48:48,426
He says, "He's stirred
the vibrations to make it good."
750
00:48:48,593 --> 00:48:52,513
And it was like hundreds of thousands
of dollars rolling on film here,
751
00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:56,225
guys working, and he's standing
there going "Om, "making it good!
752
00:48:56,392 --> 00:48:57,435
Know what I mean?
753
00:48:57,727 --> 00:48:59,145
It was a beautiful day.
754
00:48:59,312 --> 00:49:01,981
The stage with the colourful buntings
755
00:49:02,148 --> 00:49:05,860
and the flags that were flying
on bamboo poles,
756
00:49:06,027 --> 00:49:08,571
it was like a fantasy world.
757
00:49:08,738 --> 00:49:11,866
It was like, "Where did this
come from? And how did I find it?"
758
00:49:12,033 --> 00:49:14,619
I mean, I was the luckiest man
in the world that day.
759
00:49:15,954 --> 00:49:19,749
As was the movie,
the concert was very much unscripted,
760
00:49:20,416 --> 00:49:25,630
except that everyone was asked
to sit by their sun sign.
761
00:49:26,923 --> 00:49:28,841
It was something kind of strange,
762
00:49:29,050 --> 00:49:32,095
I couldn't really
quite put my finger on it,
763
00:49:32,303 --> 00:49:36,182
everyone sitting
in astrological order.
764
00:49:39,185 --> 00:49:41,729
We wanted people to sit
according to their sign,
765
00:49:41,896 --> 00:49:43,940
'cause Jimi wanted to dip
into the energies,
766
00:49:44,107 --> 00:49:46,067
he had a feeling
for what those energies were.
767
00:49:46,651 --> 00:49:49,988
Then maybe Jimi
could tap off that energy,
768
00:49:50,154 --> 00:49:53,324
like if you were aggressive
he could get aggressive,
769
00:49:53,491 --> 00:49:56,160
if you were laid back
he could be laid back.
770
00:49:56,536 --> 00:49:57,829
People were reluctant.
771
00:49:57,996 --> 00:50:00,081
They didn't even think
there'd be a concert.
772
00:50:00,248 --> 00:50:03,334
They were coming with surfboards
and they're up at 5, 000 feet.
773
00:50:03,501 --> 00:50:06,129
So they obviously didn't trust
that there was a concert.
774
00:50:06,462 --> 00:50:10,174
Some people went to us,
"God, you guys are crazy."
775
00:50:10,341 --> 00:50:13,344
And I went, "Bona fide.
We are so crazy.
776
00:50:13,511 --> 00:50:15,722
And you are gonna have
the best time of your life.
777
00:50:15,888 --> 00:50:17,473
So just sit down and do it."
778
00:50:21,102 --> 00:50:25,606
That does have a little energy,
evidently, because I felt it
779
00:50:25,773 --> 00:50:30,069
as soon as we got into
that immediate area.
780
00:50:53,885 --> 00:50:56,554
The thing is,
from the sound point of view,
781
00:50:56,721 --> 00:51:00,099
from the recording point of view,
from the equipment point of view,
782
00:51:00,641 --> 00:51:07,148
only certain electrical appliances
worked at any one given time
783
00:51:07,315 --> 00:51:10,651
because I think there's
some kind of magnetic force there.
784
00:51:16,657 --> 00:51:19,619
There was enough power.
The power was not the issue.
785
00:51:20,286 --> 00:51:21,496
The wind was the issue.
786
00:51:51,901 --> 00:51:53,736
The wind was at the audience's back,
787
00:51:53,903 --> 00:51:56,948
but it was blowing
straight at us on the stage.
788
00:52:00,952 --> 00:52:03,204
No sane person would try
and do a recording
789
00:52:03,371 --> 00:52:04,956
in an environment like that.
790
00:52:05,957 --> 00:52:07,416
It was 30-mile-an-hour wind.
791
00:52:07,583 --> 00:52:09,335
There was wind
blowing over mic stands.
792
00:52:18,344 --> 00:52:20,721
The wind was blowing so strong
793
00:52:20,888 --> 00:52:23,266
until the microphones
had to be covered over.
794
00:52:23,599 --> 00:52:28,813
They didn't seem to care if the mics
had big wads of foam around them.
795
00:52:29,147 --> 00:52:31,941
And even that didn't keep
the wind noise completely down.
796
00:52:39,490 --> 00:52:41,659
Some of the things
were blowing around on stage.
797
00:52:41,826 --> 00:52:43,077
It was very challenging.
798
00:52:43,244 --> 00:52:44,996
But however, with all of that,
799
00:52:45,663 --> 00:52:49,584
Jimi just took charge of everything
and it worked out very, very well.
800
00:53:25,161 --> 00:53:27,663
Well, it was intimate.
It was so organic.
801
00:53:27,830 --> 00:53:29,916
People were just there,
just happy to be there.
802
00:53:37,798 --> 00:53:41,969
I took some photographs,
I wasn't sure if that was cool,
803
00:53:42,136 --> 00:53:44,847
and I could walk up
right next to him.
804
00:53:52,730 --> 00:53:53,898
But it was expansive.
805
00:53:54,065 --> 00:53:57,610
It was the heavens, and the earth,
and no walls, no nothing.
806
00:53:57,777 --> 00:54:00,112
This was just Maui style.
807
00:54:06,077 --> 00:54:07,912
It was awesome.
The crowd was inspired.
808
00:54:08,412 --> 00:54:10,831
Many people here.
If you were here, you were there.
809
00:54:11,332 --> 00:54:13,251
It was spectacular.
810
00:54:14,293 --> 00:54:18,464
And I think Jimi enjoyed it,
as you can see Jimi at his best.
811
00:56:09,283 --> 00:56:11,619
It was really living in the moment,
812
00:56:11,869 --> 00:56:15,164
learning how to be completely aware
of what's going On in the moment,
813
00:56:15,331 --> 00:56:20,461
and taking that moment
and just making the most of it.
