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The story of John Lennon's lost Gibson J-160E acoustic guitar

26 May, 2016 - 0 Comments

An acoustic detective story.

“I didn’t know how quickly news would spread about it,” John McCaw recalls. “I figured like wildfire - because it was such a fantastic story and I just didn’t feel safe having it in my house.

“I was also afraid for my family if, in my absence, somebody tried to break in and take it away or what might happen. So I hired a vault. And I stored it in a very safe vault and kept it there for about eight months, except for when I would take it out to play it.

“I loaned it to Marc to record a couple of times and another friend of ours, and I shared it around with people who had gotten involved with the story as it evolved. So I got it out as much as I could, but it was no longer in my house - it just was not comfortable having it there, quite frankly. And I knew we were on our way to auction and we certainly wanted the guitar to be there on auction day.

That day came on Saturday 7 November of last year, but not before John McCaw had held a farewell party for the guitar before it went up for sale. John recalls how different the guitar felt to play and hold once everyone knew what it had once been, what music it had been party to creating.

By: Jamie Dickson and Jeff Slate

Source: Music Radar

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