Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock version of the Star Spangled Banner is more political than I thought!
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
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In this edition of #thedailydoug, I'm peeling back the layers of the performance by Jimi Hendrix of America's National Anthem, The Star Spangled Banner, at the Woodstock festival in 1969. While listening, I noticed some improvisational expounding outside of the melody by Jimi that come in the song where references to rockets and bombs are included. Come along for the ride as I listen to this classic performance in its entireity for the first time. Enjoy!
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Excellent job you got everything right lol the bombs the sirens and TAPS, the political statement and context of the times. And the technical information is such a breath of fresh air on RUclips from an actual musician that's also further confirmation of Jimi's amazingness. One of music's greatest moments.
Doug is wonderful but don't pay too much attention when he mentions guitar specific terms because he often gets them wrong (e.g. the whammy bar is not a wah-wah).
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@@czgibson3086 In a similar vein (combat sound effects), he might check out Machine Gun from Band Of Gypsys, Miles Davis' favorite performance by Jimi.
The problem might be finding a video that hasn't been taken down.
The official release is in black & White, but is still spell-binding.
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Band of gypsies is a fantastic album, darn near wore out the grooves on that thing.
Jimi was a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne. It’s also where he met Billy Cox.
Genius! He used the feedback from the speakers as part of the performance.
Yes, he and Neil Young !
Dick Cavett asked Jimi about playing The Star Spangled Banner in such an unorthodox way, Jimi said he thought it was beautiful.
So did I
Hi, such an amazing performance. My dad's band ( CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL ) headlined Woodstock on Saturday night. They were actually the very 1st band to sign on to play. Creedence had another show Sunday, so they left Sunday morning. Dad said the band was bummed they couldn't stay for Sundays show and see Jimi... jf
Your father is John Fogerty? CCR was one of the defining bands of the 1960's. With songs like Fortunate Son, Bad Moon, Lodi, they were constantly on the radio. Who'll Stop the Rain, is one of my all time favorites.🎙️🎸🎸☮️
@jefffogertymusic2023 Incredible piece of information, thank you for sharing! The other track I was pondering for today was Fortunate Son, which I'll certainly cover in the future. Thank you again for dropping a comment!
@@briangriffin5524 my dad is Tom, my Uncle is John
@@jefffogertymusic2023 Got it. Both talented musicians.
@@Doug.Helvering hi, there are alot of Creedence songs you should check out. For bad azz guitar solos and vocals do I put a spell on you, the album version. I heard it thru the Grapevine, the full , long album version off of Cosmos Factory. In fact you should do the total album Cosmos Factory. 6 top 10 hits, Grapevine and a strong deep cut Ramble Tamble. Their biggest hit album. Multi platinum. And has Run Thru The Jungle. With headphones is great, backwards lead guitar, harmonica, great vocals, powerful story. One of the favorite songs of the Vietnam soldiers in the trenches in the war..... FYI, love your channel.
Phenomenal. As I understand it, Jimi was illustrating the nightly new coverage from Virtnam, when the rockets and bombs were on the scree every night. Jimi had been part of the 101st Airbourne and was medically discharged. He had a deep connection to the sacrifice of those serving but was also horrified by the suffering of the people under the weight of the war. I am a guitar player myself, and my debt to his incredible artistry and talent is huge. Thank you for posting this great video.
Jiimi was dischargedfor masturbating.
Watched him perform this at the 2nd Atlanta Pop Festival on July 4th with fireworks going off. All these years later I can still hear and visualize it.
Saw the Experience do a half hr version on an ordinary day (but past midnight!) at the helLAForum in '69... Etched in my then 13yr old brain too.
