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.
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.
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!
We also drank a lot of Stoli on ice.