One of the greatest and most controversial renditions of "The Star Spangled… Read Full Bio ↴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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Brittanie
I love this! He told a story with "rockets red glare" of pain and destruction. "The flag was still there" line sounded like he was portraying ptsd. He put alot of emotion in this performance
Aaron Hatcher
Still one of the best if not the best single guitar performance of all time that has the most meaning even today
jonathan cale
I would go further one of the best live performances and easily the greatest ever live guitar performance
Christopher Pooler
You got that right
Be an 1an
It's super patriotic.
Bruno Actis
That's quite specific, i can't think of more competition to such title.
ALPHA
This is basically Superman crushing an outer space home run😂
Your Toasters, hand 'em over
Do you feel like a hero yet?
noahh
This isn’t real, so why do you care?
Hey You
I’m probably never forgetting that “game” anytime soon, am I?