August 14, 2009 07:00 PM
C&L's Late Nite Music Club with Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock
This weekend marks the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, and we're celebrating with Hendrix's rendering of the national anthem. We keep the LNMC apolitical, but I want to at least squeak a shout-out to this as clear evidence that symbols of patriotism are safe, and often things of beauty in the hands of the counterculture.
Zina Saunders has a great personal account of her experience at Woodstock complete with drawings, and I urge you to check it out.
beautiful hands
I always think of Gernica by Pablo Picasso when I hear it. It is the most patriotic rendition of the National Anthem I have ever heard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_%28pain...
so sad that the vibes created during the summer of love did not continue past that summer
There are plenty of social changes that lasted and that we take for granted: women's rights, sexual liberation, gay rights, a healthy skepticism of government, anti-war movements, it didn't all die after Woodstock.
on the the Star Spangled Banner was nothing short of genius. This still gives me chills.
Cat People!!
She's awesome!
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Fantastic song! Nice cat pics too :)
Strange how the song continues when Jimi has one hand OFF the guitar strings.
Either dubbed over or somebody else is playing/filling-in off camera.
Or the video was edited afterwards to look good, but doesnt match the music..
It's clear you've never played an electric guitar. Of course you can continue to play with one hand.
"In theory theory and practice are alike. In practice they are very different."
fret playing, or something like that. Watch some AC/DC videos.
He did it all the time. I don't know enough about guitar playing to say for sure but I think it has to do with just striking the strings so hard when you hold them down that they start to vibrate as if they had been struck the normal way with your other hand. He could also play behind his back, with his teeth, ... He learned all those tricks when he was playing with blues and R&B groups in the south.
turned up that loud, using a plectrum is extraneous. Are you a moonlander too?
I was litterly just listening to this last night. I showed my GF the video of him performing this after a spirited musical discussion.
Ferrofluid has never heard of hammer ons or pull offs..
But I still reckon the video editing doesnt match the timeline of the music.
If you gave me a specific time to look for.. I personally suck at playing the bass but I'm quite capable of playing substantial amounts of the songs I do know one handed.
Jimi is waving his hand about.
He's totally playing it with hammer ons. Just watch his right hand he's working it up the neck..
Shows he was one of the best.
Listen carefully and you can hear that there's no pick noise for those notes.
EDIT : Yeah he's definitely one of the best :)
he played the entire guitar
.."patriotism" belongs in the same place as "conservatism"...gathering dust in the closet along with the yellow and red,white & blue ribbons.
I always felt that Jimmie played it that way because he loved his country and couldn't bear to see what was going on at the time. Kind of like flying the SSB upside down is supposed to be a symbol of distress.
I believe they were not happy bunnies when Jimi played his version of the SSB.
I was in grammar school at the time living in a conservative virtually all white suburb and I can tell you Hendrix's version of the anthem was considered about equivalent to waving a north vietnamese flag.
with having pride in your country, as long as its pride about the right things and not a "whatever my country does is right" attitude. I often think people on the left go too far in not celebrating all the good things there are about America. My father was quite proud of "saving the world from facism" by fighting in the second world war and I think he was quite justified in feeling that way.
.."Pride goes before the fall"?
I will never be that prideful again...ever..
Sacrilege! I'm phoning up the Daughters of the American Revolution right now to have him booted off the tour! There's no place in America for this kind of anthem.
;>)
In loving tribute to the red, white and
PURPLE HAZE!!!
And just one year to live. Fuck.
The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith
...created by Les Paul, who died yesterday at 94.
Leo Fender (who would have been 100 years old this month) created that instrument. The particular one that Jimi is playing in that clip is now owned by Paul Allen.
owns it.
I heard he bought it to display publically at EMP in Seattle, but I'm not certain as I've never been there.
"Hey! give me 20 bucks and I'll let you look at my cool stuff!"
me-oww!
Ain't that just the way?
Still, nothing's free. If I paid a couple of million for a antique tool, I might take on-the-cuff peeks off the list myself.
