I read a very cool story about Hendrix. Jimi was playing a club in London a day or 2 after The Beatles released Sgt Pepper's. In the audience was Paul McCartney and George Harrison. Jimi gave them the ultimate tribute. With almost no time, Jimi nailed Sgt Pepper's live for Paul and George. They couldn't believe he learn their song and played with live for them. When I was in my early teens in the mid 70 , having someone paint your favorite rock star and / or favorite album on the back of a denim jacket was considered really cool. I had Jimi Hendrix sitting on a cloud with Angel Wings playing the Harp. In my life time and naturally in my opinion , 2 guitarists changed the way guitarists looked at their instrument. Eddie Van Halen and this bad ass...Jimi Hendrix. I'm 60, and have played an album by Jimi Hendrix at least once a week since I'm 15 If not for Jimi Hendrix rock n roll would all sound like The Kinks.
The so called "Arrow heads" inlay on Jimi's Custom Flying V were originally used on Gibson 's " Trini Lopez" custom Artist model, Jimi saw them and requested they were added to his Custom V. Keep up the good work.
Kudos for all the painstakingly hours of research into getting the details and facts and for your dedication to providing this up-close and personal account of the Man with the Guitar. Jimi Hendrix
I saw Jimi at Newark Symphony Hall in Newark, NJ, on April 5, 1968, the night after Martin Luther King was killed. He played a white Strat with a rosewood fretboard, a sunburst Jazzmaster, and the mid-50's black Les Paul Custom. I have photos of all three guitars.
OutStanding !!. The Woodstock Strat made the papers when it sold for $22,000 in '91 or so. Real deal, thank goodness. SB V. I knew of the painted one then The Isle Of Wight. man, family used one for gigs from SF to CBGBs.
Good upload sir. We still can't know enough about Jimi and many folks will feel that way (if we Earthlings are still around) thousands of years in the future!
Photographed the Woodstock strat at the live it loud rock instrument exhibit at metropolitan museum nyc....and the psychedelic Vee he painted is there ....almost wanted to touch them so badly.....the Woodstock strat I saw had no scratches
Thanks for another great one brother. Chronologically, I thought Jimi was well past his days of smashing and/or burning Strats. Perhaps Mitch indeed said that, but in jest I'm thinking. Whatever the case, Jimi is, and always has been, my guitar hero; over 40 years now. I'm watching this as I glance over at my white/maple Strat next to one of the many Hendrix posters in my studio. Full disclosure - I'm playing an SG right now. So sue me! 😂🤣 All joking aside, on a desert island, I'm Strat guy. I might get bored and adding a whammy into my playing is fun here and there. And then there's the durability factor. 😉
You brought up the point that there were 2 white CBS maple cap Strats. If you look at what we commonly call the "Woodstock Strat" back at the Royal Albert Hall rehearsals in Feb '69 you can clearly see a repair job done on the back of the neck right behind the 1st fret. Throughout the 1969 US tour you can see the repair job. However, once he's at Woodstock the repair job is no longer visible which leads me to believe that it received a new neck, or is a different guitar. Also, in your part one you left out a PreCBS white Strat that he used from around Oct '67 to March or so '68. Instead of having the typical knifeswitch it had 3 mini toggles. It also had a trem unit but no whammy bar. From what I've read the pick-ups had been hot-rodded. If you look at photos from the Olympia in France mid Oct '67 you can see several photos of it. Thanks again, I enjoyed both videos!
It would be interesting to count the number of guitars owned by Jimi Hendrix now on display around the world. Who knew that Jimi purchased a white Strat daily for ten years?
I can' t prove anything, but I have it in good certainty that there were two identical olympic white Strats after 68 - the woodstock one, and the maui/fehmarn one. The one used at the royal albert hall may be the woodstock one. The woodstock one was used from 68 to mid 69 or so. The other one was used from 69-70 until he died. There is some evidence about it online, I'm not the only one who believes this. I've always felt that the second olympic white strat was much yellower. But I believe that the guitar displayed at the museum today is indeed the woodstock strat, it now has yellowed considerably.
Thanks again! Looking forward to Part 3. Got sidetracked by Elvin Bishop. Had to listen to one of my all-time favorite guitar solos on Fooled Around and Fell in Love.
Just watched a 2nd time... Even better'n the 1st! Yes vote on the AMPs... and would luv to see a vid with your take on Jimi's playing styles. Thanx mon and... cheers
I held a 67 sunburst strat of Jimis in Nashville as well and a rare all rosewood strat Fender made for him.. they made a tele for George Harrison and this strat for Jimi.. he passed before it was given to him. I also got to sit behind Mitch Mitchells drum kit.
