It's that time of the year, kids! It's WOODSTOCK ANNIVERSARY TIME!
And this time, we're letting Jimi do the talking:
"Unorthodox...? I thought it was beautiful."
Take a listen. Hendrix wasn't classically trained, barely could read a sheet a music. He played completely by ear, by feel. It's why he re-tunes the guitar as he plays it, because he hears something a bit off and wants it fixed then and there.
Critics tend to think Hendrix played a bombastic version of the song as a commentary on the violence of war in Vietnam, but remember what he said to Dick Cavett: "I thought it was beautiful." He played it... plays it that because he hears it that way.
And to Jimi it's beautiful.
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And this time, we're letting Jimi do the talking:
"Unorthodox...? I thought it was beautiful."
Take a listen. Hendrix wasn't classically trained, barely could read a sheet a music. He played completely by ear, by feel. It's why he re-tunes the guitar as he plays it, because he hears something a bit off and wants it fixed then and there.
Critics tend to think Hendrix played a bombastic version of the song as a commentary on the violence of war in Vietnam, but remember what he said to Dick Cavett: "I thought it was beautiful." He played it... plays it that because he hears it that way.
And to Jimi it's beautiful.
