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At age 13, after shopping everywhere my pre-driving days could take me, I finally found my dream guitar and first Fender Stratocaster at Broward Music in Fort Lauderdale, FL in 1968/9, can’t recall the exact date. It was a right-hand maple neck sunburst 1950s model and I paid $175 plus my Duosonic as trade for it. It was strung upside down and I was told by the salesman, who I had become friends with over the years, that it was purchased from a Hendrix roadie while he was in town for the Miami Pop Festival. Hendrix famously had members of his touring staff canvas music stores while on tour to look for Strats he might like. Mine was apparently a “pass” so ended up in my local music store. You have to remember this was well before the time such an item might be a highly valued collectors guitar. It was about 30% more than equivalent Strats I had been looking at before I purchased it, no big deal. In fact, it’s age was a major detriment to its selling price at that time. I later disassembled it to find “Oct ‘58” pencilled at the end of the neck so I always considered it a 1958 guitar. Much later I found its serial number to officially be early 1959 according to Fender. This has been my lifelong main guitar and still is to this day. I have modified it in numerous ways that might be appalling to some but all for good reasons at the time. In 1979, I had a violin maker install an ebony fretboard in place of the badly deteriorated maple. The job was beautifully done, costing 3 times the guitar’s original purchase price. However, I somewhat regret this as I miss the sound of the maple surface. I didn’t know at the time that luthiers could repair the ‘rot’ on a maple neck. I saved all the original parts including that reverse string set, the 1950s pickups and guard, nut, badly rusted bridge - just for posterity. Some of these pieces are themselves very valuable today but this much-modified 60 year old Strat is still a magnificent guitar in its own right. I don’t push the ex-Hendrix story too hard as I don’t know firsthand if it’s true. But the timing, location, stringing, and credibility of my source all make it highly likely.
That’s a really cool story man .. thanks for sharing that 👍 My first proper guitar was a used 1964 black Strat with a real dark rosewood neck, my Mom bought it for me after I won the 7th grade talent show in 1974 playing an Elk Rhapsody Japan Jazz Master clone, guess she thought I was good enough to buy me a proper American made electric lol. I have no idea what she paid for it .. but I ended up selling it 4 years later for $275.00 to a friend, I was at that point seriously into keyboards and the money from the Strat was to go towards buying a Hammond B3, but the money ended up going into my still juvenile delinquent nose 🥵 I finally did get that B3 with my Mom’s help, and ended up in a life long career as keyboard player, but now that I’m retired from all that I’ve taken guitar back up as a hobby and just noodle around, but boy do I wish I had kept that Strat now! I’ve tried to find a modern Custom Shop version of that guitar .. been searching for a couple years with no success .. guess nobody likes black Strats with rosewood necks. Anyway congratulations on keeping yours all these years, and thanks again for the read! C
I'm 10 yrs younger than Hendrix. I did my first blues guitar gig in Madrid in 1967 (age 15). I had bought a maplewood '64 Fender strat with a maple fretboard (from Terry Taylor of a UK group called The End). Hendrix and Albert King have been the top electric guitarists in my view. I've even had dreams of being in Hendrix's band.
@@captainhotbunz659 One Can Also: Install a maple neck upon such strat body! Yet Cap'n we are grateful for your expertise! I wonder if dude determined the age by the neck serial number alone? Now we must find that band member who sold it 🤓... Or email dude. 🙄
He was using Fender Twin Reverb while he backed many R&B acts, and when Chas found him in New York. After bringing him to England, Chas gave him a 30watt "Burns" British amp that Hendrix was not at all happy with, having been used to the power of Fender Twins. Mitch Mitchell worked at drummer/amplifier builder Jim Marshall's shop. The rest is history. Jimi always used his Marshall dialed to 10, he used the volume control on his guitars to clean up the natural distortion of the Marshall speaker cabinets, and "sweeten the tone" of quieter passages, like Little Wing verses. He didn't actually use the Fuzzface or Octavia nearly as much as most copy-cat players do. Watch the camcorder recording of the historic Band of Gypsys Fillmore performance of Machine Gun. It is VERY obvious when he steps back and to the side to engage the Fuzztone, and the sound abruptly changes to a very hard-edge. th-cam.com/video/Y7CO8d9voqs/w-d-xo.html His wide open Twin and/or Marshall stacks were the core of his "tone". Good luck finding a place to practice the actual sounds Jimi learned to control as his "sound". He had the same problem. People complaining he was WAAAAAY too LOUD! I was once playing my Marshall 100 8x12 stack at an outdoor high-school quad and the LAPD told me they literally followed the sound A MILE to eventually locate me.
The Duo-Sonic came in two different scale lengths, but not until 1964, if I understand correctly. That was barely late enough for him to get a Duo-Sonic II with the "longer" 24" scale. Even that is still short compared to Strats, which are 25.5". I struggle on Strats that have heavy gauge strings. I really have a hard time visualizing Jimi playing a 22.5" scale with his monster hand size. He makes a Strat look like a 3/4 scale! After '64 they offered the option of a 24" scale and called it the Duo-Sonic II. The 22.5" scale version is often called 3/4 size, or student model. If you want to experience a hot rod guitar, take a 22.5" scale guitar and have it set up for speed. It's a wild ride.
I was given a duo sonic by a rancher named Smokey Pound!!!!! It was great because I was a heavy equipment boss at an explosive testing range here in Socorro New Mexico and I was tasked to bury a very large and deep well for the old railroad and stage coach stop in snake ranch so I figured I'd build a stock tank for the cattle while I buried the well!!!! And Smoky came out with some candy bars in his glove box and was just amazed that I was building a tank while I buried the well. We talked about everything from cattle to bombs and then he asked me "what is your thing"??? I said electric guitars and about 9 months later his son brought a 1966 duo sonic in the original case and told me "my papa told me to give this to you and I didn't ask him why I just said yes sir so here you go man,,,, " I was just about to cry or poop my pants because it is so cool and I am still playing it!!!!!!!! Great day and good people!!!!!
Oh, and I should point out that I'm very, very grateful for the amount of work you put into this. This is more than just something to watch the past the time. This is a document of history.
Just for your info. I was 15 years old and with a few friends went to see Jimi Hendrix at Hastings Pier Ballroom. 22nd October 1967. We were standing pushed against the stage. He set fire to his guitar using lighter fuel as he kneeled over it. We could briefly feel the warmth during the very brief flare as he threw the match onto the Strat. He then stood up and holding it by the head stock and upper neck repeatedly smashed it against the stage floor. I do not remember it breaking the neck or anything significant. He hurled it into the Marshall cab and it lay on the floor making the most interesting feedback I have ever heard.. I was so influenced by him that the band I was in during my mid to late teens was asked to leave venues due to me setting fire to my guitar. He is still and always will be the greatest musical inspiration for me.
dirtyrocker. Like Bill Graham told Jimi: "People will darn near burn their house down BEFORE"! they learn to play the guitar, because you`re JIMI HENDRIX"!!!
This is a cool video. I think its funny how today, players obsessively split-hairs over pickups and pedals and versions of guitars. Once I read that Jimi's roadies and managers said he would ask them to buy whatever Stratocasters they could get him off-the-shelf and that were available. I have no way to prove it, but I seriously doubt he was worrying if the stock Stratocaster he had just bought had Alnico 5 or 2 magnets or if the the Stratocaster had a CBS or vintage headstock. lol
I agree on that. Why does todays players have to have all that junk just to plug in and play? Those ol time guitar players did not worry about all that.
Case in point of how playing actually comes from your hands and not what bloody pick up, plectrum and effects pedal combination you have! Jimi would have wailed on the cheapest squier strat.
I was fortunate to have seen Jimi in Seattle WA in May 1969 at the Seattle center coliseum. I was 13 years old but can remember it like it was yesterday. If you've never been to his burial site it's an experience you will never forget.
Actually, it was the concert I cannot forget....I was there, 23 May 69...of the four concerts he held in Seattle, that 69 one has the best reputation.I hope you remember, how he called down a thunderstorm while playing his finale, Voodoo Child....The lightning outside the large, windowed venue, seemed to be keeping time with Jimi!
My first guitar was a 1977 Strat in black with maple board. I was in love with that guitar. I saw it in the shop I got it from for the first time in 1978 around Christmas time. I was drawn to it. I think it was priced around $400? I dont remember as I was 8 years old at the time. Every time we went grocery shopping at that mall I would go to the music shop to drool over that Strat. After 6 years of dreaming my dad felt I would appreciate it more as I was 14 and had been teaching myself to play. I guess I played good enough to impress my pops. Best day ever! My dad also bought me a Marshall 1X12 combo tube amp. I dont remember the model, but it sounded awesome after it warmed up and even better after I got a Tube Screamer. Still have my first Strat/Guitar to this day.
@@huestoner Keep at it. Fall in love with it. Practice as much as you can. Find the passion and you will reward yourself over and over. That's the best advice I can give you.
Thank you for doing this. When I searched for Jimmy Hendrix Guitars this was the first result. Corporations will never understand but you created this content by fans for fans. For that I thank you.
A1964 white fender Stratocaster nicknamed 'Linda' which he used in the are you experienced, probablyhe took to the UK. What's this axe worth today and whi has it? Wow a fender suburst. But later he destroys a guitar at the astoria theatre and the monterey festival.
This is a valuable and well-researched video. Since Jimi played so many, different guitars, one can only assume that his unique sound came from stringing them upside down over the pickups, using different gauge strings on the same guitar and tuning somewhere around E flat. Years of playing for food and rent and a lifetime spent mastering his chosen instrument helped define his musical ability. God given talent was a factor as well.
Love this story about Jimis guitars, just goes to show that even if u have to borrow gear sometimes u can still make it big, it’s just such a shame that jimi isn’t here to reap the fruits of he’s labour
I can absolutely tell you Jimi did NOT burn a guitar at Miami Pop / Gulfstream Racetrack I was there and for a brief moment sat with him up in the stands before he went on he gave me a pick. He played without smashing or burning ...,I grew up in Hollywood Florida.
Thank you for putting this video together and doing all that research. It's exciting to see the guitars that Jimi played and hear some background info about them. You did an awesome job on the video.
Unlike other guitarists, Jimi really never got overly attached to his guitars. He pretty much played a stock Strat and went through them frequently. Equipment geeks love this stuff. Just goes to show, it's the player, not the equipment.
