Yes, he was capturing the sounds of war and screaming. I think it's also significant that he played "Taps" in there too which something played at soldiers' & veterans' funerals.
Taps is the music played at service members’ funerals and also played at the “lights-out/reflection” time of basic training to remember all the POW/Killed in Action service members in basic training.
All the extra sounds he preformed in the song had to do with the war and all the gun fire and bombs. Truly one of the best performance and never have been done before. I think he did an awesome job on the song. People were standing there with their minds blown away. R.I.P Jimmy. You were truly one of the best guitarist of your time and really before your time.
Everyone always gives Whitney the credit for best version of the National anthem, and I’ll give her ALL the credit when it comes to that in vocal terms. But this right here, this was on a whole other level. No vocals, all emotion through nothing but instrumentals. His guitar skills are just sick, period.
During the very minutes of Jimi playing the Star Spangled Banner with the effects of planes flying and rockets firing, there were people in firefights, setting off land mines, being choppered into hot or cold LZ's , being evacuated with wounded, or going down tunnels. Jimi was on time with this improvisation!
You can see the bombs, the napalm going off, the machine guns, the agony and the terror - all on THAT GUITAR PERFORMANCE, yet wrapped up in patriotism!
@@joelhoulette3244 My definition of patriot: Someone who loves his country enough to expose the truth of its brutality and wrong doing in hopes of making a change for the better. In spite of the consequences. Hendrix was this. It is NOT my country right or wrong. Hope you did not think this is what I meant.
He encapsulated the glory and the power of the USA, the pride and the beauty as well as the suffering and the pain. This is impessionistic art at it's finest, up there with Monet and Debussy.
I heard very clearly the bombs, I heard the incoming ordinance, I heard the inbound war planes and the sounds of machine gun fire, I heard very clearly the "bombs bursting in air......" For him to create those clearly produced sounds (ie, the sounds of war machines) - and then to blend them beautifully into our National Anthem - he thus created an unprecedented artistic statement, uniquely on a genius level, and it remains an achievement to this day that is unmatched by any other musical artist. Jimi's talent was as if he was touched by God, as his recordings and performances clearly reflect. He is widely considered to be the greatest guitarist in the history of popular music
One has to watch the video to get the full impact of what he was performing. Jimi Hendrix was in perpetual experimentation at the highest level, doing things guitar players of the era never even dreamed of, and cannot do today. That's the crux of understanding how he became the greatest guitarist in rock history. He was way ahead of all of us !!
In 1961 Jimi enlisted in the US Army to avoid prison. In 1962 he was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, completed his jump school training and was awarded the prestigious Screaming Eagles patch. Later that year Jimi was honorably discharged for basically, failure to adapt. In a filed report his First Sergeant stated, "He has no interest whatsoever in the Army". Jimi hated violence and war. He was anti-war. In this performance he used his guitar to make the sounds of airplanes dropping bombs, explosions, and of victims screaming and crying". He nailed it in this iconic performance.
Jimi just played the emotions, events and sounds of why the anthem was created. Can't understand how people don't get this. The genius in Jimi's performance of the anthem is only because God blessed him with the vision to do so.
Because younger generations don't relate their music to painful current events like we did when this was performed. WE GOT IT. WE WERE SO INFLUENCED BY VIETNAM AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT - younger generations do not get that we had to answer for the UNJUST WAR. THE ARMY was NOT A VOLUNTEER ARMY. WE were being irreverent and at the same time claiming the anthem as ours also. A lot of these reaction people are from decades different. Asia and BJ are two of the more mature ones. Other well-meaning reaction people really don't get that the music reflected what the hell was going on and our generation was the first to say HELL NO WE WON'T GO. OR HELL NO WE WON'T TAKE IT.
I played this version of the Star Spangled Banner at a family gathering, and my dad recognized the song, thought it was disrespectful and broke the record. I still love Jimi's version.
I'm a Canadian but love this version of your anthem. My Mom,who was born in 1931 and just as proud of our country,liked this a lot. She got what it was all about.
As a military brat, I completely understand your dad's reasoning on why this would be disrespectful.. But I also still love this and Jimmie and always will.
If you listened to this when he first played it, BJ would already have been to Nam and come back. He would be a different man. Every young man went to the military.
Let's put this into context. The star spangled banner was written by Francis Scott Key during the attack on Fort McHenry in 1814 during the war of 1812 with Great Britain. The anthem, any version, is not about war in general, but rather the heroic stand and realization that after a night of intense bombardment our flag was still flying and Fort McHenry still stood. This Hendrix version has Jimi's wailing and feedback to show the sounds of battle during the writing of the song.
I think the context that needs to be mentioned is that this song was performed at the first Woodstock which was during the Vietnam War and during the height of the anti-war movement of that time. This rendition is so iconic because it perverts the national anthem by marring it with the sounds of war. The whammy bar dive after the portion of the song where the lyrics were 'the rockets' red glare' sounded like a bomb falling and then the chaos afterwards where he just goes ham on the whammy. It's an odd one to listen to out of context but if you know when this was happening, it makes a lot more sense.
Jimi was in the Army 101st Airborne which many don't remember or know. The song was his rendition of the anthem putting in bombs bursting, machine gun fire, screams and towards the end , taps. His rendition was profound about the war at that time or any war. Jimi let his talent expose his soul in all he played. You just have to wonder what would he have created if he had lived longer than 27 years. It was rumored he and Miles Davis had thought to collaborate on something. Peace to All !!!
As Clapton said after he died "as a guitar player, he had no equal." And yes it was a Strat. He started playing as most did, a 1957 Strat. I had one. Assume guitar. Made for rock.
One of the major components of this performance is the equipment. The steel strings on the guitar vibrate with the sound from the amplifiers. If the frequencies match you get an effect called "feedback." The speakers make a sound - a string vibrates and send the same sound to the amp which amplifies the sound coming out of the speakers - in an endless loop. Jimi could control all the power effortlessly. BTW, the studio version of the Star Spangled banner is completely different. It showcases multi-track recording - a masterpiece. Off of the "Rainbow Bridge" album.
At Woodstock in 1969, Jimmie was given one of the worst time slots to perform, Sunrise on the last day, so this is how he woke up the crowd, before the rest of his iconic performance. In his interview on the Dick Cavett show a few months later, he did not explain the origin of how he thought this up. Was it spur of the moment?
He was the headliner, he was always meant to close the festival, due to the storms on Saturday, and rain on Sunday, power failures, the revolving stage failing instantly (the idea was one band could play while another was being set up and then after that performance, the stage could be spun around, and the next band could play minutes later.) Without that revolving stage, it took 30 minutes to an hour to tear down one bands gear and set up the next band, everything ended up being about 12 hours behind. The plan was for jimi to close the festival on Sunday night. As for the origins of it, he began playing it like that 1 year and a day earlier, at a gig in Maryland. It was actually a regular part of his sets. The "tangents" actually borrows a lot from the ending of third stone from the sun. His appearance on dick cavett was September 9, 22 days after woodstock, not "months" later.
This was during the Vietnam war with protest happening across America. Also remember Jimi was a former paratrooper thus a veteran. And yes the sounds he made represent Planes, bombs, screams etc.
In high-school I was in rotc. My very 1st presentation of the flag as a color guard, they used this song. I shed tears in front of the whole school. I followed others in squad through rest of our presentation by rote, was that well trained I marched off the auditorium floor blind in tears. My squad leader ordered me to put my rifle down, step out of room and compose myself. Then 2wks later I got a ribbonl for something about patriotism and standing my ground. All six of the classes heard what happened. I was at moment embarrassed. But whole rotc honored me being able to undo my salute with arms and march off floor blinded with tears as if I wasn't blinded
I believe Jimi's interpretation is this: Francis Scott Key, the writer of the Star Spangled Banner was a on a ship in the Baltimore Harbor during a battle when he wrote it. What we know and hear is cleaned up and made pretty and neat.
It was song he did during time of war. He dive bombed the strings imitating bombs and missiles. A lot of songs in the sixties referred to the Viet Nam war.
It's genius! Jimi was a paratrooper in the Army. This was played during the middle of our involvement in the Vietnam War. Jimi's kinda protesting in his own way. You hear bombs...screams..ambulances...gunfire..everything you hear with his White Strat. ITS GENIUS!!!!
He knowingly did this as hurricane Camille was hitting Mississippi. That’s why the craziness of it. It was meant to represent the chaos that was going on in Mississippi at the time.
I don't know if you guys are watching along with listening but if you're not you have to watch this as watch the emotions in his face during this!! He just captured everything that was going in 1969 with this performance!!
