STOLEN GEAR ALERT - Washington, Oregon, Idaho Area.....

[jhale667]

Thieves suck.

[Hardrock69]

One of my best friends was opening for Nugent in 1995. While they were doing soundcheck, I was hanging out onstage (as I was being their stage manager for the gig), and Ted's guitar tech was working on his axes. He had half a dozen Byrdlands, and he said the rarest one was worth 25 grand.

I remember the storytale about one of Tony Iommi's guitars being stolen back in the early 80s. Supposedly the guy who stole it had an immediate run of bad lack the likes of which has not been seen in modern times, and he was so frightened he returned the guitar posthaste....leading to rumors that the guitar was cursed, lol.

I have been fortunate in that I have never had a guitar stolen.

In 1978 one almost was.....I had a 1975 Gibson Flying V. We were playing a gig at a party in a field near Puyallup, WA, and we had finished and packed up our gear before loading it into our van. I was backing the van up in the tall grass, and the rear end suddenly lifted up and dropped down, as if it had run over a large rock or something. I got out, and discovered my Flying V in it's case lying there in the grass.

Someone had stashed the guitar out in the tall grass, thinking they could steal it after we left, but fortunately, running over it in it's case, I got it back and they were not successful. It broke the lid of the case, but fortunately, it did not break the neck of the guitar.

My best friend has had several guitars stolen in the Everett area over the past 20 years.

Fucking thieves.

[FORD]

If I remember correstly.....GARflingus had all of his gear stolen...out of a storage unit or sumsuch

SO remember...NEVER leave your gear where you can't check in on it DAILY.....

and INSURE that shite!!!

So they wouldn't let him bring it into the library with him?

[jhale667]

That premise assumes Terrible Ped could FIND whoever did it, which is highly unlikely. Insuring your shit and documenting the serials is the more realistic approach.

[Nitro Express]

Or you can just be crazy and let everyone know it. I never heard of Ted Nugent ever having any guitars stolen. I don't think anyone is nuts enough to find out what ol' Ted would do to them if they got caught.

[jhale667]

Clearly Kenny wasn't getting the STFU and GTFO part... BS post moved, like the rest of them will be - on sight.

Should always have pics of your gear & serial #s registered with your insurance......

I'd never take chances with my stuff

Me neither, and did all that too, but the RFID chip is one more way it could be easily identified if stolen.

[Matt White]

If I remember correstly.....GARflingus had all of his gear stolen...out of a storage unit or sumsuch

SO remember...NEVER leave your gear where you can't check in on it DAILY.....

and INSURE that shite!!!

[Nitro Express]

Just put a tracking transmitter in your guitars. Find where they are and have some big Tongans or Samoans show up to the get the guitar back and teach who stole it a lesson in manners.

[Matt White]

Stew-Mac used to sell a RFID anti-theft kit for guitars... you got like 5 chips or something... not a bad idea, a least IF a pawn shop scanned it they'd immediately know it was a stolen instrument...

Should always have pics of your gear & serial #s registered with your insurance......

I'd never take chances with my stuff

[Matt White]

Ex-actly..............check yourself

[jhale667]

I find it to be inexcusable.

No, you trolling Gear St - that's inexcusable. STFU and GTFO.

[Kristy]

I find it to be inexcusable.

[lesfunk]

It's fucking Anarchy I tell you!

[Kristy]

Failed musicians stealing from other failed musicians. What has this world come to?

[jhale667]

Stew-Mac used to sell a RFID anti-theft kit for guitars... you got like 5 chips or something... not a bad idea, a least IF a pawn shop scanned it they'd immediately know it was a stolen instrument...