HOW DID HE DO THAT?! Jimi Hendrix "The Star Spangled Banner" (Live at Woodstock 1969) REACTION
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What makes it so special is that he was among the first (and the best) at "controlling" the feedback, the whammy bar, the ability to play with his fret hand (many have learned to do this, but he was one of the first to be really good at it). I've watched this hundreds of times over the past 55 years and it has never gotten old, nor has it lessened in its splendor or glory.
Jimi produced one of the greatest pieces of art of the 20th century; up there with Picasso, Dali etc. He brilliantly expressed the great paradox that is America - beautiful on the surface yet distorted and corrupt underneath. He painted the pain and the horror that is America's compulsion to war. That performance will forever live in history. Like any great piece of art, it forces you to view life from a different perspective with the blinkers off. The slow learners were shattered because they could not confront the reality of America that Jimi exposed.
This is a pivotal moment in rock history.
You really should check out his live performance of Machine Gun at the Filmore East with Band of Gypsys from 1970.
I just love how utterly chaotic this is. The genius of Hendrix, on full display.
The melody is " Taps" usually played at the end of the day or for military memorials and funerals.
A protest song without lyrics. Whether or not Jimi intended it to be such a politically-charged anti-war statement, it is what it is and it's genius.
The people screaming, the bombs going off, things blowing up, police sirens wailing, airplanes flying-that was Jimi’s guitar with all that noise
The one section Hendrix is playing "Taps", a bugle call the general public usually hears during patriotic memorial ceremonies and military funerals (like at Arlington Cemetery). Perfectly adapted to this version of the Anthem to recall the dead GIs in Vietnam (and Hendrix was a GI).
If you can, watch what follows in the Woodstock movie. This ended the way it did because it segued into "Purple Haze" ending with a great guitar solo. Then it goes into an instrumental called "Villanova Junction" which has touches of Spanish guitar, and the melody played in octaves, like jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery. In the movie it was played over scenes of the aftermath of the festival. The best Hendrix on video is probably "Machine Gun" from the Fillmore East. There is a black and white video tape of the whole song on Vimeo.
How'd he do it? His visionary genius of course, combined with the sound of a Fender Strat playing thru several Marshall stack cabinets. It's gigantic!
Jimi, was also in the 101st Screaming Eagles/Paratroopers-Ft Campbell Ky. Thats also where he met then Bass Player Billy Cox. And he met guitar player Larry Lee, in Nashville. Jimi, and Billy used to go to Nashville on weekend passes, and jam in the clubs, and Larry was known as the best player in Nashville. He also plays 2nd guitar with Jimi, at Woodstock. Larry, and Jimi bought a 1955 Gibson Les Paul Custom, when Jimi was in Ft Campbell, and Jimi gave it to Larry. Jimi got famous, and in 1967, Larry gave the guitar back to Jimi, because he got drafted. Jimi tried to get Larry to play a Stratocaster, at Woodstock, but Larry was adamant, he wanted to play the Les Paul. This Les Paul, was also used on the Tracks-All Along the watchtower, and House Burning Down. Both on Electric Ladyland album. Larry went on to be guitar player for Al Green.
Brilliant - full of anger about Vietnam, yet still respectful. Hendrix was a complete one-off, and this was one of his most out-there performances. Absolutely iconic. It stops suddenly because he segues into another track (Purple Haze, IIRC). IMO the only person who can make a guitar speak half as clearly and amazingly as Hendrix is Adrian Belew - and he, as I said, does so only half as amazingly. You need to watch Jimi's live rendition of "Hey Joe" - he doesn't play the guitar, he makes love to it - and leaves it panting and wanting more.
What a great reaction, response (my opinion); love how you expounded.
... and yes, the people who were left waiting for last performance were primed, loose and up for anything, "a vibing thing!"
the bugle call is named taps its played during military funerals
In the movie he keeps playing Purple Haze and Instrumental Solo aka Villanova Junction.
I would have to check his "Purple Haze" afterwards, to see how out of tune his Strato became. Jimi used the whammy bar to the extent of affecting the tuning.
I never knew the story about how he was late and most people missed his set. Crazy.
That Hendrix quote is from his interview on the Dick Cavett show, which is available to watch on UA-cam.
A school chum I rode with on the school bus thought this version of the Star Spangled Banner was unpatriotic. There was some controversy about the song. As an aside, and possibly related to the opinion, he also told me there was something wrong with the beer at a local brewery. I asked him why? It was because black people worked there. We were too young to drink beer. His parents obviously had life issues.