814
00:56:22,254 --> 00:56:25,633
Yeah! Everybody stand up!
Stand up! Let's do it together, man!
815
00:56:26,300 --> 00:56:29,929
Are you still out there? We'll give
you something else if you want!
816
00:56:32,264 --> 00:56:35,976
If you look at that footage
in that concert Of Jimi in Maui,
817
00:56:36,602 --> 00:56:39,855
you have never seen Jimi happier
in his life.
818
00:56:40,022 --> 00:56:41,857
He loved being there.
819
00:56:50,783 --> 00:56:53,744
People were just going,
"Oh, my God, what is going on?"
820
00:56:53,911 --> 00:56:54,954
People were crying.
821
00:56:55,246 --> 00:56:58,124
Apparently, in town in Lahaina,
all the electricity went off.
822
00:56:58,290 --> 00:57:00,292
People saw a saucer go by.
823
00:57:00,459 --> 00:57:03,546
Some guy fell off the movie tower
that was filming.
824
00:57:03,712 --> 00:57:05,214
I mean, it was crazy.
825
00:57:05,423 --> 00:57:07,216
There was something that happened.
826
00:57:36,871 --> 00:57:40,291
One thing about Jimi Hendrix,
he never had a set list.
827
00:57:40,458 --> 00:57:44,795
And he didn't need a set list
because we got our cues from him.
828
00:57:55,723 --> 00:57:57,725
That was an intentional thing,
829
00:57:57,892 --> 00:58:03,606
to get away from what the public,
say, wanted or expected to hear.
830
00:58:04,899 --> 00:58:08,027
There would be a lot more things
thrown out.
831
00:58:19,246 --> 00:58:22,583
The show was in two parts.
832
00:58:22,750 --> 00:58:24,460
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
833
00:58:24,627 --> 00:58:26,629
There was a break
in the middle of the concert.
834
00:58:26,921 --> 00:58:29,632
And they went into a little tent,
the band did.
835
00:58:29,798 --> 00:58:32,801
Jimi was pissed off
after the first set
836
00:58:33,260 --> 00:58:35,638
because nobody wanted
to get up and dance.
837
00:58:35,804 --> 00:58:39,433
Everybody was loaded on acid
and just hanging out.
838
00:58:40,267 --> 00:58:42,645
The Wizard was going,
839
00:58:42,811 --> 00:58:46,857
"You guys, do you want Hendrix to
come back out and play some more?"
840
00:58:48,025 --> 00:58:49,068
"Yeah."
841
00:58:49,235 --> 00:58:52,112
"Well, say something!"
842
00:58:52,613 --> 00:58:56,158
He wanted people to get up
and start boogying around,
843
00:58:56,325 --> 00:58:58,744
if we could just kind of
move around a little bit,
844
00:58:59,078 --> 00:59:01,330
you know, act like we're living.
845
00:59:01,497 --> 00:59:02,790
"Make some noise!"
846
00:59:03,707 --> 00:59:05,376
"Oh, is that what we've gotta do?"
847
00:59:06,460 --> 00:59:08,504
"Okay. Jimi!"
848
00:59:14,218 --> 00:59:16,220
Then they talked him
into go back and play.
849
00:59:16,387 --> 00:59:18,430
So he took up
his black Flying Wedge.
850
00:59:24,311 --> 00:59:29,650
And he played no holds barred,
rock'n'roll and blues,
851
00:59:29,817 --> 00:59:35,072
no teeth, no behind-the-back,
just letting it flow.
852
00:59:38,409 --> 00:59:39,868
I was shaking my head
853
00:59:40,035 --> 00:59:42,705
and Jimi was yelling at me,
"Get up and dance, man!"
854
00:59:46,584 --> 00:59:49,253
Everybody was smiling
and everybody was moving.
855
00:59:49,420 --> 00:59:52,464
I mean, you can't stay still
when he gets going.
856
01:00:15,279 --> 01:00:17,573
I asked him,
I said, "What's your next thing?
857
01:00:17,740 --> 01:00:21,035
What do you wanna do with music?
858
01:00:21,201 --> 01:00:23,662
You got this wild concept, right?"
859
01:00:23,829 --> 01:00:28,167
And he just says, "I want it louder."
860
01:00:40,596 --> 01:00:42,931
Jimi was doing his thing.
861
01:00:43,098 --> 01:00:46,644
No one dictated
any particular songs.
862
01:00:46,894 --> 01:00:48,812
He did it the way
he wanted to do it.
863
01:00:49,605 --> 01:00:52,691
And we enjoyed that also.
As you can see, we were free.
864
01:00:53,484 --> 01:00:54,777
Well, it was a great concert.
865
01:00:54,943 --> 01:00:56,987
In fact, one of the greatest concerts
he ever did.
866
01:01:20,886 --> 01:01:23,472
I didn't realise
till it was pointed out to me
867
01:01:23,639 --> 01:01:25,766
how long we played for there.
868
01:01:25,933 --> 01:01:29,353
That was the band.
And that was relaxing, you know?
869
01:01:29,687 --> 01:01:33,148
The band was doing things
we just enjoyed playing.
870
01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:36,276
And that was the main thing.
871
01:01:40,322 --> 01:01:46,161
Mitch Mitchell looked like he was
levitating on his little stool.
872
01:01:46,578 --> 01:01:50,624
Everything was going,
arms and legs, head and hair.
873
01:01:51,166 --> 01:01:52,418
I was amazed.
874
01:01:56,380 --> 01:02:02,177
I think he was stretching himself
in areas he hadn't been to before.
875
01:02:02,845 --> 01:02:08,684
And that's the one thing, obviously
with Jimi, that I just loved him for.
876
01:02:08,851 --> 01:02:11,186
Because you throw something at him,
877
01:02:11,353 --> 01:02:13,272
he'll throw it straight back
in your face.
878
01:02:13,439 --> 01:02:18,068
And good, bad or indifferent, that's
what re-creates Or creates new music.