Perhaps not a particular guitar, but young Jimmy held or wore his guitar day and night. Rarely did he have a guitar cased before he became a star. Hermon Hitson said he once asked Jimmy, "Why you never have a guitar case, Man?" Jimi answered, "I don't play the case. I play the GUITAR!" All of Jimi's Seattle pals attest to the fact that Jimmy ALWAYS had a guitar... day or night, waking or sleeping. They would tease him by hiding it or keeping it out of his reach, the FEW times they could get it out of his hands. Billy Cox mentions that after he got his guitar, in the Army, it was the same story. "Dude is CRAZY about that guitar, like not normal!" LMAO "His guitar swung across his back... his dusty boots is his Cadillac" - Highway Chile
I was at the 69 Royal Albert hall gig (Feb 28 I think) when Jimi demolished a Strat and chucked the neck into the audience. My mate (no names,no pack drill) managed to grab it in the scrum, it had come off the neck plate screws quite cleanly and only had a little damage to the 20th fret where Jimi had bashed it against the mic stand. My compardre didn't play guitar and had it in a tea chest in his loft for a number of years. Around 1978 I nicked it and attached it to a later white CBS body and used it for a few years in several bands. Unfortunately for me, I had to return it to it's rescuer as it's value had got a bit silly by that time. I have some pics of it that might interest you. Thank you sir.
I had a dream once where Jimi walked into the room I was in and handed me a guitar neck, and I pretended to play it and it turned into a full guitar and I looked up and he was gone
Another fascinating account,.However Mr Bunyan ,an obvious question to ask is ,did you ever think of posting a picture of the neck on social media or doing when you had it so that the fans coould see ? Even with the pictures that you have now would still be priceless given the back story.Why not ?
Very interesting video. I met Tappy Wright a few times in the 80’s, through a fellow musician, but he never mentioned being Hendrix’s road manager! I wish he had, as I would have had a load of questions for him! Tappy’s autobiography is a very good read, with a lot of Hendrix stuff.
And btw, THANK YOU so much for producing such a great series on so many iconic players and instruments, really fantastic work, sir. Making Ken Burns sweat at night, I tell ya.
Fender dents and dings guitars at the factory, if it’s not done at the factory it’s not worth the same as doing it yourself, I have never understood the big deal with that! I love a new guitar 🎸
Just heard Eddie Kramer on Steve Jones' radio show today. Kramer remarked that Chas Chandler once jokingly suggested that they buy up all the black and white 60's strats they could find and go into the Hendrix-owned guitar business.
I was At Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Columbus, Ohio on Saturday May 24th 1970 with Jimi Hendrix & The Experience and A Local Band, “The Fifth Order” was the front band! Jimi Hendrix Burnt a Fender Stratocaster on Stage That Night using Zippo Lighter Fluid!
I bought a Les Paul Custom from Manny's that was a POS. I was able to sell it for what I paid. Would never buy another guitar from Manny's again. Did buy Several Guitars from Chuck Levin's Washington Music Center with no problems.
I saw Hendrix in 1968 at the Chicago Auditorium. I don't remember which Strat he played. I do remember at one point his roadies brought out about 10 Strats and laid them side by side across the front of the stage. He kept playing. After a few songs the roadies came out and collected all the guitars and put them behind the backstage curtain.
Priceless ! ~you guys are so utterly privileged. This was Hendrix ,not just another gig .Wonder if you though you be writing about your experience 54 year later.
Saw Jimi at Detroits' Cobo Hall , May 2 1969 ... He started with his white one - broke a string - and the roadies tore off the white one & tossed That Black Maple necked 68 over his head, while the band jammed on - - - i fell in love and bought one Exactly Like It , two years later
It is claimed that Uli Jon Roth has the black strat - got it from his girlfriend after her death - Monica Daneman - Jimi’s girlfriend who was there at the time of his death
Fantastic research, Ramon, very interesting. I always thought that the Dano was his first guitar THEN the Supro, but that doesn't line up I now see. A couple of observations...I saw Jimi (then Jimmy) with Little Richard in the summer of 1965 in Wildwood NJ. Apparently he was not full time with Richard at this stage, but he was playing the sunburst DuoSonic. My brother and I remember that because it was so unusual to see one just flipped over like he did. I saw him again in Philly, Feb., 1968 and he played creme or white Strats only. Later in March I saw him again in Philly and started out playing Voodoo Child on the sunburst Jazzmaster which Segal now owns. So glad I got to see him at this early inspired stage in his career...he was magical!
Jimi must have liked doing business At Manny's. That was on 37th St. in Manhattan. There were several guitar stores there. I bought my white Fender Mustang with red tortoise shell pick guard at one of them for $120.00 in 1965.
I guess he struck up a friendship and it was a one stop place he could find what he wanted - that sounds like a killer deal on the Mustang! Thanks Thomas
Yup, my girlfriend bought me the Hendrix white Fender strat (lefty w/Jimi's image on neck plate ) at Manny's for $750 due to tiny ding next to the trmolo...prob around 2003-2004ish...a long time ago. Was amazed at how tiny Manny's is. It was cramped w just me and my girl lol.
It's interesting that Jimi played an Epiphone solid-body guitar in his early days, but I'm pretty sure the one in the photo is a Coronet, not a Wilshire. During the summer of 1974 I bought a 1962 Wilshire from a shop in Seattle for $200. It had a slightly off-set double cutaway body and an all-in-a-row headstock similar to a Firebird. In fact it was identical to the one that Johnny Winter is playing in the 1969 Swedish TH-cam video of 'Be Careful With A Fool' ... even down to the cherry finish. The great Steve Marriot of Humble Pie used to use a Coronet quite often, and the one in the Jimi photo looks the same. You've done a ton of research and come up with a fascinating compilation, so 'congratulations' on that. For what it's worth, I saw Jimi play in Seattle in May '69, and I seem to remember him playing a white (or Ivory) Strat that night.
@@TheGuitarShow ... Yes, I feel priveleged to have seen Jimi in concert, but my luck ran out the following summer (1970) when I had a ticket to see him at the Seattle baseball stadium in August (I think). Days before the gig I had my car towed away for illegal parking, and ended up selling my ticket so I could pay the release fee! I just shrugged and thought 'Well, I'll catch him next time.' But, sadly there was no next time. He died the following month. As for the Epi Wilshire that I bought, I had it rebuilt in left-handed form (being a L/H player, as it happens) using the original hardware and a new thicker body in the same shape. I used it in my first band, but later sold it to finance a new John Birch being built by John Diggins in Birmingham. In case you're confused, I'm British but lived in Seattle for a few years.
Great work, I learned a lot here. I've heard it said that Hendrix would buy a number of Strats, take them apart and use the best bits to make his preferred guitars - much like Clapton did with Blackie and Brownie. This could certainly account for the red strat with a maple board. I also assumed that the left overs were probably the instruments that got smashed and burned. Anyway, thanks again for the great video.
There's a recent white strat in England that was up for sale,and it's thought to be one of his where he took a bunch of strats,laid them out on the hotel bed,found what sounded best with what, and reassembled them.read it in 2019 for sure.it was strung for left handed playing...
Wow, excellent research.. Fyi: I saw Jimi play at the Carousel Theater in Framingham, Mass on Aug 24th 1968.. He had a White Strat that he did most of the show with. I can't rem if it was Rosewood or Maple. But I do remember him switching to a Baby Blue, what I thought was a Fender Mustang to close the show with Wildthing & to Smash into his Stacks. I've never seen a word on this gtr anywhere. But I'm pretty sure that my memory on this is accurate.
My pleasure.. My first two concerts was Jimi followed by Jimmy. Zep2 wasn't out yet, but they were playing Zep1&2 & selling Zep2 in the Boston Garden Lobby.. FYI, no Tele was seen on stage.. LP from begining to end.. Thx again for the research.. Great Video's.
The Carousel Theater should have been called the Carousel Tent, and was very common of the type of places Jimi played. It was a miserable small space with a stage in the center leaving half of the audience of about 800 seated behind the stage. The sound quality was typical for The Experience and Jimi spent most of the time between numbers apologizing to the audience. Except for the back rows most of the audience remained seated until the last song, a kind of Taps, Reveille, SPB, Wild Thing number, where Jimi encouraged them to finally stand up. A couple things that really stand out about the show is that Jimi was almost constantly chewing open mouthed like a cow chewing cud, and he was repeatedly wiping sweat from his face with a confederate flag. The chewing thing was just weird and the confederate flag in retrospect is kind of unusual. BTW the guitar he pretended to smash into the speaker stack was a Daphne Blue colored Strat. At the last moment before hitting the stack he turned the guitar sideways, and pushed against the stack that was being held from behind by two roadies. He did however manage to break one guitar string in the process. Overall $3.50 well spent, but the show was short by today's standard and the sound quality absolutely horrid. All three of them played their best, but were terribly let down by the sound team.
I saw him set fire to a white strat using lighter fuel during a concert at Halle Munsterland, Munster, West Germany.circa ‘68 can’t be exact with date. He also put the headstock through a couple of Marshall speakers.
Hi there, I have a story that relates to the Saville theatre Strat. I was living and working in the Southampton area in the early 80's and jammed a couple of times with a guy I worked with. We were both into Jimi and had similar taste in guitars. One day he pulled out some Fender pickup's clearly old grey back with waxed wires. My mate claimed that he was in Shaftesbury Avenue around 1970 and saw in a guitar shop glass case a broken Fender Scratch plate with most of the hardware with. It was on sale as Jimi's smashed Strat from the Saville theatre just up the road. They wanted what he said 'a lot of money for it'. Being a big Hendrix fan he went back some time later and it was still there so he bought it. Either way he had removed the pickups and built a guitar but only used 2 pick up's. He offered to loan me the remaining pickup which was the neck pickup. At the time I was playing a Tokai Strat (TST50) and I could not wait to swap it into my guitar. I took it down to my local guitar shop to sort for me as I was a tad green in those day's. It was a shop called John Boot's Music (Now defunct)in Hythe near Southampton. The tech. guy at the time (Derrick Pullen) was a bit of a Fender guru and first thing he did was check the output, he said that it was very low output ( I can't remember the ohm's but 5.something) So in it went into the Tokai. Hendrix Saville Theatre pickup or not I remember the grin on Derricks face also Mark Owers famed Southampton guitarist who was having a go. It was clearly a superb 'flutey' sounding pickup which I enjoyed for a about a year and gave (Mike Clowes) his pickup back. I have not seen Mike since I left the company we both worked for but soon after that I worked at the John Boots guitar shop until I left and set up my own guitar shop in Pembroke. Cheers Paul
I'm pretty sure that the painted V was wine red. When Gibson reissued it, they got the color wrong. But several photos show it had a red tint to it. Can't wait for part 2! His sg custom was my favorite.
