| Yeah, I know he destroyed a Strad, but that's not what gets me. What gets me is this (from the article):
To enable David to play at a special Valentines Day concert, London-based dealer, J&A Beare has offered the use of another Stradivarius, worth an estimated £2.5 million to the virtuoso musician. David Morris, director of J&A Beare was thrilled to be able to help Garrett and commented:
“I know how difficult it is when you have to do a concert and you don’t have the instrument to do it with. There’s more demand than we can supply, so we can’t help everyone who comes through the door, but in this instance we could and we are delighted to be able to. We always help out whenever we can.”
By the way, I doubt that Garrett intended for it to happen. Passing around the idea that he's probably unstable seems a bit paranoid and litigious (but hey, this is America!) to me. Symptom of our "you must be ****ed up if you did that" culture.
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