“He offered me Jimi’s guitar and then disappeared!”: How Lenny Kravitz almost got his hands on Hendrix’s Woodstock Strat

Lenny Kravitz.

When Lenny Kravitz first became a star in 1990 with his debut album Let Love Rule, he revealed how Jimi Hendrix’s former drummer Buddy Miles had promised to give him the famous guitar that Hendrix had played at Woodstock.

It was an offer that seemed too good to be true - and sadly for Lenny, that’s how it turned out.