Bruce Fulper yes he could but if u see a picture of him playing right handed live then that means the picture that was used was a negative...and not the right photo...there are some pictures of kurt cobain playing right handed too but its just the negative...
in 2004 or 2005 i went to the london hard rock cafe vault and actually got to hold the black..gold plated flying v of jimi's. i still have a picture of me holding it left handed
Nice one Ramon ! I have been waiting for this & look forward to part 3. Btw the Strat with the Tele one piece neck was also used on the Dick Cavett Show ✌️
@@TheGuitarShow My dear friend Debbie in Florida , sadly passed away earlier this year. I have never known anyone so crazy about Jimi. She saw him 3 times including Woodstock and boy she would have been enthusiastically all over this with very exact information ,she researched & cataloged by hand before we had PC's , his gigs, guitars, clothes , press releases etc and was the Go To Hendrix person on Google Plus for years. Sorry I don't why I told you this ☺️ Jimi's music makes me happy ✌️
Thanks for that part 2 ! I think the Seattle museum should show the woodstock strat in a vertical glass showcase, so we could see the back of the strat also, as shown there, it looks like a lying dead man..
Yes the Woodstock guitar at the EMP is real. I contacted them about it years ago. They, meaning the EMP fixed it up. Same for the burn marks on the headstock. I actually received HD photos from the museum and the touch up paint is visible as it aged differently and is now a slightly different white/yellow
Fender was going to present Jimi with a rosewood Strat, but he died before it was completed (looked the same as George Harrison's Telecaster, just in Strat form).
1:26- Regarding the guitar strap. It was an Ace guitar strap. In my day we picked them up for $3. Now they're on ebay for $100-$200. I still have a few from the old days. And no, I'm not selling them.
@@TheGuitarShow I actually re-stitched some of mine. In August of 1969 (50 years ago this month) I bought a white Gibson Kalamazoo KG2A (SG style)and bought a white Ace strap to go with it. Still have both. My girlfriend was breaking up with me and I bought it to soothe my aching heart.
So the strat on display at the museum belonged to Jimi (serial number) but there is evidence that there were two identical guitars, one for the road and one for the studio. Mitchell's story is poignant, Jimi's last performance before he died, gift honouring a newborn. As the guitar in the musuem was found "around" the time of his death at Electric Lady, it is possible that Mitchell did not actually receive the guitar until after Jimi died but the promise was made when reported, everyone heard it, was known by his entourage. Mitchell compressed the timeline for brevity. Therefore, i) Mitchell was given the "wrong" guitar (Mitchell had no reason to doubt it was "the" guitar, as if he was going to check for scratches at that time) or ii) the 2nd "scratch" strat does not exist, perhaps as the scratch was fixed by Mitchell but he later realized the alteration would lower its value, stayed mum iii) the actual strat is missing, all we have is the studio strat. Hence, more evidence to establish two strats (one for the studio and one for the road) must be found.
You really hit the nail on the head with your hypothesis - I am thinking about doing a follow up video about this as i could have gone more in depth into this - also my good friend who was working for Fender at the time of the auction says those photos of the back of the headstock do not really prove anything. Thanks!
@@TheGuitarShow Thank you, a good video provides the viewer with something to think about and this one certainly achieves that. Its like a criminal case, need to get past the "reasonable doubt", e.g., maybe Mitchell fixes the scratch. The grain on wood is like a fingerprint, Woodstock footage of Jimi playing has many close-ups of the neck, a good shot of the museum neck and the Woodstock footage neck is do-able.
Jerry's would be much shorter - he tended to not throw his guitars around or burn them as much as Jimi did :) I think there's a good video somewhere on the 3 that Doug made for him. Wolf was always my fav. I've seen pics of Jer with a Guild, Gibson Les Paul, Strat (Alligator?), one of those aluminum ones that I suddenly can't remember the name of, and then the big 3.
Great job, it is really confounding trying to authenticate Stratocasters, their parts guitar nature leads to a lot part swapping and a body may go one way and the neck another.
I think that the woodstock strat and the white strat with the mark are both the same guitar. I looked at some minor details regarding the woodstock strat and the white strat he played in 1970. What I noted is that the the woodstock strat is missing a screw on the second hole of the pickguard on the left side from the bridge, and the neck pickup is slanted downward. You can see that those minor details are found on the woodstock strat and the pictures of Jimi playing this white strat in 1970. I just think that Jimi never cleaned his guitars and that it might just be a marking that can be rubbed off. I have also noted the same scrape marks on the body as the woodstock strat which leads me to believe they are the same guitar. However thats my observation, I could be wrong and it is fascinating that it is a mystery.
Hendrix had another black Flying V that he painted up psychedelic. The paint kind of looked similar to the sacrificed Strat at Montery. I read an article a few years back, it was located, but some idiot paited it red, over the Hendrix paint. A guitar luthier remove the paint but the original finish w Hendrix paint bled through into the wood and the luthier could then refinish it to the orignal Hendrix state. I'm sure the article is floating around online. I think might have been a Guitar Player mag I had read this.
If you look at the Fehmarn picture of the Woodstock Strat, (1.59) you can see that Jimi had bent the tremelo arm to his own requirements. The arm on the guitar in the museum (3.15) appears dead straight.So I'd be knocking $20 off the price straight away. :-)
I commented on part 1 regarding Paul Allen's purchase of the Woodstock Fender I must have heard it wrong I stated he paid $3 mill but the story was the same PS saw Jimi's concert in Vancouver at the Coliseum in Aug 1970
Didn't Jimi also play a black marble strat? I remember seeing it in a video some years ago. When I first tried to learn guitar in 1976, my first teacher sold me a black marble strat. He told me that Fender had designed it for Jimi, and then made a dozen or so more of them, of which mine was one. It was supposedly a pre-CBS vintage. Unfortunately, a year later, while I was attending a Bob Seager concert, a local drug addict broke into my house and stole that guitar, and I never saw it again. I was actually so upset, I stopped playing entirely...