I had to buy the Atlanta Pop Music Festival on CD. A great piece of music history.🎙️🎸🎸☮️
Wow I'm jealous. I saw pink floyd London 94 pulse...wish I was there..😊😊😊
A respectful rendition from a former service man 🇺🇲
In high school I was playing this recording somewhat loud in my bedroom. After it ended my mom poked her head in my room and said something like “That was really good! Your playing has gotten so much better”. I wish mom, sorry but that was Jimi Hendrix. if I could play like that i wouldn’t just be playing in my room. ; )
I saw him perform this song live. He called it "Wave on Flag." There was no substitute for volume. His amps must have been turned up to "11." He could control feedback by just moving his guitar or body the slightest amount. Amazing. I was sitting in row 7 and I think my ears rang for the entire next week. I was lucky enough to see him perform four times. Three with the Experience and once with The Band of Gypsies.
In the near future through AI, you'll be able to share those profound memories. People will pay big money!
What!!?? Wait !!?? YOU SAW JIMI 4 times !!!! ??? What!! Do YOU Know thaT you're one of thee luckiest people to walk the Earth. Gee whiz,Man. wow. In 1974,when I was 16, I found out I could've seen Jimi Hendrix for 5 dollars, I literally sat down and cried !! Wow. Dude you are one lucky Soul. RESPECT!! Play on Electric Gypsy Play on !!
This performance gets to every fiber of my being. The channeling of his message through however many watts... the immersion in the sound...
There's a lot being said here. It brings a lump to my throat every single time.
Fun fact - Jimi lived in London for a time, next door to where baroque composer George Frideric Handel lived. There is a Hendrix, Handel museum there now.
His rendition of Villanova Junction there is well worth checking out too. Some of the most mesmerizing minutes in the history of live music.
One of the most strangely beautiful pieces I've ever heard. Played to an exhausted crowd and ending on an unresolved note.
@@richardo5951 Totally ! Like the closing theme for the 1960s, really.
Absolutely agree.
The truest comment possible! ❤
Bingo. Coming after the Anthem, Villanova Junction expresses the complete exhaustion the country had reached by the end of the 60s.
Amazing control, just unbelievable performance. I've heard that by Monday morning the crowd had dwindled to about 40,000. Still, we have the film and I never tire of it
A must see from Woodstock 69 is Santana performing Soul Sacrifice. They hadnt even released their debut album yet, but the performance was legendary which skyrocketed their career. The drummer was 19 at the time and he absolutely killed his extended solo.
Soul Sacrifice (sSp05euvRNU)
Agree totally!
Best rock drum solo ever!
"Maybe it's a statement about the war"...ya THINK???
Along with Machine Gun from Band of Gypsies
Glad you enjoyed this one, Doug! There was an exhibit of historically significant guitars at MoMA in NYC in 2019 and one of the last displays was Jimi’s white Strat that he played at the Woodstock Festival. I was walking around casually, then stopped dead in my tracks when I saw that. Lots of incredible vibes coming from his guitar.
Like alleged moon 🌙 landing 😊
I feel those vibes still.
I just remember this playing on the radio at my work some time in the 00's when a customer got visibly agitated by it and then started complaining about music "these days." By my estimate he was around the right age for Woodstock, so I don't know how he managed to miss this performance for 30-odd years and think that it was new.
Could you imagine being woken up on a Monday morning, day 3 of a music festival by that performance? It would definitely get that day going in a memorable and special way.
From the documentary, "The '60's:" "Hendrix playing The Star-Spangled Banner first thing in the morning at Woodstock, he was waking up his generation to a call for something better, something that could exist within their conscience." From the play, "Angels in America:" "The most important word in The Star-Spangled Banner is written in a note so high that nobody can reach it. Free." To this day, Jimi's version is the most heart-felt and the most patriotic version I've ever heard. It still moistens the surfaces of my eyes all this time later.
Jimi also did a studio version of this with layers and layers of guitars. I would love to hear Doug's thoughts on that version too.
I love the studio version, it's incredible and often unfairly ignored because of the great cultural impact of the live version that closed Woodstock.
