Chords for Jimi Hendrix Stratocaster brought in by Dweezil Zappa at Norman's Rare Guitars
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Hey everybody out there in YouTube land.
pieces of rock memorabilia ever.
This [Bb] is Dweezil Zappa, a fabulous guitar player, son of Frank Zappa.
And this is a guitar that Jimi Hendrix gave to Frank in the late 60s at the Miami Pop Festival, which I was actually at by the way.
It was unbelievable.
festival.
would come in and they'd have to tune up for [Db] ten minutes and all that.
who is it, the Beatles?
pieces of rock memorabilia ever.
This [Bb] is Dweezil Zappa, a fabulous guitar player, son of Frank Zappa.
And this is a guitar that Jimi Hendrix gave to Frank in the late 60s at the Miami Pop Festival, which I was actually at by the way.
It was unbelievable.
festival.
would come in and they'd have to tune up for [Db] ten minutes and all that.
who is it, the Beatles?
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_ _ _ _ _ Hey everybody out there in YouTube land.
We've got a good friend of mine in here with one of the most iconic pieces of rock memorabilia ever.
I mean this guitar is something else.
This [Bb] is Dweezil Zappa, a fabulous guitar player, son of Frank Zappa.
And this is a guitar that Jimi Hendrix gave to Frank in the late 60s at the Miami Pop Festival, which I was actually at by the way. _
It was unbelievable.
In fact, Hendrix [N] landed, two helicopters landed at the end of the festival.
I don't know if you know about this.
And back in the day, all these bands would come in and they'd have to tune up for [Db] ten minutes and all that.
Two helicopters landed [N] and everybody was going, who is it, the Beatles?
Who's landing in the helicopters?
And it was Hendrix in one and his band in the other.
And they all had their guitar chords.
The guitars were tuned.
They walked up, plugged in, turned around, it hit the first chord and the place lost it.
And Hendrix was really playing great at that moment.
I mean he was really on his game and it was a biblical experience.
I can imagine.
So maybe you can talk a little bit about this.
Sure.
This particular guitar, _ _ as Norm was talking about, was given to my dad.
_ Actually at that show by Jimmy's Roadie.
But Jimmy and my dad were friends and they would play together when they had the opportunity.
And when he had the guitar, it obviously didn't look like this.
It was all burnt, this part, the neck and the other things were destroyed.
But Frank, my dad, had it on the wall in his studio just as a decoration for a while.
But then he decided he wanted to put it back together.
And in the mid-70s he put it back together.
And this was the first way that it was put back together.
This is what it looked like.
He was on the cover of Guitar Player magazine in 1977.
And this is what it looked like.
It had the mirror pickguard.
It had these special electronics. _
This is a blend knob for what was at the time _ likely to be the first version of a piezo pickup.
Because he had a Barkis Berry Kontakt pickup mounted in the neck.
And so he was using it for this direct sound which had a blend knob here.
[Em] This had some EQ features.
So like a sweepable EQ and then a Q for the frequency range.
_ [N] _
_ _ And the guitar itself was played on a lot of things in the 70s.
_ Frank played it on stage.
Adrian Ballew played it on stage when he was in Frank's band.
Steve Vai played it on stage when he was in Frank's band in the early 80s.
But the guitar has changed its appearance since the time that you first saw it on the cover of Guitar Player in 1977. _
As Frank continued to tour it had a different pickguard.
A black pickguard and then a maple neck.
_ And he had different electronics.
But at one point in the early 80s it disappeared.
We didn't know where the guitar was.
So I found it underneath a staircase at our house near the studio.
And it was in pieces and all the electronics were gone.
The neck was off.
And the neck that he had been using on it at that time got damaged.
And so I told my dad that I found it.
Did he want me to put it back together?
And he said sure.
Put it back together.
And I took it to Fender.
And Jay Black who was a master builder at Fender at the time helped put it back together.
And we had a maple neck with a flipped headstock.
So it was a nod to Jimmy.
