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Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/57632/
I guess the alternative is at least take the guitars up to the hotel room. If I was a ne'er do well I'd sit outside after a gig, and follow the van, if they didn't unload it wait half an hour and free gear.
The venues even have a target list prominently displayed outside. It's too easy.
Is he a good deterrent?
For these thieves, it's a full time job......
It in no way whatsover makes it their fault but I find it maddening that in 2018 bands are still leaving uninsured gear in vans.
I'm just up the road in Hackney. Sadly vans get broken into in the area daily.
I had a couple guys laying some flooring in my kitchen last year, the van got turned over in a couple min's while they just came in to size up the job. The thieves stole all their power tools & also found time to turn over the van parked next to theirs.... both vans had extra security locks and alarms and it was lunchtime on a week day.... The second guy waited over 4 hours for the police to arrive.
All their gear left in an unattended van on a Friday night in Tower Hamlets? You wouldn't even do that in Betws-y-Coed.
Sorry, smells like a scam to me.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
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I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
the bit I don't get is they need £10k because "without all this equipment we cant continue as a band" . any band I've been in have been able to be a band with Squiers and Boss pedals .
Is the £10k they're trying to raise for replacing like for like because that's a bit like getting your fan base to be your insurance pay-out and that stinks a bit .
My gear is all insured, and when touring I usually take guitars into the hotel with me, but leave amps, drums, pedalboards, synths etc in the van. It’d be a bummer if it all got nicked, but at least insurance would replace it.
That said, we do try not to leave the van anywhere obviously dodgy if we can help it.