Jimi served so he knew
A bit before my time, but when I got older, I listened to the Woodstock album that my parents had bought. There are several once-in-a-lifetime performances on there: Hendrix Star Spangled Banner which then goes into Purple Haze, and by the time it's all over and stops, you hear nothing from the crowd as they sit in stunned silence. Then there's Santan's Soul Sacrifice, Ten Years After, I'm Going Home, and many more. Diving further into that album is essential listening.
The crowd was stunned because there’d been the rainstorm the day before and turned the whole place into a mud pit, plus if you’d been partying all through the weekend you’d be a bit stunned, too 😉
The album only gives high lights… you can find online the entire weekend of music (30+ cds worth, depending on the website source)
I am ALWAYS mesmerized by this performance even thought I've probably watched it 50 or 60 times! 😅 The way Jimi moves and flows is other-worldly... Amazing to think what he would've accomplished had he not died. 😢 💔
For me at the time (I was pretty close to the stage), I felt like this performance wasn't just a commentary on the war, but really the quintessential commentary on the state of the country, the boundless freedom of the countercuture. And, of course, the complete mastery of the guitar. I think people will be studying this performance for decades.
Hey DH: if you're interested, Jimi performed & recorded a studio version of SSB; I believe it's uploaded to RUclips now. It was originally released on the posthumous soundtrack to "Rainbow Bridge" album. I think you'd dig it.✌🏽 🎸
Thank you Doug. I didn't scroll to see if a pertinent Jimi Hendrix fact was already posted, which is that Jimi was a paratrooper in the Army 101st Airborne. He often performed wearing his Army Jacket with his A|A patch on it.
If not already suggested, you should also give his studio version a listen. Lots of tracked guitars. Really amazing.
Fun fact: Martin Scorsese was the Music Editor and Assistant Director for the Woodstock film. He said in a book about his career that he staked out a piece of territory at the festival so that he could set up his film equipment. He also said that he lived on a fairly steady diet of hamburgers that weekend.
Happy 4th, Doug!
I think the visuals/filming editing multiple screen to the Woodstock movie really added another dimension to the event Very impactful watching it today especially "Soul Sacrifice" Santana "I'm going home" Ten Years After I saw this movie when I was 14years old(1969) with my sister 3 hours felt like the 3 day festival
No-one else like him, before or since. It would have been nice for you to see a little more of his performance Doug. On the triple album there's about 12 minutes of him jamming, playing SSB and then moving into Purple Haze. It becomes quite melancholy as the visuals show how few people have remained to listen to this incredible musician. I read recently that it wasn't really the festival that had such an impact on the music world, it was the huge success of the triple album and movie in reaching millions of people around the globe.
Few people remained because the rainstorm from the day before turned the place into a mud pit, a lot of people left after that…
Hendrix is usually associated with theatrics and feedback, but he could be very restrained and soulful, when he wanted to. He’s one of the best blues guitarists of all time. His rendition of Bleeding Heart at the Royal Albert Hall is awesome. He really does make the guitar sound like it’s crying.
This performance always gives me goosebumps.
Always.
Thanks I'll check it out
This always brings me to tears to hear..... such a genius lost to soon
I was only 8 during Woodstock, but thanks to a friend’s older brother, listened to the incredible vinyl recording as soon as it came out. Amazing!
Pali gap from rainbow bridge lp is a fantastic instrumental, all time favorite of mine. A listen to while watching sunrise (or sunset) ☮️
I've played this every 4th of July since I got the Woodstock album in the early 70's. Still sends shivers every time I hear it.
It was the first thing in the morning when he got on stage. Still cold, and a lot of people were still asleep. Back then, the first thing you would see on tv was the same as the last thing you would see at night on tv. They played the National Anthem. He not only did what you are seeing and hearing, but he was also giving them something familiar; waking up to the National Anthem.
I feel like I need to have this rendition of the Star Spangled Banner in the background as I tell my kids about how it came about.
