The Greatest Star Spangled Banner Guitar Tones Ever 

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Re: Jack White, it's a 1950s Kay Archtop in open A. it's the guitar he uses for Seven Nation Army

Jack White be playing the spongebob version of the star spangled banner. 😂😂

I really like what James and Kirk did there. Very classical and yet with a Metallica influence.

I was literally watching jimi play this last night. And really puts into perspective how gorgeous it truly is. The control he had over every sound coming from that guitar was unreal. An electric alchemist, if you would.

That cover of Hendrix's version was by far the closest to the original I have ever heard. You nailed it bro!!!

I finally own a piece of gear on this channel! I have those exact Vans!

Steve Vai at Rock n Jock will always be my favorite. That 7 stringed star spangled banner

As a teen I watched the Woodstock documentary about 100 times. So when you did hit that fuzz, the Hendrix sound immediately resulted in goosebumps. My favourite.

My favorite rendition is Jose Feliciano did it in the world series of 68. Definitely worth a listen. What's sad is he was blackballed for a long time because it wasn't the traditional way of playing/singing it. Definitely worth the 3 minutes to listen to it!

As cool as Jimi's and Joe's are... man, I'm not even that much of a fan of Metallica fan but that version is the ultimate in my opinion

Boston (Tom Schulz) version is my all time favorite, I think he at least deserved an honorable mention

Your first performance sounded amazing Tyler. My favorite out of the whole video. The tone and everything.

Enjoyed that! Thanks. Happy 4th everyone 🇺🇸🎸

Thanks for the vid MIW! The other day (June 29, 2022) I messed up badly on my version of the National Anthem on guitar and I was SO ticked off!!! But all of the videos you make help me get through bad stuff like that. And again, thanks for the awesome video and content!!! 😊 ❤️

Love the call out to Bach with Hetfield and Hammet. Took me back to my studies! Also, love the channel. I need to get back to playing and when I do, I'm coming here for tips!

I can’t be the only one who thinks the second one sounds like SpongeBob

Great video Tyler. I loved your use of the uni-vibe. Well done friend.

I live in Canada but I still wake my neighbour’s up at 5 am every July 4th by blasting jimmy Hendrix’s star spangled banner.

Steve Vai's version gives me chills everytime

Hey Tyler I loved the Hendrix version! Watching you play it I felt like you really had fun and it reminded me of being a kid just being so happy to crank up the amp and dive the whammy bar! The only difference is you actually sounded good! Lol

Awesome video Tyler, these tones and the playing were sick!!! Great picks in this video for sure, happy 4th!!!

So glad you listed Jimi. And did a grand job, captured his "essence" really well (considering no-one truly can) 🤘

That was great! I'm Canadian and still enjoyed these. Jimis was great, and you recreated it very nicely. Jack's would be next for me, then Satriani, the Metallica 0.5

Hey Tyler, I’d love a video of you reviewing your top ten guitars that you own, or something along those lines.

Your a phenomenal player and I have and will learn a ton from you you make everyone who watches you is better because of it

Great video man. Thanks for putting this together!!!

My favourite is Steve Vai. He did a version around 1990 I think at a baseball game on his swirl seven string .

To be honest you did a helluva job making that strat talk...it's yours and the closest to the Great Jimmy Hendrix from what I've seen...Jimmy made it sound like gunfire and bombs dropping during fills, throughout the song and you did a heck of job with your tradition of the Star Spangled Banner...My son is a Marine and hearing this would make him fill back at home cause Ive played since I picked my pops guitar up and that was in the 90s...Salute!!!!, Rock on

Not related to this video but just recieved my Spark Mini after saying why not after seeing your vid, i love it! This thing is awesome!

The Metallica one impressed me the most. The Jimmy Hendrix version has always given me heAdaches. The man was so talented but just grates on my head.

I like this. I’d use a slightly microphonic pickup, and put not too much grease over the sound. And the weird timing pauses and lags Jimi Hendrix added are what makes this… allow some dramatic accentuations.

