August 18, 1969 –
Playing on the unscheduled fourth day, Jimi Hendrix’s version of The Star-Spangled Banner at Woodstock was considered by some, at the time, to be controversial and disrespectful. Of about 500,000 people who were there over the weekend, only about 30,000 were left, and many of them remember waking up to this song.
He had been playing this version for about a year, beginning as part of a guitar solo he played during Purple Haze. When he played southern states in the US, he was often warned not to play it because the locals made threats against him, but Jimi always played it anyway.
The Haus of Dcaligari 