“This is for everybody”
Jimi Hendrix took the
world by storm with his incredible Monterey Pop Festival performance, which he
concluded with the sacrificial burning of his now-iconic hand-painted
Stratocaster. Destroyed during the fiery culmination of his set, this
one-of-a-kind guitar survived only in photos and film. To celebrate the 50th
anniversary of this milestone in music history, we created the limited-edition
Jimi Hendrix Monterey Stratocaster
FEATURES
HENDRIX-INSPIRED ARTWORK
The guitar's body art is an homage to Hendrix's hand-painted original,
giving fans, players and collectors the chance to own a modern classic
MONTEREY POP FESTIVAL 1967
It’s
amazing that a guitar that 
Hendrix hand-painted a flowery design on this legendary Strat—in nail polish, no less—the night before he was to close out the inaugural event and brought it out for his final song, “Wild Thing”.
After Hendrix sang the last words and
displayed his full arsenal of guitar wizardry—playing behind his back, with his
teeth—he had one trick left. Hendrix
turned to his amps and scraped the guitar
against the speaker cabinets for maximum feedback.
The Fiery Finale
“This is for everyone,” he
said just before spraying something on the guitar. Jimi bent down to kiss the
instrument and then tossed a lit match to elicit flames from the prone Strat.
Like a disciple worshiping at an altar, Hendrix knelt before the blazing guitar
as the audience stared agape watching him smash it to pieces.
While only a shard of that
now-famous piece of history exists today, Fender has painstakingly recreated
Jimi’s Monterey Strat to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the fiery milestone,
right down to the nail-polish artwork that burned its way into the memories of
fans around the world.
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