I just got my copy of  the Woodstock movie… I’m talking about the two-disc 40th Anniversary Edition. It claims to be remastered with better quality video and audio. 

It’s the first time I’ve watched it all the way through in probably 35 years so it was a lot like watching it for the first time. But when you’ve watched it as many times as I have, I guess that could never be true.

Anyway…

I’ll talk more about it in other posts but one thing struck me as I was watching Jimi Hendrix’s performance on Monday morning. They did a lot of great close-ups of Jimi’s fingers on the fretboard. As a musician and guitar player myself I thought this was great. It made me realize just how far ahead of his time he really was in 1969.

Now if you don’t play guitar it may not mean anything too you but as I look back on Jimi I realize what a great blues guitarist he was. So much soul and so much emotion. Too bad he didn’t live longer and into what I know would have been his prime. I bet he would have turned into an awesome blues or jazz guitarist. 

I guess we’ll never know.

Anyway here’s a video of his performance to show you what I mean. BTW the DVD quality is Soooo much better than what you see in this video…