When a session guitarist’s vintage Gretsch was lost by FedEx, “guitar Batman” Johnny Marr came in to save the day to help discover it over 1,000 miles away.
Ella Feingold, who has worked with Bruno Mars and auditioned for Prince, bought a 1960s Gretsch 6105 online, only for it to disappear just minutes from her doorstep on delivery day.
It was only after Marr intervened that the guitar was found in the strangest of places.
“So, I got some tea,” Feingold says in an Instagram post. “For those that don’t know, about two weeks ago, FedEx lost my guitar. I got this vintage 1960s Gretsch, and it was supposed to show up in my house, but it just completely disappeared.
“It was scanned on the truck; it was like 30 minutes away from my house. Then nothing.”
Feingold reached out to FedEx, only to find herself contending with “useless” AI chatbots. The situation needed a hero – and it was Johnny Marr who sprang to action.
“My friend Johnny Marr put a post on his Twitter about what had happened, and today I got hit up by a guitar store in Memphis, Tennessee,” Feingold continues. “And they’re like, ‘Hey, a random Gretsch guitar that just showed up at our store. We don’t know where it came from, but we saw Johnny Marr's post, and we’re wondering if it’s possible that this is your guitar.’”
Pictures quickly confirmed it: FedEx had missed the delivery location by several states. It’s hardly ‘deliver to a neighbor’, is it?
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“Don’t ask me how a guitar that was coming to Western Massachusetts somehow ends up in Memphis, Tennessee, of all places,” Feingold says, a look of bemusement on her face. “I mean, I have to thank Johnny Marr, who’s like guitar Batman, for finding it.
It’s not the only lost guitar to have made a miraculous recovery in recent weeks. A few days ago, Eric Clapton’s obscure Summersburst Les Paul re-emerged after six decades. Before that, Misha Mansoor recalled how he was reunited with his original signature Jackson in a surprising way.
So @FedEx just ‘lose’ guitars now ? Belonging to renowned guitarist @EllaRaeFeingold too. And one that was scanned and reported to be on the truck ?. How does that happen ? Shocking. You need to dm her and find her guitar. pic.twitter.com/p8J8eFrL0QJuly 6, 2026
