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 "Mascara...@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).
here are some descriptions of gear:\ drums: green satin flame 60s Gretch kit (w "paisley" glow in dark kik head Fender ToneMaster head and 4x12 cabinet Fender blackface Concert (4x10) w "Target design" spraypainted on front PeeVey RoadMaster Head Marshal 4x12 cab Mesa Boogie 400+ bass head/4x10 cab/18" cab Fender Bassman head (two!)/ 2x12 fender cab
Fender presicion Bass Gibson Les Paul Jr w snoopy sticker Fender Jazzmasters and Jaguars--lots of 'em, mostly modified to hell (orig electronix pulled, diff p/u's etc) and usually way beat up. Travis Beans--1 koa wood, one red beat to shit
White roadcase/briefcase full of gtr tools
we will post more equip info later... thanks in advance for any help... PLEASE PASS THIS LIST ON TO ANYONE WHO MIGHT BE OF HELP!
> 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 "Mascara...@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).
> here are some descriptions of gear:\ > drums: green satin flame 60s Gretch kit (w "paisley" glow in dark kik head > Fender ToneMaster head and 4x12 cabinet > Fender blackface Concert (4x10) w "Target design" spraypainted on front > PeeVey RoadMaster Head > Marshal 4x12 cab > Mesa Boogie 400+ bass head/4x10 cab/18" cab > Fender Bassman head (two!)/ 2x12 fender cab
> Fender presicion Bass > Gibson Les Paul Jr w snoopy sticker > Fender Jazzmasters and Jaguars--lots of 'em, mostly modified to hell (orig > electronix pulled, diff p/u's etc) and usually way beat up. > Travis Beans--1 koa wood, one red beat to shit
> White roadcase/briefcase full of gtr tools
> we will post more equip info later... thanks in advance for any help... > PLEASE PASS THIS LIST ON TO ANYONE WHO MIGHT BE OF HELP!
Wow this is just awful......the band must be so devastated.......let's hope the stuff turns up somewhere and back in the hands of the band. Sorry guys Charlie
Mon, 5 Jul 1999 00:04:01 -0400 was an imagined time.. "Hev" <dt5...@email.msn.com> thought..:
>Maybe something or someone is telling them to move in a new direction.....
something close to this happened to me once I had hundreds of photos of my graffiti and all my scetches ect. burnt in a fire never to return. while it is pretty fukt up thing to happen, a new style emerged as a result of it.
-lukewarm +hot for mail run and hide page at deathsdoor.com/thens
Chris Lawrence <must...@islandnet.com> wrote: > This is absolutely terrible beyond words. I hope I'm not out > of line in suggesting that this should be forwarded > to any appropriate mailing lists, newsgroups, or guitar > shops online that may somehow relate to SY or this > incident. I'm not familiar with California guitar/pawn > shops, but if someone is, maybe they should drop this off > at anywhere that could be deemed useful.
> Thanks, > Chris
that's a good idea chris. i live a couple-hundred miles from la but there are a couple of guitar shops here in town that do a lot of business...you never know where things will turn up. i'll print that list up and take it over to them. this happened to some guys i knew, but they were lucky and got everything back. i can't imagine who would do such a shitty thing.
Everyone ebay has been getting some pretty kool SY looking shit in their since a night ago so if you guys look under teisco or jazzmaster yr gonna find some kool looking sy shit who ever knows lees e-mail tell him to look on ebay
>> This is absolutely terrible beyond words. I hope I'm not out >> of line in suggesting that this should be forwarded >> to any appropriate mailing lists, newsgroups, or guitar >> shops online that may somehow relate to SY or this >> incident. I'm not familiar with California guitar/pawn >> shops, but if someone is, maybe they should drop this off >> at anywhere that could be deemed useful.
>> Thanks, >> Chris
>that's a good idea chris. >i live a couple-hundred miles from la >but there are a couple of guitar shops here in town that do a lot of >business...you never know where things will turn up. i'll print that >list up and take it over to them. >this happened to some guys i knew, but they were lucky and >got everything back. >i can't imagine who would do such a shitty thing.
this is so messed up...any other band it would have really sucked that someone would do this, but its even worse with sonic youth, where else are you going to find a 30 year old modded guitar set up for some messed up tuning? so just to add to the list of suggestions, I think people should be checking EBay and harmony central classified ads, as well as other places on the net. someone who does a lot of online instrument shopping should forward lee's message to all the instrument dealers online that they know of..I'll do what I can myself but I dont think much is going to turn up here 2000 miles from CA..also Ryder most likely already has contacted the police on the missing truck, perhaps it will turn up before anything happens to the equipment. I think with all of us here on the internet, espescially the ones in the area, we should be able to find some way of getting it back
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this is clearly an elaborate hoax. kim and thurston stole the truck, so that they'll have an excuse not to play the old songs anymore. they probably donated the whole mess to perfect circle. the new album will probably be like banging on pots and pans and DGC won't be able to complain... convenient, eh?
