Bluesbreaker
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Just noticed this story doing the rounds on the news today.
Source
Jimi Hendrix burnt guitar set to fetch £500,000 at auction - Telegraph
Now, that's the ultimate relic.
Any up and coming musicians out there should invest in a blowtorch now
just in case haha... and hey even better, die young too and set your kids
up for their retirement.
The rest of us will just have to search the dark corners of the attic.
The first guitar to be burnt by Jimi Hendrix onstage is set to
fetch £500,000 at auction.
Hendrix's 1965 Fender Stratocaster, which was famously set alight
on stage during a performance at London's Finsbury Astoria in 1967,
is going under the hammer with other historic artifacts from the
world of music.
But the pick of the musical collection will be Hendrix's guitar, from
the opening night of the Walker Brothers tour on March 31 1967.
At the end of his show Hendrix set fire to the base of his Fender
Stratocaster – as the astonished audience looked on and petrified
venue staff ushered the performer off.
While Hendrix was being treated for minor hand injuries, his guitar
was retrieved by his roadies, and eventually returned to Garland's
London offices.
The guitar was then kept at the home of Noel Redding - bass player
with the Jimi Hendrix Experience - before Garland collected the guitar
and stored it at his parent's garage in Hove.
It was kept there until it was unearthed by Garland's nephew in 2007.
Now, the guitar, along with the rest of the collection, will be sold by
rock and film memorabilia auctioneers The Fame Bureau at the Idea
Generation Gallery in Shoreditch, London, on September 4.
Fame Bureau Director of Acquisitions Ted Owen, said: "Never before
has such an important collection of music history been made available
in a single sale.
"When Hendrix set this guitar alight it marked a watershed in live
performance – he raised the bar of what could be expected and
paved the way for a series of imitations and pastiche that exist to
this day.
"We can only find evidence of Hendrix definitively burning two guitars,
and because this piece is a one-off original; I feel that this is the most
important Hendrix guitar ever to be offered for sale - even eclipsing
the Woodstock Stratocaster which eventually sold for $1.8 million."
Source
Jimi Hendrix burnt guitar set to fetch £500,000 at auction - Telegraph
Now, that's the ultimate relic.
Any up and coming musicians out there should invest in a blowtorch now
just in case haha... and hey even better, die young too and set your kids
up for their retirement.
The rest of us will just have to search the dark corners of the attic.
