Los Angeles punks The Lamps in the burned out rubble of the south end, Memphis, TN - 2005 I am reminded of this Jimi Hendrix song title because on this date, September 14 in 1814, Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" after witnessing the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Maryland during the War of 1812. Because its the National Anthem of the USA, I think people mistakenly believe that its a Revolutionary War song. But it isn't. It is the song Hendrix played at Woodstock that put another notch in his gimmick belt (after the flaming guitar at Monterey Pop Festival, 1967), and that became the ironic yet defining symbol of protest against the war...making youth culture seem unpatriotic, or at best, irreverent (well, we were and still are). Like most wars, the War of 1812 was complicated and although the US was the nation that declared the war (on Great Britain), I have to say, there were some British acts that I'd have to side with...specifically...