♪ Thanks Doug for this one. Jimi Hendrix has been considered by many to be the greatest guitarist that ever lived. His style was ground breaking and innovative, and he was ahead of his time, perhaps in more ways than one. Just by the technological progress he made in such little time, can you imagine what he would be coming up with if he were alive today ♫.
A great pick and a nice coincidence since I was looking for this version to play today. Happy Independence Day! 🇺🇸
As an Australian whos only 26, I've never actually heard the original national anthem however Hendrixs version is the one I grew up loving, been listening to Hendrix since I was 14. One thing I never knew the sound effect he was doing in-between were to represent missles, bombs, war etc. I thought he was just having an acid trip. Honestly explains alot.
I had a radio show through the 1990s, and I would sign off in one of two ways. One way was to play Ren & Stimpy's Kilted Yaksmen song. The other way was to play the Hendrix version of the Star Spangled Banner underneath Jello Biafra's Pledge of Allegiance. They matched up very well, being of similar length.
Must admit to me this only sounds complete if it runs into the next song (Purple Haze)...First heard this on the radio (probably Radio Luxembourg in 1971 approx) - I'm 63 now - and I just couldnt believe what I was hearing. Set the tone for my musical preferences to the present day.
I remember buying this album back some 50 odd years ago. Lots of great music in there.
Listen to Hendrix's Machine Gun, recorded a few months after this performance. The playing sounds like a machine gun going off. Hendrix was a former member of the 101st Airborne; bassist of Band of Gypsies Billy Cox was also a veteran.
Doug talking us through the song hit so hard I actually started to cry, remembering the era, the war, and the unnecessary deaths of 50,000 American boys. Hendrix truly honored their sacrifice.
Doug, please listen again but let it play thru to the next track, which is Purple Haze - an overplayed rock "classic" ... but in the context of the major-key melody & avante-garde noise of what came before, the pentatonic blues-rock, with more treble & distortion than the studio version, sounds exceptionally deep & nasty.
I can’t tell you how many times I played the National Anthem in high school marching band…but never like that!
The closest I ever came was to play trumpet discant elements, which are officially recognized options to be incorporated in the song!
Every time I see a review or reaction to Jimi, I always wonder what he would have given us if he would still be with us.
This is patriotic!
Oh, and “I don’t think they’re lying”…. That wins!
Jimmy Hendrix was in the 101 army airborne rangers. He was honorably discharged , he can play it anyway he wanted to. 2:43
Sublime and beautiful,been doing a Jimi tribute band and the depth of his canon as a mind that never saw 30 is other worldly
Well that’s never gonna happen again! Awesome!
Hi Doug, can you consider Jimi’s Machine Gun from the Band of Gypsies performance, for me it’s a seminal piece of work from Jimi’s canon that deserves to be recognised more, thanks Doug!
Is that a yes?👍
One of the great artistic statements! On level with Guernica...
The recording engineer for the festival was Eddie Kramer, who also happened to be Jimi's engineer.
Doug please talk about what key Jimi is in and more of the technical aspects of his playing . Thank You . ✨✨✨🎸✨✨✨🇺🇸 Jimi restrung his guitars . He used a Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face .... Vox Wha Wha , Uni Vibe , Roger Meyers Octavia . His Marshall amps were Hot Rodded .
Everyone knows that he plays a right handed Strat left handed. But, if you look very closely, it is actually strung as a 'normal' left handed guitar would be, with the thinnest treble strings at the bottom. The major requirement would have to be getting the nut recut, to accommodate the thicker strings in the tiny grooves, and cut finer grooves in place of the larger ones, to control the intonation of those strings. The bridge pickup would also be slightly out of whack from the intended.
Jimi liked the controls on top.
And I believe he sequed right into Purple Haze...