Outstanding!!! I always thought the first Flying Angel was black. wrong but i don't mind (family, Albert King, etc...) Woodstock Strat,,,,when that sold for like $275 k, in '91, the pinnacle then. oh well, i have a pearly white Arbor from '83. It might be worth the '75'. Not that i care,
@@TheGuitarShow Nice work here and thanks for the reply. To be honest, i didn't know Gibson offered a TSB V until nearly 20 years ago with an Albert King 'Best Of'. man, extended family had one,,,,gigged from CBGB's to So Cal.
Does anyone have any information on the fender strat sunburst maple fretboard that's displayed at the hard rock cafe in Niagara Falls. I've scoured the net for days and can't find no info.
Hi Ramon, I had seen the white Strat with a Tele neck and I was wondering how it was possible, as Tele necks have a square heel that don't fit the Strat's rounded pocket. You gave me the answer at 8:43 ;-)
I was watching backstage footage of jimi before he goes back on for his encore at Woodstock and I noticed one of his roadies with another white stratocaster, am assuming a backup for the show. Does anyone have any info on that?
Here before, and again just for the last V, The Isle Of Wight Black with the Trini Lopez/split arrowhead in lays. Thanks for the reply's but i needed to give this a 'shout out'. I wonder what happened to it,,,,,prob a wall hanger at a Hard Rock Cafe (NEVER been to one).
@@TheGuitarShow I guess thats cool. I don't know why i never wanted to go to one,,,,,ha, Snoopy The Commercial Dog in Charlie Browns Christmas springs to mind. Thats IT !!! :)
@@TheGuitarShow in 2004 or 2005 i went to the london hard rock cafe vault and actually got to hold the black..gold plated flying v of jimi's. i still have a picture of me holding it left handed
in 2004 or 2005 i went to the london hard rock cafe vault and actually got to hold the black..gold plated flying v of jimi's. i still have a picture of me holding it left handed
Re: Woodstock strat. Note the position of the string tree in relation to the tuning keys. It is almost in line with the lowest tuning key. Very unusual. The tree is usually in line with the 2nd lowest key. (Cool vid!!)
Good eye 1:19 guitarguy382! I imagine Jimi utilized every trick in his bag to create his totally unique sound. Also, Jimi changed the G string gauge from the standard pack of strings to a lower gauge. Like two B string gauges, because he thought the G string gauge was too G Dominate. Thanks for the Jimi Video's 'Guitar Show'!
(Adding) I've never seen another strat - from any period - where the string tree was in that location. It's so close to the nut......and I think it was installed at that location at the factory. It doesn't appear to have been relocated......there's no 'prior' hole visible.
Keep in mind...Strats are bolt on necks...players regularly swapped bodies and necks....The Woodstock Strat could be the same neck but swapped out body....same color, but in better condition...just a thought.
Theres gr8 footage of kirk hammet touching the strings of jimmys sg at the hardrock - on the year and a half in the life of metallica vids lol - he now has the old peter green/gary moore les paul, nice if you can afford it ha ha
I never thought Jimi looked or sounded comfortable with a Gibson, or hum-buckers. Jimi was a dedicated Strat man with a trem, allowed him to be versatile, creative, flamboyant. Gibsons were way too conservative for such a genius.
the humbuckers have a warmer tone than the Strat. good for blues. the Strat had more "bite" which is why he sounded so good while running the Uni-Vibe and the Wah through it. but i'm guessing on the Gibsons he didn't use those same effects so much and just relied on the Fuzz. i think the humbuckers have better sustain too. I use an SG and a Strat, and they are different beasts. I can hold a note for 6 days on that SG sometimes while running through a Philosopher's Tone and Boss Overdrive.
I totally agree because the Gibsons did not have have that Bite Hendrix wanted, he always wanted to go a little bit higher and make it cut through, make it scream and he just couldn't get it out of the Gibson's.
What about that strat Jimi plays on Voodoo Chile (not voodoo child) it looked to me like a 60's strat with the big headstock, 3 tone sunburst and a almost black rosewood board. There are images of it on eddie kramers video about voodoo chile recording and how a fire destroyed the rest of the recording. Let me know anyway I would love to know what year fender had big headstock rose wood in sunburst
As truly great as he was, I wonder how he would have been with a lefty. I am a lefty, I tried flipping righty guitars over, but really play much better with my lefty instruments. Hendrix was Hendrix.....a master.
Strix aluco Guess he needed the money...I dont think mitch mitchelle did much after hendrix and he didn’t really write the songs so he did not make quite as much as jimmy...
@@stereosanctity7 I'm sure it was sold for money just to live on. From the greed of al hendrix all the way up to jimi's fake sister mitch and noel were ripped off and denied all the various sources of money due them.
A Hendrix guitar is priceless NEVER TO BE SOLD I feel that's just unkool. To bad to some everything is about stinking 💰 I would be buried with one just to puss a lot of people off
Actually just answered my own question - that one was a '63 with a rosewood fingerboard. The Pawn Stars Strat' could be one of the ones mentioned in the first video in this series though.
