Jimi Hendrix burned his guitar

[Pierre Tavlitzki]

The foolish public life of Jimi Hendrix really began in 1967. On March 31, the first day of his tour in England, Jimi decided to conclude his concert by a spectacular happening. Thus he set fire to his guitar with fluid brought to him by his press officer. It was crazy, and Jimi was sent to hospital for burns to the hands. For a musician, it was not really clever, especially in early stage of his tour.

Jimi is a less good incendiary of instruments than Arman, and the guitar remained almost intact, with few visible burns. Now let us inform specialists that it is a Fender Stratocaster of 1965. It was recovered by the press officer, who now put it for sale in London at The Fame Bureau on September 4 . Jimi burned afterwards another guitar, that the fans are starting to look for.

The Fame Bureau is an auction house specializing in the memorabilia of rock and film.

The estimate is not available on the site of the auction house, but the web seems unanimous to announce it at 500 K£. The source of this information seems to be Reuters.

It was also announced in most articles I have seen that the so-called Woodstock Stratocaster guitar used by Hendrix at Woodstock would have been once sold $ 1.8 million at auction. This is a good example of questionable information, without identification of auctioneer or date, published for exciting fans (whether true or false). I searched for half an hour on the web and found nothing similar, although this instrument is mentioned in several previous articles.