The Canadian embassy in Japan will help repatriate a rock 'n' roll relic stolen from musician Randy Bachman more than four decades ago, as part of a Canada Day ceremony next month.
The guitar was taken from a Toronto hotel room in 1976, when the former Guess Who singer and guitarist was recording his sixth album with Bachman-Turner Overdrive.
But the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with Bachman's own health issues earlier this year, put the reunion on hold, preventing the 78-year-old rocker from travelling to Tokyo to collect on the agreement. The handoff will happen in a carefully choreographed concert at the Canadian embassy's 233-seat theatre, where Bachman and a band of family members will perform songs for an audience of invited guests.
Then, in a dramatic bit of stagecraft, Takeshi will take the stage mid-song to trade guitars with Bachman, likely just in time for the guitar solo.Randy Bachman with his 1957 Gretsch guitar in the video for"Lookin' Out for Number 1" in 1975. The guitar was stolen from Toronto the following year.The stage-managed exchange will be captured by a documentary film crew, who have already been shooting interviews with Bachman and others around his home near Victoria.
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