Hey everybody,
Here's the music we'll be talking about on Tuesday. It's two performances by Jimi Hendrix, "Are You Experienced?" and his version of the Star Spangled Banner. As usual, you want to be thinking about how these songs work, what they're doing, what sort of arguments they might be making, how they read America, etc.
To prep for the discussion, I'd highly recommend that you read something about the blues. Wikipedia is fine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues
If you want to download the tunes to your computer, you can click here.
Jimi Hendrix - "Are You Experienced?"
Jimi Hendrix - Star Spangled Banner (from Woodstock)
Enjoy!
-Ben
Just in case folks were interested The part where the drums were played backwards was sampled (piece taken from Jimi Hendricks and used in a different song) by the pharcyde in their song 'passing me by". yall should look into it
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