RICK HARRISON: So
what do we got here? I think there's
something in here you're really going to like to see. OK. 1963, American-made
Fender Stratocaster. RICK HARRISON: Oh, to
me, this is the guitar. DAVID: But there's
something very, very special about this specific guitar. RICK HARRISON: All right. DAVID: This guitar was actually
played by Jimi Hendrix. RICK HARRISON: That's a
big wow factor right there. DAVID: Jimi Hendrix, man. He's one of the greatest rock
and roll legends of all time. What I'm bringing
to the table today is not only a piece of
rock and roll history, but it's very well-preserved. RICK HARRISON: Jimi
Hendrix, he was an icon. This guy did things with the
guitar that no one did before. He played a Strat. DAVID: Yeah. Left-handed guitars
are far and few between. His first guitars were used. He couldn't find a
left one, so he started playing with a right-handed
guitar with the strings upside down. Even when he had
money, he continued playing guitars that
were right-handed guitars strung upside down. OK. You mind if I pick it up? No, absolutely. By all means. All right. This is the Holy Grail. DAVID: He actually
held this guitar that you now have in
your hands and made wonderful music with it. Is there any pictures of him
playing it on stage or anything or-- DAVID: No, because
it was exclusively played in the studio. This was his really favorite
sort of recording axe. I'm going to set this down. [laughter] And where did you get this? DAVID: It was actually owned
by a guy named Skip Juried. There was a studio called
Juggy Sound Studio that Jimi loved to cut in up in New York. Skip was the chief engineer
at Juggy Sound Studio. And after they wrapped
up all the production on "Band of Gypsys"
and all that, they gave this guitar to Skip. When he passed away, one of
my business associates and I acquired the guitar. RICK HARRISON: OK. This guitar was on
"Band of Gypsys"? DAVID: Yeah. He played this guitar
on several records. He actually played it on
"Nervous Breakdown" as well. RICK HARRISON: OK. DAVID: Here's just
something that came out this year
in this magazine about this specific guitar. The guy that wrote
this article, you know, did a lot of extreme diligence. Plus, I have, you know, letter
signed by Jimi's brother. RICK HARRISON: I have
seen items where people had letters from the family.
DAVID: Right, right, OK. RICK HARRISON: OK? And it turned out not to
be what they said it was. DAVID: Right. OK? That's the one big
thing that scares me. How much do you
want for the guitar? DAVID: I think this
guitar, you know, from everyone I've talked
to, I'd be willing to take say 750,000 for it. [music playing] [sigh] I have a friend who, if this
thing is real, he will know. And if not, he'll
call bull-bull-[bleep].. Bring it. You know what I'm saying? [sigh] All right. I'll be right back.
Give me a few minutes. Awesome.
OK, thanks, man. [music playing] I have nothing to hide. Let's turn the lights
on real bright. This is an authentic
Jimi Hendrix guitar. I'm happy to challenge
anybody that he wants to bring to the table to look
at it because he'll authenticate the guitar. JESSE AMOROSO: This
is stupid cool. I mean-- RICK HARRISON: [laughs] --Jimi's-- one
of Jimi's guitars. Hendrix turned the guitar
into an extension of his body. Every way he moved was altering
the sound of the guitar. When you see him dip down
real low, he's bending the-- The sound out of it, right. --physically
bending the guitar. Right, right. There's very few guys that
can make their own statement with the guitar anymore. But guys come along
like Jimi Hendrix and just take it to a
completely new place. RICK HARRISON: I want to
make sure this is 100% before we start
talking a lot of money. JESSE AMOROSO: Yeah. You mind if I take a look at it?
- No, man. By all means. That's why you're here. Awesome. There's a couple of things
you'd want to look at. The tremolo bar. These are usually
bent and angled up. He'd play the
guitar upside down, he flattened a lot of these
out, made them straight so they probably weren't
ramming into his arm and stuff like that. Another thing is what
they call ring wear. If you're playing
the guitar like this, my wedding ring hits the guitar,
removes a lot of the paint, finish from there. If you look at this guitar,
the top side of the neck has a lot of that wear. That's from the
guitar being this way, how Jimi would have
played it-- left-handed. The article that you guys
have sitting over there, they asked a bunch
of vintage dealers to take a look at this
guitar with photos and stuff like that. This serial number here, L14985. This guitar has actually
been documented. No doubt this is definitely
one of Jimi's guitars. RICK HARRISON: That's
really, really cool. In my head, I think I
know what it's worth. But what do you think? No guitar is worth
anything unless everything's working on it, in my book. [laughs] DAVID: Plug it in, let it rip. Let's do this. Let's turn it up loud. JESSE AMOROSO:
Cannot believe this. [playing guitar] [laughter] How about it? Come on. [applause] That's a good guitar, man. RICK HARRISON: So what
do you think it's worth? Anywhere from 750 to,
good auction, million. RICK HARRISON: [sigh] All right. Thanks, man.
JESSE AMOROSO: All right, man. Thank you.
- Jesse, thanks, man. Thanks again for
letting me play it. - Yeah, you're welcome, man.
- Thanks a lot. It felt crazy to hold one of
Jimi Hendrix's guitars, man. You can see why he liked it
because it was a really good, balanced, nice-feeling guitar. RICK HARRISON: At a personal
level, I absolutely love it. But you have to find the right
auction, has to be advertised. And the least amount of time
would be a year, most likely. DAVID: Right. [music playing] [sigh] Let me give you 450,000. DAVID: 450? Man. RICK HARRISON: I-- my thing
is, I take all the risk, you walk away with the cash. DAVID: For a guitar
that could fetch maybe a million dollars on
any day, your own guy just told you that. RICK HARRISON: OK,
but what we do-- Come on. 450 grand? Yeah, I'm thinking 750, man. RICK HARRISON: A lot of
commissions and a lot of people got to get paid to
sell this thing, OK? It's the way the world works. DAVID: All right. OK. RICK HARRISON: I'll
give you half a million. This guitar is
worth more than that. It just is. RICK HARRISON: If you want
the money now, I can go 550. DAVID: Knowing that
it could potentially fetch a million
dollars at an auction, I can't leave that much
money on the table. 750, really, man. That's the bottom dollar
I can take for the guitar. [music playing] [sigh] [sigh] OK. Well, have a nice day. Tell me if it goes to auction.
I might bid on it. DAVID: OK. Thanks, man. Well. [music playing] 6? [music playing] I can't do that, man. But I'll call you
if I change my mind. RICK HARRISON: Call me.
DAVID: OK. All right. DAVID: He's fired one last
bullet across the boat there with the $600,000
offer, you know? Honestly, I was starting to
kind of get a little bit more tempted by that. But you want to
come to a fair point in selling something
of great value, don't be desperate about it. And that, I am not.
Yes
I'd probably just mess it up.
sure
Fineeeee and I will break it or play the wrong notes/keys so soz if it sounds bad haha..
But nahhhhh I will just leave it to people that can actually play haha.
Or maybe someone can try to teach us none guitar players how to play one just like Phoebe tried to teach Joey.
😉😂🤣