Damn that cover you did with the wah sounded amazing! In some parts the vowel sounds matched and sounded like the guitar was talking.

My favorite version will probably always be the Boston version. Just a mix of everything I love in a song. It really feels like it's own thing, but it's also pretty faithful to the actual melody.

Nice! I have the source audio collider as well and that pedal is incredible!

Your tone in this video is tops!!!!

My opinion: NOTHING is better than Hendrix's version. It just hits definitely ya know?

Great job bro, love your content...

I'm new to the channel so I just watched the video where you played the guitar like a violin. So here's my point I think the star spangled banner using a violin bow would sound bad ass! Just a thought by the way, your channels pretty cool. Keep on rockin

All are enjoyable. Slash did a nice job as well. I wonder if EDDIE ever did a version, ill have to look that up.

I wish you would have covered Eric Johnson's rendition which I believe he did at one of the MTV's celebrity tournaments in the 80"s.

yet again what a nice video tyler

Nice ad, but you are right and we all need the knowledge if we are going to create these epic sounds and music.

In F1 on the 2021 Austrian Grand Prix, a whole band played their national anthem. With a backing drummer squad it was so epic. If only all countries had the balls to do thay

Nailed that Hendrix version! that was Awesome dude

thank you so much for making your videos

Dang, I was hoping you were going to do a split screen on the James and Kirk segment. And you didn’t try to match their tone now that I think about it. But you know what? I enjoyed the video regardless. Keep it up🤘🏽

Bernie Williams, former NY Yankee plays it at alot of sporting events. MLB and NBA games. He plays classical guitar, but also uses electric guitars with some overdrive.

My favorite rendition is on KISS Alive 3. It's amazing to see in how many ways it can be arranged.

Happy 4th folks, all the way from Ireland. Shine on.

Kirk and James sound awesome!

Guitars! You did it!

I have absolutely zero idea is to what that last song you were playing was. It most definitely was not the "SSB", but it did sound pretty damn cool, whatever it was lol. I like it.

Cool video! Great thing to review on Independence Day!

Great job taking it from JS to JH!

Wow, amazing Hendrix version! Jimi was in the military. And he was tight-lipped about the social commentary that is obvious in his rendition. But it is very clearly an anti-war message. And you nailed it! Well done!

Just DAMN! Your first version.

They all rocked. Best for me HENDRIX

For me I love the Steve Vai version....7 string madness! (and what an exit...)

This was just a fun video. Thanks for all the info.

When I was 12 years old, about two or three years after Hendrix passed, I snuck into a theater to see Woodstock. I was an enormous fan, but it being the early 70s, I'd never seen a video of Hendrix before. I waited through the three hour movie for Hendrix. Then,,, I'd never imagined such music could exist. It was more powerful than I dreamed possible. There had simply never been anything like it before. Half a century later, I still get chills when I hear it. Allow me to share a thought. The Woodstock festival was the final expression of a tumultuous and revolutionary decade in US history (and occurred within a month of the Apollo 11 moon landing - ironic how rock music and the infancy of space exploration coincided). And at the climax of this celebration of peace and love, Hendrix improvises the most violent interpretation of the national anthem possible. He reminded the hippie generation of the kind of world that waited for them when they returned to their lives. At the same time, he stood on the world stage, looked the most powerful nation on earth in the eye and said "You broke your covenant with God and your people." Now, every electric guitarist should learn it - or more specifically, learn from it. It's a necessary part of our education. I thank you for your demonstration. And in my youth, I spend a long time learning how to recreate it. But now I won't play it anymore. I still love and respect it as much as I always did, but I realized that it doesn't belong to me. It only belongs to Hendrix. Nobody else could carry that cultural symbolism.

I really feel like the Kiss performance from alive 3 would’ve been cool to see you break down! I think Bruce Kulick is such an underrated guitarist and an even greater person!

