Overview

• Two unique instruments—a custom-built purple sparkle baritone Telecaster made for Nancy Wilson and a 1966 Gibson EM-50 mandolin played by Paul Moak—were taken from the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City on the eve of the May 31 tour launch.
• Nancy Wilson called the missing instruments “extensions of our musical souls” and expressed heartbreak over their disappearance.
• The band has announced an unspecified reward for any information leading to the instruments’ safe return with no questions asked.
• Despite the theft, Heart resumed its summer tour in Vienna, Virginia and plans to continue performances through August 30 in Bethel, New York.
• The reunited lineup, featuring sisters Nancy and Ann Wilson alongside Todd Rundgren, pressed forward after Ann Wilson’s recent surgery and chemotherapy