Where is the Blond Telecaster Jimi Hendrix used to record Purple Haze and Fire ? This has been proved that Hendrix used a Telecaster for recording Purple Haze and Fire. There is a book called The Grail guitar the Search for Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze Telecaster by Chris Adams. In that book its proven Jimi used a Blond Telecaster to record Purple Haze and Fire. Also the Band members and the Studio technician has. Stated that Jimi Hendrix used a Blond Telecaster for recording Purple Haze and Fire. The Telecaster was loaned to Jimi Hendrix by a friend of Noel Redding after Jimis Strat had broken down after a gig and They needed to record those 2 songs quickly. Other songs that Jimi might have used a Telecaster on are Hej Joe ( rythm part) Thats almost proven. Then there are the very long standing rumours he used a Telecaster for The Wind Cries Mary, Little Wing and Crosstown Traffic. The rumours and almost sure Hej Joe Telecaster is one thing if it is not mentioned, but Purple Haze and Fire has been proven Jimi Hendrix used a Blond Telecaster on. Many say that his 2 first albums were recorded with a Gibson SG. After all Jimi Hendrix Started playing professionally 1959 but it took untill 1966 for him to get a Stratocaster. He used lots of Fender Jazz masters, Gibson Les Paul, Gibson SG and the Flying V during his career, not to mention many more guitars not associated with Fender. Even after those first 2 albums Where Jimi used a Gibson SG to record he kept recording with other guitars like the Gibson Les Paul, The Gibson Flying V and the Fender Telecaster mentioned.
I read a very cool story about Hendrix.
Jimi was playing a club in London a day or 2 after The Beatles released Sgt Pepper's.
In the audience was Paul McCartney and George Harrison.
Jimi gave them the ultimate tribute. With almost no time, Jimi nailed Sgt Pepper's live for Paul and George. They couldn't believe he learn their song and played with live for them.
When I was in my early teens in the mid 70 , having someone paint your favorite rock star and / or favorite album on the back of a denim jacket was considered really cool.
I had Jimi Hendrix sitting on a cloud with Angel Wings playing the Harp.
In my life time and naturally in my opinion ,
2 guitarists changed the way guitarists looked at their instrument.
Eddie Van Halen and this bad ass...Jimi Hendrix.
I'm 60, and have played an album by Jimi Hendrix at least once a week since I'm 15
If not for Jimi Hendrix rock n roll would all sound like The Kinks.
The so called "Arrow heads" inlay on Jimi's Custom Flying V were originally used on Gibson 's " Trini Lopez" custom Artist model, Jimi saw them and requested they were added to his Custom V.
Keep up the good work.
Great historic information! Thanks for taking the time to compile!
Kudos for all the painstakingly hours of research into getting the details and facts and for your dedication to providing this up-close and personal account of the Man with the Guitar. Jimi Hendrix
I had no idea Jimi played that second Flying V as long as he did. You learn something new every day. Good job and thank you!
Pleasure Mike and thanks for watching
I saw Jimi at Newark Symphony Hall in Newark, NJ, on April 5, 1968, the night after Martin Luther King was killed. He played a white Strat with a rosewood fretboard, a sunburst Jazzmaster, and the mid-50's black Les Paul Custom. I have photos of all three guitars.
Man I’m so glad you made a part 2! I thought you forgot lol, thanks a lot
Pleasure! Sorry I couldn't do it sooner!
sir you may have single handedly saved my life with this video
Thanks so much! That means a lot!
All of his "Axes" obviously have a high monetary value, but what he created with them is priceless!!
no they aren't...they offer no magic to be extracted..you won't sound or play like him, it's just wood and metal
OutStanding !!. The Woodstock Strat made the papers when it sold for $22,000 in '91 or so.
Real deal, thank goodness.
SB V. I knew of the painted one then The Isle Of Wight. man, family used one for gigs from SF to CBGBs.
Good upload sir. We still can't know enough about Jimi and many folks will feel that way (if we Earthlings are still around) thousands of years in the future!
Pleasure and thanks for a great comment!
Photographed the Woodstock strat at the live it loud rock instrument exhibit at metropolitan museum nyc....and the psychedelic Vee he painted is there ....almost wanted to touch them so badly.....the Woodstock strat I saw had no scratches
Fantastic - its a trip I need to make thanks!
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Thanks!
Welcome back bro great great material here 👍👍👍
Thanks brother!
totally captivating. Thanks so.
Great video, once again !!
Many thanks indeed
I was waiting to call you out on the tele/strat but it was included at the end. Well done.
I did an oil painting of Jimi with this guitar from a photo for a girl and now I know the backstory behind it!Thats pretty cool!
Thanks for another great one brother.
Chronologically, I thought Jimi was well past his days of smashing and/or burning Strats. Perhaps Mitch indeed said that, but in jest I'm thinking. Whatever the case, Jimi is, and always has been, my guitar hero; over 40 years now. I'm watching this as I glance over at my white/maple Strat next to one of the many Hendrix posters in my studio.
