. ♪ >> reporter: jimi hendrix. ♪ >> reporter: i'm trying todd if we see a figure emerge yet.brushes this morning. he's doing it all finger paint this morning. all right. we're going to find out in a few minutes, laura, who he's painting. brian olson at the independent in san francisco. so stand by. >> 6:48, a check of wall street. we'll go back to the painting as well coming up in just a bit. >>> we're looking at, there's no haze here but there is on some parts of the roadway. a smooth drive for 880. i mig leprndmsob ais. s problems and big slowing in other parts of the bay. come back to see exactly where that is. b >> reporter: good morning. welcome back to "today in the bay." this is bob redell. we're here at the independent in san francisco. you're looking at artist brian olson from denver. art in action. if you remember before the commercial break, we had a little jimi hendrix music, a blank black canvas, about 11 cans of paint and his messy fingers. can you see -- wow, look at that. i just saw the hair come up. laura, it was about a minute in, a minute 30, we had the aha

he had concerts where jimi hendrix and janis joplin-- the only two benefits we were able to find that either of them ever did, peter yarrow organized, and they were antiwar and vietnam veterans against the war in 1970 right before they died. i mean, it's an amazing fact, you know, jimi hendrix on stage for something, you know, at that crucial time. imagine, you know, the significance today if people realized, you know, artists of that stature moving around the cause. it had an impact. peter yarrow did that. harry belafonte is one of the most dignified, well-educated, lucid, focused, eloquent men i have ever met in my life and has a sense of humanity to him and a sense of-- of what really matters. i wish i could run him for president. he wouldn't take the job. but he's a truly wonderful human being, and he was certainly one of the most astounding interviews. the man is a walking history book. you know, he was walking next to martin luther king at all of those things. it was him. he was there. he was the guy next to him, and he told us stuff that you won't believe. if the six bullet sto

♪ >> jimi hendrix -- >> there he goes.rian olsen bills himself as an art in action, live in our morning show, using only his fingers. he coaxed wet paint into a rock and roll portrait. quickly, the image took shape. within four minutes, the artist whose music played in the background, jimi hendrix was depicted looking every inch the rock legend he was. he's in the area doing his performance art for a local convention. >> wow. >> yeah. he's got a little purple haze himself going on. very cool. >> if you missed it, at the top of the hour president obama addressed the nation. brian williams now will continue our coverage of -- analysis of mr. obama's speech. >> see you back at 6:00.

we would go down to the fillmore and see these great band, the doors, and jimi hendrix, cream, and theno down to the grove to see other music. you could go to the mission district to hear mexican. everywhere i went there was this multi dimensional color and i felt like it was on necessary for me to do just one. like baskin-robbins, i want all the flavors. you cannot just be a mexican play music. there is a lot of beauty in that, but it was not for me. i was born without arms around my heart that wants to embrace everything. palestine's, israelis. japanese, apaches. i am more concentrated with life and love than flags, nationality, religion. that stuff gets in the way. one gets in the way is me, myself, my story. for me, that is why music is liberating. when you hear "imagine" anywhere in the world, people sang the lyrics. as soon as you hear the melody -- same thing with a bob marley song. i grew up taking everything from bob dylan, curtis mayfield, the beatles, smokey robinson. mike alma mater was the streets of san francisco. i would dare to go to school. where i really hung out was a

with you john lennon's and you jimi hendrix's new but more was the question in a dominant agenda i would say music today you know mainstream music is equally political is just that it's pushing a dominant agenda and that's what i think we never really make in this nation we say music lost its politics as a music listening for example encouraging young african-american african caribbean males here to go to jail in a society where prison is private business as it is in the united states and as it is becoming increasingly here in a country that has the kind of history that the united states has and that britain has in relation to those populations is obviously political and so that's what i think we lost track of is that the music is still pull it was just the agenda that we're hearing more generally is pushing is increasingly capitalist increasingly sexist increasingly more so than is that increasingly racist essentially or fill in particular racial stereotypes that politics is still there is just that there isn't an alternative to the dominant agenda the only politics we're now hearing fo

these on your own museum, to try to jimi hendrix played at woodstock in currently also owned the chair that captain curt said at the stars movie. is that true? >> at the monocyte office chair. not as impressive as it looks on the enterprise. >> versus 800 level, 714 feet yacht. is there anything you haven't actually done cracks >> we haven't talked about the brain yet, but i think you start talking about scientific problems or challenges. i mean, the fact that they succeeded when the ask price, nobody knew that was going to happen. sometimes, you know, they've been ambitious in trying to accomplish these things, sometimes you fail, sometimes you never succeed in the marketplace. but you know, it is the ambition to try. yet the great team of people. that's just enthralling. so they are many, many challenges out there. i'm especially excited about anything related to the brain and artificial intelligence i've always had a nagging interest in them are starting to get contraction there. but i think you're talking about more things that are more related >> were talking about sheer fun. >> i

we're from the '70s, and cameron's cranking this jimi hendrix music, even though i don't know if we coulduitar ] it's awesome. we're all looking cool, and billy crudup just tripped me from behind. [ laughter ] and they left that scene in the movie. [ laughter ] in the movie. did you see it? i was so mad. i was, "can we do it again, please?" cameron's like, "no, that's all we can do." i was like -- [ gasps ] it was the worst. >> i was really impressed with your performance in that movie. i didn't know you had it in you. >> jimmy: thank you. >> but you did it, and were you great. you were really, really funny. [ applause ] >> jimmy: there was a character that you used to do on the set called herman. do you remember him? >> yeah. yeah, he comes out sometimes. yeah. he -- >> jimmy: what was his deal again, herman? >> well, he doesn't like people. and he was jealous because he always wanted to be an actor. so he was always just yelling stuff and getting in the way. >> jimmy: he would show up. and remember, he looked like this at the time. >> yeah. >> jimmy: so you would lay on the ground. like

your own music museum, the only guitars that jimi hendrix played at woodstock and you own a share of that captain kirk sauger, the star wars movie if. >> i modified awesome -- of his chair. not as impressive and person. >> and then there is this eight level 714v beyonce. in addition to that. i have been writing all this stuff down. is there anything you have an, the once to but have not actually done? >> we have not talked about the brain yet. you start talking about science and scientific problems and challenges. the fact that spaceship 18 succeeded. nobody knew that was going to happen. so sometimes, you know, by being ambitious and trying to accomplish some of these things sometimes you fail and sometimes, you know, you never succeed to win a prize is the ambition to try. you have a great team of people. that is just it. there many challenges of there. especially excited about anything related to the brain, what the brain institute is doing. artificial intelligence, i have always had a nagging interested in that. we're starting to get traction. but i think your talking about more

we've got a little jimi hendrix going. oh, my gosh. what do we have up here? >> air guitars. >> i'm going to be borrowing that guy's pants. we're here because they are having usair guitar championship region always this weekend. it is a real event. you're looking at hot lips, former champion. the event is taken seriously. we'll tell you more about it, laura. >> wow, feels like friday around here. we'll certainly check back with him this morning. okay. 5:37 right now. that guy wasn't wearing a shirt out there. i don't think it was because it was so hot. >> i don't mind. that's all i know. they look like the chuck e. cheese guys. they weren't real. let's take a look what's cooling us off this morning. we've got that cloud bank back. really, it depends on how much of a push we get from the marine layer, that's going to particular date how hot it will be in your city today. the closer you live to the central valley, the warmer it will be for you. if you live towards the coast, a significant drop-off in temperature. that will be the case throughout the day. tomorro