He WAS the last band at woodstock. He was the highest paid entertainer in the world at the time, and his management made damned sure he was the headliner, meaning he had to be last. But due to severe storms, and rain, power outages, the revolving stage failing (taking much longer to set up bands) and acts not getting there on time, everything was about 12 hours behind. So he played on Monday morning instead of Sunday night.
Jet planes diving, bullets flying, bombs bursting, the cries of war all coming out of that upside-down Strat. A true crime that he died so young. A true and pure artist like Jimi we'll never see again.
The anthem's history began the morning of September 14, 1814, when an attorney and amateur poet named Francis Scott Key watched U.S. soldiers-who were under bombardment from British naval forces during the War of 1812-raise a large American flag over Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland.
This was not improvised. He had been working out the details for this performance back in ‘66, when he heard The Silver Apples recording a very similar in context version of the star spangled banner. Every note and tuning is thought out Ofer a few years.
Read the story of the song. It was a battle against the British naval forces in the war of 1812. It is also protest of the Viet Nam War in this context.
Asia and BJ....Guys. For some major clarification. This was a period when the U.S. was embroiled in the Vietnam War. It was Jimi's protest to the war and all the lives lost. Remember this was the 60's, this isn't about drugs or trips. This was life and war. Jimi was in the U.S. Army and if you lived doing that period, it was hard to be a U.S. citizen and not know someone killed or fighting in this war. There were massive protests to this unpopular war and the popular culture at that time loudly voiced their opposition to war and advocating peace. Jimi was a leading voice of that movement by default. Listen to the lyrics of his later music. All peace and love, not war. It was an extremely powerful statement at the time. Headline News for real.
He played this at the height of the Vietnam War with many American young men dying there senselessly. He was imitating the sounds of a firefight in the middle of the Anthem.
Jimi not only conveyed the violence of the Vietnam war , but also the fighting that was going on in the streets of major U.S cities during the quest for equality
You are both usually perceptive but not with this song. Forget all the comments re LSD. Jimi played at the end part of the concert. He had just come off playing Voodoo Child a slight return( which btw he wrote and originated both parts, not SRV) and to wrap up his set, went into the Star S B..For every stanza of the song, he emulated the words, with sound effects. For example "and the rockets red glare" or " bombs bursting in air" , Playing the circumstances whereby the anthem was written under, and how it related/relates to all the wars and violence this country has seen from it's beginnings. The other worldly talents and visions of Jimi Hendrix the short time he graced this planet have never been duplicated before or after him. Telling a story with his guitar via the effects he created was unheard of, but his feeling and his spirit when he played noone could ever hope to come close to to this day.
The things he could do with the guitar are what gets my attention because he didn't need all that technology we have today, and they still can't figure out how he did it
What a powerful statement and choice of material to make his point. He created a palette of musical violence that makes me think, at least. What does that anthem really stand for?
My favorite version of The Star Spangled Banner. He was playing what he knew. Jimmy served in Nam in the 101st Airborne. He lived it, and note his guitar. He was left handed (only right handed guitars at that time). He had to restring the guitar, and got sounds out of it that no one else had done. Or, imo, ever will again. He even played on some other performances with his teeth. He was one of a kind, and was a very nice man as well as being a peerless guitarist. Another member of the "27 Club" gone too soon. P.S. Too bad we couldn't see his performance that day on your reaction.
Jimi washed out of training in the 101, problems he had including missing bed check multiple times, meaning he wasn't in his barracks at lights out, he required supervision at all times, and was caught jerking it in the laterines while on duty. He was discharged on June 29 1962. First combat troops weren't deployed to Vietnam until March 8 1965. Also there was left handed guitars, but they made up about 5% of any guitar makers yearly output. Lefty fenders cost 10% more too. Easier to just buy a right handed guitar you liked and flip it up side down. As far as the sounds he got out of it... first off, electric guitars don't make any of those sounds on their own. The main thing you're hearing here is a fuzz face running into a uni vibe, running into his fully cranked marshall super lead stacks. So in other words, a tiny weak signal coming from the guitar, going into the asymmetrical square wave distortion made by the fuzz face, and into a overly complex phaser, going into a couple of overdriven and super extremely loud amplifiers. The wah does appear, mainly as a high treble boost. (The low input impedance of the fuzz face turns a wah into a treble and midrange boost only, it no longer goes "wah wah") Anyone with a stratocaster, a wah wah, fuzz face, univibe and any old school sounding marshall amp can get the same tone. There's no magic to it, no MOJO. It all comes down to the gear and how it's set, and it helps to have a good imagination to use effects like hendrix did. Now then, there's guitarist making sounds now that hendrix couldn't dream of. Go check out a compilation of Tom Morello's guitar solos.
