I can hear Jimi……no one has ever played the US anthem as great as Jimi Hendrix .

He insisted on closing out the show, which wound up being 9:00 AM on the morning  of Monday, August 18th, 1969.

On September 9, 1969, Jimi  appeared on The Dick Cavette Show for an interview, and they discussed how he performed the “Star Spangled Banner” at Woodstock.

Hendrix’s rendition of the U.S. national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner” occurred about 3/4 into their set. Hendrix used feedback and sustain to replicate the sound of rockets. Although pundits quickly branded the song as a political manifesto against the Vietnam War, Hendrix himself never explained its meaning other than to say at a press conference three weeks later, “We’re all Americans … it was like ‘Go America!’… We play it the way the air is in America today. The air is slightly static, see”.^[157] The song would become “part of the sixties Zeitgeist” as it was captured forever in the Woodstock film.^[158] Hendrix’s image performing this number during the day wearing a blue-beaded white leather jacket with fringe and a red head scarf, has since been regarded as a defining moment of the 1960s.^{[155][159][nb 23]} via Wikipedia