Dinosaur Jr.'s Gear Stolen

[worpswede]

This is such bullshit. Dinosaur Jr.'s gear was stolen last night after their show in N.Y.C.

"After a blisterning set last night in Brooklyn, NY the band awoke this morning to find that the their trailer had been broken into and all of the gear has been taken.

J's Amma guitar, the mountain man guitar, Lou's Rickenbacker... EVERYTHING IS GONE.
They are still taking inventory to see what else is gone but they were pretty much wiped out.

WE NEED YOUR HELP!!! Spread the word to everyone you know, every music store, pawn shop, club... anywhere you can think they may show up.
If you have ANY information let us know - [email protected]

Thank you."

The items stolen include:

Guitars:
1959 Fender Jazzmaster SN# 38927.
-decal coming off. cracked headstock at top near low E peg.
color black with purple/bluish sparkle coming through. adonized pick guard gold metal. tuneomatic bridge gold, tuning pegs gold.

1961-3 Fender Jazzmaster SN# 62012.
-purple sparkle, black pickup covers. headstock repaired, a whole new piece of wood was glued on for the top part of the headstock under the tuners and up a 1/2" , along the whole top of the headstock. gold tuneomatic bridge, gold tuners

1964-5 Fender Jazzmaster SN# L21581.
-orange, white pearl pickguard, stickers we're all over it, original tuners.

Fender Purple Jazzmaster new SN# R074329.
-purple sparkle with matching headstock gold adonized guard tuneomatic bridge.

Rory Gallagher Stratocaster new SN# R25507.
-has a big gold grover tuning peg on low E

Rickenbacker 197? Fireglo Bass SN# 4001.
-checker-board binding.

B.C. Rich Warlock Bass SN# 4242413

Custom pedal board with custom audio electronics RS-10 foot controller, Teese RNC2 wah pedal, boss stage tuner, mute box, and cables.

Cymbals:
[1] Paiste 20" 2002 medium
[1] Paiste 20" giant beat
[1] Paiste 20" 2002 crash
[2] Paiste 19" 2002 crash
[2] Paiste 15" 2002 sound edge top hi-hats
[1] 15" 2002 sound edge bottom hi-hats


One Black backpack with Sony headphones, tools, etc.

And I got a message on myspace from the Brian Jonestown Massacre that Anton Newcombe is offering $1,000,000 to anyone that can "tell me who,what when,where and why. no questions asked. figure it out."



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[DJMurphy]

Damn, back in the wild west, stealing a man's horse was a hanging offense. Likewise, stealing a musician's instruments should be an automatic life sentence in prison, where they pipe Barry Manilow, Mantovani, and muzak into your cell at ear-blistering volumes, 24/7/365.

When I hear that musicians are getting cleaned out of their gear, I'm sadly reminded that for the crooks, NOTHING IS SACRED. Makes you wanna cry.

[worpswede]

Damn, back in the wild west, stealing a man's horse was a hanging offense. Likewise, stealing a musician's instruments should be an automatic life sentence in prison...

Particularly when there's a few sweet-ass Jazzmasters involved. Those things are like Palominos.
And with Anton on the case now, let's hope they find the thieves so that he can go off on 'em Matt Hollywood style.
I mean, what the fuck?!
Sonic Youth
Brian Jonestown Massacre
Film School
Who am I missing from the last few years?
J's gotta be upset...

[Jake]

Califone
Decemberists
Andrew Kendall (photog)
BJM
Pretty Girls Make Graves

[steve-o]

Califone
Decemberists
Andrew Kendall (photog)
BJM
Pretty Girls Make Graves

Engine Down and Matt Pond PA

But back to the Dinosaur Jr. story, a BC Rich Warlock bass? I thought only grungy 15 year olds in death metal bands played those.

[Tom4]

I work in Long Island City where their equipment was stolen, so I'm asking around. Hopefully I can come up with something.

[worpswede]

But back to the Dinosaur Jr. story, a BC Rich Warlock bass? I thought only grungy 15 year olds in death metal bands played those.

I thought the same thing too when I read that! Maybe Lou likes the irony of owning it.
I'll confess to browsing the Daisy Rock guitar line-up a few times. Feel free to draw your own conclusions about me.

[Jake]

But back to the Dinosaur Jr. story, a BC Rich Warlock bass?

Dude, it doesn't get more badass than that! Lou puts the "Eeeeeeeee!" in emo.

[Tim]

This is unbelievable! How does shit like this happen to all these great bands? That is some serious gear!

I agree with you DJ Murphy, lock the fuckers up for life and pipe in Kenny G into their cells!

[Jake]

I'll confess to browsing the Daisy Rock guitar line-up a
few times. Feel free to draw your own conclusions about me.

This guitar makes me want to manage a teen glam band. I've always
wanted to play a Don Kirshner role in a band: audition the players, tell
them what to play, what to wear, hair, etc. I think I could create the
coolest band ever. At least for a couple of albums until they wanted to
start playing what they wanted and dressing how they wanted... At which
point, they'd fire me, release an amazingly great album that their fans
would reject because it was unlike their previous output, but ultimately it
would be critically revisited and deemed a great success.