SILVERTONE LAP STEEL - 1pu natural solidbody Danelectro Neptune New Jersey, 1953. For sale.
Danelectro's 1st foray into lap steels. Super basic but functional w/updated built in cord to glide the night away!
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![[INFO TEXT FROM EXHIBIT] Hendrix used this white Fender Stratocaster to play his iconic rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner", the most legendary moment of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, on the early morning of August 18, 1969, but due to delays, Gypsy Sun and Rainbows ended up playing to only 30,000 stragglers. Hendrix bought this Stratocaster in 1968 and played it at many concerts, including the 1969 Newport Pop Festival and his final concert at the Isle of Fehmarn on September 6, 1970. On September 18, 1970, Hendrix's creative journey was cut short by an accidental overdose of sleeping pills. He was 27 years old.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qx5qhlosanwwsfw5upqzmmph/bafkreibknwobzva5bspwm3n5kz2vvbgj2kzx55dzpq2ab44axa4ewuvtoa)
![Scenes from the Experience Music Project (formerly) now called the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle Washington. Shown on the left is a Fender Stratocaster guitar in white with psychedelic poems and imagery that was smashed by Jimi Hendrix. This was burned and smashed at the Monterey International Pop Festival on June 18, 1967. On the right, are two fragments of Fender Stratocasters guitars that Hendrix smashed on stage. The colorfully painted guitar fragment was smashed at the Saville Theatre in London England on June 4, 1967. And, the sunburst guitar fragment was smashed at the Royal Albert Hall in London England on February 24, 1969. There's a third Fender Stratocaster guitar fragment (lower right), with a psychedelic paint job, that was smashed on June 4, 1967 at the Saville Theatre. The middle photograph shows Jimi Hendrix holding the guitar. (Photo of Jimi by Bill Nitropi.)
[INFO TEXT FROM EXHIBIT] Swingin' London scenester swooned over Hendrix's innovative recasting of African American blues, as well as the guitarist's flamboyant stage presence: gyrating, playing guitar with his teeth or behind his back, and smashing and burning his guitars. The guitars Hendrix broke and set aflame were often painted with psychedelic poems and imagery, presented as ritual offerings to the power of his music.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qx5qhlosanwwsfw5upqzmmph/bafkreifgmwt4nwchij5bjfo5mhxdfhckbcclrjebe7tw5imfhhtwkflliu)
![Silvertone 1321 electric guitar made by Danelectro in Neptune New Jersey is, most likely, a 1957 model. The Danelectro equivalent guitar is a called a U1. The guitar has a bronze finish with one lipstick pickup with one tone and one volume control along with a tone toggle switch. The body has white tolex binding and the pickguard is chipped in the lower corner.Description from VintageSilvertones.com
[INFO TEXT FROM EXHIBIT] Jimmy Hendrix and Joe Gray were good friends in ninth grade at Washington Junior High School in Seattle. Joe Gray owned this Sears Silvertone electric guitar, and in late 1958 to summer of 1959 not having a guitar of his own, Hendrix occasionally borrowed it to play gigs with the Velvetones. In September of that year the friends parted ways, as Hendrix entered Garfield High School and Gray attended Franklin High School. Around that time, Hendrix joined a new group, the Rocking Kings and his father, Al Hendrix bought him his first electric guitar, a Supro Ozark. Jimmy played that guitar with Rocking Kings until the spring of 1960, when it was stolen after a gig at Birdland. That summer, Al purchase Jimmy a new guitar, a Danelectro on which Jimmy painted the name "Betty Jean" after his high school sweetheart, Betty Jean Morgan.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qx5qhlosanwwsfw5upqzmmph/bafkreihulhld7spgu2rzi54w5tsstwwa3tjfob3rptpjacfhyscfq7tt6i)
