This was during the height of Vietnam and his entire audience was against that war... He was simulating battle and the chaos of war, and what it meant to be a young American in 1969
He served 101st paratrooper....the song was written as the songwriter observed a battle in the distance....the song is about battle.... Jimmy's ledgendary stratocaster.
It's sort of hard to explain since at no other time in history was the American soldier spat upon even though the young men had NO choice in going to war. This version says that. War is ugly and Jimi is playing that with the heart of a man who'd been to Nam; had seen the damage of the war. Today the star spangled banner is supposed to be uplifting and a rousing anthem but during Nam the general public was more anti-war than ever before. The Iraq war was unpopular but the soldiers were not reviled like they were during Vietnam. This song is a reminder not to glorify war; that war leaves a lasting scar on the men and women who fight it and Jimi is portraying that with all the heart, sadness and even madness that war can bring. I'm glad you're listening to this stuff as it is so important to remember our history and those that sacrificed for what we take for granted. Kids today don't understand what the draft was - imagine being ripped from your life just as it's beginning and sent to a foreign land to fight in a war you knew was wrong and to watch daily your friends dying; these kids had NO choice and that's just not understood today.
Jimi Hendrix was absolutely brilliant and often misunderstood. My mother told us that she once attended a Mamas and the Papas concert where Jimi Hendrix was the opening act, and the crowd booed him off the stage. If they only knew...
I doubt that Jimi ever opened for the M's & P's after Monterey Pop. Because everybody who was there knew that they watched something they never experienced (pun intended) till then. And the word spread around fast like wildfire. I am not saying that your mother is lying but it was probably during his touring (a contractual obligation thanks to his vile manager Mike Jeffries) with the Monkees, a deal just made after the closing performance of the Jimi Hendrix Experience at the Monterey Pop Festival. BTW... I'm willing to learn...
8:55 Francis Scott Key wrote those lyrics after seeing the American Flag still flying in the morning after a huge bombardment, so the song was born in conflict. Jimi translated the music to reflect the conflict of the Vietnam War
Jimi produced one of the greatest pieces of art of the 20th century; up there with Picasso, Dali etc. He brilliantly expressed the great paradox that is America - beautiful on the surface yet distorted and corrupt underneath. He painted the pain and the horror that is America's compulsion to war. That performance will forever live in history. Like any great piece of art, it forces you to view life from a different perspective with the blinkers off. The slow learners were shattered because they could not confront the reality of America that Jimi exposed.
Wish I could have been there at Woodstock , I was in RVN 69-70 with 82nd AB and the 11th ACR , I did manage to make it home when so many around me did not ... ken in NEMO
@@Straydogger As soon as he left the stage, he passed out from exhaustion. Between blindly signing horrible contracts, and greedy management, he was so in debt, that he was often performing 50+ plus shows in less than 2 months.
When I listen to Jimmy Hendrix perform his version of the Star Bangled Banner I see a PERFECT collage of the tumultuous times of the Viet Nam Era, 68-69 (Viet Nam protests, Kent State, we landed on the moon, MLK assasinated, RFK Jr assasinated etc, etc). It was the most volatile time in America that I have ever experienced! I was only 11 years old and was heavily imprinted from that era. great reaction, TY.
Hendrix was from Seattle the musical city everyone forgets about. Robert Cray, Heart, Pearl Jam, etc. Cray was born in Tacoma, but did most of his gigs at the Rainbow Tavern in Seattle where I saw him and danced the blues all night.
A couple of things. At that time, we had the Vietnam War on the news, every day. Between the video of battles and protest marches at home, it was everywhere. What we also had was a new style of music. Cream, Zeppelin and Hendrix. It was awesome. What we didn't have was any video of these guys playing guitar. We had no idea how they were making those sounds until we either saw them live or watched movies like Woodstock. Seeing Hendrix play the guitar for the first time, was magical. For me, it still is. Voodoo Child slight return, and Machine gun from new year's eve in New York are still two of my favorite pieces of music. At 71, I fell blessed to have grown up with this music and to have been the first generation to have equipment to listen to it properly.
