British Guy Reacts to Jimi Hendrix | The Star Spangled Banner | Live at Woodstock 1969 | REACTION!

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[@LeeJaeger-dj8jd]

Keep in mind this was played in 1969. The Vietnam war was raging at the time. Some of those sound effects were exactly the sounds you would hear every night on the news. Rockets. Choppers. Staffing runs. Bombs. But not the 1800's sounds, the 1969 sounds.

[@LoutTsu]

Exactly!

[@StanSwan]

So glad Nixon/Ford got us out of that Kennedy/Johnson mess.

[@Toasterfinal5]

Jimi Hendrix’s performance was considered controversial because critics believed his improvised musical interpretation was not “respectful”. To me it just demonstrates why he is considered one of the greatest guitarists to ever exist. It’s a shame he left us so soon.

[@unmemorablehero]

It was also during the Vietnam War. There was a lot of conflict in the US. Playing the national anthem at a hippy festival where people were actively protesting the war is a bit of controversial in and of itself. The performance though, was both a celebration of America, and a protest against it. Adding in the air raid sounds, explosions, sirens, etc is a reminder of the horrors of war, and what America was doing, while also adding in taps to pay tribute to fallen soldiers. It’s just masterfully done.

[@notvochkin]

@@unmemorablehero I've always thought that if this was disrespectful, then most of those who try to sing this song are disrespectful. It is not an easy song to sing and very few are good at it.

[@greypossum1]

You might have noticed at 6:30 he managed to work in "Taps" which was the bugle tune played at the funerals of soldiers. Other sounds he created were the jet engines bombing the Vietnam countryside.

[@b.g.g.744]

That was a very important part of his masterpiece interpretation.

[@pjb3583]

Probably 30 or 35 years after Woodstock, I interviewed one of the performers from that epic concert (not one of the headliners, but someone from a well-known band.) I was 11 in 1969, so I was well aware of the cultural significance of Woodstock but not quite old enough to be a participant in the youth movement. I asked him if the experience was as iconic in person or had it been more of a touchstone in hindsight. He told me emphatically that the atmosphere and community was electric, both in the moment and beyond. He took full advantage to wander through the crowd prior to taking the stage so he could absorb as much as possible and fix it in his memory. For those who remember, the performer was Denny Greene, one of the three singers in gold outfits who fronted Sha Na Na. It was a really good interview, and I was tickled to be able to talk with someone who had been there. Peace …

[@srv2217]

EVERY guitar player at some point in their musical journey will pass through the portal of Jimi Hendrix and every one of them will be changed forever. If Jimi Hendrix isn't your favorite guitarist then I guarantee you he is your favorite guitarist's favorite guitarist.

[@stevecallais1713]

insane - you got it so right. 500th time viewing and i still cry. what a human being. the inhumanity of war.

[@reesewilliams8643]

Yes, he is recreating the sounds of war as an ultimate protest of the act of war, including taps to express the end result. It is absolutely brilliant brilliant

[@craigreid7178]

I saw him live in Aug. 1970 and he blew me away. I was amazed by the fact that his hands would barely move and there would be an incredible flurry of notes coming out of the speakers. WOW!!! What a master of guitar he was.

[@BobSebring]

He took the electric guitar further than anybody could of imagined. It's one of the reasons why he is considered a musical genius.

[@joannerichards1750]

What a reaction!! Reaction with a capital R! I saw the Jimi Hendrix Experience live on stage in Cleveland about a year or two before Woodstock. I was far removed from the stage, sitting in the right balcony. His sound was so deafening that I still have tinnitus at age 75. The atmosphere was purely electric - dark, smoky, purple, cavernous, myopic electricity.

[@AtmosphericSoundArt]

Let me put it this way: Jimmy Hendrix is the guitar, and the guitar is Jimi Hendrix. That's the magic.

[@robertlear2712]

While other great guitarists think outside the box, Jimi does acknowledge that there is a box.

[@katsujinkin60]

I saw Jimi play 3 times in 1968, and met him the same year. Yes, he did indeed invent the electric guitar as we think of it today. He was my hero!

[@daverigby23]

Just Jimi, rippng down the heavens

[@elmorevandodewaard544]

After so many times it still gives me chilles. True art❤

[@sharonelliott2366]

I'm from Seattle, growing up in those heady days, and I only saw Jimi once, in 1970 shortly before he died, at Sick's Stadium in Seattle, in the rain. All live r&r music was "winging it" (and alot of the recordings were, too). They played a new version of whatever the song was, every time. For the particular show I saw, Jimi had just had a fight with his Dad, and also, it was raining (no cover on the small stadium) and yet everything they played was not only as if it was new, but also incorporated his emotional state at the time. It was his last concert in the continental US.

