Jimi Hendrix - Documentary, 'The South Bank Show' - 1st October 1989

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[@rockyvarkhond2269]

Would you have the BBC Radio one 'In a wink of an eye' from 1995?

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@@rockyvarkhond2269 Hi - sorry not got that one...

[@MrWayout74]

Mate I've not watched this since I was in the 3rd year. (I'm guessing you know what the 3rd year means). It was a big deal at school at the time as a recorded VHS did the rounds with all the heads, and I'm not talking about teachers.

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@@MrWayout74 Haha..yeh, am glad I recorded it. Totally forgot about it until started digitising my old VHS tapes...

[@MrWayout74]

@thecassetteconverter There was another on BBC at the time aswell. Laughing Sam's dice or something in the title. Rung any bells?

[@Albrecht777]

Thank you for posting this here in its entirety. This was - and, perhaps, still is - my favourite "basic" documentary about Hendrix.

[@thecassetteconverter]

No probs....Forgot had 'taped' this years ago...Glad I did!!

[@richardfowler5163]

Great video. Used to have this on VHS taped directly off the original broadcast. Thanks, have not seen this for years.

[@thecassetteconverter]

No probs..found on old VHS tape. Slight stuttering on video halfway through but defo watchable. Not sure why does that......cheers!

[@We_All_Seek_Truth]

This is a GREAT documentary! Thanks for posting it!

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No probs! Enjoy...

[@rosakami1588]

​@@thecassetteconverteri think this documentary was posted before right before it got taken down by KZbin because it was one of my favorite things to watch. Jimi Hendrix is King man.

[@pedromac1620]

Wonderful upload my friend. Thanks.

[@riceflatpicking4954]

Thank you! Incredible footage, much of which I have not seen and I’ve been obsessed with him for decades.

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No probs! Enjoy the master!

[@comfortat]

I thought I'd heard all the stories about Jimi... wow thanks for posting this.

[@marktroiani5401]

Ok you had me at Jimi Hendrix. Great program.

[@tonetone7572]

have this from when it first came out , very well done and informative its a shame its not been remastered and distributed for sale through the Hendrix Family.

[@graemem111]

Email the British ITV. I have. Okay, this was I think was an independent production, as The South Bank Show, but broadcast by them. Email also the host, Melvin Bragg, as this year is a major anniversary of TSBS so what better reason??

[@Albrecht777]

@@graemem111 It was broadcast on Channel 4, not ITV, although both were regulated by the IBA at the time.

[@JohnSmith-of4vh]

I have listened to Hendrix for many years & ofcourse it is still fresh & vibrant. It is sad that all the Experience have now passed away, Noel lived quite close to me & I know someone who fixed his home speakers!

[@flunkyminion]

Monterrey Festival, Hendrix goes on stage as a rumour and leaves it as a legend.

[@Unclemoparman]

Monterey🎉

[@We_All_Seek_Truth]

Yeah, that performance 'made' him in America.

[@gib59er56]

That pretty much sums it up flunky. I was always struck by Hendrix`s very shy personality being at odds with his very big, loud and flashy stage persona. I never got into Hendrix much at all. I am a guitarist , so that was something very odd to others. I guess they all thought "If you are a guitarist, how can you not love Jimi?" Well, it`s simple, it just ain`t my thing man. Of course we all recognize the way he came and changed the whole game. His solid rhythm playing, his use of the trem. bar, with full depression, creating dive bombs and many other things that are just normal today. He was an innovator for sure. That is his legacy. When I began playing in 1980, it was cuz of Jimmy Page and Joe Walsh, with Ed Van Halen creeping into my brain and fingers, causing me to play up to 6+ hrs. a day quite often. One thing I always wonder about is "What would Hendrix be doing today had he lived on?" I have absolutely no clue. He might have left the scene altogether, or maybe gone on to play only pure blues with only other black musicians. That was where his head was at when he died. That "27 club" is crazy!

[@JQ127-c4e]

​@@gib59er56I highly doubt Hendrix would have stopped playing music.

