*** NOW FOUND! *** Guitar left on train, Birmingham area

robinbowes

Chris Helme has just posted this on Facebook. Keep your eyes peeled, please.

"Hi everyone. Please would you mind sharing this?

Like an idiot I left my guitar on a train on Saturday the 22nd of June. I was travelling on the 4:10pm Hamstead (Birmingham) to Wolverhampton train but I got off at Birmingham New street and left my guitar on the overhead luggage rack. It hasn’t turned up in any of the lost property on that route, so I can only suspect now that it’s been stolen.

I am reaching out to any of you who can help share this, as I imagine who ever stole it would want to sell it, so it will probably emerge at some point.

It’s a 1974 Gibson J50. I’ve had it for 22 years, so its pretty special to me. It’s my work horse guitar, I’ve written countless songs on it and I’m totally gutted I had a brain fart and left it on that train.

Here’s a few pictures of me playing it. "

Tenebrous

What a sickener. I hope it makes its way back to him.

Wazmeister

Wow, hope it all works out mate 

Kittyfrisk

Ooft! Sick feeling in the stomach.
Hope that there are still some good people out there & he gets it back safely.

axisus

what ... the ... feck!?!?! I can't fathom how one could forget a guitar!?!?!

Still, what is done is done, I sincerely hope it gets returned. 

Actually, I say how could you forget ...... When Mrs A was a baby, my mother in law walked 2 miles into the town centre with her in a pram. She went in a shop and left the pram/baby outside, as was the custom back in the early 70s. She came out of the shop, strolled home, let herself in, sat down. Something felt wrong then she realised that she had left the baby back in town!!!

robinbowes

axisus said:

what ... the ... feck!?!?! I can't fathom how one could forget a guitar!?!?!

Easily done, I expect.

Not quite the same, but I recently left my iPad in the seat pocket on a plane. No sign of it, and I've had to buy a new one.

R.

HAL9000

axisus said:

what ... the ... feck!?!?! I can't fathom how one could forget a guitar!?!?!

Not quite the same, but unloaded the car one evening and took everything indoors. Next morning I realised I was a guitar short. Thankfully it was still on my driveway (which considering that I live in Crawley is nothing short of miraculous).

Anyway, hope the OP's turns up.

richardhomer

axisus said:

what ... the ... feck!?!?! I can't fathom how one could forget a guitar!?!?!

Still, what is done is done, I sincerely hope it gets returned. 

You probably hope you won’t do it yourself....

Sassafras

He needs to knock the old skunk on the head.

not_the_dj

Was he the Seahorses chap?

robinbowes

not_the_dj said:

Was he the Seahorses chap?

Yes, that's him. 

RaymondLin

I've left a few things on a train, from uni project work (got it back as its not valuable to anyone) to £80 worth of Hotel Chocolat...that disappeared!

He will never see this guitar again.  Someone most likely took it home and just kept it as an ornament. 

EricTheWeary

The people of Wolverhampton are good, honest folk he'll be fine (!).
I don't know about second hand shops but there are a couple of music shops in Wolverhampton so might be worthwhile dropping them a line. 

axisus said:

what ... the ... feck!?!?! I can't fathom how one could forget a guitar!?!?!

Still, what is done is done, I sincerely hope it gets returned. 

Actually, I say how could you forget ...... When Mrs A was a baby, my mother in law walked 2 miles into the town centre with her in a pram. She went in a shop and left the pram/baby outside, as was the custom back in the early 70s. She came out of the shop, strolled home, let herself in, sat down. Something felt wrong then she realised that she had left the baby back in town!!!

I once got the bus back from shopping ( Wolverhampton as it happens) and when I sat down at home remembered that I'd driven to the shops. 

Kittyfrisk

Don't trains have CCTV these days?

DrBob

axisus said:

what ... the ... feck!?!?! I can't fathom how one could forget a guitar!?!?!

Still, what is done is done, I sincerely hope it gets returned. 

Actually, I say how could you forget ...... When Mrs A was a baby, my mother in law walked 2 miles into the town centre with her in a pram. She went in a shop and left the pram/baby outside, as was the custom back in the early 70s. She came out of the shop, strolled home, let herself in, sat down. Something felt wrong then she realised that she had left the baby back in town!!!

Errr yesss, I did actually manage to do this not once, but twice in a 12 month period with 2 Strats. I still feel sick thinking about it now, 25 years later, especially the Oly White Squier JV Strat

Philly_Q

I've left a book on a train.  And a Peter Frampton album.  But I can't imagine forgetting a guitar.

sgosden

HAL9000 said:

axisus said:

what ... the ... feck!?!?! I can't fathom how one could forget a guitar!?!?!

Not quite the same, but unloaded the car one evening and took everything indoors. Next morning I realised I was a guitar short. Thankfully it was still on my driveway (which considering that I live in Crawley is nothing short of miraculous).

Anyway, hope the OP's turns up.

similarly left my favourite guitar on my doorstep after a long weekend and not much brain function left. Didn't realise till I left for work in the morning and tripped over the case.

RaymondLin

sgosden said:

HAL9000 said:

axisus said:

what ... the ... feck!?!?! I can't fathom how one could forget a guitar!?!?!

Not quite the same, but unloaded the car one evening and took everything indoors. Next morning I realised I was a guitar short. Thankfully it was still on my driveway (which considering that I live in Crawley is nothing short of miraculous).

Anyway, hope the OP's turns up.

similarly left my favourite guitar on my doorstep after a long weekend and not much brain function left. Didn't realise till I left for work in the morning and tripped over the case.

You don't live in Birmingham do you.  lol

BeardyAndy

Hope you get it back buddy, fingers crossed for you and i'll keep an eye out down south.

bbill335

Nile Rodgers left the Hitmaker on the NY subway and got it back, so it can happen.

EricTheWeary

bbill335 said:

Nile Rodgers left the Hitmaker on the NY subway and got it back, so it can happen.

Peter Frampton lost his guitar for 32 years and got it back. There's always hope!