We're Not Who You Think We Are
Album: Woodstock Motion Picture Soundtrack
Year: 1969
Let’s face it: “The Star Spangled Banner” is not a great song.
Not only does it have musical roots in a British drinking song — let us never forget that our national anthem is basically stolen intellectual property — it’s also fucking impossible to sing if you don’t have the range of a Whitney Houston.
[Read more…] about Certain Songs #788: Jimi Hendrix – “The Star Spangled Banner (Live at Woodstock)”
Album: Woodstock – Music From The Original Soundtrack
Year: 1969
We never really described it as such, but during the late 70s and early 80s Tim & I were on a quest to see every rock n roll performance that had ever been captured on film. It was secondary to our quests to see every concert and buy every record, but it was still definitely a thing.
In practical sense, this usually meant going to the midnite movies at the Tower Theater, where we’d saw everything from Jimi Plays Berkeley to D.O.A., but it also meant seeing a double bill of Rust Never Sleeps and Rock ‘n’ Roll High School at the Moon-glo Drive-in and renting a VHS of Blow-Up just to fast-forward to the part where Jimmy Page & Jeff Beck were playing together.