The 4th of July is a celebration but also a memorial to what it cost, so if you feel something more than “Woohoo beer and brats and fireworks and let’s be stupid!” then you are getting a true sense of why we celebrate July 4, Memorial Day, etc. when this was going down, it was Nam. The kids who didn’t want to go were sent over anyway to be shot at. The veterans were being spat on or attacked when they escorted their dead friends home. The rockets blaring, the screams and cries? He was not only putting a spotlight on things that were being broadcast into our homes as we watched the kids and their dads dying in another country. It is considered by many to be controversial bc of the addition, but remember… those screams and firing explosive sounds are true all the way up to when it was written as prisoners heard the fort firing. The Brits (it was the Revolution, please remember) said as soon as the fort dropped the American flag they’d be free to go. When it didn’t immediately go down, the fort was under siege All Night. The next day, they saw it was the bodies that kept that flag up. Their blood and bodies kept that flag flying. (There’s a video about The Star Spangled Banner as you never heard it. HIGHLY recommend it if you haven’t seen it.) Sorry about the thesis paperish response. I freakin love music and history and was raised on military history specifically and can tell military jokes even when health issues keep me from being an otherwise functioning adult.
Sami you speak so well of the cost of our freedom, what that song means. What happened at that Fort in 1814 at Fort McHenry and also the struggle and cost during the Vietnam war. Lets be proud July 4, but lets also shed a tear.
DEFINATELY during the start of Vietnam..... He was one of the BEST 🎸 PLAYER'S OF ALL TIME.... HE'S HIGHLIGHTING THE EMOTION LOVED YOUR REACTION 🤘🎶🎵🇺🇸💯🎶🎵
The fact that Jimi was able to do this (to express himself) doing that to the National anthem is what the U.S.A. represents... being allowed to have free speech. And this brother is a great example of that.
If you ever get the chance watch the full story of that performance. In my mind he was playing the war the military action at both Kent State and Jefferson State Universities. There was just so much going on back then it is hard to remember it all at once. Just like the song American Pie, it covered so many different topics. Jimi just let his guitar speak for him, and I for one think he did an amazing job.
The young folks also need to remember this was before effects pedals and digital manipulation of sound. Jimmy did all of this with his fingers and his Strat.
An iconic version - Hendrix channelled all the zeitgeist about the Vietnam War and America's role in it into his playing - the track's respectfully played, but also contains the sounds of an air attack, all on guitar. You need to check out his playing "Hey Joe" live - he doesn't play the guitar in that, he makes love to it and leaves it gasping for more. Yes, Hendrix was a pioneer of using the guitar to make interesting sounds. If you like that sort of innovation, you also need to check Adrian Belew - an astonishing musician who can make his guitar talk.
The "Star Spangled Banner" was not written about the Fourth of July, it was written in September of 1814, as the U.S. was under attack from England. The original poem was written literally in the middle of a battle. In 1969, in the middle of the Vietnam War, war was once again on everyone's mind, and Hendrix's performance reminded everyone there of the immediacy and importance of those lyrics.
They played this on the news cast the Day Hendrix died. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing and hearing. He was combining heavy rock and science fiction both of which I had an interest in. I was a fan from then on.
Great reaction! Way ahead of his time. Ironic that he used music to depict the horrible sounds of war, when the original anthem was based on the rocket flares and guns in an earlier American war. One much more justified, in my opinion. Lucky I got to see Hendrix play live at the Fillmore. When we were in the antiwar demonstrations, this was genius in expressing our feelings at the times. Friends of mine got drafted to Vietnam and never came back. More Hendrix, please!
After the Supreme Court rulings the last few days, I don't feel like I can listen to this. However, I've heard Jimi's version many times. I remember, as a child, when he played this. It was very cool.
My girlfriend from a few years ago said she was convinced that Jimi's guitar was saying "no war" and Jimi was mouthing the words while he played it. I don't know it for sure but I always think of it when I watch this.
Right hand guitar strung for a left hand player. Strung in the normal order. He often wraps his thumb over the top of the neck to fret the low E string in some type of modified bar chord fingering.
The world was chaotic at the time, America was in Chaos due to the Vietnam war .. Everything about this made sense at the time.. Its amazing that he created this feeling with just his guitar, everyone understood exactly what this was about.. Its genius..
