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Jimi Hendrix played the US anthem at Woodstock

He played a right-handed guitar upside down

Jimi Hendrix closed the 1969 Woodstock festival on the morning of 18 August with a solo version of The Star-Spangled Banner, using feedback and distortion to imitate bombs. He was left-handed and played a right-handed Stratocaster flipped over and restrung.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: He played a right-handed guitar upside down. The figure is taken from Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a music fact?: Yes. It sits on the Music shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.