Hendrix was creating the sounds of bombs and war mixed with the Anthem because of America's involvement in the Vietnam War. He said he was playing it the way the air was in America at the time ," the air is slightly static today" he said.

Hendrix was unbelievable, especially considering the time / technology of the day. Now you need to listen to "Machine Gun" live at Fillmore on his Band Of Gypsies album. Many (myself included) consider it to be the song with the best guitar playing of all time.

This proves that JIMI is a DEMI-GOD

My favorite version of the song. This was in 1969. Jimi passed in 1970.

Jimi Hendrix’s was the most anticipated Woodstock performance, but by the time he and his newly formed band, Gypsy Sun & Rainbows, started their two-hour set at 9:00 a.m. Monday morning, the half-million-person audience was down to roughly 40,000. Those who stayed for the festival finale witnessed one of the most memorable and legendary performances of the entire decade.

His interpretation here was intended to actually represent the Vietnam war which was happening at the time, so there are sections representing gunfire, bombs exploding and people screaming, and then finally a section from Taps a salute to the dead then peace, personally I've always thought it, and him, genius. If you can find it, in the full recording he runs this song straight into Purple Haze which fits perfectly. There's a great recording of him live playing Johnny B Goode on YT which is brilliant.

I saw Hendrix live twice. His recordings are great but he was absolutely UN-BE-LIEV-ABLE live! What a showman, what talent. RIP, my dude.

SILAS, YOU HAVE NOW EXPERIENCED ALMOST FIRSTHAND ONE OF THE MOST INCREDIBLE IF NOT "THE" MOST INCREDIBLE VERSION OF THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER EVER PERFORMED!!! OUT OF THE APPROXIMATE 500,000 PEOPLE MAXIMUM THAT WERE ATTENDING WOODSTOCK BY THE TIME HENDRIX DID THIS SONG, THERE WERE ONLY ABOUT 30,000 PEOPLE LEFT CUZ IT WAS MONDAY MORNING AFTER THE ENTIRE WEEKEND!! I CAN ONLY IMAGINE HOW INCREDIBLE THIS MUST HAVE BEEN FOR THE 30,000 DEDICATED FANS THAT STAYED TO SEE THIS AND HOW UPSET THE OTHER 470,000 THAT LEFT MUST HAVE FELT ONCE THEY DID HEAR THIS!! RIP JIMI HENDRIX THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER LIKE YOU!!

The greatest electric guitarist in history. I was at Woostock. This must be listened to in the context of the Vietnam War.

The whole end of the woodstock concert is incredible. After this National Anthem, the sound of the guitar melts into the next song, purple haze, one of his classic. Then it goes in an unbeliveable improvisation, which feels kind of like staring at Picasso painting a masterpieces in front of you. And then, it ends up with Villanova Junction, my favorite instrumental ballad. Mindblowing. If you have a chance to look or listen to this hole stuff, I am sure you will love it.

If you ever see the entire Woodstock concert on dvd, get it, it’s three days of the best bands and artists including Jimi , playing and singing for free, for about half a million people

Jimi Hendrix is what you call 1 of a kind. Once in a life time. A Demigod.

I love how he let us hear "...the bombs bursting in air..." in the middle.

I am personally acquainted with one of the percussionists who played with him at that gig. He said that nobody in the band knew he was gonna play that! It wasn''t rehearsed. They were like "What's Jimi doing?" I also knew a few people who were in the audience. They said the audience was completely in shock.Nothing like this had ever existed before in all the music in human history. When I was 11 years old, I saw this in the theater. The years was 1972, and it was the first time I'd ever seen a video of Hendrix. Half a century later, I STILL get chills listening to this! You should understand that this was during the Vietnam War, and a month after the Apollo 11 mission where men first walked on the moon. The USA was really divided, almost close to a civil war. Then, at the very end of a three day festival of peace and flower power hippie celebration, Jimi Hendrix played the most violent rendition of the national anthem possible. He was telling the hippies that this is what the world is really like, and at the same time staring the most powerful nation on earth in the face and saying "You broke your covenant with God and your people." Nobody but Jimi Hendrix could have done this.

How do ya like that, young man? A peek back into the 60's at the man who changed music forever, a vision in red white and blue, with the most beautiful hands and fingers I've ever seen playing guitar. Showed this performance to my 12yr.old Granddaughter and she flipped. Sadly, not one child in her grade level ever heard of Jimi Hendrix. Let's go, people. Better late than never. ☮️to all.

