Star Spangled Banner...

[reb]

Stu Hamm humbles many of us:

http://guitarsquid.com/Latest/top-10-national-anthem-performances-by-guitarists.html

i have not got further...had to stop and think about Hamm's performance.

[hillbilly-joe]

Liked them all

[pygmalion]

Yup, they're all pretty fine. Still like Jimi's best though.

[zagatron1]

Liked them all

+1 on that.

[pictoratus]

Yeah, Jimi's is the standard.

Vai was pretty creative and Satriani sounded like he was hurrying trying to get it over with but there's nothing like Jimi.

[diaper head]

speaking of jimi, and the star spangled banner,  how about this?  he and dick cavett had a little conversation about it, and jimi showed a side of himself that didn't come out much:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-ZYUaRKQkk&feature=related

[reb]

i didn't know hendrix was forced into the 101st Airborne...'considered to be a subpar soldier' according to the wiki. 

got started on a winding road with that video, diaper head. interesting stuff! thanks!

[diaper head]

got started on a winding road with that video, diaper head. interesting stuff! thanks!

hahahaha you went down a bunny trail, i usually call it that.
hendrix had a fairly interesting life, if you can keep separate the love of his talent while you read about him. i mean, not letting it color your perspective you know?  imo, that is the way i decided that what hendrix really was, was the very last of the great blues men.

[reb]

i forget whose book i read, and it mentioned some of hendrix's details...i think it was eric clapton's book. (that was a heck of a story, too)

an interesting bunny trail...surely was. on the radio yesterday, i listened to some guy carrying on about how janis joplin was 'dissed' by a record company exec...the stuff that doesn't come public makes these folks human to me.

jerry garcia's book was pretty good. i had never heard of the train ride concert across canada...wild times!

[diaper head]

jerry garcia's book was pretty good.

does it mention a black les paul?  one that he was holding when he did a rolling stone cover?

[reb]

aww, geez...yer taxing my memory, which is notoriously broke.

i searched the dead site...the search engine pulls up 'individual words' but won't pull up 'garcia les paul rolling stone' together.

as i recall (see above), there was mention of jerry going through a number of guitars over time...like nearly everyone i know who plays, he didn't settle til somewhere down the road.

[DetroitBlues]

i didn't know Hendrix was forced into the 101st Airborne...'considered to be a subpar soldier' according to the wiki. 

got started on a winding road with that video, diaper head. interesting stuff! thanks!

Yes forced into the 101st.  Chapter out of the Army for being a worthless soldier.  I'm a former 101st Airborne-Air Assault Soldier from Bravo Company, 501st Signal Battalion's CCP Platoon.  What interesting is there is nothing on the base museum about him being there.  Rendezvous with Destiny!