[@arthurwild5734]

@@gib59er56 Polite suggestion: listen to the "cry of love" album… What Hendrix was working on when he died…most of it was completed, and was completed after he died. So much more funky, and less rock influenced… but no matter what you call it, just listen to the fluidity of everything he plays… Just effortless...I don't know how many people are really aware of this change in his playing… Maybe his evolving? I think just different… Anyway, I suggest you listen to it if you haven't and if you don't like it, well, we all just have different tastes.

[@ryand141]

'I'm sick of people saying we rely on gimmicks. The world is nothin but a big gimmick, wars, Napalm bombs, isn't it? Yes we do.' This is one of the best lines I've ever heard. Hendrix was special, and not just musically.

[@SunnyOusley]

Thanks !

[@Crinkle65]

Thanks for posting this. It’s a great doc. This should be issued in Hd somewhere. It’s a real treasure. Thanks again

[@thecassetteconverter]

Yep this is just about watchable from an old VHS👍

[@msaintpc]

One of the best Hendrix documentaries ever.

[@shawnknapp3957]

So cool to see the footage of him playing the SG

[@ustheserfs]

some of us have lived near a lifetime since 1989 when this first aired. To think he'd only passed on not even twenty years before then and today it closes on almost 55. no matter how much time passes we still mention him with awe, discuss all the facets of his playing and nothing changes, he's the most proficient there ever was.

[@graemem111]

Simply wonderful to see this again. I remember it’s first broadcast, and shouting at my parents ‘see! I told you!’ Until anything was recognised by Melvin Bragg on TSBS it didn’t exist.

[@Prestostark]

Great stuff, great footage. The look on the girls faces at around 20:00 in at Monterey really nails it. No one had ever seen anything like Hendrix. It was quite literally "Stunning" for the uninitiated, the "Inexperienced". Man, I wish I had been there.

[@H71BCD]

Thanks for posting. Had this on a long lost vcr tape.

[@theresewalters1696]

Thanks for this gem!

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No probs..one of best guitarists ever!

[@ignorecorporatenews]

This is a VERY unique, and Great doc about Jimi. Thanks for posting it.

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Enjoy!

[@marccarter1350]

i remember watching this over and over having taped it from the Telly as a kid!

[@chubbyoo7]

I certainly appreciate hearing Clapton’s comments

[@GreatWaterCircus]

Brilliant video

[@cover557]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR JAMES (JIMI) MARSHALL HENDRIX 81 YEARS OLD TOMORROW NOV,27. !!!!!!!@!!!!!!!!!

[@charlesrobinson7469]

I thought it was November 23, 1942.

[@bartrobinson2103]

​@@charlesrobinson7469November twenty seventh is correct.

[@charlesrobinson7469]

@@bartrobinson2103 Ok, thanks for clarifying.👍🏾

[@lisahobbins614]

I wish he was still here on Earth. He is the epitome of the greatest guitarist! ❤️❤️❤️

[@paddymeboy]

Great doco, particularly for the interviews with Chas Chandler. Remember seeing it at the time, ever afterwards me & my mates used to say 'Purple Haze' in a Geordie accent. Robert Cray asks 'where did he come from', the key is that he successfully grafted white pop and psychedelia onto his blues/soul roots; he was the only black artist to do this successfully. He didn't come out of nowhere, he was running with the Beatles' baton. And then he turned it up to 11.

[@sm1tty031]

I have this on VHS...This show is legendary on the JH collection circuit

[@67psych]

Jimi will still be listening to and appreciated long after we are all gone . Well into into the future.

[@jayskywalker5049]

YESSSSSS cause here we are

[@edwardmulholland7912]

I remember this - one of the best Hendrix documentaries.

[@jamesbrannigan5620]

Excellent upload, thanks

[@toegar2000]

Really enjoyed watching this documentary. Growing up during this time Hendrix was my favorite guitarist.

[@JoeRivermanSongwriter]

Had this recorded on vhs 📼 wore it out.

[@jayaybe1]

Ha ha, me too .

[@RonaldWilliams-qh7zc]

This was Damn Good!!!!🔥🎛️🎛️😩🎸🎛️🎛️🔥

[@Phubby]

Happy Birthday it’s 12:47 am here just finished this great documentary learned so much in this one. Thanks a lot!

