A guitar played by Jimi Hendrix previously valued at $50,000 sold for $180,000 this weekend confirming that – whatever kind of economic meltdown COVID-19 may be causing – there are still plenty of rich people out there who will buy overpriced nonsense on a whim.Not that this isn’t a genuinely historic instrument.
According to GWS Auctions, Hendrix used the early 1960s Japanese sunburst electric guitar “after he returned home from the US Army in 1962”.He then performed with it regularly while living in Clarksville, Tennessee “where he played on the Chitlin Circuit with the likes of Wilson Pickett, Slim Harpo, Sam Cooke, Ike and Tina Turner and Jackie Wilson”, and also when he subsequently moved to New York in 1964, “playing venues such as.
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