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Rockstar reunited with stolen guitar 46 years on: 'When it's suddenly gone, the magic is gone'

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Over the decades, guitarist Randy Bachman hunted for his orange Gretsch, which has a small, dark knot in the wood grain on its front, but to no avail – until a Canadian fan decided to help with the search from his home in 2020.

They say you never forget your first love, and after pining for his stolen guitar for almost half a century, Canadian rockstar Randy Bachman has finally been reunited with the instrument which an eagle-eyed fan tracked down in Japan.

He had long admired the instrument, spending hours staring at it in a shop window in Winnipeg with his friend and fellow musician Neil Young.It meant so much to Bachman that he would chain it to hotel toilets on tour."Everybody in the band made fun of me, but because I worked so hard to get this guitar, I didn't want it stolen."

"Yeah, I'm a sleuth," Long, 58, told AFP."I was confident I was going to find it. I got the process down so quick – I went through 300 images of orange Gretches." Takeshi, who had always wanted a vintage Gretsch, says he bought Bachman's guitar in 2014 for around 850,000 yen .

 

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