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Miller’s Rebirth opens with the artist flashing national insignias at a speed of 10 images per second—until the Jamaican banner becomes indistinguishable from the Confederate flag. Meanwhile, Miller plays Jimi Hendrix??s Woodstock version of the “Star Spangled Banner,” which devolves the anthem into unrecognizable scratches of sound. Miller describes the montage as “a metaphor for what would happen if all these flags didn’t mean so much...
This brings us back to the question of leadership. Our political leaders are responsible for setting that tone and supporting that psyche, and music is not a bad way to look at how they’re doing with our country. Jimi Hendrix??s famous and tortured rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner” in 1969 would have been as meaningless to a country reassured by and enamored of President Kennedy as it was necessary for a nation under Nixon. So one year from now, when the notoriously apathetic youth of America is asked...
...song reads: “I don’t know what it is / But you got to do it / I don’t know where to go / But you got to be there.” It seems to recall that eloquent and poignant verse from Jimi Hendrix??“I know what I want, but I just don’t know”—summing up in ten words the problem inherent in living a life of alertness in pursuit of self-knowledge. In a word, Wainwright manages to describe...
...Shook Me All Night Long” (as featured in the end credits to the timeless masterpiece A Knight’s Tale) and “The Fox and the Hound,” featuring not the music from the Disney film, but Jimi Hendrix??s “Foxy Lady” and Elvis’s “Hound...
...instrument, sound or refrain. This is, in parlance, the gimmick. The gimmick defines the band, makes it unique, is its lifeblood—without the gimmick, the band cannot musically subsist in any recognizable form. Familiar gimmicks include (or, better, should include) Jethro Tull’s flute, Jimi Hendrix??s Arbiter Fuzz Face, The Police’s delay pedal and Peter Frampton’s Talkbox—all part and parcel with their performers’ legacy...