Posted on 08/15/2009 3:22:01 PM PDT by fiscon1
Jimi Hendrix, the Star Spangled Banner...
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I used to unplug or bump jukeboxes when some one played that song.
Hendrix was a surly drug bum who deserted from the US Army after a year of picking-up trash and washing the latrine (he was NOT Airborne; he was a total loser). That he was not given a DD is to the ever-lasting dishonor of the government. When a band played this in the PI while I was there during the Vietnam War, we all stood and walked out. Garbage then, garbage now.
Compare the stoned, drugged-out Hendrix with a truly gifted musician such as Joshua Bell.
Jimi wasn't good enough to lick Joshua Bell's shoes.
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