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FYI, A pretty sad story Here is the LDE website with the story and links to picture and descriptions of their gear.
a quote from the webpage

We woke up in Chicago on the morning of Thursday, September 20th, 2007 to find our trailer GONE. STOLEN. It was nowhere to be found. ALL of our equipment....years and years of instrument and gear collecting and purchases taken from us. Not just our positions, but our jobs were stolen from us. Materialistically, we have NOTHING right now. We have no instruments, PA equipment or transportation for it. We had over $65,000 worth of equipment stolen from us.

Here is the Wash DC local news of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE_q1lSSlAI


I saw these guys once about 3-4 years ago. A very tight group with an interesting style. They have a gigs upcomming and one I may go to on Oct 13.

This is so sad I hope it all works out for them They have a heavy tour schedule ahead of them. I just cannot Imagine. I will keep them in my thoughts

OMG! That sucks! Sadly, this gear can easily be split up and distributed easily in Chicago, Milwaukee or Madison.

Please people insure your gear!

Damn I feel for those guys .... In 1991 I had my home broken into and had ALL my gear stolen including a 58 bassman in mint condition and a 57 strat which was a bit beat up but great none the less ... we were sharing the load as far as carying the PA and I had the whole monitor system and the mic cases at my house ... my rack, my other guitars, my little tweed delux, the list goes on and on, and I lost it all ... they busted the guy eventually and I recovered a few small pieces but thatw as it, he got 10 years probation and restitution but I never saw a dime or it ....to this day I have not recovered, I will never have gear that cool again ... I hope these guys get lucky

strumminsix wrote:Please people insure your gear!

YES YES YES... and pretty cheap to do too

I was also recently the victim of theft... horrible feeling but you just have to trust in the Karma wheel