;>)
I don't disagree with whether he wants to keep it to himself, or display in a manner he sees fit.
It's just when I have 20 dollars I think "Who needs this 20 dollars more? Me, or a billionaire?" After I answer that question, I decide once again, it's not for me. The Science Center nearby is cooler. To me anyway... :)
me-oww!
:)
But Paul did invent the solidbody electric, so...
but the White SG was his fav Gibson.
...The Cavett show and Rainbow Bridge for a couple of numbers, IIRC.
Rickenbacker (in 1931, 8 years before Paul created the 'Log') and the 'Fender No-Caster' in 1950 were the first mass-produced. Les Paul's Gibson came out in 1952.
with "multi-track" recording.
flew by fast. Seems like a week.
Your young, then your old. . .
Goes by so fast it's ludicrous.
A real weird effect . . .
What a wild ride it's been! Time flies when you're having fun ...
Interview with Dick Cavette. He was an outstanding young man as well. Did anyone mention that he was 101st Airborne too?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-ZYUaRKQkk
he had a choice of prison or service and chose the Army. Lasted one year.
and masturbating.
me-oww!
I wouldn't say he was being lazy.
He was gettin bizzy.
He was just bored ,that's all. :)
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lazy (sleeping OTJ) AND masturbation and thinking about his guitar.
me-oww!
that probably influenced his rendition of SSB as well.
throwing the establishment for loop. Nice while it lasted.
All along the Watchtower. Isle of Wight.
Ganight all. Be Well.
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Hey Joe.
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Machine Gun
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autographed by Les Paul himself. I probably won’t sleep for days until it gets here!
Johnny B Goode
Hey, It's Jimi. It's not every night we get to celebrate Jimi.
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Absofuckinlutlely incredible.
If you look closely, you'll see the future. And the host was completely clueless. Jimi and the boys were toying with them.
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The host, clueless? Don't you know who that was? It was Britpop singer Lulu - a far from clueless performer. You don't last five decades in showbiz by being "clueless".
Gotts Ta do it.
Like a Rolling Stone ...Oh Man........
I dunno, there's history here. I wandered and ended up here.
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.." You used to be, sooo amused, an Napoleon in rags, an the sweet talk that he used, go to him now,he calls ya, You can't refuse. When you ain't got nuthin, you got nuthin to lose. You're invincible now, you got no secrets ,to conceaeeeaaal....... How doesit Feel "
LookAt Ya! Like A Rollin Stone.
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Who knows what really happened. I was 3 and a half when it happened. My mom, who was and is, a hippie is really glad we stayed home in Connecticut at the time. There are people who didn't have the hippie nirvana that is the memory that preserves to this day: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?...
This is the single greatest version of this nations national anthem EVER performed. It is almost a visual experience by itself that tells the true tragic and war-prone tale of this nations founding. It is simply awesome.
I get completely misty watching that. Powerful, inspiring, sad, timeless. It is incredibly appropriate
for the state of our country at this very moment. What an f'ing genius.
Jimi's version of the Star Spangled Banner is the only version I will ever listen to: truly a masterpiece. When you watch the clip of Jimi doing that song, when you hear the soaring notes, the vibrato and distortion, you can almost imagine "the rockets red glare. bombs bursting in air" Never was there a clearer articulation of patriotism in the midst of the insanity that was the Vietnam War.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
the 40th anniversary of Woodstock this weekend, I went and bought the two-set set of Woodstock. It was a hoot listening to "Drug Store Truck Driving Man" dedicated to "Ronald Rayguns" by Joan Baez and the male artist she dueted with for that song.
on my cell phone is the opening chords of the SSB from Jimi.
Chills every time I hear this and every time someone calls me, they get to hear it too.
LOVE it.
DFH. Hair-raising track. Even though it's reconstructed, the album "Jimi Hendrix: Blues" (still available?) is one of the best I've ever heard. And I listen mostly to hip-hop and electronic. (sorry late post, internet was down)
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