An extremely articulate, intellectual interpretation of what this rendition has meant to me since the award winning documentary first appeared in the early 1970s. Jimi caught my 10 year old attention with his electrifying performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. The guitar set alight was on ABC, CBS, NBC and all media had commentary about his performances. CKLW was the primary source of music on AM radio prior to CJOM 88 becoming the first FM stereo 'album rock' station receivable around the 'metro Detroit' area. We also had WKNR 'Keener 13' during some of those years. The 'movie' Woodstock was most Americans first opportunity to witness Jimi's astonishing set. I remain as impressed as I was initially, at the first showing of the movie at the 'Southland' theatre. Jimi remains 'groundbreaking' today. This is the rendition used for my main ringtone on my 'smart' phone.
The Star Spangled Banner has never been played with more emotion than right here.
The two most iconic performances of the Star Spangled Banner for me are this one by Jimi and the Whitney Houston Superbowl performance.
Doug will love the original Woodstock documentary.
Probably the most genius and politically motivated piece of music by any maestro. So many messages, attitudes, feelings, behaviours and nuances - especially in such a short piece of music, too. I first saw this video in the early 80s as a young boy and I just ‘got it’.
I remember, years ago now, watching Derek Holt (ex Climax Blues Band) playing a distorted live version of TSSB on bass!
The middle of summer in the morning, in upstate NY is NOT like the middle of summer in NYC or in NJ. It is chillier and wetter. I have gone on vacation and made the mistake of thinking it was August in NY. Which it was. So I dressed for that and froze me A*s off
Jimi Hendrix's was the most anticipated Woodstock performance, but by the time he and his newly formed band, Gypsy Sun & Rainbows, started their two-hour set at 9:00 a.m. Monday morning, the half-million-person audience was down to roughly 40,000.
I wonder did lots of those people who left regretted later after realizing leaving historic moment of rock. :)
I can just imagine seeing their faces watching it on the film later
High key so that when he dropped his wah wah it would go straight to feedback which he could completely control
Jimi used a Vox Wah into a Fuzz Face with (Axis fuzz circuit) and going into a Univox Uin-vibe, at 6:01 to 6:05 he is letting his bend note feedback into the Marshall Superlead amp and at 8:02 to 8:08 he is rocking his Vox wah on and off getting the effect, not double picking.
glad to see you figured it out , many in your generation couldn't . fun fact : Jimi was the last performer to play Woodstock cause he got there late, most of the 400 to 500 thousand people had headed home that morning after the last performers played earlier that nite were over. there were only 40 to 50 thousand at most left , hung-over late starters that were packing up when Jimi took the stage. they were treated to probley the greatest performance of Jimi's short career . if you look into the audience you'll see a lot of people but only a fraction of what was there.
You’re one of the few who recognize vibrato vs tremolo. Most people say a guitar has a tremolo bar even though it should be called a vibrato bar. Tremolo has to do with volume where as vibrato has to do with frequency/pitch.
Okay, so we can Whammy Bar…😉
hi, doug! this is great. how about next week friday you play "bastille day" by Rush?
Ive been watching your videos for awhile but this one made me subscribe to you, ive always loved this performance and you said exactly what i had been thinking about this song for years but in actual words that made sense
Hey Doug, so glad you did this. Now you need to listen to the Studio version. Can you imagine what Jimi got up to in a studio? The studio version is on the "Rainbow Bridge" cd. The cover says it's music from the movie, it's only the studio tracks used as backing music in the film. The film ends with a live concert in Hawaii, Jimi's final live gig in the USA, on a farm pasteur field . The only good part of the movie is the live gig at the end. But this movie music cd is of the studio recordings heard in the film, not any of the live tracks from the film. But Jimi was so dynamic, it's a great album anyway. Then listen to Pali Gap, same cd.
I read somewhere that all of the pedal companies were bringing him their latest electronic inventions (wah-wah pedals etc.) to have him try them out.
Another thing going on there is TV would go offair at night and return with the National Anthem proceeded by the chords Jimi played in the morning, so he was also doing it to wake everyone up and potentially call out the weirdness of private broadcasting companies starting each day with the national anthem.