Full disclosure - I'm playing an SG right now. So sue me! 😂🤣
All joking aside, on a desert island, I'm Strat guy. I might get bored and adding a whammy into my playing is fun here and there. And then there's the durability factor. 😉
You brought up the point that there were 2 white CBS maple cap Strats. If you look at what we commonly call the "Woodstock Strat" back at the Royal Albert Hall rehearsals in Feb '69 you can clearly see a repair job done on the back of the neck right behind the 1st fret. Throughout the 1969 US tour you can see the repair job. However, once he's at Woodstock the repair job is no longer visible which leads me to believe that it received a new neck, or is a different guitar.
Also, in your part one you left out a PreCBS white Strat that he used from around Oct '67 to March or so '68. Instead of having the typical knifeswitch it had 3 mini toggles. It also had a trem unit but no whammy bar. From what I've read the pick-ups had been hot-rodded. If you look at photos from the Olympia in France mid Oct '67 you can see several photos of it. Thanks again, I enjoyed both videos!
It would be interesting to count the number of guitars owned by Jimi Hendrix now on display around the world. Who knew that Jimi purchased a white Strat daily for ten years?
This was great
Damn this is an amazing fan series yessss
Thanks
Very cool info, enjoyed it
I can' t prove anything, but I have it in good certainty that there were two identical olympic white Strats after 68 - the woodstock one, and the maui/fehmarn one. The one used at the royal albert hall may be the woodstock one. The woodstock one was used from 68 to mid 69 or so. The other one was used from 69-70 until he died. There is some evidence about it online, I'm not the only one who believes this. I've always felt that the second olympic white strat was much yellower. But I believe that the guitar displayed at the museum today is indeed the woodstock strat, it now has yellowed considerably.
Thanx, Ramon... that wuz cool
Wow, great video !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great info, thanks
Great research, thanks
Thanks again! Looking forward to Part 3. Got sidetracked by Elvin Bishop. Had to listen to one of my all-time favorite guitar solos on Fooled Around and Fell in Love.
Great and an unexpected song from a blues guitarist!, thanks
@@TheGuitarShow You're welcome.
Love Jimi...but fav Elaine is with Duane...loan me a dime
You gotta love Jimi!
Absolutely
How interesting. I can't even imagine the amount of research that went in to this video. Thank you.
Thanks Rob
Just watched a 2nd time... Even better'n the 1st!
Yes vote on the AMPs... and would luv to see a vid with your take on Jimi's
playing styles. Thanx mon and... cheers
I have the same Strat it was my first guitar back in 1973
Great stuff…
Thank you
I held a 67 sunburst strat of Jimis in Nashville as well and a rare all rosewood strat Fender made for him.. they made a tele for George Harrison and this strat for Jimi.. he passed before it was given to him. I also got to sit behind Mitch Mitchells drum kit.
Patience pays off! :-)
Lol thanks!
I played his custom lefty black Flying V. It still had original Isle of Wight strings on it. Have the photos somewhere.
Thank you very informative. I always wondered about that Tele necked strat . Saw pics of it . I thought it was the Woodstock one now it's clarified
Pleasure Franco
Thanks for these pics. Confirming what I knew as a kid, that Jimmy could play both left and right hand.
Bruce Fulper yes he could but if u see a picture of him playing right handed live then that means the picture that was used was a negative...and not the right photo...there are some pictures of kurt cobain playing right handed too but its just the negative...
I thankyou and all who preserve.
thanks Gary
in 2004 or 2005 i went to the london hard rock cafe vault and actually got to hold the black..gold plated flying v of jimi's. i still have a picture of me holding it left handed
The Who's Pete Townshend had a Strat guitar body with a Tele neck in '67, probably from parts he had around.
Nice one Ramon ! I have been waiting for this & look forward to part 3. Btw the Strat with the Tele one piece neck was also used on the Dick Cavett Show ✌️
Thanks for this info - I didnt know that i thought he just used the SG.
@@TheGuitarShow My dear friend Debbie in Florida , sadly passed away earlier this year. I have never known anyone so crazy about Jimi. She saw him 3 times including Woodstock and boy she would have been enthusiastically all over this with very exact information ,she researched & cataloged by hand before we had PC's , his gigs, guitars, clothes , press releases etc and was the Go To Hendrix person on Google Plus for years. Sorry I don't why I told you this ☺️ Jimi's music makes me happy ✌️
@@shaunw9270 thats beautiful Shaun may She rest in peace. Thanks for sharing, R.
The Woodstock Strat is currently at MOPOP and the Woodstock Strat guitar strap is at the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame.
Thanks for that part 2 ! I think the Seattle museum should show the woodstock strat in a vertical glass showcase, so we could see the back of the strat also, as shown there, it looks like a lying dead man..
Yes I agree id love to see it one day. Thanks
@@TheGuitarShow Yes, but if it's not the real one... the back could reveal it ! Oh, maybe that's why it's lying that way..:)
@@strat0871 2 million dollar reason!
@@TheGuitarShow Right !
Good one
good video.
Yes the Woodstock guitar at the EMP is real. I contacted them about it years ago. They, meaning the EMP fixed it up. Same for the burn marks on the headstock. I actually received HD photos from the museum and the touch up paint is visible as it aged differently and is now a slightly different white/yellow
Jimi Hendrix was a legend
Fender was going to present Jimi with a rosewood Strat, but he died before it was completed (looked the same as George Harrison's Telecaster, just in Strat form).
