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Post subject: Going To Egypt? Don't bring your Martin!
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 12:09 pm
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Please forgive me? Egypt customs deface Bryan Adams' guitar

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Cairo (AFP) - A run-in with customs at Cairo airport has left Grammy Award winning rock musician Bryan Adams annoyed, after a border agent scrawled a number on the Canadian's prize guitar in paint marker.

Adams, who was in Cairo for a concert at the Giza Pyramids on March 8, posted a picture of the vintage Martin acoustic guitar on his Instagram account.

A number and an illegible word in Arabic had been scrawled in green ink on the guitar's mahogany side.

"Airport customs graffiti on my 1957 Martin D-18 from Egypt. Back to the luthier #bryanadamsgetup," Adam's wrote on Instagram, referring to his latest album Get Up!.

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Adams, best known for his hits "18 Till I Die," "(Everything I Do) I Do it For You," and "Please Forgive Me", said his problems with customs had begun on his arrival at Cairo airport.

"We almost didn't get the equipment into the country, and when we did it was all marked like this," he told AFP in a Facebook message on Friday.

"There were absolutely no apologies."

A customs official at the airport told AFP that instruments are marked with serial numbers, although usually with stickers.

Regarding the ink, he suggested: "Maybe it wasn't us?", although the script was Arabic.

Egyptian wits took to Twitter to mock the incident.

"Doesn't Adams know that we glued together Tutankhamun with super glue? It's normal that we write something on a 60 year old guitar," one wrote, referring to a botched repair of the priceless Tutankhamun funerary mask in Cairo's museum.

The Oscar-nominated musician said he would still return to Egypt to perform.

"I have no grudges," he told AFP.

"Rest assured, apart from this incident, I love Egypt and look forward to returning again one day."

"But without the green paint markers please."

It is not the first time that someone has scrawled numbers on one of Adams' guitars.

In 2015, he complained on Twitter that Air Canada had taken a marker to his guitar, scrawling a serial number in black ink.

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Post subject: Re: Going To Egypt? Don't bring your Martin!
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 12:57 pm
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but then again, Bryan can probably just go buy 5 or 6 more of em, any day of the week.

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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 1:24 pm
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Maybe he needs to "walk like an Egyptian" :mrgreen:


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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 1:52 pm
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Facts:
- Customs officials everywhere in the world carry a whole lot of authority given that their job is directly related to the national security of their country.
- International travel has never provided any guarantee of personal safety to anyone at any time.

Opinions:
- Celebrated persons entering another country should expect to be treated like nobody special.
- We don't get a say in what sovereign nations should or should not be able to do inside their own borders, nor should we.

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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 2:30 pm
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"Adams, best known for his hits "18 Till I Die," "(Everything I Do) I Do it For You," and "Please Forgive Me""

I thought it would have been "Summer of '69"

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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 2:48 pm
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I wasn't gonna say anything but,, yea! that and Cuts Like A Knife... but what do WE know,... right?


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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 3:59 pm
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BMW-KTM wrote:
Facts:
- Customs officials everywhere in the world carry a whole lot of authority given that their job is directly related to the national security of their country.
- International travel has never provided any guarantee of personal safety to anyone at any time.

Opinions:
- Celebrated persons entering another country should expect to be treated like nobody special.
- We don't get a say in what sovereign nations should or should not be able to do inside their own borders, nor should we.
right. So like I said ....don't bring your Martin.
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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 4:13 pm
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Summer of '69 would be my vote for a 'best-known-for' song.

Adams, born in November of 1959 would have been 9 years old in the summer of '69, not turning 10 until later that fall. Nevertheless, he played his cheap five and dime guitar until his fingers bled. One of "guys from school" Joey got married then and all of Bryan's dreams for a rock n' roll career were dashed when Jimmy quit and the band didn't get very far. I'm thinking Joey must have flunked more than a few times to be of marrying age while still attending Elementary School.

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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 4:35 pm
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Thanks for the tip. 8) "Straight from the Heart", "Cuts Like a Knife" made me buy the CD. After that,fluff.

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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 8:12 pm
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Given that writing on the instruments has allegedly happened to him at airports in two different countries, but doesn't seem to happen to other artists (crushing or lost instruments, sure, but not writing), I would not discount that there might be a different explanation.


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Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2016 5:17 am
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I wonder if the customs officer told Adams , " Everything I do, I do it for you ! " LOL.


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