{"id":23761,"date":"2025-08-07T10:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/?p=23761"},"modified":"2025-08-07T10:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:37:18","slug":"the-first-thing-that-i-grabbed-when-i-was-like-weve-got-to-get-the-hell-out-of-here-was-the-double-neck-that-alex-lifeson-gave-me-primus-larry-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/2025\/08\/07\/the-first-thing-that-i-grabbed-when-i-was-like-weve-got-to-get-the-hell-out-of-here-was-the-double-neck-that-alex-lifeson-gave-me-primus-larry-l\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe first thing that I grabbed when I was like, \u2018We\u2019ve got to get the hell out of here\u2019 was the double-neck that Alex Lifeson gave me\u201d: Primus\u2019 Larry LaLonde opens up on losing his house and nearly all his gear in the devastating California wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>In January, as wildfires raged across California, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/artists\/guitarists\/adrian-smith-and-larry-ler-lalonde-among-thousands-who-have-lost-homes-in-la-wildfires\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/artists\/guitarists\/adrian-smith-and-larry-ler-lalonde-among-thousands-who-have-lost-homes-in-la-wildfires\">Primus&#8217; Larry \u2018Ler\u2019 LaLonde was one of the countless individuals and families whose homes were destroyed by the fires<\/a>, and whose most beloved possessions were lost forever. For LaLonde, this included the guitar gear he had collected throughout the years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s been one of the craziest components&#8230; I haven\u2019t gotten a full count yet,\u201d he divulges in a candid interview with <em>Guitar World<\/em>.<\/p>\n<aside data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" class=\"hawk-base\" \/>\n<p>\u201cThe last I looked, I was up to, like, 58 guitars. So yeah, tons. My whole studio of recording stuff\u2026 and here\u2019s the dumbest thing I\u2019ve ever done in my life: I had this hard drive, a 12-gig hard drive, just sitting around on the desk. It was just for these situations, and I probably ran past it 20 times while pulling stuff out of the house and into the car.<\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"clear-both pt-3 pb-4 mb-4 border-solid border-y border-neutral-300\"><span class=\"font-article-heading block pb-3 !text-base font-bold uppercase sm:text-sm text-[#333]\">You may like<\/span><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI never thought to grab that hard drive. It was just the dumbest thing in the world. I don\u2019t know where that mental block came from because that\u2019s what it was for. So, that\u2019s kind of a bummer. But yeah, that was the craziest thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LaLonde explains how <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/tag\/prs-guitars\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/tag\/prs-guitars\">Paul Reed Smith<\/a> reached out to him and sent him two \u201camazing\u201d guitars, \u201cbecause I lost all but one of my PRSs,\u201d to help him replace some of the many instruments that were destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>As for whether there were any guitars lost that were particularly sentimental, LaLonde replies, \u201cThere\u2019s one <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/features\/best-stratocasters-top-fender-stratocasters-for-every-budget\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/features\/best-stratocasters-top-fender-stratocasters-for-every-budget\">Strat<\/a> that I had on all the first <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/tag\/primus\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/tag\/primus\">Primus<\/a> records, like on <em>Sailing on the Seas of Cheese<\/em>, that\u2019s the guitar I\u2019m holding in that picture. I had that guitar since high school, and that one was in there [the fire].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the first thing that I grabbed when I was like, \u2018We\u2019ve got to get the hell out of here,\u2019 was the double-neck that <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/tag\/alex-lifeson\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/tag\/alex-lifeson\">Alex Lifeson<\/a> gave me. So, there\u2019s some stuff that made it out of the house, but a lot that didn\u2019t. 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