JIMI HENDRIX, THE WHO Memorabilia Victim Of Nashville Flood
May 14, 2010, 14 years ago
Some vintage memorabilia are victims of the flooding in Nashville's Musicians Hall Of Fame And Museum including legendary instruments such as JIMI HENDRIX' 1966 Fender, Pete Townshend's guitar from THE WHO's Quadrophenia tour. According to Tennessean.com, many of the instruments were insured, and Hall founder Joe Chambers reminds that his losses are insignificant when compared to lost lives and destroyed homes. Now a remarkable collection has been derailed by civic planning and destroyed by force of nature.
In February, Chambers was ordered to vacate his downtown building in 14 days, to make way for a new convention center, and so he gathered his treasures - most owned, some loaned - and drove them across the Cumberland, to a riverside rehearsal and storage space called Soundcheck Nashville, for safe keeping while he searched for another location. Now hundreds of other fine things are irrevocably altered, their futures uncertain.
Read more of the report here.
