22. Jimi Hendrix Only Played To Part Of The Crowd

Here's a question for those of you who've been to a music festival that happens over a weekend. How does the schedule usually work? If you said that bands start on Thursday or Friday night (depending on the festival), carry on throughout the weekend, and end with a crescendo on Sunday night, then you'd be in agreement with 99% of festival organizers. Not so at Woodstock, to the detriment of the legendary Jimi Hendrix.

For reasons that will never make any sense, Hendrix was scheduled to perform at 9am on Monday morning. At that time, those who'd partied through Sunday night were asleep, and many revelers had packed up and started to make their way home. They missed Hendrix performing his now legendary guitar rendition of 'The Star Spangled Banner', which is one of the iconic moments of the entire decade. Who thought this was a good idea?!

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