Some debate over dinner last night about this being the high point of Western culture. I think we settled on "a" high point, although I was in the absolutist camp.
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The guy who wrote it is, appropriately, getting a Medal of Freedom.
Posted by: justcorbly | Apr 28, 2012 at 12:02 PM
Are you referring to the festival itself or Hendrix as headliner?
Posted by: prell | Apr 28, 2012 at 04:55 PM
This performance of this song. It's the reason they had the Renaissance.
Posted by: Ed Cone | Apr 28, 2012 at 06:02 PM
Wow. I need to get some sleep. I spent way too much time thinking about the merits of such an argument.
Posted by: prell | Apr 28, 2012 at 06:35 PM
"Yeah I know I missed a verse ... don't worry."
Would love to have heard the arguments. I can see some of it ... Hendrix interpreting Dylan interpreting his move into rock and away from folk for folk's sake. Hendrix fresh in the glow of his debut with the Experience, before the road and the business wore him out, before he got undeniably cynical and wrapped up in stardom just before the flame out. A black man in 1967 fronting a pop band backed by two white guys, fresh from the Chitlin' Circuit and learning the game with Little Richard, his deep R&B roots mixed with the best of London psychedelic post-mod fashion complete with the Bob Dylan haircut. What would Foucault say?
Posted by: Account Deleted | Apr 28, 2012 at 07:54 PM
IF this was the "high point of western culture," what's the low point or the start of its decline? Sympathy > Meredith Hunter > Under My Thumb @ Altamont? David Hasselhoff at the rubble of the Berlin Wall? Phil Collins and Elton John destroying their legacies by doing Disney shit? Woodstock '99? American Idol (Actually, that's probably rock bottom.)? Also, Otis Redding > Jimi Hendrix @ Monterey Pop. Otis didn't need the ridiculous outfit and lighter fluid.
Posted by: prell | Apr 28, 2012 at 08:34 PM
You're not seeing Ed's point about the collage of influences represented in this particular performance.
Posted by: Account Deleted | Apr 28, 2012 at 08:38 PM
@Jeff: Thanks, I just got it. Mind = Blown.
Posted by: prell | Apr 28, 2012 at 09:07 PM
Also, he can play that guitar just like ringing a bell.
Posted by: Ed Cone | Apr 29, 2012 at 09:10 AM
IF this was the "high point of western culture," what's the low point or the start of its decline?
Punk. The beginning of the less is more, worse is better movement.
Posted by: Grif | May 01, 2012 at 08:27 PM