“sounds like war…” the words are “The rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air..” I’m 70 been to a LOT of concerts WITHOUT question the best I’ve seen 05/07/69 Jimi. Edit: Check this out. Johnny Carson was The King of Late Night. But Dick Cavett had a very special niche, an excellent interviewer. th-cam.com/video/VGf9PTYyJ4A/w-d-xo.htmlsi=v6exy4r_3ffE9GTR
Nothing unusual about a lefty playing a right hand guitar. Left hand guitars are not nearly as common so many people just restring a right hand guitar.
Wow what an experience it must have been to see him live. I am 70 years old and grew up listening to him. In my book the greatest guitarist to ever live. His style of playing was way ahead of time as was his death. On my school bus in high school there was a radio and the driver would turn it on to a rock station and I was on the ride home from school when they announced that he had been found dead in a motel room that day. I actually broke down and cried. Exact same thing happened when Janis Joplin died. Two great rockers taken way before their time 😢😢😢
So many that came after Jimi credit him for inspiring them. He was way ahead of his time. If you notice he is playing a right handed guitar upside down. He was left handed and didn’t have a lefty guitar
Absolutely. Jimi Hendrix is credited with saving the Fender guitar company. They were about to go out of business, but people started buying Fender guitars when Hendrix became famous to try to emulate him. Jimi's favorite guitar was the Fender Stratocastor, which his admirers started buying that ended up saved the company.
During the Vietnam war I had a boyfriend who was not drafted but signed up to go to war. Not many guys did that. I met him in college after he came back from overseas. He was never sent to Vietnam. He served his time in Thailand. Strange how life goes sometimes. He never saw any action there. But I was a staunch Democrat and he was a republican. He actually liked Nixon! I despised Nixon. Yet we loved each other for four years.
There’s a movie called “Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church”. It’s about the 1970 Atlanta Pop Festival they took place July 3-5. Hendrix played The Star Spangled Banner right at midnight with fireworks going off behind the stage.
The only thing upside down was his guitar. The low E string was at the top and the high E at the bottom. You have to watch : Hendrix Live At The Monterey Pop Festival . By the way , you sipping Mate ?
Totally agree. I am 70 years old and have listened to Hendrix from the first time came out. So innovative and way before his time. Iwas listening to the radio on the bus ride home from high school when they announced that he had been found dead in a motel room. I actually cried at hearing that. The exact same thing happened when Janis Joplin died. Taken way before their time.
@daveloboda1769 Doesn't it always seem to make bad news worse when it happens around a special day like that? Like your birthday Christmas, Thanksgiving etc... I know it does for me . As I said I cried when I heard Jimi and Janis Joplin died. They were my favorite bands. Who knows what great music we lost out on because of their death. So sad when any performer dies but always worse when they are taken so soon.
Check out Roy Clark comedically performance of Folsom Prison Blues. Real guitar art. Microwave Dave and the Nukes cover of Roadrunner is pretty awesome as well.
@sherilynkd 0 seconds ago He was the first that I am aware of that used feed-back to his advantage. The Star Spangled Banner had never been played like that before and the parent/grandparents thought it to be treason. Jimi, who had been in the Air Force, was asked about why he played it that way. I think it was Merv Griffon or some talk show host, where he replied to the question,” I thought it was beautiful.”
the whole Blues album is well worth a sit down. Electric Church Red House and the electric version of Hear my train comin' are the ones you should analyze (It's all Freedom)
This was during the height of Vietnam and his entire audience was against that war... He was simulating battle and the chaos of war, and what it meant to be a young American in 1969
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I never realized this, but to me he was telling the story of the Star Spangled Banner - the bombs bursting in air!!!! Wow!!!! Beautiful!!!!
He served 101st paratrooper....the song was written as the songwriter observed a battle in the distance....the song is about battle....
Jimmy's ledgendary stratocaster.
That's partly correct 😅
Jimmy was in the military for a while. Stunning guitar player. He made his guitar sing.
101st Airbourne and his Bass player Billy Cox served alongside Jimi
@@maverickblackhorse3068 Thanks for the info!!
Hendrix was ahead of his time. He's not for everyone but I think he was a genius on guitar.
"Sounds like a war" This guy gets it.
