https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks2HcT46lUE
The fellow who appears at the end of the video is Eddie Kramer, famed record producer, filmmaker, photographer who was the original recording engineer for Hendrix on his studio albums (later a co-producer) and who also was a co-designer (with Jimi) of Hendrix's Electric Lady Recording Studio in NYC; loo up his bio on Wikipedia, its extremely impressive with a very long list of credits for all the stars he has worked with over the decades...
Speaking of Electric Lady Studios, Kramer has been involved with the various re-releases of Hendrix materials, not only remixing and remastering, but also sorting through the tapes Jimi left behind; Kramer likes to tell this story about something that happened while he and an engineer were trying to remix a track very late at night in Electric Lady; they were trying to get a guitar track by Jimi to sound just right but were not quite getting there because the track had been recorded direct to the recording console, bypassing studio mics; they got the idea of running the signal through one of Jimi's old Marshall stack amp setups, and then recording the sound with a microphone in the the studio to give the track more of a 'live' sound; they hooked up the amps, dimmed the lights in the studio and shoe a small spotlight on the amp; going back to the control room, they then turned off the lights in the control room and sat back to listen to the track on headphones and through the monitors; about halfway through the session, the studio door suddenly flew open and they watched as a studio custodian (unaware Kramer and the engineer were in the control room) ran up to the Marshall amps with a shocked look on his face,as if he was seeing a ghost, and fall to his knees in front of the amps...
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