Hendrix was on full display here. First time I watched this video, it blew me away! Left us way before he should have.
The GOAT!
RIGHT ON!!
In 1968 Jose Feliciano played the Star-Spangled Banner to open a game of the World Series. He added his own style to it and was given a lot of flak for it.
That military tune is Taps. It’s played at sundown on bases.
Some things you might have missed: 1. He's left handed, playing a right handed guitar, so quite a lot of the stuff on it is "upside down". (If you enjoy guitar blues, try contemporary guitarist, Eric Gales, who also plays this way, only in his case he's kept the order of the strings "right handed" too, so his deepest note is "at the bottom", near his palm, and his highest note is "up on top" - where the deepest string normally is. He plays a completely upside down guitar.)
2. The slurring and diving notes are made by pushing down on or pulling up on a "whammy bar" (or "tremolo arm" if you read the instruction manual). Push down, and you relax all the strings, so they go deeper; pull up, and you bend the pitch higher. It tends to put the guitar out of tune, and in combinations, the notes will tend to go "out of key" with each other, since each tensions or relaxes at a different rate.
3. He had huge hands, so was able to play some notes with his thumb. I don't think we have that here, though.
4. The screaming discordant sounds will be from feedback. It doesn't sound like he's picked a spot on the stage where there's a huge amount of feedback, here, but there's at least some of it. (Half of playing is in the notes you _don't_ play. If you don't constantly muffle all the unwanted strings - eg - by resting a part of your hand on that string so it can't vibrate, you get a complete cacophony. He's letting the "scream of the guitar" out deliberately here. Actually he's deliberately playing "badly" much of the time to make the beauty of the original song clash with what you hear, here - as a protest.)
5. Feedback: (Sorry if this is old news). You pick your string. It vibrates. The vibration is passed on to the speaker via the amp. The speaker vibrates at the same frequency. And this makes the string vibrate, so there's a positive feedback loop, which quickly builds up to "infinity" sometimes, if the resonance is strong enough. A guitarist like Steve Vai or Joe Satriani will walk round the stage with everything on during concert setup, looking for which patch of stage in this particular auditorium, on this particular night gives the most feedback. Satch marks the spot with a cross of black tape, I've heard. They all learnt this kind of thing from Jimi Hendrix.
6. Joe Satriani took up guitar because of Jimi Hendrix. (They "all" did.)
7. Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, and Jimi Hendrix were friends who played at a lot of the same shows before either became famous. (So Jimi could've been ancient and still lethal to this very day if he didn't die young.)
8. I'm going a bit off piste here. Sorry. Anyway, the nurse at my doctor's is a big Jimi Hendrix fan. She says he was able to inject himself through the fontanelle, so could get a really intense opiod hit, direct to the brain. But make a slight slip, and you die - because you're stabbing yourself in the brain. The fontanelle is the "three way junction" between the frontal parts of the skull bone - between the "front" and the two "sides". It's not uncommon for this not to close up completely around birth (I think it happens after, but don't quote me), leaving a little "direct access portal" to the brain itself.
9. No, no, no, I've already said too much.
But imagine if artists for whom the artistic benefits of things like drugs outweigh the risks - as far as they're concerned (and why should anyone else have a say in this?) - could get their "attitude adjustments" legally in a safe(ish) environment. We let idiots go full speed down a mountain on a bicycle, or bikers ride enduro (which often results in things like destroyed livers etc), so why not let productive people choose their own risks, too? ... There's a world in which we could've still had Jimi Hendrix. Yes, he might've been a bit of a wreck after too many years of drug abuse (although there are plenty of survivors of this, too).
OK, OK, it's not the world we live in or are likely to ever live in. Let it be.
Mother Mary said to me
Speaking words of wisdom…
He had the strings strung for playing left handed.
@@blitztim6416 Jimi Hendrix, yes, but Eric Gales, no. Eric's strings are "upside down".
@@sicko_the_ew Stop it. ✋
The Vietnam War in the national anthem. That's what all those sounds were in the "appropriate" times during the song/lyrics. The bombs bursting in air as the lyrics say. Also, it didn't just end like that. He immediately went into Purple Haze.
Really good review. Comparing the sounds to painting a picture.
The entire Hendrix set was released on DVD years ago seperately
I own it.
The whole set is amazing and its lucky it was filmed properly.
The Whole World was watching this in 1969
Fender would have like this version of Jimi Hendrix doing the National Anthem
this is possibly the best solo, ever...