It's sort of hard to explain since at no other time in history was the American soldier spat upon even though the young men had NO choice in going to war. This version says that. War is ugly and Jimi is playing that with the heart of a man who'd been to Nam; had seen the damage of the war. Today the star spangled banner is supposed to be uplifting and a rousing anthem but during Nam the general public was more anti-war than ever before. The Iraq war was unpopular but the soldiers were not reviled like they were during Vietnam. This song is a reminder not to glorify war; that war leaves a lasting scar on the men and women who fight it and Jimi is portraying that with all the heart, sadness and even madness that war can bring. I'm glad you're listening to this stuff as it is so important to remember our history and those that sacrificed for what we take for granted. Kids today don't understand what the draft was - imagine being ripped from your life just as it's beginning and sent to a foreign land to fight in a war you knew was wrong and to watch daily your friends dying; these kids had NO choice and that's just not understood today.
Thank you for the respect! Vietnam vet. Peace
@@philkaiser2313 thank you for your service! Peace ☮❤🩹
Well said, excellent description!!
omg I LOVE that you decided to listen to this....its amazing how much you feel from him playing his guitar
Francis Scott Key was actually witnessing a battle when he wrote the Star Spangled Banner.
Jimi Hendrix was absolutely brilliant and often misunderstood. My mother told us that she once attended a Mamas and the Papas concert where Jimi Hendrix was the opening act, and the crowd booed him off the stage. If they only knew...
I doubt that Jimi ever opened for the M's & P's after Monterey Pop. Because everybody who was there knew that they watched something they never experienced (pun intended) till then. And the word spread around fast like wildfire. I am not saying that your mother is lying but it was probably during his touring (a contractual obligation thanks to his vile manager Mike Jeffries) with the Monkees, a deal just made after the closing performance of the Jimi Hendrix Experience at the Monterey Pop Festival. BTW... I'm willing to learn...
8:55 Francis Scott Key wrote those lyrics after seeing the American Flag still flying in the morning after a huge bombardment, so the song was born in conflict. Jimi translated the music to reflect the conflict of the Vietnam War
Jimi produced one of the greatest pieces of art of the 20th century; up there with Picasso, Dali etc. He brilliantly expressed the great paradox that is America - beautiful on the surface yet distorted and corrupt underneath. He painted the pain and the horror that is America's compulsion to war. That performance will forever live in history. Like any great piece of art, it forces you to view life from a different perspective with the blinkers off. The slow learners were shattered because they could not confront the reality of America that Jimi exposed.
Wish I could have been there at Woodstock , I was in RVN 69-70 with 82nd AB and the 11th ACR , I did manage to make it home when so many around me did not ... ken in NEMO
He WAS depicting war, bombs.
Viet Nam era.
Hendrix's song "All Along the Watchtower" was the centerpiece of the most epic of 2nd-gen "Battlestar Galactica" episodes. Unbelievable!
This was Woodstock at 6 am also during the Vietnam war
And only about 30000 people left from the crowd of about 400000 on a Monday morning at 9:00 am. Imagine waking up to that! 🙂
@@Straydogger As soon as he left the stage, he passed out from exhaustion. Between blindly signing horrible contracts, and greedy management, he was so in debt, that he was often performing 50+ plus shows in less than 2 months.
When I listen to Jimmy Hendrix perform his version of the Star Bangled Banner I see a PERFECT collage of the tumultuous times of the Viet Nam Era, 68-69 (Viet Nam protests, Kent State, we landed on the moon, MLK assasinated, RFK Jr assasinated etc, etc). It was the most volatile time in America that I have ever experienced! I was only 11 years old and was heavily imprinted from that era. great reaction, TY.
Hendrix was from Seattle the musical city everyone forgets about. Robert Cray, Heart, Pearl Jam, etc. Cray was born in Tacoma, but did most of his gigs at the Rainbow Tavern in Seattle where I saw him and danced the blues all night.
And he goes right from that into "Purple Haze". A talent never to be repeated.
A couple of things. At that time, we had the Vietnam War on the news, every day. Between the video of battles and protest marches at home, it was everywhere. What we also had was a new style of music. Cream, Zeppelin and Hendrix. It was awesome. What we didn't have was any video of these guys playing guitar. We had no idea how they were making those sounds until we either saw them live or watched movies like Woodstock. Seeing Hendrix play the guitar for the first time, was magical. For me, it still is. Voodoo Child slight return, and Machine gun from new year's eve in New York are still two of my favorite pieces of music. At 71, I fell blessed to have grown up with this music and to have been the first generation to have equipment to listen to it properly.
