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...That's why the key moment in the Super Bowl telecast wasn't Janet Jackson's boob boo-boo. It was a commercial for Pepsi-Cola called Crossroads. In the spot it was 1953, and a young Jimi Hendrix was trying to choose between Coke and Pepsi-and, simultaneously, between an accordion and a guitar. You know which drink he picked, and you know which instrument he picked up. If you've got modern blood in your veins-and if, like me, you can remember as if it were yesterday the first time you heard the thrilling six notes that...
...makes me think of some old Bob Dylan stuff," says Jessica Dunston, 16, who is proud of her broad taste in music. "Most of my friends like hip-hop. I like that. I like punk," she says, ticking off a finger. "And heavy metal, speed metal, grunge, Sade, Prince, Jimi Hendrix ..." You get the idea. Like the kids in School of Rock, Wish's students are picking up a passion for music that comes from making their...
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...
...second 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...
André’s all over the map, singing like Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix or Billie Holiday when it suits his fancy. The masterpiece of his genre-bending adventure is “Hey Ya!” The hook is sticky sweet, with André crooning over an immaculate loop—hand claps, nylon guitar strings and xylophone synths...