you know, ive heard people talk about how good of a guitar player this guy or that guy is, i dont acknowledge them until they learn to play a guitar upside down like jimi did he played a right handed guitar upside down cause he was left handed
It was an ant-Vietnam war thing, the anthem died but occasionally came back, the voice of the people at the time. Nowadays... .... Two Gulf wars, Afghanistan, etc. not an eye is turned.
Opening act…. Whoa!!!! He was the head liner of the whole festival.!!!!!!!! What happened was he was supposed to play the night before but it got rained out.
You had to be part of how we felt at the time. We were slightly 'IRREVERANT" because we were so anti War and the Civil rights movements and YET this was our anthem also. So he is playing a distorted version of it. It is ART of the time. Our emotions ran deep because of what was going on.Cannot be stated enough. We would watch bombings nightly on the news of Vietnam and our solidiers dying so it was NO JOKE.
remember, Jimi went to Viet Nam with the 82nd Airborne Division....and probably saw alot of death and destruction and his version of the Star Spangled Banner is to challenge the meaning of the song...
Yes, he was capturing the sounds of war and screaming. I think it's also significant that he played "Taps" in there too which something played at soldiers' & veterans' funerals.
Taps is the music played at service members’ funerals and also played at the “lights-out/reflection” time of basic training to remember all the POW/Killed in Action service members in basic training.
Yes, I'm glad you picked up on that, not many people knew what that part was when he signified "Taps" for the soldiers who died
All the extra sounds he preformed in the song had to do with the war and all the gun fire and bombs. Truly one of the best performance and never have been done before. I think he did an awesome job on the song. People were standing there with their minds blown away. R.I.P Jimmy. You were truly one of the best guitarist of your time and really before your time.
I second that motion! Well said!
*Jimi
He imitates the Doppler Effect.
EXACT.Y
Everyone always gives Whitney the credit for best version of the National anthem, and I’ll give her ALL the credit when it comes to that in vocal terms. But this right here, this was on a whole other level. No vocals, all emotion through nothing but instrumentals. His guitar skills are just sick, period.
Whitney was a kick ass performer -Jimmy was a person who understood music
@@Bobbyliscious Awesome!
@@Bobbyliscious Hendrix was a musical god.
he was making that guitar talk, cry, and scream for him
Jimi’s version was subversive. 🐐👑
During the very minutes of Jimi playing the Star Spangled Banner with the effects of planes flying and rockets firing, there were people in firefights, setting off land mines, being choppered into hot or cold LZ's , being evacuated with wounded, or going down tunnels.
Jimi was on time with this improvisation!
Jimi played the way he saw things. And yea, he took a few trips!
You can see the bombs, the napalm going off, the machine guns, the agony and the terror - all on THAT GUITAR PERFORMANCE, yet wrapped up in patriotism!
@@joelhoulette3244 My definition of patriot: Someone who loves his country enough to expose the truth of its brutality and wrong doing in hopes of making a change for the better. In spite of the consequences. Hendrix was this. It is NOT my country right or wrong. Hope you did not think this is what I meant.
@@36karpatoruski Perfectly said.
He encapsulated the glory and the power of the USA, the pride and the beauty as well as the suffering and the pain. This is impessionistic art at it's finest, up there with Monet and Debussy.
When asked about the criticism of this performance on the Dick Cavet Show he responded "I thought it was beautiful."
I heard very clearly the bombs, I heard the incoming ordinance, I heard the inbound war planes and the sounds of machine gun fire, I heard very clearly the "bombs bursting in air......"
For him to create those clearly produced sounds (ie, the sounds of war machines) - and then to blend them beautifully into our National Anthem - he thus created an unprecedented artistic statement, uniquely on a genius level, and it remains an achievement to this day that is unmatched by any other musical artist.
