Thursday, August 18, 2016

Woodstock Music & Art Fair, Day 4 (1969)

This post, much like the act it features, saves the best for last and is better late than never. I learned in my research for this week's outfits that Jimi Hendrix was always scheduled to close the show, but he was supposed to perform at the end of night 3. Weather circumstances and general disorganization pushed his set out to 9 am on the 4th morning, and many festival-goers never actually saw him play.

Final fun fact: Jimi played "The Star-Spangled Banner" that morning in a nod to his own previous military experience as a member of the Army's 101st Airborne Division.

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