“My first Gibson guitar was a Pelham blue SG Firebrand,” Mr. ![]() They were also able to confirm the serial number. Apart from its bull’s-eye design, it had hooks that Mr. They informed the Chicago police after experts at the Chicago Music Exchange identified Wylde reported it stolen.īy then, the instrument was listed on a national stolen instrument database, but the owners told The Chicago Tribune that they hadn’t noticed it, or thought twice about the guitar until the 30-day storage period elapsed at the end of April. ![]() Wylde’s guitar turned up at Royal Pawn in Chicago on March 24, 10 days after Mr. The guitar went unnoticed for so long mainly because of a Chicago ordinance that requires pawn shop owners to lock items in a vault for 30 days after they are brought in. Owner began to suspect that the instrument was probably worth more than the $50 he paid for it. Wylde valued at $10,000 at the time of the theft, was recovered on Friday after a pawn shop Wylde’s distinctive bull’s-eye design, and which Mr. Is about to be reunited with a custom-built Pelham blue Gibson Les Paul that was stolen from his tour bus in March. Zakk Wylde, the guitarist in Black Label Society whose striped and bull’s-eye-emblazoned guitars are as distinctive as his shredding style, ![]() ![]() Credit Erin Baiano for The New York Times
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