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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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the00h_zone wrote:
Saturday evening

i used to use this for an alarm clock back in 75',Hendrix was a genius,and who know... maybe still is (wouldn't "that" be wierd?)

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1970scorp wrote:
last month

the man loved his country,salute!!

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EENIAC wrote:
last month

BLASPHEMY!!!

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McBeastie wrote:
last month

Holyy crap O_O he sexed the hell out of it! Lmao USA! :D

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comradelover wrote:
last month

Is this Riverdance? Sweet Fancy Moses! WTF happened to the real one? Jimi lives!

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SGTROCK82ND wrote:
October 2009

Salute!!!!!!!

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TheGreenLeafMWM wrote:
August 2009

yes

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v8moottorisaha wrote:
August 2009

GOD BLESS OUR BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY!!

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sionborg wrote:
July 2009

JIMI !!!!!!

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AKAKiwi wrote:
July 2009

This sucks donkey balls.

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fantasianazn wrote:
July 2009

Happy 4th of July

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unklezooma wrote:
June 2009

the greatest composition of all times and people | величайшая композиция всех времен и народов

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Turn0nTune1n wrote:
June 2009

this track is proof that this man was an alien.

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Sulisk wrote:
May 2009

Forever Hendrix

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sionborg wrote:
May 2009

WOODSTOCK 1969

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ErwansOzzyfan wrote:
April 2009

The father of fathers

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jaumedediego wrote:
April 2009

Esta version es genial! Con 16 años ya flipé al escucharla!

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Juan_Topo wrote:
April 2009

Pss... Hendrix Amazing!!!

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sionborg wrote:
March 2009

This Version SUCKS !!

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stlthbmr wrote:
March 2009

The live woodstock version is the one that I dig.

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