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How Jimi Hendrix summed up the Vietnam War in a single guitar solo.
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In 1969, Jimi Hendrix’s performance of the national anthem at Woodstock hit like a shock wave.
With its distortion and chaos, it sounded like a rupture in something sacred. Two music scholars and two rock guitarists put together the pieces.
(Originally aired November 19, 2010)