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Just seen this on Jim Moray's Facebook feed. You might not know him but he's a modern folkie (uses loops, samples etc in trad songs), great acoustic player as well and a jolly nice chap (I've chatted to him a few times after gigs and at festivals).
Anyway the bad news:
Hi,
On a less great note, several things including my Tokai Talbo guitar were stolen from my car outside my house in Bristol last night.
The guitar is very recognisable - its the one on the cover of Sweet England. It's a Tokai Talbo 'Blazing Fire' from the year I was born - 1981. It's got a chromed aluminium body with a crack in the lower bout where Ryanair smashed it. The tip of the headstock is also snapped off (from an Oysterband tour). The pickups are two Seymour Duncan humbuckers, and it has chrome (non original) telecaster knobs. It has a black locking tremolo bridge.
I've never seen another one like it, even in photos on the internet. Most of this model have three pickups and a two-point trem. Mine is definitely the only one in the world with exactly these features.
Keep an eye out etc… It looks like this
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Sadly, after they stole that, they attempted to set fire to my car. Most of the things got off un-scathed, but my guitar 'Green' was not so lucky..
https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/p480x480/1460194_10151984263965516_1919654001_n.jpg
But I'm philosophical - you know, 10 years, let the attachment objects go and move on. Maybe its a good time to start a new chapter.
If you see the Tokai for sale anywhere please let me or the police know.
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Sad as the tour he's been on is the 10th anniversary of the Sweet England album (with that guitar on the cover)
http://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/images/largerec/sweetengland_nibl003.jpg
I'll keep an eye on eBay.
Guitars are so easily recognisable too. I remember going in a shop a while back and noticing a guitar which looked a lot like an old band mates (recognised it as his from the pickups he'd installed). I still had his number but hadn't spoken to him in years and give him a bell anyway on the off-chance. Sure enough, somebody had crowbar'd his boot a couple of weeks before. (Police were called and the guitar was fetched back BTW).
I also remember a story where Joe Satriani had one of his stolen from a gig and (IIRC) the chap put it on ebay; cops obviously went around and busted the stupid pillock.
I don't actually remember seeing him play that one (I last saw him live back in August), but from an image search I reckon it was this one:
(I was due some good news ...)
Glad he got some thing back.
Seriously cheesed off that "people" do this sort of thing.
Bunch of bikes (3) went missing from our neighbour's pitch on a camp site this summer, the police came round and straightaway suggested that the owner checked the hedges along the roads leading away from the site. Sure enough he found one of his bikes, thankfully the expensive one, apparently the "borrowers" take em, then dump it to collect at a later, less heated moment!
Seems a bit mad to me but I expect they have a bit more knowledge of these things than I.