music and sustaining a mood of hope and renewal that would define their generation.

Only some 80,000 people remained from an overwhelming 400,000 that Monday,

August 18, 1969 at Max Yasgur' s dairy farm in Bethel, New York (Piccoli 112).

They awaited Jimi Hendrix and his band as they prepared to close the Woodstock

Music and Arts Festival. The event was becoming a special memory that no future

event would ever quite be able to match in its mixture of music, magic, misery,

spontaneity, and history. Those who had left before the finale would live to realize

their regret. The last act walked onto the stage under a streaky morning sky with his

white Fender Stratocaster slung over one shoulder and his wild black hair bound in a

red headband (Piccoli 11-12). The group eventually began and tore into the classic hit

"Fire" followed by an ensemble of prime works of "Isabella", "Hear My Train A

-Comin'," and the proclaimed new American anthem of "Voodoo Chile" (Wadleigh

60). Plagued by a bad sound system, due to rain and electrical storms, a s

"I've been imitated so well, I've heard people copy my mistakes," Hendrix said once,

reminiscence, "At that moment he became one of the greats like Coltrane, or Parker,

Chicago blues of Muddy Waters and Elmore James (Gregory150). Entirely

language of explosive, orchestral possibility and new soulful expressiveness. Hendrix

Johnson, Joe Satriani, John Scofield, Steve Vai, and Mike McCreedy. Especially

early singles and the Are You Experienced?, in particular, provide a striking

commenting on his influence (Piccoli 116). His influence did not stop there as his

during his journeyman years (Frick 44). On the other hand, although it suffered in the

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