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Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:02 am
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Ive got very mixed feelings about the guitar.

love it cos its hendrix's
hate it cos its ruined.

either way i'd mod it :twisted:
a set of burstbuckers with a cheapo stacked humbucker inbetween em and scallop the fretboard. Paint it 80's charvel orange too and bung a floyd on it too.


Excellent! Now that's the right attitude - a guitar is for playing, not a holy relic!

Not many will agree, though...

BTW. Apologies to Stigall for inadvertently replicating his thread elsewhere - I missed that one. I heard the sellers promoting the sale on the radio first thing and thought; gotta post that on the Forum, soon as it opens!

Cheers - C


I agree that a guitar is for playing - and I would play this guitar if I owned it - but probably not much. And I wouldn't mod it a bit. That's just MHO, though. I guess I do see it as a sort of relic - which is sort of out of the norm for me. :)

No worries about replicating. Conversations of a similar nature take place simultaniously a lot. This subject was right for the Strat section too.

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With that in mind I thought the purchase might have been Paul Allen. Was he identified?


Not that I am aware of yet...

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Ceri wrote:
nikininja wrote:
Ive got very mixed feelings about the guitar.

love it cos its hendrix's
hate it cos its ruined.

either way i'd mod it :twisted:
a set of burstbuckers with a cheapo stacked humbucker inbetween em and scallop the fretboard. Paint it 80's charvel orange too and bung a floyd on it too.


Excellent! Now that's the right attitude - a guitar is for playing, not a holy relic!

Not many will agree, though...


the hendrix family doesnt beleve this strat was jimi's

BTW. Apologies to Stigall for inadvertently replicating his thread elsewhere - I missed that one. I heard the sellers promoting the sale on the radio first thing and thought; gotta post that on the Forum, soon as it opens!

Cheers - C


I agree that a guitar is for playing - and I would play this guitar if I owned it - but probably not much. And I wouldn't mod it a bit. That's just MHO, though. I guess I do see it as a sort of relic - which is sort of out of the norm for me. :)

No worries about replicating. Conversations of a similar nature take place simultaniously a lot. This subject was right for the Strat section too.

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With that in mind I thought the purchase might have been Paul Allen. Was he identified?


Not that I am aware of yet...


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Did this thing sell yet?, and for how much in USD?

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Did this thing sell yet?, and for how much in USD?


See this thread:
http://www.fender.com/community/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11131&start=15

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Thanks for the link. A guy from Massachusetts bought it for $495.000

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"Though Hendrix was known for show-stopping finales wherein he reduced his Stratocasters to splinters or turned them into firewood, all three of his flying Vs survive."

Is that true? h a hah a well if it is... then Why would someone buy a guitar that jimmy didnt love?
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Synkronized wrote:
"Though Hendrix was known for show-stopping finales wherein he reduced his Stratocasters to splinters or turned them into firewood, all three of his flying Vs survive."

Is that true? h a hah a well if it is... then Why would someone buy a guitar that jimmy didnt love?
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Seriously?

"...it's so, ya' know, groovy to come back here this a'way, and really get a chance to really play, ya' know... I could sit up here all night and say thank you, thank you, thank you, you know, but at the same time - I wish I could just grab you and just, "oooo" (makes kissing noises)... one of them scenes, man, one of them thangs. But, dig, I just can't do that, ya' know. So, what I'm gonna' do here is sacrifice something I really love [by burning his Stratocastor], okay?... I'm not losing my mind, man, this is for everybody here and this is the only way I can do it..."
-Jimi Hendrix, Monterey Pop Festival, prior to performing Wild Thing

Besides, Hendrix just plain owned and played more Stratocasters and they are much more closely associated with Jimi Hendrix than any Flying V, SG, Les Paul, or any other guitar he played. Nothing against any of these guitars because the fact is no matter what Jimi played it was still pure Hendrix. I just think that staing the idea that Hendrix didn't love the guitars he burned is completely false. I, for one, would love to own that burned Strat.

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Take a close look at the neck when he holds it up. I thought it was interesting.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7597563.stm

In the original story they claim it was found in a garage where it sat unplayed/untouched for 40 years.

The back of the neck looks like a dead giveaway to me.
From what they claim the guitar was burnt and put away when it was (tops) two years old!

Probably less as its a '65 guitar burnt in March '67.

I have never seen a two-year-old Strat, nitro lacquer or any other in that state after 2 years and this is a guitar owned by a man noted for not sticking to one guitar for any length of time.

It would take some convincing that it is genuinely what they claim it to be.

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It would take some convincing that it is genuinely what they claim it to be.


Do you think? Interesting...

I've had to work to restrain my scepticism in public on some other threads about "rediscovered" rare guitars. (I was right to do so becuase one, maybe two, of them have subsequently turned out likely to be the real thing, far as we can judge from this distance...)

But given that it is uncontested that this one has been owned by Hendrix's UK publicity agent for the last 41 years its provenance is a lot better than many big money guitars sold recently.

Anyone know how many of Jimi's burnt Strats there are in total? I seem to remember an interview where he sounded bored to tears with doing that particular "gimmick", as he called it. I wonder how many are out there?

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Ceri wrote:
Miami Mike wrote:
It would take some convincing that it is genuinely what they claim it to be.


Do you think? Interesting...

I've had to work to restrain my scepticism in public on some other threads about "rediscovered" rare guitars. (I was right to do so becuase one, maybe two, of them have subsequently turned out likely to be the real thing, far as we can judge from this distance...)

But given that it is uncontested that this one has been owned by Hendrix's UK publicity agent for the last 41 years its provenance is a lot better than many big money guitars sold recently.

Anyone know how many of Jimi's burnt Strats there are in total? I seem to remember an interview where he sounded bored to tears with doing that particular "gimmick", as he called it. I wonder how many are out there?

- C


I have heard that there were actually only two. The Strat in question at the Finsbury Astoria and the only documented one at the Monterey Pop Festival. Breaking the guitar up was a part of the whole sacrafice/gimmick - the reason the Finsbury Astoria Strat survived was because Hendrix actually burned his fingers and had to be taken to a local hospital. There was also a rumor that the Strat that Dweezil Zappa has (passed down from his Father) was burned, but witness accounts say otherwise. But, I have also read accounts of people attending shows in places like Chicago where they claim Jimi burned a guitar on stage...

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I have heard that there were actually only two. The Strat in question at the Finsbury Astoria and the only documented one at the Monterey Pop Festival. Breaking the guitar up was a part of the whole sacrafice/gimmick - the reason the Finsbury Astoria Strat survived was because Hendrix actually burned his fingers and had to be taken to a local hospital.


Yes, it seems that only two are well documented.

The Zappa "Hendrix-Burned" guitar is disputed and confusing as to exactly its origin.

I wonder what I can find about burned guitars in the Electric Gypsy book.

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