Larry Lee was a long time friend of Jimi Hendrix and eventually joined Hendrix's new band Gypsy Sun and the Rainbows as rhythm guitar player. The newly formed band played the Woodstock Music Festival at which jimi Hendrix played his legendary version of the Star Spangled Banner. Lee prefered to play a Gibson Les Paul guitar. Nicholson took the copy Key gave him to a printer, where it was published as a broadside on September 17 under the title The Defence of Fort McHenry, with an explanatory note explaining the circumstances of its writing. ... Les Paul (born June 9, 1915) is best known as a guitarist, and as one of the most important figures in the development of modern electric instruments and recording techniques. ...