Camper Van Beethoven's guitars, violin and merchandise were stolen last night in Montreal. Following is a list of items taken, if you have any information about these please contact the Montreal police or email Jonathan Segal:
jonathan's violin with stickers all over it
jonathan's 1971 strat (sunburst) (with a couple stickers, etc.)O
victor's 1969 precision bass (natural finish)
david's green charvel surfcaster
david's black jackson surfcaster
a couple ibanez acoustics
johnny's black eric clapton strat
greg's frankenstein strat (black) and tele (tobacco sunburst)
mike duclos' precision bass
ezster balint's gibson danelectro semi acoustic.
maybe more...
a few tshirts and a road case of cds
they've not shown up on eBay yet, but i'll keep my eyes open.
Posted by: moonshake on October 20, 2004 03:50 PMthey've not shown up on eBay yet, but i'll keep my eyes open.
Posted by: moonshake on October 20, 2004 03:51 PMahhhh! that bothers me so much.
one of my friends in in a band called Pacific UV and like hoards of other musicians they were in NYC for the CMJ conference/festival. sunday morning between 3 and 6am they were parked on the street and had their van broken into and ALL their equipment (as well as over 200 cds -- ouch!) stolen.
now my first thought (although a close second is DON'T LEAVE ALL YOUR SHIT IN YOUR VAN unless you have some sort of seperate metal cage inside that van with an extra-hard-to-get-into lock on it)is how fucking awful it is to steal a musician's instrument.
it's very different from stealing someone's car or cash or even cds. it's like stealing someone's wife. it's just wrong.
i know it happens all the time. but it pains me every tine i hear about it. so of course, i'll keep an eye out as well.
Posted by: Darling on October 21, 2004 01:35 PMHey guys - thanks for getting the word out - my link is an up to date page with numbers and pics for the gear.
Oh - these were professionals - I dont know how much good that cage would have done.