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Then, of course, the Hendrix family estate takes a cut.
I don't think Hendrix was too precious about guitars and pickups.
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
A good chunk of that cash will be going to the money grabbing Hendrix estate who seem to excel in wringing every last penny out of Jimi's name.
I'm also not too sure about "If you've ever wanted to recapture Hendrix's sound with the utmost attention-to-detail, these pickups will get you closer than anything you will have ever heard before!"
This was one Strat out of the dozens that he toured with and no way of knowing if he played it ever again after that night!
Luckily I've always wanted to sound like the 5th and 6th songs in the Miami Pop Festival set, so I've just ordered a set.
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
Thanks for the info.
1968, a kid walks backstage before a show with some pickups he wound himself using his record player. He manages to persuade the world's most famous guitar player to install these pickups in a guitar backstage before a show and then said guitar player walks out on stage with these in his trusted axe... bollocks. Didn't happen.
There's a lot a hyperbole and story here. Firstly, how did he get backstage before a gig. Secondly who in their right mind would allow a kid to convince them to stick a set of homemade pickups in their guitar before a gig? In view of how long Mr Duncan has been making pickups why is it only *now* that this story is coming out - is it because everyone that could corroborate the story is *DEAD*?
If you are insane/or just straighforward clinically stupid you deserve to have £800 lifted off you for these. But seeing as Mr Hendrix's favourite guitars *DID NOT* have these pickups installed (for example: I've held the Woodstock white Strat - standard pickups, guys... nothing fancy - and there used to be pics on line of the Black Strat from Monica's bedroom with the pickguard off, can't find them now) it could be stated that perhaps Lord Jimi didn't like them quite as much as Mr Duncan thinks he did.
https://uniqueguitar.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-many-guitars-of-jimi-hendrix.html
According to this, the guitar Hendrix played at this show that *may* have had something to do with Seymour Duncan was a Jazzmaster.