Hendrix guitar sold at auction for $168,000

Napoleon54 · 12-05-2006, 12:10 PM

A fender stratocaster once owned by the late and great Jimi Hendrix was sold at Christie's for $168,000. I wonder if it was strung backwards. Numerous other items of pop memorabilia were also auctioned.

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NEW YORK - A Texas bookstore owner bought a rare page of working lyrics for Beatle Paul McCartney’s song “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” for $192,000 at an auction of rock and pop memorabilia at Christie’s Monday.

Bill Butler also won the bidding for one of rock legend Jimi Hendrix’s electric guitars — a 1968 Fender Stratocaster — for $168,000, the guitar’s strap for $10,800 and a photograph of Hendrix and band members Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell framed by two topless blondes for $5,400.

“I’m worried about getting it all home,” Butler, wearing a tan baseball cap emblazoned with the Texas state flag and the words “Vote Kinky Friedman,” jokingly told reporters after the auction.
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Butler retired from the telecommunications industry before opening his rare and used book shop in Rosenberg, just outside Houston. He said he would display the guitar at his bookstore but would store the 1968 McCartney lyrics in a fireproof file cabinet.

Butler lost the bidding for a black leather vest worn onstage by Hendrix. The vest was bought for $28,800 by Don Bernstine, who acquires rock memorabilia for the Hard Rock Cafes, hotels and casinos.

Other big sellers included a notebook containing handwritten lyrics by reggae star Bob Marley, which went for $72,000, and a handwritten poem by Doors singer Jim Morrison, “The American Night,” which sold for $50,400. Both went to private collectors in the United States. Prices included buyer’s premiums.

Christie’s fall New York auction of 147 lots of guitars, clothing, handwritten lyrics and other memorabilia took in a total of $1,117,920 from people who placed bids in person, by phone and over the Internet. That total was at the upper end of the auction house’s estimate of $800,000 to $1.1 million.

The auction included items connected to Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Madonna, the Jackson 5, Elvis Presley, Bruce Springsteen and Miles Davis.

A previously unheard and undocumented interview with John Lennon for Crawdaddy music magazine was sold for $38,400, and an acoustic guitar Dylan played during camping trips went for $24,000. A handwritten 1972 letter by John Lennon to a music magazine about the political situation in Northern Ireland fetched $24,000.

However, a review of Sophocles’ “Antigone” written as a junior high school assignment by pop star Britney Spears fetched only about $250, to laughter and applause from bidders, far below the low estimate of $500 — despite auctioneer Helen Bailey’s best efforts.

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Markel · 12-05-2006, 12:48 PM

On a somewhat related note, Dick Clark is putting a lot of memorabilia up for sale in the next couple of days. But it appears that a bass "once owned by the Beatles" may be a fake.

johnnymk · 12-05-2006, 03:16 PM

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...485478,00.html
McCartney lyrics rarely appear on the market and have not appeared for about six years,” said Helen Hall, of Christie’s.

The lot also includes two copies of the song that a member of the Beatles’ staff wrote out for use by other members of the band. They are the only trio of Beatles lyrics to have appeared on the market.

Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, which appears on the Abbey Road album, took three days to record and overdub, and caused considerable arguments between the band members as they hurtled towards their break-up.

McCartney insisted that the song was a possible single but Lennon disagreed, later calling it “a typical McCartney single, or whatever”.

Lennon was not even present in the studio when it was recorded because he was recovering from an accident. “We spent more money on that song than any of them on the whole album, I think,” he said.

zippyjuan · 12-06-2006, 11:27 AM

I saw some Beatles hand written song lyrics in the Rare Documents area of the British Museum. One was "I Want To Hold Your Hand" and had been submitted for a school assignment. The teacher had written "Please see me" on it. It was kind of strange to find something like that in the same room with a copy of the Magna Carta. Lyrics for "Yesterday" are in there along with the original for Handel's "Messiah". Paul McCartney cannot read or write music- he never learned how.

12-05-2006, 12:48 PM	#2
Markel Chief of Naval Operations Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 11,733	On a somewhat related note, Dick Clark is putting a lot of memorabilia up for sale in the next couple of days. But it appears that a bass "once owned by the Beatles" may be a fake. __________________ stay low... keep moving...

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johnnymk Chief of Naval Operations Join Date: May 2000 Location: LEVITTOWN< PA> USA Posts: 13,621	Interesting Information about "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...485478,00.html McCartney lyrics rarely appear on the market and have not appeared for about six years,” said Helen Hall, of Christie’s. The lot also includes two copies of the song that a member of the Beatles’ staff wrote out for use by other members of the band. They are the only trio of Beatles lyrics to have appeared on the market. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, which appears on the Abbey Road album, took three days to record and overdub, and caused considerable arguments between the band members as they hurtled towards their break-up. McCartney insisted that the song was a possible single but Lennon disagreed, later calling it “a typical McCartney single, or whatever”. Lennon was not even present in the studio when it was recorded because he was recovering from an accident. “We spent more money on that song than any of them on the whole album, I think,” he said.

12-06-2006, 11:27 AM	#4
zippyjuan Picture of the Day Guru Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Sunny San Diego Posts: 8,756	I saw some Beatles hand written song lyrics in the Rare Documents area of the British Museum. One was "I Want To Hold Your Hand" and had been submitted for a school assignment. The teacher had written "Please see me" on it. It was kind of strange to find something like that in the same room with a copy of the Magna Carta. Lyrics for "Yesterday" are in there along with the original for Handel's "Messiah". Paul McCartney cannot read or write music- he never learned how. __________________ I add new pictures to my photo gallery pretty regularly. You can see them here if you are interested: http://www.pbase.com/jeffryz

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