Lower Than a Snake's Belly

It's all over the internets, true, but I'm gonna write about it too - it's that despicable.  Someone has stolen Peter Buck's iconic Rickenbacker 360 Jetglo.  Yes.  The one with the Trucker Girl sticker on it.  The one he's had for 26 years and that has been played on every album since Chronic Town and taken around the world many, many times.  

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.