10-09-2021, 04:34 PM
‘ "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. So if anyone was going to steal it, they'd have to rip the toilet off the floor of the bathroom."
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.
Bachman was putting together an album for Bachman–Turner Overdrive in Toronto when his road manager brought the guitar back to the hotel as they checked out. 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 guitar was swiped.
"It was just terrible," Bachman said. "I cried for literally all night…. I loved this guitar so much."
But after decades of searching, Bachman's long-lost guitar recently resurfaced in Tokyo. ‘
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/...-1.6206128
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.
Bachman was putting together an album for Bachman–Turner Overdrive in Toronto when his road manager brought the guitar back to the hotel as they checked out. 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 guitar was swiped.
"It was just terrible," Bachman said. "I cried for literally all night…. I loved this guitar so much."
But after decades of searching, Bachman's long-lost guitar recently resurfaced in Tokyo. ‘
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/...-1.6206128
