Burnt Hendrix Guitar Sold
September 19th, 2008 by Hannah
People are really going crazy for old Jimi Hendrix memorabilia. The first guitar that the rock icon ever burned on stage just got sold at an auction in London for $495,000. It was his 1965 Fender Stratocaster guitar that he torched after a performance in 1967 at London’s Finsbury Astoria. The director of acquisitions at the Fame Bureau rock memorabilia firm which organized the auction said that the burning of the guitar was a watershed in live performance. After the torching, the guitar was taken to the offices of Hendrix’s aide Tony Garland and was later kept in the garage of Garland’s parents’ home in Southern England. It was only last year when Garland’s nephew found the guitar.
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