SONIC YOUTH STOLEN GEAR
While on a brief west coast tour in July 1999, a Ryder truck containing all of the band's touring equipment was stolen in Orange County, California. Sonic Youth had just played a show in Berkeley on July 2nd, and were scheduled to perform in Irvine on the 4th. The theft occurred overnight between 1am and 7:15am on the morning of the 4th, outside of a Ramada Inn in Orange County (101 State College Dr). The truck was found, completely empty, a few days later, and none of the gear has ever been recovered.
STOLEN GUITARS
# Drifter
# Fender Duo Sonic
# Fender Jaguar (blonde)
# Fender Jaguar (leopard)
# Fender Jaguar (old)
# Fender Jazzblaster (sunburst)
# Fender Jazzmaster (black)
# Fender Jazzmaster (blue)
# Fender Jazzmaster (bur. mist)
# Fender Jazzmaster (red)
# Fender Jazzmaster (sunburst)
# Fender Jazzmaster (sunburst)
# Fender Jazzmaster (white)
# Fender Mustang (orange)
# Fender Telecaster Deluxe
# Fender XII
# Fernandes Jazzmaster
# Gibson Les Paul Deluxe
# Gibson Les Paul Special
# Gibson Les Paul Special
# Gibson RD Artist
# Kimberly Hollowbody
# Travis Bean (koa wood)
# Travis Bean (target)
# Yamaha Pacifica
# Fender P-Bass (sunburst)
STOLEN AMPLIFIERS
# Fender 2X12 speaker box
# Fender Tonemaster guitar amp (serial # 3136)
# Fender 4X12 Tonemaster cabinet (serial # LO436025)
# Fender Concert amp (serial # A00290) red/blue/yellow target on grille
# Peavey Roadmaster (serial # 3A-01673927)
# Peavey Roadmaster (serial # 4A1798945)
# Marshall 4X12 slant cabinet (serial # A13762) Mid 60's Cab. Pre Rolla speakers
# Mesa Boogie 400+ Bass amp (serial # B2589)
# Mesa Boogie 1X18 cabinet (serial # SY020)
# Mesa Boogie 4X10 cabinet (serial # C10397)
# Fender Bassman guitar head (serial # 22111)
# Fender Bassman guitar head (serial # A12534)
STOLEN EFFECTS PEDALS
# Sovtek Big Muff distortion pedal (2 in total)
# ProCo Turbo Rat distortion (3 in total)
# MXR Phase 90 (2 in total)
# MXR Blue Box (2 in total)
# Dunlop Jimi Hendrix Octave Fuzz (3 in total)
# Mu-tron Wah/Vol (serial # 5806)
# MOOG Moogerfooger Ring Modulator (serial # 608)
# Korg EXP2 expression pedal
# DOD PDS 1002 2-second delay (FX994837)
# DOD PDS 1002 2-second delay (FX676315)
# Maestro Ring Modulator RM1B (AE91424)
# Maestro Ring Modulator RM1B
# Hughes & Kettner Tube Factor (serial # 244117)
# Hughes & Kettner Tube Rotosphere (serial # 229974)
# Ibanez AD80 Analog delay (serial # 121817) permanent 18v power supply
# Ibanez AD80 Analog delay (serial # 111519) permanent 18v power supply
# Mu-tron Bi-Phase effect unit (serial # 1321) in wedge-shaped suitcase w/pedal
# Mu-tron Expression pedal (serial # 1197) in suitcase w/above
# Electro Harmonix Hot Tubes
# Electro Harmonix Micro Synth Reissue
# Dyna Soar homemade distortion pedal
Evo i Lee Ranaldovog javnog pisma povodom ovog slucaja.
originally posted in alt.music.sonic-youth on july 4th, 1999.
Hello all, this is Lee from Sonic Youth here, we have had a fucked up
situation come down on us over this last night--a brand new Ryder truck
parked at a Ramada Inn in Orange County with ALL OF OUR GEAR IN IT was
STOLEN! All of our guitars, tools, amplifiers, drums, synth -- EVERYTHING.
We are fucked, both for the show tonight at the "This Ain't No Picnic"
here in Orange Co., and for shows upcoming this week in Austin and Santa
Fe. Our guitars are all mostly older and either very modified and/or
fucked up/beat up. They are unmistakably ours, as are some of the amps,
including my own 60s Fender Concert with the red/blue/yellow "Jasper
Johns-style" target on it. We are asking ANYONE with ANY INFORMATION about
this to get in touch with us as soon as possible by calling our man Aaron
Blitzstein in New York City at 212.343.2314, or via email to
"Mascaras66@aol.com". Call collect if you want to. Please no pranks, all,
this is really serious--all the gear we've used to write our last few LPs
worth of stuff, instruments used for songs old and new which if truly lost
will mean those songs will be lost forever.
Help us out if you can, there will be a reward for any info, I'm sure.
All our road cases, etc, are fully marked up with our name on them, the
gtrs are so unusual that they won't really be too hard to mistake. ANY
info at all will be appreciated.
If the thieves themselves read this, I'm sure we'd rather buy the stuff
back from you than lose it forever (you fukkerz).
.
