The Star Spangled Banner as no one else could do it.

[hobbit709]

[Dustlawyer]

1. In my H.S. Each home room had to take a week to go outside and raise the flag.

The teachers pet, a friend of the teacher's son offered to bring a boo box to play the Star Spangled Banner while we raised the flag. The teacher made us stand there with our hands over our hearts while late students were rushing by from the parking lot while he played the Jimmy Hendricks version. It was so surreal standing there with my hand over my heart watching the expressions on her face as the song played. At the end all she said was, "That was ah, very... Interesting Woody."

[zeemike]

2. No one could play the guitar like Hendrix.

But many have tried.

[malthaussen]

4. Well, nobody can play the guitar like me, either...

... but nobody would want to try. That is the difference.

You like guitar? Then you should know Rory:

-- Mal

[zeemike]

6. Yep he is pretty good too.

But I grew up thinking Les Paul was the king until I heard Hendrix play and steal his crown away. He took it to a new level.
Les Paul was technically good but Hendrix was creatively good.

[malthaussen]

9. I agree.

It is an interpretive thing, which is one reason I love jazz so much. Technical briliiance is fine, but artistry is about more than that.

And showmanship should be in there, too. One of the reasons I love Rory so much is he is a wild man on stage, yet down-to-earth with it. Slick showmanship has no appeal for me, but cooling off a guitar with a towel, now...

-- Mal

[lark]

15. Stevie Ray Vauhgn

He's the all time king of the guitar to me. He is brilliant, his style so much different than anyone else. He had such loose wrists, fast fingers and creativity to burn, baby.

[Mbrow]

16. Carlos Santana

And I hear from some of the guys I sail with that his brother is even better. He just doesn't leave Harlem and plays local only.

[awoke_in_2003]

17. SRV was the 2nd greatest guitarist from Texas

Check out Johnny Winter.

[lark]

18. Oh no, not even close.

My ex had a band that played all over the Bay Area for many years and they played backup for Winters at least a dozen times. Winters is good, I really enjoyed going to the shows. SRV is in a totally different, higher class of creativity and speed. Long live the music of SRV. He's gone, but lives on in my cd's.

[IHateTheGOP]

13. Not the greatest example out there.

[malthaussen]

3. I'm in the minority, here.

Love Hendrix, hate the Anthem. My feeling is that traditional songs (and national anthems are traditional for the purpose of this discussion) should be done traditionally, they are not interpretive vehicles. They should be sung badly, by everyone at the event, and are participatory, not entertainment. That is why I don't like the practice of getting professionals to sing the Anthem at sporting events. Both because they use it as a vehicle, and because it is treated as entertainment.

-- Mal

[brush]

7. That was not entertainment, it was an anti-war protestation, and pure guitar genius . . .

right down to the "rockets red glare, bombs bursting in air" and Stuka dive bomber sound effects.

At that time and place it couldn't have been more appropriate.

[malthaussen]

10. Yes, of course.

I was making more than one point in my post.

-- Mal

[drynberg]

5. Back in the very early 70's, my brother and I would make the flag of the station closing for the

Evening "glow and burn" with our new color controls while we played the very piece recorded above, as a solemn and just way to end our night...we loved our Jimmy. Thanks for posting, as you've taken me back 45 years.

[Hoppy]

8. High school where I taught, kids were allowed to bring albums to play over the p.a.

-- probably around 1975. So ya got C.S.N.Y. Moody Blues....you got the.idea.

There was one department supervisor that the other teachers and the kids couldn't stand. One morning, Hair is being played. Comes the tune with the F word and this asshole is running down the hall to the office to take it off the speaker before the offending part hits the hallways.

He made it.

Then he starts yelling at other teachers, "Why were you standing round and not doing anything?

Us: "what was wrong?"

Asshole tried to explain about the word that ... Yada, yada.

Us: "Gee. We didn't know. We'll be right on top of it next time."

[groundloop]

11. I just watched the Woodstock film last night - Hendrix was a genius

One thing I've always found noteworthy about this performance was that he included a few notes from 'Taps' - an obvious reference to the Vietnam war which was raging at the time.

The very fist album I purchased as a kid was Hendrix, I can still hear my Dad asking me why the hell I wasted my money on that.

[IHateTheGOP]

12. Jim was my first concert and in this song he sums up America

[jalan48]

14. Way ahead of his time.