And then it had a _ _ tortoiseshell style pickguard.
And it was more just stock electronics like it would have been in the 60s.
And then after putting it back together that way, my dad played it.
He enjoyed playing it.
But he ended up giving it to me and saying would you like to have this?
And of course.
Yes.
I would think so.
That's why it is here.
And so over time I thought because it's so iconic from that picture from the cover of 1977, I wanted to recreate what that was.
But I didn't have the neck because I had never actually seen this [E] neck on that guitar [N] ever.
I had only seen it with the maple neck when he was playing it in the 80s.
So this neck was _ recently made by the folks at Fender, Alex Perez and _ some other folks over there.
And it's got the headstock on the back.
I mean the logo on the back of that headstock.
And _ so all of the electronics and all of the things are recreated based on what I know about his other guitars.
What he used in them and what he talked about being in this guitar.
So this is the original part of the whole equation.
And the rest of this stuff is _ _ all of the newly refurbished stuff that was done by Fender and also by Cooney at Performance Guitar.
Who originally worked on Frank's guitars and did all that stuff.
So it's refurbished to the way that people know it and I'm excited to play it and I'll be playing it at different shows and things.
Very cool.
Well it's quite the trifecta because it's got three _ different versions of memorabilia to go with it.
Not to mention all the people that played the guitar [C] _
at the time as well.
It's an amazing piece of rock memorabilia and [Bb] as people know there's [Bbm] very few real bonafide Hendrix instruments.
[B] And this is one of them because the history has been traced.
It's something that everybody knows [N] about.
It's been featured in other magazines so there's no question as to its authenticity.
Yeah it definitely is an amazing thing.
And when you really think about _ _ anything to compare it to, it's like the equivalent in my mind anyway of if you think of classical composers like Beethoven or Mozart.
They didn't have a chance to play the same piano but Frank Zappa and Jimi Hendrix got to play this guitar.
And then even a bunch of other guys, even as recently as last week Steve Vai played Little Wing on this guitar at a Benefit concert that he had set up.
Joe Satriani.
So you know it's a great instrument and I'm just sort of looking forward to sharing it with the world on some recordings and some other things.
Getting it back to doing what it does best and making music.
Very cool.
Well thank you for bringing it in man because it's something everybody that's been around here has just been stoked about just seeing it and just chasing the vibe of it.
My son has a Hendrix tattoo on his arm so he was all excited about it and we're all excited to have it in the store.
Thank you again for coming in.
Yeah thank you.
[Eb] Appreciate it.
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We've got a good friend of mine in here with one of the most iconic pieces of rock memorabilia ever.
I mean this guitar is something else.
This [Bb] is Dweezil Zappa, a fabulous guitar player, son of Frank Zappa.
And this is a guitar that Jimi Hendrix gave to Frank in the late 60s at the Miami Pop Festival, which I was actually at by the way. _
It was unbelievable.
In fact, Hendrix [N] landed, two helicopters landed at the end of the festival.
I don't know if you know about this.
And back in the day, all these bands would come in and they'd have to tune up for [Db] ten minutes and all that.
Two helicopters landed [N] and everybody was going, who is it, the Beatles?
Who's landing in the helicopters?
And it was Hendrix in one and his band in the other.
And they all had their guitar chords.
The guitars were tuned.
They walked up, plugged in, turned around, it hit the first chord and the place lost it.
And Hendrix was really playing great at that moment.
I mean he was really on his game and it was a biblical experience.
I can imagine.
So maybe you can talk a little bit about this.
Sure.
This particular guitar, _ _ as Norm was talking about, was given to my dad.
_ Actually at that show by Jimmy's Roadie.
But Jimmy and my dad were friends and they would play together when they had the opportunity.
And when he had the guitar, it obviously didn't look like this.
It was all burnt, this part, the neck and the other things were destroyed.
But Frank, my dad, had it on the wall in his studio just as a decoration for a while.
But then he decided he wanted to put it back together.
And in the mid-70s he put it back together.
