Joe Perry is still hoping to buy back a red Höfner guitar that he regrets selling: “I saw a kid holding that guitar out for me to sign it… I regret having lost that”
Aerosmith’s Joe Perry has shared there’s one guitar of sentimental value that he’s hoping to be reunited with, after selling it on a whim and regretting it just a matter of months later.
The guitar, a red Höfner S-style guitar, was played by Perry in the 1990s when he would perform on the 4 July each year for Lake Sunapee locals with a rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner.
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Speaking to Guitarist, he says, “I did that for a couple of years with that particular guitar, and as the years went on the guitar ended up getting back with my main collection. I was kinda in one of those moods at the end of the tour, and I had like 400 of these guitars that I never played.
“I said, ‘I gotta get rid of some of these things. It’s time to clean house a little bit.’ I earmarked a few guitars to go and somehow that guitar got on the list. And like three or four months later, I found out that it was gone and was like, ‘Next time, I gotta pay more attention to this. I’m not getting rid of anything else for a while.’”
Strangely enough, it was just a couple of years later that Perry came across the guitar again in a fleeting moment on a bullet train in Japan: “As the bullet train is pulling out 30 or 40 people follow us up there. As the train was moving along, I saw a kid holding that guitar out for me to sign it,” he remembers.
“The train was already moving, slowly pulling out, and the kid was holding it out with a Magic Marker. I’m thinking, ‘Man, I gotta get the kid’s number to see if I could buy it back or trade it for something else,’ because it did have some sentimental value, you know?
“But we were off to the next city, and at that point I didn’t have any ideas about how to get in touch with the guy. I suppose I could have tracked him down through the fan club and tried to figure out who it was, but it was lost.”
Perry is still hoping to get it back somehow. He says, “I’ll buy it back. I’ll trade it for something else, you know? It would be fun to get that back… I regret having lost that.”
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