Rolling Stones Guitarist Buys Hendrix Axe for Girlfriend
- Posted on Jan 8th 2009 4:00PM by John D. Luerssen
- Comments (15)
It's long been said that one should never date a musician. This may be an argument in favor, folks.Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood reportedly splurged on a vintage guitar once played by rock legend Jimi Hendrix, paying £13,000 for the axe, a gift for his young girlfriend Ekaterina Ivanova.
A friend of the 20-year-old told Ivanova told the Sun, "she fell in love with the guitar before Christmas but rather than buying it while she was with him, Ronnie wanted to wait and surprise her."
"He loves to treat her with gifts and tokens of his affection," she added. "He has been spending a small fortune on her which she is more than happy to take."
Ever the romantic, Wood supposedly had his and Eka's initials inscribed on the guitar alongside the inscription, "Sweet as a daisy, sweet as a pearl, you'll always be my little kitten."
At least it wasn't a tattoo.
Reader Comments(1 of 1)
alabama15that 1-12-2009
uno
namebrandkidat 1-12-2009
Nice way to ruin a piece of history by slapping your initials and an inscription on it. Could'nt you have just bought a card instead of defacing such a rare item.
Eddieat 1-12-2009
He is a ROLLING STONE and a member of FACES with Rod stewart the value of that guitar has tripled in value with the addittion of his initials. He is not the greatest guitarist but he is an accomplished guitarist in his own rights
blairprintingat 1-12-2009
namebrandkid,
I was thinking the same thing. He must have de-valued it as well.
madhvacat 1-12-2009
They should of got tattoo's instead.
Reminds me of a John Hiatt song "perfectly good guitar"
Just replace SMASHING with INSCRIBING. He say's in the song "Oh it breaks my heart to see those stars Smashing a perfectly good guitar" Ron what were you thinking?
obabystarat 1-12-2009
Really...a 20 year old??? Has she even heard about Jimi??? She'll take the damn thing and sell it on ebay for $20....
ondineaat 1-12-2009
disgusting... pathetic Ron Wood... lost all dignity..... another slog with another underage hooker.... sad....
Angelaat 1-12-2009
Lucky girl!!!
Butchat 1-12-2009
The banner was SO misleading! I want to know how AOL devalued the Dollar SO badly. By current exchange rates, 13,000GBP is 19,343.34 USD, NOT $30,000 as they claim in the header to get you to come read this article. What a load of CRAP from AOL!
Helenat 1-12-2009
Come on now a 20 year old. Ron, Ron, Ron, can't you see she is using you???? Your nothing but a granpa figure to her.
cowpiesat 1-12-2009
This news is not news. Aol is a bunch of losers, they wouldn't know good news if it walk up to them and bitched slapped them
Larry Lubellat 1-12-2009
Have you priced out a vintage guitar recently.
I have 16 guitars of various values, let me tell you it is not that hard to drop $5,000 - $10,000 for a nice 60s
SG or Strat; and that with out a famous name attached to it's history.
A guitar out of Wood's collection could bring in $10,000 even if it was nothing special.
If I remember correctly, Clapton's (Brown Strat) sold for some $300,000.00
I wonder if this Hendrix guitar was a pre CBS.
Got to LOVE the Stones. Wood is a great guitarist and a good 2D artist as well. I do think it sucks that he left his wife after she stuck with him through his drug problem. I think she di collect $90 million though.
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naahannaat 1-12-2009
rons' cool...leave it there
WHATS UP FUCKER?at 1-12-2009
He should be drawn and quartered for destroying a piece of rock and roll history. Jimi, I'm sorry this guy is a cradle robbing moron.
TPGBARTat 9-15-2009
KIND OF FULL CIRCLE JIMI AND RONNIE USED TO SHARE A FLAT BETTER RONNIE HAVING THAT AXE THAN SOME AXEHOLE