Many of us veterans understood this version all too well…. And yeah Jimi was right this is beautiful….

Hendrix was an army veteran, Screaming Eagles.

Hendrix was from Seattle, my hometown!

It is said it was like a space alien had landed on Earth and was making sounds with the guitar no one even knew was possible. The man who inspired thousands of guitarist the world over to pick up the instrument. You might want to check out the entire movie Woodstock that came out in 1970. It was probably the main event that would help define the music of rock and roll through the seventies, and arguably the culture of the baby boom generation.

one of the greatest guitar solos ever !

And " 1983 merman i should turn to be " Is an amazing track !

There were many EPIC performances at Woodstock worth checking out. THE WHO - SEE ME FEEL ME SANTANA - SOUL SACRIFICE CSN - SUITE JUDY BLUE EYES

He plays this song and it sounds like if there were bombs falling . Right after this song , he goes straight into Purple Haze . You should also check out " Voodoo Child " from the Woodstock show .

Jimi’s rendition of the National anthem was to use his guitar to express the sounds of the American war in Vietnam. The sounds of bombs dropping and exploding, innocent civilians screaming and crying. The purpose of this performance WAS NOT to feel patriotic. It expressed his feelings against the war, and the feeling of the majority of people in America who turned against it. Jimi was a Marine Paratrooper veteran. He vehemently hated war.

Salis, you are proving to be the best music review guy I have listened to yet.. lovelovelove ❤️✌🏻🌸

It was a political statement against the Vietnam war. "The bombs bursting in air" and then he dive bombs on his neck and makes explosions! The chaos of battle is dramatized. A little help from the drummer, I think, added some machine gun fire. Then you here an ambulance siren like they have in Europe. He then throws in a little of the military's "Taps" that they play for fallen soldiers near the end. It's beautiful and ugly at the same time. Wow! What a statement. Historic.

Silas, hey, hi. What was fairly obvious to many in 1969, and the early 70's when this appeared in the Woodstock Movie... was that Jimi inserted into the Anthem the sounds of bombs dropping, and the screams of people in pain... this was a statement about the Viet Nam war, war in general. It's an invitation to contemplate patriotism in the context of what many people at the time considered to be an unjust war. Pure genius in concept, and unbelievably skillful in execution.

At the time it was very controversial as many thought to change up the US National Anthem like he did was disrespectful, but it had stood the test of time and most people now view it as the masterpiece of improvisation it really was.

Remember, Jimi was in the army as a paratrooper. Here he expresses his conflicting emotions of patriotism vs. the idestruction it caused.

So far beyond his time! The crowd had been there for 3 days and this was early morn as the sun was coming up. Epic.

Thank you Silas my man. Love it when you do Hendrix, Pink Floyd and the Who. Best wishes from England.👍

The majority of that crowd was probably tripping, drunk, or stoned off their asses. And this is the perfect piece for that. Feeling Patriotic? Take a knee.

I like that you love guitars as much as i do!! You apreciate everything whatever the style is. You deserve more subscribers.

His live performance of Voodoo Child at Woodstock is definitely worth checking out.

You're listening to the greatest guitarist of all time, ending the greatest Rock Festival of all time. Woodstock was originally supposed to be Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, in August of '69. Because of the rain delays, and the NY State Thruway being CLOSED for the first time in it's history, Governor Rockefeller called in all available State Police and National Guard to help fly musicians in in Choppers. Jimmy closed the Show on Monday, with a crowd size that dropped from about 500,000 to about 50,000. Those who stayed until Monday got to see one of the most incredible performances of all time. ✌️

The worst thing about the old footage of Jimi and the bands back then is they really didn't know how to film them yet.

Walking into Woodstock '94 we heard John Popper of Blues Traveler doing this on the harmonica! Epic!!

Strongly reccommend Hendrix' 'Machine Gun' on the legendary Album 'Live at Filmore East'. It's one of his greatest live performances and solos. Again another anti-war song where he masters the experimental other-wordly sounds you hear here and converts them into a 10 minutes groove-insanity. The original version is not on YT, only on Spotify btw.

Totally a guitar innovator. Ask any guitar player.

