An extended-lost guitar has lastly been found. Mick Taylor, the previous guitarist for the Rolling Stones, who performed with the band from 1969 to 1974, was just lately shocked to be taught that an outdated guitar of his, which had been stolen, was donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork in Central Park, New York.
The misplaced Les Paul mannequin was used on The Rolling Stones’ 1972 album “Exile on Most important St.” It was stolen when the band’s French villa was robbed about 54 years in the past. As reported by a rock historian:
“Villa Nellcôte was such an open home that, sooner or later in September 1971, burglars walked out of the entrance gate with 9 of [Keith] Richards’ guitars, Bobby Keys’ saxophone and Invoice Wyman’s bass in broad daylight . . .The crime was seemingly carried out by [drug] sellers from Marseille who had been owed cash by Richards.”
In Might, the Met introduced a “landmark reward of greater than 500 of the best guitars from the golden age of American guitarmaking,” which included a “1959 sunburst Les Paul guitar utilized by Keith Richards through the Rolling Stones’ first look on ‘The Ed Sullivan Present’ in 1964,” together with devices utilized by Mississippi John Damage, Roy Rogers, and others.
Marlies Damming, Mick Taylor’s enterprise supervisor and associate, said that Richards bought that Les Paul guitar to Taylor earlier than it was stolen. She said:
“There are quite a few photographs of Mick Taylor enjoying this Les Paul, because it was his essential guitar till it disappeared. The fascinating factor about these classic Les Pauls (from the late Fifties) is that they’re famend for his or her flaming… Which is exclusive, like a fingerprint.”
In the meantime, as per Web page Six, “Taylor says he by no means obtained compensation for the theft and is mystified as to how his property discovered its manner into the Met’s assortment.”
