The most OT topic ever...????

[Worra]

I woke up around three this night and wondered what happened to the SG that Pete Townsend tossed from the stage during the -69 Woodstock festival....
I feel that my nighttime sleep will suffer if I don't get the answer to this mystery.....

[Scott Cairns]

Wow, that would be a good story Worra...

The SG became a coffee table for a while... then it went to fight in Vietnam.... :p

:|:

[PaulR]

I woke up around three this night and wondered what happened to the SG that Pete Townsend tossed from the stage during the -69 Woodstock festival....


I caught it - do you wanna buy it?

[Worra]

I caught it - do you wanna buy it?

I've got the broken strata neck that Hendrix threw to the audience at Monteray Pop -67, wanna trade....;)

[PaulR]

I've got the broken strata neck that Hendrix threw to the audience at Monteray Pop -67, wanna trade....;)

Hehehe.

I actually had one of Hendrix's Strats - albeit for only ten minutes in 1970 - can you believe that? I also had coffee with him once too - there's another story.

I'll trade the strat neck for a staue I'm trying to sell in Trafalgar Square. That's the best I can do - take it, or leave it.

[JonFairhurst]

I can just see the movie that this could launch: The rock-and-roll update to The Red Violin...

-JF

[Hoff]

Funny you should ask- I just picked up the re-mastered special edition of the Who documentary "The Kids are Alright" and was watching it yesterday. The Woodstock performance is included, and they mentioned that seconds after Townshend tossed the guitar to the crowd, it was retrieved for him by roadies.

Apparently the only reason the Who played Woodstock was for $$, as they were almost bankrupt at that point. ("Tommy" was released shortly after, and all that changed) But their perilous financial status may have played a part in their quickly retrieving the guitar.

By the way, immediately after the last Who song, while they were still onstage, Abbie Hoffman ran out, grabbed a mic and began berating the crowd for having a party while one of his friends was in jail. Townshend pulled the old "El Kabong!!" and clobbered him from behind with his SG, knocking him off the stage and into the audience. Could have killed him, but Hoffman (and Townshend) were lucky.

[Worra]

Funny you should ask- I just picked up the re-mastered special edition of the Who documentary "The Kids are Alright" and was watching it yesterday. The Woodstock performance is included, and they mentioned that seconds after Townshend tossed the guitar to the crowd, it was retrieved for him by roadies.

Apparently the only reason the Who played Woodstock was for $$, as they were almost bankrupt at that point. ("Tommy" was released shortly after, and all that changed) But their perilous financial status may have played a part in their quickly retrieving the guitar.

By the way, immediately after the last Who song, while they were still onstage, Abbie Hoffman ran out, grabbed a mic and began berating the crowd for having a party while one of his friends was in jail. Townshend pulled the old "El Kabong!!" and clobbered him from behind with his SG, knocking him off the stage and into the audience. Could have killed him, but Hoffman (and Townshend) were lucky.


Aha! So THAT'S what happened! Thank you, now I can sleep again!

[Worra]

Hehehe.

I actually had one of Hendrix's Strats - albeit for only ten minutes in 1970 - can you believe that? I also had coffee with him once too - there's another story.

I'll trade the strat neck for a staue I'm trying to sell in Trafalgar Square. That's the best I can do - take it, or leave it.

F*K the statue! I wanna hear about your coffee-break!!!!!!!!

[PaulR]

F*K the statue! I wanna hear about your coffee-break!!!!!!!!

It was in Fulham around 1969. I'll tell you about it one day. You never gave much thought to all that in those days.

Yeah - I was THAT roadie - do you wanna buy it?

:D


PS - is Black Grand downloadable? How does this work?

[Worra]

PS - is Black Grand downloadable? How does this work?

The full Black Grand is about 20Gb, so it's not that "downloadable", but there are two smaller versions, Steiny D and Steiny D Close that's downloadable and on summer sale. $40 each as long as the sun shines....

[SWL]

I've got the broken strata neck that Hendrix threw to the audience at Monteray Pop -67, wanna trade....;)


Actually Frank Zappa (had) the body from another imfamous burning ..


http://www.petersen.org/images/uploadedimages/hendrix_burnt_strat.jpg

The guitar, dubbed the Hendrix/ Zappa Strat, was first played by Jimi Hendrix at the 1968 Miami Pop Festival. After ceremoniously burning the instrument, he handed the smoldering remains to his friend Frank Zappa, who restored the Fender. The Prized piece almost vanished.
"We'd lost track of it in the house, but I found it one day under a staircase leading to The Lab, a room where my Dad would fix all his instruments," says Dweezil Zappa, a musician and car buff like his late father. (Dweezil loaned his 1980 Aston Martin convertible to the exhibit.) "Guitarists touch it and the hair on their arms stands up. It has sense of history."

He says he'd sell this charred piece of rock lore for the right price. "I think $1 million would be about right," Dweezil says.

As crazy as that may sound (a new Strat tops out at $1,850), it's not far-fetched, says Dave Weiderman of the Guitar Center, the L.A. six-string shop and museum that provided the Petersen with many of the exhibit's famous guitars.

"Eric Clapton sold his guitars at auction recently and one went for many hundreds of thousands, so an irreplaceable guitar that traveled from Hendrix to Frank Zappa to Dweezil, well, it could go as high as a million," Weiderman says.

Why sell? Dweezil says he would use the profit to refurbish his father's home studio and archive his voluminous tapes.
"I'd miss the guitar," Dweezil says. "But sold, it could do much more to help me keep my father's music going."