Iggy & The Stooges are on tour right now, and yesterday in Montreal, Canada, some fucking goontard stole their van, which was packed with all their gear.
This is the worst thing that can happen to a band, and before anyone out there says, “Oh they’re rich they can buy new stuff,” keep in mind that, with the exception of Iggy, none of these guys are rock stars. Watt (not an original member of The Stooges, but just as important of a player in the pantheon of punk rock) is still playing the same bass (that amazing Gibson EB-3 picture above) that he bashed out so many great Minutemen and Firehose songs on. I can’t even imagine how bad it hurts to lose something like that.
BoingBoing.net reports:
Iggy and The Stooges are in the middle of a huge tour and this is a disaster — not to mention some rare kit gone forever. Please help if you can. If anyone who reads this and lives in or near Montreal, Canada or if anyone has information, ANY INFORMATION! please, please, PLEASE as soon as possible contact Eric Fischer at: nycentral13@gmail.com, cell phone: +1 646 932 1907
IGGY AND THE STOOGES
EQUIPMENT STOLEN ON AUGUST 4, 2008
OUTSIDE THE EMBASSY SUITES HOTEL
208 SAINT ANTOINE OUEST,
MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA
all equipment was in a rented penske 15 foot yellow truck with u.s. (michigan) license plate number AC46493 parked immediately outside the hotel, the theft had to have happened in the morning, between 6:30 and 7:30 am…
That is absolutely horrible. Fortunately, The Stooges’ tour will hobble along on borrowed and rented equipment.
There’s a text list of the missing gear at BoingBoing.net, and photos of most of what was taken at Watt’s Hootpage site…
PS: Look at Watt’s bass rig. Fucking awesome.