Tony McAlpine's Gear Stolen

[4406cuda]

Tony McAlpine's trailer was broken into overnight at Tony's hotel in Austin, TX, and the thieves stole all of Tony's guitars.

Serial numbers will be added shortly:
- his black Ibanez Guitars custom 7-string with EMG Pickups installed (serial LA071509);
- his white Ibanez 7-string with black EMG 707 pickups (serial LA0168);
The above guitars are Tony's only two Ibanez 7's and he has been photographed with them extensively.

Also stolen were a Peavy EVH sunburst, a white Carvin 7-string; plus Tony's pedalboard.

All of Bjorn's basses were stolen:
- Carvin Amplifiers Blue PB 4 custom
- Carvin Black PB 5 custom
- Carvin SeaFoam Green PB 5
- 2 Carvin wireless transmitters with Guitar straps (inkl 1 red custom alligator)
- Misc. Tools, strings, batteries etc etc

Aquiles Priester's drum gear was also stolen:
Mapex USA Drums Saturn IV
1 X 8"X7" Rack Tom
1 X 10"X8" Rack Tom
1 X 12"X9" Rack Tom
1 X 10"X4" Snare (Steel)
1 X 6"X4" LP Timbale

1 X Eletronic bag with:
- cables
- heaphones
- ipod support
- 4 roland triggers
- TM-2 roland module
- gibraltar spare parts

Paiste Cymbals
Paiste Bag 1:
1 X Rude China Basher 14”
2 X Rude Splash 10”
1 X 602 Splash 10”
2 X Signature Splash 8”
2 X 2002 PsychOctopus Giga Bell Ride 18”
1 X Signature Heavy Hi-Hat 14”
1 X 2002 Sound Edge Hi-Hat 15”

Paiste Bag 2:
1 X Signature Power Crash 17”
3 X Signature Power Crash 18”
1 X Signature Power Crash 19”
1 X Rude Basher 18”
1 X Rude Thin Crash 18”
1 X Rude Thin Crash 19”
2 X Signature Heavy China 18”

As you can imagine, this has completely disabled our tour. When you take a musician's instruments you remove their livelihood.

Please share this post! We hope our network of friends and fans can help us recover our gear.

 

[toddbz]

That's so fucked!

Hotel has to have surveillance footage, yes?

 

[Racerxrated]

Watch eBay....pawn shops have safeguards. Allofcraigslist.com is another place to scope out.....assholes need to be strung up when they're caught.......

 

[Badronald]

Terrible. Hope he's back up and running soon.

 

[longfxukxnhair]

Thieves are the lowest type of scum

 

[Oblivion DC]

That's a lot of gear. They must have been at it all night. It's horror stories like this that made me sleep in the gear truck when my band would stop somewhere on the road.

 

[crankyrayhanky]

that is a brutal loss! Best wishes on hunting it down

 

[Anonymous]

Absolutely horrible. That is a lot of gear. I hope they get caught and

 

[tak]

F**K, that is awful. I hope the authorities put a serious effort into helping everybody get their gear back. I couldn't imagine and I'm not touring!

 

[4406cuda]

They use hang horse thieves in Texas. Stealing a man's guitar is worse, in my honest opinion.

 

[Greazygeo]

Going to see him Wednesday too. Sorry to hear about the thievery. He can use mine if he doesn't come up with one for it.

 

[Wayniac3]

That absolutely sucks.
Hope they recover