Jimi's talent was as if he was touched by God, as his recordings and performances clearly reflect. He is widely considered to be the greatest guitarist in the history of popular music
My favorite version of the Star Spangled Banner by far.
The greatest piece of guitar playing EVER. RIP Jimi.
You have to see the documentary about Jimi Hendrix when he performs that at Woodstock live to get the sheer mastery of that song.
One has to watch the video to get the full impact of what he was performing. Jimi Hendrix was in perpetual experimentation at the highest level, doing things guitar players of the era never even dreamed of, and cannot do today. That's the crux of understanding how he became the greatest guitarist in rock history. He was way ahead of all of us !!
Genius! Got goosebumps when I first heard it in 1980, and I was sober!
In 1961 Jimi enlisted in the US Army to avoid prison. In 1962 he was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, completed his jump school training and was awarded the prestigious Screaming Eagles patch. Later that year Jimi was honorably discharged for basically, failure to adapt. In a filed report his First Sergeant stated, "He has no interest whatsoever in the Army". Jimi hated violence and war. He was anti-war. In this performance he used his guitar to make the sounds of airplanes dropping bombs, explosions, and of victims screaming and crying". He nailed it in this iconic performance.
Jimi just played the emotions, events and sounds of why the anthem was created. Can't understand how people don't get this. The genius in Jimi's performance of the anthem is only because God blessed him with the vision to do so.
Because younger generations don't relate their music to painful current events like we did when this was performed. WE GOT IT. WE WERE SO INFLUENCED BY VIETNAM AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT - younger generations do not get that we had to answer for the UNJUST WAR. THE ARMY was NOT A VOLUNTEER ARMY. WE were being irreverent and at the same time claiming the anthem as ours also. A lot of these reaction people are from decades different. Asia and BJ are two of the more mature ones. Other well-meaning reaction people really don't get that the music reflected what the hell was going on and our generation was the first to say HELL NO WE WON'T GO. OR HELL NO WE WON'T TAKE IT.
That loud run was played at "and the bombs bursting in air". The gent here was spot-on.
Jimi was definitely a man that could speak with his guitar.
Exactly sounds of war he created this sound which you now hear during the '80s the 90s heavy metal feedback it's all because of Mr Jimi Hendrix
I appreciate all the reactions you did today, they were awesome, thank you💖
I played this version of the Star Spangled Banner at a family gathering, and my dad recognized the song, thought it was disrespectful and broke the record. I still love Jimi's version.
I'm a Canadian but love this version of your anthem. My Mom,who was born in 1931 and just as proud of our country,liked this a lot. She got what it was all about.
I woulda put my dad in a home.
But me got me into rock
As a military brat, I completely understand your dad's reasoning on why this would be disrespectful.. But I also still love this and Jimmie and always will.
If you listened to this when he first played it, BJ would already have been to Nam and come back. He would be a different man. Every young man went to the military.
Simply the Greatest! This song just chills me and thrills me every time I watch Woodstock!
Jimmi the best player ever he was great
Let's put this into context. The star spangled banner was written by Francis Scott Key during the attack on Fort McHenry in 1814 during the war of 1812 with Great Britain. The anthem, any version, is not about war in general, but rather the heroic stand and realization that after a night of intense bombardment our flag was still flying and Fort McHenry still stood. This Hendrix version has Jimi's wailing and feedback to show the sounds of battle during the writing of the song.
I think the context that needs to be mentioned is that this song was performed at the first Woodstock which was during the Vietnam War and during the height of the anti-war movement of that time. This rendition is so iconic because it perverts the national anthem by marring it with the sounds of war. The whammy bar dive after the portion of the song where the lyrics were 'the rockets' red glare' sounded like a bomb falling and then the chaos afterwards where he just goes ham on the whammy. It's an odd one to listen to out of context but if you know when this was happening, it makes a lot more sense.
This is Jimi's observation of the state of America at the time. Remember Vietnam.
Jimi rocked it!
As a huge Hendrix fan I'm checking various reactions to his rendition of National Anthem.
Some get it, some don't
Jimi was in the Army 101st Airborne which many don't remember or know. The song was his rendition of the anthem putting in bombs bursting, machine gun fire, screams and towards the end , taps. His rendition was profound about the war at that time or any war. Jimi let his talent expose his soul in all he played. You just have to wonder what would he have created if he had lived longer than 27 years. It was rumored he and Miles Davis had thought to collaborate on something.
