Jimi Hendrix Gibson Flying V 1967 copy
Jimi Hendrix: Catfish Blues | Flying V 1967 | Flying V 1967 copy | Martin Sharp poster | Jimi Hendrix Experience, Montparnasse, Paris, 11 October 1967 - The Wind Cries Mary , Chris Stark , YouTube, duration: 3.21 minutes. 1. Psychedelic TV studio, Paris, 10 October 1967. One of the most iconic electric guitars from the 1960s is the dark brown Jimi Hendrix 1967 Gibson Flying V 'Love Drops' which he hand-painted and used in live gigs from July of that year through to early 1968. He eventually passed it on to a friend at the beginning of 1969, who subsequently stripped it and had it repainted in black (McGuinness 2020). The original was right-handed, as were the vast majority of guitars the left-handed Hendrix played through to his death in September 1970. He would wear the guitar upside down, with the strings rearranged for normal play, whereby the thicker (lower frequency) ones were at the top and the thinner ones (higher frequency) at the bottom. The ...