We won’t let anything out unless we’ve spent an awful lot of time and spent days and weeks and months on how to make this sound good, … We’ve got enough material in the vaults...

Jimi’s music is so universal. And kids who are getting into rock ‘n’ roll guitar, who’s the go-to guy? It’s Jimi. That’s the first place you start and everything else comes from that.

I think the box set represents the four top creative years of his life. It shows that growth pattern and shows behind-the-scenes little things that he was doing in creating those records and (is a)...

You can hear Jimi experimenting with his vocal. He’s rustling the paper and going ‘Oh…oh…oh I don’t know where I am.’ … The first time he ever sang it, and he’s laughing and carrying on.

But the basic stuff was there.

There’s gonna be one nice piece of product coming out every year for about the next 15 years. There’s enough good stuff there, trust me.

The take (of ‘Hey Joe’) that we’re listening to on the box set has an earlier version of the backup singers singing a little out of key and not quite what they wanted,

We always joked and kidded around, every day and every moment,

It was such a fluid motion, from the brain to the heart to the hands to the feet with the pedals, that the nanosecond that he thought it, it came out with no interruption and...

Life was but a joke and a dream, quite frankly. We were having a good time, and we were working very hard and the sessions were very light-hearted.

[Hendrix plays the role of both himself and Leon.] It think it’s very clever, and very, very emotionally charged, … It has a tremendous wallop, I think.

When I first did Woodstock many, many years ago, my initial impression when I went to California to look at the rushes . . . was I was appalled. I knew the performance was OK,...

There was a guy onstage filming the whole bloody thing. Who’s this guy? Where did he come from? We tracked him down. He was a student. His parents had given him some money to buy...

Look at the mikes. There are three mikes on the drums, all Shure 58s, not what you’d call high-end condenser microphones,

This is what we do. We try to make the best out of what we had, … It wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be. Because of the leakage you had...