Stolen Sonic Youth Mustang turns up

rcaz

Ten years ago Sonic Youth had a truck with ALL their gear in it stolen (SY use tons of odd tunings, so they had a lot of guitars between them), and one of them just turned up on eBay a few days ago! It sold dirt-cheap, somewhere around $600, I guess the seller knew and wanted to get rid of it ASAP.

A guy on Offset Guitars unknowingly bought it and then figured it out.

Back in the day:



Now:



That thread's a pretty interesting read if you have the time. The guy lives in The Netherlands, he's on the guest list for a SY show in Dusseldorf, where he'll return the guitar to Lee Ranaldo. SY said they'll pay him back with a bit extra for his troubles, pretty cool guys.

Frank Bullitt

Love stories like this.

Dord

Gintonious wrote: »

Love stories like this.

+1 Glad to hear he's gettin' it back.
It would really suck to have a guitar stolen, thankfully it's never happened to me.

Doctor J

Good story.

Unlike this one

http://houston.craigslist.org/msg/1121012607.html

which the buyer then decided to sell on shortly afterwards

http://houston.craigslist.org/msg/1121221062.html

Yer man posted ads offering $200 to get it back after he realised the value, saying his roomate was going to murder him etc but, unfortunately, they've been removed :pac:

Creamy Goodness

three posts in and someone hasn't commented at how absolutely gorgeous that guitar is?

for shame people.

fourmations

hey creamy

i'm with you! love it!

it is great news, that scabby aul mustang is a piece of history
for those who know anything about good music,
pity they swapped out the pups though

not on the same scale (SY were cleaned out)
but j mascis had all his 60's jazzmasters nicked a few years ago
i almost shed a tear for him!
j's gear loss

rgds

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rcaz

+1 Creamy, it's ****ing gorgeous!!

This was Lee's favourite Mustang, apparently. It's the one he always played Eric's Trip on, so it's a pretty big deal to the band.

Not the best routing work ever, though:



:P

I think the guitar kinda lost some of it's coolness when it was restored to original electronics (well, I think those black pickups are actually Seymour Duncan replacements), though it looks a ton better now, imho.

darrenw5094

Does anybody have Joe Satriani's Ibanez Chrome Boy ?.......because i am interested in buying that one.....;)

11811

Doctor J wrote: »

Good story.

Unlike this one

http://houston.craigslist.org/msg/1121012607.html

which the buyer then decided to sell on shortly afterwards

http://houston.craigslist.org/msg/1121221062.html

Yer man posted ads offering $200 to get it back after he realised the value, saying his roomate was going to murder him etc but, unfortunately, they've been removed :pac:

Ouch!:rolleyes:

darrenw5094

Doctor J wrote: »

Good story.

Unlike this one

http://houston.craigslist.org/msg/1121012607.html

which the buyer then decided to sell on shortly afterwards

http://houston.craigslist.org/msg/1121221062.html

Yer man posted ads offering $200 to get it back after he realised the value, saying his roomate was going to murder him etc but, unfortunately, they've been removed :pac:

That's called a bargin.......

boycey

El Pr0n wrote: »

Not the best routing work ever, though:

Hmmm, I can just see the Fender marketing spin on the Ranaldo Signature Mustang....
" Featuring our patented 'Tone Chambered' body that really brings out that vintage Mustang tone, a must have for all serious Sonic Youth fans out there...":pac:

dazberry

boycey wrote: »

Hmmm, I can just see the Fender marketing spin on the Ranaldo Signature Mustang....
" Featuring our patented 'Tone Chambered' body that really brings out that vintage Mustang tone, a must have for all serious Sonic Youth fans out there...":pac:

LOL - and I was thinking more in a Gibsonesque weight relief vain...

D.

rcaz

Whatever it takes to get it to do what you want it to :cool:

So he obviously routed out the neck for a humbucker, anyone fancy suggesting explanations for the routing under the vibrato?

Dord

It's not as bad as the job I did on my old strat. I "routed" out space for a bridge humbucker with a screwdriver. :pac: