Editing Jimi Hendrix (section)

=== Woodstock ===
{{Main|Woodstock}}
[[File:Jimi Hendrix performing "The Star Spangled Banner" at Woodstock, August 18, 1969.jpg|left|thumb|Hendrix flashed a [[Peace symbols|peace sign]] at the start of his performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Woodstock, August 18, 1969.{{sfn|Moskowitz|2010|p=59}} |alt=A color image of three men standing on stage performing music]]

By 1969, Hendrix was the world's highest-paid rock musician.<ref name="Highest-paid">{{harvnb|Cross|2005|p=255|ps=: "Though Jimi was now the highest-paid rock musician in the world–he'd made fourteen thousand dollars a minute for his [May 18, 1969] Madison Square Garden concert"}}; {{harvnb|Shapiro|Glebbeek|1995|p=220|ps=: "Once in New York, at a time [during spring 1970 recording sessions] when he was the highest-paid rock artist in the world"}}.</ref> In August, he headlined the Woodstock Music and Art Fair that included many of the most popular bands of the time.<ref>{{harvnb|Cross|2005|p=255}}; {{harvnb|McDermott|2009|p=169}}: Hendrix headlined Woodstock; {{harvnb|Shapiro|Glebbeek|1995|p=220}}.</ref> For the concert, he added rhythm guitarist [[Larry Lee (musician)|Larry Lee]] and conga players [[Juma Sultan]] and [[Gerardo Velez|Jerry Velez]]. The band rehearsed for less than two weeks before the performance, and according to Mitchell, they never connected musically.<ref>{{harvnb|Cross|2005|pp=267–272}}; {{harvnb|Shadwick|2003|pp=193–196}}.</ref> Before arriving at the engagement, Hendrix heard reports that the size of the audience had grown enormously, which concerned him as he did not enjoy performing for large crowds.{{sfn|Shapiro|Glebbeek|1995|pp=384–385}} He was an important draw for the event, and although he accepted substantially less money for the appearance than his usual fee, he was the festival's highest-paid performer.{{sfn|Murray|1989|p=53}}{{refn|group=nb|Hendrix agreed to receive $18,000 in compensation for his set, but was eventually paid $32,000 for the performance and $12,000 for the rights to film him.{{sfn|Roby|2002|p=133}}}}

Hendrix decided to move his midnight Sunday slot to Monday morning, closing the show. The band took the stage around 8:00&nbsp;a.m,<ref>{{harvnb|McDermott|2009|pp=169–170}}: Hendrix requested to close the show in the morning; {{harvnb|Roby|2002|p=133}}: the band took the stage around 8:00&nbsp;am on Monday.</ref> by which time Hendrix had been awake for more than three days.{{sfn|Cross|2005|pp=267–272}} The audience, which peaked at an estimated 400,000 people, was reduced to 30,000.{{sfn|Shapiro|Glebbeek|1995|pp=384–385}} The festival MC, [[Chip Monck]], introduced the group as "the Jimi Hendrix Experience", but Hendrix clarified: "We decided to change the whole thing around and call it 'Gypsy Sun and Rainbows'. For short, it's nothin' but a 'Band of Gypsys'."{{sfn|Cross|2005|p=270}}

{{listen|filename=Jimi Hendrix performing "The Star Spangled Banner" at Woodstock, 18 August 1969.ogg|title="The Star-Spangled Banner"|description= An excerpt from the beginning of "The Star-Spangled Banner", at Woodstock, August 18, 1969. The sample demonstrates Hendrix's use of feedback.}}

Hendrix's performance included a rendition of the US national anthem, "[[The Star-Spangled Banner]]", with copious feedback, distortion, and sustain to imitate the sounds made by rockets and bombs.<ref>{{harvnb|Shadwick|2003|p=249}}: feedback, distortion, and sustain; {{harvnb|Unterberger|2009|pp=101–103}}: Hendrix replicated the sounds made by rockets and bombs; {{harvnb|Whitehill|1989a|p=86}} Hendrix's performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" featured his "sonic portrayal of war".</ref> Contemporary political pundits described his interpretation as a statement against the [[Vietnam War]]. Three weeks later Hendrix said: "We're all Americans&nbsp;... it was like 'Go America!'...&nbsp;We play it the way the air is in America today. The air is slightly static, see."{{sfn|Cross|2005|p=271}} Immortalized in the 1970 documentary film, ''[[Woodstock (film)|Woodstock]]'', Hendrix's version became part of the sixties [[zeitgeist]].{{sfn|Cross|2005|p=272}} Pop critic [[Al Aronowitz]] of the ''New York Post'' wrote: "It was the most electrifying moment of Woodstock, and it was probably the single greatest moment of the sixties."{{sfn|Cross|2005|p=271}} Images of the performance showing Hendrix wearing a blue-beaded white leather jacket with fringe, a red head-scarf, and blue jeans are regarded as iconic pictures that capture a defining moment of the era.<ref>{{harvnb|Shapiro|Glebbeek|1995|pp=384–385}}: "One of the abiding images of the place and time of Woodstock is Jimi, in white-beaded leather jacket, blue jeans, gold chains and a red head-scarf standing center-stage sending out 'The Star-Spangled Banner{{'"}};{{harvnb|Inglis|2006|p=57}}: "Woodstock has come to represent a unique moment of community, and Hendrix's appearance in particular symbolizes the freewheeling spirit of the era as well as the troubled heart of the anti-war movement."</ref>{{refn|group=nb|In 2010, when a federal court of appeals decided on whether online sharing of a music recording constituted a performance, they cited Hendrix in their decision stating: "Hendrix memorably (or not, depending on one's sensibility) offered a 'rendition' of the Star-Spangled Banner at Woodstock when he performed it aloud in 1969".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=5598707241741576791|title=''United States v. ASCAP'' (In re Application of RealNetworks, Inc. and Yahoo! Inc.), 627 F.3d 64 (2d Cir. 2010)|publisher=Google Scholar|access-date=November 16, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151107030854/http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=5598707241741576791|archive-date=November 7, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>}} He played "Hey Joe" during the encore, concluding the 3{{frac|2}}-day festival. Upon leaving the stage, he collapsed from exhaustion.{{sfn|Cross|2005|p=272}}{{refn|group=nb|The Woodstock lineup appeared together on two subsequent occasions, and on September 16 they jammed for one last time; soon afterward, Lee and Velez left the band.{{sfn|McDermott|2009|pp=174–176}}}} In 2011, the editors of ''Guitar World'' named his performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" the greatest performance of all time.{{sfn|Guitar World|2011|p=55}}