http://univibes.com/BlackStrat.html


this is really interesting. Now i know that his favorite stratocaster was black w/maple. It gives you pretty much everything you wanted to know about how hendrix set up his guitar. And i always thought that he used heavy strings!!!! He actually used .009 gauge!

Cool stuff. Must be indescribable to see a guitar that has only been touched to put it in the case since 1970. Left exactly the way he liked it... so cooool.


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A lot of people do not know this, but a fellow by the name of Henry Goldrich, Manny's in NYC did most of the stuff that was done to the guitars that Hendrix had. Electric Ladyland was very near that store, and that is where Jimi primarily shopped. I had the pleasure of meeting Henry back in 1977 when I was in NYC for a recording session at RCA. A very large number of big time artists shopped there.

Sam Ash's original store was right next door to Manny's. Those were some great old days.

I could tell you another story about Jimi when he toured as Jimmy James, but I don't have any pictures to back me up, so I won't say it here.

Did any of you know he was the staff guitarist on the Country/Folk show "Hullabaloo" that broadcasted out of Nashville, TN in the sixties?

Jimi was a whiz at all types of music, but not many people know that he was really a proficient C&W player too.

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He used heavy bass strings and used anything for the treble strings. I don't think personally he would have cared about the strings.

Look at some articles and they'll even tell you that sometimes he used an E string for a B so he cound bend a lot easier.

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were pre-packaged sets of strings available in them days?

if they were im sure that 10-38 would of been the gauging.
he could of bought 9's seperatley i suppose. Clapton did it for G strings

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Tony Garland said that Hendrix would chuck the the bass E and use a banjo G instead of the first E and move the other strings up one position. he said it was a common trick that Hendrix did. This was in the interview they did with Garland who was selling the Hendrix Guitar that he got when representing him.

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It's thought that Uli Jon Roth must have possession of that Black Beauty now. It is an historically important guitar!

My version of it:

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Yes ... prepackaged sets were available even back in the 50s.

Do any of you remember buying Black Diamond strings at drug stores?

That actually could be done back then.

Ernie Ball strings weren't even invented yet

Remember Fender Flatwounds?

I think even Gretsch had a flat wound string too. Gretsch strings had a neet little bit of colored fuzz at the ball of the string.

Gibson Strings were popular too, in those days. This was all way befrore Jimi hit it big.

More trivia ...

Back in those days Dicky Betts played a Gretsch .... Not a Les Paul.

Any one ever heard of Jimmy Paramour?

Good ol' South Florida boys ... I was one of that crowd. Got to meet and play on the same billing as Jimmy James a bit before I met Dicky.

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Has this been posted here before?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaIxswG7d84&feature=related

Wayne Brady copped a few those singers' moves.

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for the record, the first Sam Ash was in Brooklyn..not Manhattan.

No one knows what strings he actually uses. Most say he used .10's with an Hawaiian(cant spell) G string and very heavy bass strings. Some say he uses very light treble strings to do Albert King's bends.
I found a good website:
http://www.jimihendrix.dk/index.php?lang=en&page=gear

Sam Ash originating in Brooklyn is something I didn't know. That is very interesting information ... and thanks. My mom was born in Queens.

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Correct. It first went to Hendrix's girlfriend at the time. A couple of years after, she hooked up with Uli for a 20-year relationship. She committed suicide, and then Uli took possession of the guitar. Supposedly he denies having it, though...

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My bandmate acquired his '58 Stratocaster, the one I eventually purchased from him, in that store. We went down there one night, by bus, from Queens, when we encountered difficulty restring the guitar. Helluva ride. It seemingly took forever. That's just about 50 years ago.

There was the first time I heard the vibrato circuit in a Magnatone amplifier. Sounded like a machine gun when set on 10. A most amazing piece of electronic hardware.

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That's some neat info. It really is interesting to read about the guitars that greats such as Hendrix used.

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