Massachusetts Man Fired Up Over JIMI HENDRIX Guitar Purchase

September 6, 2008

Jessica Fargen of BostonHerald.com conducted a short interview with Danny Boucher, the guitar enthusiast from Massachusetts who outbid fellow high-rolling rock collectors for a Fender Stratocaster scorched by guitar god Jimi Hendrix.

"It was owned and played by Jimi Hendrix. Enough said," Boucher told BostonHerald.com in an e-mail yesterday, a day after making the purchase Thursday at a London auction.

The Central Massachusetts guitar broker, 51, paid $497,557 for the Stratocaster that Hendrix set ablaze during a concert in London in 1967. That same year Hendrix famously burned another guitar at the Monterey Pop festival — a scene memorialized on film.

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