And this was the first way that it was put back together.
This is what it looked like.
He was on the cover of Guitar Player magazine in 1977.
And this is what it looked like.
It had the mirror pickguard.
It had these special electronics. _
This is a blend knob for what was at the time _ likely to be the first version of a piezo pickup.
Because he had a Barkis Berry Kontakt pickup mounted in the neck.
And so he was using it for this direct sound which had a blend knob here.
[Em] This had some EQ features.
So like a sweepable EQ and then a Q for the frequency range.
_ [N] _
_ _ And the guitar itself was played on a lot of things in the 70s.
_ Frank played it on stage.
Adrian Ballew played it on stage when he was in Frank's band.
Steve Vai played it on stage when he was in Frank's band in the early 80s.
But the guitar has changed its appearance since the time that you first saw it on the cover of Guitar Player in 1977. _
As Frank continued to tour it had a different pickguard.
A black pickguard and then a maple neck.
_ And he had different electronics.
But at one point in the early 80s it disappeared.
We didn't know where the guitar was.
So I found it underneath a staircase at our house near the studio.
And it was in pieces and all the electronics were gone.
The neck was off.
And the neck that he had been using on it at that time got damaged.
And so I told my dad that I found it.
Did he want me to put it back together?
And he said sure.
Put it back together.
And I took it to Fender.
And Jay Black who was a master builder at Fender at the time helped put it back together.
And we had a maple neck with a flipped headstock.
So it was a nod to Jimmy.
And then it had a _ _ tortoiseshell style pickguard.
And it was more just stock electronics like it would have been in the 60s.
And then after putting it back together that way, my dad played it.
He enjoyed playing it.
But he ended up giving it to me and saying would you like to have this?
And of course.
Yes.
I would think so.
That's why it is here.
And so over time I thought because it's so iconic from that picture from the cover of 1977, I wanted to recreate what that was.
But I didn't have the neck because I had never actually seen this [E] neck on that guitar [N] ever.
I had only seen it with the maple neck when he was playing it in the 80s.
So this neck was _ recently made by the folks at Fender, Alex Perez and _ some other folks over there.
And it's got the headstock on the back.
I mean the logo on the back of that headstock.
And _ so all of the electronics and all of the things are recreated based on what I know about his other guitars.
What he used in them and what he talked about being in this guitar.
So this is the original part of the whole equation.
And the rest of this stuff is _ _ all of the newly refurbished stuff that was done by Fender and also by Cooney at Performance Guitar.
Who originally worked on Frank's guitars and did all that stuff.
So it's refurbished to the way that people know it and I'm excited to play it and I'll be playing it at different shows and things.
Very cool.
Well it's quite the trifecta because it's got three _ different versions of memorabilia to go with it.
Not to mention all the people that played the guitar [C] _
at the time as well.
It's an amazing piece of rock memorabilia and [Bb] as people know there's [Bbm] very few real bonafide Hendrix instruments.
[B] And this is one of them because the history has been traced.
It's something that everybody knows [N] about.
It's been featured in other magazines so there's no question as to its authenticity.
Yeah it definitely is an amazing thing.
And when you really think about _ _ anything to compare it to, it's like the equivalent in my mind anyway of if you think of classical composers like Beethoven or Mozart.
They didn't have a chance to play the same piano but Frank Zappa and Jimi Hendrix got to play this guitar.
And then even a bunch of other guys, even as recently as last week Steve Vai played Little Wing on this guitar at a Benefit concert that he had set up.
Joe Satriani.
So you know it's a great instrument and I'm just sort of looking forward to sharing it with the world on some recordings and some other things.
Getting it back to doing what it does best and making music.
Very cool.
Well thank you for bringing it in man because it's something everybody that's been around here has just been stoked about just seeing it and just chasing the vibe of it.
My son has a Hendrix tattoo on his arm so he was all excited about it and we're all excited to have it in the store.
Thank you again for coming in.
Yeah thank you.
[Eb] Appreciate it.
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