JIMI HENDRIX Guitar Stolen

September 7, 2004

Celebrity Justice is reporting that a guitar that once belonged to Jimi Hendrix was stolen from an an inner city Los Angeles nightclub two weeks ago, according to the man that has been holding onto it for nearly 50 years, Ike Turner.

Jimi Hendrix was a member of Ike's band in the 1950s until Turner gave Hendrix the pink slip almost five decades ago.
"I'd give him a solo, man, and by the time he stopped it from squealing the time for the solo would be over," Turner remembered of Hendrix. "So that's what I fired him about."

Turner believes the thief probably doesn't even realize how valuable the guitars are. He also told Celebrity Justice that after holding onto the guitars for nearly 50 years, he had been planning to put them up for auction, saying, "I'm pretty sure I could have gotten close to a million dollars."

Ike told Celebrity Justice that he was doing a soundcheck with some of his band mates when he noticed a couple of people looking at him from over a fence at the nightclub. At the time, he didn't think too much about it, so he laid both his guitars down against the wall and went into the dressing room. But when he came back out, he was stunned to find out that both of them were gone. Read more.

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