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About This Track
One of the greatest and most controversial renditions of “The Star Spangled Banner” was Jimi Hendrix’s solo guitar performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival. Hendrix played the anthem with a number of distorted regressions (such as mimicking planes, bombs, and screams in reference to the Vietnam War), to great acclaim from the audience. The performance still has a number of detractors.
It was voted 52nd on the list of the 100 greatest guitar solos of all time by readers of Guitar World Magazine. Hendrix also recorded a studio version of The Star-Spangled Banner some time before Woodstock festival. That version features numerous guitar tracks played through octave shifting effects. The resulting sound is somewhat unique. The studio version is available on the Rainbow Bridge album and Cornerstones collection. In a Dick cavett interview, Hendrix called the peformance, “beautiful” in defending the performance against potential hate mail writers, prompting cavett to reply “don’t you think there’s a certain mad beauty in unorthodoxy?
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Shouts
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Blue_Key wrote:
top 10 guitar performances ever.
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H0USE-MD wrote:
This guitar crys freedom. A power yet to be matched.
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oldiesfanjohn wrote:
am partial to his Woodstock jam !
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FKNA1 wrote:
really?!?
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aminalcollectiv wrote:
RIP Osama
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poppeliers wrote:
@_@
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BeetleJuice1993 wrote:
The best there is.
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MrBuddyDoot wrote:
WOODSTOCK version is way better
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shedonist wrote:
Jimi!
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YorkAlty wrote:
FAN DABBY DOZZIE
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ladieshopie wrote:
the true!
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wetwillies wrote:
Anybody not playing this today is an idiot.
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YorkAlty wrote:
not heard for years but this is FANTASTIC.
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Pantera1828 wrote:
If he were alive i would like to hear him play at the stadiums.
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Paddig wrote:
Best national anthem... ever!
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sfakianos7 wrote:
The only jimi hendrix song that I don't like.It's just meh for me.Too much noise.
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nolts wrote:
guitar172... [3]
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jimm9349 wrote:
Hey guitar172, you sure know a lot about queers and sucking. Is there something you're trying to tell us? [2]
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gworley wrote:
@drehdloc I would not play @guitar172 much attention as he only has 4 plays.
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drehdloc wrote:
Hey guitar172, you sure know a lot about queers and sucking. Is there something you're trying to tell us?
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