About The Jimi Hendrix’s Legendary Woodstock Performance

Maybe the most powerful counterculture group was the hippies. They lived passionately united in
the communes but also each of them had free spirits who were starving for peace in the Unites
States’ chaotic age. This desire for peace make them together and the same desire collect these
hippies Woodstock area in 1969. Woodstock Festival is an example of the hippies’ magical side
to gather. Woodstock hosted thousands of people. Some of them even cannot arrive at the festival
area, just was stuck on the road. For the same reason, the musicians could not arrive at the area
on the time. One of them is Jimi Hendrix the headliner of the festival and because of this
passionate crowd, he could take the stage in the morning instead of the night. End of the playing
two-hour set, Rock and roll star Hendrix played his famous solo on the national anthem, Star
Spangled Banner with his guitar and it represented an outstanding attitude to Vietnam War. In
those days a sense of safety and peace were collapsed by the war. People of the US actually did
not want to be in war because authorities did not make a convincing explanation to fight against
the Vietnamese. This proxy war was savage, millions of people were died or injured and
survivors suffered from a post-traumatic stress disorder and killed themselves. Fortunately, the
gory fragments of the war which were shown on television made people realize how brutal the
war was and how American sons died in the name of nothingness. In this time the 60s youth
movement sprouted up in the United States. People need love and freedom to be purified from the
majority’s hostile values. Hendrix was an important icon of this movement and that day his
performance provided purification for the Woodstock audiences.