Stellar Preformances 1 part A: Star Spangled Banner

Aside from those long Magical Cherokee fingers, one thing that amazed me about Hendrix was just how many god damn recordings he put out. This man put out more of a trail of music then I as a naive musician could have thought possible in such a short career. From a strictly sales perspective the amount of timeless songs, solos, photos and endless lesson books that came out of his little 'Electric Church' world in 4 short years he wouldn't have needed to touch an axe again regardless if he didn't know how to read the German Warning label for '9 Barbiturates is 8 too many'.

It wasn't hard to pick one though. I don't listen to it as often as I do the endless electric voyages on his many alien interpretations of Villanova or hear my train. I mean how often does an officer need to read the Iliad? just once and you know it's perfect by itself for all the right reasons. You don't need to trip on it, it's not like it's even got a groove.

If I recall the first time I sat around and watched his whole Woodstock project I wasn't even that stoned but I spent the entirety of the video with my face inches away from the screen convinced I was legit hearing some sort of monolith prophecy from Europa being wielded through his hands.

Of course people are going to cream themselves over it simply because he was a paratrooper playing an old American glory tune through a fuzz box during a guerrilla war, but the innocent performance itself was like the gypsy girl playing Mozart in front of Nazi Captain Amon Goeth, it had to be perfect.

He did it once, he did it arbitrarily and it was perfect. Just to put it in perspective, the written notes are a fucking major scale no different then fuckin Marry had a little Lamb the tune you had to learn on your recorder in 4th grade and he played it in between Voodoo Child and Purple haze, two of the heaviest tunes in the last half century. The shit deserves to be studied like Gettysburg.
I'll go through the technicalities tomorrow...note for note.