Jimi Hendrix - Star Spangled Banner (Woodstock) 1969

A number of critics thought Jimi’s version of the SSB was disrespectful. Hendrix was later asked about the controversy by Dick Cavett: “I’m American, so I played it…I didn’t think it was unorthodox, I thought it was beautiful”

Damn straight.

h/t Andrew Sullivan

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