879
01:02:46,638 --> 01:02:52,895
At the end of the concert I see these
same two guys from the tour bus.
880
01:02:53,187 --> 01:02:56,899
They literally say,
"We're dreaming this.
881
01:02:57,608 --> 01:03:01,487
We've just come to Maui,
we're going to Maui tomorrow,
882
01:03:01,653 --> 01:03:04,573
and we're dreaming that we're
at a Jimi Hendrix concert."
883
01:03:04,740 --> 01:03:08,076
And I go, "You've made it.
You guys have made it."
884
01:03:08,744 --> 01:03:11,205
They were in heaven.
They couldn't believe their luck.
885
01:03:13,540 --> 01:03:16,043
Can you imagine? The concert's over,
886
01:03:16,502 --> 01:03:20,839
and hundreds of people coming down
this way after the concert.
887
01:03:21,006 --> 01:03:22,174
An incredible sight.
888
01:03:25,093 --> 01:03:26,595
People were just talking,
889
01:03:26,762 --> 01:03:29,139
walking down the hill
just in amazement.
890
01:03:29,306 --> 01:03:31,850
It was the talk Of the town
for days and days
891
01:03:32,017 --> 01:03:33,769
and days and days and days.
892
01:03:33,936 --> 01:03:38,273
The next night right after over
here on Maui, we played in Honolulu.
893
01:03:38,816 --> 01:03:41,360
What a great gig.
894
01:03:43,278 --> 01:03:47,491
The film crew was here on Maui,
but they didn't film.
895
01:03:55,207 --> 01:03:57,042
They never took it over to Honolulu
896
01:03:57,209 --> 01:04:01,964
where they could have had
probably one of the greatest concerts
897
01:04:02,130 --> 01:04:03,757
that's ever been.
898
01:04:04,258 --> 01:04:05,551
Jimi was up on it.
899
01:04:12,558 --> 01:04:16,603
This is kind of remarkable,
that in a one-week span
900
01:04:16,770 --> 01:04:21,859
to be able to see Jimi Hendrix
in performance twice:
901
01:04:22,025 --> 01:04:29,157
once outdoors, which is a venue that
probably is absolutely unmatched,
902
01:04:29,324 --> 01:04:35,080
but his show in Honolulu at the
H.I. C. was a very spectacular show.
903
01:04:35,414 --> 01:04:36,957
It was energetic.
904
01:04:41,962 --> 01:04:47,342
He did H.I.C., which was one of
my most memorable Hendrix moments.
905
01:05:19,207 --> 01:05:20,792
Jimi comes back from Hawaii
906
01:05:20,959 --> 01:05:24,171
and we start to get back into mixing
again and going through tapes,
907
01:05:24,338 --> 01:05:27,716
and then actually recording
some new stuff, which was wonderful.
908
01:05:35,223 --> 01:05:37,017
I asked Jimi,
"Hey, so how was Hawaii?"
909
01:05:37,184 --> 01:05:39,102
And he goes, "Yeah, sure."
910
01:05:40,812 --> 01:05:44,566
And we hear from the roadies, from
Eric Barrett and Gerry Stickells,
911
01:05:44,733 --> 01:05:48,362
"Oh, don't get me started, mate.
It was bloody horrible."
912
01:05:48,528 --> 01:05:51,740
And he would just be
going off like, "Oh...
913
01:05:52,449 --> 01:05:54,660
Bunch of bloody wankers," you know.
914
01:06:13,720 --> 01:06:17,683
When he came back
to New York, Maui was left behind.
915
01:06:17,849 --> 01:06:20,811
With the film, he had nothing to do
with it anymore.
916
01:06:35,283 --> 01:06:38,412
After we get back to New York,
we were back doing our thing,
917
01:06:38,620 --> 01:06:40,664
recording and gigging.
918
01:06:40,831 --> 01:06:42,708
They were back over here
919
01:06:42,874 --> 01:06:46,086
still to continue working
on the "Rainbow Bridge".
920
01:06:53,844 --> 01:06:56,179
Thank you very much.
Good night. Good night.
921
01:07:00,809 --> 01:07:02,394
They're editing in the chapel.
922
01:07:02,561 --> 01:07:08,400
One, it's all dark,
there was a lot Of imported herbs.
923
01:07:08,608 --> 01:07:12,529
And you couldn't tell
what they were trying to get at.
924
01:07:13,989 --> 01:07:16,908
There was nobody saying,
"That's it. Cut, use that."
925
01:07:17,075 --> 01:07:19,828
It didn't seem that way to me.
926
01:07:20,704 --> 01:07:22,414
It seemed pretty haphazard.
927
01:07:23,165 --> 01:07:26,001
Each day, more and more
people were leaving.
928
01:07:26,585 --> 01:07:29,421
Like, "You're done,
here's your money.
929
01:07:30,088 --> 01:07:33,258
You're done, here's your money."
930
01:07:33,550 --> 01:07:35,802
They didn't think
they had it in the can.
931
01:07:35,969 --> 01:07:38,930
The Warner Bros. production crew,
I remember them saying,
932
01:07:39,097 --> 01:07:41,349
"Oh, they're out of money.
We're out of here."
933
01:07:41,516 --> 01:07:44,186
And so that was it. He was just like,
"We're gone," you know.
934
01:07:44,394 --> 01:07:47,397
I think they probably had to do
a fair amount of time cleaning up
935
01:07:47,564 --> 01:07:49,066
and making sure all that was gone,
936
01:07:49,274 --> 01:07:52,319
certainly before they brought
the new freshman class in
937
01:07:52,486 --> 01:07:53,862
to stay in the dorms!
938
01:07:54,112 --> 01:07:56,740
I don't recall my father
returning the security deposit,
939
01:07:56,907 --> 01:07:58,200
let's put it that way.
940
01:08:06,124 --> 01:08:08,835
I came to work.
I walked down the stairs.
941
01:08:09,002 --> 01:08:12,422
You went into the reception area
and you knew something was wrong.