Great video, there is a couple of bands I didn't know he played in. Thanks for the info. jimi made such an impact in music the few years he played. To this day many professional musicians can't do what he did on guitar, Jimi was years ahead of everybody.
Nice work! .I stopped at 24:18 to chime in on a couple of things. Jimi burned a 3rd Strat in 1967 at the one of the Ambassador shows in Washington D.C. It was a black one that Nils Lofgren shared a photo of. I saw it the guitar at the Hardrock in Las Vegas, as I remember it had a larger CBS headstock. All 3 guitars were burned in 1967 and none afterwards. Also, the photos of Jimi with the Jaguar are from Top of the Pops in Aug '67 and it's blue, not black. It's still strung right handed and it's not plugged in. It was basically a prop for them to mime Burning of the Midnight Lamp. This wouldn't have been the black Jaguar the Brian Jones gave Hendrix but rather one he borrowed for the shoot. All in all I'm enjoying your video!
Yes....it was only a few years ago, that photographic proof of Jimi burning a guitar at the Ambassador in 1967 did show up...the guitar burning fizzled out pretty quick.
Well done INCREDIBLE. One of my first guitars was a fender mustang and of course I was a HENDRIX type guitar player at the time. (I REMEMBER RAINBOW BRIDGE being in heavy rotation) I always liked that mustang haven't picked one up since. I hated jaguars. My best friend had a white strat at the time. I now am a FENDER only
Jimi had 3 Flying Vs, the painted '67 he gave to Mitch Cox in 1968, he had another in '69 seen on the Lonnie Youngblood album cover and backstage MSG, then the custom made left handed one he started playing at The LA Forum, 4/25/70 and most gigs after. The guitar you pictured as an Eko was actually the Ibanez, I researched that one.
Interesting at 15:18 the guitar is strung for a right handed person. I've always heard that Jimi had jammed with people sometimes using someone else's guitar that would be laying around strung righty. Great job !! Can't wait for part 2
He could play both ways. His father encouraged him to play righty cause (IDK he thought left was for weirdos or something) and didn't like seeing him play lefty.
At 20:38---Fender did not build an 8-10" speaker cabinet in '69. It had to be an Ampeg SVT bass cabinet. They were the only people making 8-10" speaker cabinets at that time.
At the surface this looks like a video for fans of Jimi Hendrix and gear heads. But by the end of it I realized it was a rather beautiful and sad story about one of society's great heroes.
Great job on this! One thing to add is the Frank Zappa strat has not been proven certain to be owned by Jimi. That is why when it was auctioned, it did not bring anywhere near the reserve, due to lack of provenance. Also, Hendrix for a short time used an Acoustic Black Widow, which he traded for from Harvey Gerst, the guitarist of the band Sweetwater. The Acoustic company found out about the trade, and wanted to make Harvey a new one instead of him playing Jimi's old strat.. So Harvey inexplicably gave Jimi back his strat when his replacement Black Widow was completed. Had he not done that he would have had the nicest Hendrix strat in existence.
@@TheGuitarShow Gerst, like most folks at that time, had no idea Jimi would die in a couple of years...Gerst also was a representative of/for Acoustic, so I guess he did not want to complicate his status with the company....so maybe he was just being thoughtful?
That jaguar which tippy white had . Saw that guitar on display at the hard rock hotel in Marble Arch London . Saw it there a couple of weeks ago. There is also a cape that belonged to Hendrix on display. They have bands on at this hotel and I’m going to try to get a gig there . It’s the old Cumberland hotel which Jimi was booked into on the day of his tragic passing. Ramon , I jammed with you once a few years ago at an art event on Roman Road east London. Do you remember? Have a watch of my videos to see if you do ? Excellent video on jimi and his guitars , I liked the Brian Jones one you did too . One day we jam again mate .
Hi, Rob D here. What a great painstakingly researched video, just thought I’d add a few points that might help if I may. *The pic of Jimi on Top of the Pops isn’t the Monterey Strat it’s the Candy Apple Red Strat referred to later in your video. He can be seen using it at the Big Apple Club Munich on Nov 9th ’66 with a maple capped pre-CBS neck fitted. Then on Top of the Pops March 30th ’67 with a CBS rosewood neck fitted (as in your pic) footage of which can be seen in the bonus features of the Hear My Train A-Comin’ DVD, black & white yes but clearly metallic. Then at Olympic Studios in April ’67 with the maple cap neck re-attached. Then in the Popside Sweden footage on May 24th playing Purple Haze and Wind Cries Mary with the maple neck. Finally at the Seville Theatre on June 4th with the maple neck, painted and smashed. If you compare various pics you can see by the wear to the forearm contour edge through to the primer coat that it’s the same body. *The Fender Jaguar is Lake Placid Blue, not black and as it wasn’t re-strung or the strap button moved it’s likely it was just loaned to mime with on TV. I’ve also not heard of the Brian Jones connection, and at least ONE guitar of choice for Experiencing the Blues was the Flying V. *The pic you show of Jimi with a Sunburst Strat at Monterey is in fact from the Honolulu International Centre Oahu Hawaii on Oct 5th ’68. (It could also possibly the Swing Auditorium San Bernardino California on Sept 5th ’68 but I’d go with Hawaii). I’ve not seen any evidence of a Sunburst Strat at Monterey. *I’ve never heard of Jimi having a Moserite Joe Maphis double neck guitar or it’s use on Spanish Castle Magic. He’s said to have used a Cherry Hagstrom 8-string bass on this, he and Noel Redding each had one. *The use of a Fender Showman amp/cab setup as referred to by Eddie Kramer is not on the ‘iconic’ Voodoo Child (Slight Return) but Voodoo Chile, the slow delta blues style jam with Jack Cassidy and Steve Winwood. *The blue Strat used at, for example, Singer Bowl on Aug 23 ’68 is Blue Ice Metallic, a Ford car colour used by Fender ’65 to ‘69 and is lighter than the more common Lake Placid Blue. *The ‘F’ stamped tuners used by Fender mid ’68 onwards were by Schaller not Kluson. *I’ve heard the Native American arrowhead theory as regards the black left handed Flying V’s fretboard before, but these markers had already appeared on the 335-style Trini Lopez Model Gibson, which was in production 1964-1970. Interestingly, I’ve strummed the opening chords to Angel on this guitar (well it would’ve been rude not to wouldn’t it) back when you could get your hands on it and unlike ’60’s V’s and my ’67 re-issue on which the necks are raked, or angled back to the body, this one is more parallel to the body like, I think ‘70’s or ‘80’s ones with the fretboard prouder of the body face. Almost like a ‘prototype’ of ‘70’s V’s to come. Hope some of this might help, and thank you, for bothering to do these vids.
wow,, WOW. Insane history!!! I thought the Monterey Strat was a one and done affair but he 'sacrificed something' he really loved. Flying Angel bit is rad. Maybe the Arrowhead inlay is in Pt 2. Uli and that black Strat ?? unreal.
There's no mention of his 1967 Off White Gibson SG Custom with the gold hardware and Vibrola bar. Gibson gifted it to him in 1967. It resides in the Hard Rock Cafe in Florida, I believe. I have a replica. Also, another note to just add in for when you make part two. The 1967 Flying V that he had hand-painted the design on? He did play that one on All Along The Watchtower, and he used a cigarette lighter for the slide part in the middle. He sat across from Dave Mason from Traffic, who played acoustic guitar on the track. There's no footage (that I've seen) but there are pictures from that session in the Classic Albums documentary of Electric Ladyland. He gave that V to Mick Cox from Eire Apparent, (my guess sometime in 1968, after Watchtower was recorded) and Mick had that paint design filed off. It was later restored sometime after Jimi's death. And I guess because he liked the Gibson's for his Blues playing, as you had mentioned, especially for Red House, he bought a new one in 1969. It had the Maestro Vibrola arm on it as well. Also gold. Rare split diamond inlays. Said Gibson Custom on the headstock. Anyway, that Flying V can be seen in the footage from The Maui Concert, July 30, 1970. A little over 2 months before his death. The footage of the latter show I don't think was ever "officially" released, but was used in the Rainbow Bridge film. And at the Blue Wild Angel: Live At the Isle of Wight Festival in England. August 31, 1970. A mere 18 days before his death. The largest international crowd he had ever played to. 600,000+.
Love the details brother.....some of these pictures I never saw of him ....RIP Manny's Music.....I used to work there ....my former boss Henry Goldrich would tell me stories of Hendrix buying stuff there .....can not remember details.....also some of his stage strats are mixed parts
Holy Smokes!!! RIP Mannys??? Thats sad. Steve Miller went there in like '72 and asked 'any cool stuff here ?' They offered i believe 2 left handed Strats ordered by Jimi but he died before he could get them. Fly Like An Eagle cover in Black was one. man I think this was later stolen.
Ahhh.. an ex employee..!! I used to go there from 1975 to 1979 and get invited to the 2nd and 3rd floor. I would find used instruments with famous name tags on them. Many musicians rented these instruments and then were returned back to Mannys.. Is that true?? Manny's was fantastic as well as the other 10 plus music shops on 48th street.
Fantastic! I saw a screening of the Electric Church last night, featuring the July 4th 1970 Atlanta Pop Festival performance. The black, cigarette burned, skunk stripe-less, Strat was prominently used and had me scratching my head. Watching your video answered a few questions!!! Thanks for posting!!!!
The Brian Jones Jaguar is strung right-handed. I never noticed that in the photo before. I have heard that Hendrix could play a right or left handed guitar. There it is.
Great video! It's so interesting to see him playing guitars other than Strats. Just think how Fender's sales would have changed if he had continued using Jazzmasters! But it just looks wrong playing an offset upside down. Also, it's hard to imagine his giant hands on a short scale Duosonic! Thanks again.
