The "other" burned guitar???

jp0971 · Post by **jp0971** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 2:05 am

I think I know which one you mean

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i87/B ... ille_6.jpg

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i87/B ... caster.jpg

I had read years back that the guitar pictured above was smashed at the saville theatre in '67, but that could be untrue for all I know - can't remember where I read it.

I've also seen a picture of the back of this guitar, but I can't find it - I know the poem ended in "rest in peace my guitar" or something like that.

yngwie308 · Post by **yngwie308** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 2:35 am

Asolutely correct jp0971, those were the words inscribed on the guitar..
yngwie308

frenchie · Post by **frenchie** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 6:40 pm

it would be cool if someone could find a pic of the back of this particular guitar

Mr. Beasty · Post by **Mr. Beasty** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 12:18 am

I don't think Zappa would lie, that would be out of character for him.

What he is not telling is that he ripped through the guitar. Over the years he had active pre-amps installed on it, batterie cavities were drilled and he even had humbuckers in the bridge and neck position. He had a switch installed at the tip of the lowest horn ...

Conclusion: there is no wood left under the pickguard or behind the bridge.

All that indicates that Frank didn't think the guitar was worth much ... Dweezil - on the other hand - had it cleaned up by the Fender Custom Shop [new neck, hardware and electronics] and will part with it for a million bucks! Nice publicity.

There is another guy on the Internet who claims to have the original neck from that guitar.

Mynameisfritz · Post by **Mynameisfritz** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 1:54 am

Sounds like a Dickenson story to me, "Yes mate, I have Jimi's burned guitar from the Astoria Theater in me garage and found it the other day, whilst looking for bits for my Morris Minor."

I don't think Zappa would lie, that would be out of character for him.
What he is not telling is that he ripped through the guitar

Remember in '77 - Jimi dead and gone - the hype around him too, no real awareness of the originality and depth of his work, exept around a few musicians, and guys like Trower or Marino having hard times being considered as Hendrix clones - no, no 'clones' back then, it was 'imitators'... That's the way I remember it.
This was the time when nobody expected that his music would be still around today. The future of many bands/rock in general had been quite unclear back. The first reunion of a 'classic' rock band - Purple - was still to come. Would you have expected back then that Led Zeppelin - almost in their sixties - would play London in 2007? No internet back then, no awareness of the cultural dimension of this kind of music...
I don't think Zappa saw the Hendrix guitar body as a piece of history as we do now. If he was still alive, he probably wouldn't see it as a piece of 'rock history' even now - he always had been critical about such categorizations. What he did with the guitar pretty much fits his whole approach: ripping through any categories.