Jack White plays his famous Key Archtop which you can hear about in It Might Get Loud. I'm sure you have seen that, but there is a nice story about this guitar. He would be playing probably his Plasma Coil Octa-Fuzz and maybe had his triplegraph. He sometimes uses a whammy indeed.

Fall of '94, my junior year of HS. I played it for a pep rally. Used overdrive, chorus and reverb out of my Crate amp. I think that's the best tone, although I am biased.🤷‍♂️

The hammer ons with the whammy bar in the middle of the Hendrix one sounded like what I imagine the inside of your head sounds when you do bath salts

I really like that verson slash did, you should check that one out.

The Andy Timmons overdrive! Love it brother!

Ok actual question, I got the JP wah literally today and I’m really struggling to use it for thing besides the swells, I noticed you are hugging up pretty close to the toe position and not really “rocking” it like a normal wah or how people like Kirk Hammett or Jerry Cantrell might. Is that what you would recommend for this wah or had you messed with the pots on the inside if so how? Also, just want to say love the video and great job as always!

damn brother you were really feeling the Hendrix one. Rock on 🤟

I have those same shoes. But I use a Dunlop cry baby, I think that explains the difference in our playing. 😉

Missed opportunity to showcase Eric Johnson’s tone from Rock ‘n Jock. Hendrix did it first, Metallica showed what you can accomplish with two guitars in harmony, but in my opinion, EJ is the pinnacle of tasteful tone and tasteful improvisations, or “liberties” (if you will) to the core melody.

Great vid.

Excellent

Nice Hendrix cover. Love the "bombs bursting in air"... ;-)

Kickin the Vans baby! 🤘🏼🤘🏼

Watching this video in some odd way...made me proud to be American...in a time when the American way is no longer respected and given up piece by piece thru fear and lies...it was very refreshing to watch this...maybe I'm just being sentimental....Or maybe I'm just being grateful!

Nice word-drop in the Metallica segment: "Counterpoint"! Very Bach-like indeed!

Bring on the grindmaster! 🤘🏼

Heck of a rendition you did 🇺🇸’Merica baby

Tyler if you were to play the Star Spangled Banner at a sporting event what would it sound like? I would really like to hear your rendition and creativity with The Star Spangled Banner!

That Metallica performance is my favorite version, dare I say even more than Jimi’s. Jimi’s version definitely played a bigger part on my deciding to play guitar though.

I’m partial to Marty Cintron’s acoustic rendition at a Dolphin’s game. Simple, tasteful, nice.

I don't think I've ever heard the star spangled banner as many times in my life as in this video.

I freaking love that he uses his vintage strat like that. Guitars are meant to be played \M/

Played this at full blast right outside my house, while fireworks were going off, Merica!!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇲🇺🇲

Really good

I think Kurt Ballou (of converge) has the best guitar tone in general. His version is almost as good as hendrix! Would be awesome to see you try replicate some of his tones in future vids! Thanks for a great channel!

Holy crap you got the Hendrix rockets red glare and bombs bursting in air part down!!!

I was wondering, could you cover Eric Gales version of the Star-Spangled Banner? He has chords & the baseline at the same time. Very impressive.

Really want to see a Chris Stapleton breakdown. His rendition was very unique to the shreddy/soloist versions that are deservedly on this list.

Fun vid! I'm a child of the '60s and '70s. It'll always be Hendrix.

The Guitar Rendition during Stranger Things S4 EP1 gives me chills everytime.

Sach and Hendrix for solo, but Metallica really hit it out of the park on theirs!

HX amp from PRS in Hendrix tone is awesome !!

Wow you rock

The band Boston has one of the best versions ever of the star spangled banner!

first tone gsve me goosebumps

Those first two felt like a sin against ‘merica Then that third one went way over my head and that last one had my dumbfounded Great video!!!

Boston did a great version on the third stage tour I believe

I love the Metallica version