[@keithmccaslyn2527]

Jimi was the shit , Man! Check out Jimi Playing "Johnny B. Goode!" Live at Berkeley !! Jimi used to fall asleep practicing Guitar, making breakfast at the stove with the gee-tar- On! playing in the bath room because he liked the acoustic sounds bouncing off the wall. The Man was as earthy as it get ,and Yet as Cosmic as it gets, with ALL HEART & SOUL right in the center & thorugh out!! Ha! Just amazing!! 54 years and going here of Hendrix. Jimi was just amazing, its worth repeating!!

[@gramalinda750]

In other performances he played his guitar with his teeth… and even behind his back!!! Must see performances!! Love you, love your channel!! ❤️❤️❤️

[@bunyip-ni6ch]

With his teeth behind his back? 😜

[@Kojak024]

And completely fried on acid

[@gramalinda750]

@@Kojak024undoubtedly so.

[@LoutTsu]

The genuine depth of your response to this shown through clearly. First rate reaction!

[@phillipneely1091]

You got it right. Some people don’t realize that. But, is exactly what is doing. He was genius!!

[@chuckb25]

Jimmy grew up, trying to mimic cartoon noises on his guitar. He loved to mimic all kinds of sounds. I think that’s why he was so creative in his musical performances.

[@lisamills1980]

Best rendition ever

[@kiryukaimemorial]

Woodstock was *right* before my time. My dad and his sister attended it, though. They lived in New Jersey at the time and skipped out a week of school to caravan to it with friends. From what he told me, he felt the passion of the message through the music, especially Jimi's take on the War. He played the song almost ironically. He was respecting the message of the song while simultaneously commenting on the War. the song actually continues into a song, but is cut out from the clip you watched. Those of us who weren't alive at the time didn't experience the rhetoric of music at the time, so may miss the message most lyrics of the decade tried to convey. CCR's "Fortunate Son" is probably the most widely used song to convey the wartime feelings, but is lost on the youth today.

[@davisnanette]

There is a Woodstock movie - everyone there was amazing.

[@36karpatoruski]

Except Sha-Na-Na. As out of place at Woodstock as a platter of ham and cheese sandwiches at Passover. Bunch of bejeweled fake greaser clowns conpletely blowing the incredible hippie vibe at WOODSTOCK??? What a total vibe kill. Whoever “thought” up this idea needs to take them and himself in the wayback machine to a far distant sock hop and live there forever.

[@careymagic]

Prince at the 2004 Rock and roll Hall of Fame tribute to George Harrison. Prince's solo on while My guitar gently weeps blue everybody's mind and every other artists out of the water. And catch the ending where he throws his guitar in the air and it never comes down. He's a true showman...

[@gevowavemagnet]

Imagine hearing this at 13years old in 1970, when the Wookstock album wa released. I was never the same, especially after the shock of his death later that year.

[@johngreen5570]

Faces, I Know I'm Losing You, is a great live performance.

[@hudsonhollow]

A lot of people called his performance irreverent, but Jimi was a vet and against our being in Vietnam as most of us were. On the night of July 4th , 1970 Jimi played Star Spangled Banner for 400,000 of us at Atlanta Pop. Fireworks behind the stage and most of the crowd had their own fireworks. Grand Funk Railroad's jet flew low over us during the performance. It was EPIC!!! The guitar strap he used that night (the video is on KZbin) is the very same guitar strap that another guitar God whose soul speaks to us through his guitar, David Gilmour, uses in most of his concerts since 2006. You can check out the videos to see the broad brown strap with the large tan Xs. Gilmour's wife bought it and gave it to David. Imagine what that strap is worth today? Who will be the next recipient? Will he or she be able to maintain the greatness??

[@patriciaharris1233]

Queen's Live Aid Performance

[@Toasterfinal5]

One performance that I recommend is Peter Gabriel’s 1993 live performance of “In your eyes” from his secret world live tour. An amazing ten minute performance. His showmanship is well known among the international music scene.

[@billspivey6919]

Great job !

[@emmurrenauthor]

If you want more Hendrix, try Wild Thing at Monterey Pop Festival. What he does with the guitar with apparently little effort is astonishing.

