The guitar, which he had bought from Winnipeg Piano in the early 1960s, was stolen from a Toronto-area hotel in 1976. I loved this guitar so much."īachman is shown strumming his 1957 Gretsch guitar in the video for Lookin' Out for #1 in 1975. According to Bachman, the guitar was put in the hotel room with other luggage, and in the five minutes it took for the hotel bill to be paid, the instrument was swiped. His road manager brought the guitar back to the hotel as they checked out. The beloved guitar was lost while Bachman was putting together an album for Bachman–Turner Overdrive in Toronto.
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After a decades-long search and assistance from everyone from the RCMP to vintage instrument dealers across North America came up empty-handed, a fan's creative use of facial recognition software helped track it down in Japan. The guitar, which he used to pen the likes of No Sugar Tonight, Takin' Care of Business and American Woman, was stolen from a Toronto-area hotel in 1976 and recently resurfaced in Tokyo. So if anyone was going to steal it, they'd have to rip the toilet off the floor of the bathroom."
"I put my guitar next to the toilet in the bathroom, wrap the chain through the handle of the case, around the case and around the toilet twice and lock it twice. "I would take the guitar in its case into my hotel room with a hopsack with 12 feet of tow-truck chain," Bachman recalled during an interview on Friday from his home in Sidney, B.C. He purchased hundreds of other Gretsch guitars, but the former Guess Who guitarist was unable to find that guitar - a 1957 Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins model in western orange with black DeArmond pickups. For 45 years, Randy Bachman tried filling the void left behind by a guitar - the guitar - he strummed some of rock music's most iconic songs with.
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