Jimi Hendrix
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1:01:46
All I did was play it.
I'm American, so I played it.

1:01:48
I used to have to sing it in school.
1:01:51
It's a flashback, you know.
1:01:55
This man was in the 101st Airborne
so when you write your nasty letters...

1:01:59
Wow, you're really tryin' hard.
1:02:01
When you mention the National Anthem
and playing it in any unorthodox way...

1:02:05
... you immediately get a guaranteed
percentage of hate mail...

1:02:08
... saying, "How dare anyone"...
- That's not unorthodox.

1:02:11
It isn't?
1:02:12
No, I thought it was beautiful.
But then, there you go.

1:02:24
Don't you find that there's a certain
mad beauty in unorthodoxy?

1:02:27
Yeah!
1:02:29
Yeah, it was probably the same for him...
1:02:32
...as it is for The Who because I know
Pete gets very frustrated...

1:02:36
...although he likes to do it.
He knows that the audience...

1:02:40
...half of the point they go to see them...
1:02:43
...is to see him smash his guitar, you know.
1:02:45
I think that must be a terrible sort
of expectation to live up to all the time.

1:02:50
I don't know much about it,
because I never went that far out in an act.

1:02:54
What hangs performers up, I think,
is playin' the same numbers.

1:02:58
It's not doin' the same act
or the same type of act...


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