My kids were ages 3 and 6 when they first heard this, and even at that age they were blown away. That was 35 years ago.
The heavy rock FM music station in Arlington TX in early 1970s played Hendrix' version at midnight as the sign-off National Anthem when the station stopped broadcasting each night until 6AM the next morning.
I did that as well as a college radio dj in the late ‘70’s…
'bout 5 or so yrs ago, the NYPL had a multimedia display set up at their 5th Ave branch chronicling the '60s; one of the last displays was a small video setup w/ this clip playing on a loop. Stood and watched, and the realization came to me: not 14 months after that performance, Hendrix would be dead of his own misadventure. I shed tears, moved on.
Definitely a statement about the Vietnam War. For the first time people got to watch people being napalmed on the evening news. Jimi was making increasing anti war violence statements in public and at his concerts. What a genius! I also love his symphony version on Electric Ladyland.
'I think he's expounding upon the rockets'...yeah, I think so too.
Thanks Doug for the wonderful tribute to one of rock and roll's finest...for recognizing and acknowledging that. BTW, the documentary won the academy award for best documentary and a little trivia...you won't see Creedence Clearwater Revival in the movie, but you can see their performance on RUclips. Ironically, they were one of the biggest acts of the show at the time.
I think one of the things a lot of, mostly younger, people miss about Hendrix is the existing guitar tech at the time. While I'm not a guitarist, I believe it was after Hendrix that they developed strings that were intended to be easier to bend. I don't think Jimi had much tech beyond a tremolo bar. Which makes the sounds he created all that much more amazing. He did it without all the modern "toys".
I've got a recording, I think it was the Monterey Festival, which has Jimi introducing that he's going to do the "combined national anthems" for both the US and the UK. Telling people, "No, don't get mad, don't get mad.." He then starts off, kind of like here with just the Star Spangled Banner, but after a moment or two of that, he suddenly breaks into a very raucous version of "Wild Thing". That ends, based on the humming noises, in him burning the guitar on stage.
Side note, in the mid-70's I was a small town DJ for a couple of years. I got one complaint phoned into the station to me from a "listener". I had just played, this, the Woodstock version of Jimi doing the national anthem. I never got a word in, she rattled on about not liking it, ending with her name and the declaration "And I'm an American!" before hanging up. So, I pulled that same album back out, Soundtrack from the film, Jimi Hendrix, from which I'd played the anthem. This time, I looked for the "noisiest" track I could find, which ended up being another live version of "Wild Thing". Went back on the mike after the currently playing song, announced the complaint I'd received, and that this was my response.
The funny part of that is, I ended up in that same lady's house about a year or so later. Babysitter for my then brand new wife's first child. I knew who she was, she never seemed to connect the dots to me.
That soundtrack album had interviews on the end of each side. In one of those, Jimi spoke about his true love in music was the blues. That songs like Purple Haze he just did "for the kids". I sort of think that, had he lived, he'd of been up there with people like B.B. King and such. Legendary bluesmen. Sadly, we'll never know.
The way wah, distortion pedal, envelope filters, phasers and the like were the tech of the time. Jimi used a lot of those. He experimented with so many different guitar sounds through the effect pedals, the amps and of course the guitar. Even trying submerging speakers in water in the studio. It's told he ruined quite a few speakers in the process. As far as blues? Jimi was an incredible blues player.
@@jadedjackel655Univox Univibe gave it that wavering sound
It went from a political statement that made some people mad to being accepted. Back in high school (1970s) I played it with my band. (Not as well of course. LOL) In the last few years, I played it at some benefits for veterans. Lots of pressure to do it well. Every veteran from every era stood up and you could hear a pin drop. Quite a difference.
Are you thinking of the national anthem in itself being seen as a political statement during the late 60s (presumably seen as a pro-Nixon statement?) or of the way Jimi played it?
