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Saturday, 06 September 2008 15:48 |
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 The Boston Herald reports that this fire sale was music Danny Boucher’s ears.
The guitar enthusiast from Massachusetts outbid fellow high-rolling
rock collectors for a Fender Stratocaster scorched by guitar god JIMI
HENDRIX.
“It was owned and played by Jimi Hendrix. Enough said,” Boucher told
the Herald in an e-mail yesterday, a day after making the purchase
Thursday at a London auction.
The Central Massachusetts guitar broker, 51, paid $497,557 for the
Stratocaster that Hendrix set ablaze during a concert in London in
1967. That same year Hendrix famously burned another guitar at the
Monterey Pop festival - a scene memorialized on film.
Boucher, who buys and sells guitars, said the Hendrix instrument is not the most expensive guitar he has purchased.
Boucher made the trip to Britain especially for Thursday’s auction,
which saw around 250 lots put up for auction, including a copy of THE
BEATLES’ first contract with manager Brian Epstein, which sold for
$426,478.
“I thought I’d have to pay a little bit more for it, actually. I am
going to play it, I hope some of it rubs off on me,” Boucher told The
Associated Press, after successfully bidding for Hendrix’s guitar.
Read more here.
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