God Bless America - RIP Jimi. Two favorite Hendrix tunes for me are "If six were 9" and "Spanish Castle Magic"

Jaw dropping. I saw it then and this is still from somewhere else entirely today. The sounds of the Vietnam War. Bombs, gun fire, and screaming.

I love Santana’s Woodstock performance, too!

Check out "Hey Joe" live at the Monterey Pop Festival. That performance shows guitar playing like I've never seen before...more since. You'll be blown away!

He crushed it

He was left handed so he took a right handed guitar and strung it upside down and he plays it upside down. He was a great artist

I'll just echo other folks here: listen to Machine Gun from the live Band of Gypsies album. It's got the best or some of the best electric guitar playing ever. Hendrix blew open all the boundaries for rock guitarists from his first album onward. Everyone built on his work.

No problem not standing up....if you had been at Woodstock '69, you would have passed the doobie to guy next to you and said "Hey! Jimi is one righteous dude, dig that sounds man".

I was 10 when I started taking Jimi. Yeah Jimi was like a habit for me. A year later Jimi left this world. All 12 of our children grew up on Jimi. Driving home from Church listening to Voodoo Chile. Jimi rendered Modernity dead. He challenge the fabric that binds Postmodernity together. Like no other. 'What do you mean?" "Are you Experienced," is my favourite hymn. My wife with Bipolar loves"Manic Depression," and"I don't live today."

All right, buckle up! this is an amazing performance. I haven't seen it in the comments yet but another wild thing about Hendrix is that he played a right handed guitar upside down.

So fabulous,, get it dude.. lovelovelove ❤️🌸✌🏻

Jimi’s Star Spangled Banner was really about what was happening at the time,, the Vietnam War (screaming, bombs, etc). It was a very unpopular war as far as what the hell was the US doing there and the young guys being drafted to fight.

Billy cox on bass was with jimi in basic training with the 101st airborne the guy with the black scarf over his eyes you can when he does purple haze at Woodstock is Larry Lee two weeks prior to Woodstock was still fighting in Vietnam,

Hendrix was and still is The G.O.A.T. !

Sound effects NOT supplied by the recording board operator or in post-production -- ALL DONE BY JIMI ON HIS AXE!!! What a way to wake up on that Monday a.m. Thank you, Mr. Hendrix, for your artistry and innovative nature!

If you really want to hear some of his best work, check out Machine Gun from the live Band Of Gypsies album. You'll be amazed.

He played the last morning. Many had already left. They missed one of the high points.

Jimi was quite a tough guy , he was exUS Airborne troops , he got discharged early because of an injury he picked up on a jump

Hendrix was heavy metal before there was a heavy metal as a matter of fact the term heavy metal was coined by a writer saying that Hendrix's music sounds like heavy metal falling from the sky so there you go !

“jimi Hendrix’ performance of the ,Star Spangled Banner, at Woodstock was a work of Genius.” Ornette Coleman ,

No auto tuner manually tuning. Ten amps up to ten. He has ten inch hands and plays left handed with right handed guitar.

Hendrix rendition of the National Anthem will never be surpass Hendrix was bringing out the signs of the times the turbulent 1960s and the future to come.

Jimmy was a huge influence on Stevie Ray Vaughn. You should watch Stevie’s live version of Voodoo Child since you watched Jimmy do it yesterday. Little known fact about Jimmy Hendrix; he’s a Viet Nam vet. He served as a paratrooper and would volunteer for the most dangerous missions so he could earn his discharge sooner. He would play guitar to his platoon mates every chance he could. They loved him.

Also any song off " Are You Experienced "

You have to do , Hey Joe live at monterey !!

Hendrix is owned by his family and they are extremely tight with their copyright. They are determined to squeeze every dime out of their rights, even to the detriment of Hendrix's legacy, by restricting videos like this which broaden his exposure. Sad.

You need to deep dive the Experience bruv!

Hendrix defied his peers by supporting the soldiers in Vietnam (though he opposed the war).

I have wanted that fringed jacket all my life!!! 👵🏼💜☮️

Jimi served...he can play SSB any way he wants. Glad you were born after and no b4 VIETNAM. We hated that war. It took 58,290 plus and 3M Vietnamese of our generation.🥺. I stand for Jimi🎇

He did serve after all.

Yes. Good patriot !!

Next "Machine Gun" Band of Gypsies from the album. I have to listen every often, just for a "Fix". Note: the audio here doesn't match the version from the released album.

