if anyone has information, ANY INFORMATION! please, please, PLEASE as soon as possible contact Eric Fischer at: nycentra✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧ cell phone: +1 646 932 1907
PLEASE FORWARD AS FAR AND WIDE AND AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE!!!
IGGY AND THE STOOGES EQUIPMENT STOLEN ON AUGUST 4, 2008 OUTSIDE THE EMBASSY SUITES HOTEL 208 SAINT ANTOINE OUEST, MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA
all equipment was in a rented penske 15 foot yellow truck with u.s. (michigan) license plate number AC46493 and the theft had to have happened in the morning, between 6:30 and 7:30 am
there's a web page at:
http://www.hootpage.com/stoogesstolenstuff/stoogesstolenstuff.html
that will soon have pictures and updates to more stuff found missing
Item Country of Origin Serial Number
Red roadcase containing: USA No serial number Red Gibson 1963 EB-3 bass (this is mike watt's bass!) USA No serial number
Black roadcase containing: USA No serial number Reverend Flying V guitar - Volcano black USA #08001
Black roadcase containing: USA No serial number Reverend Orange guitar USA 03416 ZSL7
Black fibre case containg: USA No serial number Gibson red SG short scale bass USA No serial number
Black roadcase containing: USA No serial number Marshall Vintage/Modern Amplifier UK M-2007-07-0926-2 RoHS
Black roadcase containing: USA No serial number Marshall Vintage/Modern Amplifier UK M-2007-07-0927-2 RoHS
4x Marshall 4x12 Cabinets (with Tuki cover) UK #1 Slant: M-2007-05-0149-0
4x Marshall 4x12 Cabinets (with Tuki cover) UK #2 Straight: M-2006-49-0380-0
4x Marshall 4x12 Cabinets (with Tuki cover) UK #3 Slant: M-2007-05-0150-0
4x Marshall 4x12 Cabinets (with Tuki cover) UK #4 Straight: M-2006-49-0381-0
Orange Calzone road case containing: Guitar pedal board and pedals USA/Japan No serial number Assorted leads USA/UK No serial number 2x mic stands Germany No serial number Assorted strings and spares USA No serial number plus: 2x Boss TU2 Chromatic Tuner Boss CH1 Super Chorus Fulltone OCD Overdrive Crybaby Wah Peterson Strobo-Stomp Tuner Pedal Whirlwind A/B Boxes Whirlwind Cable Tester and many many istrument cables various tools ( screwdrivers, soldering iron, pliers, etc... ) tambourine and maracas
Cardboard box containing: Assorted replacement drum heads USA No serial number
Gretsch Silver Sparkle Catalina drum kit USA No serial number 26" Kick Drum No serial number 13" Rack Tom No serial number 18" Floor Tom No serial number 4x Cymbal Stands No serial number 1x Snare Stand No serial number 1x Hi Hat Stand No serial number 1x Drum Throne No serial number
Eden D810 Bass cabinet USA D810RP4 0703E5001
Eden D810 Bass cabinet USA D810RP4 0703E5002
Cardboard box containg: Eden VT300 Bass amplifier USA 0601E5115
Cardboard box containg: Eden VT300 Bass amplifier USA 0507E5033
Floor Fan CHINA No serial number
Green clamshell suitcase containing: Yamaha snare drum JAPAN No serial number Yahama kick pedal JAPAN No serial number Zildjian Mega Bell cymbal USA No serial number Zildjian 15" Hi-Hats USA No serial number 3x Zildjian 18" 19" 20" crash medium cymbals USA No serial number
Brown Epiphone guitar case: Black Epiphone EB3 short scale bass KOREA F300503
― Mackro Mackro, Monday, 4 August 2008 22:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Band equipment seems to get stolen an awful lot, doesn't it?
― Alex in SF, Monday, 4 August 2008 22:19 (sixteen years ago) link
this is somehow symbolic
― Zeno, Monday, 4 August 2008 22:20 (sixteen years ago) link
time for me to get on my soapbox again
bands who tour: I share your pain. I know how tired you are when you get to the hotel. I may not be as big as you-all, but I'm a working musician. And as such, I learned something (2nd hand through people who were related to famous people) when I was coming up: don't leave anything in the van that you couldn't stand to live without. I'm touring this fall; anybody who breaks into our bus when I'm not in it won't get shit that belongs to me, because my shit is right next to me when I'm sleeping, and anybody who wants it is gonna have to fight me for it.
Seriously, how many times do we have to hear this damn story? Watt, what're you doin leaving a '63 EB-3 in the van? It never got stolen before? Blind luck!
Load your shit out, bands!
That said, this sucks as and may the thieves all die painful slow deaths.
