From the first steps to the leap forward, Mashable is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the moon landing with a series that examines its significance — and why we haven’t been back.
Just beyond a long, elegant hall of mostly headless, ancient Greek statues at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City lies a chunk of Jimi Hendrix’s guitar, which the rock legend doused in lighter fluid, lit ablaze, and slammed into the ground at the Monterey International Pop Music Festival in June 1967. Wires still protrude from the smashed wood, which over a half-century ago radiated Hendrix’s shrieking, psychedelic notes through big amplifiers, and into the summer air Read more…
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