Just to imagine what it was like to be a young teenage boy at the legendary concert "Woodstock" in 1969 fills my blood with envy. Since the first days I could listen to music and remember songs, one artist always appealed to me the most...Jimi Hendrix. Not only was it his playing style that got me hooked, it was his humble beginnings and his love of guitar that made me such an admirer of his work. One day in the summer I was sitting in the passenger seat of a Subaru Outback while my mom was driving me up to my grandpa's house in the back woods of Salem, Oregon. My grandpa has a passion for music and he once told me a story about how he almost went to Woodstock while he was in his 30's. Of course, he had to take care of my mother because she was only a child at the time, so he passed and stayed home...probably watching The Land of the Lost on an old television set. On our way up to his cabin I decided that I wanted to be in charge of the music, because let me tell you, 3 hours of P!nk would make most teenage boys want to overdose on NyQuil. "Hear my train a comin" was my first choice, I guess it was because of how he managed to make his guitar "sing" during his performance on his album "Winterland". My mother looked over and said to me "Jimi has always been one of your favorites." I tried to think back to my earliest memory of when I heard him, but I came up short. "I remember how you used to thrash around pretend to play the guitar every time I picked you up from day care." I laughed at the thought of a fat kid squirming in his booster seat trying to jam to some hardcore Hendrix. Oh, and there was also the story of me almost smashing my little Taylor guitar my dad bought for me, its what Jimi would have wanted. Jimi Hendrix's ability to put me in a trance with his phenomenal guitar skills and place me out of reality is probably why I love him so much. To be able to go back in time and see him in person would be awesome. But to play like him? That's been a dream of mine since coming home from daycare.
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