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Michael J. Fox And Gibson Guitars are looking for the cherry red ES-345 guitar that the actor in Back to the future played. And that has been lost since the late 1980s.
A scene that wrote cinema history
Fox played the guitar in the decisive scene of the film at the “Enchantment Under the Sea” dance. And when his character Marty McFly tried to get his parents in high school age to fall in love. As a replacement for the injured band leader Marvin Berry (Harry Waters Jr.) Marty tears an interpretation of “Johnny B. Goode” (with some hair-metal-like solos on top), which is a few years early for the 1955 audience-although Marvin His cousin chuck calls to point it out to this “new sound”.
Michael J. Fox takes the search with humor
While this scene immediately became one of the most iconic moments of the 1985 cinema, the guitar was missing, Fox and the creative team of “Back to the future” itself 1989 for the sequel Completed again. “She was lost somewhere in the space-time continuum. Or is in the garage of a teamster,” joked Fox in a short advertising video in which he announced the search.
In the clip you can also see several other actors from “back to the future”, including Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson and the screenwriter of the film, Bob Gale. Huey Lewis, who delivered the music for the original film and had a small guest appearance as a jury member at a talent show at the high school, can also be seen.
Notes can be reported directly to Gibson
As far as the actual search is concerned, fans who have information about the whereabouts of the cherry red ES-345 can be found on the website Losttothefuture.com or contact by phone or by SMS under 1-855-345-1955.
In an explanation, Fox spoke about his many years of love for music and described the scene “Enchantment Under the Sea” as “expression of my love for the guitar and all the great guitarists” by Jimi Hendrix to Eddie van Halen. He also pointed out the significant influence that the scene had on other musicians. And remembered. “John Mayer said: ‘I play guitar because of you’. And Chris Martin said the same thing.”
Fox continued: “I am glad that you brought it further than me. That you have bought the trouble to become really good players. I just love the guitar and I love the film.”
Anniversary as an occasion for intensive search
Mark Agnesi, guitar lover and Director of Brand Experience at Gibson, said he was looking for this Gibson for years. He started his search in 2009 when he was in that Legendary shop Norman’s Rare Guitars started working in Los Angeles. He added: “After 16 years of the search, I am so excited to bring the entire guitar community together to find the guitar that made me and so many other guitarists of my generation to learn to play guitar.”
The search for the guitar accidentally coincides with the 40th anniversary of the publication of “Back to the Future”. Gibson Films also supports the production of Doc Crotzer’s documentary “Lost to the Future”, which documents the search for the guitar and at the same time illuminates the legacy and the emergence of the film.