Nashville, Tenn.-Marty McFly grabbed a guitar in “Back to the Future” and shook with the band in a dance of the secondary school of the 1950s, helping him to avoid blinking in existence before traveling in the time of return to the 1980s.
The guitar, in real life, was not so lucky.
The filmmakers went to look for the instrument while they made the 1989 sequel to the film, but even now it is nowhere. Four decades after the great success film debuted, the creator of the guitar has launched a search for the iconic Cherry Red Gibson ES-345.
Gibson, based in Nashville, asks the public to help it, since the film turns 40 already measure that the company produces a new documentary about the search and the film, “Lost to The Future”.
In a video by Gibson, with the main song of the film in the background, the stars “Back to the Future” such as Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Read Thompson and Harry Waters Jr. make a cinematographic plea. There is also a surprise appearance of Huey Lewis, whose band Huey Lewis and The News performed the main song of the soundtrack, “The Power of Love”.
Lloyd, in Doc Brown’s cadence, says in the video that the guitar has been “lost in the future.”
“It is somewhere lost in the space-time continuum,” says Fox, who played McFly. “Or it is in the garage of a Teamster.”
In the film, McFly intervenes for a member of the injured band in the 1955 school dance with the theme “Enchantment Under the Sea”, playing the guitar while the students slowly dance to “Earth Angel”. Then he leads Marvin Barry and the Starlightrs in an interpretation of “Johnny B. Goode”, calling him an old man where he comes from where it comes despite the fact that the 1958 song still does not exist for his audience.
Fox said he wanted McFly to cross the exclusive styles of his favorite guitarists: Jimi Hendrix behind the head, Pete Townshend’s wind mill and Eddie van Halen Hammer. After digging and dancing with “Johnny B. Goode”, dance students fall into an awkward silence as McFly riffs become more and more wild.
“I guess they are not yet ready for that,” says McFly. “But your children will love.”
