I think he could not afford another one, he was hot very wealthy. He did that because of his personality, not to show that he can burn a guitar. He was just feeling comfortable on-stage.

well i agree

The thing I love about Jimi, especially if you watch Woodstock, is he never played a song exactly the same. That is one thing I don't like about a lot of bands now a days. They are just cover bands for their own CDs.

yeah

I wonder if we can talk C.C. into lighting his hair on fire. The best of both worlds.

To me Hendrix was great because nobody, and I mean nobody ever played anything like that before! It was like the guy stepped off a UFO or something and laid down the blueprint for the way guitar oriented rock would be played for the next forty years. He set the bar for the modern day lead guitarist. He was burning up the fretboard and diving on that whammy way back in 67' probably even earlier. To me Hendrix was a pure innovator. You had bands like Mountain, and Cream, but none of them did what he did. He learned the rules and then had fun breaking every one of them. Had he lived, he probably would have invented hammering. Lord knows he did everything else. And if Hendrix sounds dated, remember, he didn't have access to the equipment people had just a few years after he died.

I could not agree more! Hendrix put the word electric in electric guitar. He is the highest of the high priests in the church of the sonic guitar. Few players in rock's glorious history have combined such monster skills, touch, tone, and technique with all out sonic assault. 30+ years after his death I am still humbled by his work.