Guitar theft mars Last Dinosaurs' evolution The Last Dinosaurs ... Sam Gethin-Jones, Sean Caskey, Lachlan Caskey and Dan Koyama. Sean Caskey should be riding high on the growing success of his Brisbane band, The Last Dinosaurs. But the 23-year-old has had a stressful start to the New Year after having his prized Rickenbacker 330 guitar stolen from his Paddington home. The American-made instrument was the first Caskey bought himself, and the one he uses to compose music. The missing Rickenbacker. "If someone stole a different guitar, I'd be angry, but when I realised it was this one I was genuinely upset, because I miss it like a child or something," Caskey said. The value to me is inconceivable. Caskey and his bandmates spent November and December touring South East Asia and writing and recording material in Japan. He returned to his sharehouse on January 7, and the next day realised something was wrong. "I was looking for my Rickenbacker around the house, and I couldn't find it," he said. I thought I must have lent it to someone ... but no one had it, and I got to the point where there was no other possibility but that it had been stolen. Caskey said his house had a "history," and some unsavoury characters had been turning up randomly in the months before the theft. A friend who visited the house on December 12 recalled seeing the guitar, leaving a gap of a month during which it was taken. "I'm left to make all these conclusions ... there wasn't any glass broken or anything," Caskey said. The musician said he'd found the electric guitar in the window of Guitar Brothers at Red Hill in 2008, when he was 17, put it on layby, and spent more than two months paying off the $2500 price tag. "All through high school I dreamt of having this guitar... the background of my MySpace page was a picture of this guitar," Caskey said. It looks really cool, it's really, really nice to play ... all of the first Dinos stuff was written when we were jamming when I had that guitar. Dave Logan from Guitar Brothers said the theft was deplorable. "It's not really fair on a struggling young musician, as that's his livelihood, and his means of creating his art," he said. They're an original band and they've been working really hard to establish themselves. Rickenbacker guitars were popularised by The Beatles, as George Harrison, John Lennon and Paul McCartney all played them. Mr Logan said Rickenbacker hadn't exported to Australia in years, and the owners of Guitar Brothers used a network of contacts to get small consignments, which fly off the shelves whenever they come in. "They're still made along the lines they were made back in the "60s, they haven't really changed the design or manufacturing methods," he said. They use beautiful materials and they've got a particular sound that is instantly recognisable - you cannot get a Rickenbacker sound out of any other instrument. Caskey's Rickenbacker was black, with the initials "R. Y. U" scratched into the back. Anyone with information should call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.