[@johnconnor3781]

"We all want to go back ...quick get a TIME MACHINE"

[@eLion27]

Haha. How the "land of the freeeeeee" part had morphed into a bomb in his version of the US national anthem.😂Just epic. From the brightness of the "dawns early light", to the crickets chirping on the "gave proof through the night" part, jimi didn't miss to play a single visual.

[@AndrewGarcia-vm3uz]

Beautiful point man. 😊

[@andymccracken4046]

You can get a DVD of Hendrix's whole set at Woodstock and the quality is good and the whole set was great.

[@johndegouveia9616]

jimi never died earth was just part of his tour. the goat.

[@yepheth]

For many but not for all...That became shortly iconic, historical and it was performed in front of just 40.000 of the previous 400.000. So, i assume, it left so much regrets behind itself.

[@hjackson718]

Jimi New Years eve at the Fimore East Machine Gun. Greatest solo ever. The Monterey Pop Festival is just insane.

[@wpl8275]

As a child, Hendrix wanted a guitar so bad he would go to elementary school with a broom stick and pretend it was a guitar. The school therapist asked the school to buy him one but was turned down. His father was taking care of him and his brother and they didn't have much money. The first instrument Hendrix ever had was a used ukelele with only one string. He found it in a space he and his dad were cleaning out for money. They asked the person who was paying them if he could keep it and they said yes. That's what he started to learn to play on. Later on he always had a guitar with him and spent most of the day playing it. He was so good that Ronnie Woods (Rolling Stones) said when he stayed with him a couple of days that he could play equally as well with either hand. It's not wrong to say the guitar was his way to express himself fully.

[@BrendaHazelhurst]

He's left handed playing a right handed guitar. Most don't realize that

[@1perfectpitch]

Everybody realizes that.

[@kcchiefscott]

and upside down

[@Hapmorii]

Here's another one: Hendrix Live at Woodstock "Voodoo Chile." The most amazing. Also, Jimi Hendrix "Johnny B Goode" at Berkley. And "Machine Gun" live in New York.

[@claytonpaul4259]

Jimi takes this concept a step further with his original Machine Gun. The version on Band of Gypsys is the standard. You're in for a ride. Do it....:)

[@markwakefield1103]

100% agree

[@josephkondrat6478]

Imagine waking to this song with 400,000 people at Woodstock.

[@selwynpage4578]

Three more Jimi songs you must check out, Machine Gun band of gypsys, hear my train a comin, Bearkeley, Little wing, royal albert hall. These show Jimi at his most creative

[@Miqlintock]

An old British tune, commemerates a battle between US and UK. 6:13 Taps.

[@markoliver630]

This was at Woodstock on Monday morning after most everyone left. Time overruns. Only those who put in the time saw this Huge Rock event take place.

[@Linda-y9h]

Yup, you got it. 'Merica. ❤😊

[@HellenKillerProject]

My favorite is "Hey Baby, (New Rising Sun)" from Rainbow Bridge (Make sure it is the complete tune) ... I think .. Three Little Bears .. or You don't have to wait until tomorrow.. But Jimi carried a little real to real everywhere and they are still finding recordings he made. He only had as sort career ofa few years .. I saw a thing in an interview. Something like .. "If I die tomorrow you can still buy my records." We do Jimi, we do .. Another loose quote is from Stevie Ray Vaughn .. his quote "Jimi comes to me in my sleep and we jam" I'm sure they are laying it down.,

[@timmmckenny1806]

Should check out Chris Stapleton singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl a few years ago.

[@johnconnor3781]

"He can squeeze every sound out of each note chord whatever ...that probably don't exist!"

[@dstu1699]

Great reaction, bro. This performance is better than anyone can describe as they're trying to convince you that its the best, of gou know ehst i mean. Yes, this was all improv. Everytime jimi plays any song he does, its different from the ladt performance. You should check out his, Machine Gun at Fillmore East with thr Band of Gypsys. That will fuck your head up too. Jimi has so much great performances and studio work to comb through, its not even funny. ✌🏽

[@johnconnor3781]

"Mind you ...if you lived thru Woodstock ...you might not have made it thru as the same person ...Free Love Drugs -Drugs Sex and Rock n Roll"

[@atokadjoe]

Procol Harum "Whiter Shade of Pale" live in Denmark 2006. Janis Joplin "Cry Baby" live Festival Express 1970. Randy Meisner "Take it to the Limit" live in 1977. Humble Pie "Honky Tonk Woman" live 1973.

