Posted on 08/05/2017 3:48:31 PM PDT by SkyPilot
https://vimeo.com/73759775">Like A Rolling Stone (in Monterey)
Air Force veteran, Jimi Hendrix.
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I think the first thing about his personality that you have to understand about him is that Jimi Hendrix was in many ways a gentleman. I know, you are thinking: "druggie, rock star", but if you listen to his interviews, he really was mainstream, especially compared to what passes for mainstream today.
Next, his rendition of the Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock was not an "FU" to America. In his own words, it was meant to be "beautiful" and he did not believe in the North Vietnam Communists. He was very, VERY, anticommunist!
So listen, and enjoy. Jimi. There will never be another like him.
Army veteran, 82nd Airborne.
Jimmy was a good dude and very intelligent. As with so many he got mixed up with the wrong people(his handlers) and they used him and threw him away.
US Army there sport.
101st.
“Yes I know I missed a verse. Don’t worry.”
Such style and confidence. 1967. This country was clearly on the right path to having blacks and whites as equal participants in a civil society. And then it all went to hell.
101’st airborn
Thank Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
I spent a year in Monterey, CA learning Russian. Sadly, Jimi was already gone by then.
We called DLI the Love Boat. I had a relationship with a female navy sailor that I’ll never forget.
I was USArmy and was lucky enough to to win a fight with Marine over her. A spinning elbow cut through his flailing fists and hit him right in the chin. He was down for the count and we were out of there! (NCO Club)
We listened to Jimi a lot!
Sb... With A Marine
We also drank a lot of Stoli on ice.
101st.
Yes- Army. Thanks for that correction!
Does anyone want to watch the video and comment on his incredible talent?
Wow!
I thought I had heard all of his music - had almost all his albums. (I used to hum “Purple Haze” walking the halls in high school.)
This one is new to me - a great cover!
Incredibly talented. Its a tragedy that he got into drugs so heavily.
Don't need to watch it, as I've seen that one (and a hundred other Hendrix videos) many times before.
I'm an afficianado of the man's work, going back to the sixties. What I can say to others, is that it's not possible to fully appreciate the depth and beauty of his work, if all you know of him are his Top 40 hits. You actually have to listen to the albums to get a feel for how much more expansive his music really was.
I won't ever call him the greatest musical genius of all time, but his level of skill, mastery, and virtuosity with the electric guitar (and the recording studio), has never been equalled to this very day.
He was also one helluva songwriter, drawing deep inspiration from American Blues, R&B, Folk, and even Country & Western music.
Had he lived, Jimi would be 75 this coming November.
101st Airborne, he was kicked out of the army.
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