There is one major thing about Hendrix that I have never been able to figure out. You'll note that every guitar he uses is a right-handed model. However, unlike Otis Rush and Albert King, Hendrix did not play upside down. On his instruments the strings, bridge and nut were reversed so he could play a right-handed guitar with his left hand without playing upside down. This never made sense since the controls were situated at the top of the instrument relative to his left handed playing. This made tonal adjustments difficult. Also, and this is clearly obvious on the single-cutaway Les Paul, playing a restrung right-handed made accessing the upper registers difficult, to say the least. The Les Paul is the most obvious example, though even with the Stratocaster, the longer horn was at the bottom, again making access to the higher registers more difficult. Of course using the Flying-V would not have any effect. So, my question is why didn't he just use left-handed guitars instead of going through the set and playability issues. I have never been able to figure this out. Comment are welcome and encouraged.
hey thanks for doing this, and also for being open to the corrections that are appearing in the comments section. It's great for some of us that really love Jimi, are players, and who's lives were changed by him. I am one. Lucky enough to have seen Jimi 5 times in the NYC area, from age 13. I am still playing. Many of the facts you lay out do correspond correctly. Only omission, as pointed out by quite a few already, is the 3 pickup white SG Custom. He played that at Avery Fischer Hall in NOV. 69, (I believe that was his birthday gig) where he also was breaking strings a lot so it seemed to be a constant switch between the black maple neck Strat and a white maple neck, and then finally the SG came out. I also was at Fillmore East 10. May 68 (Sly & the Family Stone opening, mind you) and my life was forever changed when he pulled out the black Les Paul Custom and played "the blues". The first show I saw was 3 months earlier, March 68 at Hunter College. I have seen photos from the late show of that night and the black L.P. Custom was used then, too, so he had it a bit earlier than you state apparently. I am curious about what happened with that guitar. I have seen photos of him using it in Sweden as well, but it seems to have been used only for a period of a few months. To me that is the most intriguing and mysterious of Jimi's guitars... hope to learn more! Again, thanks for what you've done. I learned a lot about his various Strats through this. Axis is my favourite album as well!
Very well documented and interesting ! Electric guitars were like an extension to Hendrix's body. When I deiscovered him some 40 years ago, I was shocked by the ''feel'' Hendrix would create with his great tone and hands, He was one of a kind. The fact that he died so young created memories of a guitar hero bigger than nature. R.I.P Jimy.
There is a vid on youtube someone stating that Hendrix used a Tele when recording Purple Haze, but you can't believe everything you see and here now can you
FYI-At 24:18 that is Ice Blue Metallic 1966-67 Strat. They made that color only from 1965-1969. I know cause I have the one identically the same. It might even be the same guitar. who knows but I love it!
Jeff Larson , you mean the "blue" Strat at 21:55? I also have this exact one, an early '68 (stamped ES). I still can't be sure what paint colour it actually is, but looks exactly like this one. Too me it now looks more like the Foam Green in pictures of Fender's 1966 custom colour chart, it definitely looks more green than blue 50 years later! I can't find any photos of Jimi with this guitar anywhere! Anyway, pretty sure you're wrong and mine is actually Jimi's old one, I have his guitar strap to ;-)
Very good documentary on Jimi's guitars..!! How did all these Mannys NYC guitars get purchased? Did Jimi visit that store and play them? and all the other music stores on 48th street?? I am guessing someone kept the purchase receipts at Mannys or his roadie?
i think theres receipts with management for jimi as he never carried or had any money on him - he just asked management all the time - Eric Clapton bought a guitar from Mannys and his production/management kept a receipt.
I read once in Guitar (Player) Magazine that he would visit Manny's and buy guitars there personally. I guess they may have been charged to an account if that is true. I don't know if he always visited there when he bought guitars, but the article did say he would make personal purchases. I read in that same article that if Jimi saw a kid there playing a guitar that such a kid liked, he would just outright buy it for the kid. I remember reading that thinking how cool that was that Jimi would do that. This was an old edition of Guitar Player(?) magazine that came out when I was about 16 or 17 -so around 1976 -1977.
Wow, you have done your research. This is so vital. Thank you. I always thought Hendrix was comfortable with Strats, uncomfortable with Gibsons (eg. Isle of Wight Festival), but he appears ok with the LP Custom, even upside down. Speaking as a guitar player, when you're handed a guitar, you tend to always play it differently, according to it's feel, set up, sometimes you work it a bit hard, drive it, and sometimes interesting results can happen. I'm sure this would have been the same with Jimi. Same as artists with new brushes, pallets etc...
The Hendrix guitar Zappa owns is genuine and come from The Astoria Gig in London Later known as The rainbow Theatre where Zappa was also thrown off the stage and hurt badly in the orchestra pit
@The SNES Man Yup someone rugbyTackled him off the stage andinto the Orchestra Pit damaging his leg really badly leaving him with ''one leg shorter than other'' Alas Dancing Fool
In the studio, I remember reading that Hendrix had a Rickenbacker 12 string, I don't know what he used it on, but I can see him utilizing the 12 string for some effect he might have wanted, he was always refining and searching for new sounds ?
Was at Village Music in Nashville, TN and the owner pulled out old guitar rental records where Hendrix signed out a Fender guitar. She said he rented it and didn’t bring it back!
sorry I need to make a correction on myself - The Avery Fisher Hall show I mentioned was NOV. '68- with the SG Custom. And it was just called Philharmonic Hall back then (Lincoln Center) "Electric Thanksgiving". At the time I didn't know it was Jimi's birthday, but I believe it was. Of the 5 shows I saw, this one was where he changed guitars the most, it was just like a parade of White Strat, Black Strat until finally the SG Custom came out. Only time I saw him play that guitar. Thanks again, just watched part 2. But still want to know more about the Black Beauty. I was sitting upstairs in Fillmore East and I could see that staple neck pickup from my seat! Blew my mind..
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At age 13, after shopping everywhere my pre-driving days could take me, I finally found my dream guitar and first Fender Stratocaster at Broward Music in Fort Lauderdale, FL in 1968/9, can’t recall the exact date. It was a right-hand maple neck sunburst 1950s model and I paid $175 plus my Duosonic as trade for it. It was strung upside down and I was told by the salesman, who I had become friends with over the years, that it was purchased from a Hendrix roadie while he was in town for the Miami Pop Festival. Hendrix famously had members of his touring staff canvas music stores while on tour to look for Strats he might like. Mine was apparently a “pass” so ended up in my local music store.
You have to remember this was well before the time such an item might be a highly valued collectors guitar. It was about 30% more than equivalent Strats I had been looking at before I purchased it, no big deal. In fact, it’s age was a major detriment to its selling price at that time. I later disassembled it to find “Oct ‘58” pencilled at the end of the neck so I always considered it a 1958 guitar. Much later I found its serial number to officially be early 1959 according to Fender.
This has been my lifelong main guitar and still is to this day. I have modified it in numerous ways that might be appalling to some but all for good reasons at the time. In 1979, I had a violin maker install an ebony fretboard in place of the badly deteriorated maple. The job was beautifully done, costing 3 times the guitar’s original purchase price. However, I somewhat regret this as I miss the sound of the maple surface. I didn’t know at the time that luthiers could repair the ‘rot’ on a maple neck.
I saved all the original parts including that reverse string set, the 1950s pickups and guard, nut, badly rusted bridge - just for posterity. Some of these pieces are themselves very valuable today but this much-modified 60 year old Strat is still a magnificent guitar in its own right. I don’t push the ex-Hendrix story too hard as I don’t know firsthand if it’s true. But the timing, location, stringing, and credibility of my source all make it highly likely.
That’s a really cool story man .. thanks for sharing that 👍 My first proper guitar was a used 1964 black Strat with a real dark rosewood neck, my Mom bought it for me after I won the 7th grade talent show in 1974 playing an Elk Rhapsody Japan Jazz Master clone, guess she thought I was good enough to buy me a proper American made electric lol. I have no idea what she paid for it .. but I ended up selling it 4 years later for $275.00 to a friend, I was at that point seriously into keyboards and the money from the Strat was to go towards buying a Hammond B3, but the money ended up going into my still juvenile delinquent nose 🥵 I finally did get that B3 with my Mom’s help, and ended up in a life long career as keyboard player, but now that I’m retired from all that I’ve taken guitar back up as a hobby and just noodle around, but boy do I wish I had kept that Strat now! I’ve tried to find a modern Custom Shop version of that guitar .. been searching for a couple years with no success .. guess nobody likes black Strats with rosewood necks. Anyway congratulations on keeping yours all these years, and thanks again for the read! C
Do you have videos of you playing it? Post them!
Great story man!
@Chris Stroble....The loss of a blackie with a rosewoid fret board....I grieve with the
@@chrisstrobel3439 the loss of a 64 blackie with a rosewood fretboard....I grieve with thee
I'm 10 yrs younger than Hendrix. I did my first blues guitar gig in Madrid in 1967 (age 15). I had bought a maplewood '64 Fender strat with a maple fretboard (from Terry Taylor of a UK group called The End). Hendrix and Albert King have been the top electric guitarists in my view. I've even had dreams of being in Hendrix's band.
Fender never made a Maplewood fender Strat in 1964. They only offered maple fretboards over the Rosewood, if you custom ordered it.
@@captainhotbunz659 One Can Also: Install a maple neck upon such strat body! Yet Cap'n we are grateful for your expertise! I wonder if dude determined the age by the neck serial number alone? Now we must find that band member who sold it 🤓... Or email dude. 🙄
If you truly are having dreams pf being in his band, then you ARE almost there man! Can i have your autograph?
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WoW, what do you think the value of your Axe is today? Don't ever part with it because It is an extension of your hands
Thank you for putting this together. Brilliant insight and very interesting 👍🤟👍
Pleasure
Very interesting. I think that the history of amplifiers that Hendrix played through during his career is also a very interesting.