Have met people not into Jimi,which is cool,but they understood clearly what he was saying with his guitar,and nobody else sounded like that before him,or has overshadowed it still

Say what you will about other flashier guitarists, but Mr. Hendrix did the most in the least number of years. Plus he also sang lead ffs!

Yes it was patriotic, but Hendrix played the song in a way that was also protesting the Vietnam war, with the war and bombing sound effects. So it wasn't in a way that republicans would classify as patriotic.

Next on the list needs to be the band Tool! you won't be disappointed I guarantee!

He would die exactly 13 months from that performance.

You should also see Janis Joplin live, going completely mad.

Shame you could'nt see the blu ray release, its much clearer with better camera angles, where you can watch him play this and see whats going on

Machine Gun 🔥🔥🙏

Very chaotic version. COMPLETELY APPROPRIATE for the times. America in chaos. Vietnam, racial segregation, abortion rights, equal right movement, political assassinations, etc...similar to what is going on today, (in some ways) Rock in Peace Jimmy.

Sounds of war😢😢😢

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Actually by the time Jimi came on stage. Most people had already gone gone home.

David Gilmour, Pink Floyd on Hendrix- "Gilmour has also long declared his advocacy for Hendrix. Speaking during his visit to BBC Radio 2’s ‘Tracks Of My Years’ in 2006, he picked out ‘The Wind Cries Mary’ as one of his all-time favourites and recalled when he first heard the late icon: “Jimi Hendrix, fantastic. I went to a club in South Kensington in 1966, and this kid got on stage with Brian Auger and the Trinity and [held] the guitar the other way around and started playing. Myself and the whole place were with their jaws hanging open. “I went the next day to the record shops, and I said, ‘You’ve got anything by this guy Jimi Hendrix?’ and they said, ‘Well, we’ve got a James Hendrix’. He hadn’t yet done anything. So I became rather an avid fan waiting for his first release. Also, this is one of his beautiful ballads that I really love.”" Far Out magazine faroutmagazine.co.uk/pink-floyd-david-gilmour-pick-guitar/#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16669584031502&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Ffaroutmagazine.co.uk%2Fpink-floyd-david-gilmour-pick-guitar%2F

Man, I have to suggest the same tune done by Boston. Both Jimi's and Boston's versions are incredible!

This was Jimmi throwing shade at the US Gov because of the Vietnam War. It was a definite middle finger.

So, you have done SRV and Hendrix. Now you must react to Eddie Van Halen's 14 minute solo ERUPTION from "Live Without a Net" (1986). You will not believe what you see and hear from EVH. 🔥🔥🎸🎸

He was a meteor...

Yea, you're getting the sounds of bombs and war.

My birth year

Those were the “rockets red glare.”

Keep in mind that Woodstock was a gathering of the counter-culture, the flower children……anti-war. This was not a patriotic playing of the anthem at all. But rather the opposite. It was loudly condemned by those who supported the war and the government. I thought it was perfect. It brought screaming and the sound of violence to the anthem. Which we thought appropriate at the time. The last thing to feel after hearing this was patriotic.

you can hear the people screaming and dying

IMHO, Jimi's interpretation of the actual anthem is one of disgust, and not just a fight back against 'WAR! cluck cluck cluck' (see Isle of Wight) but a bigger reminder of the racism he encountered during his chitlin circuit days where he, like all blacks were forced to comply with the segregated demands of white america in a land supposedly for 'the free'. Jimi showed courage with his interpretations. At another concert some 'brave' outlaw bikers confronted Jimi before his appearance threatening to start a riot if he played the anthem in that inimical style of his, which he did anyway; there was no riot. The joke to Jimi was by often introducing Voo Doo Child or Purple Haze as the 'new american anthem', 'until we get another one together'. Can you dig that? 🥴 Almost all of Gypsy Sun and Rainbow's Woodstock perfomance is available on VHS and DVD, and on high rotation with me.

4:27 It sounds like f2000d dropping napalm. Jimi Hendrix is the most important person in music. My generation Z missed out😢

React to Hendrix’s Machine Gun from Band Of Gypsies. It’s the best guitar track….by anyone.

Then he played "Purple Haze"

You are rockin in the free World....Grasshopper🤨..

Do yourself a favour and check out Jeff Lynnes ELO-Electric Light Orchestra.I recommend anything that was recorded live at Wembley.You wont regret it.