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- inactive, on 07/04/2009, -5/+465Jimi was badass enough to turn the national anthem into a protest song. And now we have the ***** Jonas Brothers.
*****'s gone all retarded. - SpareAccount, on 07/04/2009, -3/+233"I guess you guys aren't ready for that, yet. But your kids are gonna love it"
- IgorUnchained, on 07/04/2009, -6/+193My Grandfather heard my dad play this once and almost kicked him out of the house. He couldnt think of anything more disrespectful than to play the National Anthem like that. A generation later, and I cant think of a more fitting song to hear on the 4th of July.
Happy Independence Day everyone. - inactive, on 07/04/2009, -5/+191"Ive got my own life to live
Im the one thats gonna die when its time for me to die
So let me live my life the way I want to"
- Jimi
Celebrate YOUR independence, and don't let anyone else tell you what freedom should mean for you. - 1807, on 07/04/2009, -3/+168I don't know if diggers knew this or not, but before Jimi played it, It was thought of as taboo to play the national anthem on a guitar, ALMOST like burning the flag. So, when he played it in front of the audience at Woodstock, I believe it was more about showing his non-conformity to the system than it was about celebrating America.
- gbudavid, on 07/03/2009, -7/+164Jimi could play
- TheScreamer, on 07/04/2009, -0/+124I started playing guitar at 10. When I was 11, I bought the double-LP set of Woodstock. I listened to the first few moments of every song, until it came to Jimi's set.. At that moment, I knew I had found the kind of music I wanted to listen to... and to learn how to play. At 14, I played Jimi's version, complete with the distortion and howls, of the Star Spangled Banner to a crowd of 3000 at a local talent show.... here in Canada. The crowd went *****... they loved it. That was 29 years ago, and it is still one of my fondest memories.
Happy Independence Day, my American neighbours :)
- diggbru, on 07/04/2009, -5/+111Happy 4th of July.
- EddiePotato, on 07/04/2009, -1/+103People attending Woodstock had jobs?
- purplesawdust, on 07/04/2009, -5/+105*Full Retarded
- s4g4n, on 07/04/2009, -0/+99never go full retard
- dafragsta, on 07/04/2009, -0/+83"Notice that at one moment, he bends the first string all the way up to the sixth"
Yes, notice how he also has the tremolo arm pressed all the way to the body of the guitar? The strings go dead limp when you do that. He's making the bend to keep some tension in the strings. He does that a lot, and you can tell because his guitar is almost universally out of tune when he kicks into Purple Haze at the end. Jimi is a guitar god, for sure though. - taox, on 07/04/2009, -12/+95Older than the internet.
- paulisnotdead, on 07/04/2009, -7/+89I thought it was beautiful.
- DirtyVicar, on 07/04/2009, -1/+72Little known fact -- Hendrix was the last act and played at 7 am or 8 am on a Monday morning. Most people at Woodstock had left since they had to return to their jobs or were just worn out from all the weekend activity.
- FervinsUlterius, on 07/04/2009, -15/+74FRED DURST SHOULD COVER THIS
- jwhitman89, on 07/04/2009, -1/+60Free expression in subversive ways is always a celebration of freedom. Unless your speech is suppressed, in which case it's rebellion. Hendrix is the man!
- Entroper, on 07/04/2009, -2/+58Worked "Taps" into the middle there. Nice.
- consoneo, on 07/04/2009, -1/+52I have heard this version many times and thought the same thing... but after reading this description, namely the "the horror and noiseness of War expressed with just a guitar" part, has given me a new look into the performance.
I always thought he was just playing some random noises during the Star Spangled Banner and messing up what was otherwise a brilliant rendition, but now I realize that he may very well have been portraying bombs and missiles and gunfire throughout the entire performance, and that's quite profound to me.
Beautiful indeed. - bluesman3535, on 07/04/2009, -2/+49Not just a guitarist, a creator of sound sculptures.
- inactive, on 07/04/2009, -0/+44Please be kidding...
- vade79, on 07/04/2009, -4/+47You talk like a fag and your *****'s all retarded.
- dafragsta, on 07/04/2009, -0/+43I am totally cereal. People latch onto the flourishes of playing. Real guitar players know that without the flourishes, Jimi Hendrix still redefined what you could do with the standard blues scale and has been copied many times, so I have tremendous respect for Jimi Hendrix, but the whole "He's bending it all the way up" is akin to "he's playing without picking." Anyone can do it, but not anyone can PLAY like Hendrix.
- ok4you, on 07/04/2009, -1/+44I saw him in Seattle, May 69. Hell of a concert...