[@Phubby]

November 27 2024 54 years since he has been gone now rest in peace cosmic soldier

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@@Phubby 👍

[@startervisions]

Thank you!

[@AjemanChannel-il3ci]

Real Awesome! I Love it. > Toronto, Canada

[@darrensmith6368]

I can remember recording this programme on my mum and dad's VHS video recorder, the south bank show on Sunday night at ten thirty in the evening,I was 17 at the time and was started getting into jimi Hendrix,my dad had Jimi Hendrix smash hits on cassette, long live Jimi Hendrix,Noel Redding, and Mitch Mitchell rip.

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Well said!!

[@danieljohnson2866]

Fantastic wrighting about where we lived, time there and Monterey pop festival concert, as well as Jimi Hendrix since I lived there as a young, young boy through all those and many additional things.

[@SenjiaMurtic]

Thanks for the upload

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No probs..thanks for watching!

[@Nazz1967]

God i havnt seen this since it was on tv .Love it .

[@henryheinzjunker8807]

wow - JIMI HENDRIX

[@spumpstein9374]

At 8:04, during Hey Joe, Jimi quotes the Beatles' I Feel Fine riff in a fill between vocal lines. Awesome!

[@gaoxiaen1]

Wow! Good catch! I didn't notice that.

[@paddymeboy]

If you get his BBC Radio One sessions album, they actually do a full-scale cover of the song. There are loads of other great things on it, well worth getting if you don't have it.

[@spumpstein9374]

Interesting. Thanks for the tip!@@paddymeboy

[@jjjjjj-sd6yr]

That is so freaking cool you caught that! I never would have noticed it, but now I can't miss it!

[@thomaswoods1365]

Blown away by the MLK story. Only Jimi could pull off an improvisation like that leaving the audience in tears. Wow. Unfortunate it wasn't captured for the rest of us.

[@Keithlfpieterse]

And now in my twilight years as a Black Boomer and PROUD of it I still pay respect to the legacy of both Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck!

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Guitar heroes!

[@riklionheart23]

This documentary was essential viewing back in the day, as was the Monterey Pop film with that legendary Experience set which Channel 4 showed a few years earlier. Shame it hasn’t been reissued in better condition.

[@kennyblackbird5674]

Jimi's grandmother was an African American that was part Irish and Cherokee .

[@lasse1345]

He would hate the Word, Genius, or some pick-off. 😮. So go in glory.... B.Reg.

[@lasse1345]

Jan

[@paulbennett772]

Cover pic comes from a performance in England 'The Lulu Show' , I believe, in which JMH retuned a string; the embarrassed glance was to indicate that.

[@auss1eman]

The best doco on Jimi!!!

[@adamlock1285]

I remember watching this but for some reason i recall it being in the early 90s.

[@ianjones7266]

I just keep going back to Jimi. His music and writing are still spectacular. From 'Are you experienced' to 'Power of Soul' every note is from somewhere in space. Listening to his music & his playing is for me, as close to a religeous experience as I've ever been! ❤☠🤘

[@larrylomascolo6289]

8 track in my 73 Vega with Hendrix playing wore that tape outJ immy Hendrix Experience the weed and jimmy music the best

[@jonvia]

Very talented, but also at the right place at the right time.

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

Wow. That's an incredible story. I thought I heard all the Jimi Hendrix stories. About him improvising a number after the death of MLK and bringing tears to everyone's eyes.

[@glennwoods2462]

Loved The South Bank Show.....

[@bismarkwilliamson8117]

Is really amazing how fast he became famous. But he was amazing and he was a genius and he had the connections he was with Chaz Chandler Chandler was one of the guys

[@MrJohnnyDistortion]

Like the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix was a cultural and musical phenomenon.

[@pressureworks]

Is

[@MrJohnnyDistortion]

@@pressureworks Was. Because he has passed away into the darkness.

[@pressureworks]

@@MrJohnnyDistortion Is because his music and life are still greatly appreciated. Even Bob Dylan's grandmother over there, if she were still alive, would agree.

