Machine Gun by Jimi Hendrix
Genre: Rock
Year: 1970
Year: 1970
"Machine Gun" is a song by American musician Jimi Hendrix, featured on his first live album Band of Gypsys (1970). It is a lengthy, loosely defined (jam-based) protest of the Vietnam War,http://mywebpages.comcast.net/loudfast/writeweb/mgun.htm and perhaps a broader comment on conflict of any kind. Although a proper studio recording was never released, there are several other live recordings on album, including and .
The Band of Gypsys performance is often lauded as Hendrixs finest, and is widely considered one of the finest electric guitar performances in the history of recorded music.http://www.allmusic.com/album/band-of-gypsys-live-at-fillmore-east-r9213/review The Band of Gypsys version of "Machine Gun" is Read full article at wikipedia.org
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