SteveMKentucky
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Interesting article about how David Brewis found Hendrix's psychedelic flying V:
https://reverb.com/news/how-i-disco...ySasEpy0APzyQn3IPX3Nz0aXj2EtZ_iEaPCypE_LrjHok
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A few days after the dream, I happened to be in my local guitar shop in Newcastle upon Tyne. I knew the owner, John, very well. He said, "Hey, I've just got a Jimi Hendrix Flying V!" He showed it to me, and I asked if it really was Jimi's. He said no, but it was the same model, and added: "Wouldn't it be something if it was actually Jimi's guitar?" At this point, in the mid-'90s, nobody had seen the Jimi guitar, the one with his hand-painted decorations on it, for over 20 years.
I took the guitar to Stephen Maycock at a Sotheby's valuation day in Newcastle. As I took the pickguard off to show him inside, he said he was sure that it was Jimi Hendrix's guitar. I asked what give him that idea, before even holding it? He pointed at some coloured paint traces on the underside of the pickguard, created when Jimi had painted the guitar in '67 and the paint ran under the guard while it was still wet.
https://reverb.com/news/how-i-disco...ySasEpy0APzyQn3IPX3Nz0aXj2EtZ_iEaPCypE_LrjHok
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