[@darylancrum]

(1) Machine Gun (Band Of Gypsys Live) (2) Power To Love (Band of Gypsys Live). The first 19 seconds of Power To Love is the intro to that song and then seemingly an explosion goes off as he explodes into a ferocious solo. Those at Fillmore East had never heard many of his new songs that night. Always remember we are talking about 1960's technology. Look at the so called guitar slingers today and the large amount of pedals at their feet to create different sounds. He was the best and none of his contemporaries could touch him. To be honest, no one can!!!!

[@StevenTyree-sl2nx]

Another guitar great live performance is Stevie Ray Vaughn doing Texas Flood. Mind scrambling!

[@ozmaile7938]

Santana Soul Sacrifice. Clearlly One of the best of the festival By Jimi own standarda that is just a taste if what many consider best solo ever : Machine Gun. If you like this. you will be 5X more blown away

[@davidmatthews2747]

Check out Monterey Pop

[@johnconnor3781]

"Check out Simon and Garfunkel and the Beatles Sgt Peppers onwards ...also George Harrison -While my Guitar Gently weeps "

[@-R.Gray-]

At the end of this song was the beginning of "Purple Haze". And then there was some great solo guitar playing, followed by a tasteful new instrumental called "Villanova Junction", which showed his knowledge of jazz great Wes Montgomery's octave melody playing, and influenced Steve Vai's "Tender Surrender" and "Sisters". The best live Hendrix is considered another war-themed song "Machine Gun" with his short-lived group The Band Of Gypsys at M.S.G. on New Years Eve 1969/70. There is an old black and white VCR recording on Vimeo, but the cameraman did some annoying things, and there are some partial colourized versions - so maybe listen to the official Band Of Gypsys album version first.

[@Veronica.1371]

The best rendition of The Star Spangled Banner .. IMO As Toaster in comments mentions, it was controversial because it was considered disrespectful

[@Toasterfinal5]

indeed, ty for the shoutout V 😁

[@xavierharris9065]

He was an Introvert and Guitar was him.

[@Bill_Jones.]

I’m always disappointed when people don’t let Purple Haze play after the Star Spangled Banner.

[@rickwagner-]

👍

[@JohnWilson-po2uk]

This was during the Viet Nam War.. he was a Army veteran... He's making sounds of Bombs Dropping Machine Guns.. Ambulances... This was a protest against the Viet Nam War and Civil Rights.. Sing the lyrics... as he's playing...Then you'll see his genuis.. He invented the way rock is played today...It all started with Jimi....

[@debbers]

1.Eddie Van Halen "Eruption Guitar Solo" 2.The Who at Shepperton "Won't Get Fooled Again" These are my two favorite live performances, then if you like these I'll give you more!

[@debbers]

Thank you for the heart, I appreciate it!

[@joyous-b8j]

JIMI WAS ,IS AND ALWAYS WILL BE THE GOAT PERIOD FOR ME, EXACTLY NOBODY, NOBODY PLAYED AND GOT THE SOUNDS OUT OF A GUITAR LIKE HE DID !!! You NEED TO LISTEN TO THE WHOLE SET OF JIMI PLAYING AT WOODSTOCK,MAKE SURE YOU GET THE 2ND RELEASE BECAUSE THE ORIGINAL ALBUM EDITS SOME OF JIMI's SONGS!!😍🤩🥰😱🙀😳🤯🔥🎸🐐 YOU NEED TO WATCH STEVIE RAY VAUGHN," TEXAS FLOOD" LIVE AT EL MOCAMBO, " VOODOO CHILD" AUSTIN CITY LIMITS, "LIFE WITHOUT YOU " CAPITOL THEATER N.J. 🐐🎸🔥🤯😳😱🙀 RIP JIMI, STEVIE !!!

[@kevingrady8736]

Imagine what Alexander Graham Bell would say about his invention the phone now.

[@TheGelatinousSnake]

Still feels off but simultaneously magical. Critics that cried about it being disrespectful? Bruh our national anthem’s original tune was a British drinking Song, it’s very creation started a long tradition of recreation of the tune

[@zappa1952]

Saw him @ Newport 69 in L.A.

[@ricardodinapoli21]

You got to listen to " MACHINE GUN " live at FILLMORE EAST 1970 !!!!

[@thedripsepodcastnetwork2910]

Let your sons know, All Along The Watchtower is not by Hendrix, it was written and performed first by Bob Dylan. Though, later Dylan did say humorously, I didn't know at the time I was writing it for Hendrix.