[@ttacking_you]

Damn! A joint out of a stinky sink drain pipe- that's dedication!!👏👏👏👏👏Dem boyz were troopers!

[@amomentsnotice]

The art form & the music of Jimi Hendrix was all about the reality of the moment in the history of the World past present & future yet most people including myself couldn’t understand it that way simply because most people in any timeline of the World experience the Matrix in a sleep mode

[@bigdawg7703]

I was 9 years old in 1967 when my 15 year old hippie sister turned me onto pot and Hendrix. I instantly liked what I was hearing. I had a little turntable in my bedroom and I would sit there listening to him for hours. My friends and I would go outside and hide to smoke some weed so for most of the time I was wasted? Music became the most important thing in my life. By 11 I was dropping acid and the world changed forever. Till this day for me Jimi remains to be the greatest guitar player that ever lived. .

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Brilliant! Top story Big Dawg!

[@morriypoulsen1238]

You aren't wrong there.

[@lizmedina2527]

He was handsome and had a beautiful voice. Charismatic. So sad.

[@rockyvarkhond2269]

This was made before the Etchingham investigations in 92 which revealed that his death was far more sinister than just a, 'tragic accident through misadventure'.

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Did his manager at the time have something to do with it?

[@rockyvarkhond2269]

Yeah, you could say that.@@thecassetteconverter

[@BobK5]

@@thecassetteconverterthere’s absolutely no evidence that Mike Jeffries had anything to do with it, there’s is overwhelming evidence that points to Monika Danneman pouring bottles of red wine down his throat while he was on unconscious on sleeping pills after he’d earlier refused to marry her, in other words she murdered him or at least recklessly caused his death.

[@gaoxiaen1]

What's the story? I never heard this before.

[@BobK5]

@@thecassetteconverter no he had nothing to do with it, Monika Danneman, one of Jimi’s girlfriends, was responsible, she poured bottles of red wine down his throat while he was unconscious on her very strong sleeping tablets until he eventually threw up and choked to death. She did it because they’d had a row the evening before when she told Jimi she wanted them to get married but he declined the offer making her mad.

[@Hirogebra]

His versions of 'Killing Floor' are all incredible.

[@morriypoulsen1238]

What about Johnny B GOODE, Bleeding Heart, like a rolling Stone and All Along the watchtower and Come On let the good times roll

[@preferredparking9862]

he wrote " ...not to die but to be reborn away from a land so battered and torn ..." 1983

[@JoJo-Hamilton]

Jimi was self taught. As are many drummers.

[@123jkjk123]

Cool documentary with great old footage. A bit dismissive of Jimi's pre-Experience work. How many know that an early influence on a young Keith Richards, BEFORE Stones even started writing their own music, was Jimi Hendrix? Check out Mercy Mercy by Don Covay (Jimi on guit.) covered by 1965 Stones on Out of our Heads.

[@johntaylor8271]

Thank you for this. FYI, the vid was uploaded at too low of a volume.

[@mwmingram]

Great documentary.

[@mwmingram]

Thank you.

[@beachcomber4141]

This is one of the better documentaries on Jimi. I am surprised I had not seen it before. I thought I saw them all.

[@tylerthompson1842]

I love that he cut Clapton “God” straight away

[@We_All_Seek_Truth]

Pretty cool Hendrix video. The last thing he said (in this video) was "Can I do that again?" Makes me wonder, ask - what was the last thing he ever played? That 12-string acoustic blues? (→Which BTW was tuned ↓down↓ two whole steps to 'C Standard' tuning.) Maybe he played "The Star Spangled Banner" with that "Taps" thing near the end - like he did at Woodstock, which was the best version he ever did - that I'VE heard.

[@morriypoulsen1238]

Jimi played a black Strat the day before he died, his girlfriend Monica ended up with the guitar.

[@corkyandteresalight8258]

@ 52 min. approximately. well said eric

[@frankb36]

The legend of Hendrix.

[@RelicOnMaui]

Did you catch that George Harrison ("I Feel Fine" riff at 8:05? He used another one from the Stones' "(Have) Mercy" on his recording of "Fire" which he didn't play on the original Don Covey "Mercy" he played backup on.

