2015, The new documentary is unveiling previously unseen footage of Jimi Hendrix's seminal performance at the 1970 Atlanta Pop Festival playing his greatest hits in front of 300,000 people. It features interviews with Jimi Hendrix, and fellow musicians, including Paul McCartney and Mitch Mitchell, who provide new insight into the musician's personality and genius at the juncture of this important cultural gathering, hailed as the ´Southern Woodstock`. Playing to a sea of lighters, owing to the lack of power that Georgia Rural Power was able to send to the festival grounds, and almost in syncopation to the pyrotechnics overhead (a feat for the era), Hendrix's scorching version of the ,,Star-Spangled Banner" at the Georgia festival eclipses even his famous Woodstock version. While that performance the prior summer was an undeniable festival showstopper, playing it to 300,000 people in the dark with fireworks overhead on the Fourth of July made this the ultimate Hendrix performance of the song.
The Power Of Rock
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