“Getting it back feels like being reunited with a piece of myself I thought was gone forever”: Deryck Whibley has been reunited with his Fender Telecaster that spent 20 years on display
Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley has been reunited with his beloved Fender Telecaster, which had spent 20 years on display at the Hard Rock Cafe in Florida.
Back in February, Whibley wrote a post on Instagram about his love for the guitar, in which he asked if he could “work something out” with the cafe in order to have it back. He owned the guitar for a few short years during the band’s Does This Look Infected? era before he gave it away.
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In his original post shared earlier this year, Whibley spoke of the guitar’s origin story and how it accompanied him for most performances the band did alongside Iggy Pop, including an MTV Awards performance of their collaborative track, Little Know It All, which features on Pop’s 2003 album, Skull Ring.
“Back in 2003, I had just started playing Fender and only had one black Telecaster, but needed a backup. We were on the road in the US when I asked them if they could send me out something quick,” Whibley wrote. “I never specified any particular colour or style, I just said I needed something fast.
“A few weeks later, this pewter grey Telecaster showed up. I fell in love with it immediately. I went to town decorating it in my own style. I tried lighting it on fire the same way I did with my Les Pauls, but the finish just didn’t burn up the same way so I just threw some stickers on it instead,” he said.
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Having missed the guitar so much, the cafe has happily to return the guitar to his ownership once again. In a new Instagram post featuring the Tele, Whibley writes, “After 20 years on display at the Hard Rock Cafe, this guitar is finally back in my hands — and it feels amazing to plug it in again.”
He continues, “I was happy to have it on display at the Hard Rock for so long – it felt like part of my history belonged in their collection. But getting it back now, after all these years, feels like being reunited with a piece of myself I thought was gone forever. Thank you Hard Rock Cafe.”
Whibley also notes that the guitar is now fitted with a Seymour Duncan SH-4 JB humbucker, and in his new Instagram video, he’s running it through a Wizard MC II 50-watt. Take a look below:
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