[@BIZARBIES]

So Jimi was making $100,000 per show by the end of '68, which in 2023 dollars would be close to $900k per show. Anyone know how many shows Jimi did in '69-'70? Mike Jeffrey made 2 or 3 million dollars on the death of Jimi, but I wonder how much he embezzled on top of that? Jimi was just dollars to his management. Sucks. 😢

[@ttacking_you]

The peculation ran deep, no doubt?

[@davidkarr4632]

And he was still getting ripped off by his manager.

[@morriypoulsen1238]

Bullshit, he wasn't making that kind of money more like 20,000 to 30,000.

[@ttacking_you]

@@morriypoulsen1238 fuck?! He charged ME a hundie stack?!

[@ttacking_you]

They call this peculation speculation.

[@melroz20102011]

He's high as a kit in the picture when I saw this video before I pressed play

[@jameslong9921]

Man that description of his Newark gig with the Experience on the eve of Martin Luther King's death is evocative, an "appalling beauty" he describes the unrecorded homage to a man with a towering cultural legacy. Reminds me of the outro set of his Woodstock performance an Am blues thing that's just sublime.

[@morriypoulsen1238]

Jimi called that tune in A minor ,Villa Nova Junction, Jimi at his very best.

[@gilbertopoeta1184]

Ótimo músico!!!

[@RootzRockBand]

Some call Jimi Hendrix a legend, however to others he is a guitar hero and an old friend.

[@tracyeaves4847]

Contributing factor to Jimmy's down fall is continuous physical exhaustion.

[@morriypoulsen1238]

Jimi played 24/7 ,it was the drugs that destroyed Jimi.

[@gauradas108]

Jimi, in my teens, I got a Fender Stratocaster that I painted white many times so it would look like one of yours, like at Woodstock. I used to play a few of your from Axis Bold As Love, in my blues band back in Winnipeg.. You introduced me to Lord. Vishnu, on the cover of Axis Bold As Love, and I became a monk in the Hare Krishna tadition. Your biography where you left your body due to suffocating on your vomit and drugs impacted me gratefly and inspired me to give up the world of secular music to only play spiritual music. The last drummber I played with was Jimmy Mayes in Chicago, of the Jimmy Mayes Mill Street Depot, who used to play with you on the Chitlin Circui and who is credited playing with you on a track from Cry of Love. I'm glad I pulled out of the music scene when I did. Your death saved my life.. I hope you get to meet Lord Krishna, as there was that person holding that poster of Gopal Krishna, the transcendental cowherd boy on the cover of Cry Of Love. Before you deaprted yu said you wanted to hav a band to do ELectric Church music. I know you had a spiritual side to you. We all do, If I dont meet you in this life, maybe I'll meet you in the next, but don't be late. We can play sweet music together, having a funky kirtan. Fly on my sweet angel....to the Spiritual Sky

[@antrygis1]

After all of Jimi's suffering down South and in NYC and then England and Europe warmed up to him...he was filled to explode at Monterrey. What a beautiful environment. How's your trip? Alright? Let's do it! And he did. So sad the business killed him. But his music lives on.

[@Hoppenoffer]

The first sentence in this documentary quote, Jimi Hendrix career was going nowhere“ is wrong. He had already played with some of the biggest R&B and coloured artists in America. It’s up to you if you watch it.

[@tomcarl8021]

And he was fired from almost all of those bands for being a showboat. His career WAS going nowhere. Now, could he have secured a record contract as a solo artist if he remained in New York, I believe eventually he would have, but, just being a sideman for R&B stars wasn't what he wanted and, no doubt he believed himself that his career was going nowhere.

[@123jkjk123]

I agree. And not only on live shows - in the studio he had already influenced Keith Richards / Stones with Don Covay's Mercy Mercy. Not too bad for a 22 year old "going nowhere".

