:30:03
When he saw Jimi, he thought,
"This is nothing."
:30:06
Then, eventually,
I bumped into Chas Chandler...
:30:09
...who I didn't know,
but I knew was one of the Animals.
:30:14
And I think Jimi was getting
quite desperate to record...
:30:18
...or to at least make another step.
:30:21
And so, Chas came down to see him
and was like...
:30:25
It was instantaneous.
:30:27
I mean, there was no question in his mind.
:30:29
I'd been on the scene a few times
with people who'd say:
:30:32
"Hendrix is playing at the so and so,
down in the Village."
:30:35
They said, "Oh, yeah. That's nice."
:30:37
You know, blah-blah, just shine it on
like it ain't no big thing.
:30:41
But they had no idea that he was going
to run into Chas Chandler or whoever...
:30:45
...Linda Keith, or somebody, you know,
who was gonna really...
:30:49
...put the icin' on the fuckin' cake.
:30:51
It was just a matter of time.
:30:52
All he had to do was get out
of fuckin' Harlem and go somewhere...
:30:56
...where somebody with some bread,
who had an eye for talent, you know...
:31:00
...wanted to see somebody
sure enough do it, that had it.
:31:03
The stage was set for Jimi really.
:31:07
It could have been anyone,
but it had to be him.
:31:11
Because London was just comin'
into a kind of really heavy soul thing.
:31:15
The blues boom was dying
and it needed someone...
:31:18
...to bring it all back to life
and sort of cement it together.
:31:21
I didn't know nothin'. I thought
he'd just come out of nowhere.
:31:24
We just adopted him, we felt, in England,
'cause he was great.
:31:28
He wasn't big in America
and he'd come here.
:31:30
He'd come to England, and we were there.
:31:33
He had his first record in England.
He was ours, you know.