I can't imagine that whoever stole the truck even knows what they got. They're going to be pretty disappointed when they realize that most of the gear is of no use to anyone but Sonic Youth. I can't image many CA guitar shops going out of their way to purchase "Travis Beans--1 koa wood, one red beat to shit" or and other sort of painted or modified gear. I'm clinging to the hope that whoever took all the shit will either leave the truck somewhere (since they can't sell anything) or they'll get busted w/ little to no things stolen or harmed.
> that's a good idea chris. > i live a couple-hundred miles from la > but there are a couple of guitar shops here in town that do a lot of > business...you never know where things will turn up. i'll print that > list up and take it over to them. > this happened to some guys i knew, but they were lucky and > got everything back. > i can't imagine who would do such a shitty thing.
>>>Maybe something or someone is telling them to move in a new direction.....
>Yeah - retirement!
yes, i'm sure that someone would steal the band's equipment thinking "maybe now they will see the error of their ways and give up!". is that like cartoon-villain logic? -al
Hi, if you are reading this you have been identified as a sympathetic party by us or by someone who knows you and us. Sometime between 1 a.m. and 7:15 a.m on July 4th our Ryder truck was stolen from the parking lot of the Ramada Inn, 101 State College Dr. in Orange, CA. This truck contained all of our touring equipment; the list of missing items follows and we would appreciate any help or ideas leading to the recovery of any of it. Some general information: All of the guitars have been adapted specifically for use by Sonic Youth. Most of them will have strange pick ups, none have the original electronics. All have extensive notes about tunings either written on the paint, headstock, or pieces of tape on the body. Drum stands all have tape or hose clamps to mark adjustment heights. The Kick drum has a glow in the dark head with a custom swirl design. This was touring gear, it was all in road cases, and those cases were stencilled Sonic Youth. Should you hear anything about any of thses things or are approached by someone offering to sell them to you please contact either or both of the following:
Shauna O'Brien (GAS Entertainment Co.) 310-526-1950 sobr...@den.net
Thank you very much in advance for whatever help you can provide.
Yours, Nic and Luc with SONIC YOUTH
GUITARS SERIAL # description ------- -------- -----------
Kimberly Hollow Body Accoustic day glo tiger sticker, spring held in place w/wire Gibson Les Paul Jr. Tobacco Sunburst 5789 Snoopy sticker Fender Jazzmaster White 126646 Fender Jaguar (leopard paint job) 33 custom paint looks like leopard spots Fender Mustang Orange w/racing stripe 259425 Chrome tuner low E, white knobs all others Fender Telecaster Thinline F hole 370090 Semi-Hollow Body Fender Jaguar /blond refin L98559 w/clover sticker Fender Jaguar dark stain bare wood 12570 deep scratches on body; DDA, Humbucking pickups Fender Jazzmaster Burgundy mist refin 44364
Travis Bean Koa Wood 102 Gibson Les Paul Red Sparkle 512510 Travis Bean Red Flat Top 375 Target sticker, only two knobs, wood broken around knobs Fender Jazzmaster Sunburst 176211 Fender Duo-sonic White W/blue pickguard Fender Jazzmaster Blue SY 006 Fender Jazzmaster Sunburst L68761 Japanese Neck #K625188 Drifter 4 String Guitar NA Four string, obvious fractures, drumstick under strings Fender Jazzmaster Sunburst 100958 Fender Jazzmaster Black refin 614960 28 sticker, chrome humbucking pickups Gibson RD Artist 71218092 Controls removed, holes showing in body Fernandez Sustainer guitar 89802 Dark red, Fender bridge looks like threaded rod Fender P-Bass L64305 Gibson Les Paul Special 400357 Possibly SN 503202 Yamaha Pacifica Red Sunburst Mod.312 NA Fender Jazzmaster Red 145507 w/Squiggly Pen Lines
