Hows this... Ted Nugent invented shooting an electric guitar (normally hollow-body's) with a flaming arrow.
However, he never humped the guitar like Hendrix did... atleast not from what I have seen. Hendrix liked to poor lighter fluid on his Strat and lighting it up and doing all kinds of crazy stuff.
Did he do the lighter thing more than once?
The only time I remeber seeing he'd done that was at Woodstock.
He and Pete were always trying to outdo each other, and the Who were also on the same bill there.
I can find 3 times documented when he blazed his Stratocasters-
1 here-- On March 31, 1967, when, booked to appear as one of the opening acts on the Walker Brothers farewell tour, he set his guitar on fire at the end of his first performance, as a publicity stunt. This guitar has now been identified as the "Zappa guitar" (previously thought to have been from Miami), which has been partly refurbished. Later, as part of this press promotion campaign, there were articles about Rank Theatre management warning him to "tone down" his "suggestive" stage act, with Chandler stating that the group would not compromise regardless.
2 here-- Hendrix bought many Strats and gave some away as gifts. Some were stolen, and a few were destroyed during his notorious guitar-smashing finales. Hendrix actually set fire to two of them, the first time on the opening night of his first UK tour. The only other documented guitar-burning incident was at the Monterey Pop festival, his USA debut appearance as the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
References -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_HendrixIt's funny that he was warned to "tone down" his "suggestive" stage act
Damn I love Rock-n-Roll!
