music and sustaining a mood of hope and renewal that would define their generation.

Only some 80,000 people remained from an overwhelming 400,000 that Monday,

August 18, 1969 at Max Yasgur' s dairy farm in Bethel, New York (Piccoli 112).

They awaited Jimi Hendrix and his band as they prepared to close the Woodstock

Music and Arts Festival. The event was becoming a special memory that no future

event would ever quite be able to match in its mixture of music, magic, misery,

spontaneity, and history. Those who had left before the finale would live to realize

their regret. The last act walked onto the stage under a streaky morning sky with his

white Fender Stratocaster slung over one shoulder and his wild black hair bound in a

red headband (Piccoli 11-12). The group eventually began and tore into the classic hit

"Fire" followed by an ensemble of prime works of "Isabella", "Hear My Train A

-Comin’,” and the proclaimed new American anthem of "Voodoo Chile” (Wadleigh

60). Plagued by a bad sound system, due to rain and electrical storms, a sunken stage,

and adverse weather conditions, Hendrix could

creative passion, astounding technique, and crazy imagination that transformed rock

Despite his early death before the age of twenty eight in London, England,

Jimi Hendrix Experience was born. The excitement Hendrix created upon his arrival

finally received formal recognition for his achievements as a guitarist, performer, and

Jimi Hendrix died in London. During his short career he learned more about rock and

roll and the story it feeds it, the struggle over American Identity, than most of his

influenced a multitude of later musicians and revolutionized rock and roll music during the 1960's.

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