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Topic: Stolen ShoBud Gone to Nashville? |
Dave Grafe
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Hudson River Valley NY
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Posted 25 Jun 2009 10:09 am |
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Those of you living and working in the Nashville area should be aware that a young fiddle-player has recently joined the ranks of Nashville's hopeful. This would be of little to no interest except for the fact that he left Portland without returning my '78 ShoBud Pro I.
I loaned it to him a couple of years ago when we were both playing with Joni Harms and he wanted an instrument to practice what I had been showing him - gave him lessons for free and then loaned him a guitar to practice on and this is how he pays me back - no good deed goes unpunished, they say!
Doug Jones found and the kid's parents subsequently bought him an S10 Emmons this past Christmas so he doesn't even need my 'Bud at all but he has evaded and avoided me for well over a year, recently blowing town without word one to me, despite repeated emails and telephone messages from me to him. I have tried pleading, coaxing, laughing and cursing, all to no avail, now it's probably time to call the cops but that all seems so terribly messy when all I want is Peace on Earth and to get my guitar back.
So if any of you fine folks should encounter this young fellow you have ample conversational material to share with him. I know that above all we all want him to feel appropriately welcome in the music city, now, don't we?
The guitar is a stock, red '78 Pro I S10 3+2 and the face of the body has been sun-bleached to a sweet pinkish orange (as seen in the photo below) while the back side retains the original cherry red finish. The pedals are the skinny ones and the two knees are the rectangular (not teardrop) pot-metal style. My name and telephone number are written under the body. The stock black tolex case has blue velvet inside and when last seen also had an Ernie Ball volume pedal in it.
At this moment I have not contemplated a reward but any and all assistance in recovering this instrument in a timely fashion will be recognized, celebrated and suitably compensated.
That's it for the bad news, NOW I'm ready for some sunshine....
Last edited by Dave Grafe on 25 Jun 2009 1:45 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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Ben Elder
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La Crescenta, California, USA
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Posted 25 Jun 2009 10:56 am
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Probably running with the thug who beat up Tony Locke.
(Transcribed from audio and dimming memory in faulty French, abandoned mid-sophomore year of college, during the reign of Louis XIV:)
"Trouver le raton, trouvez le trou.*"
--Firesign Theatre, "The Giant Rat of Sumatra"
* "To find the rat, you have to find the hole."
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Chris Erbacher
From:
Sausalito, California, USA
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Posted 25 Jun 2009 11:32 am
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| i'm assuming you have filed a police report and all that kinda thing....? |
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Brian Kurlychek
From:
Maine, USA
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Posted 25 Jun 2009 12:30 pm
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When you lend something to someone, how long before it is cosidered stolen? Did you have any kind of written agreement? Do you have proof you own the guitar? If not, you may have a hard time proving it and could possibly get sued for dragging his name in the mud. Unless you have proof it might be your word against his.
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Dave Grafe
From:
Hudson River Valley NY
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Posted 25 Jun 2009 1:40 pm
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"When you lend something to someone, how long before it is cosidered stolen?"
In this case when they leave town a year after you asked for it back without saying anything...
"Did you have any kind of written agreement? Do you have proof you own the guitar?"
No and yes, respectfully - an informal agreement between friends and band-mates, with plenty of witnesses to the various facts and copious documentation regarding the guitar's ownership...
"i'm assuming you have filed a police report and all that kinda thing....?" Now here's the funny thing: This morning I put in a call to the local police to file a report and got a message machine - nobody available to take the report. When I posted this thread I was still waiting for their return call. When an officer called back this afternoon to take my report I was outside and missed the call, but the ringing brought me into the office where I found a new email from none-other-than who tells me that he left the steel at his parent's house and that I can get it back from his mom. She's really mad at me for making a fuss about it and calling her boy a squirt but it looks like we will get this one resolved....
Last edited by Dave Grafe on 25 Jun 2009 1:52 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Dave Grafe
From:
Hudson River Valley NY
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Posted 25 Jun 2009 1:47 pm
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Yes, Ben, "and they knew not their holes from an ass on the ground...."
We can close this one, b0b, no point in making bad matters worse |
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Jon Light (deceased)
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 25 Jun 2009 1:57 pm
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There's an old saying in my family that when it takes calling someone a squirt to get him to give you your guitar back, then he is a squirt. Well, not such an old saying. And not really in my family. Ok, I just made it up.
Rings true though, doesn't it? |
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