by StuartD » 21 May 2011, 11:17
HI
The guitars stolen were all Hank's. There were two Marvins, green and white, his Martin acoustic and two Gibson acoustics, a six string and a 12 string in cherry sunburst. They were parked outside the house of Roy Lemmon, who was MWF's Road Manager at the time and were in the Volkswagen Caravanette. It was a much less security concious time and they had always done that., it even had windows in!! MWF were at the Palladium at the time and John Farrar been using the original start 34646. Both Hank and Roy told me the thieves just took what they could carry because the next guitar down was 34646!! There was also John's Les Paul and Martin in there too and Bruce's Burns and his Martin also. They carried on with Hank using a Vox acoustic and a Yamaha until he could get a new Martin and he used 34646 for a time with John reverting to his Les Paul. I well remember discussing it with him, when he bought the Strat from Barrett's in Manchester and he said he would like a Marvin but that he wouldn't want to pay too much for it as he preferred the Strat. They then bought a Bedford CF van - with an alarm fitted!!! I am that sad I can even remember the registration number of the Volkswagen. It was MPH 735 D.
To answer your final point, I would state 100% that we like Burns Marvin's much more than Hank did!!
Regards
Stuart