Originally Posted By: Uncle Dave
Wow - I used to love and respect Jimi ... now after seeing the trashing of his guitar .... not so much. I remember as a kid feeling so sad when I saw that in concerts ... I had to save up just to have .25 cents for picks and these a-holes were destroying instruments. That's not rock & roll - it's just stupid.


Jerry Lee denies he ever set fire to a piano, but he is quoted in an online article in Esquire Magazine as saying "I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river. They wasn't any good."

Fact or fiction, this is one of my favorite movie scenes, and certainly validates the saying- "Presentation is EVERYTHING!" grin

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