I know, it is Pearl Harbor Day. Why Hendrix Christmas music? First, listen. This is more than Drummer Boy. It flows...Drummer Boy, Silent Night, Star Spangled Banner. Taps, Auld Ang Syne. Hendrix was a soldier...Airborne, 101st Screaming Eagle. Not his cup of tea, to which the Army agreed and mustered him out with an early Honorable Discharge. But his actions the next 8 years, in a world dominated by anti-war sentiments, and more over anti military sentiments, he never criticized (that I have seen) the military or the soldiers, and for many of us his rendition of the Star Spangled Banner, while unorthodox, certainly was dramatic and accurate. This morning, the iPod was on shuffle, as it often is. This came on. At first, I was going to skip past it, as it should be in the Christmas playlist, not the general play. Then it morphed...to Taps. And I thought back, to 1941. In 1941, Christmas did not start on Labor Day. It began perhaps Thanksgiving with the Macys Parade, but for most people well into December...money was still tight, after all. On December 7, as many Americans were spinning up for the season, the United States was attacked. And listening to this Hendrix work brought it together for me. https://youtube/watch?v=9XLoZTubRoc
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 16:41:07 +0000
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