Jimi Hendrix was a Awsome Guitarist
i held the Isle of Wight V , at the Hard Rock Vault London. I'm not worthy!
Fantastic thank you for watching
1:26- Regarding the guitar strap. It was an Ace guitar strap. In my day we picked them up for $3. Now they're on ebay for $100-$200. I still have a few from the old days. And no, I'm not selling them.
i know - I have one I use on my telecaster but the stitching is coming apart - but I still love it and its still hanging in there!
@@TheGuitarShow I actually re-stitched some of mine. In August of 1969 (50 years ago this month) I bought a white Gibson Kalamazoo KG2A (SG style)and bought a white Ace strap to go with it. Still have both. My girlfriend was breaking up with me and I bought it to soothe my aching heart.
@@jltrem - great idea about the re-stitching and what a considerate girlfriend - my ex girlfriend bought sweet FA when she left haha
@@TheGuitarShow All the re-stitching takes is a needle, matching thread and a whole lot of time. She didn't buy it, I did.
Have you seen Brad the Guitologist's channel? He has a huge collection of Ace straps . He did a very interesting video about them 👍
So the strat on display at the museum belonged to Jimi (serial number) but there is evidence that there were two identical guitars, one for the road and one for the studio. Mitchell's story is poignant, Jimi's last performance before he died, gift honouring a newborn. As the guitar in the musuem was found "around" the time of his death at Electric Lady, it is possible that Mitchell did not actually receive the guitar until after Jimi died but the promise was made when reported, everyone heard it, was known by his entourage. Mitchell compressed the timeline for brevity. Therefore, i) Mitchell was given the "wrong" guitar (Mitchell had no reason to doubt it was "the" guitar, as if he was going to check for scratches at that time) or ii) the 2nd "scratch" strat does not exist, perhaps as the scratch was fixed by Mitchell but he later realized the alteration would lower its value, stayed mum iii) the actual strat is missing, all we have is the studio strat. Hence, more evidence to establish two strats (one for the studio and one for the road) must be found.
You really hit the nail on the head with your hypothesis - I am thinking about doing a follow up video about this as i could have gone more in depth into this - also my good friend who was working for Fender at the time of the auction says those photos of the back of the headstock do not really prove anything. Thanks!
@@TheGuitarShow Thank you, a good video provides the viewer with something to think about and this one certainly achieves that. Its like a criminal case, need to get past the "reasonable doubt", e.g., maybe Mitchell fixes the scratch. The grain on wood is like a fingerprint, Woodstock footage of Jimi playing has many close-ups of the neck, a good shot of the museum neck and the Woodstock footage neck is do-able.
@@barfcoswill absolutely and Ill try to get more info to make a follow up video. Thanks
@@TheGuitarShow awesome
So grateful for your approach to guitar film production. Please do Mr. Jerry Garcia (~):} Cheers to you TGS! I
Jerry's would be much shorter - he tended to not throw his guitars around or burn them as much as Jimi did :) I think there's a good video somewhere on the 3 that Doug made for him. Wolf was always my fav. I've seen pics of Jer with a Guild, Gibson Les Paul, Strat (Alligator?), one of those aluminum ones that I suddenly can't remember the name of, and then the big 3.
I love tele necks.. they look great on the strat too apparently
And EC reversed that: A strat neck on a tele body, Hyde Park, w/Blind Faith.
The video below mentions an Acoustic Black Widow Jimi Hendrix model he apparently rarely used. It comes in at about 11:00 minutes in.
Great job, it is really confounding trying to authenticate Stratocasters, their parts guitar nature leads to a lot part swapping and a body may go one way and the neck another.
I think that the woodstock strat and the white strat with the mark are both the same guitar. I looked at some minor details regarding the woodstock strat and the white strat he played in 1970. What I noted is that the the woodstock strat is missing a screw on the second hole of the pickguard on the left side from the bridge, and the neck pickup is slanted downward. You can see that those minor details are found on the woodstock strat and the pictures of Jimi playing this white strat in 1970. I just think that Jimi never cleaned his guitars and that it might just be a marking that can be rubbed off. I have also noted the same scrape marks on the body as the woodstock strat which leads me to believe they are the same guitar. However thats my observation, I could be wrong and it is fascinating that it is a mystery.
Hendrix had another black Flying V that he painted up psychedelic. The paint kind of looked similar to the sacrificed Strat at Montery.
I read an article a few years back, it was located, but some idiot paited it red, over the Hendrix paint. A guitar luthier remove the paint but the original finish w Hendrix paint bled through into the wood and the luthier could then refinish it to the orignal Hendrix state.
I'm sure the article is floating around online. I think might have been a Guitar Player mag I had read this.
Thanks for this info!
Rory Gallagher please!!🤘
Coming very soon
@@TheGuitarShow It would much shorter, wouldn't it ?!
@@Manu2Banjo it's done check it out
@@TheGuitarShow Did it right away. Great job, thanks !