[@We_All_Seek_Truth]

He WAS nowhere when CC "discovered" him. I don't know about "going" nowhere. That's a good question. R&B acts were the bottom rung on the ladder. Recording contracts for R&B acts were known to be the worst in the business. And like the other commenters are saying, he got fired from most of those acts. He was actually developing a bad reputation! You might say - he was not "going nowhere", because in a way he was "going downhill." There IS a good chance he might've been able to get going in America. It's tough to extinguish a very hot fire. They tend to spread quickly. But he didn't have much time. Drugs were completely underestimated in the 60s, and Jimi liked 'em. I think it was the mixing of drugs with alcohol that got a lot of people. They didn't understand that they enhanced their prospects for death. Jimi liked drinking, but he was basically only interested in pot and acid. Then there's the conspiracy angles about his death. His choice of drugs weren't that bad - in conjunction with alcohol, but his manager WAS dangerous! (MJ, not CC.)

[@raymondsemper5161]

Black Artists✌🏿👍🏾🖤😊😊

[@morriypoulsen1238]

Jimi was always going somewhere,it was just finding the right manager in Chas Chandler

[@keithlillis7962]

Great to see this again after all these years. It is a pity they didn't show Jimi's rendition of 'The Star Bangled Banner' at Woodstock, where Jimi turns the US national anthem into the Vietnam war. Probably a copyright thing. The version is on KZbin and anyone discovering Hendrix for the first time should watch it - Rock music as a true art form.

[@americangirl-]

The KING OF ROCK EXISTENCE 🎸 👑💫🌠

[@ps-bi2sr]

Looks like he threw out to the audience the guitar in pieces.....can you imagine THAT as a souvenir?

[@AllSpace]

man he farking smashed the guitar up so bad insane

[@andyokus5735]

Whoever got Jimi's neck from Monterey that thing is easily worth a Million or more dollars. Good question, where is that neck?

[@AllSpace]

that was the last thing you can see he through out into crowd, some lucky punter got it @@andyokus5735

[@234cheech]

i fucking loved the south bank show and classic theme tune

[@ayiorgos]

Rock's Greatest Revolutionary by far!

[@70schild420]

To this day I grieve Jimis passing

[@ChromaticHarp]

They used the WRONG version of Machine Gun. There’s video of the Band Of Gypsies album Cut, which is Far Superior than the version In This video…..

[@jayskywalker5049]

YESSSSSS

[@morriypoulsen1238]

It doesn't matter both versions of Machine Gun are out of world.

[@Swat-ed5bt]

Legend ❤

[@BobbyGeneric145]

His Chitlin Circuit showmanship fit great in that era of rock.

[@tommeredith7462]

Never mention the word Gimmick, Jimmy would rip your head off.

[@modernmistyk4341]

35:04 shows you how serious shit was back then

[@GlennSpitzer-mi4cl]

I think a part of it was growing up in Seattle post war. He said his schools were integrated so he was used to different kinds of people. He played in the Chitlin circuit which was mostly or all black so he fit in. That was a first hand R&B lesson. Then when he was discovered in Greenwich it was probably mostly white hippies and didn't care and could fit in that scene too.

[@lisahobbins614]

I pray you don’t have to do that. JIMI HENDRIX is., was forever more be my all time favorite guitarist!

[@GlennSpitzer-mi4cl]

@@lisahobbins614 It took the right person at the right time. His peers at that time 1960's where English [Britain] and they learned R&B from records. Jimi was like the real deal. Oh I know you mean how he got over worked by Managment and the industry. And getting ripped off. There learning now.

[@SenjiaMurtic]

Damn, only 27 years old when passing, only a quarter of life lived and during some world changing times, peace be upon him..

[@morriypoulsen1238]

The thing is Jimi knew for sure he would be dead before the age of 28,he even told a couple of close friends.

[@tomquinn607]

There could be a paint brush or a pencil between Hendrix fingers and they would unaffectedly produce art.

[@mikecacioppo5639]

🌟👑🌟 🎸

[@NECRONOMICON7-7-7]

The whaa whaa was the name of the coffee shop that Jimi was discovered at . Later in England he was first billed as " the wild blackman of Borneo"

[@billyclone4289]

Wrong it was the Cafe whaa

[@Gerard_2024]

@@billyclone4289 Wrong. It was Cafe Wha? See @04:08

[@morriypoulsen1238]

Wah,Wah a foot pedal Jimi used to get affect.