- mrogi, on 07/04/2009, -3/+44"The first time I saw Jimi play it was at a small London nightclub back in 1967. I realized immediately he was the best guitarist alive, dead, or yet to be born." - Sting
- fragMasterFlash, on 07/04/2009, -5/+45I can't hear Jimi, but I sure can Digg him ;-)
- thejackyl, on 07/04/2009, -0/+40Literally
- davidbattley, on 07/04/2009, -2/+41As an englishman I can say thanks to music like this i'm glad we lost that war
- dirtbox, on 07/04/2009, -2/+39God I hate youtube comments.
That's a million chimps that couldn't write a coherent limerick let along a Shakespeare sonnet. - lnxfi, on 07/04/2009, -2/+37Good day to you, The Top Hat of America.
- cptcliche, on 07/04/2009, -1/+36I think I speak for a large portion of the Digg community when I say how ***** envious I am of you.
- inactive, on 07/04/2009, -0/+33During an interview on the Dick Cavett show in 1969, Cavett pointed out that Jimi had been a paratrooper in the US Army and that viewers needed to keep that in mind when sending in their hate mail. Jimi seemed genuinely concerned and enquired about what Cavett had meant by "hate mail." Cavett replied that, when one plays the national anthem in any "unorthodox" way, one always receives a guaranteed percentage of hate mail.
Jimi responded: "I didn't think it was unorthodox. I thought it was beautiful."
The audience applauded and Dick Cavett blushed.
Sorry if this is common knowledge. Just thought I'd share that little nugget. - inactive, on 07/04/2009, -5/+35First of all... Kids need guidance until they have reached proper maturity. That is a given.But that is a false dilemma to use "the kids" against my statement.
Do you drink caffeine?
Do you drink alcohol?
Do you take tylenols/advils?
Well guess what? That ***** kills you too. - alexforcefive, on 07/04/2009, -2/+32White men can't jump
- seventhc, on 07/04/2009, -0/+29I love the way he can tune his guitar and fiddle with the dials while still playing and sounding like nothing is happening other than pure awesomeness.
- seanc6610, on 07/04/2009, -0/+29most things are
- DirtyVicar, on 07/04/2009, -0/+28Hendrix's performance had to be the coolest thing to ever happen on a Monday morning.
- schplat, on 07/04/2009, -3/+31He's saying he's white.
White people can't hear Jimi...you can listen to him, but you can't hear him.
Obscure White Men Can't Jump reference ftw - mjfadeaway, on 07/04/2009, -2/+29Shut the ***** up.
- pustulio, on 07/04/2009, -3/+28Man I wish he was around today to see whats going on with the country. Too bad he had to die in such a stupid way =\
- adventureindia, on 07/04/2009, -3/+26This is awesome
- EddiePotato, on 07/04/2009, -2/+24RUN FOR IT MARTY!
- gatewaydrug, on 07/04/2009, -0/+22I love Jimi as much as most of you, but facts are facts.
"In October 1968, at the height of protests against the Vietnam War, Feliciano was given the opportunity to perform The Star-Spangled Banner at Tiger Stadium in Detroit during Game 5 pregame ceremonies of the World Series. His highly personalized, slow, Latin jazz performance proved highly controversial. He accompanied himself on an acoustic guitar. The rendition was released as a single which charted for 5 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #50. Feliciano's "Star-Spangled Banner" took place 10 months before the more famous Jimi Hendrix rendition at Woodstock."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Feliciano
Its sad people don't remember that. He caught a lot of hell for it. - NeiloMac, on 07/04/2009, -0/+21http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UQ_ZhC-1CU#watch-v ...
This is the reason why Fred Durst should never, ever be allowed near a musical instrument. - inactive, on 07/04/2009, -1/+22Me too.
- Zaxcomp, on 07/04/2009, -2/+22Doesn't mean they weren't mesmerized.
- inactive, on 07/04/2009, -1/+21And it's what I'm doing when I say your attitude completely sucks.
- inactive, on 07/04/2009, -0/+20I think it's the big version of those plastic rock band controllers.
- Mujokan, on 07/04/2009, -0/+19My interpretation is that it was about reclaiming the anthem in the face of the attacks on the anti-war movement. I don't see it as in any way hostile.
Woodstock was also about the hippies asserting themselves as a political voice. To me Hendrix is saying that they have a right to do that as Americans -- that the anti-war movement is really part of America. Being against the Vietnam war didn't mean being anti-American, in other words.
So in that way it is a celebration. It's a positive pro-American gesture against attempts to marginalize the hippies. - Narcism, on 07/04/2009, -2/+21Yeah, because it's so easy to write songs, play intricate guitar solos, and sing at the same time...?
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