If you look at the Fehmarn picture of the Woodstock Strat, (1.59) you can see that Jimi had bent the tremelo arm to his own requirements. The arm on the guitar in the museum (3.15) appears dead straight.So I'd be knocking $20 off the price straight away. :-)
Thanks for this
I commented on part 1 regarding Paul Allen's purchase of the Woodstock Fender I must have heard it wrong I stated he paid $3 mill but the story was the same PS saw Jimi's concert in Vancouver at the Coliseum in Aug 1970
Didn't Jimi also play a black marble strat? I remember seeing it in a video some years ago. When I first tried to learn guitar in 1976, my first teacher sold me a black marble strat. He told me that Fender had designed it for Jimi, and then made a dozen or so more of them, of which mine was one. It was supposedly a pre-CBS vintage. Unfortunately, a year later, while I was attending a Bob Seager concert, a local drug addict broke into my house and stole that guitar, and I never saw it again. I was actually so upset, I stopped playing entirely...
I like that Strat with the Tele neck. 👍
Me too Jim!
i actually didn't! the neck looks so small with the big strat body!
Hmm, I happen to have a white strat with a cbs era tele neck..🤔
Outstanding!!! I always thought the first Flying Angel was black. wrong but i don't mind (family, Albert King, etc...)
Woodstock Strat,,,,when that sold for like $275 k, in '91, the pinnacle then.
oh well, i have a pearly white Arbor from '83. It might be worth the '75'.
Not that i care,
Nice! Actually Jimi had 3 Flying Vs - first was black, second was tobacco burst and 3rd was a leftie black model with gold hardware. thanks!
It was his first black one, the '67 he called "my flying angel" 👍
@@shaunw9270 thanks Shaun
@@shaunw9270 Thanks, Shaun. Gatefold of Electric Lady Land....pretty sure the black one was it.
@@TheGuitarShow Nice work here and thanks for the reply.
To be honest, i didn't know Gibson offered a TSB V until nearly 20 years ago with an Albert King 'Best Of'. man, extended family had one,,,,gigged from CBGB's to So Cal.
I believe it was that LAST Black Strat’s strap that ended up with The Floyd’s Dave Gilmour
Does anyone have any information on the fender strat sunburst maple fretboard that's displayed at the hard rock cafe in Niagara Falls. I've scoured the net for days and can't find no info.
Hi Ramon, I had seen the white Strat with a Tele neck and I was wondering how it was possible, as Tele necks have a square heel that don't fit the Strat's rounded pocket. You gave me the answer at 8:43 ;-)
I was watching backstage footage of jimi before he goes back on for his encore at Woodstock and I noticed one of his roadies with another white stratocaster, am assuming a backup for the show. Does anyone have any info on that?
Here before, and again just for the last V, The Isle Of Wight Black with the Trini Lopez/split arrowhead in lays.
Thanks for the reply's but i needed to give this a 'shout out'.
I wonder what happened to it,,,,,prob a wall hanger at a Hard Rock Cafe (NEVER been to one).
Yes its at a hard rock cafe its in a glass case
@@TheGuitarShow I guess thats cool. I don't know why i never wanted to go to one,,,,,ha, Snoopy The Commercial Dog in Charlie Browns Christmas springs to mind.
Thats IT !!! :)
@@TheGuitarShow in 2004 or 2005 i went to the london hard rock cafe vault and actually got to hold the black..gold plated flying v of jimi's. i still have a picture of me holding it left handed
in 2004 or 2005 i went to the london hard rock cafe vault and actually got to hold the black..gold plated flying v of jimi's. i still have a picture of me holding it left handed
Re: Woodstock strat.
Note the position of the string tree in relation to the tuning keys.
It is almost in line with the lowest tuning key.
Very unusual. The tree is usually in line with the 2nd lowest key.
(Cool vid!!)
Good eye 1:19 guitarguy382! I imagine Jimi utilized every trick in his bag to create his totally unique sound. Also, Jimi changed the G string gauge from the standard pack of strings to a lower gauge. Like two B string gauges, because he thought the G string gauge was too G Dominate.
Thanks for the Jimi Video's 'Guitar Show'!
(Adding) I've never seen another strat - from any period - where the string tree was in that location.
It's so close to the nut......and I think it was installed at that location at the factory.
It doesn't appear to have been relocated......there's no 'prior' hole visible.
@@guitarguy382 I concur! Fender more than likely modified some of Jimi's gee-tars!
Keep in mind...Strats are bolt on necks...players regularly swapped bodies and necks....The Woodstock Strat could be the same neck but swapped out body....same color, but in better condition...just a thought.
*Black Strat or White Strat?*
Which would you buy? I'd pick up a white strat
Black.
Both
White
What about the Acoustic Black Widow? Or the Zemaitis 12-string?
So that is where Clapton got the Telecaster/neck 👉 4 strat idea from ?
I've always been a Hendrix fan. (BTW.........first comment...woohoo!)
Many thanks!!!!
Any information about the pickups of Woodstock strat ?
