1967, with Noel Redding on bass and Mitch Mitchell on drums. Redding and/or Mitchell also provide backing vocals during Hendrix's vocal. In contrast to the subdued vocal sections, the middle section features highly charged guitar soloing and accompaniment. Two takes were recorded, both lasting about five minutes. The second take was broadcast on December 24, 1967, for the Top Gear radio program. The first take recorded was released in 1988 on the Radio One album; both are included on BBC Sessions. Around the same time, Peter Neal was making a short film documentary about the Experience, titled Experience (also known as See My Music Talking). On December 19, 1967, he captured Hendrix playing an impromptu solo version of "Hear My Train A Comin. The filming took place during a publicity photo session at the London studio of photographer Bruce Fleming, who had photographed the British album cover for Are You Experienced. For the shoot, a twelve-string Zemaitis acoustic guitar restrung for a left-handed player was conveniently on hand. Hendrix, seated on a stool against a white backdrop, sang while playing the guitar. After a false start, he settles into the song, which biographer Keith Shadwick describes as "100 percent country blues ... s[ung] with great feeling, however artificial the circumstances of the session may have been". Hendrix's acoustic guitar playing shows familiarity with the styles of Lead Belly, Robert Johnson, and Skip James. Music writer Michael Fairchild compares some of his guitar techniques to those found in 1928 recordings by Tommy Johnson, such as "Big Fat Mama" and "Big Road Blues". The guitar was tuned down two whole steps (C–F–B–E–G–C), perhaps influenced by Lead Belly's twelve-string style. At the end of the 3:05 performance, Hendrix laughs it off with "Did you think I could do that?" In addition to the 1968 documentary, the "Hear My Train A Comin performance is included in the 1973 film Jimi Hendrix and accompanying soundtrack album (re-released on Blues). In the UK, it was released by Reprise Records as a single in 1973 with the Experience's adaptation of B.B. King's "Rock Me Baby" recorded at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 as the B-side. In March 1968, Hendrix recorded another impromptu performance of the song with Paul Caruso on harmonica, a friend from Hendrix's Greenwich Village days. It was recorded at Hendrix's suite at the Drake Hotel in New York City, where he lived for