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To: Tennessee Nana
Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster co-wrote Me and Bobby McGee, which was recorded by Roger Miller (1969) and Gordon Lightfoot (1970). Kristofferson was playing a Gibson Southern Jumbo when he wrote it.

Kristofferson played it for Joplin during the time he was Joplin's live-in boyfriend near the end of her life. Joplin's version of the song became a #1 song in 1971, after her death (the second posthumous #1 song in history, after Otis Redding's Sitting on the Dock of the Bay).

51 posted on 07/09/2012 10:30:53 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
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To: Scoutmaster
I have a couple of custom Hendrix guitars in my collection. Here's a Gibson custom shop Hendrix psychedelic Flying V, as Hendrix painted it with nail polish for a European tour:

My other Hendrix custom is a copy of his Monterey Strat - with the daisy on top, not the rose as Pamelina (incorrectly) painted for the Strat reissues.

52 posted on 07/09/2012 10:51:16 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
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