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Sean Weitzel
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From: Vacaville, CA (1790 miles west of Rockwall)
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 06-18-2011 12:02 AM
He didn't completely destroy it. There was still enough of it left in 2008 to sell at auction for $604,000
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/05/2356180.htm
Hendrix's burnt guitar fetches $600,000
Posted Fri Sep 5, 2008 10:00am AEST
Updated Mon Sep 8, 2008 8:45am AEST
Jimi Hendrix's 1965 Fender Stratocaster is shown to the media in London. (Getty Images: Gareth Cattermole)
The first guitar that rock legend Jimi Hendrix burned on stage has fetched 280,000 pounds ($604,000) at an auction in London.
Also sold was the first management contract signed by The Beatles on January 24, 1962, which bears the names "John Winston Lennon", "George Harrison", "James Paul McCartney" and "Richard Starkey" (Ringo Starr).
Hendrix set the 1965 Fender Stratocaster alight - a gesture he later became famous for - following a landmark performance at London's Finsbury Astoria in March 1967, and had to be taken to hospital to be treated for minor hand injuries afterward.
At that point, the guitar was taken to the offices of his aide Tony Garland, and was kept at Garland's parents' garage in Hove in southern England, before Garland's nephew unearthed it in 2007.
Ted Owen, director of acquisitions at the Fame Bureau rock memorabilia firm, which organised the sale, described Hendrix's act as "a watershed in live performance".
"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," Mr Owen said.
Daniel Boucher, the 51-year-old American collector who bought the guitar, said it "changed music".
"Obviously it is an investment, it couldn't not be an investment for that amount of money, but I bought it because I like it."
He said he would have the guitar converted for right-hand playing - Hendrix was left-handed - so that he could play it himself.
The contract signed by The Beatles, meanwhile, fetched 240,000 pounds ($518,000) at the auction, and also bears the names of Harrison's father Harold and McCartney's dad James as their sons were under the age of 21.
Manager Brian Epstein added his name on October 1, 1962, after getting the fab four a deal with EMI for the release of Love Me Do.
Mr Owen described the document as "the most important music contract of all time" which "completely changed the lives of The Beatles".
"There's no other (contract) that's going to be historically, socially or politically as important as this," he said.
Also in the auction was Jim Morrison's last notebook, which contains lyrics, poetry and musings from The Doors frontman, fingerprints of Elvis on a gun permit and the Bechstein piano used by The Beatles to record one of their biggest hits, Hey Jude.
quote: Adam Martin
Really scary platter
That looks like a Harbor Freight platter!
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Mike Blakesley
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From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 06-18-2011 02:39 AM
This is the spillway at Fort Peck Dam, in Fort Peck MT. Just a few years ago this reservoir was at historic record lows; now, it's the highest it's ever been. This spillway is being used for only the 4th time since it was completed in 1940, and for the first time since 1997. There are 16 metal gates, each weighing 80 tons. This thing is massive -- the picture really doesn't do it justice. The lake is over 130 miles long.
They are releasing approximately 50,000 cubic feet per minute in this picture -- the most ever, but the capacity is 250,000 cubic feet. All this was caused by the record rainfall Montana has received this year -- we've had over 11 inches already, and normally rainfall for a WHOLE year is just around 12 inches. And, almost none of the snowpack in the mountains has melted yet -- and it's at anywhere from 150% to 200% of normal. Flooding has been the norm in Montana this year.
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