That guitar is an odd duck. I owned a Gretsch at one point and I've played a few others, and they are nice players, but that 12-string looks like a clunky dog. I hadn't really read about that one. But I think it's great that you were able to show Mike Nesmith's son a picture of the guitar (more or less) his dad had loved. As for who has it, there's an underground market of stolen art that someone no doubt has paid dearly for and has hanging in an underground bunker or an antechamber deep in the hills of somewhere (such as the 13 pieces of art stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990). It's no more difficult to play that Gretsch 12-string (or, more likely, have in a large collection) than it is to have a stolen Degas, Rembrandt, or Manet hanging over your brandy cabinet. That is, it's extremely difficult; just not any more difficult. :eek:
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