942
01:08:19,763 --> 01:08:21,556
I was down at Lahaina Harbor
at the time.
943
01:08:21,723 --> 01:08:23,850
I remember somebody saying,
"Jimi's dead."
944
01:08:24,017 --> 01:08:26,561
And I'm like, "What?"
You know? I couldn't believe it.
945
01:08:38,532 --> 01:08:42,285
There was a sense of something
really important having been ended.
946
01:08:42,452 --> 01:08:47,124
There was a sense almost of music
history being jarred at that point.
947
01:08:47,290 --> 01:08:49,876
That was one of the thoughts
going on. "Oh, fuck."
948
01:08:50,460 --> 01:08:54,047
After Jimi died,
it was pretty chaotic for me.
949
01:08:54,214 --> 01:08:58,969
I do remember hearing one thing
in my head,
950
01:09:00,303 --> 01:09:01,638
"The show goes on."
951
01:09:04,766 --> 01:09:08,687
Jimi Hendrix's death
was the precipitating event
952
01:09:08,895 --> 01:09:13,859
that was almost like a typhoon,
it was a cataclysmic event.
953
01:09:14,025 --> 01:09:18,822
And it was cataclysmic for the world,
for our people, for our culture
954
01:09:18,989 --> 01:09:20,782
and all the things we believed in.
955
01:09:21,783 --> 01:09:25,162
But for the movie, man,
it was like the death knell.
956
01:09:25,954 --> 01:09:28,790
The Grim Reaper
hadn't just removed
957
01:09:28,957 --> 01:09:32,878
one of our most respected,
angelic messengers,
958
01:09:33,044 --> 01:09:37,174
but it put everyone
in a very difficult situation.
959
01:09:37,507 --> 01:09:39,676
The idea was that Jimi was gonna do
the music for this movie.
960
01:09:39,843 --> 01:09:42,929
I think that was part of the reason
that Warner Bros. financed it.
961
01:09:43,096 --> 01:09:46,808
Then, of course, Jimi had passed and
he hadn't written any music for it,
962
01:09:46,975 --> 01:09:48,852
which is kind of awkward, clearly.
963
01:09:49,060 --> 01:09:53,106
The pressure was on
from Warner Bros. to deliver.
964
01:09:53,481 --> 01:09:55,734
"Where's the bloody album?"
you know.
965
01:09:55,901 --> 01:09:58,862
Which put Michael Jeffery
into a bind.
966
01:09:59,029 --> 01:10:01,364
Got the call from Michael,
967
01:10:01,531 --> 01:10:04,451
"We need a soundtrack
for this movie we shot."
968
01:10:04,993 --> 01:10:10,457
And I'm going, "Yeah, all right,
how do you want us to do this?"
969
01:10:16,546 --> 01:10:19,132
And we listened to the 8-track tape
970
01:10:19,299 --> 01:10:21,968
that was recorded
on the side of a bloody volcano
971
01:10:22,135 --> 01:10:23,637
with 100-mile-an-hour winds.
972
01:10:23,803 --> 01:10:26,431
Maybe it wasn't 100 miles,
maybe it was 40 miles an hour.
973
01:10:26,723 --> 01:10:30,602
But when we look at the footage
of Jimi's mic...
974
01:10:35,440 --> 01:10:39,110
...and this microphone has got
foam and all kinds of stuff
975
01:10:39,277 --> 01:10:43,198
just crammed round it,
like layers this thick,
976
01:10:43,365 --> 01:10:44,824
to try and stop the wind noise.
977
01:10:44,991 --> 01:10:47,160
We're looking at this footage
going, "What the..."
978
01:10:49,621 --> 01:10:51,623
Our work was cut out
trying to make the soundtrack
979
01:10:51,831 --> 01:10:53,667
actually sound like something.
980
01:10:59,923 --> 01:11:03,843
John was there with these tapes
from the top of the hill in Hawaii,
981
01:11:04,010 --> 01:11:06,888
trying to rescue adequate sound
from them.
982
01:11:13,853 --> 01:11:16,439
The multi-tracks come back
from the concert
983
01:11:16,606 --> 01:11:19,484
and there's no useful drums.
984
01:11:19,651 --> 01:11:23,321
So that's when the decision was made
to overdub the drums in the studio.
985
01:11:23,697 --> 01:11:27,200
We had to take
what a normal film editor would use,
986
01:11:27,367 --> 01:11:29,452
which was this contraption
called a Moviola.
987
01:11:29,619 --> 01:11:31,955
We had the film and then
there would be this screen,
988
01:11:32,122 --> 01:11:34,666
which is not very big,
but it was good enough for editing.
989
01:11:36,084 --> 01:11:39,296
And it was due to Mitch.
He was able to memorise,
990
01:11:39,462 --> 01:11:41,673
after looking at the little Moviola,
991
01:11:41,840 --> 01:11:44,926
"Oh, that's what I was doing.
Oh, okay, I'm doing this and that."
992
01:11:45,093 --> 01:11:46,261
And - bam! - he would do it.
993
01:11:52,642 --> 01:11:55,562
He would be playing
and watching this tiny little screen,
994
01:11:55,812 --> 01:11:57,480
this little screen of him playing,
995
01:11:57,647 --> 01:11:59,733
trying to get something
that's gonna work with the song
996
01:11:59,899 --> 01:12:01,985
and kind of maybe work
with the visual.
997
01:12:02,360 --> 01:12:04,029
So that was quite a challenge.
998
01:12:04,195 --> 01:12:07,240
By a process of building blocks,
999
01:12:07,657 --> 01:12:11,286
we managed to replace
all the badly-recorded drum tracks
1000
01:12:11,453 --> 01:12:14,456
from that event in Hawaii.
1001
01:12:22,964 --> 01:12:25,425
They were editing the movie
I think in a house
1002
01:12:25,592 --> 01:12:27,469
that Chuck had rented
in Hollywood Hills.
