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No takers for Hendrix guitar
25/09/2002 11:07 - (SA)
London - The guitar Jimi Hendrix set alight in concert in 1968 found no buyers when the owner, the son of late rocker Frank Zappa, refused an auction bid of £300 000 ($470 000).
Dweezil Zappa rejected the anonymous telephone bid to Britain's Coopers Owen auction house on Tuesday, sticking to his minimum price of £345 00.
Hendrix famously set fire to the Fender Stratocaster at the 1968 Miami pop festival and later gave it to Frank Zappa, who used it on his 1976 album Zoot Allures.
Dweezil, a casual guitarist in his own right, recently turned down another auction bid in Las Vegas of $500 000 for the guitar.
He said it was worth substantially more because it had been
played by "two of the greatest guitarists ever".
But other pieces of rock history did fall to the gavel at the
Coopers Owen sale, including a poem by Doors singer Jim Morrison
for £6 000 - four times the minimum price.
A self-portrait by another guitar hero, Eric Clapton, sold for
£2 600, nine times the minimum reserve price. - Sapa-AFP
- SAPA
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