Jimi made 18 jumps during his time with the 101st Airborne
The 4th of July is a celebration but also a memorial to what it cost, so if you feel something more than “Woohoo beer and brats and fireworks and let’s be stupid!” then you are getting a true sense of why we celebrate July 4, Memorial Day, etc.
when this was going down, it was Nam.
The kids who didn’t want to go were sent over anyway to be shot at. The veterans were being spat on or attacked when they escorted their dead friends home. The rockets blaring, the screams and cries? He was not only putting a spotlight on things that were being broadcast into our homes as we watched the kids and their dads dying in another country. It is considered by many to be controversial bc of the addition, but remember… those screams and firing explosive sounds are true all the way up to when it was written as prisoners heard the fort firing.
The Brits (it was the Revolution, please remember) said as soon as the fort dropped the American flag they’d be free to go. When it didn’t immediately go down, the fort was under siege All Night.
The next day, they saw it was the bodies that kept that flag up. Their blood and bodies kept that flag flying. (There’s a video about The Star Spangled Banner as you never heard it. HIGHLY recommend it if you haven’t seen it.)
Sorry about the thesis paperish response. I freakin love music and history and was raised on military history specifically and can tell military jokes even when health issues keep me from being an otherwise functioning adult.
Sami you speak so well of the cost of our freedom, what that song means. What happened at that Fort in 1814 at Fort McHenry and also the struggle and cost during the Vietnam war. Lets be proud July 4, but lets also shed a tear.
DEFINATELY during the start of Vietnam..... He was one of the BEST 🎸 PLAYER'S OF ALL TIME....
HE'S HIGHLIGHTING THE EMOTION
LOVED YOUR REACTION 🤘🎶🎵🇺🇸💯🎶🎵
Purple Haze follows...and then THE MOST AMAZING "Villanova Junction"--aka "instrumental solo." That is my favorite Hendrix tune.
Love it!!~ Never listened to it like this!!! The Star Spangled Banner in action!!!! He brought it to life!!! Thank you!!!! I'm 81!!!!!
This is a legendary performance, But I hope you will continue to listen to more by this amazing innovator.
58,290 Americans plus 3 million Vietnamese died. We hated that fucking war ☮️
Jimmie was a Vet and he did this as the battle song it was. We were in awe
Full body chills every time I hear this ❤
My first concert, when I was completely clueless, was Jimi Hendrix. Wish I could have appreciated it more.
You hit it exactly with the anger and sadness of the time coming from not living up to the beauty and the potential of our higher purpose.
My son played this at my Navy retirement ceremony. Had to get him to lighten it up some as he carried it on too much! It was awesome!
Guitars... OMG... guitars... Hendrix, Page, Bonamassa, Stevie, Gilmor, Frampton... and of course Clark... OMG Clark.
One of the renditions you might want to check out was/is by "Madison Rising"....An awesome rock version...That celebrates the USA.
The fact that Jimi was able to do this (to express himself) doing that to the National anthem is what the U.S.A. represents... being allowed to have free speech. And this brother is a great example of that.
When we lost him, we said "Jimi's not dead. He's teaching God how to play guitar."
If you ever get the chance watch the full story of that performance.
In my mind he was playing the war the military action at both Kent State and Jefferson State Universities. There was just so much going on back then it is hard to remember it all at once. Just like the song American Pie, it covered so many different topics. Jimi just let his guitar speak for him, and I for one think he did an amazing job.
He was a paratrooper in Vietnam, broke his ankle, and the rest is history!
So he was HIGHT while in the Army?😅
Might have been doing that myself at that time.Thank you very much
Check out the next song he goes into: "Voodoo Child" at Woodstock. It'll blow you away.
He did the English national anthem a year later at the Isle of White festival in 1970
this was at woodstock, the first one. it was at sunrise ish at the last morning of the fest
The young folks also need to remember this was before effects pedals and digital manipulation of sound. Jimmy did all of this with his fingers and his Strat.
Our friends, brothers, family were dying for a losing 😊war
if you listen to his live version of "Machine Gun", you will hear the war (Band of Gypsies)
An iconic version - Hendrix channelled all the zeitgeist about the Vietnam War and America's role in it into his playing - the track's respectfully played, but also contains the sounds of an air attack, all on guitar. You need to check out his playing "Hey Joe" live - he doesn't play the guitar in that, he makes love to it and leaves it gasping for more. Yes, Hendrix was a pioneer of using the guitar to make interesting sounds. If you like that sort of innovation, you also need to check Adrian Belew - an astonishing musician who can make his guitar talk.
