Jimi Henrix - Star spangled Banner

[marchesarosa]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnMKGSUDDqU&feature=related

I learnt this week that Jimi was a veteran of the 101st Airborn, the iconic division featured in "Band of Brothers" during WWII.

Interesting.

Having looked him up on wiki I find his military career lasted only one year and ended rather ingloriously. Ne'er Mind. The military's loss was music's gain!

[arealfarmer]

Jimi Hendrix was unbelievable - a God with an electric guitar . His version of Star Spangled banner is brutally brilliant !!

[aquatic]

I saw him when I was a 1st-yr student. We hadn't cottoned on to his Godliness, so we talked amongst ourselves.

He was livid! Started calling us feckers and burning his guitar!

To keep him from stomping off, we kept calling out Hey Joe, but Joe got misinterpreted as Jew, and in the wake of the Six-Day War, it was like Armageddon.

I was the only one to get out alive. Which makes me ...