Tonight Mike Malloy played Hendrix's Woodstock performance of the Star Strangled Banner.

[ConsAreLiars]

If you haven't heard heard it, if you've never felt it, or if you've never never heard those feelings played out on a guitar, or if those sounds are already a part of your core self, listen and watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTBYjAUCCnE

[flobee1]

1. Very beautiful

Some of the stuff he did in that version sort of encapsulates the mood of the time.


If you have the means, check out the Blues traveler version

http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/wma-pop-up/B00006LFGL001001/ref=mu_sam_wma_001_001/105-0915049-0550837
Its also on their dvd, performed on the 4th of july at Red Rocks while the fireworks are going

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2yPy95jxeh4
poor quality, but it rocks none the less

[blogslut]

2. It was a hell of a thing

And for the time, very revolutionary. But then, those were the days when a flag patch on a pair of jeans was considered an act of defiance. Now we got flag-patterned crap everywhere.

I also dig Bobby McFerrin's accapella version.