When rock legend Randy Bachman’s guitar was stolen from his Toronto hotel in 1977 he said “I cried for three days. It was part of me and was very, very upsetting.” He ended up buying about 300 guitars in unsuccessful attempts to replace it, he said. Well no longer! He’s been reunited and it feels so good!

Canadian rock legend Randy Bachman’s long search came to an end Friday when he was reunited in Tokyo with a cherished guitar 45 years after it was stolen from a Toronto hotel.

“My girlfriend is right there,” said Bachman, 78, a former member of The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, as the Gretsch guitar on which he wrote “American Woman” and other hits was handed to him by a Japanese musician who had bought it at a Tokyo store in 2014 without knowing its history.

See how the exchange went down here: Courtesy YouTube

Randy Bachman reunited with lost guitar after 45 years – YouTube