The guitar you heard the first time you heard the R.E.M. song that made you a fan.
The one that's got Peter's DNA permanently embedded in it.
Here's Peter playing it in May in Vancouver BC - the first night of the Accelerate Tour.
And again in March 2006 at the Crocodile with Robyn Hitchcock. The insane thing? That pretty blue Telecaster of Robyn's - also an iconic guitar - certainly the one I most often have seen him with, was stolen last November in Toronto and not yet returned so far as I know...
What? Do you think you can be Robyn or Peter if only you've got their axe?
Is it for the money?
Why steal something that can never see the light of day and cannot give the world its gift of the voice of the musician whose soul is bound up in it?
Here's Robyn playing Peter's Rick - April 2007 again at the Crocodile. He'd only busted a string on the Telecaster and Peter handed him his to finish the gig. Both guitars went home with their owners that night.
Please let them somehow find their way back again.
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I've heard the rumors. How low can one person go?
I saw it first on that livejournal "file under" (the guy who role plays as Michael Stipe) and hoped it wasn't true but it is.
Robyn's was stolen out of a car on the street - could have been random. This was planned and very personal.
On a brighter note, how was Italy???
We didn't go. I was going with my mother, and she's having severe vertigo/sinus issues that will keep her off planes. We're going to take a meandering car trip along the Southeast coast next month.
Italy next year, though. What better way to celebrate 50!
Italy's great anytime - but a nice 50th birthday celebration too!
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