[@rickc661]

3 very important flicks for this subject - Monterey . Woodstock . ( either one ) and - very different but Great - tenth. Anniv of. ' Les Mis'. . and Yes , Hendrix is , by far the 'best'. electric guitar player. not acoustic, electric .to me. he made the possible sounds not just sounds, but actual legit parts of the tune. there is a DVD avail ( Hendrix estate ) of a private guy that snuck on stage with pro type equip & filmed Hendrix entire set. I prefer it to the hired official film crew. look for the girls with their pets not 10 ft away.... oh , the New Yers 'band of Gypsies'. tune 'machine gun' is even more explosive. maybe.

[@3man3]

You should do more western music. Lots of legendary music to be heard As for best live performances the best i can think of is metalica preforming entersandman in berlin in the 90s where theres was something like 200k people there becuase it was a free concert, ot was so packed they had helicopters and the army come in. Also not for the music but the foo foghters performance where dave grohl breaks his leg, goes to the hospital and then comes back an hour later and continues the shoa despite beinf crippled is badass

[@Jeffrey-w2b8x]

Notice Jim's finger technique, using the pads of his fingers. Unorthodox.

[@vivasanpietro]

Rumor has it he was tripping balls at this gig

[@erikahlander3489]

The best live performance ever? It is a quite personal experience on the one hand and on the other hand it includes skills which are generally appreciated. It don't have to be famous! This piece is of course included as those you mentioned. Did I hear Dire Strait, Alchemy live of "Sultans of swing"? I have a few personal I return to now and then. Different genres! The most unknown treasure is the Swedish band Von Zamla with "Harujänta" one of very few videos of the group existing. Carlos Santana doing "Europa" Montreux 2011; Brian Ferry's cover of Young's "Like a hurricane" live in Lyon; Donna Summer "MacArthur Park" Belgium 2005; Procol Harum "A whiter shade of pale" Denmark 2006; Frank Zappa "Inca roads" (unfortunately half the video is claymations - but the beginning and the end!); Chicago "25 or 6 to 4" Tanglewood 1970; Small Faces "Tin soldier" 1968; Vanilla Fudge cover of Supremes "You keep me hangin on" Ed Sullivan show; Janis Joplin "Summertime" Stockholm 1969. Of course there are more!

[@RUBY-qf3kk]

Day 2 of asking Luke to react to "A helpful guide to Ado".

[@davidwoosley3705]

He plays Purple Haze immediately after the Star Spangled Banner if I'm remembering correctly. You cut it off. Arrrggghhhhh!!!!!

[@Zodchi]

Another really popular performance of the Star Spangle Banner was Whitney Houston's performance during the 1992 Super Bowl XXV. I believe it still ranks as THE best version of any of the Super Bowl's.

[@fedodosto3162]

I hear Vietnam when I listen to this...

[@will-x9c]

Yes, Jimi's playing was effortless. It is ironic that he had to go to the UK to be recognized as the great musician that he was. Supposedly McCartney saw him in a club and told Lennon "You've got to hear this guy." Something like that. The SSB was written by Francis Scott Key during the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812. Key was a time traveler who wrote it to be performed on electric guitar with lots of feedback and distortion. Not really :)

[@cayminlast]

The best US ant-war performance ever.

[@felixfuentes8188]

You're not getting the true reason why he's the GOAT because he's playing the guitar UPSIDE DOWN

[@jakenupe2]

Jimi was a united states army paratrooper until he broke his ankle! Listen to Band of Gypsys Live at the Apollo "Machine Gun"

[@garavonhoiwkenzoiber]

have you reacted to Eddie Van Halen eruption solo?

[@PeterOConnell-pq6io]

Hendrix re-invented how to play the the guitar, and used that talent to re-invent what US patriotism sounds like.

[@esrohm6460]

with skill you can make an instrument sound better than expected but what if you use unusual things as instruments, like what i would love to see reacted to in Zenith from Elfensjón. It's schort but a gerat use of something strange especially for that type of music as of what it is i guess only one way to find it out

[@vladislavhoroshih]

When is the second part of Naruto endings?

[@frankamine3366]

Yu will never see another

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[@warren4110]

Bear in mind that Leo Fender actually couldn’t play guitar. I’m sure that he would have been amazed though!!

[@111oooo]

Didn't he call it The Star Spangled Bummer?

[@selwynpage4578]

Shame you picked this version, the dvd shows his hands more and not to much of his head, so you can see whats going on. Also, the video is in much beter quality, as it's also released on Blu Ray, it's well worth purchasing as you certainly wont be dissapointed

[@SteveBurkitt-rg4nj]

Don't know if you have this one.Machine gun live.

[@StevenOslica]

Easily the goat