• Registered: 2007-01-29
  • Posts: 569

Re: In Search of my missing friend

Joe, I'm sorry about your guitar.  Let's hope someone recognizes it and that nothing else happened to it. 

Sending along some good vibes...:)

Mary

LOL-ler-tastic.
  • From: Seminole, FL
  • Registered: 2006-04-24
  • Posts: 266

Re: In Search of my missing friend

Great idea Jim, as well as those on Myspace too...post a bulletin with the photo link. This really bites !!!! Let's try and find that guitar for Joe!  LG

  • From: Cazenovia, NY
  • Registered: 2006-04-21
  • Posts: 482

Re: In Search of my missing friend

Joe Bonamassa wrote:

Hey Everybody,
...It was lost in shipping from Denmark on the last tour.  It is very identifiable and if anybody sees it online, for sale or somebody other than me playing it.  Please let us know.  The thing that separates that guitar from the rest is the Tele headstock.  All the other ones have the new headstock..  We have been working through back channels to try to locate it but no luck..  Its the shipping companies fault but Im still very concerned..
Thanks Joe Bonamassa

Hope your friend finds his/her way back home.  Talk about pain & sorrow.  Good luck Joe!

"Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity"  unknown
  • From: Washington State
  • Registered: 2006-03-30
  • Posts: 1,593

Re: In Search of my missing friend

Damn...I preferred the Tele headstocks too. I know Patrick wanted to get away from them, but they sure looked bad a**

  • From: Southern New Jersey, USA
  • Registered: 2006-04-23
  • Posts: 2,966

Re: In Search of my missing friend

Joe, I hope your special guitar shows up soon.  A friend just told me a missing luggage story...6 months after their trip it turned up on their doorstep!  Keep the faith and St. Anthony's known to be a good listener when it comes to lost things.  smile

StringsforaCURE~Helping cancer patients one STRING at a time.
http://stringsforacure.com/

Angela's Website

  • From: Charlotte
  • Registered: 2006-04-22
  • Posts: 2,350

Re: In Search of my missing friend

Joe, sure hope it turns up somewhere, somehow and soon.  Probably it is like losing an old friend.  I will keep my eyes open on EBAY just in case.

Music is good for the Soul...
  • From: Tampa, Fl.
  • Registered: 2006-04-22
  • Posts: 870

Re: In Search of my missing friend

Joe,
I'm really sorry to hear about your loss- I can't imagine how frustrating and sad this must be for you... just remember, you have all your fans keeping an eye out for it and I'm sure it will turn up somewhere...

quick question- did the case have Bonamassa written on it?  If it did that probably would have made it more of a target to someone looking to make a quick buck or own a piece of history...

Good luck,
Scott

"Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things." - Woody Allen

http://www.last.fm/user/skynyrd128
  • Registered: 2007-02-16
  • Posts: 8

Re: In Search of my missing friend

sad

Sorry to hear about this Joe.  I was at the Grand Rapids show a couple weeks ago and wondered why you only played a Gig on one song.

I posted the link to this and the info and pic on Jam Session, which has a large european population so it should help get the word out.

Good luck!

-Russ

  • From: Crystal Lake, Il.
  • Registered: 2006-04-22
  • Posts: 5,120

Re: In Search of my missing friend

Joe,
Sorry to hear about the Gigliotti. I think posting here and having everyone on this site look out for it was a good idea. I think a lot of your fans feel your loss too, maybe not at the same level though.
Keep the faith, hopefully it will turn up. In the meantime, we'll keep our eyes and ears open.
Bill S.

"Rock ON & Keep the Faith"
  • Registered: 2006-04-24
  • Posts: 81

Re: In Search of my missing friend

yep, what Bill said. Sorry its under these circumstances but glad that you know where to come for help. Never forget who loves ya! On the job, got a chance to stretch out and fan the new feathers and test the wild eagle eyes.

the Wing's Website

  • From: Netherlands.
  • Registered: 2006-04-27
  • Posts: 2,186

Re: In Search of my missing friend

Hallo Joe,

I'll cross my fingers for the return of your guitarfriend!!

When it returnes give me the name of the person who got it back for you and I'll send him/her a topbottle of wine. I 'm a winelover you know and have some!!

All forummembers do your best for Joe, keep your eyes open wide!

Andre Wittebroek.

  • From: Harrison, Arkansas
  • Registered: 2006-04-21
  • Posts: 3,155

Re: In Search of my missing friend

Any news?

"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make"

My ReverbNation page for Dees & Friends - check us out!
www.reverbnation.com/deesfriends
  • Geko
  • Geko
  • Titanium
  • Offline
  • Registered: 2006-12-08
  • Posts: 838

Re: In Search of my missing friend

i think all fan`s will serch the internet  with eagel eyes to help you....me too
i every day take a look at e-bay  ...hope  find it
good luck

  • From: Detroit
  • Registered: 2006-06-02
  • Posts: 5,807

Re: In Search of my missing friend

bipolarbear wrote:

Joe (or anyone else),
Is there a pic of what it looks like somewhere?

Imagine the Gigliotti tele with a telecaster shaped headstock, as oppossed to the new shape.  It looks like a dark wine-red stain on the headstock with Gigliotti's signaure logo in gold. The new ones have a metal veneer headstock like the body I believe.

- Nic from Detroit... posting on JB's Forum since 6-2-2006
Ask me about my handwound Great Lakes Guitar Pickups
Since 2010, Bonamassa fans have taken advantage of my JB friend discount = my cost + shipping. cool
  • From: Deep in the forest
  • Registered: 2007-02-11
  • Posts: 5,296

Re: In Search of my missing friend

Since there's no news that things have changed, I thought I'd bring this back to page 1....

  • From: Germany
  • Registered: 2006-05-02
  • Posts: 153

Re: In Search of my missing friend

...I spread this on some other boards right now, too...

Keep fingers crossed...

What a loss...   :-(

PIT...

my gear: GUITARS and DRUMS

My Homepage  ~  My YouTube  ~  My Facebook

pit_s_xroad's Website

  • LukeM
  • Bronze Member
  • Offline
  • Registered: 2007-03-05
  • Posts: 25

Re: In Search of my missing friend

I can't imagine how that must be for Joe to loose something like that.

I've had damage caused to the 3 guitars I gig with before in transit and also because of the carelessness of other people and their inconsiderate ways.

Par example there's now a dent in my Fender acoustic where somebody was throwing a piece of plastic around onstage at a rehearsal and I'd just laid back with the guitar and that got hit (as did I) and my Les Pauls and Strats have sustained damage in various ways from others, not yet has anybody actually stolen them. I think it's much worse if a guitar gets stolen, than just damaged.

I'm really hopeful for Joe getting back that guitar. Joe's a legend and it really is hard losing the instruments you know and love because they become a part of you and a replacement is never quite the same.

Hopes & prayers for the safe return of the Gigliotti!

Luke

  • From: Deep in the forest
  • Registered: 2007-02-11
  • Posts: 5,296

Re: In Search of my missing friend

Attention Europe!! If you want to have "The Wizard" bless you, Find his "Magic Wand"!! It was last seen in your neck of the world!!!  the mystery continues.....