1003
01:12:27,635 --> 01:12:29,262
I go up there,
I knock on the door.
1004
01:12:29,429 --> 01:12:33,725
And this man answers,
who turned out to be the editor.
1005
01:12:33,892 --> 01:12:35,352
Chuck was hiding behind the door.
1006
01:12:35,518 --> 01:12:37,896
I don't know
who he was hiding from,
1007
01:12:38,063 --> 01:12:40,190
but he was definitely
hiding behind the door.
1008
01:12:40,357 --> 01:12:43,276
Then he came out and went,
"Oh, yes, it's you, John. It's okay."
1009
01:12:43,443 --> 01:12:45,070
There might have been some directions
1010
01:12:45,236 --> 01:12:47,781
he was getting from Warner Bros.
that weren't being followed.
1011
01:12:47,947 --> 01:12:50,658
I'm not sure
what he was hiding from.
1012
01:12:51,117 --> 01:12:53,995
They were up at what we all called
the Orange Grove House.
1013
01:12:54,454 --> 01:12:58,958
It was a struggle
to maintain its authenticity
1014
01:12:59,125 --> 01:13:01,961
and the context
and the genuineness of it
1015
01:13:02,253 --> 01:13:07,133
in the sensible effort to create
a commercial version of it.
1016
01:13:11,888 --> 01:13:15,350
There was a massive amount,
a massive amount of film.
1017
01:13:19,062 --> 01:13:21,356
The editing was laborious.
1018
01:13:23,274 --> 01:13:26,236
Imagine 42 hours of footage.
1019
01:13:26,403 --> 01:13:28,905
Chuck's putting it all together,
masterminding,
1020
01:13:29,072 --> 01:13:30,907
"We're gonna do this,
we're gonna have this,
1021
01:13:31,074 --> 01:13:33,243
and we'll take this from here,
and do this."
1022
01:13:34,911 --> 01:13:36,913
Chuck Wein came in
a handful of times.
1023
01:13:37,080 --> 01:13:39,833
And John, afterwards,
would just roll his eyes
1024
01:13:39,999 --> 01:13:43,002
all the way around in his head,
a 360-degree eye roll,
1025
01:13:43,503 --> 01:13:46,464
and just suffered, because these guys
were playing in Hollywood.
1026
01:13:47,132 --> 01:13:49,717
Chuck Wein, the director,
would occasionally burst in.
1027
01:13:52,387 --> 01:13:54,514
Chuck would say, "There's gonna be
a special effect here
1028
01:13:54,681 --> 01:13:56,349
where everybody goes to Mars."
1029
01:13:56,516 --> 01:13:59,561
And then there would be another place
where people are smoking pot.
1030
01:13:59,727 --> 01:14:01,938
"This is where the smell of pot
will fill the theatre."
1031
01:14:03,356 --> 01:14:06,359
And now I remember,
when we were mixing the movie,
1032
01:14:06,526 --> 01:14:08,486
there was this sound effects guy.
1033
01:14:08,778 --> 01:14:10,822
And Chuck would go on about,
1034
01:14:10,989 --> 01:14:13,741
"There is an explosion here,
then the sound of this there."
1035
01:14:13,908 --> 01:14:15,827
And he was going,
"Yeah, I got it, I got it."
1036
01:14:16,870 --> 01:14:18,204
"Then there was an explosion here,"
1037
01:14:18,371 --> 01:14:20,540
he would go, "I ain't got it,
I ain't got it "
1038
01:14:22,250 --> 01:14:24,586
There was all these special effects
he had earmarked.
1039
01:14:24,752 --> 01:14:27,755
And the movie was very, very long.
It's four hours long.
1040
01:14:27,922 --> 01:14:30,091
That was the one
that made the most sense
1041
01:14:30,258 --> 01:14:32,385
because it had the most stuff in it.
1042
01:14:32,552 --> 01:14:35,889
But then they cut it down
to an hour and a half.
1043
01:14:38,057 --> 01:14:41,728
There was angst,
there were discussions.
1044
01:14:41,895 --> 01:14:45,982
And Barry De Prendergast, I think,
was the person who ended up, I think,
1045
01:14:46,149 --> 01:14:50,445
representing most forcefully
the commercialization aspect of it.
1046
01:14:51,154 --> 01:14:56,242
And Chuck was defending,
to some extent admirably,
1047
01:14:56,618 --> 01:15:00,497
but unsuccessfully in the end,
his artistic control.
1048
01:15:00,788 --> 01:15:03,541
He believed he was doing
something important for the world
1049
01:15:03,708 --> 01:15:06,628
by introducing them to these
various... Dr. Bronner,
1050
01:15:06,794 --> 01:15:08,922
and aliens,
and all the things he had in there.
1051
01:15:09,088 --> 01:15:12,258
But he wasn't happy
with the outcome of it.
1052
01:15:13,593 --> 01:15:15,094
I went to the premiere with him.
1053
01:15:15,261 --> 01:15:20,391
He was happy and excited about it,
but he wasn't content with it.
1054
01:15:21,267 --> 01:15:23,853
I went to the premiere. It was awful.
1055
01:15:25,772 --> 01:15:26,940
It was awful.
1056
01:15:27,607 --> 01:15:30,735
I was so embarrassed.
It was terrible.
1057
01:15:36,491 --> 01:15:38,535
The Aquarius Theatre
was still the original.
1058
01:15:39,327 --> 01:15:40,995
I was tasked at that point
1059
01:15:41,162 --> 01:15:45,124
with removing all of the soda pop
and candy bars and junk food
1060
01:15:45,291 --> 01:15:47,544
that's ordinarily found
at movie theatres.
1061
01:15:48,586 --> 01:15:52,549
We brought in sparkling grape juice
and sparkling apple juice.
1062
01:15:53,007 --> 01:15:57,136
We had all the new array
of Natural Foods candies
1063
01:15:57,303 --> 01:16:00,098
that when children ate it,
it was actually healthy for them.
