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BURNT HENDRIX GUITAR TO BE AUCTIONED: Jimi's 1965 Fender Stratocaster from performance in London to be sold.
*A 1965 Fender Stratocaster that was famously set afire by Jimi Hendrix during a performance in London will be up for bid by auction house Fame Bureau along with a number of vintage rock memorabilia on Sept. 4.
The guitar was doused with lighter fuel and set on fire by the rock icon during a one-off performance at London's Finsbury Astoria in March 1967.
Hendrix was hospitalized with minor burns to his hands after the stunt, and the guitar, slightly damaged along the neck and pickboard, was recovered by his staff. It landed in the hands of his press officer, Tony Garland, who stored it in his parents' garage, where it remained until it was found last year by Garland's nephew, according to Reuters.
"When Hendrix set this guitar alight it marked a watershed in live performance," said Ted Owen, director of acquisitions at Fame Bureau. "He raised the bar of what could be expected and paved the way for a series of imitations and pastiche that exist to this day."
The instrument is expected to fetch just under $1 million. A previous auction of a Hendrix guitar, known as the Woodstock Stratocaster, earned $1.8 million.
Hendrix, who died in 1970, burnt two guitars on stage -- he repeated the stunt at a festival later in 1967 -- but the one to be auctioned is the only example that survives intact.
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