Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock Stratocaster, a 1968 Fender in Olympic White Hendrix, left-handed, played a right-handed Strat flipped over and restrung, and this is the one behind his "Star-Spangled Banner" at Woodstock in August 1969, the performance that turned feedback into a statement. Bought in New York in 1968 and used until about 1970, it has been shown in Seattle at the museum now called the Museum of Pop Culture, where this photo was taken in 2009.