Hi there, -1. Obviously there WERE too many words, because you ran out of attention span and forgot (assuming you noticed) what I said at the beginning. "Complicated musical GESTURE"--is the distinction too subtle for you? It doesn't mean a Bach fugue, it means the drama he made out of the Anthem, with among other things the use of brutal feedback to spook the melody, which he stretched and distorted beyond recognition and back again--with unpredictable tempo and rhythm to further disorient things. Shocking, unprecedented and unforgettable.
I’ll quote another description: “Hendrix evoked the majesty of America while also summoning the howling undercurrents of dissonance and violence echoing the Vietnam war and the nation's racial struggles.” But you have such penetrating musical insight that you see through the hype: it was all just “blues with hints of progressive notes.” Brilliant!
Hi there, -1. Obviously there WERE too many words, because you ran out of attention span and forgot (assuming you noticed) what I said at the beginning. "Complicated musical GESTURE"--is the distinction too subtle for you? It doesn't mean a Bach fugue, it means the drama he made out of the Anthem, with among other things the use of brutal feedback to spook the melody, which he stretched and distorted beyond recognition and back again--with unpredictable tempo and rhythm to further disorient things. Shocking, unprecedented and unforgettable.
I’ll quote another description: “Hendrix evoked the majesty of America while also summoning the howling undercurrents of dissonance and violence echoing the Vietnam war and the nation's racial struggles.” But you have such penetrating musical insight that you see through the hype: it was all just “blues with hints of progressive notes.” Brilliant!