Jimi Hendrix - Live at Woodstock

Rating:
Summary: Hey, like put down the brown acid, man!
Review:
This folio is excellent. With it you can scare all the Republicans in your neighborhood, by rousing the outspoken spirit of Country Joe. Gimme an 'F'!

I believe Jimi plays the 'Star Spangled Banner' here in 'C', with a sort of 'nuclear detonation at ground zero' flair. Although I play it in 'A', with a sort of 'Roy Buchanan' flair. Either way is fine. Unless of course you're a Republican, whereby the only proper way is with church choir accompaniment behind you, with all your clothes on and buttoned up tight to your severely starched collar.

With this folio, you'll see (particularly if you've the DVD), how Jimi takes his multi-layered studio cuts and plays them live. (The 'BBC Sessions/Radio One' folios are also an ideal source for this.)

My favorite tunes to jam on here are 'Red House' and 'Hear My Train'. On 'Train', there's this fiddly little trick in the first position 'E', of bending the fifth string/3rd fret and striking the fourth string/3rd fret, combined with some slight vibrato dipping, which once gotten will open yourself to a big peice of Jimi's style. (Nugent uses this same sort of device a lot, too.) Anyway, it's in the book. And if ye shall seek, so shall ye find.