The new Fender Hendrix Strat isn’t the first Stratocaster built in Jimi’s honor. This is an article about transforming a very average Mexican Strat into a killer instrument inspired by the guitar Jimi Hendrix played and burned at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.. We recently saw a documentary celebrating the 40th anniversary of the event, and the Hendrix … Jimi Hendrix’s 1965/66 Fender Stratocaster (Black, Monterey) If we’re to rank guitars in order of their usage during the some of the most iconic performances of Jimi’s, this black Stratocaster would … To celebrate the 50th anniversary of this milestone in music history, Fender created the limited-edition Jimi Hendrix Monterey Stratocaster.

A trio of single-coil Stratocaster pickups give this Strat … MONTEREY POP FESTIVAL 1967 It’s amazing that a guitar that was played only once would go on to be one of the most recognized in history, but that’s exactly the case with a one-of-a-kind Stratocaster that Jimi Hendrix sacrificed at the 1967 Monterey … Instead, the Mexico-made instrument is designed to deliver the most authentically Jimi … The Monterey Stratocaster has a custom neck plate featuring an engraved image of Hendrix. Nor is it some dead-on replica of, say, the guitar he played at Woodstock or Monterey.