I see an America at war, an America yearning and feeling freedom. Really feeling it. But still the hippies left a lot of litter .I see fucked up car crashes and fire. He really whent out on a limb. He started doing difeerent melodies he went into “over there” for about a mnute or less, far less. It was the end of the concert , the end of a three day non stop party in the mud.
He is sketching and bleeding , it’s a fucked up versioj because America is a kind of fucked up place. The drums a rollin in and out. It’s a familiar melodie , it took on new meaning. It was the end of a great era. The country would never be as free and wild and as experimenting again. I have thought about what Jimi would be like and look like if he were alive today, I have thought about what his career would have been like in the 70’s 80’s and 90’s. His version is kind of violent but an ode to freedom at the same time.
What colors do I see? the mud browns and the grassy greens. And the off white litter on the field of that morning. I don’t remember the colr of his bandana he wore or the color of his guitar, just that America was going through some real shit and having fun. and just being free.