Noel Redding/The Jimi Hendrix Experience

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Noel Redding/The Jimi Hendrix Experience
A 1967 Gibson J-160E guitar, Serial No. 064571, in sunburst finish, mahogany body, spruce top, mahogany neck, twenty fret bound rosewood fingerboard with crown inlays, headstock face with crown motif inlay, two rotary controls, wooden pin bridge and imitation tortoise-shell pickguard, with two stickers on body Clean Sea Please and Council Of Europe Campaign, the upper bout signed and inscribed in gold felt pen May 99 EIRE, Best Wishes, Noel Redding -- the guitar owned by Noel Redding from 1967 onwards and used by him on Little Miss Strange on the 1968 Jimi Hendrix Experience album Electric Ladyland, and a black hardshell contour case with orange plush lining; accompanied by a page of lyrics in Noel Redding's hand for Little Miss Strange, the sixteen lines in black ballpoint pen signed and dated July 99; two autograph letters from Noel Redding, 2001, concerning the provenance; three colour snap-shots of Noel Redding playing and signing the guitar, 1999, largest -- 12x8in. (30.4x20.3cm.); and a video cassette recording of Noel Redding playing the guitar and talking about its history, 1999 - running time approx. 3 mins. (a lot)

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Noel Redding purchased this guitar from Manny's, New York in 1967. Along with his Fender Jazz Bass, this guitar accompanied him on tour with The Jimi Hendrix Experience from 1967-1969. According to Noel Redding, Jimi Hendrix would sometimes play this guitar, maybe to show me how songs went, etc. in hotels, backstage or in recording studios... In addition to Little Miss Strange, Redding used it on all tracks on both Fat Mattress albums, 1969 and 1970.

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