Coming soon I promise
He was using Fender Twin Reverb while he backed many R&B acts, and when Chas found him in New York. After bringing him to England, Chas gave him a 30watt "Burns" British amp that Hendrix was not at all happy with, having been used to the power of Fender Twins. Mitch Mitchell worked at drummer/amplifier builder Jim Marshall's shop. The rest is history. Jimi always used his Marshall dialed to 10, he used the volume control on his guitars to clean up the natural distortion of the Marshall speaker cabinets, and "sweeten the tone" of quieter passages, like Little Wing verses. He didn't actually use the Fuzzface or Octavia nearly as much as most copy-cat players do. Watch the camcorder recording of the historic Band of Gypsys Fillmore performance of Machine Gun. It is VERY obvious when he steps back and to the side to engage the Fuzztone, and the sound abruptly changes to a very hard-edge.
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His wide open Twin and/or Marshall stacks were the core of his "tone". Good luck finding a place to practice the actual sounds Jimi learned to control as his "sound". He had the same problem. People complaining he was WAAAAAY too LOUD! I was once playing my Marshall 100 8x12 stack at an outdoor high-school quad and the LAPD told me they literally followed the sound A MILE to eventually locate me.
The Duo-Sonic came in two different scale lengths, but not until 1964, if I understand correctly. That was barely late enough for him to get a Duo-Sonic II with the "longer" 24" scale. Even that is still short compared to Strats, which are 25.5". I struggle on Strats that have heavy gauge strings. I really have a hard time visualizing Jimi playing a 22.5" scale with his monster hand size. He makes a Strat look like a 3/4 scale! After '64 they offered the option of a 24" scale and called it the Duo-Sonic II. The 22.5" scale version is often called 3/4 size, or student model. If you want to experience a hot rod guitar, take a 22.5" scale guitar and have it set up for speed. It's a wild ride.
I was given a duo sonic by a rancher named Smokey Pound!!!!! It was great because I was a heavy equipment boss at an explosive testing range here in Socorro New Mexico and I was tasked to bury a very large and deep well for the old railroad and stage coach stop in snake ranch so I figured I'd build a stock tank for the cattle while I buried the well!!!! And Smoky came out with some candy bars in his glove box and was just amazed that I was building a tank while I buried the well. We talked about everything from cattle to bombs and then he asked me "what is your thing"??? I said electric guitars and about 9 months later his son brought a 1966 duo sonic in the original case and told me "my papa told me to give this to you and I didn't ask him why I just said yes sir so here you go man,,,, " I was just about to cry or poop my pants because it is so cool and I am still playing it!!!!!!!! Great day and good people!!!!!
Oh, and I should point out that I'm very, very grateful for the amount of work you put into this. This is more than just something to watch the past the time. This is a document of history.
Just for your info. I was 15 years old and with a few friends went to see Jimi Hendrix at Hastings Pier Ballroom. 22nd October 1967. We were standing pushed against the stage. He set fire to his guitar using lighter fuel as he kneeled over it. We could briefly feel the warmth during the very brief flare as he threw the match onto the Strat. He then stood up and holding it by the head stock and upper neck repeatedly smashed it against the stage floor. I do not remember it breaking the neck or anything significant. He hurled it into the Marshall cab and it lay on the floor making the most interesting feedback I have ever heard.. I was so influenced by him that the band I was in during my mid to late teens was asked to leave venues due to me setting fire to my guitar. He is still and always will be the greatest musical inspiration for me.
smashing and burning the guitars is so damn cool, it is rock and roll at its fullest.
You are so fortunate to have witnessed history so lucky dude's petty ya didn't get any strat reminents from the smashing?
dirtyrocker. Like Bill Graham told Jimi: "People will darn near burn their house down BEFORE"! they learn to play the guitar, because you`re JIMI HENDRIX"!!!
This is a cool video. I think its funny how today, players obsessively split-hairs over pickups and pedals and versions of guitars. Once I read that Jimi's roadies and managers said he would ask them to buy whatever Stratocasters they could get him off-the-shelf and that were available. I have no way to prove it, but I seriously doubt he was worrying if the stock Stratocaster he had just bought had Alnico 5 or 2 magnets or if the the Stratocaster had a CBS or vintage headstock. lol
Jimi was a player first and a gear head second. Most guitarists today are hobby players and are more geeky with their guitars.
@@editname8536 I just want a stratocaster that works so I can play. Ha Ha =]
I agree on that. Why does todays players have to have all that junk just to plug in and play? Those ol time guitar players did not worry about all that.
@newagetojo Can we hang out!!??
Case in point of how playing actually comes from your hands and not what bloody pick up, plectrum and effects pedal combination you have! Jimi would have wailed on the cheapest squier strat.
I was fortunate to have seen Jimi in Seattle WA in May 1969 at the Seattle center coliseum. I was 13 years old but can remember it like it was yesterday. If you've never been to his burial site it's an experience you will never forget.
Actually, it was the concert I cannot forget....I was there, 23 May 69...of the four concerts he held in Seattle, that 69 one has the best reputation.I hope you remember, how he called down a thunderstorm while playing his finale, Voodoo Child....The lightning outside the large, windowed venue, seemed to be keeping time with Jimi!
My first guitar was a 1977 Strat in black with maple board. I was in love with that guitar. I saw it in the shop I got it from for the first time in 1978 around Christmas time. I was drawn to it. I think it was priced around $400? I dont remember as I was 8 years old at the time. Every time we went grocery shopping at that mall I would go to the music shop to drool over that Strat. After 6 years of dreaming my dad felt I would appreciate it more as I was 14 and had been teaching myself to play. I guess I played good enough to impress my pops. Best day ever! My dad also bought me a Marshall 1X12 combo tube amp. I dont remember the model, but it sounded awesome after it warmed up and even better after I got a Tube Screamer. Still have my first Strat/Guitar to this day.
Very nice story! Thank you for sharing.. must be an awesome strat!😉
Woah how old are you no offense
@@huestoner 52 young
@@roosterj2599 that’s cool not too old I’m 16 and I just picked up a guitar for my birthday still tryna learn
@@huestoner Keep at it. Fall in love with it. Practice as much as you can. Find the passion and you will reward yourself over and over. That's the best advice I can give you.
Thank you for doing this. When I searched for Jimmy Hendrix Guitars this was the first result. Corporations will never understand but you created this content by fans for fans. For that I thank you.
🙏🙏Many thanks indeed
A1964 white fender Stratocaster nicknamed 'Linda' which he used in the are you experienced, probablyhe took to the UK. What's this axe worth today and whi has it? Wow a fender suburst. But later he destroys a guitar at the astoria theatre and the monterey festival.
This is a valuable and well-researched video.
Since Jimi played so many, different guitars, one can only assume that his unique sound came from stringing them upside down over the pickups, using different gauge strings on the same guitar and tuning somewhere around E flat.
Years of playing for food and rent and a lifetime spent mastering his chosen instrument helped define his musical ability.
God given talent was a factor as well.
Great comment - thanks Jacques
Love this story about Jimis guitars, just goes to show that even if u have to borrow gear sometimes u can still make it big, it’s just such a shame that jimi isn’t here to reap the fruits of he’s labour
I can absolutely tell you Jimi did NOT burn a guitar at Miami Pop / Gulfstream Racetrack I was there and for a brief moment sat with him up in the stands before he went on he gave me a pick. He played without smashing or burning ...,I grew up in Hollywood Florida.
Thanks for this info - I will touch upon this on the next part
Captains Tales What kind of picks did he use? Just curious.
Nice! You are one lucky dude!👍👍
I want to believe you but I also want to call bullshit
Mmm TH-cam comment - what a reliable source of info. I was there too man, he gave me a strat and a Marshall stack.
Thank you for putting this video together and doing all that research. It's exciting to see the guitars that Jimi played and hear some background info about them. You did an awesome job on the video.
Pleasure Riley
Unlike other guitarists, Jimi really never got overly attached to his guitars. He pretty much played a stock Strat and went through them frequently. Equipment geeks love this stuff. Just goes to show, it's the player, not the equipment.
This is true although I think his last two - the black and also white maple strats he was somewhat precious about.
Perhaps not a particular guitar, but young Jimmy held or wore his guitar day and night. Rarely did he have a guitar cased before he became a star. Hermon Hitson said he once asked Jimmy, "Why you never have a guitar case, Man?" Jimi answered, "I don't play the case. I play the GUITAR!" All of Jimi's Seattle pals attest to the fact that Jimmy ALWAYS had a guitar... day or night, waking or sleeping. They would tease him by hiding it or keeping it out of his reach, the FEW times they could get it out of his hands. Billy Cox mentions that after he got his guitar, in the Army, it was the same story. "Dude is CRAZY about that guitar, like not normal!" LMAO
"His guitar swung across his back... his dusty boots is his Cadillac" - Highway Chile
In the end he played at least Danelectro, ibanez, Epiphones, Fenders and Gibson's.
I was at the 69 Royal Albert hall gig (Feb 28 I think) when Jimi demolished a Strat and chucked the neck into the audience. My mate (no names,no pack drill) managed to grab it in the scrum, it had come off the neck plate screws quite cleanly and only had a little damage to the 20th fret where Jimi had bashed it against the mic stand. My compardre didn't play guitar and had it in a tea chest in his loft for a number of years. Around 1978 I nicked it and attached it to a later white CBS body and used it for a few years in several bands. Unfortunately for me, I had to return it to it's rescuer as it's value had got a bit silly by that time. I have some pics of it that might interest you. Thank you sir.
Amazing comment thanks so much - this deserves a full reply - please email me
I had a dream once where Jimi walked into the room I was in and handed me a guitar neck, and I pretended to play it and it turned into a full guitar and I looked up and he was gone
Another fascinating account,.However Mr Bunyan ,an obvious question to ask is ,did you ever think of posting a picture of the neck on social media or doing when you had it so that the fans coould see ? Even with the pictures that you have now would still be priceless given the back story.Why not
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Very interesting video. I met Tappy Wright a few times in the 80’s, through a fellow musician, but he never mentioned being Hendrix’s road manager! I wish he had, as I would have had a load of questions for him! Tappy’s autobiography is a very good read, with a lot of Hendrix stuff.
The best timeline documentation about Jimi Hendrix' guitars, I know. Great work - thank you!!!!
And btw, THANK YOU so much for producing such a great series on so many iconic players and instruments, really fantastic work, sir. Making Ken Burns sweat at night, I tell ya.
This is awesome , I'm ready for part 2 !
Coming soon bro
Me 2! So interesting!
Been a guitar player for 50 years, I don't understand the appeal of a new relic guitar. Wear and tear is fine but a new ax with dings and scratches?
I with you Tony, thanks.