No theres better ones.
'Machine Gun', New Years eve, Fillmore East '69. I've never heard anything to match this live!
I do believe that this was not the first time he played the Star Spangled Banner. The movie made the version famous. Regarding Hendrix playing on Monday morning, it was agreed to pause the last few acts on Sunday night so that it would be safer for the multitude of people wanting to leave not to do so in the wee hours of the morning when the festival would have ended had them not paused it. I believe The Sha-Na-Na was another act that played Monday morning as shown in the movie, Jimi Hendrix being the Festival closer. Crosby Stills Nash & Young took a helicopter to NYC and went to see Joni Mitchell who had a gig as a guest on The Dick Cavett Show. With mud still on their clothes they ended joining her as guests in the program talking about their experience at the festival. A memorable moment indeed.
Along with Jefferson Airplane.
I don't watch sumo wrestling but i liked your take on respecting the old ways while also moving forward. Although it wouldn't be the first time i got something completely wrong
One of the most genius anti-war songs... and that with no Lyrics. It would be so interesting to see, when he would had the opportunity to continue his carrier in the 70s. Its said, that he was very impressed from the Progressive Rock at that time and described King Crimson as the best band he ever heard. There were even plans with Keith Emerson for a Band with Greg Lake and Carl Palmer, called HELP. So sad, that this never happened...
I wonder if in the middle represents the Vietnam War that was going on
Amazing man 2024 San Francisco listening. Just listen stop talking
Amen thank you
Kia Ora hello brother JP hope you're well. Dude i haven't listened to this in at least 20/25 years chur chur thank you guys.hope everyone is doing well
There's a good reason why MTV chose this recording, out of everything else, to be their theme music when the channel debued.
Oh course Jimi had been in the army. I read that he didn’t feel he was being disrespectful in playing the anthem this was.
Have you done machine gun? You should do machine gun!!!!
Is anyone here able to confirm whether I dreamt the rumour that Welsh Folk Legend Meic Stevens was around Jimi the night he died?
Also, can someone here confirm that Frank Marino was promoted as Jimi Reborn by his Record Company on purpose, and this ultimately had a probable negative impact on his record sales throughout his career? Chairs!
Follow this up with Santana's performance of "Soul Sacrifice" at Woodstock '69. Carlos Santana took a dose of LSD from Jerry Garcia prior to playing on stage.
Actually it was mescaline but yeah, a memorable performance.
@@marcribe6483 Maybe Carlos was mistaken. I mentioned LSD because he did say it was in an interview with CBS. If it was LSD and Jerry gave it to him, I wonder if it was a dose from "Bear" Owsley Stanley's inventory. He was most famous for his manufacturing the cleanest high quality doses, in addition to being a sound engineering genius. He designed and helped build the Grateful Dead's "Wall of Sound" speaker arrays.
@@minty_Joe I remember seeing Carlos talking about the Woodstock presentation and he himself said it was mescaline. This was around 2009 when they were commemorating 40 years since. I never heard it be said it was LSD before.
@@marcribe6483 I just checked, it was on MetroFocus UA-cam channel, not CBS. So, I don't know who's right or wrong.
Never bettered, no argument! 💣 ✌️
I've never liked this live version, which I find messy (as much for the sound or the guitar playing). I prefer the studio version of "Star-Spangled Banner", recorded on March 18, 1969 (exactly 5 months before Woodstock) and included on the Rainbow Bridge compilation released in 1971.
The live one was probably multi-tracked.
@@6581punk Multi-tracked or not, the sound is muddy and Hendrix's playing sucks on this live performance. It's probably mythical for many reasons, but personally, myths like that, I'll do without!😉
@a.k.1740 Don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me etc, etc. 😉
@@Owlstretchingtime78 🤨🤔
@@a.k.1740 Did you understand my reference as being The Hulk?
I'll be that guy.
I love rock and roll music. I love Hendrix. But this does nothing for me.
It's not because I'm such a gung-ho American that I find it sacrilegious. It just doesn't sound good to me. It sounds like a musician just noodling on the strings making disjointed noise. I have absolutely zero musical talent so I don't claim that I can do anywhere near as well.
I get the significance of the performance, but strictly on a musical level it is mostly noise to me.
Ripped off cut short
Bummer!
The Woodstock Album has the three songs and then he says thank you and the applause goes another minute or so and that ends the album. Woodstock 2 has Izabella,Jam Back At The House and another tune all previously unreleased because most of it was being invented on the stage. The DVD is a must.
horrible