dinosaur jr. gear stolen

in what has to be one of the uncoolest moves i’ve read about in quite a while, someone has stolen all of dinosaur jr.’s equipment from a trailer parked in long island city, new york.

i read about it on digg.

get the word out–here’s the list of equipment:

Attached and listed below is a list of gear that was stolen out of the
Dinosaur Jr trailer last night (Tuesday 8.29.06) outside of their hotel
in Long Island City, NY. We would appreciate spreading the word and
passing this list around in hopes of recovering their gear. Please
notify and alert your local guitar shops, pawn shops, music and web
stores etc. to keep an eye out for this gear. Feel free to send this
list to any and all band, tour and production managers, guitar freaks,
touring personnel, venues, musicians and or thieves that you think
could help us.

If anyone has any information about this gear, please call Brian
Schwartz at the number below or on his cell at 303.956.9671 or Bart
Dahl at 212.777.0922 or on his cell at 720.331.1836. Thanks and Best,
Brian

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

On Black backpack with Sony headphones, tools, etc.

i saw dinosaur jr. back in the day (all right, way way back in the day) when i djed at einstein’s. amazing live band. no one deserves this, least of all an amazing guitar god like j mascis.