The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #27091   Message #330149
Posted By: Lonesome EJ
29-Oct-00 - 11:14 PM
Thread Name: Haunted House of Mystery Instruments ooh
Subject: RE: Haunted House of Mystery Instruments ooh
On this wall...here,let me take it out of the glass case for you...is an upside-down-strung right-handedHarmony Ukelele purportedly used by Jimi Hendrix at a Sigma Chi Fraternity Party at the University of Washington in 1965.It doesn't sound like much right now,but notice the pick-up? Hendrix used to play Tiny Bubbles through this small bastard into a 400 Watt Marshall "Exploder" amplifier til he'd make you think you were losin' your mind. the dent in the side? That's from the Fresno Pop Festival in 1969 when Jimi bashed Jerry Garcia in the side of the head with it because of a disparaging remark Jerry made about the nylon strings on it.Just think...if Jimi hadn't died young he'd probably be playing this baby on the Holiday Inn circuit by now.