Peace to All !!!
It made sense at the time with Vietnam,like many things in life,you had to have been there
Metal Fan here who likes MANY genres like almost all metal fans and loves Jimi!!! LIKE ALL TRUE METAL HEADS
As Clapton said after he died "as a guitar player, he had no equal." And yes it was a Strat. He started playing as most did, a 1957 Strat. I had one. Assume guitar. Made for rock.
One of the major components of this performance is the equipment. The steel strings on the guitar vibrate with the sound from the amplifiers. If the frequencies match you get an effect called "feedback." The speakers make a sound - a string vibrates and send the same sound to the amp which amplifies the sound coming out of the speakers - in an endless loop. Jimi could control all the power effortlessly. BTW, the studio version of the Star Spangled banner is completely different. It showcases multi-track recording - a masterpiece. Off of the "Rainbow Bridge" album.
Jimi stated he wanted to recreate every sound in the universe with his guitar.
He also played Taps to honor his fallen brothers.
I love this performance and the music originally composed in England
he played it because of the Vietnam war during that time, I know this because im a Jimi Hendrix fan from The Netherlands
At Woodstock in 1969, Jimmie was given one of the worst time slots to perform, Sunrise on the last day, so this is how he woke up the crowd, before the rest of his iconic performance. In his interview on the Dick Cavett show a few months later, he did not explain the origin of how he thought this up. Was it spur of the moment?
He was the headliner, he was always meant to close the festival, due to the storms on Saturday, and rain on Sunday, power failures, the revolving stage failing instantly (the idea was one band could play while another was being set up and then after that performance, the stage could be spun around, and the next band could play minutes later.) Without that revolving stage, it took 30 minutes to an hour to tear down one bands gear and set up the next band, everything ended up being about 12 hours behind. The plan was for jimi to close the festival on Sunday night.
As for the origins of it, he began playing it like that 1 year and a day earlier, at a gig in Maryland. It was actually a regular part of his sets.
The "tangents" actually borrows a lot from the ending of third stone from the sun.
His appearance on dick cavett was September 9, 22 days after woodstock, not "months" later.
This was during the Vietnam war with protest happening across America. Also remember Jimi was a former paratrooper thus a veteran. And yes the sounds he made represent Planes, bombs, screams etc.
In high-school I was in rotc. My very 1st presentation of the flag as a color guard, they used this song. I shed tears in front of the whole school. I followed others in squad through rest of our presentation by rote, was that well trained I marched off the auditorium floor blind in tears. My squad leader ordered me to put my rifle down, step out of room and compose myself. Then 2wks later I got a ribbonl for something about patriotism and standing my ground. All six of the classes heard what happened. I was at moment embarrassed. But whole rotc honored me being able to undo my salute with arms and march off floor blinded with tears as if I wasn't blinded
He was protesting the vietnam war with sounds of police sirens, bombs, babys screaming and machine gun fire
Best of all time!!.. He nailed the Anthem and the war and emotions!!.. how do you NOT know Jimmie Hendricks?
I believe Jimi's interpretation is this: Francis Scott Key, the writer of the Star Spangled Banner was a on a ship in the Baltimore Harbor during a battle when he wrote it. What we know and hear is cleaned up and made pretty and neat.
It was song he did during time of war. He dive bombed the strings imitating bombs and missiles. A lot of songs in the sixties referred to the Viet Nam war.
He was in the 101st Airborn division during Vietnam. This is his version with the noise of the war
Jimi served his time in Vietnam. First hand experience with what it was like.
Asia saying " I enjoyed this ! " with a confused look on her😂😂😂😂😂
It's genius! Jimi was a paratrooper in the Army. This was played during the middle of our involvement in the Vietnam War. Jimi's kinda protesting in his own way. You hear bombs...screams..ambulances...gunfire..everything you hear with his White Strat. ITS GENIUS!!!!
He knowingly did this as hurricane Camille was hitting Mississippi.
That’s why the craziness of it. It was meant to represent the chaos that was going on in Mississippi at the time.
Yeah, his trip was to Vietnam and back!
I don't know if you guys are watching along with listening but if you're not you have to watch this as watch the emotions in his face during this!! He just captured everything that was going in 1969 with this performance!!
It sounded great when I was tripping at Woodstock back then
He was one of the last artist that played "Woodstock" and by that time most of the people have left.
