Somewhere near nebraska

[MadMark5]

sorry I don't have more details, but this is a band from philly and I just wanted to respost the info incase anyone happens to see the gear...


We wake up while on tour and go to where our van and trailer was parked
today and the trailer was gone. GONE. STOLEN. Possibly for over a day our
trailer has been missing....we don't know.


We do know that we are completely 100% broken as a band right now. ALL of
our equipment....years and years of instrument and equipment collecting
stolen from us. Our livelihood stolen from us. Materialistically, we have
NOTHING right now.


We had over $90,000 worth of equipment stolen from us today.


We do not know what we are going to do....we had to cancel our two gigs in
Nebraska as well as our showcase in Iowa for this weekend (which we had to
pay a non-refundable $1000 to showcase at).


Why would someone do this? WHY ON EARTH DO PEOPLE DO THIS? I don't know
how to explain to you all how hard we work at what we do and for such small
income. We do not have the money to purchase the equipment that we need to
bring our shows up tot he status we were at just yesterday....we don't know
what we are going to do.


The list of our stolen items is below:


1. GIBSON LES PAUL $1800
2. FENDER STRAT $1200
3. MESA BOOGIE HEAD $1200
4. MESA BOOGIE CABINET $850
5. MESA CABINET ROAD CASE $400
6. MESA HEAD ROAD CASE $100
7. PEDAL: DIAMOND COMPRESSOR $200
8. PEDAL: DIAMOND DRIVE $250
9. PEDAL: FLIP ECHO $270
10. PEDAL: HEIL TALK BOX $180
11. PEDAL: BOSS TUNER $180
12. PEDAL: BOSS TUNER $180
13. PEDAL: BOSS DELAY REVERB $120
14. PEDAL: COUNTRYMAN DIRECT BOX
15. PEDAL: FULLTONE DEJA VIBE $270
16. PEDAL: FULLTONE WAH $210
17. PEDAL: ERNIE BALL VOLUME PEDAL $100
18. PEDAL: MAGNOLIA DRIVE $200
19. PEDAL: BOSS AB PEDAL $120
20. PEDAL: IBANEZ TUBE SCREAMER $160
21. GEORGE L CABLES AND BULLETS $150
22. SHURE BETA 58A $120
23. SHURE SM 57 $70
24. MIC CLIP FOR AMP $20
25. MIC STAND $70
26. 6 QUARTER INCH CABLES $160
27. 4 GUITAR STANDS $120
28. FLIGHT PEDAL BOARD CASE $400
29. SURGE PROTECTOR MULTI LINE $30
30. STRINGS/CLIPS/PICKS/MISS $250
31. ALAN AND HEATH MIXING BOARD $2,000
32. TWO MACKIE POWERED TOP SPEAKERS $900
33. TWO MACKIE POWERED SUB SPEAKERS $1200
34. FIVE PAIRS OF IN-EAR MONITORS $4200
35. FIVE SHURE IN-EAR RIGS $4500
36. ONE BRAND NEW TRAILER $5000
37. ONE DIGI 002 $2000
38. ONE YAMAHA MAPLE CUSTOM DRUM SET $5000
39. SEVERAL CYMBALS $850
40. MINI MIXER $500
41. BASS SPEAKER CABINET $1000
42. BASS AMP HEAD $1000
43. BASS $1800
44. FENDER TELECASTER VINTAGE $3000
45. FENDER TELECASTER VINTAGE $2500
46. ORANGE AMP HEAD AND BOX $1600
47. ORANGE SPEAKER CABINET AND CASE $1400
48. NINE OF CHRIS' PEDALS $3000
49. A BARAGE OF CHRIS' CABLES $300
50. OUR COLLECTION OF MIC CABLES AND MISCELLANEOUS CABLES $750
51. RUSTY'S THREE CONGAS $2000
52. DRUM HARDWARE AND PERCUSSION HARDWARE $600
53. OUR MERCHANDISE RACK AND CASE WITH MERCH IN IT $2000
54. SPEAKER STANDS AND MIC STANDS $300
55. ALL OF OUR MICROPHONES $3000
56. CHRIS' MANDOLIN $600
And more and more and more that I can't even think about right now.


We are crippled right now...we really do not know what the future holds
right now...


Why do people do this? Why can't we ever get ahead?


Phil Kominski
LLOYD DOBLER EFFECT

[mburd]

I found something to help "Phil" in some of the blanks. There's a pdf on the homepage with some serials, etc.

http://www.lloyddoblereffect.com/

[sevenorchids]

Looks like this happened in Chicago? I'll keep a look out and send the information to the stores that take in used musical equipment.

One thing struck me:

"The terrible, terrible, terrible news is that the instruments were not insured. Our van is insured and our trailer is insured when attached to the van but the instruments inside were not. Musical Equipment Insurance is way too expensive to maintain and we have never been able to afford it."

I don't have nearly the amount of equipment, but I was able to get about $10,000 of coverage for well under $200 a year. I cannot stress this enough. If you are making money from playing music, you need to insure your equipment. Maybe not all of it, but you need to be able to recover some of your losses. Especially if you are touring. It costs me about $15 per month. Regardless of the cost, if you make money from playing music, it's tax deductible and necessary. If you drove a car for a living, you'd insure that. I know some trades people that insure their tools. It's their livelihood. Hopefully you never have to use the insurance, but please, please, get it.

This really, truly is a horrible story. So sorry that it happened in Chicago. We'll do what we can from this end to help try and locate the scum that did this.

[MadMark5]

thanks for the help guys....

after J lost his benny I went out and got insurance. I got 6,000 of coverage for around a 100 a month. all I have to do is play one gig to pay it off. WELL worth it, if only for piece of mine