That's awesome. Of course it's the veterans who truly understand the cost and reality of war which is Jimi's whole statement. Under the flag they want us to look up to is pain and suffering, death and destruction. Jimi was really interesting. Being from the military and times he was raised at the height of mccarthyism he wasn't actually against the wars when he got to London. But after being exposed to the scene there and the antiwar movement that was already going, he came back to America as an ally for the movement that was just beginning and became a major voice for the counter culture.
Don’t forget that Jimi was Vet as well. He has been in the 101 ‘Screaming Eagles’ Parachute Regt.
@@claytonpaul4259 Yes, by this time (around Woodstock) he was also becoming more and more aware of being a Black musician, wanting to reach out to coloured audiences and address some of their struggles (most of his fanbase in 1967-68 had been white, though I think taking off in England where he met many people who were genuinely into the blues as a musical language will have made him feel he had been lifted above the racial divide that was so powerful in the US music business).
The "black connection" in his music continued into the Band of Gypsys project, captained by Buddy Miles who was a far more openly political player, and with songs like Machine Gun and We Gotta Live Together - the latter is one of Jimi's greatest political statements IMO, against poverty, hate and racial division, as relevant and beautiful now as when they recorded it.
@@louise_rose yes very true and well said. Jimi had a potential beyond just music.
He nailed the bombs, the screams and general chaos of war. He was in the Air Force in the early 60’s.
The one song I would love you to break down by Jimi Hendrix would be 1983 from Electric Ladyland I have a magazine from a while back where a classical composer says it is a seven-part rondo. Keep doing that thing you do. Much love to you and yours. Jimi is contrasting the beauty of the music and the Constitution with the reality of America's internal and external policy, particularly the Vietnam war. probably one of the most powerful musical statements ever without saying a word,
@Doug Helvering SKY OVERTURE by Uli Jon Roth!!!!!🎸🎸🎸
I'm amazed at how often I hear Jimi's influnce in the playing of many guitarists of the last 30 years.
I would welcome your comments on Jimi’s studio version of the SSB as played on the Rainbow Bridge album. The man was not just a genius playing live but a technocrat in the studio. How he got to multiple dubs to make his guitar sound like a pipe organ is beyond understanding. Jimi H was the Beethoven of Rock.
I think it was more patriotic and heart felt than political. He was a veteran, and I think that was just his typically jazzy and visceral rendition of what that song means to him.
Also he plays the "machine gun riff" followed by "screams", apparently getting hit by bullets.
At 8:08 that's not double picking. He is turning the wah-wah on and off quickly with his foot for that effect. He does it in Voodoo Child (Slight Return) as well.
Remember Doug, Jimi was a Vietnam Veteran by this time. It still brings tears to my eyes every time I listen to it.
Happy 4th of July from Cornwall UK Doug , Jimi was also a Vet .
1:15 Amazingly, it's July 4 everywhere else on the planet as well.
After Woodstock NY Post pop critic Al Aronowitz wrote about Hendrix SSB performance saying - "it was the most electrifying moment of Woodstock and it was probably the single greatest moment of the sixties-" .
Great one Doug! Really informative too, thanks...
This rendition perfectly summed up EVERYTHING going on in America at the time.
"I thought it was beautiful.' Jimi replying to Dick Cavett's comment that some people might find his version of The Star Spangled Banner was disrespectful.
Interview available on RUclips
Not a wahwah but a Roto-vibe pedal gives the rotary speaker sound.
Nope that’s a Uni-Vibe by Univox.
a recent yt channel posting about the most iconic guitar performances of the 1960s did not include this performance, REALLY?!? one of the most, if not THE most, memorable performance of the biggest concert of the entire decade, that is still discussed today as maybe the greatest concert ever. when i asked the poster why it wasn't included, he said he didn't listen much to Hendrix and got into his stuff through the SRV cover of voodoo child. history, learn it, know it, live it Spicoli
theres a remastered version probably still hanging about on YT that you want to see Love from CY/EU