Funny eh
Because he came on a day late. Had nothing to do with his band personally. It wouldn't make sense being his band was the show closer.
He WAS the last band at woodstock. He was the highest paid entertainer in the world at the time, and his management made damned sure he was the headliner, meaning he had to be last.
But due to severe storms, and rain, power outages, the revolving stage failing (taking much longer to set up bands) and acts not getting there on time, everything was about 12 hours behind. So he played on Monday morning instead of Sunday night.
If you follow the word to the song, it’s the “rocket’s red glare” and “bombs bursting in air” that you hear him calling up.
He was in the 82nd Airborne
Jet planes diving, bullets flying, bombs bursting, the cries of war all coming out of that upside-down Strat. A true crime that he died so young. A true and pure artist like Jimi we'll never see again.
He plays the anthem, with all its heroic patriotism, and took it to Vietnam, with the dive bombing, the napalm, and the screams. That's genius.
The anthem's history began the morning of September 14, 1814, when an attorney and amateur poet named Francis Scott Key watched U.S. soldiers-who were under bombardment from British naval forces during the War of 1812-raise a large American flag over Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland.
Most of his performances were on a strat. The one in maui was a Flying V & Strat. He also played a Gibson SG & Les Paul
He played a war on his guitar.We thought everybody knew that.There was bombing' Straefing' machine gun fire. we thought everybody knew that.
The Whole World Was Watching in 1969 when he played that anthem
This was not improvised. He had been working out the details for this performance back in ‘66, when he heard The Silver Apples recording a very similar in context version of the star spangled banner. Every note and tuning is thought out Ofer a few years.
Legendary! 🇺🇸
Jimi didn't go on a trip . He felt it . U have to hear what he's doing.
Read the story of the song. It was a battle against the British naval forces in the war of 1812. It is also protest of the Viet Nam War in this context.
Asia and BJ....Guys. For some major clarification. This was a period when the U.S. was embroiled in the Vietnam War. It was Jimi's protest to the war and all the lives lost. Remember this was the 60's, this isn't about drugs or trips. This was life and war. Jimi was in the U.S. Army and if you lived doing that period, it was hard to be a U.S. citizen and not know someone killed or fighting in this war. There were massive protests to this unpopular war and the popular culture at that time loudly voiced their opposition to war and advocating peace. Jimi was a leading voice of that movement by default. Listen to the lyrics of his later music. All peace and love, not war. It was an extremely powerful statement at the time. Headline News for real.
If you listen to it carefully , it sounds like bombs falling & jets flying over. Right after this , he goes straight into " Purple Haze ".
Rockets Red Glare, the Bombs Bursting In Air...Then he plays taps....you just heard it...Yes, he was playing his white Strat...
There is an audio video on TH-cam of Cliff Burton performing the star spangled banner on the bass during his last Metallica performance.
You guys have to understand he is playing the Star Spangled Banner in relation to the times of the 60s / 70s
He played this at the height of the Vietnam War with many American young men dying there senselessly. He was imitating the sounds of a firefight in the middle of the Anthem.
Jimi not only conveyed the violence of the Vietnam war , but also the fighting that was going on in the streets of major U.S cities during the quest for equality
There's a live video to this. I don't think it would get blocked.
This is his musical Vietnam War protest. The bombs, sirens, wailing of his guitar and infusing of Over There (WWII war song).
You are both usually perceptive but not with this song. Forget all the comments re LSD. Jimi played at the end part of the concert. He had just come off playing Voodoo Child a slight return( which btw he wrote and originated both parts, not SRV) and to wrap up his set, went into the Star S B..For every stanza of the song, he emulated the words, with sound effects. For example "and the rockets red glare" or " bombs bursting in air" , Playing the circumstances whereby the anthem was written under, and how it related/relates to all the wars and violence this country has seen from it's beginnings. The other worldly talents and visions of Jimi Hendrix the short time he graced this planet have never been duplicated before or after him. Telling a story with his guitar via the effects he created was unheard of, but his feeling and his spirit when he played noone could ever hope to come close to to this day.
The things he could do with the guitar are what gets my attention because he didn't need all that technology we have today, and they still can't figure out how he did it
It was meant to show the chaos of the vietnam war
Check out 'Villanova Junction' from Hendrix...
