“Randy Bachman called me up and said, ‘I found my guitar. I can tell you how I did it’”: 60 years after he sold it, Neil Young has been reunited with his Squires Gretsch 6120 – thanks to a little help from Randy Bachman

Neil Young playing his Squires Gretsch 6120.

Neil Young has been reunited with the Gretsch 6120 electric guitar he played during his Squires days after finding it online – and he brought it out on stage for the first time in 60 years during a recent gig in Ohio.

Young has played a handful of Gretsch 6120s over the years – including the two he favored in Buffalo Springfield – but his very first orange-finished hollowbody is perhaps his most revered. First acquired in Winnipeg in 1963, the Gretsch was Young’s guitar of choice in one of his first bands, The Squires, and stayed with him until it was either sold or pawned in September 1965.