1064
01:16:00,890 --> 01:16:05,061
The film "Rainbow Bridge",
which you are about to see,
1065
01:16:05,645 --> 01:16:07,814
was not made from a script.
1066
01:16:08,314 --> 01:16:12,026
We had special music being played
1067
01:16:12,193 --> 01:16:14,821
that would raise
the vibratory frequency
1068
01:16:14,988 --> 01:16:17,740
of all of the people
that were attending.
1069
01:16:18,491 --> 01:16:20,493
The whole intent was to help
1070
01:16:21,035 --> 01:16:23,371
change the vibratory frequency
of the planet.
1071
01:16:23,538 --> 01:16:25,039
And as we face the Sun,
1072
01:16:25,206 --> 01:16:29,586
we see coming from this light
a more distinct and brighter light...
1073
01:16:30,878 --> 01:16:34,716
This theatre lit up like a fire.
1074
01:16:35,258 --> 01:16:37,218
Smoke just started going up.
1075
01:16:37,385 --> 01:16:40,597
You could hardly see the goddamn
movie, there was so much smoke.
1076
01:16:40,763 --> 01:16:46,394
People with hookahs,
smoking joints, doing hash.
1077
01:16:46,978 --> 01:16:49,272
It was just absolutely incredible.
1078
01:16:51,733 --> 01:16:53,610
It was a mixed response!
1079
01:16:55,862 --> 01:16:57,322
Some people left.
1080
01:16:59,032 --> 01:17:01,451
But, hey,
the people who stayed got it.
1081
01:17:01,618 --> 01:17:04,621
They wanted more,
they wanted to know more about it.
1082
01:17:04,787 --> 01:17:07,332
"What's he talking about?" basically!
1083
01:17:07,624 --> 01:17:09,626
But they were curious
and wanted to know.
1084
01:17:09,876 --> 01:17:16,591
He'd been through hell with it, so it
was not as glorious as he hoped.
1085
01:17:19,218 --> 01:17:21,596
And I remember going to see
"Rainbow Bridge"
1086
01:17:21,804 --> 01:17:25,099
thinking it was a Jimi Hendrix film,
and it really wasn't.
1087
01:17:25,266 --> 01:17:28,686
...this is dedicated to that little
girl over there called Hartley.
1088
01:17:28,853 --> 01:17:30,772
A thing called "Foxy Lady".
Look at her.
1089
01:17:31,022 --> 01:17:33,316
It had this attractive girl,
Pat Hartley.
1090
01:17:33,524 --> 01:17:36,527
It had a nonsensical non-story.
1091
01:17:36,694 --> 01:17:39,697
But people were getting high,
and there was talk about vibrations.
1092
01:17:39,864 --> 01:17:42,325
And it too was of a piece
1093
01:17:42,492 --> 01:17:45,203
with what was happening
in youth culture at that time.
1094
01:17:46,037 --> 01:17:50,291
It was not intended
to be a blockbuster.
1095
01:17:50,458 --> 01:17:53,753
Of course, there were niches for it.
1096
01:17:53,920 --> 01:17:57,382
And it would have grown, had it been
given the chance, I believe,
1097
01:17:57,548 --> 01:18:02,178
if it hadn't been cut
and sort of crushed by that moment.
1098
01:18:02,762 --> 01:18:04,889
So people who had been
sort of keyed up
1099
01:18:05,056 --> 01:18:06,849
because they'd seen him
in Woodstock,
1100
01:18:07,016 --> 01:18:09,769
and many millions of people
had seen him in the Woodstock film,
1101
01:18:09,936 --> 01:18:14,482
were keen to see
what he did in Hawaii.
1102
01:18:14,816 --> 01:18:17,443
It certainly was not
a Jimi Hendrix film
1103
01:18:17,610 --> 01:18:21,072
as much as anybody might
have tried to market it as one.
1104
01:18:21,322 --> 01:18:25,660
It was Michael Jeffery's attempt
to be an impresario
1105
01:18:26,077 --> 01:18:29,205
of the underground, something
I don't think he understood,
1106
01:18:29,372 --> 01:18:31,708
through the vehicle
of a director and producer
1107
01:18:31,874 --> 01:18:36,337
who had seduced him
with their underground credentials.
1108
01:18:36,546 --> 01:18:38,798
And we're gonna shoehorn
Jimi Hendrix into this
1109
01:18:38,965 --> 01:18:41,175
because that's the way we can get
this thing made
1110
01:18:41,342 --> 01:18:42,927
and get it booked into theatres,
1111
01:18:43,094 --> 01:18:46,264
and that's the way we can get
unsuspecting kids, like me,
1112
01:18:46,431 --> 01:18:47,640
to go see it.
1113
01:18:47,974 --> 01:18:51,018
It was a counterculture film,
it was a documentary.
1114
01:18:51,477 --> 01:18:54,355
And we were living it,
we were living it at the time.
1115
01:18:54,522 --> 01:18:59,068
It was a documentary
of our lives and our lifestyles.
1116
01:18:59,235 --> 01:19:02,071
And most importantly,
it was about our dreams.
1117
01:19:02,697 --> 01:19:07,201
So it encapsulated the things
we were hoping for and dreaming for.
1118
01:19:08,661 --> 01:19:11,456
What you're seeing now
on all the TVs is so boring.
1119
01:19:11,622 --> 01:19:13,166
You watch all the horrible stuff,
1120
01:19:13,332 --> 01:19:15,668
but you're not getting people
to speak deeply
1121
01:19:15,835 --> 01:19:19,088
from their spirit beings and all,
which is what you can do.
1122
01:19:19,255 --> 01:19:20,256
So, it's not hard.
1123
01:19:20,423 --> 01:19:24,635
There's a little thing that clicks on
when they go from the personality
1124
01:19:24,802 --> 01:19:29,098
they're usually trying to project
for approval into their core being.
1125
01:19:29,474 --> 01:19:31,934
That's what you gotta do
to do a real reality film.