When I'm 'lifted' ..I swURR that song has me zoned thy hell out..🤣🤣🤣
he was and ALWAYS will be a GUITAR GOD!!!!!!!!!
He performed on LSD. regularly ! Yea listen to the words our anthem is a war song
This is history man thanks Jimi
Jimi was a paratrooper in the 101 airborne infantry
I was a small child at the time in London and still remember the outrage of the American establishment
What a powerful statement and choice of material to make his point. He created a palette of musical violence that makes me think, at least. What does that anthem really stand for?
My favorite version of The Star Spangled Banner. He was playing what he knew. Jimmy served in Nam in the 101st Airborne. He lived it, and note his guitar. He was left handed (only right handed guitars at that time). He had to restring the guitar, and got sounds out of it that no one else had done. Or, imo, ever will again. He even played on some other performances with his teeth. He was one of a kind, and was a very nice man as well as being a peerless guitarist. Another member of the "27 Club" gone too soon. P.S. Too bad we couldn't see his performance that day on your reaction.
He was in the 101st Airborne but didn't serve in Vietnam.
Jimi washed out of training in the 101, problems he had including missing bed check multiple times, meaning he wasn't in his barracks at lights out, he required supervision at all times, and was caught jerking it in the laterines while on duty. He was discharged on June 29 1962. First combat troops weren't deployed to Vietnam until March 8 1965.
Also there was left handed guitars, but they made up about 5% of any guitar makers yearly output. Lefty fenders cost 10% more too. Easier to just buy a right handed guitar you liked and flip it up side down.
As far as the sounds he got out of it... first off, electric guitars don't make any of those sounds on their own. The main thing you're hearing here is a fuzz face running into a uni vibe, running into his fully cranked marshall super lead stacks. So in other words, a tiny weak signal coming from the guitar, going into the asymmetrical square wave distortion made by the fuzz face, and into a overly complex phaser, going into a couple of overdriven and super extremely loud amplifiers. The wah does appear, mainly as a high treble boost. (The low input impedance of the fuzz face turns a wah into a treble and midrange boost only, it no longer goes "wah wah")
Anyone with a stratocaster, a wah wah, fuzz face, univibe and any old school sounding marshall amp can get the same tone. There's no magic to it, no MOJO. It all comes down to the gear and how it's set, and it helps to have a good imagination to use effects like hendrix did.
Now then, there's guitarist making sounds now that hendrix couldn't dream of. Go check out a compilation of Tom Morello's guitar solos.
you know, ive heard people talk about how good of a guitar player this guy or that guy is, i dont acknowledge them until they learn to play a guitar upside down like jimi did he played a right handed guitar upside down cause he was left handed
It was an ant-Vietnam war thing, the anthem died but occasionally came back, the voice of the people at the time.
Nowadays...
.... Two Gulf wars, Afghanistan, etc. not an eye is turned.
Now you see why Jimi Hendrix is the GOAT. Jimi was actually a paratrooper in the Vietnam War.
Don't where you heard that he was in Vietnam. Not true.
Yep! White strat played upside down
do it live from Woodstock he plays his guitar upside down
He was the opening act for the third day he was waking the crowd up so they could go get some breakfast
Opening act…. Whoa!!!! He was the head liner of the whole festival.!!!!!!!! What happened was he was supposed to play the night before but it got rained out.
What a way to wake up thou
It wasn't "of the free" it was an Army Revolet.
He Played Taps for the fallen soldiers
You had to be part of how we felt at the time. We were slightly 'IRREVERANT" because we were so anti War and the Civil rights movements and YET this was our anthem also. So he is playing a distorted version of it. It is ART of the time. Our emotions ran deep because of what was going on.Cannot be stated enough. We would watch bombings nightly on the news of Vietnam and our solidiers dying so it was NO JOKE.
It is beautiful.
There had never been, aint nobody now, nor will there ever be the likes of him again.
Bombs bursting in air!
"that's wow!"
Yeah, that's wow...
Free your mind. Jimi is making a political statement. This is true Genius. He's telling the truth about America.
remember, Jimi went to Viet Nam with the 82nd Airborne Division....and probably saw alot of death and destruction and his version of the Star Spangled Banner is to challenge the meaning of the song...
he never saw VN never made it out of boot camp. got hurt jumping out of a plane. honorable discharge.
@@tonetone7572 thanks, didn't know that.
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