One of Jimi Hendrix's favorite guitars, set alight on a London stage more than 40 years ago and thought to have been lost forever, is to be auctioned later this year.
The guitar, a 1965 Fender Stratocaster, was famously doused with lighter fuel and set alight by the rock legend during a one-off performance at London's Finsbury Astoria in March 1967.
Hendrix, who died in 1970, burnt two guitars on stage -- he repeated the stunt at a festival later in 1967 -- but the one to be auctioned is the only example that survives intact.
The guitar is among a range of rock memorabilia to be auctioned by the Fame Bureau in London on September 4th. It has an estimate of 500,000 pounds ($999,000). Other lots include The Doors frontman Jim Morrison's last notebook of poems.
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Hopefully these two items a... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Paul Hooson | July 16, 2008 4:08 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Hopefully these two items are the real deal. There has been recent wide distribution of a claimed Jimi Hendrix sex tape recently by some distributors that experts claim is a fake.
Both Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix are two of my very favorites. I love their music and collect both.
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Posted on July 16, 2008 16:08