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=**Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan's Impact during the Vietnam War Period**= Christina Tzanides, Kyle Richardson, Brian Liddy

Hendrix In the Army
In 1961, Hendrix enlisted in the army and was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division. After one year, Hendrix was discharged out of the army due to injury. Yet, while in the army, Hendrix made time to form a band, The King Casuals, ("Jimi Hendrix Biography"). This is peculiar because Hendrix left the army and became heavy into drugs, and also attended events that protested the Vietnam War.

Hendrix Impacts the Vietnam Era
Jimi Hendrix has his lasting impact on the world from his electric guitar. Playing at Woodstock may have been the highlight of Hendrix's career. "There, he played his version of the Star Spangled Banner," ("Jimi Hendrix"). Hendrix may have been the face of the time period. The music he played, the songs he wrote, the clothes he wore, the drugs he did, and the events he attended were the face of the 60's and early 70's. Hendrix had its that still play today, and he created songs with legends of the time period, such as Bob Dylan. Hendrix was heavily into LSD and cannibis, due to drug abuse and other complications, Hendrix cause of death was drug related. Hendrix played at some of the biggest events of the time period including Woodstock and the Isle of Wight Festival ("Jimi Hendrix"). Hendrix was true to his time.

"Machine Gun"
Hendrix wrote this song to protest against the Vietnam War. He is talking in the perspective of being a soldier at war and is saying how it is stupid to be fighting and how it is only just ruining everything he has including tearing him apart from his family. Make love not war. Machine Gun Tearing my body all apart

Evil man make me kill ya Evil man make you kill me Evil man make me kill you Even though we’re only families apart

Well I pick up my axe and fight like a farmer (You know what I mean) Hey! And your bullets keep knocking me down

Hey, I pick up my axe and fight like a farmer now Yeah, but you still blast me down to the ground

The same way you shoot me down, baby You’ll be going just the same Three times the pain, and your own self to blame Hey, Machine Gun

’Cause I know all the time you’re wrong baby And you’ll be going just the same Yeah, Machine Gun Tearing my family apart Yeah, yeah, alright Tearing my family apart

Yeah, that’s what we don’t wanna hear anymore, alright? (No bullets) At least here, huh huh (No guns, no bombs) Huh huh (No nothin’, just let’s all live and live) (You know, instead of killin’)

**Dylan Impacts War in Vietnam**
Bob Dylan was an American folk singer; whose early work was heavily influenced by Woody Guthrie. Dylan’s songs of social protest, such as "Blowin' in the Wind" (1962) and "The Times They Are A-Changin' " (1964), became closely associated with the civil rights movement. Although he never played his protest music at Woodstock in 1969, he was persuaded to play at the Isle of Wight festival. By the mid- 60’s Bob Dylan wanted to change his folk-protest music to a different sound. Bob Dylan turned more toward rock music, although his musical styles continued to vary. His lyrics went beyond the rock ‘n’ roll slogans and expressed something with more meaning such as “revolt” His lyrics were not much of entertainment but his energy and imagination with words is what made him famous. His songs turned people’s heads and came out with deep messages.

**"Blowin' in the Wind"**
How many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? Yes, n how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? Yes, n how many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind, The answer is blowin in the wind.

**"The Times They are a Changin' "**
Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Dont stand in the doorway Dont block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled Theres a battle outside And it is ragin. Itll soon shake your windows And rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin.