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Leaving gear at a house for jamming

#62
it happens. It happened to my uncle (and musical mentor): his band in late 70s rented a solitary country house to rehearse for their album and left the equipment there. Lots of good gear, he said: Gibson guitars, J basses, high-end drums, Fender amps, SVT... One day they went there and only some pieces of drums who were his personal property were left. Obviously the theft was planned, the thiefs needed at least a truck, tools to cut the heavy chains and doors, and knew exactly when they'd be free to do their job. In all these years uncle investigated about who of his bandmates was the mastermind. Only in recent years somebody friends of someone who knew someone's else...you know the song... somebody told him perhaps the job was planned, guess who, by the bassist. In fact, the bassist was the only one who after some months left the group and apparently disappeared. Uncle is still searching for him. I wonder what he'd want to do.
 
#63
The only gear I ever leave at a practice space is a microphone, stand and cable. The band leader has a bass amp, drums, PA and keyboard. We just plug in, practice, unplug and go home. Sweet deal.
 
#66
I take all my gear with me if it is a new band I am jamming with until I have had some time to get a feel for everybody. I now leave my cabinets at practice but I take everything else with me, especially my cables. I notice those seem to disappear no matter where I jam. I have decided to go with tweed cables with white plastic ends so I can quickly identify my cables. :D

Reading some of these posts though, I am getting the idea I should take my practice cabs I have at home and swap them with my nicer cabs.
 
#68
i wouldnt do it untill i was very comfy with the situation...

last time i did, amps were ripped off...

we have always suspected the drummer, since it was his place, and nothing was taken except the guitar player's amp and my amp...

couldnt prove anything, but lesson learned...
 
#69
maves75 said:
No matter who is around, or where, I don't leave anything behind that I can't replace, or do without.
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I have found that life is easier and far more rewarding if you choose to hang around with honest and trustworthy people.

I've never had anything stolen or mysteriously go missing that had been left at a friend's place. Ever. Currently, two of my friends are on vacation out of the country, and I have the keys to their houses as I'll be bringing in their mail and checking on the house. They have done the same for me in the past.
 
#70
I've never bought gear to "flip" or any plans on selling later.
When I procure it, I keep it. So... I scribe my last name and
DL somewhere shiny.
When the stuff becomes a curio, relic or vintage, I will be long gone.
I have left lots of gear at responsible band member's homes.
Nothing ever happened.
I have been in groups that had substance users and never left stuff with them.
Common sense.
Someone posted above that they had the speakers changed out.
That happened to the guitar player in my current band. It was years ago and it was his shady uncle. Messed up.
A pristine Fender Tweed something. Dual Showman I think.
 
#72
duff beer said:
I have found that life is easier and far more rewarding if you choose to hang around with honest and trustworthy people.

I've never had anything stolen or mysteriously go missing that had been left at a friend's place. Ever. Currently, two of my friends are on vacation out of the country, and I have the keys to their houses as I'll be bringing in their mail and checking on the house. They have done the same for me in the past.
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Exactly. The first paragraph says it all. The second reflects an admirable situation which unfortunately is kind of hard to achieve.
 
#75
My music room is set up so that my band mates don't have to bring anything. I have pro level drums amps and PA set up and ready to go. Bring your guitar (if you want) and lets get to work.

One of the bands that I play in practices at the guitarist's house because he lives more central to all involved. He has a drumset there, I do leave a cymbal setup. I'm not worried about it.
 
#76
Kmonk said:
In the early 80s I was in a band for 4 years. We broke up and I left my 1971 SVT head and cab and my 1978 Jazz bass at the drummer's house. I was buying a van off him and he allowed me to take the van as long as he could hold on to me gear until I paid him half the money for the van. Since I had known him about 5 years, I trusted that nothing bad would happen. The following week, I called him to let him know that I was going to his house with all the money for the van and would be picking up my gear. When I arrived he told me that he had traded my amp, cab and bass for an Alembic because he wanted to learn how to play bass. The jazz bass was a mint condition Sienna Sunburst, maple fretboard with block inlays. I have never found another one like it.
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Do you still have the Alembic?
 
#78
seanm said:
I have a used Peavey TNT I have left at various houses. I trust the owners and even give them permission to let others use the amp. It's pretty hard to trash a TNT :p I look at letting them use it as rent.
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This was my first amp. Built like a tank. Is this the one with the built in chorus feature that you could tweak out to create this underwater warble sub tone sound? I loved that amp.
 
#80
I take all my stuff with me, because I'm an *******. Accident or not, I would be very mad if anything happened to my stuff, that I wasn't responsible doing.

But on that note, my mates leave their guitars and amps here for practice. I keep them covered or kept in cases. Nobody is allowed to touch anything that doesn't belong to them. See, I'm an *******, but it is solely because I've been too trusting and burned way, way, way, too many times.
 

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