![]() “I owned it and played it for only eight years and I’m extremely sad to return it now. TAKESHI said he decided to return the guitar because as a guitar player he could imagine how much Bachman missed it. ![]() ![]() “To find my guitar again was a miracle, to find its twin sister was another miracle,” Bachman said. So, Bachman searched and found the guitar's "sister” - made during the same week, with a close serial number, no modifications and no repairs. TAKESHI agreed to give it to Bachman in exchange for one that was very similar. “The guitar almost spoke to me over the video, like, ‘Hey, I’m coming home.’” A further search led him to a YouTube video showing the instrument being played by a Japanese musician, TAKESHI, in December 2019.Īfter receiving the news from Long, Bachman contacted TAKESHI immediately, and recognized the guitar in a video chat they had. The fan, William Long, used a small spot in the guitar's wood grain visible in old images as a “digital fingerprint” and tracked the instrument down to a vintage guitar shop site in Tokyo. ![]() In 2020, a Canadian fan who heard the story of the guitar launched an internet search and successfully located it in Tokyo within two weeks. “It was very, very upsetting.” He ended up buying about 300 guitars in unsuccessful attempts to replace it, he said.īachman talked frequently about the missing guitar in interviews and on radio shows, and more recently on YouTube programs on which he performed with his son, Tal. When it was stolen from the Toronto hotel in 1977, “I cried for three days. ![]() It was my hammer and a tool to write songs, make music and make money,” Bachman told The Associated Press before the handover at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo. He worked at multiple jobs to save money to buy the $400 guitar, his first purchase of an expensive instrument, he said. He said all guitars are special, but the orange 1957 Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins he bought as a teenager was exceptional. “My girlfriend is right there,” said Bachman, 78, a former member of The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, as the Gretsch guitar on which he wrote “American Woman” and other hits was handed to him by a Japanese musician who had bought it at a Tokyo store in 2014 without knowing its history. Canadian rock legend Randy Bachman’s long search came to an end Friday when he was reunited in Tokyo with a cherished guitar 45 years after it was stolen from a Toronto hotel. ![]()
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