Jimi Hendrix Guitar Auctioned For $168,000

A Texas bookstore owner won the bidding for one of rock legend Jimi Hendrix's electric guitars — a 1968 Fender Stratocaster — for $168,000, the guitar's strap for $10,800 and a photograph of Hendrix and band members Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell framed by two topless blondes for $5,400 at an auction of rock and pop memorabilia at Christie's on Monday, reports Reuters.

Bill Butler lost the bidding for a black leather vest worn on stage by Hendrix. The vest was bought for $28,800 by Don Bernstine, who acquires rock memorabilia for the Hard Rock Cafes, hotels and casinos.

Other big sellers included a notebook containing handwritten lyrics by reggae star Bob Marley, which went for $72,000, and a handwritten poem by Doors singer Jim Morrison, "The American Night", which was sold for $50,400. Both went to private collectors in the United States. Prices included buyer's premiums.

Comments

[Oasis-fanatic]

Damn! I was saving up for that

[Paul 2005]

That seems rather low compared to the other recent famous guitar buyings.

[seek_&_destroy]

Paul 2005 wrote:

That seems rather low compared to the other recent famous guitar buyings.

cough kurt kobain cough


lol i when i saw this on my homepage, i first thought they sold jimy for 100 grand... damn selective reading

[Gein]

seek_&_destroy wrote:

Paul 2005 wrote:

That seems rather low compared to the other recent famous guitar buyings.


cough kurt kobain cough


lol i when i saw this on my homepage, i first thought they sold jimy for 100 grand... damn selective reading

Haha, like they dug his corpse up and allowed the Hard Rock Cafe to put it in a glass case in front of people eating their meals.

[hippieking24]

i'd pay any amount of money possible for a hendrix guitar. i'm surprised no one at that auction bid higher

[R0CKER1220]

What I would do for some of that stuff. . .

[thebrewfan]

the one he used at Woodstock is worth $100000

[forsaknazrael]

Well, Jimi never played one guitar for a really extended amount oftime. Clapton used Blackie on several consecutive albums, Cobain used his guitars religously. Hendrix would often have a different strat every show.

[forsaknazrael]

So that's why I think it went for so "cheap".

[johnm2k6]

cos he never used his as much? I thought that the less it was used then it would be worth more.

[guitar_amateur]

thats not the same one frank zappa's son sold right? the one that had been burned to pieces but was restored by frank zappa...then again according to forsaknazrael jimi used many different guitars...

[guitar champ104]

yea forksoanazral ur rite i bet his burned guitar wuld worth millions and i want to picture of the topless ladies!!

[angusjr127]

ya that does sound low for one of the greatest guitarists of all time

[hendrix_128]

the guitar shoulda went for at least 250,000