{"id":16080,"date":"2025-08-18T18:37:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T22:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onemanz.com\/guitar\/?p=16080"},"modified":"2025-08-18T18:37:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T22:37:59","slug":"woodstock-day-4-jimi-hendrix-monday-august-18-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onemanz.com\/guitar\/woodstock-day-4-jimi-hendrix-monday-august-18-1969\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodstock Day 4 – Jimi Hendrix – Monday, August 18, 1969"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maybe 10% of those attending Woodstock saw Jimi Hendrix perform<\/h2>\n

Weather delays carried the festival over into Monday morning.<\/h3>\n
For his closing number, Hendrix started riffing on a blues progression, calling out “A” to the band, and then showing them the changes from there. They caught on soon enough.<\/div>\n
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Although he returned and did “Hey Joe” as an encore, it is perhaps cosmically fitting he ended his set with what was later dubbed “Villanova Junction Blues” when he tried to record it a year later, but he stopped part way through, so that the haunting tune was cut short and its potential left unrealized, just like how Hendrix’s own potential was cut short not long after that, and not unlike how the potential of Woodstock idealism (which remains in many among us,) if the current sociopolitical climate is any indication, never came close to the lofty goals of achieving a society where the corruption and bigotry at the heart of Trumpism would have never seen the light of day.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n