[SkyPilot]

The more I have read about Jimi Hendrix, the more I have learned that he was not the left wing "hero" of the 60's that the media make him out to be.

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.

[ReaganCowboy]

Army veteran, 82nd Airborne.

[ClearCase_guy]

“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.

[Enchante]

". In 1961, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and trained as a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division; he was granted an honorable discharge the following year."

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