1. Jimi Hendrix
... a cowboy gypsie and cosmic hitchhiker, sounded out the first notes of the song everyone knew so well: "The Star Spangled Banner." Hendrix's guitar seemed to mock and revere the national anthem's grandiosity. The effects of one of the most electrifying performances ever was captured by Michael Wadleigh himself, the director of the famous "Woodstock- documentary, "The experience of standing in front of Hendrix was awesome ... press(Farley 88). In all but fourteen months the Jimi Hendrix Experience recorded not only the classic singles "Hey Joe," "Purple Haze," and "Burning of the Midnight ...
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