― J0hn D., Monday, 4 August 2008 22:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Watt, what're you doin leaving a '63 EB-3 in the van?
yeah that is kinda nuts
hey Watt didja find yer shit
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 4 August 2008 22:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Do these people ever get caught? I always wondered who'd be responsible, like, some broke gutter punks who thought they might cop some fine gear? fucked up junkies who'll flip it first thing? Jealous ex-bandmates? ithe Illuminati?
― people explosion, Monday, 4 August 2008 23:36 (sixteen years ago) link
a few years ago there was a group with a (half-serious?) musical agenda that claimed they'd ripped off a bunch of bands they thought were shitty and were gonna hit some more... I'm sure its on ILM somewhere, I forget if they called themselves a particular name
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 4 August 2008 23:41 (sixteen years ago) link
can somebody link to that manifesto from the people who claimed to be stealing the gear of bands they felt were declining in quality? I know it's on ILM somewhere.
GODDAMN XPOST AGAIN
― sleeve, Monday, 4 August 2008 23:41 (sixteen years ago) link
All that gear to make that din?
Rest assured Igginsto and you multi millionares, it will wind up in some other chancer rock band's rehearsal room and praps ROCK will be changed forever by the ripping off of yr gear.
It will all turn out right. Or maybe you could write a song about it?
Yr insured right?
― Fer Ark, Monday, 4 August 2008 23:44 (sixteen years ago) link
and some toilet ODs somewhere along the line.
Result
― Fer Ark, Monday, 4 August 2008 23:47 (sixteen years ago) link
god i hate how nu-ilx code strips out email addresses in a way that makes them unrecoverable.
i also hate fucking thieves in my city.
― s1ocki, Monday, 4 August 2008 23:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Canada, wtf lately
― salsa shark, Monday, 4 August 2008 23:47 (sixteen years ago) link
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/images/2007/06/14/iggy.jpg
― am0n, Monday, 4 August 2008 23:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Were Iggy's dentures stolen too?
― Alex in SF, Monday, 4 August 2008 23:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Iggy will make an interesting rug some day
― Fer Ark, Monday, 4 August 2008 23:55 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, or somebody sleeps in the van. sucks, but the hartbraek winner of all time has to be when sonic youth had 25+ custom guitars stolen.
― Edward III, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 03:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Ushering in their minimalist composition phase.
― moley, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 03:37 (sixteen years ago) link
fer ark u r a dick
― m coleman, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 03:42 (sixteen years ago) link
^ Admittedly -I was being a dick- for the theft of Mike Watt's bass only.
It sucks too that I can't say, leave my bike around anywhere on the fucking planet without shrouding it in a two ft thick uberchain. Having my car broken into for the tenth time was real fun though .
Scrotes everywhere - not just Canada. There's even some in quaint ole Englande
― Fer Ark, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 07:59 (sixteen years ago) link
fer ark u r a dick treat
― gnarly sceptre, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 12:28 (sixteen years ago) link
I tell you, if Iggy & co are forced to MIME their show at Massey Hall tomorrow, I'm asking for a partial refund, oh yes.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 13:23 (sixteen years ago) link
o where o where will they find marshall amps in canada
― Edward III, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 13:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Steve's!
― Finefinemusic, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 14:11 (sixteen years ago) link
peace fer -- i was flashing back on how shitty and violated I felt when my apt got robbed.
and I had to lol at the notion that ron & scott asheton are millionaires!
― m coleman, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 15:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Um.
― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 15:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Ho-chi-ram-cha.
― NickB, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 15:19 (sixteen years ago) link
They didn't know about the Neighborhood Threat, left their stuff Down on the Street and it got stolen in Some Weird Sin by a couple of Dum Dum Boys, eh? And now all they Got Nothing except some pictures, like Consolation Prizes. I bet they feel like Dirt now. Not Right. Not Right at all.
― StanM, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
(well, it felt like a good idea, but I should have left the execution to someone else probably)
― StanM, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 16:07 (sixteen years ago) link
someone who is not on the internet
― Edward III, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link
S/D Stooges gear list
― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost :-)
At least Wikipedia tries to soften the blow with today's Featured Article:
http://i38.tinypic.com/sy9kip.png
― StanM, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link
C'mon Stan M, you coulda easily worked "Search & Destroy" and "Scene of the Crime" into that summation if you wanted to! Unless you considered it too easy...
4x-post
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 21:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I gave up after I realized it wasn't going to be as funny as it initially promised to be :-(
― StanM, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 22:34 (sixteen years ago) link
story of my life
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 22:38 (sixteen years ago) link
*shrugs* Amused me...
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 01:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Blame Canada
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 03:42 (sixteen years ago) link
At least Ron Asheton plays relatively cheap made-in-Korea gear. I'm sure Reverend will happily ship him a new set of $550 guitars just for the publicity. (I think that V is his signature model, no?)
― milo z, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 05:15 (sixteen years ago) link