The "Star Spangled Banner" was not written about the Fourth of July, it was written in September of 1814, as the U.S. was under attack from England. The original poem was written literally in the middle of a battle. In 1969, in the middle of the Vietnam War, war was once again on everyone's mind, and Hendrix's performance reminded everyone there of the immediacy and importance of those lyrics.
They played this on the news cast the Day Hendrix died. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing and hearing. He was combining heavy rock and science fiction both of which I had an interest in. I was a fan from then on.
Great reaction! Way ahead of his time. Ironic that he used music to depict the horrible sounds of war, when the original anthem was based on the rocket flares and guns in an earlier American war. One much more justified, in my opinion. Lucky I got to see Hendrix play live at the Fillmore. When we were in the antiwar demonstrations, this was genius in expressing our feelings at the times. Friends of mine got drafted to Vietnam and never came back. More Hendrix, please!
After the Supreme Court rulings the last few days, I don't feel like I can listen to this. However, I've heard Jimi's version many times. I remember, as a child, when he played this. It was very cool.
Immediately after this ie the nest note he goes straight into Purple Haze
One reason why Hendrix is the God of Guitar.
This is his interpretation of the WORDS! I sing the words as he plays the notes. Read the lyrics as he plays & you'll see it!
There is an alternate clip of this performance that actually shows him playing rather than just his face. It's worth checking out.
Used to play this on campus radio in '71, '72. Good one for sign on.
My girlfriend from a few years ago said she was convinced that Jimi's guitar was saying "no war" and Jimi was mouthing the words while he played it. I don't know it for sure but I always think of it when I watch this.
Only man in the world that can make an out of tune sound this good and with so much emotion coming out.
1969. Vietnam war. The soundtrack was the dark stuff. Hendrix, the Doors. Jimi channeled the horror and violence and created a surrealistic beauty.
He's playing the Star Spangled Banner,!!❤❤
Right hand guitar strung for a left hand player. Strung in the normal order. He often wraps his thumb over the top of the neck to fret the low E string in some type of modified bar chord fingering.
The world was chaotic at the time, America was in Chaos due to the Vietnam war .. Everything about this made sense at the time.. Its amazing that he created this feeling with just his guitar, everyone understood exactly what this was about.. Its genius..
That was his statement. You got what he was playin' Vietnam had this Country in a roar. Really good reaction.
Another aspect is, the poem that turned into the Star Spangled Banner was written during a battle during the infancy of the United States.
5:04 Yes, he played a right hand strung guitar left handed.
He also briefly quoted Over There, an American war anthem from WW1...
All Along The Watchtower
Rory Gallagher was also among the greatest 🎸 and most beloved 🇨🇮🇺🇸.
RIP Jimi & Rory
Yes
the sounds of the Viet Nam War
“sounds like war…”
the words are
“The rocket’s red glare,
the bombs bursting in air..”
I’m 70 been to a LOT of concerts
WITHOUT question the best I’ve seen
05/07/69 Jimi.
Edit: Check this out.
Johnny Carson was The King of Late Night. But Dick Cavett had a very special niche, an excellent interviewer.
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Tou have to listen to Jimi's hey Joe, this was something else.
For playng at woodstok , Jimi was dressed as a Native American
He was black and cherokee
We are all brothers and sisters
PEACE
Send, Johnny B Goode Hendrix Live is a mind blower
And he did it all left handed
Jimi was left handed and was playing a right handed guitar. Jimi was an amazing guitarist
Nothing unusual about a lefty playing a right hand guitar. Left hand guitars are not nearly as common so many people just restring a right hand guitar.
4:33 That's the point.
That's a very hard piece to do on a guitar!🎉🎉🎉
I agree that it is unsettling and astonishing. Also reading the words of The Star Spangled Banner is unsettling.
When I saw him perform, he called the song: "Wave on Flag"
Wow what an experience it must have been to see him live. I am 70 years old and grew up listening to him. In my book the greatest guitarist to ever live. His style of playing was way ahead of time as was his death. On my school bus in high school there was a radio and the driver would turn it on to a rock station and I was on the ride home from school when they announced that he had been found dead in a motel room that day. I actually broke down and cried. Exact same thing happened when Janis Joplin died. Two great rockers taken way before their time 😢😢😢
What a cool brother you are. Really appreciate the fact you love Jimi and the country.
