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When you mention the National Anthem
and playing it in any unorthodox way...
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... you immediately get a guaranteed
percentage of hate mail...
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... saying, "How dare anyone"...
- That's not unorthodox.
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It isn't?
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No, I thought it was beautiful.
But then, there you go.
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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...
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...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.
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It's not doin' the same act
or the same type of act...
1:03:00
...but playin' that number and
at that point in the number doin' this.
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If you don't do it or if you don't smash
your amp up at the end...
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...people get disappointed.
I know how that feels.
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I don't care, man.
I don't care what they say anymore.
1:03:16
It's up to them. If they want
to mess up the evening...
1:03:19
...by lookin' at one thing. You know,
because all that is included, man.
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When I feel like playin' with my teeth,
I do it because I feel like it, you know.
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All that is complete. When I'm onstage,
I'm completely natural, more so than...
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...talkin' to a group of people or something.
1:03:32
Black radio didn't want to play
Jimi Hendrix's music because they said...
1:03:37
...not only did his music not relate,
but the people that went...
1:03:40
...to see Jimi Hendrix wasn't the crowd
that'd listen to a black station.
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Then, on most of the white pop stations,
they said it was too hard...
1:03:48
...and that he wasn't relating
to that audience.
1:03:51
Then you'd go to a concert
and it was standing room only.
1:03:53
He wasn't much of a color talker,
because...
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...the way he lived...
He grew up down in Seattle.