Agreed. Character marks are something that happens along the guitars' journey through this world, not made in the factory.
They're for lazy posers.
Im sure they have their reasons, but a beat up guitar is definitely less likely to be stolen 🤷♂️
Fender dents and dings guitars at the factory, if it’s not done at the factory it’s not worth the same as doing it yourself, I have never understood the big deal with that! I love a new guitar 🎸
I saw Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight festival 1970, he was playing his Gibson Flying V for a lot of that gig, he also played a black Strat.
People gawp at how incredibly privileged you are to have actual seen the Holy Grail of guitar players and personal
iities jimi james the GOAT hendrix.
excellent journalism. thanks so much for the journey through Jimi's electric ladies.
Pleasure 🙏🎸
Just heard Eddie Kramer on Steve Jones' radio show today. Kramer remarked that Chas Chandler once jokingly suggested that they buy up all the black and white 60's strats they could find and go into the Hendrix-owned guitar business.
Steve Jones's autobiography, Lonely Boy, is a great read
With Chas I'd say, "half jokingly". He probably did consider doing that.
I was At Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Columbus, Ohio on Saturday May 24th 1970 with Jimi Hendrix & The Experience and A Local Band, “The Fifth Order” was the front band!
Jimi Hendrix Burnt a Fender Stratocaster on Stage That Night using Zippo Lighter Fluid!
Amazing - thanks for your memories
Thank You for the awesome research you did in the Videos. Jimi would be Honored
My pleasure Alvin.
Ramon,
Thank you for these videos. They must be an incredible amount of work.
His stepsister Janie who runs Experience Hendrix LLC has his acoustic 12 string he played Hear My Train A Comin on
Yes I saw that - thanks
She must have tracked that Zemaitis guitar owner down, as he had loaned it for the photo shoot...bet he got some bucks for it!
I was lucky to go to Manny’s before they closed. They had receipts on the wall for some of the guitars mentioned here.
I bought a Les Paul Custom from Manny's that was a POS. I was able to sell it for what I paid. Would never buy another guitar from Manny's again. Did buy Several Guitars from Chuck Levin's Washington Music Center with no problems.
I saw Hendrix in 1968 at the Chicago Auditorium. I don't remember which Strat he played. I do remember at one point his roadies brought out about 10 Strats and laid them side by side across the front of the stage. He kept playing. After a few songs the roadies came out and collected all the guitars and put them behind the backstage curtain.
Priceless ! ~you guys are so utterly privileged. This was Hendrix ,not just another gig .Wonder if you though you be writing about your experience 54 year later.
Your research is astonishing. Watched many of yr posts on stars guitars.
Amazing background provided.
Thanks a Mill.
Fascinating stuff to sleep on.
Thank you.🙏
The last photo in this video is a bit sad, now that we know the very next day he'd be gone forever.
I like very much that you got right to it, no 30 second opening, just right to the subject.
Thanks
Fuggin' awesome video. Makes me like the Stratocaster even more. Because hell, that's what Jimi played!
Saw Jimi at Detroits' Cobo Hall , May 2 1969 ... He started with his white one - broke a string - and the roadies tore off the white one & tossed That Black Maple necked 68 over his head, while the band jammed on - - -
i fell in love and bought one Exactly Like It , two years later
It is claimed that Uli Jon Roth has the black strat - got it from his girlfriend after her death - Monica Daneman - Jimi’s girlfriend who was there at the time of his death
Fantastic research, Ramon, very interesting. I always thought that the Dano was his first guitar THEN the Supro, but that doesn't line up I now see. A couple of observations...I saw Jimi (then Jimmy) with Little Richard in the summer of 1965 in Wildwood NJ. Apparently he was not full time with Richard at this stage, but he was playing the sunburst DuoSonic. My brother and I remember that because it was so unusual to see one just flipped over like he did. I saw him again in Philly, Feb., 1968 and he played creme or white Strats only. Later in March I saw him again in Philly and started out playing Voodoo Child on the sunburst Jazzmaster which Segal now owns. So glad I got to see him at this early inspired stage in his career...he was magical!
That's amazing thanks so much for the memories
........and he could play that burnt strat and sound better than any of us on a brand new one .....rip jimi
Jimi must have liked doing business At Manny's. That was on 37th St. in Manhattan. There were several guitar stores there. I bought my white Fender Mustang with red tortoise shell pick guard at one of them for $120.00 in 1965.
I guess he struck up a friendship and it was a one stop place he could find what he wanted - that sounds like a killer deal on the Mustang! Thanks Thomas
$120.00... That's what you paid for a Fender Mustang w/case in 1966. Type: [Maso's Blues ] In "Search" above to see and hear me play.
Yup, my girlfriend bought me the Hendrix white Fender strat (lefty w/Jimi's image on neck plate ) at Manny's for $750 due to tiny ding next to the trmolo...prob around 2003-2004ish...a long time ago.
Was amazed at how tiny Manny's is. It was cramped w just me and my girl lol.
Shut up you puss
That was actually w.48th st
It's interesting that Jimi played an Epiphone solid-body guitar in his early days, but I'm pretty sure the one in the photo is a Coronet, not a Wilshire. During the summer of 1974 I bought a 1962 Wilshire from a shop in Seattle for $200. It had a slightly off-set double cutaway body and an all-in-a-row headstock similar to a Firebird. In fact it was identical to the one that Johnny Winter is playing in the 1969 Swedish TH-cam video of 'Be Careful With A Fool' ... even down to the cherry finish. The great Steve Marriot of Humble Pie used to use a Coronet quite often, and the one in the Jimi photo looks the same. You've done a ton of research and come up with a fascinating compilation, so 'congratulations' on that. For what it's worth, I saw Jimi play in Seattle in May '69, and I seem to remember him playing a white (or Ivory) Strat that night.
thanks for your fantastic comment - and you are so lucky to have seen the great man in person!
@@TheGuitarShow ... Yes, I feel priveleged to have seen Jimi in concert, but my luck ran out the following summer (1970) when I had a ticket to see him at the Seattle baseball stadium in August (I think). Days before the gig I had my car towed away for illegal parking, and ended up selling my ticket so I could pay the release fee! I just shrugged and thought 'Well, I'll catch him next time.' But, sadly there was no next time. He died the following month.
As for the Epi Wilshire that I bought, I had it rebuilt in left-handed form (being a L/H player, as it happens) using the original hardware and a new thicker body in the same shape. I used it in my first band, but later sold it to finance a new John Birch being built by John Diggins in Birmingham. In case you're confused, I'm British but lived in Seattle for a few years.
Great work, I learned a lot here. I've heard it said that Hendrix would buy a number of Strats, take them apart and use the best bits to make his preferred guitars - much like Clapton did with Blackie and Brownie. This could certainly account for the red strat with a maple board. I also assumed that the left overs were probably the instruments that got smashed and burned. Anyway, thanks again for the great video.
thanks - yes you could well be right - that was such a shame he broke that red/maple neck strat look amazing !
Makes sense to me..He destroyed the leftover gtrs!
There's a recent white strat in England that was up for sale,and it's thought to be one of his where he took a bunch of strats,laid them out on the hotel bed,found what sounded best with what, and reassembled them.read it in 2019 for sure.it was strung for left handed playing...
Very well presented, great detailed info....awesome vid !!
Wow, excellent research..
Fyi: I saw Jimi play at the Carousel Theater in Framingham, Mass on Aug 24th 1968.. He had a White Strat that he did most of the show with. I can't rem if it was Rosewood or Maple. But I do remember him switching to a Baby Blue, what I thought was a Fender Mustang to close the show with Wildthing & to Smash into his Stacks. I've never seen a word on this gtr anywhere. But I'm pretty sure that my memory on this is accurate.
Many thanks ...that's what I love about doing these videos is getting real life memories of concerts ...amazing thanks
My pleasure.. My first two concerts was Jimi followed by Jimmy. Zep2 wasn't out yet, but they were playing Zep1&2 & selling Zep2 in the Boston Garden Lobby.. FYI, no Tele was seen on stage.. LP from begining to end.. Thx again for the research.. Great Video's.
must be a unforgettable amazing concert to remember. lucky man.
The Carousel Theater should have been called the Carousel Tent, and was very common of the type of places Jimi played. It was a miserable small space with a stage in the center leaving half of the audience of about 800 seated behind the stage. The sound quality was typical for The Experience and Jimi spent most of the time between numbers apologizing to the audience. Except for the back rows most of the audience remained seated until the last song, a kind of Taps, Reveille, SPB, Wild Thing number, where Jimi encouraged them to finally stand up.
A couple things that really stand out about the show is that Jimi was almost constantly chewing open mouthed like a cow chewing cud, and he was repeatedly wiping sweat from his face with a confederate flag. The chewing thing was just weird and the confederate flag in retrospect is kind of unusual. BTW the guitar he pretended to smash into the speaker stack was a Daphne Blue colored Strat. At the last moment before hitting the stack he turned the guitar sideways, and pushed against the stack that was being held from behind by two roadies. He did however manage to break one guitar string in the process.
Overall $3.50 well spent, but the show was short by today's standard and the sound quality absolutely horrid. All three of them played their best, but were terribly let down by the sound team.
I saw him set fire to a white strat using lighter fuel during a concert at Halle Munsterland, Munster, West Germany.circa ‘68 can’t be exact with date. He also put the headstock through a couple of Marshall speakers.
Hi there, I have a story that relates to the Saville theatre Strat. I was living and working in the Southampton area in the early 80's and jammed a couple of times with a guy I worked with. We were both into Jimi and had similar taste in guitars. One day he pulled out some Fender pickup's clearly old grey back with waxed wires. My mate claimed that he was in Shaftesbury Avenue around 1970 and saw in a guitar shop glass case a broken Fender Scratch plate with most of the hardware with. It was on sale as Jimi's smashed Strat from the Saville theatre just up the road. They wanted what he said 'a lot of money for it'. Being a big Hendrix fan he went back some time later and it was still there so he bought it. Either way he had removed the pickups and built a guitar but only used 2 pick up's. He offered to loan me the remaining pickup which was the neck pickup. At the time I was playing a Tokai Strat (TST50) and I could not wait to swap it into my guitar. I took it down to my local guitar shop to sort for me as I was a tad green in those day's. It was a shop called John Boot's Music (Now defunct)in Hythe near Southampton. The tech. guy at the time (Derrick Pullen) was a bit of a Fender guru and first thing he did was check the output, he said that it was very low output ( I can't remember the ohm's but 5.something) So in it went into the Tokai. Hendrix Saville Theatre pickup or not I remember the grin on Derricks face also Mark Owers famed Southampton guitarist who was having a go. It was clearly a superb 'flutey' sounding pickup which I enjoyed for a about a year and gave (Mike Clowes) his pickup back. I have not seen Mike since I left the company we both worked for but soon after that I worked at the John Boots guitar shop until I left and set up my own guitar shop in Pembroke. Cheers Paul
I'm pretty sure that the painted V was wine red. When Gibson reissued it, they got the color wrong. But several photos show it had a red tint to it.