1126
01:19:32,101 --> 01:19:35,229
Those people were doing it
and the reason I know it succeeded.
1127
01:19:35,396 --> 01:19:38,316
I started it back at Warhol, but I
never got much of a chance to do it.
1128
01:19:38,483 --> 01:19:39,776
I used real people,
1129
01:19:39,942 --> 01:19:43,613
but these people really had
something they wanted to say.
1130
01:19:44,489 --> 01:19:46,282
I got credit for all their lines.
1131
01:19:47,408 --> 01:19:49,786
That might be the beginning
of reality television
1132
01:19:49,952 --> 01:19:51,120
or really spacey stuff.
1133
01:19:51,287 --> 01:19:55,416
But looking at it through the eyes of
a 15 or 16-year-Old stoned teenager,
1134
01:19:55,583 --> 01:19:59,003
which I was when I saw it,
it made sense.
1135
01:19:59,504 --> 01:20:00,713
I thought it was great.
1136
01:20:03,341 --> 01:20:04,675
What was I gonna think?
1137
01:20:30,284 --> 01:20:31,619
It's quite a movie, right?
1138
01:20:31,786 --> 01:20:34,831
We've seen that movie and it comes
with some question marks.
1139
01:20:34,997 --> 01:20:39,418
But even without a cohesive unit
except for Jimi's concert,
1140
01:20:39,794 --> 01:20:40,962
it was a little bit crazy.
1141
01:20:41,128 --> 01:20:44,340
I think the people that were watching
had no idea what "Rainbow Bridge" is.
1142
01:20:44,507 --> 01:20:45,716
They knew Jimi Hendrix,
1143
01:20:45,883 --> 01:20:47,969
they watched the movie.
"What in the world is this?"
1144
01:20:48,845 --> 01:20:52,557
"Rainbow Bridge",
the ultimate American destination.
1145
01:20:53,474 --> 01:20:56,394
"The film that shows
what the hippest people actually did
1146
01:20:56,561 --> 01:20:59,313
when they were at their hippest",
quote, unquote.
1147
01:21:01,065 --> 01:21:02,608
New York's Village Voice.
1148
01:21:04,652 --> 01:21:07,321
Filmed on Maui, Hawaii,
"Rainbow Bridge".
1149
01:21:07,488 --> 01:21:09,615
Now showing at a Rainbow
showcase theatre near you.
1150
01:21:09,782 --> 01:21:11,617
It's from Transvue Films, rated R.
1151
01:21:11,784 --> 01:21:13,619
Under 17 not admitted
without parents.
1152
01:21:15,162 --> 01:21:19,417
Barry De Prendergast, in an attempt
to make it more commercial,
1153
01:21:19,584 --> 01:21:21,794
'cause he had to continue
to be the man, right?
1154
01:21:21,961 --> 01:21:24,088
He was supposed to be the producer.
1155
01:21:24,255 --> 01:21:26,507
He said, "The only way we'll get
money out of this thing
1156
01:21:26,674 --> 01:21:28,092
is if we chop it up."
1157
01:21:28,759 --> 01:21:35,349
That's when he went to the extreme,
and I'm so sad to say it,
1158
01:21:35,516 --> 01:21:39,770
but he and this Other gentleman,
on many bottles of tequila,
1159
01:21:40,563 --> 01:21:43,816
cut the negative
and threw the remnants away
1160
01:21:43,983 --> 01:21:45,818
so it couldn't be
brought back together.
1161
01:21:51,157 --> 01:21:52,909
I think everyone was surprised at it.
1162
01:21:53,075 --> 01:21:56,370
Some people thought it was gonna be
like a regular movie,
1163
01:21:56,537 --> 01:21:59,040
but it was a counterculture
presentation.
1164
01:22:06,631 --> 01:22:08,633
Thank God for the concert footage,
1165
01:22:09,717 --> 01:22:10,676
thank God.
1166
01:22:26,817 --> 01:22:28,235
When the movie came out,
1167
01:22:28,402 --> 01:22:32,490
and we had it over to my left
at the ridge,
1168
01:22:32,657 --> 01:22:34,742
Chuck brought it over
and we watched it.
1169
01:22:38,245 --> 01:22:40,122
We watched it on a brick wall
over there.
1170
01:22:40,289 --> 01:22:43,125
It was Maui's first showing,
on a brick wall.
1171
01:22:45,419 --> 01:22:48,464
When the film played around
the country, people would picket it.
1172
01:22:49,048 --> 01:22:52,885
In Houston, there was somebody
who thought it was the anti-Christ.
1173
01:22:53,052 --> 01:22:57,181
And one place in California, they
thought it was a Jesus-freak movie.
1174
01:22:57,348 --> 01:22:59,350
'Cause you had
both of those things there.
1175
01:22:59,517 --> 01:23:03,521
In fact, it was considered by the
L.A. Times to be a pro-acid movie,
1176
01:23:03,688 --> 01:23:06,983
but the Laguna Mystic Arts
Brotherhood thought we betrayed them
1177
01:23:07,149 --> 01:23:09,068
and that it was an anti-acid movie!
1178
01:23:09,318 --> 01:23:13,322
Then after that,
the Warner Bros. held onto the film.
1179
01:23:13,489 --> 01:23:14,699
They didn't like the film.
1180
01:23:14,865 --> 01:23:17,952
They were gonna shelve
the whole thing, and the $500,000,
1181
01:23:18,119 --> 01:23:19,954
forget it, they just would shelve it.
1182
01:23:20,121 --> 01:23:24,166
And then plus they gave Chuck
and Barry a bill for $300,000 more.
1183
01:23:24,333 --> 01:23:27,962
Then Chuck and Barry
had to go out and hustle it up.
1184
01:23:28,129 --> 01:23:31,716
They got Buzzy Bent, I think it was,
from Chart House restaurant,
1185
01:23:31,882 --> 01:23:35,094
to put up the 300 grand
to give them back the film.