Peavey Roadmaster 3A-01673927 In White Hardshell Case Peavey Roadmaster 4A-1798945 Black Calzone Hardshell case Mesa Boogie 400 Plus Bass Amp B 2589 or 1664 Fender Bassman Guitar Head 22111 Black face amp in black roadcase Fender Bassman Guitar Head A12534 Black face amp in black roadcase Fender 2x12 Speaker box NS Marshall 4x12 Slant Cabinet A13762 Pink Hardshell Case Mesa Boogie 1x18 Speaker Cabinet SY020 Self contained in road case with heavy duty casters Mesa Boogie 4x10 C10397 Fender 4x12 Cream Color Speaker Cab.LO-436025 Blue roadcase for same Fender Concert Amplifier N/A Combo amp, Red/Blue/Yellow target painted on grille PEDAL EFFECTS UNITS -------------------
Sovtek Big Muff Distortion Pedal (two) ProCo Turbo Rat Distortion (three) MXR Phase 90 (two) MXR Blue Box Distortion (two) Jimi Hendrix Octave Fuzz (three total) Mu-Tron Volume Wah 5806 MOOG Moogerfooger Ring Modulator #00608 Korg EXP2 Expression Pedal DOD PDS1002 Two Second Delay FX994837 Maestro Ring Modulator RM-1B AE-914248 2 prong black cord, LED and Footswitches (custom mod) Maestro Ring Modulator 3 prong white cord,LED and footswitches (custom mod) Hughes and Kettner Tube Factor 244117 Hughes and Kettner Tube Rotosphere 229974 Ibanez AD-80 Analog Delay 121817/111519 18 Volt Power supply soldered in Mutron Bi Phase Effect unit 1321 In wedge shaped suitcase w/pedal and templates Mutron Expression pedal 1197 In suitcase W/above Electro Harmonix Hot tubes Vintage pedal, some wear Electro Harmonix Micro Synth pedal Re-issue fairly new
DRUMS AND HARDWARE ------------------
Gretsch Green Satin Flame Drum Kit: Kick Drum 22x14 Rack Tom 12x8 Model 4415 124369 Yamaha Brand Tom Mount Hardware Rack Tom 13x9 Model 4416 133636 Yamaha Tom Mount Hardware Floor Tom 16x16 Model 4418 133660 Yamaha Tom Mount Yamaha Cymbal Stands 3 boom stands 3 straight stands New with purple bands DW 5000 Kick Drum Pedal New version with clamp on side DW 5000 Kick Drum Pedal Old version, clamp under pedal Two boxes Pro Mark TWJZX drumsticks Assorted felt mallets in black stick bag Zildjian Constaninople 20" Light Ride In Zildjian Cymbal bag Zildjian 16" Constantinople Crash Cymbal In Zildjian Cymbal bag Zildjian 17"Crash Custom Dark In Zildjian Cymbal bag Zildjian 16" Crash Custom Dark In Zildjian Cymbal bag Zildjian 20" Ride W/rivets Custom Dark In Zildjian Cymbal bag Zildjian 14" Custom Dark Hi-Hat top In Zildjian Cymbal bag Zildjian 14" Hi-Hat New Beat bottom In Zildjian Cymbal bag DW 5000 Hi Hat stand Tube cut for low playing position 14" Zildjian Nipple gong 16" Chinese gong 10" Chinese Gong Small Bells in Cow shaped frame Iron Pipe Gong Rack
LARGE ROAD CASES ----------------
R&R CASE CO. "Coffin" 16085 Red Case on Casters R&R CASE CO. "Coffin" 20237 Purple Case on Casters R&R CASE CO. "Coffin" Maroon Case on Casters R&R CASE CO. "Coffin" Green Case on Casters, last seen full of T-Shirts R&R CASE CO. "Coffin" 24664 Blue case containing Kick Drum and Floor Tom R&R CASE CO. "Coffin" 24665 Blue case containing Toms/Snare Drums/Hardware Ludwig chrome snare drum (2) NA One has numbers written on pieces of tape on it White Briefcase containing: "AMPTOWN CASES", misc. stickers on outside Bank bag with Soldering tools Bank Bag with Misc. Guitar tools Bank Bag with misc. small hand tools. Makita Drill, charger, and Battery Fluke 65 Multi-meter Boss TU 12 Guitar Tuner Black Case Containing Cordura Covered Rack
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>>>>Maybe something or someone is telling them to move in a new direction.....
>>Yeah - retirement!
> yes, i'm sure that someone would steal the band's equipment thinking "maybe > now they will see the error of their ways and give up!". is that like > cartoon-villain logic?
no, but it's probably deranged SY-fan logic. seriously, this could have happened. in fact, i might have stolen that truck myself. they've all been stalked before, right? so we know that they have plenty of fans who are, in essence, fucked-up criminals. if i suddenly found myself driving down the freeway with a truck full of SY's gear my first reaction would be pride at having pulled off such a momentous joke.
