http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CMyxB-CKMs
To make up for the shocking lack of patriotism in the previous post, here’s Jimi Hendrix playing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Woodstock.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8BBipmqKxg
Jimi Hendrix. “If 6 Was 9.” No further introduction necessary. Just sit back and listen to that guitar fucking scream.
But if you’d like some further reading material, check out these production notes from the Wikipedia article:
Compared to the other tracks on Axis: Bold As Love, “If 6 Was 9” suffers from an unusually large amount of tape noise, dropouts, and overall “rough” sound quality. According to Hendrix biographer John McDermott, the master tape used for the album was a quarter-inch open-reel tape belonging to bassist Noel Redding, containing an early rough mix of the song. This technically inferior copy (intended for a home tape player) had to be used at the last minute since the album’s final stereo master tape had been accidentally lost, and “If 6 Was 9” was the one song that Hendrix and engineer Eddie Kramer could not satisfactorily remix. They reportedly had to use a clothes iron to remove wrinkles in the badly mishandled tape, copied it onto new studio-quality tape, and inserted it into the final album master with no further modification.
Cowboy production at its finest.
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