I saw John Popper,(Blues traveler) do this same thing on a harmonica as the first act and song I saw at Woodstock 1994 (25th anniversary).
So many that came after Jimi credit him for inspiring them. He was way ahead of his time. If you notice he is playing a right handed guitar upside down. He was left handed and didn’t have a lefty guitar
Absolutely. Jimi Hendrix is credited with saving the Fender guitar company. They were about to go out of business, but people started buying Fender guitars when Hendrix became famous to try to emulate him.
Jimi's favorite guitar was the Fender Stratocastor, which his admirers started buying that ended up saved the company.
ICONIC
Jimmi was in the army!
During the Vietnam war I had a boyfriend who was not drafted but signed up to go to war. Not many guys did that. I met him in college after he came back from overseas. He was never sent to Vietnam. He served his time in Thailand. Strange how life goes sometimes. He never saw any action there. But I was a staunch Democrat and he was a republican. He actually liked Nixon! I despised Nixon. Yet we loved each other for four years.
And remember Hendrix was a paratrooper
Painting images with sound.
There’s a movie called “Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church”. It’s about the 1970 Atlanta Pop Festival they took place July 3-5. Hendrix played The Star Spangled Banner right at midnight with fireworks going off behind the stage.
The only thing upside down was his guitar. The low E string was at the top and the high E at the bottom. You have to watch : Hendrix Live At The Monterey Pop Festival . By the way , you sipping Mate ?
No one will ever persuade me that this man is not THE best guitar player ever. The GOAT.
Totally agree. I am 70 years old and have listened to Hendrix from the first time came out. So innovative and way before his time. Iwas listening to the radio on the bus ride home from high school when they announced that he had been found dead in a motel room. I actually cried at hearing that. The exact same thing happened when Janis Joplin died. Taken way before their time.
@@JoeHicks-ow4rm worst birthday of my life - Jimi died on 18th September 1970 and I heard about it on the 19th, my 17th birthday.
@daveloboda1769 Doesn't it always seem to make bad news worse when it happens around a special day like that? Like your birthday Christmas, Thanksgiving etc... I know it does for me . As I said I cried when I heard Jimi and Janis Joplin died. They were my favorite bands. Who knows what great music we lost out on because of their death. So sad when any performer dies but always worse when they are taken so soon.
The chaos of it all. I guess it was how Jimi saw this country's entanglement in war. But he sure was a vision to behold, in red, white and blue. ☮️
6:50 you have a confused look; Jimi is playing the military bugle call 'Taps', which is also played at every military funeral.
The sounds represent war.
Check out Roy Clark comedically performance of Folsom Prison Blues. Real guitar art. Microwave Dave and the Nukes cover of Roadrunner is pretty awesome as well.
Jeff Beck “Cause We Ended As Lovers” incredible guitar
You should listen to Machine gun at live at Isle of Wight specifically it’s the best version‼️
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He was the first that I am aware of that used feed-back to his advantage.
The Star Spangled Banner had never been played like that before and the parent/grandparents thought it to be treason.
Jimi, who had been in the Air Force, was asked about why he played it that way. I think it was Merv Griffon or some talk show host, where he replied to the question,” I thought it was beautiful.”
Uh. . . it WAS a war! "...the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air..." That's exactly what he was doing.
The tune of the star spangled banner is a British drinking song, the words however were changed and written by an American.
the whole Blues album is well worth a sit down.
Electric Church Red House and the electric version of Hear my train comin' are the ones you should analyze (It's all Freedom)
He was the opening of Woodstock!! Welcome to Woodstock!! Check out as many of the love performers as you can. You will be blown away!
No he closed Woodstock. Richie Havens opened. In fact most people had left by the time Jimi Played.
@anthonyv6962
My bad! You are absolutely correct!! I'm 70 yrs old and had forgotten about Richie opening and Jimi closing!
You might like to listen to Lee Greenwood and Soldiers and Home Free--singing I'm proud to be an American,!! It's 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Wish I could've seen him but before my time. Kurt Cobain, Chester Bennington & Hank Williams sr were also amazing musicians.
Tupac & Biggie as well