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New respect for Jimi

Mr. Ovation

Posted 2014-05-01 1:30 PM (#486073)
Subject: New respect for Jimi

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Maybe he knew something we didn't. Maybe it wasn't art, just his opinion of Fender.

Darkbar

Posted 2014-05-01 1:34 PM (#486074 - in reply to #486073)
Subject: Re: New respect for Jimi

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Maybe he was on LSD?

Waskel

Posted 2014-05-01 7:37 PM (#486084 - in reply to #486073)
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Maybe he was cold?

Damon67

Posted 2014-05-01 10:50 PM (#486088 - in reply to #486073)
Subject: Re: New respect for Jimi

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LSD's never given me cause to burn up a guitar.

Edited by Damon67 2014-05-01 10:52 PM

guitarwannabee

Posted 2014-05-02 12:19 AM (#486091 - in reply to #486073)
Subject: RE: New respect for Jimi

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you might of done it if fender guaranteed you a new guitar every time you burned one of their guitars and another years worth of free l.s.d.

remember it was the sixties , some of us did allot of things we ,,,, oh well we wont go there. GWB

Mr. Ovation

Posted 2014-05-02 11:47 AM (#486110 - in reply to #486073)
Subject: Re: New respect for Jimi

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I guess ya'll just missed the point.

d'ovation

Posted 2014-05-02 12:23 PM (#486111 - in reply to #486110)
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I guess ya'll just missed the point.

Not necessarily, but in those days Fender was probably quite different, particularly if Leo was still in charge.

Koenig Kurt

Posted 2014-05-02 12:28 PM (#486112 - in reply to #486073)
Subject: Re: New respect for Jimi

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I did laugh.

Damon67

Posted 2014-05-02 12:35 PM (#486113 - in reply to #486110)
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mileskb - 2014-05-02 9:47 AM I guess ya'll just missed the point.

I needed another hit?

stonebobbo

Posted 2014-05-02 12:43 PM (#486115 - in reply to #486073)
Subject: Re: New respect for Jimi

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You don't care for me, I don't care about that
You got a new fool, yeah I like it like that

Mr. Ovation

Posted 2014-05-02 8:56 PM (#486136 - in reply to #486073)
Subject: Re: New respect for Jimi

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I guess I'm even more obscure than I thought... I kinda thought it was pretty obvious... I was wondering if Jimi was thinking that sometime in the future people would want to burn a Fender in effigy and was just showing us how. Sheesh

Darkbar

Posted 2014-05-02 9:28 PM (#486137 - in reply to #486136)
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Yeah, I think we got it. We just moved in a different direction.

stonebobbo

Posted 2014-05-02 11:34 PM (#486144 - in reply to #486073)
Subject: Re: New respect for Jimi

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I was thinking geometrically. It must've got past you.

fillhixx

Posted 2014-05-03 12:13 AM (#486149 - in reply to #486073)
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This group is obtuse that way.

Some are downright rhomboid.

dobro

Posted 2014-05-04 12:41 PM (#486221 - in reply to #486073)
Subject: Re: New respect for Jimi

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Obviously Jimi is having a clairvoyant vision of New Hartford 2014!

moody, p.i.

Posted 2014-05-04 3:59 PM (#486226 - in reply to #486111)
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merlin666 - 2014-05-02 10:23 AM

I guess ya'll just missed the point.

Not necessarily, but in those days Fender was probably quite different, particularly if Leo was still in charge.

Leo wouldn't have been in charge unless is was before 1965. I personally think he was making a statement regarding corporate ownership (CBS). He'd probably do the same thing today.....

Darkbar

Posted 2014-05-04 5:23 PM (#486227 - in reply to #486226)
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Maybe he was on LSD?

Old Man Arthur

Posted 2014-05-04 6:10 PM (#486230 - in reply to #486227)
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darkbarguitar - 2014-05-04 3:23 PM

Maybe he was on LSD?

Ya Think?

Damn, I miss the good ole daze.

dwg preacher

Posted 2014-05-05 5:10 PM (#486276 - in reply to #486073)
Subject: Re: New respect for Jimi

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I think it was a statement on corporate business and the way the music world was being affected at the time. Incidentally did I recently hear that that particular guitar ended up as one of Frank Zappa's faves, currently in the collection of one Dweezil Zappa?

Old Man Arthur

Posted 2014-05-05 8:36 PM (#486287 - in reply to #486276)
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dwg preacher - 2014-05-05 3:10 PM

Incidentally did I recently hear that that particular guitar ended up as one of Frank Zappa's faves, currently in the collection of one Dweezil Zappa?

Uh... Yup!

cholloway

Posted 2014-05-06 4:02 PM (#486324 - in reply to #486073)
Subject: Re: New respect for Jimi

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New respect??? Nah.
This is why I have no respect for The Who also.
During that time I couldn't afford even a decent guitar and here were these farkheads destroying instruments for show.
I just can't abide by it.

gulfcoast

Posted 2014-05-06 5:15 PM (#486326 - in reply to #486073)
Subject: Re: New respect for Jimi

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Sorry I thought this was about trader jimi.

Mark in Boise

Posted 2014-05-06 6:18 PM (#486337 - in reply to #486073)
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I'm with cholloway. Guitars were not made to be destroyed. If they destroyed a guitar as part of their act, they weren't going to get my money so they could buy another and destroy it.

dobro

Posted 2014-05-06 8:31 PM (#486341 - in reply to #486073)
Subject: Re: New respect for Jimi

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Norm says "Miami".... Did he mean "Monterey" or am I confused?

Old Man Arthur

Posted 2014-05-06 11:58 PM (#486350 - in reply to #486341)
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legend74 - 2014-05-06 6:31 PM

Norm says "Miami".... Did he mean "Monterey" or am I confused?

Jimi burnt that guitar at the Monterey Pop Festival 1967.
The guitar body was given to Frank at the Miami Pop Festival in 1968.

I think...

MusicMishka

Posted 2014-05-07 4:09 PM (#486391 - in reply to #486073)
Subject: Re: New respect for Jimi

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He burnt several guitars most noteworthy the Monterey Fiesta Red or Shell Pink guitar w/his custom art work...the one burnt in Miami was a Sunburst Strat...