Theres gr8 footage of kirk hammet touching the strings of jimmys sg at the hardrock - on the year and a half in the life of metallica vids lol - he now has the old peter green/gary moore les paul, nice if you can afford it ha ha
I never thought Jimi looked or sounded comfortable with a Gibson, or hum-buckers. Jimi was a dedicated Strat man with a trem, allowed him to be versatile, creative, flamboyant. Gibsons were way too conservative for such a genius.
the humbuckers have a warmer tone than the Strat. good for blues. the Strat had more "bite" which is why he sounded so good while running the Uni-Vibe and the Wah through it. but i'm guessing on the Gibsons he didn't use those same effects so much and just relied on the Fuzz. i think the humbuckers have better sustain too. I use an SG and a Strat, and they are different beasts. I can hold a note for 6 days on that SG sometimes while running through a Philosopher's Tone and Boss Overdrive.
I totally agree because the Gibsons did not have have that Bite Hendrix wanted, he always wanted to go a little bit higher and make it cut through, make it scream and he just couldn't get it out of the Gibson's.
so was there any footage of Jimi Hendrix playing Right Handed, or with the strings upside down lefty?
good question!
What was the 12 acoustic guitar that Jimi played?
Zermaitis
@@ajeet490 Thanks for that much appreciated. Do you know if it was his or a guitar he borrowed???
Have you been to the Met show in NYC? There is a white Hendrix Strat on display there. Is it the same one?
What about that strat Jimi plays on Voodoo Chile (not voodoo child) it looked to me like a 60's strat with the big headstock, 3 tone sunburst and a almost black rosewood board. There are images of it on eddie kramers video about voodoo chile recording and how a fire destroyed the rest of the recording. Let me know anyway I would love to know what year fender had big headstock rose wood in sunburst
Thanks for this Danna
Isle of Wight.. best Redhouse!
7:35 Native American arrowheads .
3:16 functioning historic guitars shelved forever in a museum or damn Hard F*ck Cafe is a crime. they have to live by playing
Totally agree
made to be played!
As truly great as he was, I wonder how he would have been with a lefty. I am a lefty, I tried flipping righty guitars over, but really play much better with my lefty instruments. Hendrix was Hendrix.....a master.
Thanks for the comment
it is real that Jimi had two similar strato, a 69 white strato maple neck and the Woodstock strato '68?
Why would you sell a guitar that Hendrix gave to you as a gift? I would take that to my grave!
Strix aluco Guess he needed the money...I dont think mitch mitchelle did much after hendrix and he didn’t really write the songs so he did not make quite as much as jimmy...
Strix aluco If you don’t play guitar why hang on to it? It’s just a guitar after all, albeit one that’s worth loads of money.
@@stereosanctity7 I'm sure it was sold for money just to live on. From the greed of al hendrix all the way up to jimi's fake sister mitch and noel were ripped off and denied all the various sources of money due them.
A Hendrix guitar is priceless NEVER TO BE SOLD I feel that's just unkool. To bad to some everything is about stinking 💰 I would be buried with one just to puss a lot of people off
Didn't Jimi own a Martin D-45 c. 1968 for home use. ?
Could the real Woodstock Strat actually be the white one that turned up on Pawn Stars? The episode can be found on CZcams.
Actually just answered my own question - that one was a '63 with a rosewood fingerboard. The Pawn Stars Strat' could be one of the ones mentioned in the first video in this series though.
Mitch Mitchell was not naïve. Mitch pulled a fast one. LOL
Im lost! How manny guitars Jimi own? 😁
Where is the Blond Telecaster Jimi Hendrix used to record Purple Haze and Fire ?
This has been proved that Hendrix used a Telecaster for recording Purple Haze and Fire. There is a book called The Grail guitar the Search for Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze Telecaster by Chris Adams. In that book its proven Jimi used a Blond Telecaster to record Purple Haze and Fire. Also the Band members and the Studio technician has. Stated that Jimi Hendrix used a Blond Telecaster for recording Purple Haze and Fire. The Telecaster was loaned to Jimi Hendrix by a friend of Noel Redding after Jimis Strat had broken down after a gig and They needed to record those 2 songs quickly.
Other songs that Jimi might have used a Telecaster on are Hej Joe ( rythm part) Thats almost proven. Then there are the very long standing rumours he used a Telecaster for The Wind Cries Mary, Little Wing and Crosstown Traffic. The rumours and almost sure Hej Joe Telecaster is one thing if it is not mentioned, but Purple Haze and Fire has been proven Jimi Hendrix used a Blond Telecaster on.
Many say that his 2 first albums were recorded with a Gibson SG. After all Jimi Hendrix Started playing professionally 1959 but it took untill 1966 for him to get a Stratocaster. He used lots of Fender Jazz masters, Gibson Les Paul, Gibson SG and the Flying V during his career, not to mention many more guitars not associated with Fender. Even after those first 2 albums Where Jimi used a Gibson SG to record he kept recording with other guitars like the Gibson Les Paul, The Gibson Flying V and the Fender Telecaster mentioned.
Quite enjoyable watching. Too bad for millionaire Paul Allen not having the Woodstock Strat despite spending undisclosed sums for it.
WHERE IS FD LIBRARY? I'VE HEARD THIS!
Last (B&W) photo, at 8:49, must be reversed; I doubt Jimi ever played right-handed.
Thanks!
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thanks
OK，what about the acoustic guitars Jimi got，then？