Can't wait for part 2! His sg custom was my favorite.
ah thats interesting - ill look it up and confirm it in part 2
Fascinating stuff. Thanks for all the research and for sharing it on this most informative video.
I have the book "Hendrix Gear." There is a guitar list in this book. Jimi had more White with Rosewood fretboard Strats than any other flavor.
Thanks
Great video, there is a couple of bands I didn't know he played in. Thanks for the info. jimi made such an impact in music the few years he played. To this day many professional musicians can't do what he did on guitar, Jimi was years ahead of everybody.
pleasure bro
Nice work! .I stopped at 24:18 to chime in on a couple of things. Jimi burned a 3rd Strat in 1967 at the one of the Ambassador shows in Washington D.C. It was a black one that Nils Lofgren shared a photo of. I saw it the guitar at the Hardrock in Las Vegas, as I remember it had a larger CBS headstock. All 3 guitars were burned in 1967 and none afterwards. Also, the photos of Jimi with the Jaguar are from Top of the Pops in Aug '67 and it's blue, not black. It's still strung right handed and it's not plugged in. It was basically a prop for them to mime Burning of the Midnight Lamp. This wouldn't have been the black Jaguar the Brian Jones gave Hendrix but rather one he borrowed for the shoot. All in all I'm enjoying your video!
Many thanks Dave and thanks for thr heads up on the Nils Lofgten black strat!
Yes....it was only a few years ago, that photographic proof of Jimi burning a guitar at the Ambassador in 1967 did show up...the guitar burning fizzled out pretty quick.
Great information! Thank you for compiling!
Well done INCREDIBLE. One of my first guitars was a fender mustang and of course I was a HENDRIX type guitar player at the time. (I REMEMBER RAINBOW BRIDGE being in heavy rotation) I always liked that mustang haven't picked one up since. I hated jaguars. My best friend had a white strat at the time. I now am a FENDER only
pleasure Mark!
Jimi had 3 Flying Vs, the painted '67 he gave to Mitch Cox in 1968, he had another in '69 seen on the Lonnie Youngblood album cover and backstage MSG, then the custom made left handed one he started playing at The LA Forum, 4/25/70 and most gigs after. The guitar you pictured as an Eko was actually the Ibanez, I researched that one.
thanks
The most valuable Jimi guitar info video ever, thank you so much!!!
When can we see the part two?
Coming on Monday thanks
Wonderful video, I also thought he set strats on fire regularly. Looking forward to part two. Thanks
thanks Dave for watching!
Interesting at 15:18 the guitar is strung for a right handed person. I've always heard that Jimi had jammed with people sometimes using someone else's guitar that would be laying around strung righty. Great job !! Can't wait for part 2
yes I only noticed this after I uploaded - thanks for pointing it out!
good eyes!
A fave photo for me was Jimi visiting Mick Taylor backstage before a Stones Madison Square Garden gig. Jimi, flipped over SG. Mick, Burst LP.
Yes always except when he jammed usually.
He could play both ways. His father encouraged him to play righty cause (IDK he thought left was for weirdos or something) and didn't like seeing him play lefty.
At 20:38---Fender did not build an 8-10" speaker cabinet in '69. It had to be an Ampeg SVT bass cabinet. They were the only people making 8-10" speaker cabinets at that time.
Your research is impressive. Brian Jones actually introduced Hendrix at Monterrey. I look forward to your video on Brian's gear.
That was an incredible video! Thanx mate
Hi Ramon, this was fantastic, great work!
Thanks Mike
At the surface this looks like a video for fans of Jimi Hendrix and gear heads. But by the end of it I realized it was a rather beautiful and sad story about one of society's great heroes.
Great job on this! One thing to add is the Frank Zappa strat has not been proven certain to be owned by Jimi. That is why when it was auctioned, it did not bring anywhere near the reserve, due to lack of provenance. Also, Hendrix for a short time used an Acoustic Black Widow, which he traded for from Harvey Gerst, the guitarist of the band Sweetwater. The Acoustic company found out about the trade, and wanted to make Harvey a new one instead of him playing Jimi's old strat.. So Harvey inexplicably gave Jimi back his strat when his replacement Black Widow was completed. Had he not done that he would have had the nicest Hendrix strat in existence.
Thanks for this - yes its a bit of a puzzle that one
@@TheGuitarShow Gerst, like most folks at that time, had no idea Jimi would die in a couple of years...Gerst also was a representative of/for Acoustic, so I guess he did not want to complicate his status with the company....so maybe he was just being thoughtful?
That jaguar which tippy white had . Saw that guitar on display at the hard rock hotel in Marble Arch London . Saw it there a couple of weeks ago. There is also a cape that belonged to Hendrix on display. They have bands on at this hotel and I’m going to try to get a gig there . It’s the old Cumberland hotel which Jimi was booked into on the day of his tragic passing. Ramon , I jammed with you once a few years ago at an art event on Roman Road east London. Do you remember? Have a watch of my videos to see if you do ? Excellent video on jimi and his guitars , I liked the Brian Jones one you did too . One day we jam again mate .
Yes! This is a good one! Love to see Clapton and the Beano story.
its the next one!
Great documentary on Jimi's guitars and an amazing collection of photos too! #TGS
many thanks indeed bro
Hi, Rob D here. What a great painstakingly researched video, just thought I’d add a few points that might help if I may.
*The pic of Jimi on Top of the Pops isn’t the Monterey Strat it’s the Candy Apple Red Strat referred to later in your video. He can be seen using it at the Big Apple Club Munich on Nov 9th ’66 with a maple capped pre-CBS neck fitted. Then on Top of the Pops March 30th ’67 with a CBS rosewood neck fitted (as in your pic) footage of which can be seen in the bonus features of the Hear My Train A-Comin’ DVD, black & white yes but clearly metallic. Then at Olympic Studios in April ’67 with the maple cap neck re-attached. Then in the Popside Sweden footage on May 24th playing Purple Haze and Wind Cries Mary with the maple neck. Finally at the Seville Theatre on June 4th with the maple neck, painted and smashed. If you compare various pics you can see by the wear to the forearm contour edge through to the primer coat that it’s the same body.
*The Fender Jaguar is Lake Placid Blue, not black and as it wasn’t re-strung or the strap button moved it’s likely it was just loaned to mime with on TV. I’ve also not heard of the Brian Jones connection, and at least ONE guitar of choice for Experiencing the Blues was the Flying V.
*The pic you show of Jimi with a Sunburst Strat at Monterey is in fact from the Honolulu International Centre Oahu Hawaii on Oct 5th ’68. (It could also possibly the Swing Auditorium San Bernardino California on Sept 5th ’68 but I’d go with Hawaii). I’ve not seen any evidence of a Sunburst Strat at Monterey.
*I’ve never heard of Jimi having a Moserite Joe Maphis double neck guitar or it’s use on Spanish Castle Magic. He’s said to have used a Cherry Hagstrom 8-string bass on this, he and Noel Redding each had one.
*The use of a Fender Showman amp/cab setup as referred to by Eddie Kramer is not on the ‘iconic’ Voodoo Child (Slight Return) but Voodoo Chile, the slow delta blues style jam with Jack Cassidy and Steve Winwood.
*The blue Strat used at, for example, Singer Bowl on Aug 23 ’68 is Blue Ice Metallic, a Ford car colour used by Fender ’65 to ‘69 and is lighter than the more common Lake Placid Blue.
*The ‘F’ stamped tuners used by Fender mid ’68 onwards were by Schaller not Kluson.
*I’ve heard the Native American arrowhead theory as regards the black left handed Flying V’s fretboard before, but these markers had already appeared on the 335-style Trini Lopez Model Gibson, which was in production 1964-1970. Interestingly, I’ve strummed the opening chords to Angel on this guitar (well it would’ve been rude not to wouldn’t it) back when you could get your hands on it and unlike ’60’s V’s and my ’67 re-issue on which the necks are raked, or angled back to the body, this one is more parallel to the body like, I think ‘70’s or ‘80’s ones with the fretboard prouder of the body face. Almost like a ‘prototype’ of ‘70’s V’s to come.
Hope some of this might help, and thank you, for bothering to do these vids.
Excellent info many thanks indeed
wow,, WOW. Insane history!!! I thought the Monterey Strat was a one and done affair but he 'sacrificed something' he really loved. Flying Angel bit is rad. Maybe the Arrowhead inlay is in Pt 2. Uli and that black Strat ?? unreal.
Thanks for watching - yes Ill tie up some loose ends from part one plus some other surprises!
Excellent work, thank you for this!
Pleasure
Jimi’s “Love Drops V” is probably one of my favorite.
There's no mention of his 1967 Off White Gibson SG Custom with the gold hardware and Vibrola bar. Gibson gifted it to him in 1967. It resides in the Hard Rock Cafe in Florida, I believe. I have a replica.
Also, another note to just add in for when you make part two.
The 1967 Flying V that he had hand-painted the design on? He did play that one on All Along The Watchtower, and he used a cigarette lighter for the slide part in the middle. He sat across from Dave Mason from Traffic, who played acoustic guitar on the track. There's no footage (that I've seen) but there are pictures from that session in the Classic Albums documentary of Electric Ladyland.
He gave that V to Mick Cox from Eire Apparent, (my guess sometime in 1968, after Watchtower was recorded) and Mick had that paint design filed off. It was later restored sometime after Jimi's death. And I guess because he liked the Gibson's for his Blues playing, as you had mentioned, especially for Red House, he bought a new one in 1969. It had the Maestro Vibrola arm on it as well. Also gold. Rare split diamond inlays. Said Gibson Custom on the headstock.