1186
01:23:35,261 --> 01:23:37,263
Then they were walking
out of Warner Bros.
1187
01:23:37,430 --> 01:23:40,016
and right outside was the IRS
going, "You owe us 40 grand,"
1188
01:23:40,182 --> 01:23:41,851
and they took it away
from them again!
1189
01:23:46,313 --> 01:23:49,233
"The Cry of Love"
was pretty much finished
1190
01:23:49,400 --> 01:23:51,360
and was put out as an album.
1191
01:23:51,527 --> 01:23:53,571
I think "Dolly Dagger"
was pulled from that.
1192
01:23:53,738 --> 01:23:56,073
I think Michael had thought
about pulling that song
1193
01:23:56,240 --> 01:24:01,954
just 'cause he was seeing what was
coming up with "Rainbow Bridge".
1194
01:24:02,121 --> 01:24:04,457
I think because
I knew the music, he said,
1195
01:24:04,623 --> 01:24:07,209
"Well, you need to find music
that's gonna fit in the movie
1196
01:24:07,376 --> 01:24:09,003
and that will turn into an album."
1197
01:24:24,602 --> 01:24:27,730
Fortunately, Jimi Hendrix
was recording constantly
1198
01:24:27,897 --> 01:24:29,356
throughout his lifetime
1199
01:24:29,523 --> 01:24:31,317
and there was plenty
of unreleased stuff
1200
01:24:31,484 --> 01:24:34,236
he could repurpose into
a soundtrack for "Rainbow Bridge".
1201
01:24:44,705 --> 01:24:47,333
When he died and we went back
to Electric Lady in New York
1202
01:24:47,500 --> 01:24:49,710
to his studio, it was already there.
1203
01:24:49,877 --> 01:24:53,422
He'd already done it.
He'd done it before the film.
1204
01:24:53,589 --> 01:24:55,091
And it fit.
1205
01:25:04,433 --> 01:25:07,728
And we just started
to pull tracks from various places
1206
01:25:07,895 --> 01:25:11,524
and assemble something that
could be called "Rainbow Bridge".
1207
01:25:56,610 --> 01:25:59,488
The record was completely different
from the movie, I would say,
1208
01:25:59,655 --> 01:26:02,950
in that it was all stuff
that Jimi loved and worked on,
1209
01:26:03,117 --> 01:26:06,704
and was really high-quality stuff.
1210
01:26:06,871 --> 01:26:13,002
It was called "Rainbow Bridge",
you know, because of the movie,
1211
01:26:13,169 --> 01:26:17,923
and then on the back cover...
Chuck would "Om" occasionally.
1212
01:26:20,593 --> 01:26:23,470
If you're familiar with 'Omming',
something the Buddhists do.
1213
01:26:24,346 --> 01:26:26,724
So that was gonna be
on the back of the album.
1214
01:26:26,891 --> 01:26:30,728
That was gonna be, not boldly,
but behind the print there.
1215
01:26:30,895 --> 01:26:34,273
But the people that did the album
cover got it wrong so it says "Mo".
1216
01:26:36,859 --> 01:26:40,487
That to me was kind of like,
"Yeah, that makes sense."
1217
01:26:40,738 --> 01:26:43,240
Attention to detail
is what we're talking about here.
1218
01:26:44,992 --> 01:26:48,204
So the original version
that Chuck was still working with,
1219
01:26:48,370 --> 01:26:51,373
where the Shri Yantra and the Om sign
was not reversed,
1220
01:26:51,540 --> 01:26:54,501
as in all the vast majority of film
went out,
1221
01:26:55,044 --> 01:26:56,879
the original film wasn't like that.
1222
01:26:57,046 --> 01:27:00,966
The original film was a beautiful,
pristine snapshot
1223
01:27:01,634 --> 01:27:03,302
of a unique moment in history
1224
01:27:03,469 --> 01:27:05,554
that was so beautiful
it was indescribable.
1225
01:27:16,565 --> 01:27:19,151
Nothing has matched
the "Rainbow Bridge" concert for me.
1226
01:27:19,318 --> 01:27:21,195
It was just calm
1227
01:27:21,362 --> 01:27:24,782
and it was almost like I was
meditating while I was watching it.
1228
01:27:28,953 --> 01:27:30,329
Had Hendrix lived,
1229
01:27:30,496 --> 01:27:33,832
this movie would have just been
a counterculture youth movie,
1230
01:27:34,291 --> 01:27:36,835
with a soundtrack of new music
by Jimi Hendrix,
1231
01:27:37,294 --> 01:27:41,090
and people maybe wouldn't have
scrutinised this as carefully,
1232
01:27:41,548 --> 01:27:45,052
and I think people probably
would have had a better idea
1233
01:27:45,219 --> 01:27:47,471
of what it was
when it was released.
1234
01:27:53,560 --> 01:27:55,813
"Rainbow Bridge"
was not his artistic vision.
1235
01:27:55,980 --> 01:28:00,276
It was sort of disconcerting
after his passing
1236
01:28:00,442 --> 01:28:05,281
that his legacy was kind of
put under something of a cloud
1237
01:28:05,698 --> 01:28:08,200
by this posthumous project,
1238
01:28:08,367 --> 01:28:12,246
which he really had nothing
personally to do with.
1239
01:28:13,080 --> 01:28:17,293
Hendrix dying left Michael
Jeffery and the producers scrambling.
1240
01:28:20,254 --> 01:28:23,257
Who knows what it would have been,
though, if Hendrix had lived?
1241
01:28:35,227 --> 01:28:39,023
When I see that even today,
it's as though time stood still.
1242
01:28:39,189 --> 01:28:43,110
And it was an incredible time,
a great time, a youthful time,
1243
01:28:43,777 --> 01:28:47,072
a time of freedom,
no responsibilities,
1244
01:28:47,239 --> 01:28:48,490
and we were young.
1245
01:29:12,181 --> 01:29:15,100
Thank you. Thank you.
Peace with you, man. Thank you.