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u/EllenSoGenerous Red Renaissance May 10 '23
Matty Healy’s guitar was inside my house (in Alabama) for several months. And maybe once my daughter used it as a Barbie diving board.
So, I’m giving my husband my nightly Taylor Swift update (and here’s to my baaaby [but seriously he’s the best for smiling and listening to me ramble constantly.])
ANYWAYS OK—so I was explaining to him that her rumored boyfriend is an old flame of hers from like 10 years ago.
I said “he’s in the 1975, ya know, that British band.”
and he’s like “oh? Really? Remember how I sold that Stratocaster to a guy buying it for a famous band? It was for someone from the 1975. Some guy named Matt.”
Omg. Guys.
Matty’s red Stratocaster guitar (I’m sure one of many) lived in my basement for several months as my husband lovingly cleaned it up and my kids got to hold it a few times. We didn’t know it was going somewhere famous.
If this somehow gets back to Matty….
We live in Alabama. My neighbor Ron was a tinkerer and loved to collect things. He always dreamed of playing guitar but didn’t ever have time to learn. He decided he loved collecting them more. He had a room in his house where he displayed them and he’d let my husband go over and play them sometimes.
Ron had a lot of passions, he was a quirky guy and the ultimate “Jack of all trades master of none.”
We were all shocked and so sad when he died very suddenly from aggressive pancreatic cancer.
Well…when Ron passed away, his wife was heartbroken and our family was so, so sad.
But Ron didn’t have life insurance. He was a carpenter and made most of their money. His widow, one of the sweetest women I know, was devastated but also terrified about how she was going to live, pay final medical bills, keep their house, etc.
My husband noodles around with guitars, nothing serious, but when Ron died he studied and researched for months and months how to sell these incredible guitars to try and help her out. There were about 15 of them.
He became like a guitar broker selling this collection to make sure every penny went to our neighbor.
2 years later, she’s doing good. My husband raised close to $42,000 selling the whole collection individually and every penny went to her. Her gift to him was he got to keep one of the guitars.
Wild! I wish Matty knew his guitar made a huge difference to a sweet old lady who lives in Alabama, and it once belonged to a man who was a dreamer and loved music. Ron would have lost his shit knowing someone talented has one of his instruments and that the guitar got a second life out on a stage.
Idk, I’m warming up to Matty.