Anyway, that Flying V can be seen in the footage from The Maui Concert, July 30, 1970. A little over 2 months before his death. The footage of the latter show I don't think was ever "officially" released, but was used in the Rainbow Bridge film. And at the Blue Wild Angel: Live At the Isle of Wight Festival in England. August 31, 1970. A mere 18 days before his death. The largest international crowd he had ever played to. 600,000+.
Love the details brother.....some of these pictures I never saw of him ....RIP Manny's Music.....I used to work there ....my former boss Henry Goldrich would tell me stories of Hendrix buying stuff there .....can not remember details.....also some of his stage strats are mixed parts
wow thanks for your comment! Thanks also for the info - Ill mention it in part 2!
Holy Smokes!!! RIP Mannys??? Thats sad. Steve Miller went there in like '72 and asked 'any cool stuff here ?' They offered i believe 2 left handed Strats ordered by Jimi but he died before he could get them. Fly Like An Eagle cover in Black was one. man I think this was later stolen.
Ahhh.. an ex employee..!! I used to go there from 1975 to 1979 and get invited to the 2nd and 3rd floor. I would find used instruments with famous name tags on them. Many musicians rented these instruments and then were returned back to Mannys.. Is that true?? Manny's was fantastic as well as the other 10 plus music shops on 48th street.
Fantastic! I saw a screening of the Electric Church last night, featuring the July 4th 1970 Atlanta Pop Festival performance. The black, cigarette burned, skunk stripe-less, Strat was prominently used and had me scratching my head. Watching your video answered a few questions!!! Thanks for posting!!!!
pleasure and thanks fr your great comment
The Brian Jones Jaguar is strung right-handed.
I never noticed that in the photo before.
I have heard that Hendrix could play a right or left handed guitar.
There it is.
you could well be right thanks
fantastic stuff... keep up the good work...!
Great video! It's so interesting to see him playing guitars other than Strats. Just think how Fender's sales would have changed if he had continued using Jazzmasters! But it just looks wrong playing an offset upside down. Also, it's hard to imagine his giant hands on a short scale Duosonic! Thanks again.
Wow! You put in some hours of research on this Buddy. Great job!
There is one major thing about Hendrix that I have never been able to figure out. You'll note that every guitar he uses is a right-handed model. However, unlike Otis Rush and Albert King, Hendrix did not play upside down. On his instruments the strings, bridge and nut were reversed so he could play a right-handed guitar with his left hand without playing upside down.
This never made sense since the controls were situated at the top of the instrument relative to his left handed playing. This made tonal adjustments difficult. Also, and this is clearly obvious on the single-cutaway Les Paul, playing a restrung right-handed made accessing the upper registers difficult, to say the least. The Les Paul is the most obvious example, though even with the Stratocaster, the longer horn was at the bottom, again making access to the higher registers more difficult. Of course using the Flying-V would not have any effect.
So, my question is why didn't he just use left-handed guitars instead of going through the set and playability issues. I have never been able to figure this out. Comment are welcome and encouraged.
So Jimi took Keith Richards guitar, girlffiend and also Jeff Becks wah pedal. Jimi Hendrix was a real rock conquerer.
lol yep!
Pardon my ignorance, but what is this about Jimi and Jeff Beck’s wah pedal? 😮
hey thanks for doing this, and also for being open to the corrections that are appearing in the comments section. It's great for some of us that really love Jimi, are players, and who's lives were changed by him. I am one. Lucky enough to have seen Jimi 5 times in the NYC area, from age 13. I am still playing. Many of the facts you lay out do correspond correctly. Only omission, as pointed out by quite a few already, is the 3 pickup white SG Custom. He played that at Avery Fischer Hall in NOV. 69, (I believe that was his birthday gig) where he also was breaking strings a lot so it seemed to be a constant switch between the black maple neck Strat and a white maple neck, and then finally the SG came out. I also was at Fillmore East 10. May 68 (Sly & the Family Stone opening, mind you) and my life was forever changed when he pulled out the black Les Paul Custom and played "the blues". The first show I saw was 3 months earlier, March 68 at Hunter College. I have seen photos from the late show of that night and the black L.P. Custom was used then, too, so he had it a bit earlier than you state apparently. I am curious about what happened with that guitar. I have seen photos of him using it in Sweden as well, but it seems to have been used only for a period of a few months. To me that is the most intriguing and mysterious of Jimi's guitars... hope to learn more! Again, thanks for what you've done. I learned a lot about his various Strats through this. Axis is my favourite album as well!
Very well documented and interesting ! Electric guitars were like an extension to Hendrix's body. When I deiscovered him some 40 years ago, I was shocked by the ''feel'' Hendrix would create with his great tone and hands, He was one of a kind. The fact that he died so young created memories of a guitar hero bigger than nature. R.I.P Jimy.
The black man I lived with for 4 yrs back in the earl 80' lived in Seattle Washington. Puget sound
There is a vid on youtube someone stating that Hendrix used a Tele when recording Purple Haze, but you can't believe everything you see and here now can you
I've seen it. It's a good video, and he absolutely NAILS the sound of the record. But they are both Fenders, so who knows?
Jimi's last concert in the UK before he died was the Isle of Wight (not Isle of Man). Great video, really informative. Thanks
Jimi also used a flying V Gibson when he performed in the movie Rainbow Bridge.
thanks for this
Love the look(s) on his face during "Foxy Lady" at this show - priceless!
In isle of wight too. Because the radio noises buzzing out his Amps. So he turn volume down a little and used the Flyn V
FYI-At 24:18 that is Ice Blue Metallic 1966-67 Strat. They made that color only from 1965-1969. I know cause I have the one identically the same. It might even be the same guitar. who knows but I love it!
Jeff Larson , you mean the "blue" Strat at 21:55? I also have this exact one, an early '68 (stamped ES). I still can't be sure what paint colour it actually is, but looks exactly like this one. Too me it now looks more like the Foam Green in pictures of Fender's 1966 custom colour chart, it definitely looks more green than blue 50 years later! I can't find any photos of Jimi with this guitar anywhere!
Anyway, pretty sure you're wrong and mine is actually Jimi's old one, I have his guitar strap to ;-)
the green/blue ambiguity is probably due to the lacquer which yellows over time
Very good documentary on Jimi's guitars..!! How did all these Mannys NYC guitars get purchased? Did Jimi visit that store and play them? and all the other music stores on 48th street?? I am guessing someone kept the purchase receipts at Mannys or his roadie?
i think theres receipts with management for jimi as he never carried or had any money on him - he just asked management all the time - Eric Clapton bought a guitar from Mannys and his production/management kept a receipt.
I read once in Guitar (Player) Magazine that he would visit Manny's and buy guitars there personally. I guess they may have been charged to an account if that is true. I don't know if he always visited there when he bought guitars, but the article did say he would make personal purchases. I read in that same article that if Jimi saw a kid there playing a guitar that such a kid liked, he would just outright buy it for the kid. I remember reading that thinking how cool that was that Jimi would do that. This was an old edition of Guitar Player(?) magazine that came out when I was about 16 or 17 -so around 1976 -1977.
Wow, you have done your research. This is so vital. Thank you. I always thought Hendrix was comfortable with Strats, uncomfortable with Gibsons (eg. Isle of Wight Festival), but he appears ok with the LP Custom, even upside down.
Speaking as a guitar player, when you're handed a guitar, you tend to always play it differently, according to it's feel, set up, sometimes you work it a bit hard, drive it, and sometimes interesting results can happen. I'm sure this would have been the same with Jimi. Same as artists with new brushes, pallets etc...
The Hendrix guitar Zappa owns is genuine and come from The Astoria Gig in London Later known as The rainbow Theatre where Zappa was also thrown off the stage and hurt badly in the orchestra pit
Thanks for this!
@The SNES Man Yup someone rugbyTackled him off the stage andinto the Orchestra Pit damaging his leg really badly leaving him with ''one leg shorter than other'' Alas Dancing Fool
Really enjoyed this... amazing compilation!
Pleasure
i wonder where those guitars are now amazing stories in all of them
agreed
In the studio, I remember reading that Hendrix had a Rickenbacker 12 string, I don't know what he used it on, but I can see him utilizing the 12 string for some effect he might have wanted, he was always refining and searching for new sounds ?
My dear friend one more time Jim burned his guitar at the ambassador theatre august 1967!So its total 3.you can google it there are images,thanks ;)
Thanks brother for the info I'll check it and put it in part two
Was at Village Music in Nashville, TN and the owner pulled out old guitar rental records where Hendrix signed out a Fender guitar. She said he rented it and didn’t bring it back!
ha thanks for this!
That is believable!
There’s footage of the blue strat - it’s lake placid blue. This video is a big job. You’re doing a good job man...
🙏Thanks Matt
Apparently, that picture of Hendrix playing the black Jaguar inspired the creation of the Squier Supersonic guitar!
The reason jimi got rid of Astoria the crew complained of the bad condition it was in
This is a great video, part 2 is a must see. Btw, I never knew Hendrix burnt only two and why he did it. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
The Ozark wasn't the first guitar, His first was an acoustic most likely a Kay. This story was told by Al and Leon Hendrix.
You need to read the book Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy as it gives serial numbers of most of his equipment
cool - theres another book which I got some info from called the gear of jimi hendrx - its very detailed thanks!
sorry I need to make a correction on myself - The Avery Fisher Hall show I mentioned was NOV. '68- with the SG Custom. And it was just called Philharmonic Hall back then (Lincoln Center) "Electric Thanksgiving". At the time I didn't know it was Jimi's birthday, but I believe it was. Of the 5 shows I saw, this one was where he changed guitars the most, it was just like a parade of White Strat, Black Strat until finally the SG Custom came out. Only time I saw him play that guitar. Thanks again, just watched part 2. But still want to know more about the Black Beauty. I was sitting upstairs in Fillmore East and I could see that staple neck pickup from my seat! Blew my mind..
what about his Gibson SG with 3 humbuckers?
coming to that in the next part which I hope to do next week!
and Gibson Flying Ving
He sold it to Robbie Kreiger.
Baruch Cohen is that right?
Baruch Cohen Is that honestly true?
Great video thanks for posting it
pleasure and thanks!
Dont get me wrong , this video does have some interesting points and information .