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Jimi Hendrix – Star Spangled Banner (4:12)

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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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  • Blue_Key

    top 10 guitar performances ever.

    January 2012

  • H0USE-MD

    This guitar crys freedom. A power yet to be matched.

    December 2011

  • oldiesfanjohn

    am partial to his Woodstock jam !

    December 2011

  • FKNA1

    really?!?

    October 2011

  • poppeliers

    @_@

    March 2011

  • BeetleJuice1993

    The best there is.

    February 2011

  • MrBuddyDoot

    WOODSTOCK version is way better

    January 2011

  • shedonist

    Jimi!

    November 2010

  • YorkAlty

    FAN DABBY DOZZIE

    November 2010

  • ladieshopie

    the true!

    August 2010

  • wetwillies

    Anybody not playing this today is an idiot.

    July 2010

  • YorkAlty

    not heard for years but this is FANTASTIC.

    June 2010

  • Pantera1828

    If he were alive i would like to hear him play at the stadiums.

    June 2010

  • Paddig

    Best national anthem... ever!

    June 2010

  • sfakianos7

    The only jimi hendrix song that I don't like.It's just meh for me.Too much noise.

    May 2010

  • nolts

    guitar172... [3]

    March 2010

  • jimm9349

    Hey guitar172, you sure know a lot about queers and sucking. Is there something you're trying to tell us? [2]

    January 2010

  • gworley

    @drehdloc I would not play @guitar172 much attention as he only has 4 plays.

    January 2010

  • drehdloc

    Hey guitar172, you sure know a lot about queers and sucking. Is there something you're trying to tell us?

    December 2009

  • guitar172

    This Man blows like a queer on valentines day. The only thing he did right is distortion on guitar. other than that he sucks cumm sticks

    December 2009
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