Jimi Hendrix : Live At Woodstock 1969

WELL, I STAND UP TO A MOUNTAIN

AND I CHOP IT DOWN

WITH THE EDGE OF MY HAND

 Live at Woodstock

 is a posthumous

 live album

 by 

Jimi Hendrix 

 It documents 

most of 

his performance

 at the 

Woodstock Festival

 on 

August 18, 1969, 

and contains

 Hendrix's 

iconic interpretation

 of

 "The Star-Spangled Banner" 

and other songs

 from the original

 festival film

 and 

soundtrack album.

Background and Recording

Woodstock was

 Hendrix's 

first public performance 

since the breakup of

 the Jimi Hendrix Experience 

on

June 29, 1969.

 At Woodstock,

 he was accompanied by

 an expanded

 lineup of

backing musicians. 

The short-lived group 

has been informally

 referred to as 

"Gypsy Sun and Rainbows", 

after a comment

 Hendrix made 

during the performance:

Dig, 

we'd like to get something straight. We got tired of the Experience ... So we decided to change the whole thing around, and call it Gypsy Sun and Rainbows. Or short, it's nothin' but a Band of Gypsys.

Hendrix's set began 

at 9 a.m. 

and lasted for

 about two hours; 

he played to a 

dwindling

 Monday morning 

audience.

The set closed the festival.

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