{"id":1533566,"date":"2022-06-30T12:34:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T16:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1533566"},"modified":"2022-06-30T12:35:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T16:35:01","slug":"rock-legend-to-be-reunited-with-prized-guitar-stolen-45-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rock-legend-to-be-reunited-with-prized-guitar-stolen-45-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Legend To Be Reunited With Prized Guitar Stolen 45 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frock-legend-to-be-reunited-with-prized-guitar-stolen-45-years-ago%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1533566&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Legendary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-class-of-2022-announced\">rocker<\/a> Randy Bachman will soon be reunited with a guitar that was stolen from a Toronto hotel room nearly a half-century ago and turned up in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/japan\">Japanese<\/a> second-hand store.<\/p>\n<p>Bachman, who played on timeless hits with The Guess Who before forming Bachman-Turner Overdrive, is in Tokyo to be reunited with the 1957 Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins model he bought as a teen in his hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The 78-year-old guitar god told the Japanese news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/mainichi.jp\/english\/articles\/20220628\/p2a\/00m\/0et\/025000c?fbclid=IwAR3sYM2gMvFx88bZw6BG8D78PcBv91uRU-x-DeUPKFqH_3bXq1qRAsgt2GU\">Mainichi Shimbun<\/a> it is an emotional matter for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe searched the world,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was in Japan \u2026 I\u2019m sure I will be crying because I will have my guitar in my hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Randy Bachman&#8217;s stolen guitar found in Japan. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nch2pk5gnH\">https:\/\/t.co\/Nch2pk5gnH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dean Shimauchi (@deanshimauchi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/deanshimauchi\/status\/1541925214904553472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bachman plans to trade a vintage guitar for the long-lost model in a July 1 ceremony at the Canadian embassy in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>Bachman was just 19 and accompanied by fellow Canadian rock star Neil Young when they both bought the same $400 model hollow-body guitar at a music shop, he said in the interview. Bachman plunked down half with money from delivering papers, mowing lawns and babysitting, and paid the rest in installments.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to write and perform hits including \u201cAmerican Woman,\u201d \u201cNo Time,\u201d and \u201cNo Sugar Tonight\u201d for The Guess Who on the guitar, as well as \u201cTakin\u2019 Care of Business\u201d and \u201cYou Ain\u2019t Seen Nothin\u2019 Yet\u201d for Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Young still has his Gretsch, according to Bachman, who said his pal was thrilled to hear Bachman\u2019s guitar was found in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got a nice email from him with a picture of his guitar, and it said, \u2018I\u2019m happy you got your guitar back. I know what it meant to you,\u2019\u201d Bachman said. \u201cEvery guy I know wants his first guitar. Especially if you\u2019ve written songs that are on radio all over the world with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a wonder Bachman ever lost the vintage instrument. He loved it so much that when he was on tour, he would chain it to the toilet when he had to leave the room, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if someone wanted to steal it, they would have to rip the toilet from the wall,\u201d he recalled. \u201cPeople said I was crazy, but I was serious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was in 1977, when Bachman was on tour and staying in Toronto when he forgot to lock up his axe. When a roadie told him it was gone, Bachman was crestfallen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like, \u2018What do you mean it\u2019s gone?\u2019 So that was (a) heartbreak,\u201d he recalled.<\/p>\n<p>Local police told him it was likely taken by thieves disguised as hotel workers, and to make peace with the fact it was gone. But Bachman often reflected on his lost guitar in interviews over the following decades.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, a fan launched an online search for the missing guitar using old concert pictures in an international appeal.<\/p>\n<p>The search led to Japanese musician named Takeshi, who writes songs for a number of Japanese boy bands and had bought the Gretsch. The fan had spotted him playing it in a video and sent the clip to Bachman, who immediately recognized the guitar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought, \u2018That\u2019s my guitar,&#8217;\u201d Bachman said. He contacted Takeshi and they met on Zoom.<\/p>\n<p>The entire itinerary for the guitar\u2019s journey from hotel bathroom to Tokyo music shop may never be known, but Takeshi bought it in 2014 from Guitar Traders. The store owner told the Japanese media outlet he bought it that summer at a vintage guitar trade show in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>Takeshi initially thought he was being scammed when Bachman contacted him. But when the legendary rocker met him over Zoom and recounted buying the guitar as a young man and how losing it rendered him unable to write hit songs, Takeshi decided to return it to Bachman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought, \u2018If a rock legend cares about this guitar so much, I should return it to him,&#8217;\u201d he told the <a href=\"https:\/\/mainichi.jp\/english\/articles\/20220628\/p2a\/00m\/0et\/025000c?fbclid=IwAR3sYM2gMvFx88bZw6BG8D78PcBv91uRU-x-DeUPKFqH_3bXq1qRAsgt2GU\">Japanese outlet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The pair plan to perform a concert at the embassy after the exchange and there\u2019s talk of writing a song together. Bachman\u2019s working title: \u201cLost and Found.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is really a magical story,\u201d Bachman said. \u201cTakeshi will be my guitar brother. I can\u2019t wait.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary rocker Randy Bachman will soon be reunited with a guitar that was stolen from a Toronto hotel room nearly a half-century ago and turned up in a Japanese second-hand store. Bachman, who played on timeless hits with The Guess Who before forming Bachman-Turner Overdrive, is in Tokyo to be reunited with the 1957 Gretsch &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1533673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1533673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}