“That’s true. We smoked Jimi Hendrix’s guitar… I thought it’d be fun to crumble a bit of the wood off and pop it inside a joint”: Steve Cradock once smoked the shavings of Hendrix’s Strat by rolling them in a page from the Bible

Steve Cradock – best known as the guitarist behind Ocean Colour Scene and Paul Weller’s go-to sideman – has revealed he once smoked shavings of Jimi Hendrix’s Strat in a joint, while rehearsing in a UK studio in the early ’90s.

Jimi Hendrix was one of the greatest guitar players to ever live, and as such the electric guitars he used during his trailblazing career are viewed upon by fans as de facto Holy relics.

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